Prayer is a muscle that needs exercised and strengthened. The more you pray, the more you will want to pray, and the more you will experience the power of prayer.
The Prayer Covenant may be one tool God uses to empower you to pray and spend time in his Word regularly as well as equip you to serve in ministry. God has given you gifts that when offered back to Him, can impact the world for Christ, just like His disciples long ago.
Be HIS Disciple
Jesus has invited each one of us to be His disciple. It is not about going through the motions. If your heart is not in it, your prayers will bounce off the walls. It is not about a religious checklist of empty rituals. Prayer is power–inviting the living God to take control of your life and change you any way He wants. It is a journey that requires discipline, commitment, devotion and passion to succeed.
Begin Your Prayer Journey
You begin the Prayer Covenant journey by simply praying the prayer each day over yourself for ten days and then asking God to show you who He would want you to invite into a prayer covenant so you can begin praying for each other by name for an agreed period of time–maybe 30 or 40 days. It’s up to you. When the time is up, you move on to another person or you may choose to continue to pray for that person every day.
A covenant is a promise–you are promising to pray for someone each day. You may forget to pray one day for that person, it’s ok, don’t beat yourself up, but the more you do it, the sooner you will develop a habit or lifestyle of prayer.
I am not sure there is a more powerful way to show you care for someone than by praying for them. Why? Because God moves mountains when we pray. Because He modeled prayer, designed prayer and inclines his ear towards us when we pray.
E. M. Bounds wrote, God is so much involved in prayer and hearing and answering that all His attributes and His whole being are centered in that great fact. It distinguishes Him as wonderfully good… God’s truthfulness is at stake in the engagements to answer prayer. His wisdom, His truth, and His goodness are involved. God is Truth–and He always answers the prayers of His children who earnestly seek His name. Are you ready to begin a journey of prayer?
