Design a Prayer Strategy

1. Read

Research shows that prayer is important. How will you engage your family, friends, and the Church in praying extraordinarily for a DMM among your target people group? There are many different ways you could do this. Extraordinary prayer is essential — starting a prayer network with a website and social media presence is not. Do not get stuck on this step. Whatever idea you can take action on is far better than the overwhelming idea that you can’t.

Every Disciple Making Movement in recorded history has happened in the context of extraordinary prayer. From beginning to end, this is a work of the Holy Spirit.

For those who have the resources to launch your very own “Pray4” network, there are several benefits:

  • A prayer network can increase global awareness of an Unreached People Group (UPG) and of the people group’s progress toward and barriers to the Gospel.
  • Launching this prayer network can familiarize you with many of the necessary media fundamentals that you will need later for the online media portion of M2DMM. (i.e. creating a website, launching a Facebook page, etc.)

2. Answer these questions

  • Brainstorm what extraordinary prayer could look like for your context?
  • What kinds of prayer networks already exist for your context?
  • If no prayer network already exists for your context, is one needed? If so, what will be your role?
  • What elements of the example prayer networks do you like?

5. Resources