In your ministry, you may see little fruit for long stretches. Progress can feel painfully slow, setbacks can hit hard, and you can start to lose heart—sometimes even becoming disillusioned. You need more than grit; you need hope that can persist.
And even in seasons when things accelerate and you do see significant progress, you still need expectant faith—to pray bold prayers, to keep listening for God’s direction, and to take the bold actions that create space for God’s power and multiplying fruit.
Program description:
Expectant faith for a movement isn’t wishful thinking—it’s certainty rooted in what God has revealed. This program will help you deepen your hunger for God, practice listening to God, strengthen your faith, and discern your best-fit role in contributing to a movement. Equipped in these ways, you’ll be able to pursue a movement with resilience and persevere over the long haul—until you see breakthrough.
By the end of this program, you will have:
- Understood how hunger for God fuels expectant faith and long-term fruitfulness.
- Practiced a sustainable approach to listening to God
- Identified how expectant faith grows through the faith cycle
- Gained clarity on your best-fit role in movement ministry and defined next steps for placement and growth.
The program centers on these activites and experiences:
- Deepen your hunger for God more than for a movement. Reorder your motivations, strengthen your identity as God’s beloved child, and cultivate practices that deepen your desire for God Himself.
- Listen to God. Establish a sustainable “listening room” rhythm—regular time set apart to wait on God, seek his guidance, and obey—then take a personal retreat day to listen for fresh revelation.
- Bolster your faith. Clarify what expectant faith is, learn the cycle movement catalysts repeatedly live in, and design your own faith-building practices.
- Find your fit. Use Paul’s “skilled master builder” framework to discern how you contribute best—whether as a catalyst, a catalytic team member, or a movement servant—and identify concrete next steps.
Who will benefit from this program:
Disciple-makers, church planters, movement catalysts, and leaders pursuing multiplication who want to root their faith in what God is saying—rather than in wishful thinking or human strategy.
ADD LATER: number of sessions, time?