Why do we need a fixed prayer room?
The location is an integral part to 24-7 prayer and here are a few reasons (taken from www.24-7prayer.com) why having a fixed location is essential:
Locating the prayer season in a specific location seems to be one of the keys to the effectiveness of 24-7. Why?
- The Holy Spirit can fill a place as well as a person
- Time often goes quicker! Many have reported that 'in the prayer room 1 hour feels like 10 minutes'
- Evangelistically the prayer room is excellent. Non-Christians have often sat in such places to pray, and said that they can feel God's presence. People who don't want to be preached at still like to be prayed for.
- The prayer-room enables people to pray non-verbally, by posting artwork, poetry and graffiti on the wall. The environment can be artistically designed to stimulate and direct prayer.
- The room provides accountability - a place where people have to turn up, and this ensures a constant flow as one prayer-shift hands the baton onto the next. Visiting the room is like a mini-pilgrimage.
- A shared location provides a strong sense of being part of a community carrying each others' burdens, celebrating the breakthroughs together and ministering to one another. You are more than a link in a prayer chain.