Prayer for Church Leaders

Father, I recognize as the all Supreme all Knowing God and I ask you to forgive me for my sins and respond to this prayer. There are so many everyday things that worry and torment us. We sometimes feel so different from other people.

Lord, Your Word says not to worry about anything but to pray and ask You for everything we need and to give thanks when we pray, and Your peace will keep our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. The peace You give us is so great that we cannot understand it. Thank You for keeping our minds quiet and at peace. We declare that we are overcomers, and by submitting to Your control, we are learning self-control.

In the name of Jesus, we pray and confess that the Spirit of the Lord — the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge — shall rest upon on those leading in every area of Love Christian Center. We pray that as Your Spirit rests upon them, You will make them of quick understanding because You, Lord, have anointed and qualified them to lead your people. You have sent church leaders to bind up and heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the physical and spiritual captives, to open the prison and the eyes to those who are bound and to utilize the gifts you have given them for the edification of the saints.

We pray and believe that no weapon that is formed against them shall prosper and that any tongue that rises against them in judgment shall be shown to be in the wrong. We pray that You prosper our church leaders abundantly, Lord — mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually, and financially. We confess that our leaders hold fast and follow the pattern of wholesome and sound teaching in all faith and love, which is for us in Christ Jesus.

Our leaders guard and keep with the greatest love the precious and excellently adapted truth entrusted to them by the Holy Spirit, Who makes His home in their hearts. Lord, we pray that our leaders will open their mouths boldly and courageously as they ought to do to get the Gospel to the people. Thank You, Lord, for the added strength, which comes super humanly, that You have given them.

We confess that we shall stand with our leaders and undergird them in prayer. We will say only good things that will encourage them. We will not allow ourselves to judge them, but we will continue to intercede for them and speak and pray blessings upon them in the name of Jesus.

We thank You for church leaders who are filled with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and ability, in understanding and intelligence, in knowledge and in all kinds of craftsmanship, to fulfill and perform the gifts and callings you have placed on their lives. They are leaders who give themselves to leading your people in the ways of the Lord.

Thank You, Father, that Your leaders at our church are no longer children, tossed like ships to and fro. They are enfolded in love, growing up in every way and in all things into Him, Who is the Head, even Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One.

Father, You are effectually at work in our church leaders — energizing and creating in them the power and desire — both to will and to work for Your good pleasure and satisfaction and delight. Father, in the name of Jesus, their power and ability and sufficiency are from You. It is You Who have qualified them making them to be fit, worthy, and sufficient as ministers and dispensers of a new covenant. They are not ministers of the law which kills, but of the (Holy) Spirit, which makes alive.

We rejoice in the Lord over our church leaders and commit to undergird them with our faith and love. We will not judge or criticize them, but speak excellent and princely things concerning them. The opening of our lips shall be for right things. Thank You, Father, that the leaders live in harmony with the other members of our church, being in full accord and of one harmonious mind and intention. Each is not just concerned for their own interests, but each for the interest of others. Jesus is our example in humility, and our leaders shall tend — nurture, guard, guide, and fold — the flock of God, which is their responsibility, and they will be examples of Christian living to the congregation.

In the name of Jesus, You make Your face to shine upon and enlighten the Love Christian Center leaders and are gracious, kind, merciful, and giving favor to them. Our leaders are the head and not the tail. They are above only and not beneath. Thank You for favor for our leaders who seek Your Kingdom and Your righteousness and diligently seek good.

The Love Christian Center leaders are a blessing to You, Lord, and are a blessing to each other and all those they come in contact with. Grace and favor are with them, who love the Lord Jesus in sincerity. They extend favor, honor, and love. Our leaders are flowing in Your love, Father. You are pouring out upon them the spirit of favor. You crown them with glory and honor, for they are Your children — Your workmanship and because they are, Love Christian Center is a success today.

Our leaders are very special with You, Lord. Our leaders are growing in the Lord — waxing strong in spirit. Father, You give them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom. You cause them to find favor, compassion, and loving-kindness with all those they come in contact with.

Our leaders obtain favor in the sight of all who look upon them this day in the name of Jesus. They are filled with Your fullness — rooted and grounded in love. You are doing exceeding abundantly above all that our Love Christian Center leaders can ask or think, for Your mighty power has taken over in Love Christian Center.