Session 4
Intercession
Questions
Questions
- 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.”
“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”
“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?
Reflection & Prayer
Reflection & Prayer
Spend some time interceding for your community, town or nation. Follow the 4 steps Pete outlined:
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.
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.
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.
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.
4. Get in synch: engage and pray with others.
Resources
Resources
Intercession Resources
Intercession Resources
- How to run a Non-boring Prayer Meeting
- How to Intercede for a Large Scale Crisis (the Three Ps)
- A Circle prayer