What is 24-7 Prayer?

24-7 Prayer is set to begin at Lake Community Church in Alexandria, MN in Jamie's old office. Sign up at the reception desk to fill out a time slot. You do not have to be a member/attender of LCC to participate. Spread the Word!

How did 24-7 Prayer start?
24-7 prayer started by accident in September 1999, with a bunch of young people in England who got the crazy iea of trying to pray non-stop for a month. God turned up and they couldn't sto untill Christmas! From there the prayer meeting has spread into many nations, denominations and age-groups. Hundreds of non-stop prayer meetins now link up via the web at 24-7prayer.com to form a unique chain of prayer.

What's the big idea?
simplereally...24-7 has become a worldwide, non-stop prayer movement. 24-7 is 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.

How do the prayer rooms work?
Paricipating groups pledge to pray 24 hour 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 we need a prayer room?
"A prayer room is to the church what the heart is to the body." (The Praying church Source Book) Locating the praer season in a specific location seems to be one of the keys to the effectiveness of 24-7. Why" The Holy Spirit can fill a place as well as a person. (Acts 2:2, 16:16). 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". The room provides accountability - a place where people have to turn up, and his 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 togther and ministering to one another.

Shouldn't we start out gradually?
There's something abot the extreme challenge of 24-7 Prayer that makes it work! Water down that challenge and you lose the dynamic. There are always a million good reasons to put it off and no one ever feels truly prepared to go or it the first time, but the sheer nature of continual prayer means you have to depend on God from the onset.

What are the goals?
1. To turn the tide
The dream behind 24-7 is to turn the tide of our culture, especially youth, back to Jesus. It's a big dream - maybe an impossible dream. The Body of Christ in the West is losing the next generation. Something has to change. History shows that the tide turns when God's people pray.

2. To Mobilize Prayer
24-7 prayer is not for experts. It's for those who find prayer a struggle. It has proven unusually successful at mobilizing people - especially young people - to pray like they've never prayer before. People learn to pray...by praying! 24-7 captures the imagination. Young people today are more likely to turn up at a prayer meeting at 3 a.m. than 7:30 p.m.! Why? because it's exteme. The dare is to be alone with God for a whole hour - maybe even in the middle of the night.

It's time to do what you've never done in order to see what you've never seen.