Resources: NEW BELIEVERS & CHURCHES
Below is a list of resources in this section. If you are looking to jump right in, start with the resources in bold.
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!)
MORE RESOURCES TO COME
Tools:
Scriptures for Prayer, Meditation, and Strategic Response - a collection of Scriptures for meditation and guided prayer regarding new believers and churches (7 pages)
Apostolic Prayers for New Churches - list of apostolic prayers for new churches - could be used as source for DBS with leaders learning to pray for their people and their emerging movement (5 pages)
DBS topics & verses for General Training in Prayer - New Believers & Churches - a simple list of Bible passages focusing on different aspects of prayer; has been used by an African movement to train new disciples in deeper elements of prayer (2 pages)
DBS - "Some Ways God Speaks" - DBS for New Believers on Listening to God with exercises - developed by the catalysts of a growing South Asian movement (2 pages)
Prayer for New Believers in Movements - Scriptures and related crafted prayers for new disciples in movements (4 pages)
Praying For “Movement Multipliers” with Questions for Listening Prayer - Brief descriptions of Larsen's "movement multipliers", followed by suggested things to consider in prayer regarding each one, as well as some questions for listening prayer around each; intended to help the intercessor interact with the Lord around each of these multipliers regarding their own movement work.(13 pages)
Praying for the 12 Universals of Movements - 24:14 has listed the 12 universal elements of movements with pointers on how to pray into each (4 pages)
Prayers for the Month of Fasting - In the Muslim world, Ramadan is a key time of spiritual seeking, openness, and warfare. This resource was initially created for use by intercessors in the Global North to pray for the lost, for disciples from a Muslim background, for people of peace \ "4th soil people", and for dreams and visions that reveal Christ as the Savior (8 pages)
Articles:
- The Role of Prayer in a N. India Movement, Garrison - brief article by the author of A Wind in the House of Islam about how prayer for leaders of communities, seekers, etc. helped spark a movement (4 pages)
For Further Study:
Becoming Whole: The Power of Wholeness Prayer (Inner Healing for New Believers), Cole - available at https://ent.freemin.org - This site has several large resources but also several other DBS studies about inner healing, wholeness prayer, hearing God, etc. that would be easily translated into other languages.
God's Grace for the World: A Biblical Prayer Guide for Movements, Trevor Larsen & the Focus on Fruit Team - available at https://focusonfruit.org - This is a simple book comprised largely of scriptural prayers with some minor points of explanation that is intended to be translated and used to help believers in a movement context learn how to pray the Word. It covers many kinds of prayer and is one of the best resources we can recommend on helping believers from a non-Christian background build a solid foundation in biblical prayer, especially as the vast majority of the book is Scripture (and because it is mostly Scripture, it is also much easier to translate, assuming the focus language already has a translated Bible).