Basically, I am convinced that men who do not make praying their first priority in life and ministry should not preach or pastor. As preachers they will be confusing models of a Christian man, and as shepherds they will not show the willingness to die for the sheep. Their spirit will inevitably drift in the wrong direction...
I do not, of course, think of prayer as retirement from the battle to the isolation of a remote study, but the vertical aspect of vigorous shepherding...
Usually when our praying is weak so is our shepherding spirit; we have more in common with the hireling than the Shepherd who died for His sheep...
Pray confidently without any doubt that the Spirit will empower you.
The Heart of a Servant Leader, p100-102
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