DMM: Extraordinary Prayer Modules

 DMM Extraordinary Prayer

 

DMM Prayer Module #1 – But God

 

Disciple Making Movements (DMMs) are preceded by prayer movements.

·       Even if we do everything according to CPM principles, if the Lord doesn’t work, we won’t accomplish anything. 

·       We must both work hard AND pray earnestly, as Jesus did. With prayer, we work with God. Without prayer, we work alone.

Wherever there is a Disciple Making Movement today, it is accompanied by extraordinary prayer. In fact, in India, where a huge DMM has occurred among the Bhojpuri, church-planters normally spend 2+ hours/day in personal prayer, more time each day in corporate prayer plus 1-2 days a week in fasting.

 

1. Read out loud 2x, Ephesians 2:1-10 

2. Rephrase in your own words…

In what ways does “but God” apply to your UPGs?

Ask the Lord what new pathways He desires to build among your people group.

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DMM Prayer Module #2 – Extraordinary Prayer/Prayer Themes-Empowered by the Holy Spirit

Listening and Reflecting

Take 5 minutes to pause, listen to God, and write overarching themes for UPGs for which you each have been praying in recent weeks, concerning the following:

·       Scripture

·       Topics

·       Themes

Take 1 minute each and share how the Lord has been leading you to intercede for your people in the above areas, in recent weeks.  Share any specific answers to intercession each person has seen. Celebrate God’s hand in brief praise responses over that area.

Sharing and Praying

If you haven’t prayed in this way in the past, take some time to ask the Lord what he might have for you to pray in this next season. If you don’t hear any direction from the Spirit, count it as freedom to come up with something. 

1.     15 minutes in groups of 2-3: Pray within the group one of these areas for your UPG.

2.     5 minutes

a.     In your group, determine if there were any themes or topics that rose to the surface or various items that formed a theme. Decide together which thing (if any) was a common factor in your prayers

b.     Pick a person in the group to state a theme to everybody. They pray it in front of everyone, with everyone being in agreement

3.     5 minutes: Everyone write down their themes and hand them in for me to check if there are any themes that have resonated among everyone.

 

DMM Prayer Module #3 – End Vision DMM Exercise

            Listen and intercede about these dynamics

            End Vision Components: (Road map which we carry with us everywhere)

1.     God’s Glory Centric

2.     Audaciously Specific

3.     Movement Mindset

4.     Time Bound

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DMM Prayer Module #7 – Displacement: Praying the Opposite (Jean C)

Keeping prayer focused on God’s purposes/promises… instead of “praying against” something, we positively “pray in the opposite.” 

 

Someone has a central sheet of paper (could be a big flip chart) and writes down “complaints” or troubles concerning your place/people. What are some examples of negative things that we see in India (or elsewhere) and what does it look like to pray the opposite? Write a list of opposites. For example:

·       Family tensions                                 Unity (Psalm 133)

·       Prejudice/caste system                     Honor (James 2:1-13)

Spend some time as a group “praying in” the things listed in the column on the right.

Coaching Team letter

 

DMM: To Live is Christ, To Die is Gain

To Live is Christ, To Die is Gain

True confessions. When one has never ever considered dying for the sake of the gospel, it is highly likely that one has never really chosen to live in total unmitigated obedience to Christ. When it comes to the launch of reproducing Disciple Making Movements among Unreached People Groups, it is the worthiness of Christ and His love-filled command to go which compels. 

Missionary Biography: Anna Tan

“When your bucket gets kicked, what spews forth will be either bitterness or blessing. I can’t answer for others, but I know what I desire. When God takes me through suffering, I want to respond with blessing,” commented Anna Tan, Singaporean missionary to the Sasak Muslims of Lombok island, Indonesia. 

One morning in 2001, Anna was found with 80 percent of her body covered in 2^nd and 3^rd degree burns. Anna had awakened to the daily routine of making coffee in anticipation of her time with the Lord. The propane gas tank, which supplied the stovetop operation, had leaked profusely overnight. In her sealed kitchen area she unknowingly walked into a cloud of undetectable gas and lit a match.

Anna obeyed the Lord’s voice to demonstrate and proclaim the glory of Christ among the Sasak people. Her life represents just one from among the 120 missionaries who have come and gone in service among them in the past 31 years of modern mission efforts. For those of us still called to be among the Sasak, we jointly believe God to launch a rapidly multiplying movement of Sasak worshipers of Christ. 

Anna is a reminder of the high cost and the privilege of obeying God’s voice to the least reached peoples. She spewed forth blessing as she clung to Christ’ sufficiency, even as she died.