Finland: Red Moon Rises / God Speaks - 21 Nov 2005
Red Moon Rising, the best-selling story of 24-7 Prayer by Pete Greig & Dave Roberts has just come out in the Scandinavian nation of Finland which shares borders with Russia. No-one could be more suprised about all this than the book's co-author Pete: "When publishers first approached me about writing down the stories of the first few years of 24-7 I told them that no-one would want to read a book about a prayer movement, especially not one they had never heard of!"
However God had other ideas...
Since its release Red Moon Rising has spread like wildfire. Publishers tell us that - at the last count - it had shifted more than 40,000 copies. To give you a
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There have been literally hundreds of stories of lives changed and fires ignited... |
context for that, the average Christian book sells a total of 3000 copies over an 18 month period. Publishers also project that Red Moon Rising has another 5 years of shelf-life. More importantly there have been literally hundreds of stories of lives changed and fires ignited by this simple story about ordinary people like us lot! This new edition seems to 'co-incide' with some interesting divine timing... |
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Prophesy fulfilled?
Just last week a guy with an internationally respected prophetic ministry released a series of extraordinary words for the 24-7 movement (more on these later). One of the things he said (without knowing about this new book, nor the delegations from Finland and Sweden who attended our recent gathering in Germany), was that he could see a massive growth in 24-7 prayer coming to Scandinavia and arcing across to Canada... | |
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Let's PRAY that the book would have a profound impact in mobilising prayer and mission in Finland.
Alongside the German, American, Finnish and English editions, we were also recently approached about the possibility of a Korean edition of Red Moon Rising. | |
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