The outline given below is intended to be a flexible guideline to be surrendered to the Holy Spirit’s leading as a tool to help you in your hour of worship and intercession. So let’s proceed by allowing me give you a few simple instructions to help make your time effective.
Weekly Prayer Alerts will be sent out to each participant and will be posted on the PrayerStorm web site. Please begin by reading the Current Prayer Alert. Then proceed by offering Thanksgiving and Praise to the Lord. Remember, Psalm 100 instructs us that we enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. Let’s enter in! If it is helpful for you, play an instrumental worship CD in the background. Do whatever will make your time the most effective.
One of the emphases of PrayerStorm is upon Spirit-led and Spirit-empowered worship and prayer. Therefore, we are emphasizing singing and praying in the Holy Spirit or praying in the gift of tongues (I Cor. 14) as a part of your time. If you have not yet been released into this dimension, do not fret or worry. Of course, you can participate! Just worship the Lord in those designated time periods! The Lord inhabits the praises of His people and He will do so for you!
At times, we will direct you into a scripture passage to read as a tool to fuel your faith. At other times, it will be left up to you to select a short portion of the Bible to read. Note: we want to be Spirit-led and Word-grounded in our times of intercession!
Then we proceed into our current “burdens or themes” in prayer. Call out to the Lord for revival in the church. Make it practical. Pray for your region and nation and the church in your city to come alive in Jesus name! As you proceed through the theme(s) for that week, note that on the web site, there are scripture based teaching outlines for every area or emphasis whether it be Revival in the Church, Prayer for Israel, Youth Awakening or Crisis Intervention. Avail yourself of these tools as they will aid you in knowing how to hit the mark in your prayers.
As you proceed, note that we keep rotating back to singing and praying in the Spirit. This is important! Worship the Lord! Pray in the Spirit. Your faith will be charged and your prayers will then be supernaturally guided. While I list out the different prayer themes, note that the Holy Spirit might “land on” revival in the church and you will not be able to get away from it. That is great! Follow His lead! That is our goal. Other times, you will simply pray through this outline or one you have devised and that too will be wonderful! Just be faithful in your hourly watch!
Also note that I did not put crisis intervention as a special section in this prayer outline. That is because we will send out special notices for crisis intercession. Again, there could be a time that your entire hour or even another day and hour, will be spent entirely on crisis intervention. That too is great. We are here to be flexible vessels in the Lord’s hand.
Lastly, we want to end our time with thanksgiving and praise again. Offer up a shout if you want. Just thank the Lord that He has heard you and many others around the globe who are taking their place as watchmen on the walls for such a time as this.
So these are some simple guidelines to help you have an effective time in your PrayerStorm assignment!
Blessings In Your Hour!
James W. Goll
and the PrayerStorm Team
