Pray
A-CROSS
WYOMING
Thank you for committing to mobilize people
in your congregation to prepare for A-CROSS
WYOMING through
prayer. If we are to impact Wyoming with the message of the
cross, prayer will be essential.
PRAY A-CROSS
WYOMING provides
the opportunity to focus our prayer specifically on those
who need a relationship with Jesus Christ .
PRAY
A-CROSS WYOMING
will involve…
•
Creating opportunities for church
members
to pray for the lost.
•
Taking prayer to our communities
through
prayer walking.
Step-by-Step
Guide for
PRAYING
A-CROSS WYOMING
•
Enlist a prayer
coordinator for your church. Seek
out someone to be your church prayer coordinator who already
prays consistently. This person will coordinate and organize
the prayer effort.
•
Calendar occasions
for members to pray for the lost.
Suggestions:
•
Plan special corporate evangelistic
prayer times.
•
Create evangelistic prayer opportunities
in Sunday School and other small group settings.
•
Encourage your membership to develop
their personal prayer list for the lost.
Be
creative as you seek ways to pray for your community.
•
Plan Prayer Walking
opportunities.
•
Create Prayer-walking
routes. These routes will be used later
for distribution in the door to door Gospel saturation,
Reaching A-CROSS
WYOMING .
•
Calendar several
prayer walking dates in March, 2010.
•
Enlist prayer-walkers
within your church.
Have a sign-up sheet for people to commit to prayer-walk.
Encourage members of all ages and stages of life to participate!
Remind people they can walk, run, ride horses, bikes
or even drive as they pray!
•
Organize your
prayer-walkers into groups.
Keep the groups small in size, between 2 to 3 people, and
assign them different areas of your community.
•
Offer resources and/or training that
will prepare people to prayer-walk.
•
“ Prayer-walking: Praying
On Site with Insight” by Steve
Hawthorne and Graham Kendrick ,
published by Charisma House, 1993.
•
“ Follow Me:
Lessons for Becoming a Prayer
Walker ”
by Randy Sprinkle , New Hope
Publishers,
2001.
•
“PRAYERWALKING made simple,”
J. Chris
Schofield , Baptist Convention
of North
Carolina,praync@ncbaptist.org
.
•
“Taking Prayer to the Streets:
Prayer
Journeys Resource Kit ”
by Thomas C. Wright
, NAMB (available in the WSBC
Resource Library).
•
Gather the groups
for a debriefing time. Discover
together what God has shown them through prayer. Discuss their
insights. Were there unreached groups of people discovered?
Were there special needs revealed or opportunities for ministry
uncovered?
•
Celebrate the
anticipated answers to prayer!
Suggested
Ways to Pray
Sample
Prayer
"Lord,
we pray for this home and for Your Spirit to draw them into
seeking the truth. I see a boat there and pray that while
this family is on the boat that Your Spirit will prompt them
to seek You. I see the children's bicycles and pray that the
children will grow in the wisdom and stature of the Lord.
We pray for the congregation to be able to follow-through
with these people and that they will be responsive."
Praying
for Personal Spiritual Needs
- Pray
in repentance and belief in Christ (Mark 1:15).
- Pray
in confession of sin (1 John 1:9).
- Pray
for our daily bread ( Luke 11:3)
- Pray
that we can forgive everyone (Luke 11:4a).
- Pray
that we will not be led into temptation (Luke 11:4b).
- Pray
for God's will and not our will to be done in our lives
( Luke 22:42).
- Pray
for the fruit of the Spirit to characterize all that we
say and do. (Gal. 5:22-23).
Praying
for Lost People
- Pray
With Praise and Thanksgiving (Psalms 100:4; 1 Timothy 2:4)
- Pray
According to the Promises of His Word (2 Peter 3:9; 1 John
5:14; Mark 10:27)
- Pray
for Laborers ( Luke 10:2)
- Pray
Remembering Where You Once Were (Ephesians 2:4-8)
Praying
Strategically for Unbelievers
(
Use HEARTS Acronym and 5 Fingers to Pray as You Prayer-walk
)
- Pray
for Receptive H earts ( Luke 8:5,12)
- Pray
for their E yes and E
ars to be opened ( Matthew 13:15)
- Pray
for their A ttitude adjustment
( John 16:8)
- Pray
for them to be R eleased to believe
(2 Tim. 2:25-26)
- Pray
for their T ransformation (Romans
12:1-2)
- Pray
for the Lord to S end believers
to witness to lost persons (Matt. 9:35-38)
Praying
Strategically for Believers
- Pray
for Christ to send believers into His Harvest fields (Matt.
9:38).
- Pray
for Christ to keep Christians in His name and character
( John 17:11).
- Pray
for Christians to have Christ 's joy made full in themselves
( John 17:13).
- Pray
for Christ to guard and protect believers from the evil
one ( John 17:15).
- Pray
for Christ to sanctify (set apart) believers in the truth
of God ( John 17:17).
- Pray
for Christians to be unified in one mission, purpose and
spirit even as the Father and Son are one ( John 17:21-22).
- Pray
for Christians to be where Christ is and join His work (
John 17:24).
- Pray
for Christians to be filled with spiritual wisdom, pleasing
in all ways to Christ , strengthened spiritually, mentally,
physically, and emotionally, and bearing fruit in every
good work (Col. 1:10-11).
Other
Prayer Ideas
Consider
these and other verses the Spirit brings to mind to help prompt
specific prayer:
- Praying
for workers to enter the harvest (Matt. 9:38),
- Praying
for God to make a way for us to share the gospel (Col. 4:3),
- Praying
for others, for the power of the Spirit, and for God's people
(Eph. 6:18),
- Praying
for fearlessness and bravery to witness no matter where
you are (Eph. 6:19),
- Praying
for everyone with thankfulness (I Tim. 2:1),
- Praying
for kings and those in power to be saved (I Tim. 2:2-4),
- Praying
in confession of sin, (I John 1:9),
- Praying
for spiritual awakening (2 Chron. 7:14).
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