A Week of Prayer

We have just come to the end of an amazing week of 24/7 prayer on the campus. The best thing was that when we first started talking about having a week of prayer we thought it should be focused on the U.K. but when we got together, prayed and asked God how the week should look we felt He said that we shouldn’t have a focus, but that it was about Him and intimacy with Him. This by far has been my favourite week of prayer that I’ve ever done because we had no agenda. The week was His, not ours.

It was such a special time for everyone who came. We had a small team to cover the prayer room for every hour which meant that everyone else here was free to come and go as they pleased. Allowing them to spend time with God, no pressure and only His agenda. It was a time of freedom for a number of people, and God spoke a lot about who He is, and who we are. A time of firming up our identity in Him individually and as a campus. 

As the week started we felt like we should have a day of pure worship. So on the Wednesday we set up some times of live worship and had an ipod at the ready to cover the rest. In the end the ipod didn’t get used much as many people came in and picked up the guitar to play and worship, which was awesome! By the end of the week God had spoken a number of very specific things for this next season for us as a campus and also a number of things for the U.K. as we move toward the Olympics.

All in all it was an incredible week. The younger people on the campus stood up and declared that they are not satisfied with where they are and want to see more of God. That they want to see God’s kingdom move in this world. All of the people who made up the core team and organized this were under 35, most in their late teens or early 20’s. God is awesome.