Tuesday, February 9, 2010

25 Things to do in the prayer room

Filling hour after hour in the prayer room can sometimes be tedious. Nobody wants to get in a rut. So here are 25 things you can do to spice up your time with God in the prayer room.

1. Sit and pray silently with your eyes closed and head bowed. (This one seems to be pretty popular in our day)
2. Stand and pray out loud with your hands in the air and your eyes looking up to heaven. (This one was pretty popular in Jesus’ day)
3. Read the Bible
4. Journal your thoughts and prayers with pen and paper
5. Pray with a friend
6. Go to the world map and write a prayer on a sticky note and place it on the region of pertinence.
7. Go to the USA map and write a prayer on a sticky note and place it on the region of pertinence.
8. Go to the ISU campus map and write a prayer on a sticky note and place it on the region of pertinence.
9. Read the black cardboard with notes stuck to it. For those notes that resonate with you, dwell on them and pray them back to God.
10. Have a time of confession and repentance in the back with the cross. You can nail your sins to the cross on a piece of paper.
11. Bring your iPod and have a quiet reflective worship session.
12. Bring your iPod and have a jubilant worshipful dance session.
13. Play and worship using the djembe, guitar, or piano that are available in the front corner.
14. Spend some times in reverent worship on your knees with your face bowed to your King
15. Pray for Jon Lacina, using and agreeing with the notes on the white cardboard.
16. Pray for current events on campus that have to do with items on the back table.
17. Bring a Daily with you to the prayer room, pray over the headlines and write prayers in the margins.
18. Pray for St. John’s, that their kindness showed us would overflow into blessing upon blessing
19. Open your Bible to one of the Psalms of the day and pray it back to the Lord
20. List all the things in your life to be thankful for and sincerely thank the Lord for them.
21. List the 3 non-believers that you are closest to and pray fervently that they would come to know Jesus
22. Ask Jesus what is on His heart and sit and listen to what He says
23. Write an encouraging note to someone in your life who needs it right now, or someone from your past who poured into you in a significant way
24. Pray for your (future) spouse
25. Do some other activity that is yours entirely that helps you to connect with God

1 comment:

  1. Hey, if you have a map, keep Niger in your prayers. I'm a missionary there (ISU '90) and there are two more ISU alums also here as missionaries ('98). The country had a military coup on Thursday. Pray for peace in the country and pray for the Church in Niger.

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