Encourage simple steps, for example, my favorite is this:
Whatever the number of days a week you consistently pray, add only one more, and do that until it’s a consistent practice for three to six months or longer. Then add one more day and repeat the process until consistent for three to six months. Keep going. It’s not a race or a competition, it’s a relationship.
4. Create Environments Where Prayer Is Practiced.
Our personal prayer lives have full connection to God and the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, but there is something about praying in concert with others that multiplies that presence and power.
The best way to begin is with worship and thanksgiving. It doesn’t need to be long or produced, but it always invites the presence of God.
There are at least two ways that we can pray in concert together, one is publicly in groups, and another is engaging with a personal prayer team.
There is something that touches heaven and moves the heart of the Father when we align together in prayer, in agreement with God’s will.
Praying with others elevates our faith, increases unity in the body of Christ, and we are more likely to be encouraged by hearing answers to our prayers.
5. Tell Stories of God Answering Prayer.
Few things help spread the passion of prayer more than hearing stories of answered prayer. What’s your story?
Tell it.
It doesn’t need to be grand or miraculous, in fact, it often helps if it isn’t.
Sometimes the most powerful stories are about the everyday situations that received answers to a very specific prayer. The more specific the better, because it helps remove the temptation to think, “Well maybe that was a coincidence,” and instead declares “Only God!”
That’s a great two-word definition of prayer… Only God.
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