Father,
I see hurting pastors and hurting pastor’s wives all around this world. I hear their prayer requests. Lord, you hear so much more than my small outreach. I know you hear them, for you called them. They are yours.
The realities of 2020 are hard on all of us. But they are weighing heavily on our pastors and their wives. God, in our heaviness, we rely on these leaders to fill us with truth and promise from the Word. We trust them with our prayer requests. We lean on them as our Pastor. As we should, for you called them to do just that.
With the weight of 2020 weighing each of us down, many pastors are feeling the weight of the world, quite literally. They are carrying the weight of the physical church AND of each person who makes up the body of believers within that church. That is so much to carry.
Many are doing this without an open pulpit to preach to us and without allowance to counsel us and without full freedom to do what they were called and equipped to do.
Oh, Lord, I cry to you this morning on behalf of pastors.
Lord, I ask that you will hear their prayers.
~ Hold their emotions.
~ Fill them with strength and courage and confidence and purpose.
~ Help them rise above the storm of this year.
~ Help them to stand on the wave that is crashing.
~ Help them to see and to know and to fully comprehend that Your will will be done.
Father, as you work out the plan of your mighty hand in holy response to the darkness all around, I pray simply and sweetly for those who answered the call to preach and to lead. Father, breathe on each of them the breath of life. Renew their spirit. Sharpen their call. Reset their program. And lead them down the path of righteousness their congregation needs to go.
And, Lord, send a friend (a sweet, trusting friend) to pastor wives. Lord, let them know in full assurance that they are not alone.
Amen.
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