Pray through Lent with the Prayer Spaces Podcast

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Through the season of lent we're inviting you to join us in prayer.  Walk through the life of Jesus with daily inspiration from Pete Greig, Carla Harding, Etienne Piek and others.  Monday to Friday, from Ash Wednesday (9th Mar) to Easter Sunday (24th Apr), 24-7 Prayer will release five-minute devotional films to help you pray.

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Welcome to Sabbath.

Originally hospitality was God's idea. With His word he separated the land from the water, by His word he spread the skies open, made trees grow and plants flourish. God spoke fish and game to exist and with His word God invited man into being, to sit in the table He had prepared. Ever since creation the very core of God's plan for hospitality has been about sharing life. He made man in his image, He gave man a spirit from His breath. He gave from His own, He invited to share. He created man to be a partner, to rule with Him and created him a companion, it is no good for man to be alone.
Hospitality doesn't mean pompous presentation of richness but in it's most simple pure way it is transparency, presence, breaking bread and sharing the Word and dwelling in them. Like the old phrase says, shared sorrow is divided, shared joy is multiplied. Freely we have received, freely we will give.


"Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Lk. 12:32-34


Here in Guildford we have found that one of our favourite ways to practise hospitality is to celebrate Sabbath. Most often it's Saturday evening when one of us whips up a simple but delicious meal, and we invite group of friends to come around dining table. We begin our Sabbath by REMEMBERING, remembering who God is, who we are and where God is and where He has been this week in our lives and where we can see His works in our world. Then we eat together. Next we CELEBRATE often with communion, breaking bread and drinking wine and celebrating the life and death and resurrection of Christ Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. We give thanks to God. Then it's time for a cup of tea or coffee and a piece of cake. Thirdly we DEDICATE, we pray for ourselves and our friends, our needs and the world's needs, dedicating the week to come, giving our joys, frustrations, sorrows and worries to the hands of God, trusting that He is everlastingly good.


In these simple ways we invite God deeper into our lives, and others deeper into God. Eating together levels things out, it sustains and keeps us dependant on others. REMEMBERING, CELEBRATING and DEDICATING together inspires, encourages and challenges us individually and as a community.

FAIRYLIGHTS by Jon Bilbrough (A song for 24-7)

a day in helsinki

I'll be in Helsinki during the day on September 2nd to catch up with the kollektiv there. Looking very much forward to it ladies!

our gathering

few weeks ago we had our last 24-7 prayer evening for the spring.
again about 15 people gathered to our living room to sit, chat, eat and pray.

this time we didnt have one certain theme for the evening,
but had small groups. our appartment was divided to four
different stops, and the groups went around in them.

one room had a 24-7 clip from youtube about praying for europe
to be watched and then the group spent some time praying for europe.

in katris room we were reminded that when we come together, all of us
have something to bring, a song, a teaching, a revelation, etc,
and everyone got to share what God had been speaking lately.

our living room was a place to pray for helsinki and for our summer.
Jesus said that the kingdom of God is inside of us, so we prayed that we could really
carry his kingdom with us to the places we are going this summer.

then at one stop we were doing listening prayer, taking some time
to be silent in front of God for others, and then sharing what images,
words or feelings we had for them.

all in all it was a nice, encouraging evening!