72-hour Prayer Meeting

God has been leading our local Church (Solid Rock CoG in Drogheda) into a deeper experience of prayer.  Last night we kicked off a 72-hour Prayer Meeting.  We are trying to help our people experience many different kinds of praying, drawing on the insights of the 24/7 Prayer Movement and also the International House of Prayer in Kansas City.

From 8pm-10pm we have a time of corporate prayer.  Last night we began with “In His Presence” for 2 hours.  This is IHOP style prayer/worship with musicians worshipping in song, and many prophetic songs and prayers.  Tonight we have a Communion Service.

Then, from 10pm -1am each night we have a Night Vigil led by some of our wonderful Nigerian members.  This is noisy intercessory prayer, led from the front and very high energy stuff.

From 3am – 6am each morning I lead “The Fourth Watch of the Night”.  This is primarily Spiritual Warfare Prayer.  Numbers thinned out a good bit by this time last night – there were a dozen of us but it was pretty intense as we wept before God and intereceded for the rest of the Church.

Then, from 6am – 7am. I lead a Devotional Study of John’s Gospel.  We spend an hour going through the biblical text and, after a short exposition of each paragraph or so, we pray and apply it to ourselves.

Also each evening from 5pm – 7pm we have a Healing Room where our members can bring sick friends or loved ones and have them prayed for.

The rest of the time we have the building set up as a ‘furnace’ or ‘boiler room’ where individuals come and seek God’s face.  At any one time day or night there is a handful of people there to experience God.  We have set up various displays, posters, tents, candles, a graffiti wall etc. to help people explore new ways of praying.

So far we are 19 hours into this thing, and the response from our people has been fantastic.  I’ll try to get a few photos posted here as well.