Put Prayer on the Agenda

Have you ever been at a meeting where you talked about the need to pray the entire time, but then ran out of time to actually pray? When our women’s leaders get together for our monthly meeting, we have found it useful to have an agenda printed out prior to the meeting.  There are many great reasons to create an agenda for the meeting.  Women’s Ministry Toolbox recently had a blog which addressed the need for an agenda.  I think the main points were well covered there.

But I’m going to add one thing that should always be on your agenda….prayer.  Intercessory prayer should be a priority on the schedule at each meeting.  Prayer for your meeting, prayer for your women and upcoming ministry events and prayer for one another.  We have a very precious two hours allotted for our meeting, and the minutes can fly by with business we need to discuss.  If we are not careful, it can be time to close and we barely have five minutes left for prayer.

Put prayer on the agenda; allot time for it at the beginning of your meeting.  It is the most important item on the agenda!