# Interview with Rebecca,

Interview with Rebecca, with Rebecca, 1-20-12 Prayer Room in Chengdu, China We used to have 24 hour two-day events where we would have an unbroken chain of prayer. Set aside place for prayer, in the room maps, charts, inspiring quotes about prayer, Operation China book, guitar, songbook, station for communion, prayer cards, people signed up for 1 hour, they would open the door for the next person, unbroken chain. Opening kind of worship and closing worship time, sharing what we had heard or seen or thought. But in those days I felt like those were teeth-gritting exercise, ticked off list, worthwhile, making sacrifice before the Lord, but kind of dry exercise, discipline. We all knew it was good and believed in prayer. But received teaching, talking about prayer in a different way. We would look at situations that intimidated us. We would come in prayer, but feeling we were underneath them, trying to push through to God. The problem was we would look at requests, things that intimidated us, we would try to push against them in the way but feeling underneath them. Whereas when we start with Worship, we are seated with Christ in heavenly realms, with Him, in Him. As He is exalted at the right hand of God, we are there with and in Him, His enemies under our feet too. In worship, we are reminded and brought back to that place of being before His Throne, before His Face, exalting Him, and seeing Him for who He is, and as we magnify Him and see Him as He is, then we look back at our little problems, they seem small and we’re full of faith and hope that He’s going to do something about that. Ask God what He thinks about them and what is He going to do about that from that place of worship. Worship and intercession go together. When we draw close to the Father’s heart, then we just have to agree with what the Father shows us. He tells us what is in His heart and we agree with Him on it. Agreement: we agree with who God is, in intercession we listen to His will and proclaim that back over the earth. Just a drawing near in worship and intimacy, we hear with joy and agree, that’s great, God. Do it! If we spend 90% of our prayer time in worship and 10% on requests, now that 10% is radically different. We remember He is awesome and good and able to do vastly more than we can think or imagine. That became incorporated into the prayer room. Inspired by creativity from other people. We lined all the walls with Butcher paper all around all the walls— before we lost the power of agreement because we didn’t know what the one in front or behind prayed. Let’s declare it on the walls. As people hear things, they can draw or write it, what God is saying, what we’re hearing. Then, others can add their yes and amen to what was said. Usually we do it 3 days, 72 hours of unbroken prayer. At the end of the weekend, you can walk around the room and see these recurring themes as people were in prayer, and be encouraged, when 5 or 7 are hearing the same things, we know God is saying this. He is saying it and he will do it. All we have to do is believe and agree and proclaim it with Him. So much more joy and faith and excitement and hope when we pray that way. Stations: 24/7 Pete Grieg’s people, they actually pray and ask God what are you saying, what are the themes you’re highlighting for a particular situation/place/time/event. What are you saying to our community. Six stations:

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