I kinda got distracted! I find blogging gets a bit like that. I’m not as disciplined as the delightful Mrs Harding.
However… In case you were following any of my posts on the prayercasts, don’t forget to head on over to 24-7 Prayer’s international website to catch the remaining ones in our series on Europe…
Peter Stanley leads us in prayer against the current and unprecedented levels of people trafficking going on across Europe and the rest of the globe. Did you know that today there are more than double the number of people being trafficked than in the days of legalised slavery?!
Join us in praying that Jesus would bring this trade out of the darkness, and reveal to law enforcement agencies that which the devil would keep hidden.
Europe is often described as the darkest continent on earth and is the only continent where the church is in decline. The ever enthusiastic Carla Harding leads us in prayer for the continent of Europe.
I had the privilege of praying from the vantage point of a meeting room in Portcullis House, overlooking the Palace of Westminster with fellow 24-7’ers Phil Togwell, Andrea Percy and Sheena Littlehale, and staff from Parliament on Wednesday. This truly has been a surprising and awesome week of prayer for Parliament and Government. You can see more of what God has been speaking into on Phil Togwell’s blog.
Today’s 24-7 Prayercast comes from the very heart of the UK Government, just over the road from Big Ben.
Join David Landrum as he leads us in prayer for parliament in crisis.
Today’s 24-7 PrayerCast by Andy Freeman, author of Punk Monk, is now live. Andy comments on the European election results and how we as Christians
can pray and engage with the new continental Government.
You can today’s 24-7 Prayercast here.
Throughout this week, 24-7 are calling us to pray for this pivotal time for Europe. Through a series of video blogs 24-7 Prayer activists like Pete Greig and Andy Freeman will be releasing daily video Podcasts asking us to pray for key issues facing the European continent.
The next few weeks are pivotal for Europe. As the results of the European election are announced, as millions listen to President Obama’s speech in Cairo and as Christians pray at the British Houses of Parliament, the 24-7 movement aims to drench these events and others like them in prayer.
Will you join in the prayer?
Pete Greig starts off the week with his thoughts on the seismic shifts shaking Europe at this time.
Well, there’s not enough time right now to give you an update on all the happenings at the 24-7 Prayer International Council and Communities Meetings in the US, but there is time for a quick post with some piccies!
I can’t be bothered with all that Facebook tagging malarky, so heres a link to the pictures I took in the States in my own gallery. Enjoy…
I’m currently sat in the ‘board room’ of a coffee shop in downtown Kansas City, as Andy Freeman is taking the International 24-7 Board through his Communities/Boiler Rooms report. We had a great day yesterday, with lots of agreement about the way forward in all the areas we discussed. Exciting times are ahead!
We went out for dinner last night in a wonderful steak house, and the food and accompanying jazz were both great. The highlight of the evening however was the impact that God made on the proceedings. As we sat and enjoyed our meal Adam Cox, the leader of Kansas City Boiler Room, had a recurring prophetic vision for one of the people on our table. It was totally cool to be around! As he spoke out what he had been given, it was wonderful to see the Holy Spirit at work. I love that this stuff was all happening in the middle of a restaurant!
Back to today, and I’m about to deliver my report on finances to the board, the trustees and the International Leadership Team. We have some hard decisions to make about the future as we need to make some cuts in what we’re doing over the next few months. We do have some promising developments in funding, but we need to live in the tension between our current resources and our future potential – please pray for us as we go through this decision process.
In all of this I keep being reminded that God has never let us down yet on funding. I’m so thankful for His faithfulness. To Him be the glory!
I currently have the privilege of being in the States with the rest of the 24-7 Prayer International Team. We’re in Kansas city, and over the next couple of days we have some pretty crucial meetings about the future of the movement. We’re looking at such weighty topics as the movement’s calling to the (re-)evangelisation of Europe, what it means to be the 24-7 network and what that means for how we structure ourselves, how we bring justice into everything we do, and plans for our 10th anniversary gatherings.
Please would you pray for us as we meet. There’s obviously quite a lot of pressure to get through the agenda, but there’s also a real desire for us to have healthy relationships too – there’s no point in just blasting on ahead with things without hearing each other’s heart and processing any disagreements on the way ahead.
Thanks for your prayers. I’ll try and post some updates over the next couple of days.
Blessings!
Well, it looks like we’re a go for our next 24-7 prayer week in Reading, in the first week of February.
I so missed not being able to be in the prayer room as much as I would have liked last time, that this time around I’m going to organise my diary around the prayer week rather than visa versa!
If you’re in the neighbourhood, please do pop in and have an amazing encounter with God. Details are on our prayer community webpage.