The Bishop’s Prayer Gathering is being held at four locations around Tasmania over July and August 2011.

• Saturday 30 July, St George’s Burnie 10-3:30pm
• Saturday 6 August, St Barnabas’ Launceston 10-3:30pm
• Saturday 13 August, St Luke’s Taroona 10-3:30pm
• Saturday 20 August, St Thomas’ Howrah 10-3:30pm

The aim is to pray. Thus the Prayer Gathering is distinct from the Seminars on Prayer and the Tasmanian Bible Forum on prayer. The Program Outline gives an indication of the progress of our prayer through the day.

To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives. The more we pray, the more we come to heartbeat of God. Prayer starts the communication process between ourselves and God. All the options of life fall before us. At that point we will either forsake our prayer life and cease to grow, or we will pursue our prayer life and let Him change us.
Richard Foster

10.00  Opening Prayer

• video: “Be still” (Worship House Media)                                                             

10.05  Greetings & Overview of the Gathering

10:15  Bishop’s Reflection 1

• Hosea 2:14; 2 Chronicles 7:14;

• video: “The Skinny on Prayer” (Worship House Media)

10:35 Shared Experiences of Prayer (forum)

11:00  Prayer Segment 1 (20 Minutes)

• A time of adoration, Psalm 100

Prayer Segment 2 (20 Minutes)

• A time of confession, Nehemiah 1:1-11; 1 John 1:5-2:2

Prayer Segment 3 (20 minutes)

• A time of thanksgiving, I Chronicles 29:10-20

• video: “How you should pray” (Worship House Media)

Prayer Segment 4 (20 Minutes)

• A time of silence, Luke 5:16

12:30 Lunch

1:00  Bishop’s Reflection 2 

• Acts 12:1, 3-17; Philippians 1:3-11, A Blessing for Tasmania

1:20    Prayer Segment 5 (15 Minutes)

• Pray for Youth & Families

• video: “Psalm 139” (Worship House Media)

Prayer Segment 6 (15 Minutes)

• Pray for Sectors of Society (education, media, judicial, etc.)

Prayer Segment 7 (15 minutes)

• Pray for Local & National Government Leaders

Prayer Segment 8 (15 Minutes)

• Pray for the Church, Revival

Prayer Segment 9 (15 Minutes)

• Open Prayer (Pray for reconciliation, healing and personal matters)

2:40 Shared Experiences of Prayer (forum)

3:30 Benediction/Closing

• Ephesians 3:20-21

Come when you can, go when you must 🙂