Disciple INDIVIDUALS in Prayer
Journey in Prayer with Jesus
Disciple new believers and seekers into the kingdom by inviting them to know the heart of Jesus through the Lord’s Prayer. Uncover the layers in this powerful pattern that Jesus used to teach His disciples to pray.
Interactive journal pages prompt readers to personally practice the prayer for their own lives, guiding them to meet Jesus firsthand in prayer experience.
Does this sound like you or anyone you lead?
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Feeling at a loss for words when it comes to prayer, perhaps not praying at all for not knowing where to start. Feeling frozen due to pressure to pray “the right words.”
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Prayer life feels shallow or rehearsed, like an empty ritual, leaving people feeling bored, discouraged or disconnected from God.
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Feeling enjoyment going to church, but personal spiritual life feels separate or irrelevant to the world.
The secret to growing in faith and the key to reaching the world are found in the Lord’s prayer.
Journey in Prayer is a book designed to help you to evangelize seekers and disciple new believers to grow in prayer, encountering Jesus through first hand prayer experience.
By delving into each petition’s vast implications, and inviting readers to apply its power to their own lives, this book offers a practical and simple method for growing a personal rhythm of prayer by Jesus’ design.
What’s Inside
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Biblical Foundations
Packed full of Scripture, each chapter presents the gospel clearly according to the theme of each petition, making it suitable for seekers and new believers.
1. Seven short accessible chapters diving into a holistic and dynamic framework of prayer that can be used to build a regular prayer habit in individuals’ prayer lives based on the Lord’s prayer.
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Prayer Prompts
Reflective questions and prompts with sample prayers are featured in a unique journal format, guiding readers to personal prayer practice and integrative application.
2. Scripture-based Prayer Prompts: Bible verses and prayer prompts to inspire and guide individuals in their prayer journey.
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Group Exercises
Group discussion questions and interactive exercises to integrate learning while strengthening unity and building faith in community as insights and answers to prayer are shared.
3. Personalized Prayer Journal: A dedicated space with insights and prompts to write down their prayers, reflections, and answered prayers to help develop a consistent prayer habit and explore different prayer themes.
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New List Item
An integrated study guide is included with prayer prompts and a practical pattern for personal daily prayer.
4. Prayer leadership principles that allow leaders and believers to facilitate meaningful prayer conversations with their seeker-neighbors.
Going deeper with God, sharing my faith, and expecting to see things happen
Journey in Prayer is a wonderful and transformative book, both scholarly and practical. John Smed is a very effective communicator. My own prayer practice has become more directed affording me greater mental and emotional clarity and stability. I feel more resilient with a greater sense of spiritual resources and relationship to God, whom I now address as “Father.” Thank you for creating this book which will help many who pray and many for whom we pray.
~Elizabeth, Homeopathic Doctor (seeker)
“Journey in Prayer is a wonderful and transformative book, both scholarly and practical. I feel more resilient with a greater sense of spiritual resources and relationship to God, whom I now address as “Father.”
The Seven Days of Prayer with Jesus study has changed my prayer life. My prayer life has grown so much, and has become so much more meaningful and personal. I’ve never seen the Lord’s prayer this way before.
This training is transforming our church!
15 years ago, I met Scott. He was working on a project at my office. We struck up a friendship. We discussed faith, Jesus, the Bible, and his beliefs. He was far from God, but he was surprised by my openness to discuss and hear him.
18 months ago, Scott was remanded to the state jail for incarcerated addiction recovery treatment. I began visiting him in jail. I was privileged to lead him to faith in Christ during his first week in jail. I gave him a bible and a copy of Journey in Prayer. In a few days’ time, he had a group of 6 men praying each night through the Lord’s Prayer, and they were seeing answers to prayer.
For the next six months, we spoke almost every day. Reading through scripture, praying together, and discipling him.
A year before Scott went to jail, I began a weekly prayer cell following one of the petitions in the Lord’s Prayer each time we met. We prayed for Scott regularly. We rejoiced at his profession of faith. We began earnest prayer for his life after his release.
When Scott was released last November, he joined our weekly prayer cell. He was full of questions, but there was one thing he was certain of: his heavenly Father heard and answered his cries.
He is coming up on a year of sobriety and getting married this week. He is learning to walk in this new life as a child of the King. He is a new man.
Connan Kublik, Church Planter, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Why You Need This
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Disciple New Believers
It is not uncommon to tell a new believer, "Prayer is simply talking to God. Just tell him what's on your heart." With this approach, it is easy for prayers to become myopic, never quite maturing to a kingdom focus.
Use this to disciple new believers or youth groups, providing them with a solid yet expansive foundation of biblical prayer to balance the tendency to treat God like a genie who merely exists to serve human needs.
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Disciple Seekers into the Kingdom
Great as a prayer as a followup to an introduction to Christianity or Alpha course. Or try hosting a book club outreach for seekers.
Bridge the gap where participants aren't quite ready to make a profession of faith, inviting the Holy Spirit to move intellectual knowledge of the gospel into heart experience of Jesus, through prayer.
What Sets This Curriculum Apart
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Experiential
Our experiential training approach is specifically designed for corporate use, and prioritizes generous prayer practice. Actually praying together builds faith and synergy in a way that only the Holy Spirit can do, far beyond what teaching eloquently about prayer can do
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Missional
Expanding beyond inner contemplative prayer, we focus our training on kingdom prayer that opens the doors to the heart of a city and to the soul of a person, building a vibrant flow of missional momentum.
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Cyclical + Corporate
Designed for cyclical use as part of core discipleship training (do we ever graduate from our need for prayer?), use this to disciple your leaders and teams, such as launching new seasons of ministry or training emerging leaders.
FREE Leader’s Guide to Prayer-filled Gatherings
To experience a real prayer revolution, pray through this book with your team or group. Make room for God to form the knowledge into deep roots, coming alive to bear fruit of deep change in your life, community and world.
This free guide will transform the way you lead. Use these simple but powerful Prayer Points so you can turn any meeting into a prayer-infused, Spirit-energized gathering, without any extra complicated work, starting right now, where you are with what you have.
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