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Sunday night, we closed out our sermon series; God's How To Manual, taken from the book of James. This sermon finale, was how to pray about your problem. Towards the end of the sermon, I began to think about how this tied into praying for our Senior Pastors for our Monday focus.

Then it came...straight from our Senior Pastor..."The #1 struggle for pastors is their prayer life...starting with this guy right here." (points to self)

You think the devil is attacking you regarding the quality of your relationship with God and here is a man with 20+ yrs of Senior Pastor, plus a few more, in Associate and Youth ministry and he still struggles with prayer. I felt better for a moment until I realized perhaps I'm in significantly worse condition in my prayer life than I thought.

Then came the closing remarks...a meeting b/w Billy Graham and a dear, fellow pastor of a large NYC congregation.

Dr Graham, if you could do it all after again... famous last question, right?

Dr. Grahams' response... I wish I could have been a greater person of prayer.

So, needless to say, today we work on our prayer lives utilizing the subject matter: an increase in the quality of prayer life for our pastors. Pray an ever-growing and deepening relationship with God for our pastors. Pray for a strengthening, that they are equipped with knowledge, wisdom and confidence to do and succeed at the work and ministry to which they have been called. Pray for an increase in revelation during their prayer time; that whatever the need, that they would sense their effectual and fervent prayer accomplishing much for the glory of God.


-PNC

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