24/7 Prayer Room

Fountain of Life Church, together with The Edge, have teamed up to make a room available for 24/7 prayer. Its a place set apart for intimate communion with God Almighty. Its a place to be shared with other believers to be encouraged and inspired to go deeper in God and pursue Him completely.

The reality we are faced with is things are not as they could, or should be. The invitation is to pray and believe God to actually answer us. Many will struggle their whole lives with prayer. 24/7 is touching lives and building confidence in the lives of men and women who recogninze their growing need to pray—but feel inadequate doing it. The disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. That question is still being asked today, and the funny thing is, people are learning 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 at 7.30 p.m! Why? Because it's extreme. The dare is to be alone with God for a whole hour — maybe even in the middle of the night. 24/7 makes prayer easier. The arts play an important part. Many say that "an hour feels like 10 minutes in the prayer room".

Why continual prayer?

Because bold, persistent prayer is effective. First, it changes us. Then, it changes the world. Jesus told stories to encourage us to "cry out day and night" (Lk18) and to persist in prayer. We know that God reveals Himself in Is 62 as a God who never ceases to be silent. His is always active and that is apart of why we believe the church is to be active and vocal in prayer, day and night.

• Pentecost came when friends were meeting regularly for prayer.
  
• Paul urged the Thessalonians to "pray constantly."
• The early church "joined together constantly in prayer." (Acts 1-14)
• Celtic Monks at Bangor Abbey in Ireland prayed continualy for 200 years. A young Celt called Ciaran formed a community in Clonmacnoise near Dublin back in 547AD. Sadly Ciaran died after just 7 months but the community prayed for about 1000 years and sent out missionaries all over the world!
• The pope decreed continual prayer in certain locations in the 15th century.
• In the 18th century, a small community of Moravians began a 24/7 prayer meeting that lasted for over a hundred years, mobilized 3000 missionaries and converted John Wesley!

• Many revival centers today see 24-hour prayer as a necessity.
• What else would you want to do with your life?