June
2004
A landslide of prayer began...
'...Then a landslide of prayer began,
which overflowed to the churches in the evenings. People began
to be converted, 10,000 a week in New York City alone. The
movement spread…'
The above is an extract from an account of the extraordinary
results of a single prayer meeting started in September 1857
by Jeremiah Lamphier with an attendance, on the first week,
of just six people! It grew rapidly, and there were many meetings
and many thousands of people involved by the time it was considered
that a landslide of prayer had begun.
In our own experience, we have found that, as you persevere
at it, corporate prayer and worship do grow and gain momentum.
That is not to say that I would regard our activity in this
area as having reached the 'tipping point' when it becomes
a prayer landslide. What happens then, it seems to me, is
that regular plans and programmes are overtaken by events
and become an unstoppable force in their own right, like an
express train that has gone out of control!
We are currently planning this autumn's Alpha Invitation
Prayer meetings and we have already received more interest
from around the country in this regard than ever before. Hopefully,
this interest can be converted into well over 500 prayer meetings
nationally with a significant number of larger - 'Beacon'
- prayer meetings in Cathedrals and other suitable venues
involved. For our part, we are planning this year's 'Prayer
for London' meeting in the just10 marquee on Clapham Common.
The proposed tent has a capacity of 5000 people and we hope
to see it full and overflowing on Friday 10 September for
a dynamic evening of vision, prayer and worship related to
London.
We are also making plans for this year's Home Focus and these
include 24/7 prayer throughout the week. Again there will
be a London focus to this prayer because Soul in the City
is starting the week after and, given the scale of that operation,
needs all the prayer it can get. The 24/7 praying will compliment
the regular Focus prayer meetings and will be based in its
own venue throughout the week - day and night!
Meanwhile, we continue to meet on Tuesday mornings at 7am
and Thursday evenings at 7pm here at HTB to pray for revival,
and I hope we will continue to see more growth and life along
the way. May God, according to His good will and timing, decide
to turn our meagre efforts into one of his 'landslides' so
that we will be able to look back, along with others, on the
time when the turn came and things moved out of our control
and into his. Yes Lord! Amen.
Jeremy Jennings
This article is an edited version of one first published in
Focus, June 2004. Reproduced here with permission.
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