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#2 It’s a BIBLICAL PRACTICE Now the first lot fell to Jeohoiarib, the second to Jedaiah... 1 Chronicles 24:7 The idea of praying non-stop for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, strikes some people as excessive – perhaps the sort of thing that a corrupted medieval monasticism might indulge in, but far too absurd a thing to be compatible with simple biblical Christianity. But if you turn in your Bible to 1 Chronicles chapter 24 verse 7, you will find something very interesting. What initially appears to be nothing more than the beginning of a dull list of names of no enduring significance turns out on closer inspection to look suspiciously like a sign-up list for a 24:7 non-stop prayer room. The twenty-four priests are each allocated a slot in the Temple to ensure that there would continually be someone there in that house of prayer – just as we seek to fill weeks with prayer by dividing each day into twenty-four hour-long prayer slots. So there is biblical precedent for what we are doing. More than that, as you read the Chronicles of Israel’s history, you see that whenever the Davidic order of non-stop worship is restored – whether by Jehoshaphat, Joash, Hezekiah or Josiah – there is a subsequent time of spiritual breakthrough, deliverance and military victory. And we cannot make the excuse that such non-stop prayer was a thing for Old Testament Israel and not for the New Testament church, for the activity of the church in Acts begins with nothing else but non-stop prayer, as the followers of Jesus “all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer” (Acts 1:14). So not only is there biblical precedent for non-stop prayer, but a strong biblical argument for night-and-day prayer in Cambridge. Previous Reason // Next Reason |
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