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Leadership in Prayer Meetings: Vision / Commitment

Filed under: Intercession

Before landing here at IHOP-KC I was the youth pastor of a small church for about 5 years and the director of a house of prayer in Florida for about 2 years. We first started our prayer meetings on Friday nights. It was just a few core people initially and we began holding prayer meetings and inviting young people from the community to join us in praying for our city. In order to give people a reason to join us in prayer I wrote out a plan of action, a vision to put in front of people, a call to the Joel 2 sacred assembly.

Give Purpose to Your Passion
Take a few minutes to sit down and write out an action plan for what God has put on your heart to do. Even if its a paragraph or 2-3 points declaring that you want to contend for salvations on your campus. Writing an action plan makes your invisible idea visible to others.

A very wise man once said “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18). Leaders are those who are going somewhere and refuse to be denied. You may not know how the specifics are going to work themselves out, but you should have a general sense of direction for now and 10 years from now. So write out what you are determined to do.

Commit and Don’t Give Up
After sending out the email with our vision and inviting people to join us the time came for the meeting to begin. Back then we didn’t really know what we were doing, we just knew that we were responding to the call of God to the place of prayer and calling others to that same reality. So we showed up.

Once you have a time and a place setup to meet, follow through on your commitment and be there every time. Lead by example. Give your core group permission to hold you accountable to show up to this prayer meeting. Once the newness of it wears off and you hit a little stint of mundaneness, that is the time for a leader to lead. There were so many times I could have just quit when the prayer meetings seemed to drag on or when I just didn’t feel the excitement. However leadership is a marathon not a sprint. So persevere even in difficulty. Keep bringing before you the vision and the purpose you are meeting together to pray. A leader is a person who does not quit!

24 The hand of the diligent will rule, but the lazy man will be put to forced labor…27  Diligence is man’s precious possession. (Prov. 12:24, 27)

Tags: Intercession, Leadership