Pray for Your Church to Always Have Faithful Pastors

Quick Prayer

Please pray aloud:

Heavenly Father, I come to you today asking you to fulfill your Word and always give my church shepherds who are men after your own heart, who will feed the church with knowledge and understanding. O God, let their never be a day when this church is without a shepherd!

In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Full Prayer

Please pray aloud:

Heavenly Father, I come to you today asking you to fulfill your Word and always give my church shepherds who are men after your own heart, who will feed the church with knowledge and understanding.

There have been many pastors before us, faithful ministers of the mysteries of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. They have paved the way for my church to be all that it is today. I thank you for their good and faithful service.

In the same way, I thank you for our current pastors. Continue to guide them by your Holy Spirit. Protect them with your holy angels from the attacks of the Evil One, and refresh them with your power and your Word to serve the flock entrusted to them with sincerity, with boldness, and with zeal. Help us submit to their authority and teaching with joy, just as we submit to Christ. Keep them, as your Word commends, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, gentle, peaceful, and free from the love of money.

Finally, God, I pray that you would always give us good and faithful pastors. In the years and generations to come, call pastors to us who are filled with your vision, your passion, and your love for the greater community. Bring us servants who are devoted to prayer and study, and gifted with great leadership. O God, let their never be a day when this church is without a shepherd! Move, even now, years in advance, in lives and circumstances to ensure that my church will always be under the care of a faithful pastor.

In Jesus’ name. Amen.