SALTY Groups

Why SALTY Groups?

Because:

America desperately needs a great spiritual awakening – it’s our only hope!

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty? It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled on by men.” (Mt. 5:13 Holman)

The Scripture commands us topray everywhere. ( 1 Tim. 2:8, 3-4)

SALTY groups are an expression of  the Christian unity that Jesus prayed for (John 17:21 & 23), which will prepare the way for a great awakening.

 

WHEN AND WHERE:

At the workplace, in a conference room, an office or a place off the radar screen and notice of others. Do so before work or at lunch time.

 

HOW:

Start with two or three. The groups are not meant to be large – with 6-8 regular attendees, consider starting another group. See the meaning of the SALTY acronym to understand the missional purpose of the group. 

S – Supplicating, prayer support group, interceding for one another and their workplace peers, sincerely praying to be sweet incense the marketplace. 

A – Asking God for a spiritual awakening at their workplace, for an anointing to carry the presence of God at work, to be aware of the spiritual environment of their workplace, to hold one another gently accountable to be a godly witness.

L –Loving others, praying for grace to live a Christ-like life, to be a light in what might be a dark place, 

T – truthing, telling the truth, speaking the truth in love, talk (speech) be seasoned with salt, tempered Christians, all the while, 

Y – yielding to the Holy Spirit, yearning for a Great Awakening, the day God came to work with them, and the workplace became a alive with His Presence – SALTY!

 

WHAT:

SALTY guides are produced monthly, but they can also be used over again. They are a simple guide for a 30-minute missional prayer experience for believers who gather to pray onsite for insight. To inspire each other to be salt and light at the workplace.

 

VISION:

Prayer groups embedded in every segment of the culture –businesses, schools, university campuses, hospitals, even neighborhoods until we see a great awakening sweeping across America and around the world like a mighty Tsunami wave.

Record your SALTY group and/or interest by completing the segment below. In doing this, you will receive access to a fresh SALTY guide to use for your prayer group each month. 

The guide will feature prayer models. As the movement grows, you will learn how others are using the SALTY guide to impact the marketplace in which they work. 

 

GUIDELINES:

  • Keep it simple, be courageous – go for it!
  • Unity – pray with Christians at your workplace. The guide can also be used in schools, even in neighborhoods. Ask God for opportunities to invite others to pray.

 

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“Whenever God determines to do a great work, He first sets His people to pray” (C. Spurgeon). This reliable principle begs the question: “How does God mobilize his people to heartfelt prayer?” Most importantly, how does God move Christian leaders who shepherd His church to unite in fervent, persistent, biblically focused prayer for the fulfillment of His purposes? By two things mainly: 1) distress over the degradation of the church and the surrounding culture and 2) hope that God will pour out His Spirit on his church and fill it with His fulness until it overflows with transformative impact on society. Many believers are distressed at the current state of things. At the same time, there is much reason to hope for God’s divine intervention in response to passionate, biblically guided prayer.

Believers across America now mourn the debility of the church; its vitality is faltering, its impact fading, its mission neglected, and its devotion to God being undercut by love for this world. Right now we are enduring the largest and fastest religious shift in American history. Its scope is greater than every previous spiritual awakening in our history combined, only in the opposite direction. Christians are being confronted by “spiritual forces of evil” (Eph. 6:12) operating from the heavenly realms that boldly infiltrate every aspect of society, even the church. These dark powers aim to 1) frustrate God’s purpose to bless all peoples on earth through Christ with countless benefits, including righteousness, peace, joy, and justice, and 2)
inflict endless varieties of misery on everyone. When spiritual decline and cultural decay prevail, God’s people rise up to seek the Lord in prayer as the fountain of every blessing, asking him to fill the earth with his glory, pour out His Holy Spirit, inspire his church, and deliver people and cultures from innumerable troubles. Now is the time to pray with desperation for spiritual and cultural renewal, for divine intervention, for the fulfillment of God’s purposes for his church and his creation in Northeast Ohio.

Christian leaders, especially pastors, have a heightened responsibility to press into God with prayer for the church. Biblical precedent shows that gathering church leaders together to engage in heartfelt prayer for the welfare of their community often initiates widespread spiritual and social renewal both in church and society (2 Chron. 7:13-14; 15:8-10; 34:29-32). New Testament accounts show that when Christian leaders unite in prayer, often in response to social and/or spiritual crises, spiritual awakening and gospel advance follow (Acts 1:13-14; 2:1-4; 4:23-31; 13:1-3).

Jesus himself instills expectation of an outpouring of God’s Spirit in response to prayer with this promise: “If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:13). Our Father in heaven is especially ready to pour out upon us the blessing we most need and long for, the very Spirit of God who imparts divine life, wisdom, and virtue.

With all this in mind, now is the time for Christian leaders across Northeast Ohio to come together to seek the Lord with biblically grounded, Christ-directed, wholehearted prayer for a God-given spiritual awakening. The trumpet of God is blaring! He is calling us to pray! Join Christian leaders from across our region to humble ourselves, seek the Lord’s face, and be willing to respond through His intervening grace to any changes He calls us to make! (Psalm 110:3)

The Gathering is an extension of the nationwide PATH (Prayer at the Heart) initiative piloted recently in Northeast Ohio. Put The Gathering on your calendar: Sunday, September 24, 6 pm, Calvary Chapel of Cleveland, 709 Brook Park Road, Brooklyn Heights, OH.