PRAY FOR AND ENCOURAGE YOUR PASTOR

“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.  How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?  And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them who preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!”  

Romans 10:13-15 KJV

Our pastors are on call twenty four hours a day.  There are times when they have to get up in the middle of the night to go to the hospital to encourage and pray for someone.  Our pastors sacrifice a lot of time when they could be with their family to minister to us.  Thank God for our pastors.

It is important and even urgent that we pray for and encourage our pastors.  They get tired just like we do.  Even Jesus got tired so He understands how it feels to be tired.  “Now Jacob’s well was there.  Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour” (John 4:6).

It makes satan very angry when we serve Jesus and he will do all he can do to discourage us so much that we will stop serving Jesus.  We must not let that happen!  We must stay on the battlefield for Jesus.  Our precious Saviour has done so much for us so we should do all we can do to serve Him.

A pastor emailed me and said he was so discouraged he was going to leave his church because instead of the people encouraging him, they were discouraging him.  One day every one of us will stand before a Holy God.  Will we be able to look Him in the eye or will we have to hang our head in shame?

Joanne Lowe

December 21, 2015