01/12/2019

Prayer is not a Duty for "pastors"


Paul charged Timothy to admonish is church members,

1Ti 2:1  I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks, be made for all men;


1Ti 2:8  I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
1Ti 2:9  In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

By the way
Today, 1Tim2:9 means more of moral conduct in dressing than it meant prayer to some christians.

The verse was FIRST about prayer
I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks, be made for all men;

Modest dressing is good but futile if you don't have a solid prayer life.

Have a prayer life without wrath and doubting first, then "in like manner also", be modest in dressing

So Paul charged Timothy to teach church members, not to raise a great music team,  not to build a bigger auditorium, not to raise a prayer department, but to first of all pray
To pray for all men, and by all men and women