Step 1 - Getting Ready


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"And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself."
JESUS CHRIST (JOHN 12:32 (NLT))

It's of vital importance that people involved in your event get ready ahead of time. Here are some ways that you and your team can be ready for what God may have in mind to do through David Willersdorf and his team at your event.

// Prepare your expectations

Imagine what God is capable of doing! He is just as powerful today as He has always been, and is ready to move on behalf of His children and in helping people come to know Him. It's important that your team and Churches start building an expectation of what God could do at your event.

"Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before You! As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make Your name known to Your enemies and cause the nations to quake before You! For when You did awesome things that we did not expect, You came down, and the mountains trembled before You. Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him."
ISAIAH 64:1-4 (NIV)

// Prayer Triplets

One great idea is to get people from the Churches involved in your event into Prayer Triplets. Prayer Triplets are groups of three people who pray together each week for what God may have in mind for your event. Some key prayer points could include:

  • Freedom amongst people attending your event to genuinely meet with God
  • For people who might be at the event who do not know the Lord to be touched by Him during the worship times and sharing times
  • For David Willersdorf and his team to be able to overflow God's heart and help people to praise Him and lift Him up above their circumstances

// Ministry Team

It's important to get a ministry team ready to pray with those people at the event who may need to respond in some way to God. These responses could include people who are turning to God for the first time. Others may need to process a matter of the heart with someone or celebrate a healing or a new sense of freedom. It's important that this team of people is ready. 

One model of how to manage prayer ministry we have found useful is that used by the Alpha Course, where males pray with males and females pray with females, usually with an extra person in the background to pray for the person praying. We also recommend the Alpha leaflet, "Why Jesus?" as a starting point for people who are beginning their journey with Jesus. It's also helpful to have a New Testament or a complete Bible to give to people as needed.

Following up people after an event is also crucial, especially connecting them with a local group of believers (if they are not already) and helping them walk out what God may have begun at the event in their everyday lives.