ministers need prayer who do not pretend to any such revelations. And pray for your ministers that God will direct them what to preach, that he will cut out their work for them. ‘Go preach … the preaching that I bid thee’ (Jonah 3:2). It is a great matter to preach suitable truths; there are ‘acceptable words’ (Ecclesiastes 12:10). Pray that God will go forth with their labours, or else ‘they toil and catch nothing’. God’s Spirit must fill the sails of our ministry. It is not the hand that scatters