What is the best thing you can do for your marriage?

Stand in the gap for your spouse before God. As you pray for your spouse, you are, in essence, praying for a stronger, healthier, growing, and lasting marriage relationship.

Read more to find out 3 ways to stand in the gap for your spouse.

How do you pray for the next generation?

Standing in the gap for your children and grandchildren is the best gift you can give your family. Read more for some ideas on how to faithfully and intentionally stand in the gap for your family and for the next generation.

Has it occurred to you that you should pray for your pastor?

Let me assure you, your pastor needs your prayers. He needs you to stand in the gap on his behalf.

Read more to discover 5 ways you can pray for your pastor!

It is true that not everyone we pray for receives healing in this life, and that is hard to understand, especially when we have prayed.

Still, God invites us to stand in the gap for those who are suffering from physical illness. And we can experience fullness in that standing whether the person is healed here on earth, or in the presence of God for eternity.

Scripture calls us “stewards” and most often we think of stewardship as it relates to money or other types of material resources. But the word “steward” has a broader meaning.

We are called to stand in the gap for the needs of people. And we are to steward that responsibility well as God has entrusted it to us.

Will you?

Are you praying for the President?

As believers, we are admonished to pray for our leaders - whether we align with them politically and convictionally or not. Why?

Paul’s letter to Timothy gives us three reasons we should stand in the gap for the ones in governmental authority.

Persecution has always existed and according to Scripture, it will continue to grow as we await the return of Jesus.

In Acts 7, Stephen stood in the gap between his enemies and God, and God answered by calling the apostle Paul from darkness to light!

How can you stand in the gap for your enemies?

Conrad Huddleston, a friend of my dad’s, once told me, “David, I have asked God to allow me to take some of your Dad’s pain so that he might not have to carry so much.” He and my dad prayed together and shared one another’s burdens. I understand now that he was standing in the gap between my dad and God. He was praying for my dad and carrying Dad’s burdens to God.

Does anyone stand in the gap for you? Are you standing in the gap for someone? What does “standing in the gap” for someone mean? Read more in the first entry of a new blog series “Standing in the Gap.”