A Call to 24-7 Prayer for Europe
Lyndall Bywater  17th Mar 10

"Dry bones hear the word of the Lord…I will put my Spirit in you and you will live and I will settle you in your land." (Ezekiel 37)

Twenty years ago, Pete Greig stood on Cape St Vincent praying towards Europe, envisioning ‘a faceless army of young people in every nation awaiting orders’

Ten years ago a continuous prayer movement exploded among young people, and spread like ‘wildfire’ across Europe through years of prayer, mission teams to dark places, and Boiler Rooms of intense prayer and mission.

Last year 200 of us gathered in Amsterdam from 16 European nations and God spoke! Now is the time for a new day for Europe, and we start on our knees in the place of prayer. If the presence of the Lord is not with us then we can do nothing.

Europe is the prodigal continent!

In just a few short generations we have squandered our God-given heritage. However, we may have left the Father, but He has not left us. Within 24-7 Prayer we firmly believe that this is a ‘kairos’ moment of opportunity for Europe. The Father is calling us to ‘rekindle the romance’ and return to His embrace in the place of prayer. He is also calling us to ‘recover the ground’ through Spirit energised action.  God does not inspire so much prayer for fun. He is raising up an army that will follow the Holy Spirit wherever He leads us.

Dare we dream of fresh waves of mission and church planting?

Dare we pray for the raising up of workers to establish ‘colonies of heaven’ in the darkest, unreached places?

Dare we imagine an expression of church for every culture, tribe and tongue in Europe.

The vision is simple - a worldwide season of 24-7 Prayer for Europe. Urgently and unashamedly we want to call people around the world to pray for the prodigal continent – we need your help.

If you are a European Christian, whether in Greece, Russia, Spain, Iceland or anywhere in between, we want to ask you to give some time each week to pray for your continent. If you are elsewhere, like the first Macedonians, we want to urgently call you to ‘come over and help us’ in prayer. We want to call the hundreds and thousands but also the two’s and three’s and lone pray-ers to join us – everyone can play their part. We need your help.

The vision is an army of love, power and humility which exists to see a continent return to the Father’s love. The dream is that the glory of the latter ‘house’ in Europe will eclipse anything we have seen so far. The starting place is on our knees – please join us in praying 24-7 for Europe.

When?

Friday 26th March 2010 – Sunday 26th September 2010

Where?

Wherever you are …wherever in the world … you can take part!

How?

Start out at the web site:

http://www.24-7prayer.com/signup/europe

(A new European website to support the season of Prayer will be launched shortly)

Then do any or all of the following:

  • Sign up to receive our inspiring and informative weekly emails, to help fire up your prayers for Europe.
  • Sign up to pray! You can register as a Prayer Room, a church, a prayer group or just as yourself. You can pray once, you can pray once a week or you can pray once a day throughout the 6 months …however little or however much, Europe needs your prayers.
  • Check out the resources section on the site to get info on every country in Europe, as well as some of 24-7 Prayer's excellent resources on how to pray creatively.
  • Tune in to the voices of 21st-century saints with a heart for Europe. What are they saying about why we need to pray right now?
  • … and then tell us what you can see God doing in this prodigal continent. Encourage us with your stories and challenge us with your dreams.

“Stand with us wherever you are in the world and lets pray together.  Let’s pray for revival, lets pray for God to move in Europe, lets pray for God to get hold of hearts, lets pray for new leaders to be raised up in every field of society. We have an opportunity, let's gather together and seize it!”  Pete Greig, 24-7 International

 

Lyndall Bywater lives in a community in the historical city of Canterbury, England.  The Bywater family is made up of her husband Phil, Hugo (the black lab guide dog) and Oscar (a black cat with attitude!). Phil is an accountant and spends his time auditing other people's accounts, while Lyndall works for the Salvation Army and spends her time persuading people to pray. (We leave it up to you to decide which is the easier job!) Lyndall has been a great friend and champion of 24-7 Prayer and now serves on an International Team resourcing and championing prayer within the movement.

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  • Christa Beeldman
    23rd Mar

    Yes, we will join! We believe God has great plans for Europe and see some exciting things happening already. But we know there is much more prayer needed. It is so encouraging to know that we praying together with so many people!

  • Daff Dwyer
    20th Mar

    Europe has been the birth place of so much godly thought in years past. Modern humanist thought also has its origins in Europe. Pray that god will reclaim these lands and those who live there for his purposes. God will reclaim his lands and his people. Blessings from Australia

  • Prophetess Rhonda Gomez
    19th Mar

    In the name of Jesus Father God we humble ourselves as we come before your throne we ask you to come alive inside our hearts our bodies our minds and our souls all over the world and the nations right now we ask you to turn your eyes toward Europe hear their cry father God go to them nurish them purify them as one body in Christ as well as each and everyone of us you said your love has no boundaries you said we are your children and that you love us all we ask in Jesus name that you wi stretch forth your mighty healing hands and deliver us from evil cast satan and all hindering spirits down to the deepest recesses of hell chain them and bind them there forever to never be released on earth again we are all your children shattered and torn change our ways our God and let us live our lives for you come alive inside our hearts our bodies our minds and our souls fill us to overflowing from the top of our heads to the soles of our feet wash us cleanse us purify us strengthen us as one family united in Christ Jesus we believe you suffered died and were buried on the third day you rose from the dead you conquered satan the second you died on the cross you died so we may live life to the fullest we love you Jesus we thank you Jesus and we praise you Jesus by your stripes we are healed you are our armour our strength our healer our defence hear our hearts cry for you in Jesus name we pray for peace,love, happiness, joy, prosperity,abundance,knowledge,wisdom and wealth all over the world and the nations let your spirit flow just as our sins were red as scarlet you have washed them and made them white as snow we are a new creation in Christ Praise be to God Hallelujah our God reigns I love you one and I love you all I ask you all to help me pray to stop the Obamacare Reform he wants to take away what little help the elderly and the poor get by stopping medicare and medicaid also wants to help the rich get richer and the poor get poorer God says blessed are the poor in spirit we shall inherit the land let us all pray for satan to be defeated,crushed,stomped now always and forever God told me to tell everybody to picture Jesus blood on the floor in front of you every time we take a step we are stomping on the devils head he can’t hurt us anymore we are covered byJesus blood from the top of our head to the soles of our feet we are healed and we are made whole in Jesus name let Gods will be done as it is written I welcome you all to come and join me godspromisedland.ning.com together as one we can all make a difference my 24 hr prayer request hotline# 1-325-280-8051 God has blessed me with his healing powers he wants me to go all over the world and let it be known I have proof from God himself that he truly sent me he left a mark on me that only I have he said nobody else in the world has it but me he said the more I pray the more they are healed and believe the more it will come out see not only did God bless me with his healing powers he blessed me with his heart it is on the palm of my hand as you go to my website you shall see it and also Gods beautiful face I took his picture in the clouds it is very miraculous I also welcome you all to go to www.myspace.com/hvnsentangel42 on their are the badges to all the sites I am on I welcome you to all all I ask is you tell them that I sent you together as one we can make a big difference in this world we are to love one another the way God loves us if you have extra give God will bless us with so much more think about it please we can’t take it with us when we die God loves us one and he loves us all he said we have not cause we ask not but if we ask in Jesus name it shall be given unto us God showed me the vision of his promised land he told me together as one we can build heaven on earth he said everything belongs to him we may have titles saying we own this this and this but really and truly we own nothing but he said if we ask in Jesus name the door to his storehouse shall be opened unto us by the authority vested in me by Father God himself he declared me Rhonda Martinez Gomez as founder of his promised land heaven on earth let Gods will be done on earth as it is written in Jesus name I pray.
    I love you one and I love you all your sister in Christ
    God’s willing servant,
    Minister/Prophetess/Evangelist
    Rhonda Gomez
    if you would like me to come hold a healing revival or crusade please let me know God said he will supply all of my needs.I am here because God sent me to declare his works on earth through me I am not better than anybody in Gods eyes we are all equal it doesn’t matter what color our skin is or isn’t we all bleed the same it is Jesus blood running through our veins it doesn’t matter if we’re rich or poor what matters is that we have God as our Lord and our Savior and that we help one another as brothers and sisters in Christ.

  • Doug Pitman
    17th Mar

    Oh man…I am there!!!

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