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[Play background music about prayer as people arrive. Ask
participants to sit in same-gender groups and prepare a name
tag. Provide a sample with a LARGE, printed first name that is
legible.]

[5-7 minutes before start time, click to the next side.]

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 [Continue playing background music.]

While we are waiting to begin in just a few minutes, look through The Battle Plan
for Prayer “Contents” on pages v-vii. Identify and underline 3 chapter topics
that interest you most.

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 [Welcome the group and introduce yourself and your co-
leader.]

We will serve as the Co-leaders for the Prayer Boot Camp. We will make
assignments and give instructions for learning and prayer experiences.

Would you join me in prayer as we begin our Prayer Boot Camp?

[Open with prayer.]

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As we begin our Prayer Boot Camp, we need to establish our prayer work
groups. We will call these groups “SQUADS.” A Squad is the smallest fighting
unit in an army.

I want you to move around if necessary to form same-gender groups of 6-10

people each. Eight (8) is ideal.

Smaller groups should combine. Larger groups should divide. If you need to
adjust your groups, please do so now.

These groups will remain the same throughout the day.

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 [Read the objectives of the Prayer Boot Camp.]

 Experience praying together with others and with some who are more
experienced prayer warriors
 Experience and practice 4 Kinds of Prayer
 Identify and avoid 10 locks that hinder prayer
 Identify and utilize 10 keys to effective prayer
 Identify and utilize the weapons of our warfare
 Develop a plan for strategic and spontaneous prayer for ourselves and
others

I realize that some of you may be uncomfortable praying aloud. We don’t plan
to pray around the table or call on you to pray aloud. But we pray that you will
become increasingly more comfortable and join with others as you carry on a
conversation with God in prayer.

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Even Jesus’ disciples wanted to learn to pray more effectively. Listen to their
request and Jesus’ response.

[Read Luke 11:1-10 from your Bible.]

I want you to pray silently and personalize the prayer of the disciples by
praying: “Lord, teach ME to pray.” Describe to the Lord why you want to learn
to pray more effectively and strategically. Let’s begin the day asking, seeking,
and knocking.

[Allow a couple of minutes for silent prayer.]

Now I want a couple of people in each SQUAD to voice a prayer for

yourselves and your group.

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In your QUADs I want you to get acquainted with one another. Let each person
share responses to the following:

1. Share your name.

2. Who are the people in your immediate family? (those who live with you)
3. What do you spend most of your time doing on a typical weekday?
4. What (or who) brought you to the community where you live?

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Take your Prayer Boot Camp booklet and turn to the learning map in the
center. This learning map will be our guide for our time together. Notice that
the pages before and after the map are for notes you may want to record
throughout our time together. Notice that page numbers are listed for many of
the visuals or text boxes. These page numbers refer to The Battle Plan for
Prayer. This book will be our text book for our Prayer Boot Camp.

During our Prayer Boot Camp we will be Watching and Praying.

[Point to the 3 figures in the center of the map. If time permits,

read the Matthew 26:41 and Luke 21:36.]

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On our learning map you may have noticed that the Kendricks will be teaching
us about four kinds of prayer using the A.C.T.S. acronym.

Some of you are probably already familiar with these four kinds of prayer. For
others these may be new. Let me give you a pop quiz:

What kind of prayer does the A stand for? [Answer: Adoration]

What kind of prayer does the C stand for? [Answer: Confession]
What kind of prayer does the T stand for? [Answer: Thanksgiving]
What kind of prayer does the S stand for? [Answer: Supplication]

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Good Job!

When Jesus gave His disciples a model prayer, how did He start it
off? [Answer: “Father” or “Our Father”]

Adoration is a kind of prayer that helps us focus on the One to whom we pray:
Our Father God. Our first prayer module is going to help us get our focus on
the One to whom we pray.

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You have been given a copy of The Battle Plan for Prayer by Stephen and Alex
Kendrick (the writers and producers of War Room). We will be introducing
you to some of the content in this book today. Then it can be a tool to help you
move from this basic training at the Prayer Boot Camp to targeted strategies as
you learn to pray more effectively and strategically.

The Kendricks also have produced an 8-week Bible study by the same title that
is available for further training. After the Prayer Boot Camp, you may want to
join a small group to go beyond this basic training by developing a strategic
battle plan for a life of prayer. We will discuss this and other options for further
training at the end of our Prayer Boot Camp.

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As you were waiting to get started, what 3 chapter titles did you identify and
underline that interest you most? Share those with your SQUAD.

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 [For an example of the following watch the video:
http://blog.lifeway.com/growingdisciples/experiencing-god-
who-sees-me/ ]

In His prayer the night before going to the cross, Jesus gave us a definition of
eternal life.
[Read John 17:3 from your Bible.]
Jesus prayed that we could come to KNOW God and Jesus Christ whom He had
sent. In Scripture knowing God is not just knowing about Him. You come to
know God as you experience Him. Prayer is not just a religious activity that you
check off your to-do list every day. Prayer is a relationship with a Person who
can be known and experienced. We come to know God when we experience
Him in real and personal ways.

For instance Abraham and Sarah were in their old age (100 and 90 respectively)
and Sarah had been unable to bear children. They came to know God as God
Almighty when He miraculously gave them a son. They realized that God can
do anything! But when Abraham was called on to sacrifice Isaac, he went up
the mountain to obey. There he experienced God as “the Lord will Provide”
when God provided a ram for the sacrifice as a substitute for his son.

[Share a name of God and an experience by which you came to

know Him that way.]
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Turn in your Prayer Boot Camp booklet to page 2. Read this list of names,
titles, and descriptions of God. As you read, underline those that describe God
in ways you have personally experienced Him.
[Allow time for a few to begin finishing. Then continue:]

Let me interrupt you. I realize many of you may not be finished yet. You can
continue this activity later at home or during a time of prayer. Now I want you
to review the names, titles, or descriptions you have underlined. Select one
name of God that is particularly meaningful to you—one where you can
describe an experience when you came to know God that way.
[Allow a minute or two for people to select a name. Click to the
next slide.]

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Now turn to your SQUAD. Take turns and share one name of God and the
experience by which you came to know Him that way. When everyone has had
a chance to share one name, spend some time in prayer thanking God, praising
Him, and expressing your love and adoration to Him for the ways He has
revealed Himself to you. When your group finishes praying, you may take a
break.

[If needed, encourage groups to move toward prayer as they

begin to finish sharing.]

[During the break, softly play music on prayer.]

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[Set up your equipment to be prepared to play the video of the
Lukewarm Coffee scene. You may choose not to use the next
slide. You can return to the PowerPoint for the Personal
Assessment or just give the instructions following the video.]

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Listen to this humorous scene from War Room.

[Play “Lukewarm Coffee” from one of the following:

War Room Bible Study movie clip for Session 1 (4 minutes)
War Room Movie Scene: “Lukewarm Coffee” at
https://youtu.be/6jfOQ4-whSI (2:31 minutes)]

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Turn to the learning map in the center of your booklets. Find the “How’s your
prayer life?” scale under the title on the learning map. Evaluate your own
prayer life as either cold, hot, or somewhere in between (lukewarm).

[After a few moments of reflection…]

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Get together with your SQUAD and share your personal response to this
question. Then take a few minutes to pray for one another that God will warm
up everybody’s prayer life.

[Once the SQUADS begin to share, click to the next slide to

display during their prayer time.]

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 [Close this module by praying for all the people in the Prayer
Boot Camp, including yourself, that God will bring fresh
fervency in your prayers.]

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 [This module requires use of the DVD message for Session 1
from The Battle Plan for Prayer Bible Study. If you do not have
the Leader Kit, skip to Module 4.]

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Welcome back. turn to the place for “Notes” on page 5 in your booklet. We are
going to listen to Stephen and Alex Kendrick talk about the importance of
being devoted to prayer. This video comes from The Battle Plan for Prayer
Bible Study.

As you listen, write down on the “Notes” page important statements,

meaningful Scriptures, and/or encouraging stories you hear.

[Play Session 1 on DVD 1 (17:58 minutes).]

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What did you hear that was particularly important, meaningful, or encouraging
to you? In your SQUADS share some of important statements, meaningful
Scriptures, and encouraging stories you heard and explain why they were
significant to you.

[Allow 5-10 minutes for sharing. Begin playing music to alert

SQUADS to begin wrapping up their sharing time.]

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Now I want several people in each SQUAD to voice sentence prayers of
response to God. Pray that the Lord will help us become people of prayer and
houses of prayer for the nations.

[After SQUADS have had time to pray, begin to lead a prayer

asking God to teach you to pray and to be devoted to prayer.]

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 [Distribute one set of the Battle Plan QUAD Assignments to
each SQUAD.]

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Each of your SQUADS has been given a set of the Battle Plan Assignments.
Pull out the first two (numbers 1 and 2). Divide your SQUAD into 2
workgroups and assign one to each of your workgroups. I’m going to give you
15 minutes to complete your study. If your workgroup completes your
preparation before the time is up, begin discussing your findings with your
workgroup. You will report to your larger SQUAD a little bit later.

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Now get back together with your SQUAD. Ask the workgroup with
Assignment #1 to share their reports on the 4 kinds of prayer. You may want to
turn to your learning map where you will see these in the corners of the page.
Or if you prefer, turn to a “Notes” page to jot some notes for yourself. Those of
you who are describing the different kinds of prayer should keep your
descriptions to 2 minutes or less.

Once you have reviewed all four types of prayer, invite volunteers in your
SQUAD to pray sentence prayers using any one of the four types of prayer.
Each person may pray multiple times.

[After groups begin to share, click to the next slide to display

during the prayer time.]

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 [You may need to encourage groups to move to a prayer time
after 12 minutes.]

[Begin to play music softly to indicate the time to begin

wrapping up the prayer time.]

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 [Enlist 10 volunteers to read a Scripture. Distribute the 10
Scripture cards for the Locks that hinder prayer.]

Turn to your learning map. During this session we are going to focus on
prayers of Confession.

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In the upper right-hand corner of your learning map, notice the locks that
hinder prayer. We want to match the numbered lock in the list on the right with
the Scripture reference in the picture of the locks on the left. Listen as the
Scriptures are read, and let’s match the Scripture reference with the description
of the lock by writing the number of the description inside the lock for that
Scripture reference.

I’m going to call out a Scripture reference and I’d like for my volunteer with
that Scripture to read it. Then we will match it to a description.

James 4:3 [6. Lustful heart]

Matthew 6:5 [3. Praying for show]
Matthew 6:7-8 [4. Repetitive, empty words]
James 1:6-8 [10. Faithless unbelieving heart.]
James 4:2 [5. Prayers not prayed]
Proverbs 21:13 [8. Ignoring the poor]
John 14:6 [1. No relationship to Jesus]
1 Peter 3:7 [7. Mistreating your spouse]
Psalm 66:18 [2. Unrepentant heart]
Mark 11:25 [9. Bitterness/unforgiveness]

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Earlier one of the workgroups in each SQUAD studied the Locks that hinder
prayer for Battle Plan Assignment #2. Get together with your SQUAD. Ask the
person who studied Lock #1 to describe that lock in 2 minutes or less.
Then go to the person who studied Lock #2 and do the same for all 10 locks.
Someone may want to be a time keeper and just raise your hand to signal the
end of the 2-minute time limit for each lock.

When your SQUAD has heard all the descriptions of the Locks move to a time
of personal, private, and silent prayers of confession. If God has convicted you
of any of the sins described that would hinder prayer, confess that to the Lord
and ask Him to forgive you and enable you to repent and live in a way that
honors and obeys Him.

You may begin to share your descriptions of the Locks now.

[After a few minutes, click to the next slide and leave it up

during the prayer time.]

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 [If needed, encourage groups to move toward prayer even if
they have not finished sharing about all the 10 locks.]

[After a season of private prayer, begin to play some music

softly in the background to begin signaling that individuals
need to draw their prayer time to a close.]

[Pray a brief prayer asking God to continually convict of any

sin and enable your repentance so that your prayers will not be
hindered.]

We’ve just experienced prayers of Confession of sin. We confess our sin when
we agree with God about our sin and then repent of it.

Next, I want us to experience a different kind of Confession. We can also

confess truth. When we confess truth, we agree with God about a truth He has
revealed to us.

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I need 10 more volunteers to read some powerful Scripture truths that are Keys
to effective prayer.

[Distribute the 10 Scripture cards for the Keys.]

We are going to corporately (that means as a group) pray a litany. A volunteer

will read a Scripture and then we all will respond with this confession: “O
Lord, All your promises are faithful and true!”

Let’s practice this confession a couple of times. Repeat our confession with me:
“O Lord, All your promises are faithful and true!”

Now one more time: “O Lord, All your promises are faithful and true!”

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Volunteers, notice that your Scripture key is numbered. I want you to read your
Scripture Key one at a time as I call your number. Then we will all respond
with the confession that All God’s promises are faithful and true.

Scripture #1; “O Lord, All your promises are faithful and true!”

Scripture #2; “O Lord, All your promises are faithful and true!”

Scripture #3; “O Lord, All your promises are faithful and true!”

Scripture #4; “O Lord, All your promises are faithful and true!”

Scripture #5; “O Lord, All your promises are faithful and true!”

Scripture #6; “O Lord, All your promises are faithful and true!”

Scripture #7; “O Lord, All your promises are faithful and true!”

Scripture #8; “O Lord, All your promises are faithful and true!”

Scripture #9; “O Lord, All your promises are faithful and true!”

Scripture #10; “O Lord, All your promises are faithful and true!”

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Someone lead us in a closing prayer for this module by thanking God for the
privilege of prayer and for all His promises that are faithful and true.

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Before we move our focus to Thanksgiving, I want to introduce you to “Prayer
Targets.”

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In The Battle Plan for Prayer Bible Study, the Kendrick brothers gave us a
prayer target to use as we develop a specific prayer strategy for a particular
person, group, or subject that concerns us. Notice in the prayer target that there
is a circle in the center for the name of this particular prayer target. As you fill
out a prayer target, you would write a name or topic in the center of your target.

In each quadrant you see there are 3 spaces in the concentric circles of the
target where you can write specific requests or ways you want to pray for this
person or topic. With 3 spaces in each quadrant, you wind up with space to
write 12 subjects, requests, or ways you will pray for this target. You also have
some extra space around the target in which to write.

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Turn in your booklet to page 4 to see a completed prayer target. Here is an
example of a prayer target filled out to guide strategic praying for “Other
Believers.” Notice the Kendricks have a chapter on pages 194-199 to guide
your praying for Believers. Then they list Scriptures and topics on page 239
that can guide strategic prayer for other believers.

In your SQUAD take a few minutes to pray some of these topics for Other
Believers you know and for one another in your SQUAD.

[Allow 5 minutes for prayer.]

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Each of your SQUADS has been given a set of the Battle Plan Assignments.
Pull out numbers 3 and 4. Divide your SQUAD into 2 workgroups and assign
one to each of your workgroups. I’m going to give you 15 minutes to complete
your study. If your workgroup completes your preparation before the time is
up, begin discussing your findings with your workgroup. You will report to
your larger SQUAD a little bit later.

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 [If time permits, ask the workgroup with Assignment #3 to
report on all 10 Keys. If you don’t have that much time, ask
each person to report on ONE of the Keys he or she studied.]

Ask the workgroup with Battle Plan Assignment #3 to give their report to your
SQUAD. Because our time is limited, I’d ask that each person report on ONE
key each. If you finish your reports before I begin the next activity, you may
report on other Keys. As you examine each Key, write a number of the Key
beside the Scripture reference associated with it.

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An old hymn by Johnson Oatman encourages us to count our blessings and
“name them one by one.” On one of your “NOTES” pages start a list of some
of the ways God has blessed you. Your “Experiencing God” activity may be a
reminder of some of the things God has done to bless you. Take a few minutes
to begin making your list.

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Using conversational prayer, take some time thanking God and praising Him
for ways He has blessed you and manifested or revealed Himself to you.

Pray for yourself and one another that the Lord will refresh you and rekindle in
each of you a first love for Him.

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Before we shift our focus to Supplication prayers, let’s take a look at some
spiritual weapons we can use in our prayer warfare.

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Let’s read about the “Weapons of Our Warfare” described in 2 Corinthians
10:3-4.

Read the Scripture with me…

“Though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The
weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they
have divine power to demolish strongholds.”

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In your SQUADS call on the workgroup that studied Assignment #4 about the
R.E.S.P.O.N.D. acronym. Ask them to share with your SQUAD how you can
respond to the enemy to successfully fight the spiritual warfare in which we are
constantly engaged.

After they have explained R.E.S.P.O.N.D., spend some time in conversational

prayer asking God to teach you how to pray and respond to the enemy so you
will not enter into temptation and yield to sin. Pray for victorious living for the
others in your SQUAD.

[If necessary, encourage groups to finish sharing so they will

have time to pray.]

[If you have “Prayer Warrior” by Heirloom, invite the SQUADS

to listen to the song together.]

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Now we want to move to our forth type of prayer—supplication. Supplication
is a time in prayer where we ask for ourselves and others.

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The red box in the lower left corner of your learning map lists 9 different topics
the Kendricks have given you with suggestions and listed Scriptures that can
guide you as you develop a strategy for prayer for a specific person, group, or
topic.

Read the list and select one of those prayer targets for which you would like to
develop a prayer strategy. Turn in The Battle Plan for Prayer to the page with a
list of ways to pray for that target.

In your booklet you have three prayer targets. Turn to the target on page 3.
Write the name of the person, group, or topic in the center of your target.
Then develop a specific strategy for your prayers for that person, group, or
target. You do not have to come up with all 12 ways to pray right now. See if
you can develop 4 or 5 ways you will pray. This can be an ongoing tool for you
as you begin praying for others.

If you finish one target, turn to page 9 or 10 and start working on a second
target.

[Allow 8-10 minutes for people to work on their prayer target.]

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Get together with your SQUAD and share with them your prayer target and 2
or 3 ways you plan to pray for that person, group, or topic.

After each person has had a chance to share a few ways they plan to pray, move
to a prayer time in your SQUAD. Allow volunteers to pray brief or sentence
prayers for their targets. After one person prays, others in your SQUAD can
join with him or her by praying for that person’s target also.

I’ll begin playing music when it is time for SQUADS to begin wrapping up this
prayer time.

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Turn with me to page 11 in your booklet. This page is a prayer guide for us to
focus our prayers on the lostness in our community and around the world.
[Read Acts 2:42-47]

The early church was devoted to the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, breaking
bread, and prayer. They met daily in the temple courts (that’s “big church”) and
from house to house (that’s small-group). Today’s church needs both kinds of
experiences: corporate teaching and worship together with smaller- group
loving and caring fellowship with other believers. Small groups can be a place
of significant outreach and spiritual growth.

[Read Hebrews 10:24-25.]

New groups—small and large—can be places where we spur one another on to

love and good deeds.
In your SQUADS read the 8 points under Penetrating Lostness. Read the
related Scripture with each point. Then use these points to begin praying about
the lostness in your community and world.

[After groups have prayed for several minutes, pray that God
will work through the people in the room to penetrate lostness
around you.]
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Now let’s pray that God will put names and faces on the lostness around us.
Using the list of possible groups of people in the right column on page 11 and
others that may come to mind, spend some time praying that God will quicken
your hearts and reveal the people, places, and ways He wants to work through
you to penetrate lostness.

[Allow up to 8-10 minutes for prayer.]

What have you sensed God may be saying to you, to our church, or to our
community about what He wants to do in and through us to bring people to
faith in His Son? If you haven’t sensed God’s speaking, you don’t need to
make something up. But if your mind and heart have been stirred by the Holy
Spirit during this prayer time, share what you have experienced so it will
inform our continued prayer on this topic.

[Allow time for sharing. If you sense a need for someone to

pray about a topic shared, invite a volunteer or a group to
pray.]

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Divide your SQUAD into 2 smaller groups. Take one person at a time and ask
the question: “How may we pray for you?” This is a time for you to ask for
prayer for your needs. This is not a time to ask for prayer for someone else.
And unless you have a personal major health crisis, focus your request on
something other than a health issue. After you hear a request from one person,
take time to pray for him or her.

Then ask the second person: “How may we pray for you?” Then pray. Continue
until you have prayed for each person in your group.

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In your SQUADS, share one Scripture, insight, activity, prayer, or experience
that has been most meaningful to you today.

[Share any plans you have for ongoing prayer groups, prayer
studies (like The Battle Plan for Prayer Bible Study ), or
opportunities for involvement in prayer ministries. If you have
additional Prayer Boot Camps planned, invite participants to
help as co-leaders or SQUAD facilitators.]

[Call on someone to close out the Prayer Boot Camp in prayer.]

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