Brother,
That would be awesome except that most churches don't even have any form of congregational prayer at all. I fear many contemporary church goers have never heard anyone pray earnestly in church on Sunday morning. My prior suggestions were to help willing groups take baby steps in congregational prayer.

When there's sufficient momentum, a solemn assembly would be feasible...

Oh, how we need the Lord to warm our cold hearts so we can join the Great Intercessor in His present day ministry for His Body.

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Tolu

It only takes three or four people willing to go with out food and regular activitys , to kick of a mini typy of revivle ,,but on the others hand you can have a relatively good church that sends up thousands of pertitions a for pastors children,rulers lost people,,have good Sunday worship great biblical sermons a regular moving of the spirit every week, yet remain in an unseen rut due to the lack of fasting and seeking the lord through seperationofthe good things to seek and ministers to the lord for a great moving of the spirit ,many church stagnate in a position that literally is not a bad position compared to 90 percent of the rest of fellowships , but fall short of deep moving a of this, people are not willing to set a side the rooteen of a relatively bibilical tradition , for really seasonal seeking the lord . And until we do that all the pertitions we send up to God will not be fulfilled in the powerful manner preferred by God ......

Pertitions can't replace ministering to God through the old fashionand the book of acts prayer meetings , with fastings...


Gods blessings on you sister !!

North Korea has announced they are ready for war and the rest of the world is mainly in chaos. So may be we could start praying wherever we are in which ever format we can do it. I think time is a bit short to try and figure out the "right " way to do it first.

Maranatha! Come Lord Jesus - Your Kingdom come !

Edited: to correct minor errors

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Lisa

Sister,
I read your comments at least thrice before the gravity of them hit me!
If a life of prayer supplies the power for ministry, And If many pastors aren't men of prayer, How, in the world, are they doing ministry???

I know the coldness of my own heart, so I know my need of increased closet prayer but it is rather frightening if many pastors are in my position.

When we lived up north, in one of the churches we attended, the pastors accepted the suggestion to pray for the wee ones before they were dismissed. It was lovely to hear the parents of said children actually praying for their children out loud. It was a church established by immigrants though....so things weren't quite set in stone and it was relatively easy to accomplish.

I'll try to pray for the pastor for tomorrow's service. That's a good place to start.

Help us, Lord!

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Tolu

I left out a very important avenue for public praying: teleconference!

It's huge in African Christian communities in the US! Convenient and comfortable...mainly because many believers of African descent are used to public prayer in church. Sadly, that is changing with the advent of the prosperity gospel and mega churches.

Best of all, most teleconferencing is free!

You could start with just one other like-minded person or family.

In addition to all the suggestions, there really isn't any excuse for lack of group prayer, pending the time the Lord MAY sovereignly send a revival of corporate prayer.

Since as Sister Lysa rightly said, a praying church usually is begotten from a praying pastor, each believer on this site should consider making their pastor/elder/leadership, the object of specific intercession before the Lord.

Enough complaining about the state of the American church. Let us begin to pray that old song,

'Lord, send a revival
Lord, send a revival
Lord, send a revival and let it start with me'

With much love,

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Tolu