Update - Time Slots (72 Hour Prayer Event)

72 HOUR PRAYER EVENT NEWS:
THE FOLLOWING TIME SLOTS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE -

THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2009:
7 PM
8 PM
9 PM

FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2009:
1 AM
10 AM
11 AM
12 PM
1 PM
9 PM
10 PM

SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 2009:
1 AM
11 AM
12 PM
1 PM
2 PM
5 PM
6 PM
7 PM
8 PM
9 PM
10 PM

SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 2009:
1 AM
9 AM
10 AM
11 AM

New Noontime Prayer

Dear LHPR family -

Here's the noontime prayer for us to use in community from Feb 22 - Feb 28. It reflects tonight's message at the Lighthouse. Thank you for joining us for noontime prayer. Please tell me how it has made a difference in your daily life.

Grace & Peace to all -

Danny
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The Lighthouse Prayer Room
Daily Noontime Prayer
for
February 22 – February 28

The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart. . .”

Praise you, Abba.

O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me in my
mother’s womb.

Thank you, LORD.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful; I know that full well.

Bless you, Father.

Love the LORD your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind
and with all your strength; and ‘Love your neighbor
as yourself.’

I will obey, O my God.

Lord Jesus, reveal yourself to me today. Set me apart,
change my heart and touch my lips with your hand.
Use me to reveal & glorify yourself to my neighbor.
Help me to love others – as you love me.
Help me to forgive other – as you have forgiven me.
Help me to serve others – as you served me.
Help me to die to myself – as you died for me.

In your name, Jesus, the name above all names –

Amen.

Lighthouse Daily Noontime Prayer

Dear Sisters & Brothers in Christ:

The Lighthouse is a praying community.

Although we can pray anytime & anywhere, we feel called to encourage one another to intentionally pray as a community:

* at the same time
* at least once a day

Some of you may feel some concern about this request. I'd like to speak to that possibility in the following manner:

If we read Revelation 2:2-5, we will surely see that although God knows our works, patient endurance, our bearing up for His name and of our not having grown weary. . . the LORD still holds one thing against us - we have abandoned our first love."

In the middle of everyday life, we take and make telephone calls to family, friends, supervisors, clients, organizations, companies, agencies - you name it. We make the time. Let us - as a praying community - make time everyday, every high noon, to join in together in prayer - transcending the location and distance we may have between us physically, so that we many go up before His holy throne - together as family.

Bearing this in mind, I humbly ask all of you to join us everyday at noontime for prayer. Set your phone alarms, watches, clocks - anything for noon. At that time, just stop what you're doing, if possible and safe, of course - ask God to clear your mind and lift the following prayer up to the LORD:

O LORD, our Lord,
How majestic is your name in all of the earth!

I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart;
I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
I will be glad and exult in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

For the LORD is good;
his steadfast love endures forever,
and His faithfulness to all generations.
Amen.

Lord Jesus,
Help me be true to you,
Kind to people,
and take the Gospel to the nations.
In Your Name we pray,
Amen.

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Thank you dear friends in Christ. Please let me know if you intend on joining us for daily noontime prayer. This is biblical, historical and intentionally given so we can grow in intimacy with our Father, through our Lord Jesus and through the power of the Holy Spirit. Please, join us in making holy our daily lives and business.

Just send me a quick note telling me your in!

We start tomorrow.

Grace & Peace to all -

Always In Christ,

Danny

About the 72 Hour Prayer Event

Dear Family in Christ,

I want to ensure I clarify certain misconceptions about the 72 hour prayer event:

First, the event is not about any one person praying for 72 uninterrupted hours. This is how it works - a person commits to praying for half an hour, an hour or for as many hours as he/she feels lead to sign up for. That's all. You are only responsible for the time slot(s) you signed up for.

Second, you do not need to pray alone. We encourage you to bring family and/or friends to join you in prayer during the time you've selected. Choose this time to pray for healing, discernment, wisdom, resolution, power, grace, calming of anxieties, answers, direction - you name it. Pray for others, for the world, for those seeking God and for those rejecting Him. Pray for your enemies and all the brokenness, needs on this planet. Pray for deliverance from the darkness. Pray for the Church.

Third, you can pray -

A. On your knees

B. Standing up

C. Writing a letter to God

D. Composing a poem or song lyrics

E. Singing songs

F. Playing an instrument

G. Listening to music

H. Meditating

I. Journaling

J. Through centering prayer

K. Through lectio divina

L. Through painting, sculpture, graphic design

M. Alone

N. With a group

O. Sitting down

P. With eyes wide open or closed

Q. Prostrated

R. Through hip hop

S. With spontaneous words - telling God what's on your heart & mind

T. Using a Prayer Book

U. Using the Rosary

V. In tongues

W. Through dance

X. Through Jazz, Blues - the Psalms

Y. Anytime

X. You can pray

Fourth, we need all of you to commit to making your appointment with God to pray at the Lighthouse Prayer Room. We do not hold to any theology or doctrine suggesting you can only pray from the Prayer Room. What we are saying, though, is that we are a society not willing to break from our comfort zone - not even for God. We challenge ourselves and others to intentionally drive, carpool - find some way to co-journey to the Lighthouse and pray. We are building an altar of living sacrifices (The Church) making a statement about our lives. We are joyfully choose to go to the House of the Lord and pray. We are intentional about sacrificing our time, gasoline, money, comfort and sleep, if need be, to join a community of fellow Christians in prayer for 72 hours. This is a protest against our manifold expressions of "Churcianity".

Fifth, pray about this event. Pray for discernment, protection, provision, direction and grace. Pray for all the planning, coordinating and preparations that go into this event. Pray for all prayer rooms across more that 75 countries & for the staff of 24/7 Prayer UK & USA.

Please feel free to contact me if you need any further information. Please keep this ministry in your constant prayers and know of my prayers for each of you -

Always In Christ,

Danny