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Fallen Pastor
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Posted by: Sarensmom
A local pastor has just confessed to inappropriate use of church funds, inappropriate relationships with women in the church and memberships at adult internet sites.
I feel so sad for this man. He has stepped down and resigned. But when he asked for help they gave him the cold shoulder. He is not welcomed in the church and no one in the congregation is allowed to speak to him or his wife. They are being given no support for restoration (not to leadership but to God, to the body)
Is this how the body of Christ is to behave? What happend to forgiveness? What happened to bearing one anothers burdens, what happened to love covering a multitude of sins?
Anyway please pray for this body and for this pastor.
Thank you
Rhonda
Posted by: JG
Dear Rhonda:
I am praying for your pastor right now.
Where two or three are gathered there Jesus is.
Posted by: akabezalel
Father, I bring this Pastor and his Wife to You for Forgiveness.
Father, this Pastor is one of Your anointed children, called to minister to You and teach Your Word of Salvation to the Lost and I ask that You work Restoration in his life.
Cover him with the blood of Jesus and forgive his sin and bring him back to Your side so he can listen to Your Voice once more.
Father, make him hungry for Your presence once more.
Make him desperate for You and the Word that You spoke into his life.
Make him hungry once more for the Vision You gave him for his life and Ministry.
Father, teach him once more about Mercy and Grace.
I stand in the gap against the enemy for him.
Bring this lost shepherd back to the sheep that know Your voice.
Make him an instrument of Your glory once again and fill him with the Spirit for his instruction, healing and SALVATION!
Father, do not allow this man to give up his Salvation!
Jesus! Hold this man to Your heart and make him hear Your Voice! Your Call! Your Heart Beating for him!
DO NOT let this Pastor commit suicide! I rebuke the demon who is whispering in his ear that he has failed and deserves death! In the Name of Jesus, Pastor, I speak LIFE to You and command You to LIVE! Don't you do this! LIVE! in the Name of Jesus and For Jesus! LIVE! for the lives that Jesus wants to touch through YOU! LIVE! GOD is NOT finished with YOU! LIVE! Holy Spirit! go to him and stop his hand! **! Father! **! FATHER! HEAR me and stop this man! Holy Spirit, bring the medical people to him! STOP HIM! LIVE! IN THE NAME OF JESUS! Father, Forgive him! Do not let him die by his own hand! Bring him back to himself and to your Side! Jesus, cover him with Your Blood! so the Father can see and hear him and answer his prayers! Bring him to Repentance and Save him once again! Help him to step back into the garment of his Salvation! hold him up and fill him with the holy Spirit once more for his healing and stability in the Lord! Father! I ask for this man's Salvation and Restoration into the Kingdom of Heaven! Thank You! Father! Thank You! Jesus! Thank You Holy Spirit! For staying his hand, saving his life and saving his Salvation! Thank you.
Bless and Touch his Wife, Father, she has been wounded twice over, by her husband and his infidelity and by the congregation who has ostracized and shunned her at a time when she needs the support of Christ-Filled believers who can bear her up to You in the arms of love and intercession for Your touch on her hurts and fears.
Father, I lift her to You for Your healing touch and for Your Forgiveness.
Jesus, cover her with the Blood that You shed for her and cleanse her of all unrighteousness and sin so the Father can hear her cries and prayers.
Touch her heart and unfreeze the ice that has formed there to protect her from the pain; release her pain and build her a new heart that is soft and loving and pure before You.
Sanctify her life so that she can rise up and be a mighty Woman of God!
Father, Forgive the congregation, the corporate body of the church he lead. Heal the women that were used and restore their funds to them with interest. Let Your Mercy flow from their altar and saturate the sanctuary with Your Glory for the healing and Forgiveness of this Body of Believers. Hear their cries Lord and move for their benefit and healing. Let Your Justice be done, not their justice. Cover this Church Body with the Blood of the Lamb who was slain for the forgiveness of their sin. Heal this congregation and forgive their sin, see their pain and hear their prayers once more. Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing to themselves, their children and their town by holding this sin of unforgiveness to their collective hearts. Forgive them Father, Please.
AMEN!