The Lord’s praying people need to plead with God in Jesus’ name, to give the church, not just able preachers, but praying preachers who by the power of God will pray and minister the Word according to Acts 6:4. This generation needs preachers who, by the grace and mercy of God, can and will testify of the Lord Christ Jesus. The Apostle Paul said, “And my speech and preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power” (1Cor 2:4). The servants of God who preached by the mighty power of the Holy Spirit, as recorded in the Book of Acts, were servants who went from prayer to preaching (Act 1:14; 2:4). 

Following his Damascus-road experience, Saul of Tarsus began to preach (Acts 9:20), but prior to this the Lord said of him, ‘Behold, he prayeth’ (Acts 9:11). He prayed before he preached. As it was then, so it is now. Christ Jesus sent His disciples to preach His gospel, He taught them to pray, and they prayed, preached, broke bread and shared what they had with the people. 

I pray, may it please God in his infinite mercy and power, to send His anointed servants into the pulpits of every town and city, in this time, to do according to Acts 6:4, that His people may be redeemed by the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ. In Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.