A Commissioning Prayer

A Commissioning Prayer is a prayer practice, intentionally sending one another out into the weeks ahead, into neighborhoods and workplaces, in Jesus' name, empowered by the Holy Spirit to bring life wherever his people go. 

Commissioning prayers are also a way to pray Scripture aloud - so, no matter how clumsy it may feel at first, there is power in praying God's Word regardless of how we present it. There is something remarkable about Jesus inviting people to partner with him to bring life in his name, and this is another way to prayerfully partner with God and his people!

Here is a commissioning prayer out of 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12. The blanks are to be filled in with specific names of those you are praying with and for.

So we keep on praying for ______, asking our God to enable _______ to live a life worthy of his call. 

May he give _______ the power to accomplish all the good things ________ faith prompts _______ to do.

Then the name of our Lord Jesus will be honored because of the way ________ lives, and _________ will be honored along with him.

This is all made possible because of the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ.

This is a prayer Paul prayed for his friends in Thessalonica, and a prayer we can partner in praying for our friends in Las Vegas and beyond, willing and desiring for God to go with one another to do all the things that God is inviting his people to do!