I would like to share some advance thoughts about prayer that may actually may encourage or help prayer to grow and develop through relationship with each other and God.
written by Lewis Turner, Wheatland Ministries December 2023
- What I have when groups have a focus on prayer is that such emphasis or focus does not seem to be drawing on building on the foundation of prayer which may have been in the region for many years. We need to draw on the prayer experience of those who were involved in prayer in the past.
. I.E. Many times, in the past we developed a prayer team, but never involved the prayer team with the leadership. Many of those teams were set up independent of the leadership. It would have been better to have the leadership involved with the leader of the prayer team and vise/versa.---Involvement with Leadership.
- Encourage people involved in prayer to solicit what Christians in Frederick are involved in and to add that to what they pray for.—That is supportive prayer, which is involvement supporting others in their ministry activities.
- Holiness- I have observed your focus in ministry is on Holiness and relationship with the Lord. In my study of the Names of God, I am sensing that God is showing himself to us as a nurturing God, and that He wants us to be involved in nurturing encouragement. Many think of prayer as praying for something—I would like to present a challenge –Part of prayer should be on building others—involvement with them—not just teaching someone how to pray—but come into relationship with the Lord. This is an area that we should consider and should spill over into our prayers—that the Lord will help each other to learn to be encouraging to others and to be involved in the lives of others—looking for ways to build up others.
