“Here’s how not to start a prayer time: ‘Does anybody have any prayer requests?’”
“Where do you start a prayer meeting corporately? You start in the word of God.”
“I just think the Lord’s honored when you do what he said in terms of how you pray together.”
“The Holy Spirit is vital in helping us pray out of the word of God.”
“The biggest challenge [ministry leaders face when developing a culture of prayer], frankly, is thinking we can point the way instead of lead the way.”
“Every prayer moment prior to Acts 6 that you see in the church is being led by the leaders.”
“The prayer level of a church will never rise any higher than the personal example and passion of the senior leader.”
“How much time do your leaders spend praying together, and what kind of prayer is it?”
“The single greatest indicator of whether you’re going to have a prayer culture five years from now is whether you have a prayer culture within your leadership team.”
“One of the things I learned from one of my friends, Leith Anderson, is he said, ‘The key to unity is shared experience.’”
“I always say it’s a crockpot, not a microwave, and sometimes it does take years to see that culture change.”
“One of the dangers is trying to create change too quickly in order to validate our own sense of significance or success.”
“The power of ‘no’ is in a stronger ‘yes.’”
“In western society…we are the ultimate achievement culture. But in the New Testament, ministry was not achieved, it was received.”
“The reason I think the early church prayed the way they did is because they actually believed that the Holy Spirit was the ‘how to,’ and we tend to think the Holy Spirit helps us with our ‘how to.’”
“The only enduring motive for prayer is that God is worthy to be sought. And if that gets embedded in the soul of a leader, he’s not going to give up and he’s going to stay the course, and he’s going to see fruit and results and transformation. But you just have to keep that in mind.”
“We’re all praying for revival, praying for what I’d say are the fruits of revival. What we feel called to is to grow the roots of revival. Because you can’t have fruits without roots.”
Mentioned in the Show by Daniel Henderson
Acts 4
Acts 6
Romans 8
1 Timothy 3
Titus 1
The 2959 Plan, Peter Lord
The 6:4 Fellowship
Al Mohler
Charles Bridges
A Diary of Private Prayer, John Baillie
Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God’s Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People, Jim Cymbala
H. B. Charles
Old Paths, New Power: Awakening Your Church Through Prayer and the Ministry of the Word, Daniel Henderson
Prayer Coaching
Rick Warren
Strategic Renewal
Transforming Prayer: How Everything Changes When You Seek God’s Face, Daniel Henderson
The Valley of Vision, Puritan Prayer Book
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