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Full 19 Strategies & Diagnostic Tool on Prayer Strategy for CPM/DMM Practitioners

DIAGNOSTIC TOOL ON PRAYER

FOR CPM/DMM PRACTITIONERS

This is intended to be a tool used by the cpm/dmm practitioner and/or team in evaluating progress toward movements to Christ, especially considering the aspect of ‘extraordinary prayer,’ which is recognized as fundamental and foundational to movements. Prayer—or engagement with God—is integral in every aspect of the lives of the team members and the corporate team, as well as the strategy and approach they may use. We hope this tool will prove helpful in considering ways you and your team can increase your capacity for extraordinary prayer for the sake of the King and His Kingdom. See “The Indispensable Key to the Unfinished Task” for more about prayer strategies and the role of prayer strategist: https://prayerstrategists.net/about-2/

You’ll notice that the diagnostics follow the P-R-A-Y pattern, grouping the strategies together and building upon the previous strategies. Each section eventually will have an accompanying Discovery Bible Study to help you and your team apply and teach each strategy. We appreciate feedback as you use these materials; your input can help make improvements to benefits others also using these tools. Thank you in advance for contributing your insights!

P – Prepare the Way for the Coming of His Kingdom 1. Introduction – Prayer as Strategy – Envisioning the God-sized reality from His heart and co-laboring to pray it into being under His direction

For the DBS Study on this topic: https://prayerstrategists.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/prayer-as-strategy-strategy-1-of-fps-dbs-set.pdf

1. Do you have a prayer strategist or prayer strategy team in your leadership that focuses on “inquiring of God”? Sometimes the leadership team are themselves prayer strategists and other times specific members of the team focus on prayer as strategy in partnership with other leaders. Everyone prays, but some may make it their special focus and full time e ff ort to focus on prayer as strategy.

2. Is your strategy birthed out of intimacy with and listening to God?

3. Considering the costliness of stepping out without inquiring of God, how can you better ensure that you seek God as you pursue your call and assignment?

4. When you encounter opposition, is prayer your first response? How can you better encourage one another to continually be listening and relying on God?

2. Listening Prayer — The role of intimacy with God in igniting movements to Christ

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For the DBS Study on this topic: https://prayerstrategists.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/listening-prayer-fps-dbs-set.pdf

1. Are you/your teammates growing in conversational relationship with God, practicing His Presence, listening to His voice and obeying? How is God challenging you to grow in these areas?

2. Do you have regular times of corporate listening prayer as part of your working together?

3. Are you teaching those you are interacting with to talk to and listen to God?

3. Prayer Mobilization Training, & Teamwork — Sharpening our Prayers and Partnering in Prayer

For the DBS Study on this topic: https://prayerstrategists.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/prayer-mobilization-training-teamwork-fps-dbs-set-1.pdf

1. Are you/your teammates growing in conversational relationship with God, practicing His Presence, listening to His voice and obeying? How is God challenging you to grow in these areas?

2. Do you have regular times of corporate listening prayer as part of your working together?

3. Are you teaching those you are interacting with to talk to and listen to God?

4. Prayer Shield Teams —Identifying and relating to personal/corporate intercessory teams to strengthen e ff ectiveness and fruitfulness

For the DBS Study on this topic: https://prayerstrategists.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/prayer-shield-teams-fps-dbs-set-2.pdf

1. Do you have a prayer shield team(s) that pray(s) in partnership with you and your team?

2. Are you regularly praying for and interacting with them?

3. Are you receiving their input from their prayer times for you, your work and the people of your focus?

4. Are you frequently communicating to them praise reports as God is answering as well as new prayer needs?

5. Prayer Research —Spirit-guided research into the supernatural underpinnings of reality to help produce more informed, e ff ective intercession and outreach.

For the DBS Study on this topic: https://prayerstrategists.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/prayer-research-fps-dbs-set.pdf

1. Have you and your team spent time listening to God for His picture of what YOUR sphere looks like when the Kingdom of God has fully come among it?

2. Do you and your team have a systematic plan for seeking God and “lifting up your eyes” to truly see the state of the field God has assigned to you?

3. Are you recording what God is showing you and your prayer partners as to the state of the harvest force in your field? The state of the harvest field itself? The obstacles that exist to the flourishing of His Kingdom (the world, the flesh, the devil)?

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4. Have you engaged in spiritual mapping (recording your insights on maps/calendars/timelines/journals) as you prayer walk to better understand the spiritual underpinnings of the area and people to which you are called? Have you been addressing those strongholds God has progressively revealed?

5. Are you seeking God to turn the obstacles into opportunities for the gospel? What strategies is God revealing and how well are you implementing them?

R – Restore God’s Rightful Rule 6. Prayer Worship Warfare—Raising the waterline of God’s manifest presence through worship, engaging with God, proclaiming His will and exercising His delegated authority through supplication and obedience transforms not only us but also our harvest field.

For the DBS Study on this topic: https://prayerstrategists.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/prayer-worship-warfare-fps-dbs-set.pdf

1. How do you and your team incorporate prayer, praise and worship into your lifestyle and ministry strategy?

2. Do you and your team have a systematic plan for filling your assigned field with the worship of God where it does not yet exist? Do you facilitate regular times of worship aimed at inviting God’s presence among your focal group?

3. Praise and worship when intentional, informed and anointed is powerful in dispelling darkness and shining God’s light. Has God revealed a strategy to you to “make His praises known in the earth” in your sphere?

4. How might God show you to redeem prayer/music/dance/arts in your sphere for His glory?

7. Prayer as Member Health—Personal restoration and transformation ministries, healing and deliverance ministries, prayer and conflict resolution, confession, forgiveness and repentance for individuals, teams, and the growing God of Christ accesses all the benefits o ff ered by God for the abundant life He promised.

For the DBS Study on this topic: https://prayerstrategists.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/prayer-as-member-health-fps-dbs-set-2.pdf

1. Psalm 103:2 urges us not to forget any of the costly benefits of our salvation; in addition to forgiving all our sins, He heals our diseases, redeems our lives from the pit, crowns us with love and compassion, satisfies our desires with good things and renews our youth like the eagle’s. Evaluate how comprehensively you are appropriating individually and as a team these benefits of our salvation.

2. Are you individually and as a team experiencing inner healing and walking in forgiveness and unity among yourselves and your teammates?

3. Do you and your team incorporate praying for the sick and deliverance from demons as part of your comprehensive ministry in your sphere as you proclaim the Word?

Prayer as Representational Repentance and Reconciliation 8. —Healing wounds of the past through identifying with historical sins, thus weakening strongholds through release of forgiveness and restoration often brings significant breakthroughs. An Ethnê Movement & Fellowship of Prayer Strategists Resource, Version 3/2/2020 https://prayerstrategists.net/Page 3

For the DBS Study on this topic: https://prayerstrategists.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/prayer-representational-repentance-reconciliation-fps-dbs-set.pdf

1. As you have studied your assigned field, have you identified any issues needing identificational repentance/reconciliation which may be hindering the progress of the gospel in your area? This could include community woundings, sins, o ff enses, etc.

2. Shalom incorporates wholeness, everything properly related and in divine order. Are you and your team practicing conflict resolution from a biblical standpoint?

9. Prayer and Crisis Response —Prayer strategists embedded in crisis response teams help focus on and identify spiritual dynamics and appropriate responses in prayer, communicating updates and receiving encouragements from the wider prayer shield teams.

For the DBS Study on this topic: https://prayerstrategists.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/prayer-crisis-response-fps-dbs-set.pdf

1. How are you and your team preparing for potential crises (political disruption, natural disasters, famines, plagues, etc.) in order to not only survive but to also be able to be the hands and feet of Jesus to the world around you during that window of opportunity?

2. In responding to crises, is strategic prayer a part of your comprehensive response?

10. Prayer and Su ff ering —Su ff ering is an inevitable part of following Christ and a dynamic walk with God sustains us through it and testifies to the power of God at work in our lives.

For the DBS Study on this topic: https://prayerstrategists.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/prayer-su ff ering-fps-dbs-set.pdf

1. How are you and your team growing in the grace of withstanding su ff ering?

2. Are you and your team spiritually prepared for whatever challenges may come (whether persecution, opposition, unexpected changes) by hiding the Word and the song of the Lord in your heart?

3. How are you and your team helping new believers expect su ff ering and prepare for it?

A – Advance—Kingdom expansion for His glory Prayer Walking 11. —We carry His Presence as we move prayer out of the church/home and into the community.

For the DBS Study on this topic: https://prayerstrategists.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/prayer-walking-fps-dbs-set-1.pdf

1. Are you regularly praying onsite in teams of two or more among the people of your focus?

2. Are you recording your impressions as you pray and debriefing together with the wider team?

3. Do you host prayer walking teams and/or onsite worship teams to undergird your e ff orts?

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12. Prayer and Power Evangelism —Intelligently strategized and focused, prayer functions as a direct force for winning people to Christ. Signs and wonder follow the proclamation of the Word of God often after prayer for people.

For the DBS Study on this topic: https://prayerstrategists.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/prayer-evangelism-fps-dbs-set.pdf

1. Do you regularly ask God to make you alert to opportunities to pray for those you encounter “as you go?” Regularly make time to share stories of how God is using you in this way with your team to encourage one another.

2. Do you practice Luke 10:9 “Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you,’ by praying for healing, deliverance, or other needs to be met?

3. Do you practice listening to the Holy Spirit as you interact and asking Him if there is anything He might want you to mention to the person you’re interacting with?

13. Prayer as Spiritual Warfare —Employing the weapons of the ages and the weapons of the hour to break the power of darkness and advance the Kingdom of God.

For the DBS Study on this topic: https://prayerstrategists.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/prayer-as-spiritual-warfare-fps-dbs-set.pdf

1. We go out as “lambs among wolves” according to Jesus in Luke 10; how are you and your team equipping yourselves in the Lord to undertake the spiritual battle you are in?

2. Are you and your team using on-the-job training and peer mentoring to continue to grow in your ability to engage the enemy and walk in victory?

3. Do you regularly update yourselves by inquiring of God as to fresh strategies and weapons to overcome darkness?

Prayer & Fasting for Spiritual Breakthrough 14. —Setting aside good things voluntarily to prioritize the best things invites the increase of God’s involvement and our empowerment for the task.

For the DBS Study on this topic: https://prayerstrategists.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/prayer-and-fasting-for-spiritual-breakthrough-fps-dbs-set.pdf

1. Do you regularly pray and fast individually? as a team?

2. Have you called special seasons of consecration, prayer and fasting as God directs?

15. Prayer Presence: Houses of Prayer or 24/7 Prayer Rooms —Establishing permanent lighthouses of continuous prayer and worship act as a beachhead for the Kingdom of God.

For the DBS Study on this topic: https://prayerstrategists.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/prayer-presence-strategy-14-of-fps-dbs-set.pdf

1. Do you connect with or facilitate a community of prayer among your focal group?

2. How is God directing your e ff orts to see transformation e ff ected by inviting His abiding presence?

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Y – Yearning 16. Strategy 15—Prayer Yearning for Our Bridegroom

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17. Strategy 16—Prayer Yearning for the Full Harvest

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18. Strategy 17—Prayer Yearning Maturity

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Strategy 18—Prayer Yearning for Kingdom Transformation 19.

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