Offering information, opportunities and instrument ideas for ministry in the visual arts. There are many forms of prayer, such as a prayer of thanksgiving, adoration or worship, interceding for others, continual prayer, consecration, prophetic and warfare. There are also prayers for confession, transformation, salvation, forgiveness, reflection of God's goodness, healing and restoration, travailin
g, deliverance and blessing. Any prayer offered to God by faith through Jesus will not be hindered. God has such a strong desire to answer our prayers that He gives us His Holy Spirit to help us to pray when we just don't know how to pray. There are also different instruments we can use in our form of prayer ministry. We can use our voice when we cry out or even whisper because God hears our heart. I personally have a soft voice, but my heart wants to release in a larger way at times. This is where we can use different positions of our body in our prayers. We can lay prostrate, kneeling, be sitting, standing, walking, resisting, clapping hands, pushing back the darkness, pulling down strongholds, lifting and waving hands, running, jumping, leaping and dancing. Moses discovered he had an instrument in his hand when he met God at the burning bush. David as a young man had a rock and sling to take down the giant that stood against Israel for 40 days. Shofars and banners are also used to signal messages, warn and declare borders. We can declare messages in our movements and the instruments we hold in our hands. Worship flags, streamers, dance silks and billows represent the flow of the Holy Spirit, staffs and swords can be used to lift up the Word and cut through the atmosphere of the enemy. Ministry using the arts can be a visual proclamation and prayer as a way of speaking something in the Bible visually. When the Word is combined with music and the visual, it can soften the hearts of many to receive what God wants to pour into them. This form of tri-fold, unified ministry can be very powerful and also leave a long lasting imprint in the mind that can continue to minister a long time afterwards.