October is recognized as the pastor-appreciating month and I want to ask you, “Will you appreciate your pastor this month?”
While it is not out of place to surprise your pastors with some good gifts, one of the biggest ways to appreciate your pastors is by praying for them. If Apostle Paul asked for this kind of prayer, you can be sure your pastors need them as well.
“Also pray for us. Pray that God will give us an opportunity to tell people his message. Pray that we can preach the secret truth that God has made known about Christ. I am in prison because I preach this truth.” (Colossians 4:3)
This month, don’t solicit any prayer from your pastors but rather spend time in prayer for them. They also have needs and desires that your standing in the gap for them can cater to.
Prayer is a mutual need!
Here are some suggestions for prayers to be made on behalf of your pastors in this month of October;
“Pray for us, too, that God will give us many opportunities to speak about his mysterious plan concerning Christ. That is why I am here in chains. Pray that I will proclaim this message as clearly as I should.” Colossians 4:3-4 NLT
📍God please open doors, windows, minds, eyes, and hearts for the word, so that these men and women might go on telling the mysteries of the Christ.
📍That they will proclaim the gospel with simplicity and clarity attracting men and women to the kingdom.
📍Their disciples or followers will become a great comfort to the ministers and to the ministry.
📍That we will all work diligently together to do the work of the ministry and God will add to our assembly a great number of souls
“Epaphras, a member of your own fellowship and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his greetings. He always prays earnestly for you, asking God to make you strong and perfect, fully confident that you are following the whole will of God.” Colossians 4:12
📍We pray they stand firm, mature, and confident in everything God wants them to do.
“And say to Archippus, “Be sure to carry out the ministry the Lord gave you.” Colossians 4:17 NLT
📍That they do their best in what the Lord has committed into their hands
📍They will be faithful to the end
📍They will be diligent in serving in the Lord.
“For this cause, we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;” Colossians 1:9-12KJV
📍Lord please fill them with the knowledge of your will
📍In all wisdom and spiritual understanding so that they may walk with you the Lord. Fully pleasing to God and bringing fruits unto good works
“Jesus (the one we call Justus) also sends his greetings. These are the only Jewish believers among my co-workers; they are working with me here for the Kingdom of God. And what a comfort they have been!” Colossians 4:11 NLT
“Almost every day new men joined David’s forces, so that his army was soon enormous.”
(1 Chronicles 12:22 GNBUK)
💃🏽God will send men/ women who will fully support the ministry and comfort my pastor
📍Pray for Barnabas the encouragers to be sent their way
📍Daily help comes the way of my pastor and the ministry and the helpers grow like the army of the Lord
“Epaphras, a member of your own fellowship and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his greetings. He always prays earnestly for you, asking God to make you strong and perfect, fully confident that you are following the whole will of God.” Colossians 4:12
📍That they might stand firm, perfect, and confident in everything God wants them to do.
“And say to Archippus, “Be sure to carry out the ministry the Lord gave you.” (Colossians 4:17 NLT)
📍To do their best in what the Lord has commanded or committed into their hands
“I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf, that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.”
(Romans 15:30-32 ESV)
📍Our pastors will be delivered from strange and evil men and women
📍No weapon formed against my pastor shall prosper and I condemn every tongue that rises against him/ her.
“Pray for us, for our conscience is clear and we want to live honorably in everything we do.” (Hebrews 13:18 NLT)
📍Father, help my pastor to be faithful and honorable in everything they do
📍Pray that all their needs be met and God grants the desires of their hearts
YOU ARE A GOOD SOLDIER OF CHRIST WHEN YOU HOLD THE HANDS OF YOUR PASTORS IN PRAYERS LIKE THIS.
Jumoke Akinjide
(Conversation With PJ)
