· What's the vision? – Why do you meet together for? Ensure all of the team have the same vision. The point isn't to entertain but maybe to bring people closer to God or help people to know God as loving etc.
· Prayer & listening – It is always important to see how God wants you to lead the prayer time. Take some time asking God to help you prepare and spend a short amount of time in quiet being open to God placing ideas in your mind. These could be ideas about themes, prayer activities or songs that you could use.
· Theme – It is good to agree a theme for the prayer time. E.g. 'God's Love' and then use this to structure what you are going to do.
· Flow – It's good to ask yourself if the prayer time takes people on a journey or is it bitty and unconnected.
· Different tastes – Different people find different ways of praying useful – E.g. Is the prayer time sitting and reflecting all the time or are there other activities such as writing or some sort of movement going on?
· Time – Does what you have planned fit the given time or is it too short/ too long? – Don't forget to leave time for people to arrive and move around if needed to as part of the prayer time.
· Pray – It is really important to ask God to bless the prayer time and to help you with all the organising. It is also good to pray for whoever will be leading the prayer time that week, that God would help them lead people to Him and that He would bring more and more people to join the group.
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