Equipping Ministry Intercession Ideas, November 2023 Part H

(See also downloadable Equipping Ministry Prayer Guide; Praying Through the Gifts at Your Church:  A Spiritual Gifts Prayer Guide; and Equipping Prayer Guide—Praying Scripture for Your Congregation)

Use the following thoughts as prayer guides as you intercede for [insert church name here]:

“The Holy Spirit is a humble spirit and those who are truly filled with Him always display the meekness and gentleness of Christ.”—John Stott

“Work is not primarily a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. it is, or should be, the full expression of the worker’s faculties, the thing in which [s/he] finds spiritual, mental, and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which [s/he] offers [her/himself] to God.”—Dorothy Sayers

“A lot of people waste their time failing to use what they are, because they are longing for what they are not. You’re not responsible for your environment or your heredity, but you are responsible for your response to your environment and your heredity.”—Rev. Robert H. Oerter, Jr., February 26, 1989, from Good News About Our Hurtful Past sermon.

Pray for the following to be marks of Christlikeness at [insert church name here]:

·         Humility

·         Meekness

·         Gentleness

·         Giving God the glory

·         Faithfully doing the good works God has designed for us to do (Eph. 2)

·         Being students of Scripture

·         Kindness

·         Generosity

·         Self-sacrifice

·         Joy

·         Love

Pray that as people in our midst live into their unique spiritual giftedness, that they would have a deep sense of connection to God, a reliance on the Holy Spirit to guide and empower them, a knowledge that they are being employed by the Lord to do His work in meaningful ways, a confirmation that they are in the right place at the right time, an energy that surpasses their own human effort, and feel a sense of purpose that transcends the work they are doing.

Pray that as we engage in ministry that challenges us like delivering difficult messages to others, stepping into situations of deep grief and loss, guiding those who may not want to be led, starting new ministries from scratch often in places unreceptive that we might be increasingly prayerful and that God’s Spirit would fill us with joy and a deep sense of being in the center of God’s purposes as we are also reminded that as humans we are not infallible nor omnicompetent.

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Shirley Giles Davis, author of the God. Gifts. You. Your Unique Calling and Design workbook, Your Unique Design Class Guide, Your Unique Design Facilitator Guide, and Gifts-Calling-Purpose blog, is a consultant, coach, facilitator who has worked with faith-based organizations, nonprofit agencies, and executive leaders in a diversity of fields for over 35 years. She currently serves as Equipping Ministries Director at her church.

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