This is part of a message by John MacArthur on praying for your pastor.
"If we're going to raise the spiritually dead we need the power of prayer. So when you pray for your pastor pray for his safety, his wisdom, his direction and his proclamation. One more, number five, pray for his spiritual strength...pray for his spiritual strength. And this is so general that it isn't even isolated, only to the pastor. But going back in to Ephesians chapter 6 we remind ourselves about the armor of the Christian and spiritual warfare. We learn in chapter 6 of Ephesians verse 12 that there's a struggle not against flesh and blood but against the rulers and the powers and the world forces of darkness and spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenlies and all of that. And we learn about the spiritual battle that goes on as the enemy Satan and his hellions, demons engage themselves to pollute the already weak human flesh and turn us away from spiritual strength and so finally coming down in to verse 18 he says this, "With all prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit and with this in view be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints and pray on my behalf." And then he links it up with proclamation. But it goes both ways. I need your prayers for spiritual strength as well as proclamation. I need you to pray for me. Pray for us that we may be kept from sin, that we may walk carefully not as fools but as wise redeeming the time. Pray for us that our hearts may be more devoted to God and our lives more impressive examples of the message we preach. Pray for us that we may be more completely furnished to all good works and that we may be victorious in all spiritual battles. Pray for us that we may put on the armor of God, that we may be more faithful and wise to win souls, that we may discipline our body and bring it in to subjection lest in preaching to others we would become disqualified. Pray for us."
http://www.gty.org/Resources/Sermons/52-36
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