February 20th: 24-7 Prayer Eight Years Old! - 20 Feb 2008

Happy Birthday to you!  Exactly eight years from February 20th 2008, the 24-7 Prayer movement was launched from a nightclub in Guildford, England.  Since then the vision of the Global Church reaching their potential through prayer in mission and justice has spread into every continent but Antarctica.   Together we have catalysed 2922 days, or 70,080 hours, or 4,204,800 minutes of non-stop prayer!

On the evening of our birthday Lisa Borden looked out of her window in East Africa and Pete Greig looked up at the night sky in England and saw the same pale red moon rising. Yes, our God has a great sense of humour/sense of significance.  On the eight birthday of 24-7 Prayer there was a total lunar eclipse: the rising moon turned red. Nasa have also noted that this is supposed to be the last total eclipse of the moon to be seen in Europe for the next 7 years.

If you've read Red Moon Rising, the story of 24-7 Prayer, you'll understand why the red moon on our birthday made us smile.

Where will this wave of the Holy Spirit take us in the next eight years?  What will our prayers look like?  Who will they lead us to love?  Thank God that He’s let us jump on board an unprecedented global wave of night and day prayer. Here’s to where the Father will take us next!