Breakthrough Prayer Initiative Rev. Sue Nilson Kibbey September 28, 2016 United Methodist Church of the Resurrection Leadership Institute **Videos in today s training can be found for view or download at: https://vimeo.com/album/3611968
Session 1 Breakthrough Prayer: Introduction **This seminar s content is also summarized in chapter 2 of Flood Gates: Holy Momentum for a Fearless Church @2016, Abingdon Press, Sue Nilson Kibbey. Sign up for the Breakthrough Prayer Initiative e- letter with ongoing new ideas and examples at www.floodgates.info by providing your email address via the Contact Sue form. Powerful Types of Collective Prayer- - plus an example of each 1. Threshold Prayer 2. Archer s Prayer 3. Prevailing Prayer Prayer Styles/Approaches that give permission 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Sue Nilson Kibbey www.floodgates.info sue@snkibbey.com 2
Session 2 EXAMPLES AND IDEAS FOR IMPLEMENTING BREAKTHROUGH PRAYER in the life of your congregation Worship and Breakthrough Prayer Meetings and Breakthrough Prayer Discipleship and Breakthrough Prayer Preaching and Breakthrough Prayer All- Church Breakthrough Prayer Adventures Pastor as the Breakthrough Prayer Initiative Leader Sue Nilson Kibbey www.floodgates.info sue@snkibbey.com 3
BREAKTHROUGH PRAYER EXAMPLES AND IDEAS: Summary List Church of the Messiah, Westerville, OH: monthly prayer word St. Paul Community UMC, Madeira (Cincinnati), OH: church wide post- it prayers Great Bridge UMC, Chesapeake, VA: Prayer Rocks Woodbury- Peaceful Grove UMC, MN: Paint by Number prayer mural Trinity UMC, Upper Arlington, OH: youth ministry breakthrough prayer First UMC, Wapakoneta, OH: prayer miles of community map First UMC Watertown, SD: Love Watertown Prayer Walkers Jerome UMC, Plain City, OH: Prayer "driving" Asbury UMC, Sioux Falls, SD: 605 Prayer Initiative First UMC Rapid City, SD: 629 Prayer video UM Church of St. Andrew, Toledo, OH Saved in worship Gaines UMC, Cincinnati, OH: Madisonville Road Living Prayer Chain Cross Winds UMC, Maple Grove, MN: Theo the Prayer Bear Scioto Ridge UMC, Hilliard, OH Prayer Sermon Series ("Broken") Trinity UMC, Chillicothe, OH: 724 Prayer Initiative Kirkwood UMC, Kirkwood, MO: breakthrough prayer bracelets Messiah UMC, Plymouth, MN: #Bless prayer campaign for neighboring businesses Sue Nilson Kibbey www.floodgates.info sue@snkibbey.com 4
Designing Your Congregation's Breakthrough Prayer Initiative - - a take- home guide to help you with implementation- - 1. You are the core leadership of your Breakthrough Prayer Initiative leadership team. What will be your "core team" agreements about how you will pray (individually and together), how you will team and communicate, and how you will move forward? List them here: 2. Who else back home at your church do you believe you would like to train with this seminar's material in order for them to help lead and serve in your Breakthrough Prayer initiative? List their names here, as well as how you will specifically plan to train them and incorporate them: 3. What will your pastor's role be in the new Breakthrough Prayer Initiative? Discuss, then write it here. 4. Make a list of what already exists at your church relative to prayer (meetings that include prayer, worship service prayer, prayer chains, etc.), and how you believe you could enhance, renew and advance the practice of breakthrough prayer in each setting. What could be done, and how? Be specific. Sue Nilson Kibbey www.floodgates.info sue@snkibbey.com 5
5. Is there anything at your church currently, related to prayer, that you believe should be discontinued? If so, what and when? 6. What new and unique breakthrough prayer practices could be incorporated into the life of your congregation? In worship, meetings, other times and ways? 7. How could answers to prayer (breakthroughs, etc.) be reported and celebrated in the life of your church? Brainstorm what would be most effective, in order to encourage the congregation with reports of God's faithfulness and provision in response to prayer. 8. Think carefully through the next 9 months. Then discuss and plan a timeline for this time period for a Breakthrough Prayer Initiative for your congregation, including prayer walking, prayer training, adding breakthrough prayer to meetings and all other gatherings, celebrating answers to prayer, a season of prayer, etc. as appropriate. Write your specific plan below, including dates and milestones for implementation. Use the Breakthrough Prayer Initiative chapter from Flood Gates: Holy Momentum for a Fearless Church to help train others in your ministry or congregation. 9. Now close by praying together: asking God to guide, enhance and bless your vision, the responsiveness of your hearts, the joy and peace of mind, and the ongoing outplay of your Breakthrough Prayer Initiative- - in order to set the stage for God to do beyond what you could ever ask, think or imagine for Christ's Kingdom Work! (Share your breakthrough prayer initiative ideas and examples with others at www.floodgates.info) Sue Nilson Kibbey www.floodgates.info sue@snkibbey.com 6