Outreach Preparation
Mobilize a Prayer Support Team
Prayer is your act of faith, declaring your dependency on God, that you are not sufficient to engage in His Mission without His guidance and enabling grace. It is therefore important that you mobilize intercessors to be part of your Prayer Support Team who would continuously pray for you before, during and after the Missions Outreach. You MUST Establish the habit of individual and corporate prayer with your Prayer Support Team before the trip, and allow prayer to be central in sustaining you in preparation, during and after the Missions Outreach.
Find an Accountability Partner
Having an accountability partner is a key to overcoming difficult spiritual strongholds in your life.
Once you have established someone as your accountability partner, here are some guidelines to follow:
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Prayer is your act of faith, declaring your dependency on God, that you are not sufficient to engage in His Mission without His guidance and enabling grace. It is therefore important that you mobilize intercessors to be part of your Prayer Support Team who would continuously pray for you before, during and after the Missions Outreach. You MUST Establish the habit of individual and corporate prayer with your Prayer Support Team before the trip, and allow prayer to be central in sustaining you in preparation, during and after the Missions Outreach.
Find an Accountability Partner
Having an accountability partner is a key to overcoming difficult spiritual strongholds in your life.
- Unless it is your spouse (who, by the way, should eventually become your #1 accountability partner), your partner should be the same sex as you. It is a short step from spiritual to physical intimacy.
- Your partner should truly love and care for you.
- Your partner should have a love of the Scriptures.
- Your partner should be able to detect when you are discouraged or slack in your commitment to prayer, bible study and preparation for the Outreach.
- Your partner should be spiritually mature, gentle, and careful (Gal. 6:1).
Once you have established someone as your accountability partner, here are some guidelines to follow:
- You must agree to openness and honesty. Bondage to sin brings deception with it, and some people have been deceptive for years. If you want to be free from the slavery to sin, you start with honesty…even if it is humbling. If your accountability partner asks how you are doing, and you have just fallen into sin, you must honestly admit it.
- You agree to prepare a list of the circumstances that are likely to lead you to discouragement, failing devotional and prayer commitments. Together, make a plan for how to deal with each one. Ask your accountability partner to hold you accountable to it.
- Agree to give your partner freedom to ask the hard questions, without taking offense. For instance, “Have you struggled with your Prayer and Devotional Commitment today?” Or, “Did you break off that sinful habit or relationship completely, as you said you would?”
- Agree to initiate regular communication, as far as is possible.
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