Pray a Little Prayer

Prayer is vitally important in the life of a Christian.

When we pray, we are opening our hearts to God and He is able to work in us and through us which helps us to grow in our relationship with God.

And God calls us to pray …‘in every situation’ (Phil 4:6), ‘without ceasing’ (1 Thess 5:17) and without giving up (Luke 18:1). Your heavenly Father wants you to talk to Him – regularly, continually and persistently.

If you have joined us for church over the past couple of weeks you would have heard about prayer buddies!

Prayer buddies is an idea we are trialling this term where, if you would like to participate, you select a random person or family and pray for them over the whole term. You can contact your prayer buddy to let them know you are praying for them and to ask what they might like you to pray for.

How good is this! Each of us praying for 10 weeks for one another as a church family – all generations across all services joyfully praying for each other.
This opportunity presents us with a powerful way of loving one another that is not a lot of work but can yield big rewards. And if this trial is successful and continues, over the course of time we will have prayed for many different people who are part of our church family. So good!

There are so many benefits we can gain from participating in prayer buddies.

Having a prayer buddy encourages you to pray!

It gives you the opportunity to serve and support another member of your church family and also to be supported in prayer yourself.

It is a powerful way to bear one another’s burdens (Gal 6:2-5), to build one another up (1 Thess 5:11) and encourage each other (Heb 10:24-25).

It will help to build relationships.

And it will help us gain confidence in our own prayer life.

If you haven’t already, can I encourage you to join in the prayer buddy ministry this term.

Sandee Batelic