Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name--the name you gave me.... My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. (John 17:11-15)

Prayer Points

• your pastor's personal and family life
• your pastor's worship and prayer life
• your pastor's study time and preaching life
• your pastor's professional life and relationship in the community
• blessing and favor to fulfill God's calling
• protection of health, finances, emotions, etc.

Prayer:  Father I thank you for my pastor and for his or her call and gifts (Colossians 1:3-6). I praise you for sending such a shepherd for my soul! To you belong honor and glory. You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being (Revelation 4:11).

"If some Christians that had been complaining about their minister had said and acted less before men and had applied themselves with all their might to cry to God for their ministers--had, as it were, risen and stormed heaven with their humble, fervent, and incessant prayers for them--they would have been much more in the way of success."  --Ralph Neighbour