prayer challenges and solutions
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Prayer Challenges we faCe:
Prayer TraInIng sOlUTIOns we Offer:
1. A disposition to “make things happen” without waiting on God.
2. Anemic prayer. Leaders weak and untrained in kingdom prayer.
3. The greying of prayer leadership.
4. The erosion of our corporate prayer culture.
5. ‘Selfism’ prayer with harvest decline.
“Prayer is not everything – but everything is by prayer.” ~E. Stanley Jones
1. A dependent spirit that “prays it forward.”
2. Kingdom prayer that is rich with the gospel and mission of Christ.
3. Raise up a new generation of prayer leaders.
4. Prayer discipleship that builds Jesus’ house of prayer.
5. Build dynamic prayer friendships for harvest growth.
“The chief activity of faith is prayer.” ~John Calvin
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Prayer CUrrenT TraInIng ObjeCTIvesPrayer Current empowers leaders to rise above stress-relief survival prayer, releasing them to Christ centred and missional prayer that revives hearts and renews cities. Our training objectves are:
1. To activate and multiply Kingdom Prayer in God’s people. Kingdom prayer connects prayer to mission and mission to the gospel.
2. To increase Kingdom prayer among leaders, in churches, missions and ministries – so that prayer acts as a lifeblood that permeates and animates every aspect of mission and ministry.
1. Praying Leaders
2. Praying Churches
3. Prayer renews the City
3. To raise up, identify, train and ‘embed’ prayer trainers in churches, missions and ministries – so that prayer discipleship is ongoing.
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Prayer CUrrenT TraInIng resOUrCesPrayer Current provides prayer training resources that offer vision and practical tools for leaders, small groups, individual seekers, and new believers to grow in Christ-centred missional prayer that revives hearts and renews cities.
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Prayer for the City bootcamp for Urban Mission: This 12 lesson group study trains people to come back to the heart of prayer, the gospel and mission. Packed with biblical foundations, vision, and practical tools for personal, corporate, and missional prayer.
7 Days of Prayer with jesus: This small group study explores Jesus’ simple yet powerful, purpose-filled pattern for prayer for our lives and world. Includes an integrated study guide and a practical prayer grid as a tool for daily prayer.
leading Dynamic Prayer: This Train-the-Trainer Manual empowers ministry leaders to lead from the knees and shepherd others in kingdom prayer that reaches beyond self-focused needs and survival. Looking at how Jesus trained people, this training explores a holistic view of prayer leadership, and provides practical prayer pedagogy of how to systemically buid prayer into all ministries.
Prayer leaDershIP: Training leaDers to lead Kingdom Prayer
Great for any leader to disciple people intentionally in prayer in any context. For prayer leaders, pastors and planters, ministry leaders, campus ministers, elders/deacons. Highly increases the fruitfulness of training when used in conjunction of all our other resources.
Great for Christians who want to develop a deeper, kingdom-wide more regular/daily habit of prayer. Excellent for use in small groups or in Sunday school.
Great for training churches in to become houses of prayer for the city and nations. Excellent for church planters to train core group members in prayer, the gospel, and mission. Also good for training pastors, ministry leaders, elders and deacons, campus ministers, and missionaries.
building Dynamic Prayer friendships: This 8 lesson study trains Christians in prayer that transforms their own hearts and those of seeker friends. Equips believers with a genuine, relevant, and powerful way of engaging seekers by sharing Jesus IN prayer with friends by inviting them into a prayer conversation with Jesus.
Great for encouraging and empowering believers in a lifestyle of evangelism. Excellent training for outreach (Alpha) workers, pastors and planters, campus ministers, and missionaries. Great for building momentum towards outreach seasons (Easter, Christmas).
Prayer DIsCIPleshIP: Training ChrIsTIans in Kingdom Prayer
Prayer evangelIsM: Training Christians to introduce seeKers to jesus in prayer
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by John Smed, with Justine Hwang
PRAYERFUL MINISTRY
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wOrD On The sTreeT: Testimonials
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“I know of no one better able to train our church in prayer than John Smed.” ~Tim Keller, Senior Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York City
“Prayer Current training is powerful, missional and life changing. Want to connect your church to prayer and God’s mission to reach cities? This training is uniquely designed to do this. I recommend it for leaders on mission in cities!”
~Mark Reynolds, VP Leadership Programs, Redeemer City to City, New York
“Prayer Current offers the most intensive, practical and gospel-centered training for developing a life and a church of prayer that I’ve ever seen. The modules are biblically sound, personally practiced in the training, and easily transferable. I encourage all our leaders to get the training. We implement their training in all the Church Planting Networks we facilitate. I highly recommend you attend as soon as possible. As we have heard, ‘Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, it is the greater work!’”
~Tom Wood, Author, Gospel Coach: Shepherding Leaders to Glorify God, President, Church Multiplication Ministries, Atlanta
“Kingdom-centered prayer is a battlefield…John Smed and his team enter this arena with humility, wisdom and confidence. They teach prayer through a process of praying with reflection, Bible content, and immediate application in small group praying. In Cuba, God is using this training to open minds and hearts to Kingdom-centered prayer, moving prayer from daily petitions to seeing the larger context of God’s Kingdom and will be done. Praying Jesus’ prayer daily trains people to become intercessors in a broken society. And it provides a tool for training others in prayer. ~Allen Thompson, President, International Church Planting Center, Atlanta
“Ten years ago pastors and church leaders in Metro Philadelphia received training in prayer that changed the way we approach the Father and what we ask of Him. Our man-centered prayers focused exclusively on the everyday matters and personal happiness. We learned how to pray Kingdom-sized, God-centered prayers. Personal and corporate prayer lives have been permanently transformed. And the current wave of new church planting in Philadelphia can be directly traced to the time when we learned how to pray like Jesus taught us to pray.”
~ Bruce Finn, Church Planting Coordinator, Metro Philadelphia Church Planting Partnership
“Prayer Current training is unlike anything else I’ve experienced. I highly recommend it! Inspiring. Practical. With theological depth and scriptural support and prayer practice. It is head and shoulders above other prayer training you can find.”
~Bob Cargo, Director of Church Planting, Perimeter Church, Atlanta
“Prayer Current training deepens and widens people in biblical, kingdom prayer. However, it does far more: Community develops as groups share and pray together; Repentance begins as heart idolatries are exposed; Individuals initiate in ministry; Expectant prayer leads to evangelistic boldness; An exciting vision for a church in mission is born as a spirit of prayer and the Spirit of God comes upon people. This training is transforming New City Church.”
~Connan Kublik, Church Planter, New City Church, Hamilton, Ontario
“There is a spiritual battle for the hearts and minds of young people, and we know that every student needs Jesus. We are on a mission to help students discover Jesus and that mission starts on our knees in prayer. We know this, but we were struggling to implement passionate prayer across our organization and so we turned to Prayer Current to retrain and reignite our hearts in prayer. We have been reinvigorated to put Jesus in the very centre of our prayer life, and our prayer life in the very centre of our ministry. What a joy it was to have Prayer Current amongst our staff and I would highly recommend their training to all ministries seeking to develop a vibrant prayer life.”
~Sean Cullen, National Campus Director, Power to Change Students, (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ)
“Your training was overwhelmingly positively received by our staff. You really understood us, our context, and challenges. We appreciated how much time we spent in prayer. Some couldn’t believe we spent as much time as we did in prayer. The practical points of bringing prayer into everything we do was very helpful.”
~John Hau, Leadership Development & Training Director, Power to Change Students, (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ)
“Praise God for softening my heart and for giving me a new love for Vancouver. Before, I wasn’t even aware of how little I prayed for those who don’t know Jesus; I was quick to pray for Christians and the church, and spend all my time with them. I am breaking out of my Christian bubble. Now I genuinely enjoy praying for and hanging out with my friends who don’t know Jesus.”
~Dave O., Prayer for the City Bootcamp alumni