IT: Intercessors Together
To register your IT Group, click here.

The Vision: To unite the faith of believers to fulfill God's purpose for our church, our families, and our nation through prayer.

What is an IT Group?

An IT Group is two people of the same gender who unite in prayer.


What do IT Groups do?
They pray - for one another, for our church, our church members, and for our nation.

How does it work? Follow these 3 simple steps:

1. Click here to discover Pastor's heart for this ministry.

2. Choose a prayer partner to form an IT Group, and click here to register.

3. Begin to pray together!



Where will this lead?

Keep checking back for new IT Group features that will be added in the near future.

 

 

 

 

The Vision: To unite the faith of believers to fulfill God's purpose for our church, our families, and our nation through prayer.


What is an IT Group? An IT Group is simply a group of people united in faith for prayer to bring God's will in Heaven to the earth.

IT groups will consist of two people of the same gender, based on Matthew 18:19 which says: "Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My Father which is in Heaven." (See also Deuteronomy 32:30.)

IT groups pray with their prayer partners ten minutes a day, or an hour a day. The time limits are up to each individual and group.

IT partners are someone other than your spouse.

You may communicate with your IT partner via phone, email, Twitter, Facebook, or face to face when you are at church. You may pray at church together if you wish.

IT groups will be registered at the church, and their group will be kept on file.

IT groups will be given weekly information via email or web connections for special prayer needs in our church.

IT groups may begin at any time. Simply call the church to register.

IT groups will be asked to report prayer breakthroughs, answers to prayer, and testimonies so that others may be encouraged. You may call the church, send an email, or drop a note in the offering bucket to let us know what is happening in your group.

Here's what IT Groups do.

1. Pray for one another.
2. Pray for the leadership of our church, our nation, and each household represented in an IT group. (1 Timothy 2:1-4)
3. Pray for your church, the local body of Christ, the household of faith, and the family of God assembled here in Botkins.
4. Pray for all people at OBMCC to be blessed with abundance, health, and wisdom. Pray that they will be tithers who live under open windows where the blessings pour out. Pray that our people will be blessed coming in and blessed going out.
5. Pray for the families represented in our church - for spiritual growth, refreshing, revival, and for our children and their families to be saved.
6. Pray for new businesses, factories, and companies to come to our area, and for those already here to prosper.
7. Make a declaration that, "The Lord God has said every seat shall be filled, Ohio shall be
saved, and if we will build them, He will fill them."
8. Pray for Israel to be saved, prosperous, favored, and protected.

Patterns of Prayer

Use the following scriptures to create prayers, and put in the names of those you are praying for to make it personal. Use a different scripture each day of the week. You can begin with the list below and find others as you progress.

1. Ephesians 1:17-23
2. Ephesians 3:16-21
3. Colossians 1:9-14
4. Philippians 3:7-15
5. Psalm 23
6. Ephesians 4:1-5
7. Psalm 91

Sample prayer from Ephesians 4:1-5: "Father, I bring ______________ before Your presence today, and I ask You to strengthen and enable him/her to walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you have called him/her to walk. I pray that _____________ would forebear others in love in all lowliness, meekness, and with all longsuffering, that he/she would endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Let ______________ understand the unity and oneness of body and Spirit as we are called in one hope of Your calling."

Focus


When IT partners pray together, they should be direct and focused in their prayers. Some may pray, "God save our country", but when an IT group prays, they pray for a specific person to be saved and for their specific need.

Some might pray, "Bless my pastor," but an IT group will pray, "God, anoint Pastor to preach the gospel to us and lead us. Let us (the church) hear the Word, be changed by it, and unite for vision and God's purposes."

Make your prayers simple, straightforward, and direct. Avoid religiously long prayers after the manner of the Pharisees.

IT groups are not people who are fault-finders or repeaters of matters. They remain uplifting and accountable to one another, knowing they are themselves growing and changing as others are.

IT groups not only rejoice in their prayer success, but in the success of others. IT groups never compare themselves among themselves. We are all striving for the same purposes of God together, and we are united co-laborers with one another and for one another. Therefore, IT groups rejoice for all successful prayers.

IT groups never discuss the shortcomings of others, or reveal who they are praying for with other people. They simply pray, see change, and rejoice.

IT groups are steadfast and diligent, love-motivated, and faith-filled partners.

IT groups are encouragers of one another.

IT groups are knowledgeable, meaning they know and confirm the facts before they pray.

IT groups pray for all people the same. They are not respecters of persons.