Prayers for Sermon Preparation
Here are a series of prayers I've often used during sermon preparation:
1) "Lord, please help me to understand the meaning of this text and how it points to Christ."
2) "Lord, please increase my love for the people who will hear this sermon."
3) "Lord, please give me wisdom to apply this text to the lives of the people in our congregation."
4) "Lord, please use this passage to help me grasp and love the gospel more so that I might help my hearers do the same."
5) "Lord, please help me to see how this passage confronts the unbelief of my hearers."
6) "Lord, please help me to be obedient to the demands of this passage. Help me to enter the pulpit having already submitted my life to this truth before I preach it."
7) "Lord, by your Spirit please help me to preach this sermon with the necessary power and with appropriate affections."
8) "Lord, please use this sermon to bring glory to your name, joy to your people, and salvation to the lost."
[I got these originally from an article by Mike McKinley that is sadly no longer on the 9Marks website.]
Field Notes
A reminder that every Saturday I send out a Substack with 10 links from around the web worth checking out and the latest resources I’ve produced at Blog of Dan (my online Notion page).