gistfile1.txt

##Co-Labor Prayer Team Requirements

The Mission of Co-Labor Ministries is REVIVAL... the personal, regional, and global expansion of God's kingdom through His manifest presence.

1. **Our first ministry is to God; therefore we worship with extravagant joy & gratitude.**
	
	- Our personal relationship with Him is our number one priority and His Presence our passion.
	
2. **Salvation frees us from the power of the devil - sin, lies, sickness & torment.**  

	- At the cross Jesus paid for the whole package.

3. **Every believer is a supernatural minister of the gospel of power whom signs & wonders should follow.**

	- All ministry flows from the prayer, "Thy kingdom come... on earth as it is in heaven."
	- We equip and send believers to carry on the works of Jesus.

4. **We demonstrate God's grace, His unconditional love & transforming power, to everyone.**

	- We impact every socioeconomic group & cultural realm that mercy & justice would reign because we lead a city, not just a church or a ministry.  
	- We believe that The Father is in the restoration business and that nothing is impossible.

5. **Christ is returning for a glorious victorious bride - His Church**

	- We are more than "sinners saved by grace", we are saints - Sons & Daughters of the King.
	- So we expect to successfully fulfill the Great Commission - passing on revival from one generation to the next.
	- We embrace the biblical government of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers and are contending to see the Five-fold ministry in operation in the marketplace.

###Preparation

1. **Preparation:**  means to be set apart, to make ready beforehand for purpose, use or activity.  To put in a proper state of mind.

2. **Be asking Papa, Jesus and Holy Spirit what it is that they want to do in the prayer time.**  

3. **Arrive on time!** Your tardiness throws everything off. Be committed to the group you are praying with. Show respect to the Lord, the people we are praying for, leaders and fellow intercessors.  

4. **Phones off**

5. **Come to the prayer time prepared and expectant.** If you are dealing with personal issues it may be best if you spent the time in prayer separately.  Immediate issues can cause you to focus on them instead of Holy Spirit.  Learning how to yield to Him is one of our main goals…”to be led by the Spirit.”  Don’t get involved in fighting the enemy.  He’s already lost, we’ve already won.  Whatever captures our attention is where we place priority, affection, and what you release.  The enemy only has power where you agree.  Recognize it, don’t partner with it, give it to the Holy Spirit and ask Him what He wants you to have instead.

	**Holy Spirit is progressive and creative. Holy Spirit is the intercessor - John 16:7, 13-15 – 7** But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.  13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.” 

6. **Take time to soak in the Lord’s presence before starting.**  Soaking is a very important part of intercession. Get your spirit, soul and body in tune with Holy Spirit…partner with Him. Do what you see Him doing, and speak what you hear Him speaking.

	Listen to praise music or pray in tongues on the way to the meeting.  Turn your cell phone off on the way and in the meeting!  Write down or make a note of what He is telling you or showing you.  Be ready to move as a group flowing with what the Holy Spirit wants to do and with the team members.

	**John 5:19** - Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.

	**John 5:30** - By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.

	**John 12:49-50** - For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken. I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.” 

###Active prayer in teams

1. **Shifting Spiritual Atmospheres** – We have been invited to pray because there is a problem (physical, economic, spiritual, and/or inconsistency with the Kingdom of Heaven).  Our job is to recognize what is going on and operate in and release the opposite spirit.  

	Example:  Poverty spirit or mindsets, economic struggle, or lack – we come in as a blessing providing lunch and giving it all away, not asking for anything in return and releasing blessing by our actions before we even begin to pray.  It shifts the spiritual atmosphere.

2. **Position of Honor** – The business owner/leader, has invited us into their realm where they have authority and given it to the team during this ministry time.  In essence, they have offered an opportunity for you to plant the seeds of the Kingdom of Heaven in their environment where they have authority.

	Honor is not something you earn, but something you give.  Life flows through honor and the Kingdom of Heaven expands and is released through honor.  The Bible is filled with verses regarding honor who we are called to honor and in I Peter 2:17, Peter sums it up by saying we are to “Honor all men.”
	
	- View interaction with organizations and their leadership through the lens of honor.
	- No solicitation
	- Do not use this time for business.
	- Ask the Holy Spirit how I you to participate with Him and honor the organization and its employees.

3. **Words of Prophecy** - The goal of the prophetic in ministry is not to embarrass, demean, or uncover, but to encourage, strengthen, and bring release to the person being ministered to drawing them to their true identity.  Jesus would speak to someone using a word of knowledge to uncover an area of their life that had them bound.  He would follow that with a prophetic word pointing the way to their calling and destiny.

	**I Corinthians 14:3** - But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouraging and comfort. 

	Prophesying is speaking in order to strengthen, encourage, and comfort others.  Prophecy is not just speaking human encouragement; it is speaking divine encouragement.  It is simply “hearing” from God and speaking what you hear in order to build, comfort, or encourage someone.  To prophesy is to hear from God and speak to man.

4. **Prophetic Intercession is praying what Holy Spirit inspires you to pray.** Prophetic Intercession is not praying out of one’s mind, but out of the Spirit of God. It is Holy Spirit inspired prayer.

	A declaration or proclamation of the truth you receive from Holy Spirit is a prayer, His prayer. You are partnering with him by speaking it out. Sometimes he shows you something to do. Speaking and doing as you are inspired by Holy Spirit to speak or do is prophetic intercession.  We pray the answers not the problem.

	Prayer sometimes takes on the act of doing something. Examples: Moses/Tabernacle, Moses at the Red Sea (Ex.14:13-16), Joshua/Jericho (Josh. Chapter 6), Sun stood still (Chapter 10), Ax head (2 Kings 6:1-7), King Jehoshaphat: Ammon, Moab & Mt. Seir defeated (2 Chron.20:1-30).

	**Proclaim:**  Announce officially or publicly or “cry out”.  To declare something to be.

	**Declare:**  Announce solemnly or officially or reveal one's intentions or identity.  To make clear.

	**Job 22:28** - You will also decree a thing, and it will be established for you; and light will shine on your ways.

	Since we are getting our direction & inspiration from Holy Spirit, we pray from the third heaven not the second heaven, therefore, we do not have to do defensive spiritual warfare.

	We focus on Father God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, who they are, what they have done, what they are doing….and not on the problem. We pray the answer not the problem. We are led by the Spirit of God and do, or speak what we see Him doing, and hear Him saying at the time we meet to minister…we have no agenda but to be led by the Spirit.

	**Focus** - Whatever or whoever you put your focus on will determine the outcome of prayer. Keep your focus on God; Father, Jesus and/or Holy Spirit. Remember what He’s already done, and the authority He’s given us to enforce what He did (partnering with Holy Spirit).  Without Him, the Holy Spirit, we can do nothing.
	
5. **Ask Holy Spirit to give you boldness to speak whatever you hear Him speaking.**  If you’re not sure it’s Him, ask the leader.

	**John 16:13** - But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth.

6. **When we begin to pray be aware of the other people in the room or group.** We will pray together as a TEAM.  Everyone should PARTICIPATE and go in the direction Holy Spirit is leading. If you are used to doing this kind of prayer, be mindful of those who are not and give them room to speak.  Don’t take up too much time praying your prayer.

	- No sermon prayers.
	- No beggar prayers.
	- No advice or telling them what to do.
	- It is not about your words – it is about releasing what the Father wants to do.
	- Not all the prayers need to come through you.  He is most likely showing others the same thing He is showing you.  RELAX.  

	**Participate:**  from Partake: to take an active part in or experience something along with others.

7. **Prophetic Intercession is not petitions, supplications, prayer lists, etc.** (although we do some of that at times). In other words, prophetic intercession is “different” than the usual prayer time.  It is waiting for the leading of Holy Spirit.  If you have no leading, that is, you don’t hear or see what He is revealing, then do or say nothing.  Sometimes the hardest thing to do is nothing...but do pray silently in tongues.  That is important!

8. **We will be doing “on the job training”.** That means that your leaders will be on watch keeping order in the ministry time; keeping everyone on track. The leaders may even have everyone stop, then explain....”We’re veering off course, let’s regroup and all go in the same direction”....then the leaders will explain how and why.

	*NOTE: There is much grace for learning....Praise God!  Don’t be offended. Offense is an enemy of freedom and this type of prayer ministry.*

9. You will be in training, but in a SAFE place. We do not operate from judgment or punishment.  The teachable person makes the best team member. You may have been praying for a long time, but you have not prayed with this group before. Be open to learn a new way to pray. We are learning to work as a team. We will find unity with one another through relationship.  According to Psalms 133:1-3, unity with one another releases the anointing.

	**Psalms 133:1-3** - How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!  2 It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron's beard, down upon the collar of his robes. 3 It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there the LORD bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.

10. **Come with no agenda of your own.** Come as though you have never prayed before. The hardest thing for Holy Spirit to do is try to lead someone who thinks they know how to do it all, or has done it all.

	**What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you do not remain a novice.**

	What you’ve been doing before does not qualify you for this team....only your belief in, commitment to, and yieldedness to God, Jesus & Holy Spirit qualifies any of us to pray and intercede (be led by His Spirit).  It’s a partnership….we partner with Him.

11. **Once you have committed to intercession you become part of the TEAM and you will be depended on.**  You have taken the assignment, or ministry given you, and you should treat intercession as you would a paying job (be responsible). Once you enter the Prayer Time you are accountable to the leaders of intercession.  Make any outside appointments for other times and days. 

	Our lunch time starts promptly at 11:30am and ends at 1:00pm.  Eating lunch and group business run from 11:30 to 12:00 and our intercession time will start no later than 12:00.  Treat your time in intercession as though it was the most important thing you’ve ever done...it may be!  The people and companies asking us to come and pray are counting on a breakthrough, miracles, and for His Kingdom to come into that meeting through us.  

	**We ask that you make Co-Labor lunch a priority.**

12. **Invite your spouse.** It is a blessing to minister with your spouse and invite them.  Just as we ask the people we are praying for to include their spouses, we want to demonstrate the importance and power of a husband and wife ministering together.

13. **Some prayer time DO’s and DON’T’s**

	a. Confidentiality – What we pray about stays in the session unless we have specific permission to share from the person.
	- No Cell Phones – Phones off period.  
	- Honor – We will honor all people.  Honor is something you give, not something you earn.  We are supposed to honor all men, that means everyone.  
	- Modesty – No B’s (bust line, bra straps, butt crack, boxers, and bellies)
	- Appropriateness – No inappropriate touching.  Ask if you can lay hands on them before you do it.  Don’t lay hands on the opposite sex in inappropriate places (i.e. men do not lay hands on women wearing spaghetti straps or on the front part of the shoulders, or stomach.)  We want no, meaning ZERO misinterpretations.
	- Breath mints are your friends!!!
	- Be on Time.
	- Male / Female hugs – no full frontal hugs (unless it is your spouse).  Side hugs only.
	- It is not about you, it is about the people we are ministering to.  Limit your stories about your life.  Make them short and relevant.  Make them release testimony and faith, not commiserating with their sickness, loss, pain, etc.

14. **Come prepared to give of yourself.  Come prepared to have fun.**

###Specific ministry protocols

1. **Prayer for Healing** – There is no sickness and disease in heaven, so there should not be any here.  If we are to pray “on earth as it is in heaven” then all sickness and disease is illegal.  Jesus paid for all sickness and disease on the cross and we are just getting Him what He paid for. (See Foundations of the Healing Ministry material for more information).
	
	a. It can be as simple as extending your hand and saying, “come Holy Spirit.”
	b. Release the kingdom of heaven.  Remember the kingdom comes fully equipped to deal with any problem.

2. **Prayer for Forgiveness** - #1 roadblock to healing.  (See Forgiveness Conspiracy teaching).

	a. I forgive _____ for
	- I release _____
	- I release my right to judge _____ and my expectations of _____.
	- I bless ______
	- I love _____ in Jesus name.

3. **Prayer for Deliverance – Protocol**

	a. Only one leader touches or speaks to the person being prayed for.  One recognized authority in the prayer time and no more than 2 other supporting in prayer.  Unity is very important.
	- Have the person receiving ministry use their own authority and honor them.  If the person manifests publically have them to take control of themselves and remove them from the public display.  Demons like attention so don’t give it to them.  Honor the person receiving ministry.  (____ would you like to take control of yourself here or somewhere else?  ____ take control of your body and of your mind in the name of Jesus.  Open your eyes.)
	- The person needs to make decisions.  The person has free will.
	- Ask the person if they want to be free.  Accept what they say, you can’t force someone to be free.
	- Don’t talk to the demons.  They lie.  Talk to the person.

4. **Ministering the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.**

	**Acts 1:5** - "For John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

	**Acts 1:8** - "But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

---

1. **The Baptism of the Holy Spirit**

	A. The Substance of the Baptism
		1. Acts 1:5, 8 - power to be an effective witness to Jesus Christ in the world.
		2. Luke 24:47-49 - power for service

	B. Related to Conversion
		1. At conversion, believer is "sealed with the Spirit" (Eph. 1:13)
		2. "Filling of the Spirit "is to be repeated, continuous (Ephesians 5:18-20)
		3. Baptism of the Spirit is normally a subsequent experience (Acts 1:8 with John 20:22; Acts 19:2, 5, 6)
		4. Spirit is in us - for us (fruit of Spirit, character) Spirit is upon us - for others (witness, power against demonic, etc)

2. **Speaking In Tongues**

	A. Importance of speaking in tongues
		1. Most often mentioned physical evidence of Baptism
		2. Evidence of a "filled up" heart is a mouth spilling over (Mt. 12:24)
			a. "They were filled with the Spirit...and they spoke"
			b. Mouth is to be consecrated to God
			c. If Jesus is filling the heart, the mouth will speak of Him
			d. Confession, proclamation - reveals faith, power
		3. Submitting Reason to the Spirit
			a. Left brain logic resists Right brain Spirit flow Christianity
	- The Gift of Tongues and the Prayer Language
 		1. The gift of tongues - edifies the corporate Body
			a. Needs: interpretation
		2. The Prayer language - edifies the believer
		3. All can have a prayer language; not all may exercise the gift of tongues corporately.
		4. Co-Labor practice: all together praying their prayer language. One tongues speaker needs interpretation.
		5. In the Rooms: get permission to speak in tongues out loud otherwise, speak quietly.

3. **Ministering the Baptism of the Spirit**

	A. Discuss Personal View
		1. What is the understanding of the client about Baptism?
		2. Affirm the truth they know.
		3. Give testimony of personal benefit of the baptism of the Holy Spirit and tongues.
		4. Avoid: "you need to "; or "have vs. have not"

	- Create Hunger for More
		1. Expectation - God's pleasure to give
			a. Luke 11:13
			b. Luke 12:32
			c. John 7:37-39
			d. Mark 16:17, 18
		2. Blessings - God's promises
			a. Acts 1:8 - power
			b. Isaiah 28:11, 12 - refreshing
			c. I Cor. 14:4 - builds up the believer
			d. Romans 8:26, 27 - enables prayer in God's will
			e. Galatians 3: 2-5 - power to do greater works
		3. Subsequent and Repeated
			a. Acts 4: 31
			b. Ephesians 5:18-20
			C. Acts 19:2, 5, 6

	C. Check Readiness to Receive
		1. If "NO," don't press, but encourage them to pray and read Word
		2. If "YES:' lead them on with instruction
			a. Tell them the gift is received and not earned
			b. Explain about laying on of hands
			c. Explain that it requires an act of faith

	D.  Prayer Example – Heavenly Father I come to you in the name of Jesus as your son/daughter and I thank you for loving me so much.  I thank you that you give good gifts.  You also said in Your Word, ‘If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: HOW MUCH MORE will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask?’ (Luke 11:13).  So right now I ask for the promised gift of the Holy Spirit.  I invite you Holy Spirit to come and baptize me now and fill me with your person and your fire.  I renounce any reliance on any wrong spirits or wrong doctrines and I break any agreements with fear.  So come and fill me with everything you have for me and enable me to speak in tongues. 
		- Lay hands on them and begin to pray in tongues and welcome the Holy Spirit.