Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition - Mentor's Guide

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Do not consider it an overly familiar or unnecessary thing to ask the students if they need prayer for someone or something connected to the ideas and truths presented in the lesson. Prayer is a wonderfully practical and helpful way to apply truth; by taking specific needs to God in light of a truth, the students can solidify those ideas in their soul, and receive back from the Lord the answers they need in order to be sustained in the midst of their ministries. Always emphasize for the students the need for them not merely to study the truths of God but to flesh them out in every area of their lives. Indeed, prayer is fundamental to the application of truth in the life of a disciple, and especially in the life of the emerging leader of the Lord and his Church. Of course, everything is somehow dependent on the amount of time you have in your session, and how you have organized it. Still, prayer is a forceful and potent part of any spiritual encounter and teaching, and if you can, it should always have its place, even if it is a short summary prayer of what God has taught us, and a determination to live out its implications as the Holy Spirit teaches us.

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