Developing Your Prayer Team

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Developing Your Prayer Team

• Murray and Carol Moerman

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Prayer is the Battle

• The stakes are eternal.
• Our foe is cunning.
• Human limitations are real.
• God is all-powerful.
• Spiritual warfare is not a poetic image.
• There are real casualties in war.

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Teambuilding Principles

• Ask God to raise up intercessors for you.
• Make a list of people who...
• ask for prayer requests
• say theyll pray for you
• ask if youve had answers to their prayers
• you know are people of prayer
• know and like you

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Teambuilding Principles

• Personally invite them to join your intercession
  team
• Clarify and agree on mutual commitments
• Confidentiality
• Communication
• Frequency

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Teambuilding Principles

• Meet team member needs for
• Regular communication
• Hearing answers to prayer
• Your awareness of their special needs

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Teambuilding Principles

• Pray for your intercessors
• Personally track with intercessors to keep them
  active
• Different means of contact are needed for
  different levels of intercessors

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Personal Intercessor (I-1)

• Knows you well.
• Is not negatively motivated to be near you.
• High trust level of both you and your spouse
• Maintains confidence
• Has more access to you than other intercessors
• Knows the deeper areas of warfare

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Prayer Group Intercessors (I-2)

• 6-10 people
• Willing to meet with you as a couple as able
  (weekly, monthly, when in town).
• Distribute prayer lists for use between sessions.
• Care for you, but probably dont think of you
  daily.

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Intercessors Outside Your Geographic Area (I-3)

• Family and friends geographically distant
• Could be located around the world.
• Ideally total of 100 or more.
• Communicate by newsletter or email.
• Lower level of awareness but larger volume of
  prayer

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Intercessors Outside Your Geographic Area (I-3)

• Ask your I-3 friends if they would commit to
  praying
• a fixed day each week, or
• a fixed day each month, or
• the day they write their monthly support cheque,
  or
• the day they receive your email update or surface
  mail prayer letter

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Disciplines to Sustain Deepen Your Personal
Prayer Life

• The challenges
• Not a morning person
• Time pressures during the day.
• You may not be an intercessor
• Mental distractions when you pray

• The need
• Listening for Gods to-do list
• Knowing our dependency
• Coming afresh heart-in-hand

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Disciplines to Sustain Deepen Your Personal
Prayer Life

• Survival Level
• Prayer with Spouse
• Morning evening
• Monthly Prayer Group
• In Addition, choose one or more
• Hour a day
• Day a month
• Leadership Retreats

• Will those you minister to/with rise above the
  level of your prayer life?
• Ive seen what you can do. See now what I can
  do. the Almighty

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Developing Prayer Ministries Related to
Corporate Worship

• Pre-service prayer
• Sustained prayer through-out worship and
  preaching
• Prayer for personal needs following (or during)
  worship

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Developing Prayer Ministries Related to Your
Target Group

• Prayer Walks
• Lighthouses
• Top 10 Most Wanted List
• Special teams for specific outreach events
• Early morning, daily or weekly.
• Half-nights, weekly or monthly.