By Will Cosby, Veteran missionary of 40 years.
- Pray for him to understand the people he is working with, and for him to know why they do the things they do.
- Pray for him to have great patience in dealing with delay.
- Pray that God will give him wisdom in making daily decisions. Even a small mistake will magnify in days to come.
- Pray that God will garrison his mind against evil thoughts.
- Pray for him to have Holy Spirit power and a good influence on others.
- Pray that others will de-magnify his imperfections.
- Pray for his spiritual health to be good and his physical health to keep pace with it.
- Pray for him to receive much benefit from his Bible study; first for himself, and then for others.
- Pray that God will help him to be flexible without compromise, and steadfast without being rigid.
- Pray for him to be able to deliver his sermons with great satisfaction to God, the people, and himself.
- Pray that God will keep him from believing false information and to be able to discern it as such.
- Pray that he will know how to arrange his daily schedule with proper spiritual priorities.
- Pray for him to give the proper attention to his wife and family and not to neglect them for the work.
- Pay for him to be ever conscious of souls in need and to be aware of opportunities to win them.
- Pray for him to have an ever increasing and widening vision of his work.
- Pray for him to love his people as a shepherd does his sheep and to know their individual needs and be able to administrate his work for the benefit of the whole body.
- Pray that he will have great faith in God to achieve the impossible.
- Pray for him not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think and that God will shrink his ego.
- Pray for him to have great boldness to preach the Word without fear or favor of man.
- Pray for him to have good convictions and not to compromise.
- Pray for him that most of all, he will love God supremely with all his heart, mind and soul.