Prayer for Pastors
This prayer for
pastors was developed to pray for the pastors in our
county. A number of us pray it regularly. Praying this for
your pastor is a powerful blessing and support.
Prayer
Pastors of____________________, men and women of God who
are committed to lead and tend the flocks of the Lord, I
call your spirits to attention in the name of Jesus Christ
of Nazareth. Press with your spirits into a new realm of
the glory of God in your pastoring.
Rise up in the Spirit. Stand up in a
spirit of boldness and know that God is offering far more
of Himself, far more of the expressed Kingdom of God, than
you have experienced to this point. Let your hearts hunger
for the “more”. Press in and acquire until you
are fully satisfied in your spirits.
And then, stir up your appetites for even more of Him: the
God of Creation, the King of Glory, the Spirit of Life and
Truth.
Seek new depths of intimacy with Him. Seek and you shall
find. Let your hearts
cry out and He will meet you. Set aside that precious time
for intimacy. Guard it as jealous lovers holding tight to
the Prize.
In these times of close communion with the Lord, allow His
healing balm to minister to yet unhealed wounds from the
past that have held you back. Receive divine healing into
deep, untouched places you may have forgotten were there.
Soak up the comforting, healing Balm of Gilead into those
places of pain you turned your back on, completely
forgetting that they were there. Also receive healing into
what you are painfully aware of: the disappointments,
frustrations, betrayal.
Be healed, restored and strengthened in your times
of sweet communion with El Shaddai, He who is
all-sufficient to meet your needs. Put on the “new
man” in a whole new way. Trust that He who has begun
a good work in you will see it through to completion.
Remember that you are God’s work of art created for
good works in Christ Jesus.
As
you heal and go from strength to
strength:
Throw off any
grave clothes of the past that might attempt to cling: any
sense of inadequacy, for you know that you can do all
things through Christ, who strengthens you. You are more
than conquerors and the limping, bruised body of Christ has
need of over-comers like you.
Discard any
sense of shame over past history for you are forgiven and
robed in righteousness, and seated at the right hand of
majesty in Christ Jesus.
Throw off the
habit of negative thinking because all things are possible
with God.
Slip out of any
false identity. You are a king and a priest of your God.
Settle for nothing less. Refuse timidity and expand with
the spirit of boldness, love, and sound thinking. Walk in
your kingly dominion, setting things in order in kingly
fashion. As a priest, lavishly minister to God and to
mankind.
Prepare for God
to break through your present understanding of Church, your
ministry, your Divine destiny. New insight is coming. You
have the mind of Christ and contain the thoughts and
intents of His heart. Prepare for change that will greatly
advance Kingdom purposes.
These
times of communion are potent, pregnant with Divine
possibilities. Recognize the
distractions, diversions that would cause you to forgo your
face-to-face time with the Lord. Be a God-pleaser in this.
God, your Lover, is jealous over your intimate times.
Don’t allow anyone or anything to pressure you away
from your Divine appointments.
As
you spend time in the secret place, receive a renewal of
you call. You are a
pastor, a shepherd after God’s own heart. Let your
spirit expand with the heart of God and His purposes for
your ministry. Become pregnant with His Word, His
“sperma”. Prepare for a new birth of purpose
and process in all that you do.
By the Spirit of Boldness, prepare to birth what the world
has not seen before, what you have not seen before.
Prepare to birth what is in the heart of God for this hour.
Let God fill you with the knowledge of His will through all
spiritual wisdom and understanding. Receive the long-range
vision of God for your life and your ministry.
Be strengthened with all power according to His glorious
might so that you may have great endurance and patience to
joyfully press into all that God has for you,
paying the
price for the prize that is promised.
This is the beginning of a new season.
Be filled afresh with the Holy Spirit of God. Embrace
holiness. Release the
fire of God that is in your bellies and in your bones. Let
that fire grow and engulf your flocks. You are
life-bearers, fire-bearers; you are Christ in the earth.
Shrink not back! The world is seeking fire. You have it!
Release it! Alleluia!