Format of a Holy Spirit Prayer Meeting

• Praise

  • Praise helps us to cancel the voice of the evil one

  • It exalts God and who he is

  • Helps us to get our eyes off of ourselves and onto God so that we may be lifted up above the circumstances of the day, and ultimately to bring us into true worship where the spirit begins to move and God intervenes in our life

• Clapping and lifting up hands
  
  

  • it is an expression of our freedom

  • it is an expression of our love

  • it is an expression of our worship

• Singing

  • a way of praying twice

  • it is an expression of our worship

  • it is a form of praise

• Praying in the spirit (tongues), singing in the spirit (tongues), praying with our understanding and singing with our understanding

  • the scriptures teaches us to pursue spiritual gifts

  • the scripture teaches us to pray in the spirit and to pray with our understanding

  • it is a spiritual weapon against Satan

  • It brings peace to the soul

  • It stirs up the Holy spirit within the believer

  • it stirs up the gifts of the Holy Spirit

  • allows us to hear God speak to our spirit

• Listening to the Spirit

  • Allows us to hear in order that we may share our gifts in the Holy Spirit

  • that we may comfort and exhort the body of Christ

  • that we may hear what the Lord wants to say to his people and proclaim his message

• Testimony

  • honors the Lord

  • gives God glory for what he has done in our lives

  • confirms the written word as it becomes a reality in our lives

  • Helps to build faith

• Just being in his presence and experiencing his peace, love and joy

Scripture References For Reflection:

Heb 4:16 "Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need."

Rom 8:26-27 "In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will."

Acts 2:2 "Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them."

1 Cor 14:15 "I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.

Psm 47:6 "Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises"

Psm 100 " Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Psm 47:1 "Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy."

1 Tim 2:8 "I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer, without anger or disputing."

Is 46:3-4 "Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all you who remain of the house of Israel, you whom I have upheld since you were conceived, and have carried since your birth. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you."

Lk 9:35 " Then from the cloud came a voice that said, "This is my chosen Son; listen to him."

Ps 46:10 "Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."

1 Cor 12:7 "Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines."

1 Jn 5:14-15 "This is the confidence we have in approaching God; that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us - whatever we petition - we know that we have what we petitioned of him.

Mk 5:19 "Go home to your family and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has mercy on you."

Lk 12:2-3 " There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs."

Ps 95:6 "Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker."

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

CCC 2697

Prayer is the life of the new heart. It ought to animate us at every moment. But we tend to forget him who is our life and our all. This is why the Fathers of the spiritual life in the Deuteronomic and prophetic traditions insist that prayer is a remembrance of God often awakened by the memory of the heart: " We must remember God more often than we draw breath." But we cannot pray "at all times" if we do not pray at specific times, consciously willing it....

CCC 2700

Through his word, God speaks to man, By words mental or vocal, our prayer takes flesh. Yet it is most important that the heart should be present to him to whom we are speaking in prayer: "Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of words, but on the fervor of our souls."

CCC 2701

Vocal prayer is an essential element of the Christian life. To his disciples, drawn by their Master's silent prayer, Jesus teaches a vocal prayer, the Our Father. He not only prayed aloud the liturgical prayers of the synagogue but, as the Gospels show, he raised his voice to express his personal prayer, from exultant blessing of the Father to the agony of Gesthemani.

CCC 2702

The need to involve the senses in interior prayer corresponds to a requirement of our human nature. We are body and spirit, and we experience the need to translate our feelings externally. We must pray with our whole being to give all power possible to our supplication.

CCC 2703

This need also corresponds to a divine requirement. God seeks worshippers in Spirit and in Truth, and consequently living prayer that rises from the depths of the soul. He also wants the external expression that associates the body with interior prayer, for it renders him that perfect homage which is his due.