Prayer Ideas
By Steve Cordle
Joel has been reminding and challenging us to make prayer the foundation for our cell ministry.
Here are a few more ways to build prayer into your cell ministry:
- distribute specific prayer focus points to your leaders for them to pray in concert in cells
- highlight answered prayer in weekend messages (nothing motivates prayer like answered prayer!)
- As part of the weekly cell meeting agenda, ask for accounts of answered prayer before praying for requests of the members
- If you are a pastor, hang the pictures of your cell leaders on the wall near your desk with a reminder to pray for them daily.
- Give each cell coach a frame with pictures of their leaders (for prayer reminder), and also allow the frame to contain a couple of blank spots as a way to envision future leaders
- set your cell phone alarm to ring daily at 10:02 to remind you to pray each daily in accordance with Luke 10:2 - that the Lord of the harvest would raise up more leaders in your ministry. Encourage each cell leader to do the same to pray for an apprentice.
- Encourage cells to do ”prayer outreachs”; for example: a cell can set up a booth at a community fair where the members offer free popcorn and free prayer to all who come by. They can give a card with a group member’s cell phone number so the person can contact the group in the future.
- buy a gift subscription to ”Pray!” magazine for each cell leader.
Those are a few ways to stimulate prayer on your cell ministry - What other ideas do you have?
Rob Campbell said,
May 24, 2007 @ 3:00 pm
Steve~
Excellent post! These suggestions are some of the most practical prayer tidbits I’ve ever encountered.
I plan to implement with my church family!
Rob
Dorothy said,
May 25, 2007 @ 2:27 pm
I loved these ideas.
We just implemented a prayer journal in our own small group study.
Every week one of the members has written all our prayer requests and sent them out via e-mail. We are now returning those with the answers to them.
We will compile the prayer requests and answers for the folks to keep in a loose leaf binder.
We decided in our group that “answered prayer helps build faith.”
Dorothy
CR/CCC
Cecilia Belvin said,
May 28, 2007 @ 12:58 pm
Hi Steve,
Great ideas to increase prayer in cell life…especially love the 10:02 prompt to pray for more workers.
Something to consider with the prayer booths…rather than give someone’s personal phone # out, we have found it safer to offer the church office #; then the office can refer the name to a cell member to follow-up with a call.
Thank you for the ideas!
Cecilia
CCC
Steve Cordle said,
May 29, 2007 @ 10:34 am
Great point about giving a church number, Cecilia!