How to Pray for Missionaries

How to Pray for Missionaries
Written by Pastor Austin Gardner


How? That is the question. We have been told all of our lives that we should pray both for our pastor and missionaries. We want to pray for them but we just don’t know how. We have called their names one by one. We have said, “God bless the missionaries,” but we want to do more than that. This lesson has the intent and purpose of sharing with you how to Biblically pray for missionaries. Everything that you read here you can also apply to your pastor. This will be a blessing not only to the work of God around the world but also to your local church.

The Apostle Paul felt the need to have his folks pray for him. If Paul felt he needed people to pray for him how much more important would it be for each of us to enlist others to pray for us.

Brethren, pray for us. I Thessalonians 5:25

Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf. II Corinthians 1:11

As you can see from the above verse Paul was not asking lightly for prayer. He felt that the prayers of God's people definitely "helped". He felt that they became an actual part of his ministry. Your prayers do make a difference when you pray for your missionary or your pastor. If you will pray then we will be working "together" in the ministry

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