DOMINION MANDATE DAILY DEVOTIONAL

FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020

PRAYING FOR PASTORS

BIBLE READING: 1 CHRONICLES 12:1-2, 21-22; 1 SAMUEL 30:1-3

"And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will be qualified to teach others." 2 Timothy 2:2 (NIV).

Let us take a look at 1 Chronicles 12:1-2, 21-22(NIV), "These were the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was banished from the presence of Saul, son of Kish (they were among the warriors who helped him in battle; they were armed with bows and were able to shoot arrows or to sling stones right-handed and left-handed; they were kinsmen of Saul from the tribe of Benjamin): ...They helped David against raiding bands, for all of them were brave warriors, and they were commanders in his army. Day after day men came to help David, until he had a great army, like the army of God." Every vision requires a team to fulfill it. A great dream must be matched with a great dream team, even God has an elite team known as the twenty-four elders. (Rev 4: 4; 5:8).

In our key text today, we saw Apostle Paul writing about the kind of people who will pass on what he taught; men who are able and faithful. Please recall that in 1 Chronicles 12, the kind of men who kept coming to join David's team were from the tribe of Benjamin and the other tribes of Israel, some of these men were raised by David and many came from outside his own fold to submit to him. These men did great exploits to support David's leadership as the 'set man.'

In 1 Samuel 30:1-3(NIV), David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag, and burned it, and had taken captive the women and everyone else seen in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way. When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive. From this text, we can see why pastors need to be consistently prayed for. The homes of pastors can be marked for attack while they are doing exploits in the field that is one reason why we should surround our pastors with prayers.

Most people do not think pastors need prayers. Moses prayed for three million people yet it was not on record that anybody ever prayed for him. We need to constantly pray for them so that they will be kept from sin and especially sins of the heart like unforgiveness, envy, bitterness, division, pride, deception, etc. 1 Thessolonians 5:25(NKJV) says, Brethren, pray for us. This was the utterance of Apostle Paul. Brothers and sisters let us rise to pray for pastors, they are the ones who eventually automate the systems on which the vision runs. They pay a huge price trying to translate that vision into a reality. We should pray for them to be in alignment with heaven and with vision of the set man.

PRAYER:
Father, I bring all pastors before You, let grace be multiplied on them that their homes be secure from every attack of the enemy and may they walk in your precepts so that their lives and ministries shall bring glory to your Holy Name in Jesus name, Amen!
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