Prayer Pastoring - Conclusion

Conclusion

Prayer pastoring is a proven effective way of praying for others. It transforms and blesses lives. It opens doors for others that they may not have been able to open for themselves. It protects people from the trouble they face on a daily basis. It reaches out and touches the person who may otherwise be left in their pain.

Prayer pastoring is effective because it deals with issues between God and people. Our sin forces God to make judgements against us. While these judgements to many people first appear irrelevant to daily life, they are in fact at the very core of your relationship with God.

The Bible says that whatever a man sows that will he also reap. Sin does not bless us. It works against us in life. It’s easy to attribute these judgements to the devil but they are of our own making. Unless a person regularly comes to God and ask for His mercy, he will fail to access His blessing. Your righteousness will never be enough to enable you to approach a Holy God. You need His mercy.

When you understand these principles you will value prayer pastoring, develop a relationship with God and know how to pray for others. Prayer pastoring activates Gods mercy and His mercy overcomes the judgements that are against us. Below is a summary of the key steps of prayer pastoring.

Steps to Prayer Pastoring

• Pray for Mercy.

Everyone does wrong, whether it be intentional or unintentional. These create judgments against people. Mercy overcomes judgement and releases God to work on your behalf.

• Pray for Grace

People have weaknesses that cannot be easily overcome. God’s grace enables you to be successful.

• Pray for Righteousness

Jesus Christ imparts righteousness so you can approach Him.

• Pray for the Spirit of Truth

If you do the same thing over and over, you get the same result. People tend to be creatures of habit, and naturally do not embrace new things easily. Also it is not always easy to perceive how to do it. You must step out and do something different to get new results

• Pray the Blood of Protection and Cleansing

You can only approach God through the blood of Jesus. The blood also protects and shields you from the work of the devil.

One Last Key Thought

Prayer pastoring is activated through faith. There is always an inherent danger in anything becoming routine and thereby losing its effectiveness. Since it is most effective as a daily exercise it tends to gravitate towards the mundane. There is a challenge to keep faith alive when something is practiced daily. Faith is the key to activating Gods truth.

Faith believes with the heart not just the head

Romans 10:10

For with the heart one believes unto ………..

Heart belief is not mere mental agreement. It is much more! It is praying with feeling. It is about emotionally connecting with the steps of prayer and not just mentally connecting. The heart is activated by asking the question, “How will I feel when this prayer is answered?” “Will I be very excited, happy?” Then I must connect to this emotion now! Faith is a spiritual quality that lives out the future TODAY, in our emotions. You feel it now!

Faith sees the future, today!

Romans 4:17

God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did

Only when you see the end result will your action and emotions agree. Seeing the end result keeps your heat in line with your daily activity of prayer pastoring. When you believe you have your prayer answered then you will talk, feel and act differently.

Faith expects

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

The Greek word for “substance” is hupostasis which literally means support. Faith supports, or under girds, our hope or expectations. If we have faith we expect the answer to our prayers. When you pray and believe it keeps up your hope. It supports hope. You have a positive expectation of a successful outcome to your prayer. No wonder we can feel positive emotions when we pray. Praying in faith does not become mundane.