Small Groups
12 Ways to Enrich Your Prayer Meeting
If you're currently leading a prayer group or if you're thinking of forming one, these ideas will enrich your time together with the Lord. Focus your prayer time on God. Include worship, praise, and thanksgiving through song, Scripture, testimonies of praise, and praise videos or audiotapes. Include a time of silent, personal confession. (Psalm...
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About fifteen years ago my husband and I started praying together out loud during our morning walks--to save time, to energize our bodies, to revitalize our spirits, and to enjoy some intimate moments before going off to work. And quite honestly, it was a great way to take care of two important things at once--exercise and prayer! There were no...
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Relate to the Lord as freely as a friend. Over Christmas vacation, my old high-school friends and I reunited at Jenny’s house. After completing our undergraduate degrees, we’d all gone different directions and now looked forward to catching up. We knew Shannon and Divine had just gotten engaged, so the rest of us took turns asking about their...
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Please feel free to use this outline for a very meaningful corporate prayer assembly in your church or community. Celebration Begin the Concert of Prayer with a time of praise and worship. Let the emcee open in prayer. Preparation Emcee: "To begin, we will take time to prepare our hearts for this concert of prayer. Much like the...
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Laurie wanted to represent Christ in her neighborhood, so she prayed. She made a list of everyone on her block. She started walking around the block every day. As she walked, she prayed. She prayed for the people living in every home. Their marriages, children, health, and well-being. Mostly she prayed they'd come to know Christ personally. Before...
No Comments » "We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second. The work done by a worshiper will have eternity in it." --A.W. Tozer "You may not know what you are going to do; you only know that God knows what He is going to do."--Oswald Chambers "It is possible to move men, through God, by prayer alone."--Hudson Taylor "The greatest thing anyone...
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1. Pray for a spirit of Humility. "The willingness to submit" (James 4:10) 2. Pray for a spirit of Reverence. "The fear of the Lord." (Proverbs 9:10) 3. Pray for a spirit of Purity. "A desire to be clean." (Matthew 5:8) 4. Pray for a spirit of Purpose. "A wisdom to set goals." (Proverbs 4:25) 5. Pray for a spirit of Simplicity. "A...
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The pulse on the monitor flat lines. A nurse charges the defibrillator and hands the paddles to the attending who yells, “clear!” The patient’s body comes up off the table with the force of the shock. The defibrillator is charged again. “Clear!” Another shock and then the monitoring equipment beeps. “Pulse ox is normal,...
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