Pre-Service Prayer Meeting

The primary goal at the pre-service prayer meeting is to pray for the Sunday Service. If there are key programs, events and moments occurring in the coming week/month these can be great things to pray for too.

If you are leading the prayer meeting, your goal is to invite the others in attendance to pray with you. As you briefly introduce each point, encourage people to pray with you. It can be helpful to encourage them that they are praying well throughout the prayer meeting.

The pre-service prayer meeting is a space to engage in corporate prayer, and is not for teaching or exegesis. If you do bring any points of encouragement that are relevant to the prayer points, please ensure they are short, based in Scripture and that they lead directly into corporate prayer.

Prayer Points

We don’t need to cover all of these points each Sunday.

  • First welcome everybody and open the prayer meeting
  • Pray for Gateway Kids and the team (if it is on)
  • Pray for teams
  • Hosts
  • Welcome Team & New People Team
  • Hospitality
  • Entire Creative Team (Worship, Production & Media)
  • Worship Leader
  • Preacher
  • New People/Visitors (Intervening moment of God's direction and impartation)
  • All people speaking from stage.
  • For clarity, wisdom, spiritual insight and power to propel the pursuit of Christ.
  • Powerful moments of the body exalting and glorifying God. Father, Son & Spirit.
  • Heaven being revealed in hearts
  • Lives being transformed and redeemed through salvation in and through Christ
  • To see Spiritual gifts identified and activated (not limited to Prophetic)
  • Baptism in the Holy Spirit
  • For every person and every follower of Jesus to be invigorated for God and His Mission.
  • Encouragement for all of us. Let’s be ready to listen and help reveal anything that God wants to reveal for that day.

Additional notes:

If you feel prompted to share something outside these points or outside our core vision, mission and values, please discuss this with the Senior Pastor (or another Pastor not in your immediate household) beforehand. Please know this is not a measure of control, but of protection, to ensure that everything we bring is of sound Biblical and Theological understanding.

Please do not provide an opportunity for anybody who isn’t a credentialed Pastor to speak or share anything into the microphone during this time without first speaking to the Senior Pastor. This is in-line with our Safe Ministry Guidelines that apply to all services.

You can always visit https://team.gc.org.au/plan to see the upcoming service plan so that you can find who is preaching etc. on the day