Church of God Prayer Ministries Offering Prayer ‘Coaching’
Want to deepen and expand your personal prayer life? Join Doug Small in Prayer Coaching from the comfort of your own living room or office. Coaching is coordinated through online technology where you can choose to join the call through video and/or audio.
The next session of calls will begin the week of May 6th and last for six weeks. The focus of the calls is on the cultivation and expansion of the personal prayer life.
Pastors and prayer leaders from a half-dozen states and several denominations have now completed the coaching calls. Steve Molten, Texas State Prayer Leader for the Church of God has extended the coaching calls to prayer gatherings. Recently, retired pastors and spouses on the Texas campground gathered for prayer. “It was a wonderful time of fellowship and our time of prayer was blessed with God’s Holy Spirit presence. I wish you could have heard them as they testified and prayed.”
Bishop Smith
In New Jersey and Michigan, the Church of God Administrative Bishops, Steve Smith and Dwight Spivey, and the State Councils led the way in the Prayer Coaching calls. Those who have gone through the experience have commented about ‘new ideas,’ ‘new ways of viewing prayer,’ ‘a whole new perspective on scriptures,’ ‘a more satisfying prayer life.’
Small says, “Our effort has been three steps forward, and at times, four backwards – but we keep persisting. And slowly, the tide of prayer awareness is growing in the denomination, and the nation. The number of congregations that are offering prayer meetings is on the rise. The number who are using prayer study materials has increased.”
Small says, “Our biggest obstacle is a narrow view of prayer. We tend to see it as acquisition. We see prayer leaders as intercessors. But the heart of prayer is neither petition or intercession – it is a love relationship with God. Communion. Entertaining God. It is about His Presence. The breadth of our prayer reach in intercession is determined by the depth of this relational aspect. Until pastors, prayer leaders, and people fall in love with the Lord again, and delight in daily times with God, for the sheer pleasure of His Presence, our prayer ministry efforts are doomed to fail.”
Email [email protected] to sign-up for the next session of coaching calls.
