• What did you find most helpful or most challenging in the video?

• How do you feel about intercessory prayer – do you find it’s something that comes naturally or is it more of a challenge?

“Our free wills are powerful; they can release or restrict the purposes of God.”

• How does this a ect the way that we come to God in intercessory prayer?

• Have you ever had a feeling that you needed to pray for something or someone? What happened?

“Prayer isn’t about trying to get God to say amen to what I want; prayer is about me saying amen to God’s will for my life”

• What would it look like for you to pray this week with this perspective?

Spend some time interceding for your community, town or nation. Follow the 4 steps Pete outlined:

1. Get informed: learn the facts by checking the news, or updates about the people you’re praying for.

2. Get inspired: What is God saying about this? Invite the Holy Spirit to speak into the situations you’re interceding for.

3. Get indignant: Engage your own heart and allow yourself to think and feel honestly as you pray.

4. Get in synch: engage and pray with others.

Intercession Resources

These can be found at prayercourse.org/toolshed

• How to run a Non-boring Prayer Meeting

• How to Intercede for a Large Scale Crisis (the Three Ps) 

• A Circle prayer