PRAYER FOR ELDERLY
We recently prayed for the elderly in relation to their holistic needs, This time we are not limiting our focus on the elders in relation to age, but to their position of responsibility. This morning we shall be praying for grace for them to live up to their responsibility in-line to the Will of God. James 5:14 Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; 1 Peter 5:1-4 Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker also of the glory that is to be revealed, shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the will of God; and not for sordid gain, but with eagerness; nor yet as lording it over those allotted to your charge, but proving to be examples to the flock . When a teenager defiantly say...