Purpose of These Prayer Guides

• Helps a worship team to incorporate a short prayer session within a longer worship set.

• Helps to maintain the worship flow, while incorporating prayer - everyone knows what to do, what to pray for, and who is next.

• Provides a structure that fully allows for freedom in the moment, in a spontaneous way.

• Models a format that works, so that a member of the worship team could potentially form their own prayer guide, before a worship set (making it available to the other team members), for a given prayer focus or need.

How to Use These Prayer Guides in Worship

• Great for Jump Starting a Worship Team Into Spontanoeus Singing Of Prayers/Intercession - The prayer guides can help in training a team in singing spontaneously in intercession, with the help of a prayer leader and a worship leader.   

• Great for Worship Sets - These short prayer sessions can be added to a worship set, at anytime, thanks to this webpage resource. Once a team knows what to do with a prayer guide, the team lead can choose an applicable prayer guide and the team will just flow with it, on the spot.

• Repeated Chord Pattern for Spontaneous Singing - During this prayer session, the musicians and musical instruments will maintain a basic chord progression, often coming from the last worship song. This repeated progression grounds all singers in the flow of the chords and makes it easier for them to sing spontaneous choruses, that flow out of the prayer. (Example: ||: G////  C////  D////  Em//// :||

• Team Pattern for Prayer Sequence - One of the letters or categories in the prayer guide becomes the prayer focus for the group to sing out of, one person at a time (each developing what is being sung), and eventually make a chorus that all would join. The team then flows into the next letter or category and spends a certain amount of time in it, and so on. 

• One Prayer Theme with Prayer Points - Each letter/category calls for a Bible verse and/or a short prayer, then a spontaneous chorus (simple and short) that the team member forms in that theme. The other team members will join in to sing that spontaneous chorus once it is established by the singer. 

• Prayer/Singer Prayer Pattern - Singers, here is the format for each prayer/singer person: Bible Verse Read (optional) > Short Prayer > Spontaneous Chorus  ( > move to the next letter/category which will be led by the next person)

• Keep It Short - As these are meant to be short prayer sessions, added to a worship set, make sure each member keeps their time short, and that the flow from one singer to another with a chorus ends up being @ 2-3 minutes each, per letter/category. 

• Approximate Length of Prayer Session - The whole prayer session, as an addition to a worship set, should be between 6-12 minutes, depending on how many categories there are.