Use this prayer to help the Small Groups and Small Group leaders in your church experience the community God desires for his Church.
Quick Prayer
Please pray aloud: Maker of all mankind, I come to you now praying for the Small Groups at my church.
Take us beyond a Sunday morning church, God! May the hold everything in common, sharing their possessions, giving to anyone who has need, breaking bread and eating together with glad and sincere hearts, and praising you because you add to their number daily those who were being saved.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Full Prayer
Please pray aloud: Maker of all mankind, I come to you now praying for the Small Groups at my church. Take us beyond a Sunday morning church, God!
Make our Small Groups a place where everyone can experience the community you desire, God. Loving and being loved by one another. Blessing and being a blessing to one another. Encouraging and being encouraged by one another.
When there are differences of personality or opinion, help them be patient with one another and forgive one another. Where there is pain, help them bear one another’s burdens. Where there is elementary faith or false doctrine, help them to teach and exhort one another. Above all, Lord, may our Small Groups know the unity of your Spirit through the bond of peace because they honor one another above themselves.
Take us beyond a Sunday morning church, God!
—Pray for Your Church
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If anyone is new to a Small Group, give them courage to speak up because they feel included. If anyone is a veteran of a Small Group, give them the wherewithal to be accommodating and inclusive. If anyone is advanced in doctrine, help them to be humble with their wisdom. If anyone is new to the faith, help them to be unafraid to ask questions.
I also pray for the Small Group leaders, God. Give them a heart for hospitality as they welcome people in their home. When they’re rushed and the house is dirty, help them give themselves grace and freedom from performancism. Give them an extra measure of discernment to stoke the conversation when it’s lagging, and to give space to the silence when people are thinking. Help them to restrain those who dominate the conversation in a graceful way, but to also gracefully engage those who are hesitant to speak. And when the last person leaves their home and the door closes, give them a very real satisfaction for their service.
Let the Small Groups of my church be a reflection of your early Church, Lord. May the hold everything in common, sharing their possessions, giving to anyone who has need, breaking bread and eating together with glad and sincere hearts, and praising you because you add to their number daily those who were being saved.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Some of the Scripture used in today’s prayer: Genesis 2:18, John 13:34, 1 Thessalonians 5:11, Ephesians 4:2, Ephesians 4:32, Galatians 6:2, Colossians 3:16, Ephesians 4:3, Romans 12:10, 1 Peter 4:9, Acts 2:42-47
