The most important ministry of Imagine Church

Our most important ministry is “prayer.” It’s also the hardest ministry. It’s a ministry that every member joins when we become followers of Jesus. I want to encourage you to ramp up your activity in prayer.

We need a closet. Jesus said, “Go into your closet.” It’s “room” (Matt. 6:6). We need a place of prayer.

I recently started a new prayer list. I have a few throughout my years. There are names of people who have come the Christ, returned to Christ, and flourished in Christ. It had been a long time since I used a prayer list. I’m keeping it in the front of my Bible right now, but I will transfer that list to a small journal soon. I’ll add names to it. It’s my closet. My place of prayer. I can pull it out at any time and intercede to God on behalf of people on that list.

We not only need a closet, but we also need to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thess. 5:17). We usually default to this one. It’s easier to pray on the go. We usually don’t pray as much as we say we do. I want to encourage you to use a prayer list to ask the Lord to do more (Eph. 3:20-21) than you can imagine. If you use that list, you will then remember it on the go. It will create a prayer pattern from the closet to the world you live in each day.

Can I give you a few suggestions for prayer?

1. Watch the movie “War Room” if you have not yet watched it. Even if you have watched it, watch it again. Do what the Spirit prompts you to do to pray more.

2. Make a list of names whom you can pray for the come to know Christ.

3. Ask the Lord about your time with Him. What’s it looking like? In a culture of scrolling, we need to stop and spend time with God.

4. Pray during our worship gathering. As you worship, that’s prayer in song. As you listen to the word taught and the gospel preached, pray with expectancy that God will move.

We need God to move in our area. We need to know when and where to reach out. We need revival and awakening “before He comes.”