If I am your pastor, please pray for me each weekend. Pray for me throughout the week and especially on Saturday (as I finish preparing my sermon through prayer) and on Sunday while I deliver God's message through preaching. If I am not your pastor, pray for your own pastor who will get up and proclaim the Word this weekend. If you don't have a pastor who preaches the Word -- for your soul's sake -- FIND ONE!Be like the "illiterate lay-brother" in this story that Charles Spurgeon gives in his book to pastors (Lectures to My Students). He writes:
A certain preacher, whose sermons converted men by scores, received a revelation from heaven that not one of the conversions was owing to his talents or eloquence, but all to the prayers of an illiterate lay-brother, who sat on the pulpit steps, pleading all the time for the success of the sermon.I pray that God would raise up many "pulpit step sitters."
"Brothers and sisters, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored..." (2 Thess 3:1)
2 comments:
That's a good word, my friend.
Thanks Dave. May God bless you and empower you this morning as your preach His Word. Say Hi to Bobbi.
Daniel
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