FIVE REASONS WHY EVERY MINISTER SHOULD PRAY -PART 3

FIVE REASONS WHY EVERY MINISTER SHOULD PRAY
Scripture: Exodus 24:18
Topic : Five Reasons Why Every Minister Should Pray - Part 3

Prayer is the foundation for every real ministry. Prayer is actually the ministry. Anyone who discovers this reality will have a great and fruitful ministry. In this series of our Quiet Time we will have an in-depth study of five reasons why every minister should pray.

3. Pray because prayer makes you a man of anointing.

"And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights."
Exodus 24:18

When you are close to someone, something rubs off on you. Whenever you spend time in prayer, you are spending time talking to God. The more you talk to someone, the closer you become to the person. The closer you are to someone, the more things rub off on you.

Do you want some of God's glory to be on you? Do you want the anointing to be on your life? I wish I could offer you an easier way but only prayer will bring you close to God.

The example of Moses tells it all. Moses went into the mountain and stayed in the presence of the Lord for a long time.

"And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights."
Exodus 24:18

You will notice that Moses was a man who spent long hours with the Lord. After being so long on the mountain, the glory of the Lord was evident on him.

Dear shepherd, this is what will happen to you when you spend hours with the Lord. There will be glory on your life and ministry.

"But if the ministration of death written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold THE FACE OF MOSES FOR THE GLORY of his countenance…"
2 Corinthians 3:7

Credits: Except from 
Why You Must Pray
Bishop Dag Heward-Mills 

 

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