How to Pray for Preachers

Justin Childers sug­gests how to pray for preach­ers:

  1. Dur­ing the week, pray for God to reveal the bur­den of the text to him.
  2. Dur­ing the week, pray that God would grip the preacher’s heart with His glory revealed in the text.
  3. On Sun­day morn­ing, pray that God would free him from distractions.
  4. On Sun­day morn­ing, pray that he would pro­claim the truth boldly and clearly.
  5. On Sun­day morn­ing, pray for God to pow­er­fully speak through him.
  6. On Sun­day morn­ing, pray that Christ would be trea­sured by all gathered.

It would be worth con­sid­er­ing how to pray for hear­ers of preach­ing. That could be an inter­est­ing list. After­all, preach­ing involves both speak­ing and lis­ten­ing. I’d prob­a­bly start that list with a medi­a­tion on Mk 4:9.

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