Imagination Prayer: Creating a Prayer Wall

November 26, 2017 ~ Prev | Intro

Note: This is the last week of the Church Calendar for 2017. Next week is the beginning of the Advent Season, the start of a new year in the Christian calendar of worship.

During November we are focusing on imaging and cultivating our desire for God.

For this final message of the Year of Prayer, we will be constructing a Prayer Wall. A prayer wall incorporates several elements of prayer practices we have explored. We will construct a church prayer wall on the whiteboard next to the Lounge, but you are encouraged to make your own at home with a large sheet of paper or whiteboard.

As a congregation we are going to pray about the question “What is your deepest desire from God for Christ UMC?” At home, pray about your own deepest and truest desire for God. Or pray about a scripture passage. Or pray for insight on an issue with which you are struggling.

First, center yourself and ask God to help you with discernment.

Write, draw, or doodle your feelings on that question on the wall. You can write a word, a poem, draw a picture or a symbol on the wall.

As others contribute, revisit the wall. Add more to the wall as you are led. At home, come back to your wall over a period of several days.

When the wall is looking full, study it carefully. Notice central themes and see how the desires on the wall overlap or work together. Where do you see God’s word most clearly? Are there areas of the wall that need further discernment? Does anything surprise you? Fill you with joy? Disappoint you? What are growing edges?

Thank God for guiding CUMC and ask to see ever more clearly how God is working in your life through the church.

Lord, make us what you want us to be.