  Prayer and Praise
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Prayer Requests
- Pray for your church and all of the ministries.
- Pray for the pastor.
- Pray for all the church staff.
- Pray for those who do not know Jesus as their Savior and Lord.
- Pray for those that are sick.
- Pray for the families that have lost loved ones recently.
- Pray for revival in our church and community.
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A Prayer for My Pastor
Father, let me always be a pillar of strength to help hold him up, and never a thorn in his flesh to sap his strength, nor a burden on his back to pull him down. Let me support him without striving to possess him. Let me lift his hands without placing shackles around them. Let me give him my help that he may devote more of his time to working for the salvation of others. Let me support his efforts to train and equip soulwinners, and less of his time in gratifying my vanities. Let me be unselfish in all I do for him and never selfish in demanding that he do more for me. Let me strive to serve You and work with him, and at the same time be happy as he serves me less and You and others more. Let me support him in daily prayer. AMEN!
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Resolutions to Help Your Pastor
1. Pray for him regularly and build his spiritual power.
2. Speak well of him and build his reputation. He has weak and strong points. His influence will depend upon which of these you stress.
3. Resolve to encourage him and build his morale.
4. Listen to him and help build his pulpit power. Full pews challenge a pastor to prepare and deliver great sermons. Empty pews discourage him.
5. Resolve to cooperate with him and thus build his leadership.
6. Follow God’s plan of church financing —tithing— and build the church treasury. It is much easier for your pastor to minister when the financial report is not in the red.
7. The greatest resolution is to resolve to follow Christ through the Holy Spirit.
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Resolutions
- Resolve to worship and pray regularly. There are times when all of us feel we do not need the church, but the other members of the church family always need you.
- Resolve to contact your church office when there is an illness or any kind of crisis in your family.
- Resolve to accentuate the positive, and if something in your opinion is amiss in your church, share your concerns with the pastor — not with your friends at the next dinner party.
- Resolve to see your ministers as human beings. They are not saints, prayer machines, or seers. Their hurts, hopes, and hassles are very much like your own.
- Resolve to support the church with your time, effort, and financial resources. Healthy churches are filled with participants, not spectators.
- Resolve to understand that the church is yours. Christ has no other hands to help, ears to hear, eyes to see, and lips to praise than yours and mine.
- Resolve to share the good news of Jesus Christ with others. You are offering them the most priceless gift you have.
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