Pray for Prayer

When it comes to local church prayer ministry development, I really do believe in Spirit-led goal-setting and Spirit-enabled planning. However, let us be careful to take heed to these words from Douglas Small:

“Pray. Don’t talk about it. Do it.

“Pray before you plan. Pray before you do anything else. Above all, let prayer lead the way in developing a prayer ministry. Tarry in prayer.

“The flesh will want to plan it into being. The Spirit will want to pray it into being.

“Pray for prayer–a spirit of intercession. Pray for pray-ers–an army of prayer warriors…. Pray for God’s unique design for the prayer ministry of your church.”

(Source: P. Douglas Small in Prayer the Heartbeat of the Church, pp. 75-76.)