How to lead
A Prayer Session
6 Ways to Have Effective Prayer Meetings- Eps 27 Feat. James Aladiran
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it's not the easiest thing in the world
to lead a prayer meeting it takes a lot
of wisdom it takes a grace it takes an
anointing of God's actually enable us we
invest a lot in raising of worship
leaders but I believe we're living in a
time where we need to invest a lot in
raising up prayer leaders it's amazing
that in the West the least attended
church activities are prayer meetings so
I want to give some ideas on how to have
more effective prayer meeting one I
think we should invest time in worship
in exhorting god in focusing on him
number two I think it's important we
have focus in our prayer meetings if
we're gonna pray together effectively in
a corporate setting there has to be
focused there has to be intention to it
see when people go to war when warriors
go to war you know there's a general and
there's a focus in the battle they're
all not fighting or firing arrows in all
different directions there's a sense of
a focus everyone is after the same thing
everyone is headed in the same direction
so I believe for there to be effective
prayer meetings we have to have focus in
this prayer meetings number three in
having effective prayer meetings we need
to learn how to listen to each other and
pray on the back of each other's prayers
see I've been a parameter where the
leaders that's the printer set direction
and someone just takes the meeting into
a completely random place and I'm
thinking what's that got to do with this
number for praying by revelation we need
to learn how to pray what God is saying
right now the Bible is filled with a lot
of powerful potent dynamic prayers we
need to learn how to extract Perez from
scriptures and release them as we seek
God in certain situations now we need to
be familiar with the Word of God to be
able to pray effectively the Word of God
when we begin to pray the Word of God
many times God begins to open up that
word to us as it pertains to themes
that's specific that we're praying into
so God begins to
bring a light on the word the written
word becomes the living word and we're
not just having heard the Word of God
we're here in the Word of God faith
comes by hearing present tense and
because we're hearing faith is stirred
up in our hearts and we're able to pray
effectively
in certain situations because we're here
we'll go to say in that moment other
dimensions and revelations include
dreams and visions and things that go
stirs in our hearts pay attention to
dreams
I believe God speaks to us in dreams and
that's very obvious in Scripture God
speaks to us in visions as we take these
things and line them up and judge them
on Scripture especially when we're
praying into situations we begin to hear
what God is saying we'll begin to see
what God is doing and when we begin to
discern these things we can align them
with our prayers and I'm telling you
prayer is a lot more exciting when we're
interacting we'll go the same when we're
interacting with a spoken word the
written word the revealed word in dreams
and visions things begin to open up and
it's just amazing what happens in these
places of Prayer
number five unity this is so crucial in
effective corporate prayer meetings I've
been in meetings where there's a few of
us in the room we're praying but I can
tell that the people in the room are
physically there but they're not
actually that they're in the room but
their minds are elsewhere we're come pre
effectively in a copper prayer meetings
if we're not together
it acts they were all together in one
room in one Accord and I believe that
unity that was in the room in the upper
room on the day of Pentecost was key for
they are pouring of God's spirits number
six
music now I know I already talked about
worship playing a significant role and
effective corporate prayer meetings
music has an important role to play
especially in an era of intercession
many of us don't realize our members in
the meeting ones and who a kind of
interceding and crying out to God for
salvation in a certain situation and the
band was a stage and the person who was
praying and leading the prayer well kind
of like just broken just crying out to
God the band in the background was
playing like what I'll just say like
Disney type music the music the band was
playing in the back
round was not matching the intensity of
the prayer that the person upfront was
leaving everyone in so I went into this
guy and I just spoke to him and said you
know be great if you change the music
you know something a bit more aggressive
the moment he changed the music the
unity and anointing in the room went
from here to here it was like everyone
just engaged music has a powerful way of
engaging hearts engaging emotions now
I'm not talking about emotionalism
there's nothing wrong with our emotions
being involved in our prayers in fact
the book of James says the effectual
fervent prayer fervent prayer you can't
play a fervent prayer and your emotions
be disconnected music has a massive part
to play in a corporate setting with what
is being prayed corporate prayer
meetings are important in advancing
God's purposes in the earth I wanna
encourage you to consider starting a
regular prayer meeting in your region
join with prayer meetings not currently
going on in your church connect yourself
with prayer meetings that are going on
around you or encourage you to make
corporate prayer meetings a significant
part of your walk with God
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