Wings and a Prayer
In Luke 11:1 we hear the disciples ask Jesus a question that is dear to our heart, "Lord, teach us to pray". This is the heart of Wings and a Prayer, an event you can host with the men in your church, where prayer takes flight.
A plate of chicken wings may be the initial draw, but as the night unfolds, as men gather around the table and take turns praying, something truly memorable takes place. As minutes turn to hours, a satisfying sense of brotherly camaraderie builds as men learn to fight on the battlefield of prayer together.
The catalyst is the Holy Spirit's work in each heart, but the fuel is God's Word provided in this simple pack of 52 Praying Cards, as a framework for praying through Scripture. Following the ACTS model, each verse comes with suggestions for how to pray with Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication as the fourfold focus of the prayers for the night.
Sample Cards
Here are some examples from the initial starter pack of Praying Cards, due to be released very soon. Subscribe and follow for updates and announcements.
Stay tuned for the release date of our first starter pack of Praying Cards. At launch, the starter pack will allow you to facilitate a night of diverse themes and prayer points.
Our hope is to release additional Praying Cards packs, hand picked with verses along the following themes:
- Bearing Fruit
- Spiritual Disciplines
- Fatherhood
- Marriage & Growing as a Husband
- Evangelism & Gospel Outreach
- Conflict Resolution
- and more!
The Backstory
The song, "Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer" was written in 1943 by Harold Adamson and Jimmy McHugh during World War II. It was inspired by real accounts of Allied bombers that returned from missions over Europe so badly damaged they were barely able to stay airborne. Crews would limp home with engines failing, wings torn, and fuselages riddled with holes — surviving, as the phrase suggests, on “a wing and a prayer.”
This is the inspiration for our Prayer Cards, with the acknowledgment that we cannot stay airborne, let alone make it "home", without the mighty hand of God in our lives. We are deeply dependent on Him, and prayer is our lifeline to His providencial work in our lives.
