INTENTIONAL DISCIPLESHIP SOL LEVEL 2 Lesson Plan I. CLASS OBJECTIVES The objectives of this class are: 1. Understand the importance of prayer in the Christians life. 2. Learn the different types of prayers. 3. Learn how to fast and get results. II. INTRODUCTION 1. Introduce Yourself a. Name, how are you connected in the G12 Strategy b. Introduce your class assistant. 2. Student Icebreaker a. Have everyone break up in groups of two or three. b. Have everyone in their group answer this question: If you had the ability to contribute to society and make life better, what would you do? III. INSTRUCTORS NOTE** When you are preparing your lesson please use personal examples as well as illustrations that will enhance your message and get the point across to the students. Read the class objectives and prepare to answer and minister to the students accordingly. This is not a Sunday school but a class that brings healing, deliverance, ministry to their needs and instruction while casting vision for their personal and ministerial lives.
IV. LESSON: PRAYER AND FASTING The great revivalist, John Wesley made this statement, It seems God is limited by our prayer life that He can do nothing for humanity unless someone asks Him. We live in a spiritual world. God is a Spirit and everything on this earth is dominated, ruled, or influenced by spirits. Everything that we see in the natural has been influenced by the spiritual realm. Payer is so important to the Christian for him to be successful and effective. If the Son of God needed to pray while living on this earth, how much more should prayer be important for us? A. Prayer, a priority for Jesus. 1. After ministering to people He ministered and received ministry from God. Matthew 14:23 (New King James Version) And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray. Now when evening came, He was alone there. 2. Jesus started His earthly ministry by prayer and fasting. Matthew 4:2 (NKJV) And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. B. Different types of prayer. We are instructed to prayer always with all prayer and supplications. There are different types of prayers for different occasions. Here we will go over a few. Ephesians 6:18 (NKJV) 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints. 1. Pray with the spirit of faith. 2 Corinthians 4:13 (NKJV) And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I believed and therefore I spoke, we also believe and therefore speak. Pre SOL LEVEL 2 Page 2 of 5
2. Faith is having confidence in God for what we are praying for. Hebrews 11:1 (NKJV) Now faith is the substance (confidence) of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 3. Speak things into existence. Romans 4:17b (NKJV) God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did 4. Declare a thing. Job 22:28 (NKJV) You will also declare a thing,and it will be established for you; So light will shine on your ways. C. Pray in the Holy Spirit (tongues) A. Pray in the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 14:14, 15 (NKJV) 14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. 15 What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding. B. The Holy Spirit knows what to pray for through us. Romans 8:26 (NKJV) Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. C. Praying in other tongues builds our most holy faith. Jude 1:20 (NKJV) But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit D. Prayer develops intimacy with God. In order to develop intimacy with God, we must communicate with Him. Prayer is a two-way communication. Pre SOL LEVEL 2 Page 3 of 5
Prayer allows us to hear the voice of God. When you pray you open your heart to God. You get intimate with whom you pray to. You get intimate with whom you pray with. You get intimate with whom you pray for. E. Intercessory Prayer. The prayer of intercession simply means praying on behalf of someone else or a group of people. God is always looking for someone who will intercede and stand in the gap on another s behalf. Ezekiel 22:30 (NKJV) So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. F. Fasting. Fasting is simply denying ourselves something that would humble us and shut down the flesh to seek God s face. It enhances our spirit man and allows us to go deeper in our relationship with God. We would able to hear His voice and develop our spiritual life while we shut down the desires of the flesh. There are great benefits for the believer in fasting. Fasting shouldn t be an event but a lifestyle. There are several results of fasting according to Isaiah 58:6-11. Isaiah 58:6-11 (Amplified Bible) 6 [Rather] is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every [enslaving] yoke? 7Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house-- when you see the naked, that you cover him, and that you hide not yourself from [the needs of] your own flesh and blood? 8Then shall your light break forth like the morning, and your healing (your restoration and the power of a new life) shall spring forth speedily; your righteousness (your rightness, your Pre SOL LEVEL 2 Page 4 of 5
justice, and your right relationship with God) shall go before you [conducting you to peace and prosperity], and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. 9Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, Here I am. If you take away from your midst yokes of oppression [wherever you find them], the finger pointed in scorn [toward the oppressed or the godly], and every form of false, harsh, unjust, and wicked speaking, 10And if you pour out that with which you sustain your own life for the hungry and satisfy the need of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity and gloom become like the noonday. 11And the Lord shall guide you continually and satisfy you in drought and in dry places and make strong your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not. 6 things to do before you fast: a. Decide the purpose of the fast before you begin. b. Proclaim the fast before the Lord. c. Believe before the fast that you receive the reward promised by Jesus in Matthew 6:18. d. Minister to the Lord while you are fasting. e. Minister to others during the fast and after the fast. (Minister during the fast, only if you are led by the Spirit of God to do so. But always minister to people after because you are built up and ready to minister). f. Expect the assistance from the angels. What happens to those whom you minister to? g. To loose the bonds of wickedness h. To undo the heavy burdens i. To let the oppressed go free j. And that you break every yoke What happens to you when you fast after or during you ministry to others. k. Your light shall break forth like the morning l. Your healing shall spring forth speedily m. Your righteousness shall go before you n. The glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard (protection) o. The presence of God will increase and you will become intimate with Him. Pre SOL LEVEL 2 Page 5 of 5