This week, the blog is sponsored by PrayMore. Teach your people how to pray for their church with a free, in-app 30-Day Prayer Challenge.
Do you know any great Christian prayer warriors? Perhaps George Müller comes to mind, who “is widely considered one of the greatest men of prayer and faith since the days of the New Testament … [with] over fifty thousand specific recorded answers to prayers in his journals.”
Corrie Ten Boom is another famous prayer warrior, whose consistent prayer for others released her from her fears, even when living deep in a Nazi concentration camp.
Charles Spurgeon was a great man of prayer. He told one of his associates that “when leading the great congregation in prayer, he has been so rapt in adoration, and so completely absorbed in the supplication or thanksgiving he has been presenting, that he has quite forgotten all his surroundings, and has felt even a measure of regret, upon closing his petition, and opening his eyes, to find that he was still in the flesh, in the company of men of like passions with himself.”
Do these prayer warriors inspire you, or only convince you that an ordinary Christian like you could never pray like that?
Here’s what these three would tell you, in their own words.
- “After such a manner pray ye; the whole of your mind, your memory, your judgment, your affection, your hopes, your fears, and even your imagination must be concentrated upon this labour of prayer.” — Charles Spurgeon sermon on Romans 12:12
- “I pray to the Lord, and expect an answer to my requests; and may not you do the same, dear believing reader? Oh! I beseech you, do not think me an extraordinary believer, having privileges above other of God’s dear children, which they cannot have; nor look on my way of acting as something that would not do for other believers. Make but trial! Do but stand still in the hour of trial, and you will see the help of God, if you trust in Him.” — George Müller in Answers to Prayer
- “The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible… Nothing is too great for His almighty power.” — Corrie Ten Boom in The Hiding Place
At PrayMore, we want to help your people learn to pray like that for your church! Our free 30-Day Prayer Challenge is a great place to start. Here’s how it works.
Every day, one prayer from Five Things to Pray for Your Church is sent out in the PrayMore app to your group. People will get a notification to pray and can set customizable reminders to pray throughout the week. For thirty days, the whole church is praying short, biblical prayers together for your church.
Trevor Archer, Former FIEC London Director says, “Five Things to Pray is a brilliantly simple but hugely effective means of stimulating your prayer life for church, mission, family, and friends. Accessible and attractive, with lots of Scripture to focus prayer, it will be a great tool for churches to help members to pray regularly and creatively.”
And now, thanks to the kind people at The Good Book Company, you can use it as part of this PrayMore challenge and we can send you all the prayers prior to starting the challenge, for you to review.
Sign your church up for the free 30-Day Prayer Challenge with PrayMore today!
