Resources: PERSEVERING IN PRAYER
Below is a list of resources in this section. If you are looking to jump right in, start with the resource with the on-ramp symbol.
We encourage you to skim through all the resources in this section, choose 1 or 2, and make a plan to implement use of those resources within the next 3 days. (In short, pick something and just start!)
Tools:
Scriptures for Prayer, Meditation, and Strategic Response - A collection of Scriptures for meditation and guided prayer on the subject of perseverance in prayer (10p)
Circle Prayers (GW Workshop)
Prayer Activities for Team Prayer Times - several ideas to freshen up corporate prayer times (7p)
Listening Prayer & Reflection: My Definition of Success - Excerpt from a book on movements with questions for listening prayer and reflection (3p)
Listening Prayer & Reflection: Reading Your Story with God (Shape & Calling) - Listening prayer exercise to help us consider God's shaping influence throughout our lives and how those turning points may help us see how he might have us shift how we live and work with him (3p)
Podcasts \ Video:
Always Pray and Do Not Lose Heart (audio), Piper - John Piper shares about persevering in prayer, maintaining passion for Jesus, and growing in faithfulness over the long haul (34min)
When You're Discouraged - CDM - this podcast provides a helpful reminder that the things to which we are called take a long time to come to fruition, and gives a few suggestions for how to persevere when things are hard (29min)
Articles:
Always Pray and Do Not Lose Heart (article), Piper - article to accompany the recording above (7p)
Keeping Intercession Fresh on a Team - brief description of how one team worked to keep prayer fresh by remembering that prayer is built on relational connection with God, which has to be built on joy! (2p)
Prayer and Fasting for Breakthrough - FPS - A landing page with multiple resources related to fasting, including DBS sets, practical tips for fasting (repeated from previous sections), and more (1p)
For Further Study:
The Fire of Delayed Answers, Sorge - written from the author's own experience, this book explores perseverance and delayed answers in Scripture, comfort amidst hardship, brokenness, desperate dependence on God, trust, confidence in God in the midst of delayed answers, and how God uses delayed answers to form disciples in greater Christlikeness (231p)
The Prayer Life: Persevering in Prayer, Murray - devotional writings to encourage persevering prayer (171p)