Seven Bible Ways to Properly Relate to Your Pastor by Mark Barclay

Author:Mark Barclay
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-09-25T14:23:35+00:00

BIBLE WAY#4

How to Pray for Him

2 THESSALONIANS 3:1: "Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you."

Why should we pray for our pastor? So that the word of the Lord will have free course. Don't do this—"Oh Father, I see the sin my pastor is in. Bless him, bless him, bless him. He is so poor. I want him to have so much blessing. Bless him, bless him."

You know that you should pray he'll be blessed, but you should not pray in that attitude. The motivation causing you to pray for your pastor should be the Scripture telling us that the Word will have free course.

God said that you pay your tithe so there'll be meat in His house. What is meat? Lightbulbs? Pews? Carpeting? No, no! The Word! Who brings you the Word? The pastor. Why do we pray for him? So the Word will have free course. That means if you don't pay your tithe and you don't pray for him, you have just bottled up the Word and it's not pastor's responsibility. It is yours. If the city is not being won, the Word is not going forth with power, and there are no signs and wonders and miracles, you have stopped one of two things. You have either quit paying your tithe or you're not praying for him that the Word will have free course and be glorified just like it is for you.

Wouldn't it be a shame if we all just came to church and danced, shouted, worshipped the Lord and never told anyone? Wouldn't it be something if we all came into the sanctuary and the pastor stood up to the pulpit and told us that we needed meat in the house today and that we needed to hear directly from the Holy Ghost. But after this brief announcement, he leaves the pulpit and comes down to seat himself in the front row. Now all of us are looking at the pulpit, waiting for meat. We are waiting to hear from the Holy Spirit. Now wouldn't that be silly? You see, God uses the ministry gift to minister to us from His Word as the head of the church directs us. Yes, the real teacher, the Holy Spirit, Will speak through our pastor and even more so when We pray properly for him.

Also, you and I realize that there are some men and women who call themselves pastors, but Jesus (the head of the church) never appointed them and it is obvious. Pray for them.

Let me share with you this testimony. One day, in our business office, my wife was praying and asking the Lord for help. We had an important appointment that evening which we had scheduled well in advance. Our babysitter called and had to cancel on us. We had called around to some of our substitute sitters but everyone seemed to be busy. My wife sat back in her chair and spoke briefly to the Lord.

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