Boiler Rooms - Houses of Prayer

Houses of Prayer

Monasteries. I wonder what the word conjures up in your mind?  Dynamic and life changing are possibly not the first words you think of.  Boredom is possibly a lot nearer the mark.  Suddenly all over London groups of ordinary people are setting up or thinking about setting up modern day monasteries. What’s that all about?  Well, monasteries were never meant to be dull but places that people from all different churches and denominations go to and meet with God.  Then, filled with his Spirit and having received direction from God, people go out and change their area.  God is doing something knew in London.  A Boiler Room, as these monasteries are called, is open already in West London and others are planned in Thurrock, Wandsworth, Barnet, Orpington and Soho. These monasteries will be places of prayer, serve the poor, work for church unity and seek a move of God across our city!

Scripture References

Matthew 21:13 And He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of thieves.'"

1 Thessalonians 5:17

Isaiah 62: 6-7

Prayer Points

• Pray for God to bless this new movement of modern day monasteries
• Pray that they would be a catalyst for church unity
• That non Christians would be attracted to them as places of safety and peace and come to know Jesus for themselves.
• Pray for protection of the teams working on them.
• Pray for the Holy Spirit to really move through them.
• Pray for the poor to find help and refuge.
• Pray for the finance of these monasteries
• Pray that they would never get stale and boring but would fulfil their purpose and would always be dynamic and life changing.

Written by East 2 West; the West London Boiler Room (A non-stop house of prayer part of the 24-7prayer.com movement).