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GUEST-POST: City Saturation = Prayer Saturation x Christ Saturation

Posted by Reimagine Curator on March 5, 2024 at 12:58

GUEST-POST: City Saturation = Prayer Saturation x Christ Saturation

Get SATURATED With More of Christ!
Try These Five Easy Steps
David Bryant
 
In about a week, I will address a conference of 1000 Christian leaders from New York City to Philadelphia. We are preparing for JESUS WEEK 2024, which will take place in cities and communities across the region this summer. Now in its first decade, JESUS WEEK has a great website. Check it out here.
Mobilization for every JESUS WEEK involves a three-fold strategy:
  1. Christ Saturation
  2. Prayer Saturation
  3. City Saturation
My assignment is to inspire and train participants to saturate their own lives with more of the glories of the lordship of Jesus today so that, in turn, they can spread that same experience to everyone in their churches. This “Christ Saturation” initiative is foundational to the impact of the extensive, multifaceted outreach involved in every JESUS WEEK.
I usually end my training by giving everyone five very easy next steps. If you would like to explore how your life might become more caught up with the person, presence, power, and purposes of God’s Son, these next steps may be for YOU too!
Here we go!
Five Easy Steps Into a “Christ Saturation”

1. Above all, you need to start by saturating your own life with more of who Christ is today.

To enlarge and enrich your own vision of and passion for the majesty and supremacy of God’s Son today so that, in turn, you can share this with others, go to ChristNow.com. Scroll down to “Exalting Jesus: A 21-Day Video Journey Into More of Christ” and click on the button—and get ready to be saturated with much more of our Lord Jesus Christ!

2. Next, try to saturate fellow believers with more of the wonders of Jesus that you have uncovered.

Once you’ve taken the 21-Day Journey yourself, form a small group in your church to go on the Journey together, viewing three video clips per one-hour session for a total of seven sessions.

Within each session, take time between the three video clips to discuss what kind of fresh insights you’ve gained in each video clip about the glory of who Jesus is today.

End each session in a time of worship and prayer. Pray especially for a Christ-saturation of your entire church and for many there to wake up to the fullness of the greatness and glory of Jesus the way you have begun to do so through the 21-Day Video Journey.

3. Form a Christ Awakening Servant Team (CAST) inside your church to transform your church.

A CAST can have as few as four to five members who want to help saturate their church with more of the person, presence, power, and purposes of our reigning Redeemer today. The CAST strategy is easy to implement. Over time, it will bring a whole new spiritual dynamic into the life of your congregation.

To get started, go to ChristNow.com. Scroll down to the panel about the Nationwide Campaign and click on the button that says, “Learn More.” Then, scroll down to the panel about the CAST and click on that button to get all the help you need to form this group and begin to serve the Body of Christ in an unprecedented way.

4. Subscribe for free to the Christ Now Resources Catalog so you can keep growing in your life in Christ.

Visit ChristNow.com, scroll down, and immediately sign up for the Catalog. You’ll receive a password by email that allows you to access a vast variety of literally thousands of free resources at any time that will help you go deeper and further with God’s Son, as well as equip you to help others experience a Christ awakening. Take 30 minutes to explore the Catalog, and you’ll quickly discover what a treasure trove it is!

5. Pastors and other Christian leaders should definitely consider drawing on the in-depth teaching found in “The Christ Institutes Video Training Series.“

To begin, subscribe for free to the “Christ Now Resources Catalog” at ChristNow.com. Once you get into the Catalog, click on the button that takes you to the Institutes landing page—and you’re on your way!
Get started today!

About the Author

Over the past 50 years, David Bryant has been defined by many as a “messenger of hope” and a “Christ proclaimer” to the Church throughout the world. Formerly a minister-at-large with the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, president of Concerts of Prayer International (COPI), and chairman of America’s National Prayer Committee, David now provides leadership to ChristNow.com and Proclaim Hope!, whose mission is to foster and serve Christ Awakening movements. Download his widely read ebooks at ChristNow.com. Enjoy hundreds of podcast episodes. Watch his weekly vlogs at David Bryant REPORTS. Meet with David through Zoom or in-person events through David Bryant LIVE!

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#ReimagineCITIES...Together Chicago

Posted by Reimagine Curator on November 21, 2023 at 15:13

 

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Thank you for continuing your prayers for us and for our beautiful city! We are tremendously thankful for you. We pray that the Lord would bless you and your family this week for Thanksgiving. 
Please join us on the Prayer Partners Zoom Tuesdays 9:30-10:00 a.m. to pray for Together Chicago if you can. We would love to have our Prayer Partners on this weekly prayer zoom. 

Prayer Partners Zoom Link: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/88659293151?pwd=56TU70RD1vNdMaWJ425t93B7wVP7sH.1 Meeting ID: 886 5929 3151 Passcode: gKsZ54

 
 
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  • Pray for our Economic Development Department as we collaborate with two separate individuals who desire to purchase businesses to provide jobs in our city and partner with Together Chicago. Pray that they would be led strongly by the Holy Spirit. Pray especially for divine favor.
  • Pray for Together Chicago staff to have a blessed Thanksgiving with their families and safe travel. 
  • Pray for our ongoing and growing relationships with both the Lily Foundation and Stand Together Foundation. Pray that the Lord would give us wisdom moving forward with the use of grants and developing measurable outcomes of our work in violence reduction. Pray especially for Jacinta as she joins our staff to assist in this goal. 
  • Pray for our growing relationship with Billy Evans and the Public Safety Department. Pray also for a divine between TC and Mayor Johnson. 
 

togetherchicago.com/economic-development
 
 
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  • Continue to pray for the Education fundraising campaign to be a success to see more funds raised for the youth, their families and our schools across the city. Pray even now that God would call forth generous donors.
  • Pray for Together Chicago's Education Team and Communities In Schools Chicago as they continue to host conversations surrounding a strategy to support Safe and Sound Schools and address violence in our schools.
  • Pray for our LYS Prayer Champions who are leading Prayer Corners each week outside their school, that they would be anointed as they partner with the Lord in prayer over their adopted schools: Pulaski ES, Clemente, Noble DRW, Julian HS, McKay ES, Jenner, Hanson Park, Ellington ES, Catalyst Circle Rock, Chicago Hope Academy, Brown STEM, Caldwell, Franklin Fine Arts, Peterson ES, Carlson ES and Beidler ES. 
 

togetherchicago.com/education
 
 
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  • Pray for the Chicagoland United in Prayer monthly meetings over the next two months as we meet and develop the agenda and theme for our CUIP Citywide Prayer event in February. Pray especially that many Pastors and Leaders would attend December's meeting as we will be making our promo video.
  • Pray that many would mark their calendars as the invite has gone out for the CUIP Citywide Prayer. Pray also that Pastors would invite their congregations to attend this annual prayer event with them.
  • Pray for the Chicagoland United in Prayer connection with the city's Public Safety Department to be even more solidified this year and that we would collaborate with excellence for no gun violence in our city through Building Blocks of Peace.
 

togetherchicago.com/faith-community-mobilization
 
 
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  • Continue to pray for the Gospel Justice Centers who have been put on pause: Maple Park U.M. Church, Uptown Baptist Church. Pray that the Lord would intervene by His Spirit to equip these churches with an Attorney/Justice Champion. Pray especial for Trinity as they pause for health reasons.  Pray that the Lord would heal Robert and raise up another attorney.
  • Pray that there would be an abundance of attorneys on backlog who are available for our Gospel Justice Centers and that existing attorneys would train someone up to replace them eventually.
  • Pray for our Justice Champions and their teams at each Gospel Justice Center, that they would be strengthened with divine might by the Holy Spirit in their inner man. Pray especially for Shannon and a family emergency. 
 

togetherchicago.com/gospel-justice
 
 
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  • Pray for supernatural peace over Greater Grand Crossing, Westhaven Park, Near West, East Garfield Park and N. Austin. Pray for an open heaven, with angels ascending and descending over this region. Pray especially for Austin this week, that the Lord would intervene between the two tribes that continue to be at war. 
  • Pray for the Lord to raise up a new Street Outreach Professional to fill the vacancy left by the sad loss of our brother, Marlon. Pray for strength for James and LaVonas as they fill in during this time.
  • Pray for Case Managers Tremaine and Shereka in Greater Grand Crossing to have an increase of wisdom, favor and discernment.
  • Pray that the Lord would continue to anoint our growing unity with other laborers in our city who are contending to make peace happen and an end to gun violence. 
 

togetherchicago.com/violence-reduction
 
Thank you for your commitment to pray with and for us!
 
ABOUT US
 

Together Chicago exists to be a catalyst for lasting change by reducing gun violence and increasing thriving communities in our city.

We catalyze faith, business, community, and government leaders to inspire hope and affect peace and justice in the communities we serve.

 

We focus on five areas: economic development, educational achievement, violence reduction, gospel justice, and faith community mobilization.
 
 
CONTACT US
 
Together Chicago
200 W Adams St, Suite 2950
Chicago, IL 60606
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info@togetherchicago.com
(312) 332-5713
 
 
 
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