A Guide for how to Pray For Your Pastor.

1. Your Pastor is a Christian Person. Personalize and pray these verses for your pastor.

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for you souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Luke 11:28-30

2. Your Pastor is a Married Person. Wives have said, “I don’t want his attention all the time. But I do want all his attention some times.” “Husbands, love you wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies, he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, bu nourished and cherishes it. Just as the Lord does the church.” Ephesians 5:25, 28-29. Pray for him and his wife and that the Lord protect his marriage. Satan will attack there to kill his spirit and effectiveness..

3. Your Pastor is a Parent Person. “And you, fathers do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord” Ephesians 6:4. Too many pastors have lost their own children while trying to save the families of the Church.. Too many children have felt their dad does not have time for them, and now he has two jobs. “One who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence (for if a man does not know how to rule His own house, how will he take care of the church of God?) 1 Tim.3:4-5. His home and family is the laboratory of life by which he learns to be a pastor. To fail there is to fail period. Pray for your pastor’s family.

4. Your Pastor is a Church Member Person. “Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern” Philippians 3:17. He is not only the preacher, he is a Church Member who loves and ministers along side all the other Church members. As he ministers to you, please know that he and his family need ministry too. This is one church member who depends upon your prayers.

5. Your Pastor is an Employed Person. What does it mean to be an employed minister with a title and a ministry assignment? It is especially important to know that he is employed by the church and also by his secular job. No t a divided heart, but divided energy, skill set, and time. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent Me to heal the broken hearted. To proclaim liberty to the captives, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord” Luke 4:18-19. This is how Jesus describes his ministry and calling. It is a good model for the Pastor also. Note the primary emphasis upon preaching. “Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching” 2 Timothy 4:2 His calling is his job. His job is his calling. And he also has a secular job like you do.

6. Your Pastor is a Community Person. “Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men” Titus 3:1-2. “Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil” 2 Tim. 3:7.
The six headings are copied from “Priorities in Ministry” by Ernest E. Mosley.