A Movement of Prayer

I was having coffee with a friend recently and we began talking about prayer. We discussed the power of prayer and God's responsiveness to his people who pray to him. He told me something that has consumed me ever since we met nearly four weeks ago. He was in the process of beginning a huge project and he was convicted to pray this project into existence. I asked him what this meant and he told me that instead of spending countless hours developing strategies and plans he and his team spent an entire month praying over the project. What were the results of this time dedicated to praying this project into existence? God exceeded all expectations and goals and blew them out of the water!


As I said, this has consumed me for the last few weeks as I have thought about my own prayer life and the future churches that will be planted in London. But not just my own life and the London churches, I have thought about what our churches here in Nashville and the rest of the US would look like if there was a movement of prayer taking place. New churches are being planted all over the United States. What would these churches look like if the 13,000 established churches in the US spent an entire month solid praying them into existence and then continued to pray for them as they struggle and strive to reach new people for Jesus?

But before I get too big in my thinking I want to bring this in closer to home and ask a few questions. What ways have you experienced the power of prayer in your life? What sections of scripture have you prayed through? What blogs, books, classes, practices, disciplines have you used to call upon the power of God through prayer? How has prayer moved you to action? 

I am becoming more and more convinced that we need to raise the level of our commitment to praying new churches into existence, praying for Jesus' to change hearts, praying for the power of God to consume us so that the things we do are directly from God. What do you think? Will you join this prayer movement?