24/7 Prayer Arise

Book excerpt: 24/7 Prayer Arise: Building the House of Prayer in Your City is a mentoring manual for Houses of Prayer. If you are wondering how to reach your city through the power of God and want your church to become a praying church, then this book is for you. If your desire is that the darkness and evil that is permeating your city and nation retreats, or if you desire to grow in personal prayer and take others with you, 24/7 Prayer Arise will help you. It will challenge and ignite a flame within your own heart for Houses of Prayer. This book is designed to help you right where you are living. It will give you bite size steps to enhance your own prayer life, as well as ways to introduce prayer into your church and city. It will help your church increase in prayer step-by-step and grow into a House of Prayer. It will help you to know how to develop your prayer meetings and connect with the wider prayer movement within your city and in the world. It is designed to open your eyes and give you a desire for more prayer in your city. Journey with me in the pages of this book, and let it impact you deeply so that you begin to take action in your church and your city. God is right now raising-up Houses of Prayer throughout the entire world, and you want to be involved in His present-day plan for the nations. Each chapter of 24/7 Prayer Arise has an application at the end to help you to begin to apply this both individually and with others in your church and city. It is designed for beginners in prayer as well as well-seasoned intercessors and worshippers. One of the goals of this book is to help bring the body of Christ together in united prayer. There are three separate teachings in each chapter that are practical, motivational, and helpful for personal growth in prayer. "24/7 Prayer Arise: Building the House of Prayer in Your City is a strategic book written to help encourage and instruct the Church globally as she arises as the House of Prayer for all nations. After starting and directing the International House of Prayer Missions Base in Kansas City, I recommend Debbie's book as a practical learning tool for 24/7 prayer. Debbie's experience with 24/7 prayer will give you understanding into what you will face step-by-step as you seek to see prayer permeate your city. Whether you are a beginner or a well-seasoned intercessory leader, this book will be helpful in getting you started right where you are. Debbie's experience with 24/7 prayer will give you understanding into what you will face step-by-step as you seek to see prayer permeate your city. 24/7 Prayer Arise is filled with stories to keep you engaged and motivated in prayer. It addresses the blessings as well as the difficulties that are commonly faced in establishing a prayer ministry. We are living in the most dynamic season in history. It is time to arise as the Church to Jesus' great call to become the House of Prayer for all nations (Isaiah 56:7)." MIKE BICKLE, Director, International House of Prayer Missions Base, Kansas City, MO "Debbie has done a remarkable job of explaining the finer details, and practical considerations, that one needs to take into account in raising up a prayer covering for your city. Debbie's insights are inspiring and encouraging, and I am certain the fruit of her hard work will be many, many more people who are mobilized to pray for their cities. And of course the outcome of that will be transformed cities, nations and continents. My prayer for you is that you will be blessed and encouraged as you read this book, and that you will have the courage and the commitment to act upon what God may want to share with you about prayer for your city! If we stand together we can see the whole earth transformed by the Glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea (Habakkuk 2:14). GRAHAM POWER, Founder and Chairman of Global Day of Prayer; Chairman of Transformation Africa and Unashamedly Ethical, Cape Town, South Africa