Grateful for Your Prayers

We are grateful for your prayers on our behalf. What a blessing and encouragement to know that you pray for us, our family and the ministry to which God has called us. Thank you for praying for us!

Know that we also pray for you. We pray for your needs (as we know them), we pray for your growth in grace, we pray for God's leadership in your lives and in your family.

It is a blessing and a joy to pray for one another.

On Monday, I came across an article entitled: "5 Ways to Pray for Your Pastor in 2014." It is very practical and clearly addresses some of the needs of Pastor's. Perhaps you would like to read it and learn of some ways to pray for us.

Here is the opening paragraph of the article:

"As a pastor, I sometimes mistakenly think that those most in need of my prayers in the church are those who have the most noticeable spiritual or physical weaknesses. I would imagine that, if we are honest with ourselves, we have all thought or said at some time or another something along the lines of, “So and so is really going to need a lot of prayer.” On the one hand, it is entirely right that we acknowledge that our brothers and sisters who have more noticeable weaknesses have a great need for our prayers; On the other hand, however, those to whom God has given the most gifts and graces are also greatly in need of our prayers. Contrary to what some might suppose, ministers of the Gospel desperately need the prayers of the saints."

You can read the rest of the article HERE.

Now that you know how to pray for me (well, at least a few ideas that may help your prayer), how may I pray for you? You can send me an e-mail or a text message with a prayer request. On Sunday, you may write your Prayer Request on the yellow Connection Card and turn it in the offering or hand it to me before you leave.

James 5:16 clearly tells us that we are to "pray for one another."  Let's do that and see what the Lord will do.

Grateful for your prayers and Glad to pray for you,
Pastor Mike