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(Richard Baxter's, The Reformed Pastor is one of the best books to instruct pastors, even today, over 300 years after it was written. Here is a short excerpt that may lead you to purchase the book.I hope it helps you. Let me know what you think of it.)
"But, besides this general course of watchfulness, methinks a minister should take some special pains with his heart, before he is to go to the congregation: if it be then cold, how is he likely to warm the hearts of his hearers? Therefore, go then specially to God for life: read some rousing, awakening book, or meditate on the weight of the subject of which you are to speak, and on the great necessity of your people's souls, that you may go in the zeal of the Lord into his house.
Maintain, in this manner, the life of grace in yourselves, that it may appear in all your sermons from the pulpit, - that everyone who comes cold to the assembly, may have some warmth imparted to him before he depart."
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