Church leaders and truth speakers have to continually navigate potential conflict. The inability to do this can eventually disqualify one’s ministry. This prayer is for our spiritual leaders as we seek to help them navigate the minefield of potential conflict. Pray this prayer with me and then share it with a friend. (Remember this is in John’s larger section that begins on 1 John 4:1 about testing the spirit of false prophets and teachers.)

Prayer

Father, I understand that there are people that claim to be a preacher of the gospel and a true prophetic voice, but if their lives remain in continual conflict they have disqualified themselves from the ministry. Continual unresolved conflict is disqualified from the ministry.  True love causes us to reconcile our differences with brothers and sisters in the Lord. Anyone who isolates themself and refuses to fellowship with the brethren is not from You, and if a minister has hate in his/her heart toward his/her brothers and sisters in Christ their ministry is useless. Father, give me the courage and boldness to hold up Your standard, but also give me the love, gentleness, humility and wisdom to implement it with grace within my life and in my relationships. I will promote harmony and unity in the church. I also ask that You’ll give our leaders the grace and skill needed to navigate conflict and to be redemptive relationally while, at the same time, able to correct misguided disciples in Jesus name, amen.

1 John 4:19-21

We love because he first loved us. Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.  And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

Here are some more prayers for leaders and revival:

A PRAYER FOR REPENTANCE AMONG SPIRITUAL LEADERS

A PRAYER ASKING FOR TRUE PROPHETS ~ BASED ON AMOS 7:10-17

A PRAYER FOR END-TIME REVIVAL AND HARVEST ~ BASED ON AMOS 9:13-15

A PRAYER SEEKING PERSONAL REVIVAL

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