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5 Practices That Help Turn a Prayer Moments to a Prayer Movement

Just before we jump into the five practices, I’d like to introduce you to a friend and colleague at 12Stone Church who has been an inspiration and example to me in prayer for a long time.

Chris Morgan is making some time available to speak at churches and coach staff leaders in the personal and strategic nature of prayer, in order to realize the power of God released in your church in greater ways.

I highly recommend that you check out Chris’s website, click here.

5 Practices Toward Creating Prayer Movements

1. Start With You.

It’s important that we as leaders practice prayer before we “preach” it. I’m not suggesting that we can “arrive” or have all the answers, but that we experience prayer in such a way so that when we talk about it, it’s from the heart.

When we pray, (and talk about prayer,) from a heart level, that’s where the passion is, and that’s how it ignites in the hearts of others.

Prayer begins to gain traction that might become a movement when its part of a lifestyle not a program.

What are some of the ways you can lead and encourage the people of your church embrace prayer as a deeply rooted part of their lives?

2. Enlist Your Personal Prayer Partners.

There is something very unique that happens in both the spiritual and natural realms with your own prayer partners. There is a spiritual bond that takes place that is difficult to describe, but it’s a blessing beyond measure.

Knowing there are a few warriors intentionally praying for you and your leadership encourages and strengthens you at a soul level.

You can have one prayer partner or several, but I highly encourage you to lean into this. Personally, I’d never do ministry without a prayer team.

If you’d like more on developing your own prayer team, here’s an article that will be helpful to you.

3. Teach on the Value of Prayer as a Lifestyle.

Allow me to offer you a resource that will serve you well in your prayer life and teaching others as well. It’s a devotional, Leadership Alone Isn’t Enough, I wrote specifically to leaders.

Teaching on prayer is the art of invitation more than persuasion. If we invite someone to pray it’s easier to see the relationship. When we persuade because we are supposed to pray, we can inadvertently lead toward duty or performance.

Whenever you teach on prayer give them a moment to practice prayer. Even if it’s just a minute or two. Pause, be quiet, let the group or congregation practice right then.

The truth is that it’s hard to pray wrong. Yet one of the most common fears is not doing it right. You can help change that. When you teach, focus on why we pray and explain prayer as a lifestyle – relationship over getting it right.

Teach with the long view in mind, emphasize consistency every week over the number of minutes each day.