HOW DID 24-7 START?
24-7prayer started by accident in September 1999, with a bunch of young people in England who got the crazy idea of trying to pray non-stop for a month. God turned up and they couldn't stop til Christmas!From there the prayer meeting has spread into many nations, denominations and age-groups. Hundreds of non-stop prayer meetings now link up here on the web to form a unique chain of prayer.
WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?
Simple really... 24-7 has become a worldwide, non-stop prayer movement incorporating a network of Prayer Rooms determined to pray like it all depends on us and live like it all depends on God until the tide turns in our generation.24-7 Prayer Rooms are a gift of time and space, free from the distractions of life, for people from all walks of life to engage in passionate, continuous prayer.
HOW DO THE PRAYER ROOMS WORK?
Participating groups pledge to pray 24 hours a day for a week or more in a dedicated prayer-room. They then 'carry the baton of prayer' for that period. The prayer passes from location to location in a never ending flow linked up by the Worldwide Web. We are a virtual community praying in real locations. Right now someone, somewhere is praying 24-7.WHY DO YOU NEED A PRAYER ROOM?
"A Prayer Room is to the church what the heart is to the body." (The Praying Church Source Book)- The Holy Spirit can fill a place as well as a person (Acts 2:2). There's often a strong sense of God's presence in such a place of prayer, even experienced by non-Christians.
- Time often goes quicker! Many have reported that 'in the prayer room 1 hour feels like 10 minutes'.
- Evangelistically the prayer room is excellent. Non-Christians have often sat in such places to pray, some have said that they can feel God's presence. People who don't want to be preached at still like to be prayed for.
- The prayer-room enables people to pray non-verbally, by posting artwork, poetry and graffiti on the wall. The environment can be artistically designed to stimulate and direct prayer.
- The room provides accountability - a place where people have to turn up, and this ensures a constant flow as one prayer-shift hands the baton onto the next. Visiting the room is like a mini-pilgrimage.
- A shared location provides a strong sense of being part of a community carrying each others' burdens, celebrating the breakthroughs together and ministering to one another. You are more than a link in a prayer chain.