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Prayer Strategy Assessment
Where Is Your Team’s Prayer Strongest — and Where Is It Thin?
A tool for the practitioner and team to evaluate progress toward movements to Christ — especially the aspect of extraordinary prayer, which is recognized as fundamental and foundational to movements. Prayer, or engagement with God, is integral to every part of the lives of team members and of the team as a whole, as well as to the strategy and approach they use.
You’ll notice that the diagnostics follow the P-R-A-Y pattern, grouping the strategies together and building upon the previous strategies. There is one question for each of the nineteen strategies — answer them alone, or better, with your team. Each strategy carries further questions worth talking through together once you have answered.
How to Use It
Nineteen questions, one for each strategy. Answer each one Not yet, Growing or Yes, strongly — alone, or better, with your team. Then pick the one weakest strategy and grow that this season. Not all of them. One.
Each strategy below opens to further questions worth talking through together.
Where you stand
P — Prepare the way for the coming of His kingdom
Introduction — Prayer as Strategy
Envisioning the God-sized reality from His heart and co-laboring to pray it into being under His direction.
Is your strategy birthed out of intimacy with and listening to God?
Worth talking through together
- 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; other times specific members focus on prayer as strategy in partnership with other leaders. Everyone prays, but some may make it their special focus and full-time effort.
- 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?
- When you encounter opposition, is prayer your first response? How can you better encourage one another to continually be listening and relying on God?
Prayer as Conversation with God
The role of intimacy with God in igniting movements to Christ.
Do you have regular times of corporate listening prayer as part of your working together?
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- Are you and 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?
- Are you teaching those you are interacting with to talk to and listen to God?
Prayer Training & Mobilization
Sharpening our prayers and partnering in prayer.
Are you teaching those you are interacting with to talk to and listen to God?
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- Are you and 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?
- Do you have regular times of corporate listening prayer as part of your working together?
Prayer Shield Teams
Identifying and relating to personal and corporate intercessory teams to strengthen effectiveness and fruitfulness.
Do you have a prayer shield team, or teams, praying in partnership with you and your team?
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- Are you regularly praying for and interacting with them?
- Are you receiving their input from their prayer times for you, your work and the people of your focus?
- Are you frequently communicating to them praise reports as God is answering as well as new prayer needs?
Prayer Research
Spirit-guided research into the supernatural underpinnings of reality, to help produce more informed and effective intercession and outreach.
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?
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- 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?
- Are you recording what God is showing you and your prayer partners about 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?
- 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?
- 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
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 — which transforms not only us but also our harvest field.
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?
Worth talking through together
- How do you and your team incorporate prayer, praise and worship into your lifestyle and ministry strategy?
- 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?
- How might God show you to redeem prayer/music/dance/arts in your sphere for His glory?
Prayer as Member Health
Personal restoration and transformation, healing and deliverance, conflict resolution, confession, forgiveness and repentance — for individuals, teams and the growing body of Christ.
Are you individually and as a team experiencing inner healing, and walking in forgiveness and unity among yourselves and your teammates?
Worth talking through together
- 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 these benefits, individually and as a team.
- 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?
Representational Repentance & Reconciliation
Healing wounds of the past through identifying with historical sins, weakening strongholds through the release of forgiveness. Restoration often brings significant breakthroughs.
As you have studied your assigned field, have you identified any issues needing identificational repentance or reconciliation which may be hindering the progress of the gospel in your area? This could include community woundings, sins, offences and more.
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- Shalom incorporates wholeness — everything properly related and in divine order. Are you and your team practicing conflict resolution from a biblical standpoint?
Prayer & Crisis Response
Prayer strategists embedded in crisis response teams help identify spiritual dynamics and appropriate responses in prayer, communicating updates and receiving encouragements from the wider prayer shield teams.
In responding to crises, is strategic prayer a part of your comprehensive response?
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- How are you and your team preparing for potential crises — political disruption, natural disasters, famines, plagues — in order not only to survive, but to be the hands and feet of Jesus to the world around you during that window of opportunity?
Prayer & Suffering
Suffering 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.
Are you and your team spiritually prepared for whatever challenges may come — persecution, opposition, unexpected changes — by hiding the Word and the song of the Lord in your heart?
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- How are you and your team growing in the grace of withstanding suffering?
- How are you and your team helping new believers expect suffering and prepare for it?
A — Advance — kingdom expansion for His glory
Prayer Walking
We carry His presence as we move prayer out of the church and home and into the community.
Are you regularly praying onsite in teams of two or more among the people of your focus?
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- Are you recording your impressions as you pray, and debriefing together with the wider team?
- Do you host prayer walking teams and/or onsite worship teams to undergird your efforts?
- Do you debrief after they conclude their assignments, and incorporate their insights into your strategies?
Prayer & Power Evangelism
Intelligently strategised and focused, prayer functions as a direct force for winning people to Christ. Signs and wonders follow the proclamation of the Word of God, often after prayer for people.
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?
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- Do you regularly ask God to make you alert to opportunities to pray for those you encounter as you go? Make time to share stories of how God is using you in this way with your team, to encourage one another.
- 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?
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.
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?
Worth talking through together
- 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?
- Do you regularly update yourselves by inquiring of God as to fresh strategies and weapons to overcome darkness?
Prayer & Fasting for Spiritual Breakthrough
Setting aside good things voluntarily to prioritize the best things invites the increase of God's involvement and our empowerment for the task.
Do you regularly pray and fast individually? As a team?
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- Have you called special seasons of consecration, prayer and fasting as God directs?
Prayer Presence
Establishing permanent lighthouses of continuous prayer and worship, which act as a beachhead for the kingdom of God.
Do you connect with, or facilitate, a community of prayer among your focal group?
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- How is God directing your efforts to see transformation effected by inviting His abiding presence?
Y — Yearning — longing for the now-but-not-yet kingdom to come more fully
Yearning for Full Maturity
Pressing forward to grow into the full measure of the stature of Jesus Christ.
Are you keeping one another accountable to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Savior and Lord, growing in holiness and purity?
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- We become like what we are beholding. Are you continually beholding His face, and not merely seeking His hand of blessing?
- Are you confessing your sins to one another and praying for one another?
Yearning for the Full Harvest
Pressing forward with urgency to reap the white harvest, that the Lamb who was slain may receive the full reward for His sufferings.
Have you incorporated daily prayer habits of asking the Lord of the harvest to thrust forth laborers?
Worth talking through together
- How are your prayers, individually and corporately, aiming for no place left without the gospel among every people and place?
- Are you keeping His utter worthiness of all praise and honor and glory at the forefront of your mind as you pray and labor?
Yearning for Kingdom Transformation
Pressing forward in modeling kingdom living, that our communities are covered with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord and His presence among us.
Are you practicing the “one anothers” of Scripture among those with whom you live and labor?
Worth talking through together
- Jesus' kingdom is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. How are you modeling that in your individual and corporate life and practice?
- Are your prayers ‘other-centered’ and Kingdom-centered, modeling 1 Cor. 13 agape love?
Yearning for Our Bridegroom
Pressing forward with perseverance and anticipation, longing for the promised return of our beloved Savior and Lord.
Are you keeping your first love fully upon His presence, and not becoming absorbed with the work or other distractions?
Worth talking through together
- How are you growing to know Him more and more each day? Are you sharing with your team and others what you are discovering through your times of intimacy with Him?
- Are you as a team practicing corporate communion with Him frequently, continually aiming for richer times together in His Presence?
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When You Have Answered
Look for the strategies you marked Not yet. Pick one — not all of them — and grow it with your team this season. Everything on this site is arranged to help you do that.
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