24-7 goes back to it's roots as a year of unbroken prayer spans five nations... Kingdom Come 2012 is connecting churches and prayer rooms across England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland to establish an entire year of continual prayer.

Revelation Church, Chichester has taken up the baton for KC 2012 by running the first prayer room. Revelation Church is where the 24-7 Prayer Movement began and so it is powerful that they get to carry us into this year of prayer. Carla Harding shares with extracts from her blog on launching the Prayer Room and finding God in these sacred spaces.

"It was in this rather boring looking room that I learned how to pray.  There were words, thoughts, movements, paintings, tears, music and many other expressions involved in my search for a language...  but this was the space in which my 18 year old heart learned to connect to God's.  In a smelly, beautiful, messy and glorious place later named a 24-7 Prayer Room. My life's direction has been set by my solitary lessons in God's love and conversation over a few short months in 1999.  Now I pour myself into helping others do the same.  
 
Today as I stood in the prayer room, surrounded by my Revs family, tears slid down my cheeks and my heart was moved.  We gathered to welcome 2012, a new year with the launch of our first 24-7 Prayer Room in a few years. Today I remembered the time I had spent there, the prayers God had responded to and the way we were changed."
 

People have been encountering God so powerfully this week that Revelation Church have decided to keep the prayer room running into week two. Among the testimonies have been visitors from as far as Germany, people wanting an encounter who don’t even call themselves believers, and so many people meeting with God in profound heart to heart intimacy. Below is another extract from Carla who shares on one of her personal heart to heart moments with her Father in Heaven this week.

"As I reach the Wailing Wall I spot a prayer I had written just yesterday. I'd scribbled it in tears and it represents the thing I've wrestled most with in the last year. On top of my little yellow plea was a green post-it note, someone had written a few simple words, an echoing prayer. It did my heart the world of good to see that someone else cared enough to spend part of their hour praying for me. That was it - all my plans were out the window. The next hour wouldn't be about my stress, my concerns; the next hour would be about the other prayers pinned to this slightly musty smelling net.

I worked my way along the wall reading the anonymous prayers of others and the little Green post-it notes of encouragement stuck to them. As I began to add my amen to those who'd gone before me I felt the stress I'd been carrying start to ebb away. I was moved by the single word pleas, the three different posts about struggling with cancer and the beautiful heartfelt prayers of love and hope.

To end my hour I posted a prayer on blue paper for assistance with my day. By the time I finally wrote my prayer I felt entirely different about it. I placed it among dozens of others and knew I was leaving my life in good hands. As the next person knocked on the door, my fatigue and the day ahead seemed demoted in my awareness and gratitude had taken it's place. Prayer Rooms are good for me :)"

Are you in the UK and Ireland and want to get involved in the Kingdom Come year of prayer?  Find out more here