I’m excited to share a prayer tip I recently picked up with you all.
I’ve been blessed to be part of a prayer group seeking God’s will for a new BSF (Bible Study Fellowship) location in the Charlotte area.
Our leader has found a great way to incorporate personal prayers without having them overtake our purpose or our time in corporate prayer.
We partner up and share our personal requests with one another.
- We usually just pair up with one of the women sitting right next to us.
- We write down the requests on a slip of paper or in a notebook.
- In the time span of about 2-3 minutes we quickly share 2-3 requests.
- We take those requests home with us and pray over them in between meeting times.
I love partering up with our personal prayer requests because:
1. It builds relationships within our group.
2. Another prayer warrior is lifting up our requests and concerns before the Lord.
3. We are all actively praying for one another as instructed in God’s Word. (James 5:16)
I encourage you to try this technique with your Women’s Ministry team or Bible study group and let us know how it goes!
Your turn to share: How do you keep personal prayer requests from dominating your group’s time together in prayer?
You may also want to read:
How to Pray Boldly and Confidently
My Favorite Prayer Cards and 8 Ways to Use Them
Praying for Your Small Group
8 Prayers for Your Women’s Ministry Team
How to Start a Prayer Group
I am beginning a women’s ministry in our church. I am interested in any free info you can share with me. I thank you kindly. I prefer things i can print off and hold in my hands. Thank you, Barb
Barb, how exciting! I would suggest starting here. https://womensministrytoolbox.com/how-to-start-or-rebuild-a-womens-ministry/
There’s a print button at the bottom of each page. 🙂
You may also find my book, Rethinking Women’s Ministry to be helpful.
Praying the Lord will direct your steps, Cyndee
I do like this idea! Thanks, I’ll use it in my small group.
Here’s another – Remind your group that as the prayer request is spoken to the group, God hears it too and knows our hearts in suggesting the prayer request. Encourage the group about praying in agreement with one another and most importantly, with God. (Matt 18:19-20; 2 Cor 10:3-5; 1 John 5:14-15) Then, instead of telling the group we’ll take requests, write them down and pray later, this time we will speak out our requests to the group AND to God, actually praying about the request as we do.
This helps to limit extra conversation about each request, encourages each to pray aloud, builds compassion for one another and for the request being lifted up.
Leah, thanks for sharing another way to collect prayer requests!I like the idea of writing them down as it would help some of the women succinctly put their request into words. 🙂