This week as we remember the start of Redemption Hill, we find ourselves at a great place to be reminded of exactly who God is calling this church to be and what He's calling us to do.
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Reflection Points
Use these questions as an ongoing guide to pray for your pastors. Also, take these prompts and insert yourself and your church in all of the places where it says [your pastors].
- That [your pastors] would know and love the living God, would have a saving interest in Christ, being purchased by His blood, and thus would be bound to the Lord by the indissoluble bond of the Holy Spirit.
- That [your pastors] would know, embrace, and ever more deeply understand the Gospel and be shaped by it in life and ministry.
- That [your pastors] would be a useful servant of the Lord, that he would know and love God's word, God's people, and God's kingdom; that he would be used to build it up so that it prevails even against Hell's gates.
- That [your pastors] would study, practice, and teach the Word of the Lord, by the grace of the Holy Spirit.
- That [your pastors] would love to pray, because he loves to commune with his God, and that he would be a man of prayer, characteristically.
- That [your pastors] would be ever dependent upon and filled with the Spirit; and that he would possess true Spiritual wisdom.
- That [your pastors] would be holy unto the Lord. That his tongue and heart would be wholly God's.
- That [your pastors] would be kept from pride, and especially spiritual pride. That the Lord himself would be gracious to slay pride in him, and that [your pastors] would endeavor to always be putting pride to death, by the grace of the Holy Spirit.
- That God would give [your pastors] guidance as to where to focus his efforts in ministry.
- That He would protect [your pastors] from himself, from the enemy of his soul, and from all earthly enemies.
- That no decision which [your pastors] ever makes or desires that [your pastors] ever pursues would restrict his ability to pour his whole soul into the Gospel ministry.
- That many would be converted and many built up under [your pastor]'s ministry, to God's glory alone.
- That the Lord would bless [your pastor]'s wife, [...], with holiness and happiness, Gospel assurance and Gospel rest.
- That God would make [your pastors] a godly husband and father... that [your pastors] would be a good friend to his wife, and love her self-sacrificially, that [your pastors] would be a good daddy to his children. That they would love God, their parents, and the church.
