Assessment: ENTRY
The point of the following questions is simply to help assess your level of engagement in strategic prayer in your stage of movement work, and to help create awareness of how else you might invest in the critical work of prayer and intercession. Our hope is that this tool will provoke more questions, encourage you to dig into the resources to follow, and to reach out to others for more input and coaching.
To what degree are we praying, working toward, and prioritizing a team of outsiders and insiders genuinely partnering together instead of a team of primarily outsiders?
To what degree are we combining research and learning about our focus people with prayer for our people? How much is our growing knowledge affecting our prayers?
As we grow in understanding our focus people, to what degree are we waiting on the Lord for words and praying prophetically over our focus people?
To what degree does regular and intensive prayer-walking figure into our overall strategy in this stage?
As we continue to pray together as a couple or team, in what ways are we intentional about incorporating the different prayer styles of each person on the team in our corporate times of prayer?
As we begin to make connections with locals among our focus people, to what degree are we known by them as people of prayer? How often do we offer to pray for needs that come up in conversation? How are our prayers perceived and received by our focus people?
How are we intentionally modeling prayer among our focus people? Generally, but also among potential seekers?
To what degree are we seeking out opportunities to pray with same or near-culture believers, generally, but also specifically prayers for our focus people?
To what degree are we learning about how our focus people pray? To what degree have we considered ways we might learn something from how the local people pray (whatever their religion), and\or how we might need to intentionally differentiate our way of praying from theirs?
What are the enemy’s schemes and prevailing lies in, over, and among our focus people? How are we growing in awareness of these things and developing strategies to combat, defuse, or reveal them?