Night Of Prayer Expect the Spirit to lead you This is an important time to be led. You want to hear what the Spirit says. The Spirit will give you information and thoughts that will be new to you. Let the Spirit lead you to new places. Invite Him to prompt you toward new insights. Invite Him to lead the church and your ministry. The Spirit will direct your time in significant ways if you allow Him to lead. Anticipate having a meaningful and rich time led by the Holy Spirit. If you feel that you are getting stuck, or are not moving forward, change what you were doing, go on a prayer walk. Principle: Leaders must learn the skill of hearing from the Holy Spirit This is a leadership meeting with the Father & Spirit Read a while, brainstorm solutions a while, plan & organize what the Spirit has revealed to you a while, intercede a while. Make To Do Lists. Allow this to be a time of planning and re-ordering your ministry priorities. Pray aloud so the Spirit can speak to you in a two way communication style. He has plans for you that you must hear and respond to. How to go to this meeting Don't pray the way you have prayed in the past. This is a staff meeting. Make it interactive with your eyes open, take a walk. Read the Scriptures. When the Spirit prompts you plan or organize. Ask him questions, follow up. Don't stay in one position for more than 15 minutes-sit, walk, stand. Pray aloud, in a soft whisper or sing. Allow yourself a brief nap if you are fatigued. Ask for a Spirit prompted wake up. You will awaken refreshed and renewed and ready to listen. What to do during your leadership meeting 1. Nite of Prayer
These Areas Will Help Balance Your Time Praise Praise be to God!"-Psalms 68:35 Tell God how much you appreciate Him. Express your love for Him. Praise His power and majesty. This is a great way to begin your prayer time. Praise God for the beauty of His creation. How awesome are your deeds!"-ps 66:3 Repent Repent and be changed, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Holy Spirit Acts 3:19 Repentance is a sincere turning, in both the mind and heart, from self to God. It is recognizing that our sin is offensive to God. It is allowing the Holy Sprit to lead you away from yourself and to the place that the Spirit is leading you. Be specific, and ask for help and strength to continue to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit. Ask Make your requests known to God, -Philippians 4:6 Tell God what concerns you, no matter how small it seems to you. Do you really think any of your requests are big to God the Creator? Young-followers Y s You gave these ( Y )disciples to me The good news message you gave me, I gave them And they took it, and they are now convinced followers I pray for them. I'm not praying for the God rejecting world. But for the disciples that you gave me John 17:6-11 Pray for the young followers who you are investing in, and who are showing themselves to be discipleable. These individuals will be the basis of fuel that God will use to ignite a movement. The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Matt 10:37 2. Nite of Prayer
Use all of your Senses When you Pray 1. Write what the Spirit tells you 2. Draw Pictures of what the Spirit shows you 3. Sing as response to Scripture 4. Chart Ideas He gives you 5. Raise Your Hands to worship 6. Calendar Ideas He gives you 7. Create Plans He shows you 8. Be Still to listen for new ideas and prompts 9. Pray & Walk to discuss ideas with the Spirit Allow your distractions to be used by God to take you where he leads you. If you can t get your mind off of something allow the Spirit to use it, don t fight it, follow it. 3. Nite of Prayer
! Follow the P.R.A.Y. Model During your Reflection Time Praise Open the book of Psalms and begin to use the psalms as a guide to worship and offer praise to the Father Start by personalizing words of Psalms. Psalm 46:10 Open the book of Psalms, find another passage that you relate to. Begin by personalizing a Psalm to your situation. Speak the words of Psalms adoration as though you've written them.! Repent Journal about the areas where the Spirit is at work moving you to a point of greater obedience. Repentance is not so much about behavior as it is your heart stance toward the Father. Confess the areas where you have turned away from the father and allowed sin to take hold in your life. Listen to what the Spirit says to you about the areas of disobedience that have prevented the Spirits free access to your life. Ask for help and strength to continue to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit. 4. Nite of Prayer
Ask Worry List Begin this time by doing your worry list. Problems and concerns sometimes preoccupy our minds. Preparing a list can help to free us from the distractions of our concerns and help us move toward their resolution. Try the following suggestions in preparing your own worry list. Give some thought to current conflicts, problems, concerns, or frustrations. List anything that is"bugging" you. Just brainstorm. Number each of these items. No matter how small an item is, if it concerns you, list it. Ask God to reveal to you anything else which is a point of concern. Every worry should be on that piece of paper. Nothing else should concern you. Go through the list item by item. After each item mark whether you can do anything about it. Is the item out of your control, is it something in your past, can you do anything to resolve the issue? Intercession Take time to listen to God. Walk for a period of time asking Him to give you specific insight on how to pray for the movement. Ask Him to guide you as you pray for multiplication. You might consider praying for your Y s in the following manor: Y s Pray that you and those you lead will be able to identify the Y s that the Spirit will reveal (low hanging fruit). Pray for the potential Y s in your culture, that they will be the ignition point of a movement. Pray that they will begin to multiply. Pray that they will not become distracted. 5. Nite of Prayer
You might consider praying the following: Read Matthew 28:18-20; Read Acts 1:8 Ask that the Spirit will begin to move people to become discipleable in your Oikos. That the Father would open the hearts of the people in my Oikos to receive the gospel. That any obstacles to the Holy Spirit and the gospel might be removed. Ask the Father, who are you sending to me that I have missed?" Ask the Father, what needs do You want me to pray for in my Y s life, or the Y s of my disciple? Ask the Father to bind and remove the evil at work in the lives of your Y s ; Ask the Father to destroy the strongholds that Satan has built and hinders the Y s in our culture from hearing and receiving the Holy Spirit; Ask the Father to protect the disciple makers who are detoxing and striving to build relationship with potential Y s. That they will will become open to the gospel. Read Ephesians 6:10-20; 1 Read Peter 5:8-9; Read 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 Pray: Ask the Father, for the churches in the area to be increasingly more open to the Spirit. Pray that they become open to make disciples and receive the gospel. Ask the Father, for unbelievers to notice their un-godly lifestyles and want to know why Christ followers are different. Read Matthew 5:13-16; Read Colossians 4:5-6 6. Nite of Prayer
Sample Scripture Notation and Prayer Rhythm 7. Nite of Prayer
Notes to Leaders: Before the event send this reminder so attenders can adequately prepare for the Night of Prayer How to prepare for the night of prayer Get adequate rest tonight before the night of prayer. Bring a Bible, reflective worship music on MP3, Notepad and pen. Don't have any loose ends that need your response during the night. (All phones are taken during the prayer time so don t plan on that being your Bible, or music source.) 8. Nite of Prayer