Preparing People to Join Your Prayer Ministry Efforts
So, you've planned your strategy for an effective corporate prayer life. Before implementing your plan, you need to prepare the people. God Himself provides us with the precedence for doing this.
He determined His course of action and sent the prophets to tell the people what to expect. God planned salvation through Jesus, prophesied about Him throughout the Old Testament, and yet still took the time for a special season of preparation before Jesus actually began His ministry here on earth. John the Baptist's primary mission in life was to "prepare the way for the Lord." Even in salvation, rarely do people accept Jesus as Savior when they hear about Him for the first time. Before that new life sprouts within them, their hearts are prepared by the planting and watering of the seed.
If God employs this measure with us to get us ready for a work He is about to do, certainly we shouldn't skip this part of the process.
Preparing People to Join Your Prayer Ministry Efforts Should Include the Following Strategies
Implement the following suggestions to help prepare people:
(1) Verbally communicate about prayer.
(2) Cultivate an atmosphere conducive to praying.
(3) Show a life of prayer by example.
(4) Connect with people's motivations.
The Prayer Ministry Manual takes a brief look at what might motivate people and how you can connect with that motivation. It also adds some input and asks some questions about each of the above points for you to reflect on how well you are preparing people to join you in prayer.
How long the preparation process will take is going to depend on where you need to begin. Obviously you cannot wait until everyone is where they ought to be to start implementing your strategy. The key is to get people moving in that direction and when they get to where they ought to be, have something in place so all they must do is join in.
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- Personal Relationship
- Having the Right Purposes for Praying
- A Passion for Prayer
- Making It a Priority
- Adherence to Biblical Principles
- Power in Prayer
- Making It a Permanent Practice
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- Planning Strategies for Effective Corporate Prayer
- Preparing Others to Join Your Prayer Efforts (this post)
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