Prayer Network:
Become part of the Prayer Network praying for the needs of our church.
Contact for information about the Prayer Ministry
Helen Smith - 410-987-1225 - As you pray local also go global; check out Vineyard Missions PrayerNet at Vineyardmissions.org
To learn the Vineyard Values for prayer (intercession), scroll to the bottom of this page.
Vineyard Community Church - Central Maryland
255 Najoles Road, Millersville, MD 21108
P.O. Box 1170, Millersville, MD 21108
410.987.3440 office | 410.987.8369 fax | office@vcccm.org
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Prayer Ministry
Ministry Teams & Training:
We believe that showing God’s Love to humanity is one of our greatest commandments. Therefore the primary reason that explains why we value praying for others so highly is because it extends God’s love to another person in a very real way. When we intentionally make ourselves available to pray for someone we are showing love and making a way for His Love and healing to breakthrough in that person’s life.
Our Mission is to equip and instruct this community to pray for the sick, demonized, lost, hurting, and/or lonely. We want to come alongside people in their time of need connecting them to Jesus and His community of Hope.
Our Vision and expectation is to see all who are teachable pray with faith, hope, and love;
to see people praying with an expectation that God will come and meet us where we are; and to see people being attentive to the current work of the Holy Spirit. Our hope is that all those who are committed to this local church would put their hands to whatever God the Father is doing when praying for others.
Ultimately we would love to see praying “for the sick, demonized, lost, hurting, and/or lonely” become such apart of our members that it becomes something that they do often beyond these four walls.
Our visitation team is here specifically for the purpose of sending trained prayer team members to people who land in the hospital, are homebound due to an illness, or have a physical emergency need. If you are in this situation or know someone who is please contact us.
Do you find your heart pumping with some excitement? Can’t wait to start learning more about praying for the sick? Well then first off: START PRAYING. Ask the Lord for opportunities to pray for others (family, friends, co-workers, random people; any human being!) and they will come. Pray for one then pray for another and then another and keep praying. Pray for hundreds of people. You will only learn if you practice. Secondly, if you want to get better at discerning the Lord’s voice then you NEED to get into the Bible. Start in the Gospels and the book of Acts. Study, MEDITATE, MEMORIZE, wrestle with, chew on, and discuss it with others. There is a whole lot of praying for the sick and healing going on in these first five books of the New Testament isn’t there? Allow the Scriptures to change your worldview and renew your mind. Next you might want to check out some of these great resources (Amazon.com is a good place to get the follow books) if you want to get started now: Authority to Heal by Ken Blue; Power Healing by John Wimber; Naturally Supernatural by Gary Best and Healing by Francis Macnutt. Also if you are interested we can make you FREE copies of some awesome John Wimber teachings on these and related topics. If you are interested in learning more about being trained and being apart of the prayer and visitation team let us know:
Contact Nazim Bouadjemi, 410 987 3440 or nbouadjemi@vcccm.org
Vineyard Values for Intercession
1. God's Glory. We are seeking the elevation of God’s reputation and magnificence; and we aim to resist anything that detracts from it. Conversely, excessive focus on evil powers, principalities, stratospheric strategies of prayer, praying with hidden or personal agendas, or seeking personal gain or recognition - all these can undermine our needed focus on God’s glory and dependency on God’s power.
2. Holy Spirit as Helper and Scripture as Plumbline. Our highest aim in prayer is for God to pray His prayers through us. This can only happen by means of the Holy Spirit guiding and empowering our prayer (Rom. 8:26-27; Eph. 6:18). We discern the source and significance of the spiritual influence that guides us by means of the normal-language interpretation of Scripture (the Old and New Testaments of the Christian Bible), which is our plumbline of Truth. Consequently, the Spirit-wielded Word becomes our offensive weapon in advancing God’s Kingdom amidst opposition from spiritual wickedness (Eph. 6:17).
3. Genuineness and Simplicity. We want our hearts, prayers, relationships, and ministry marked by genuineness and simplicity to the core. We seek to be naturally supernatural. We should resist the air of unnatural spirituality like we find with religiously affected language. Pretentiousness, presumption, religious externalism, and judgmentalism are offensive to God and should be to us, as well. Our prayers should be simple and consistent with the truths and promises of God’s Word (Matt. 6:7-13, 5:37).
4. Humility. To be pleasing to God, our prayers should be drenched in humility (1 Pet. 5:5; Ps. 51:17; Isa. 57:15). They should be characterized by poverty of spirit, absolute dependence on God, and emptiness of self. This means we often learn to wait on God rather than fill the air with words, which will result in asserting our agendas and self-will.
5. Unity. There is great power in agreement before God in prayer – with Him and each other (Matt. 18:19; Acts 1:14; 4:24ff; Rom. 15:5-6). This is reflected in our loyalty to God, to the leaders God has placed over us, and to each other (Heb. 13:17; Eph. 4:3). Moreover, our prayers should reflect concern for the whole church, not just the cause of certain individuals or groups within the church. We must avoid elitism.
6. Expectancy. We wait on God with the expectation that He will act. We anticipate God’s intervention in the affairs of people (Heb. 11:6; Ps. 37:4-7). Faith is God’s gift, not our work. Therefore, we humbly wait on God and call out to God. He will give us the faith to trust Him for the great things He wants to accomplish (Isa. 64:4, 65:24, I Cor. 12:7, 9-10; 1 John. 5:14-15).
7. Perseverance. We must persist with God in prayer. Against any discouragement or opposition until we either receive from God what we request or are released from that burden of prayer. We must persist until God redirects us, stretches us, or grants our request (Lk.11:5-13, esp. vv. 9-10; 18:1-8; 2 Cor. 12:7-10; Acts 16:6-10; 21:3-4, 10-14)."
