Creative Prayer and Intercession: Direction and Fresh Ideas to Lead Groups in Dynamic and Effective Intercession Experiences

by Tricia Blackford, Lisa Purdy

“A powerful, implementable guide for holding world-changing prayer times with groups and teams, built on more than a decade of experience in leading prayer. Intensely practical, to the point that you will find yourself looking through your calendar to see when you can schedule your first prayer event!” -- Andrew Dempsey, prayer movement leaderAs you read and execute the activities listed in this guide, you will be equipped to facilitate prayer in any context for people of all varieties of denominational background, age and level of prayer maturity. This Prayer Guide is designed to support people who want to lead praying communities but need direction and fresh ideas to create a more dynamic and effective intercession experience. While this guide focuses on cross-cultural ministers, it can easily be modified for any group that wants to pray for any country, including their own. You can adapt the tools and 2-day schedule provided to create meaningful prayer times for your whole household by doing 1 prayer activity as part of a morning or evening routine, for a group who wants to pray regularly for a certain marginalized people by choosing 3-4 activities in planning a 1-hour meeting or for a group who wants to dedicate weeks or months to full time prayer. In this guide, you will learn…•How to lead a dynamic prayer event•Ways to make group prayer times more engaging and effective•Creative ideas to include children during prayer times•Strategies to encourage all personality types to join in group prayer•A plan for a two-day prayer event

58 pages, Paperback

Published January 7, 2020

Reviews

[Gretchen Garrison]

This is a fun collection of ideas on ways that people can pray in group settings. The point is connecting with God together. I skimmed through all of the ideas and plan to reference them again if I ever go on a retreat or group setting where this type of resource could be helpful.

[Kris Wood]

Great resource

Inspiring and practical. Just what I needed for our church's new prayer room. Kids and teen prayer options included. Thanks!

[Michal Sullivan]

great ideas

This was a wonderful guide to plan and facilitate prayer for the nations… Good and creative tools for the toolbox!