“It was about 3:15am, and I’d taken a middle-of-the-night slot in the Chichester prayer room where we’d been praying now without a break for several weeks. I wandered around the room, reading what was on the walls, trying to pray. I think Moby was on the stereo as I sipped a Red Bull energy drink [...]
The focal point of the prayer tent is the cross. People who’ve had lots of experience praying often say that having a visual focal point can help our concentration.
One more day to 24/45.
Don’t expect 24/45 to simply be an upgrade of 24/7. That first week of 24 hour relay prayer was exciting, in part, because we’d never experienced anything like this before. The last few months Sharon has been making me cookies for a mid-morning snack. (When you eat breakfast at 4:30, noon is a [...]
Why 45 days of 24/7? An easy and obvious answer is that Lent is 45 days. Actually, Lent technically lasts 40 days, without the 5 Sundays before Palm Sunday. (Sundays are considered mini-resurrection days, since Jesus rose on the first day of the week.) While the number 40 has several significant associations in the Bible, the most [...]
I’m reading a book called The Vow, by Pete Greig. He describes how, at the age of 17, a young German count by the name of Nicklaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf joined with some friends in making a vow that became the basis for what was eventually to be called The Order of the Mustard Seed. [...]
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