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My love is frost and cold

“My love is frost and cold, ice and snow; let His love warm me.” (devotionals, The Valley of Vision)

Oh, Lord, I confess that my love for You, my love for others, is way too often frosty and cold, ice and snow. And so I pray, Lord, that Your love would warm my heart. May Your love warm my heart that I would be filled and used by You to warm other hearts that are ice cold and desperately in need to experience Your love.

When we’re growing in our love for Jesus, then we’re going to have the capacity to grow in our love for others.

Lord, would you show me Your love? Help me to believe it, to receive it, to experience it. Show me Your love. Would you deepen my love for You? Let me love You back, as You are worthy of being loved.

Lord, may I have grace to love You more than I do today. Then, may Your love be channeled and flow through me that I may bear much fruit for Your glory. I pray in Jesus’ name, amen.

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In times of doubts, difficulties, disappointments and discouragement,

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Biblical Prayers for the Pastor Search Committee (10)

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10. Pray for God’s guidance in how the future pastor is presented to God’s strength and guidance in the pastor’s former church.

1 Corinthians 1:10  ”Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.”

Acts 2:1  ”And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.”

 

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19. Pray for the prevention of Satan’s influence in misleading or rushing the search team. (One of Satan’s wiles is deception.) Pray for a powerful hedge of protection around the committee and their families.

Ephesians 6:18  ”Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.”

Job 1:10  ”Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.”

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7. Pray for the team to have no timetable but God’s. They must be determined to find God’s perfect will in God’s perfect time.

Ephesians 5:17 : ,,Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.”

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6. Pray for the team to have supernatural wisdom as to the unique characteristic and traits most needed for our church.

James 3:17: ,,But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.“

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Biblical Prayers for the Pastor Search Committee (4)

1pray4. Pray for God’s clear direction in how resumes are collected, examined and interviews conducted. Ask God to bring the right person to the attention of the team.

Proverbs 14:12:  ,,There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”

Isaiah 55:8-9: ,,For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”