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The Choices We Make  Scot Bower  10th Mar

There's always a choice. Every hour of every day we have choices to make: What to do, what to say, to act or to choose to refrain from acting.

The call of Jesus is to prefer the 'other' to choose to put his or her needs above our own. Perhaps that's the hardest challenge of all, to constantly put others before ourselves?

This 4 minute video from the good people at worthers.com demonstrates that 'Jesus Choice'

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Pray for BoysTown Team As Violence Rises in Reynosa  Adri Roos  8th Mar

We are a small community of 5 people who live in Reynosa, Mexico. Reynosa is situated right on the border of Texas. We are here to love God, love one another and love our neighbours. Our neighbours happen to be people who live and work in BoysTown, a mafia-run, walled red-light district, where drugs and prostitution is legal. We are here to share our hope and our lives.  

Over the last few months a lot has changed in Reynosa, violence is increasing because of an ongoing drug war.

This increase in violence is due to rivals between different groups of mafia. It's a typical power struggle, with these groups trying to gain territory and power in Reynosa. There's been several incidents over the past few months where these groups have been shooting at one another. As the mafia controls a lot in Mexico, everything from government to media, most of these incidents have not been reported in the news. Most of what we know is from friends who work within the government, people who've witnessed some of the incidents, and what we hear and see.

Reynosa used to be one of the few border cities that didn't experience such a degree of violence, but it seems like things are definitely picking up. We are realising that more than ever we are called to be prayerful as we live our lives in this city. And for that reason I am also sharing this news with you all, so that you can pray with us.

We get together as a team every morning to pray. This has probably been one of my favourite things to do here. We realise that we're not called to live in fear, but that we need to be wise and careful as we go around the city. A shooting can really happen anywhere and at any time.

I am feeling very peaceful about the situation. The violence here is mostly targeted at specific people (those involved in the mafia-circles), so we are never the target of this violence. We just need to live with higher levels of awareness to avoid being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

We would like for you to pray with us:

1. For God's peace to reign in this city. We know that Jesus is seated above all powers and principalities in Reynosa (Ephesians 1:20), and we pray that this will be made known through the body of believers, the church. (Ephesians 3:10).
2. Pray for us as a team, for protection and wisdom as we make decisions on how to live our lives here in the city. A lot of people here live with fear. We don't want to live out of fear, but out of love. But neither do we want to make poor decisions. We rely on God's guidance through the Holy Spirit, and His wisdom that comes from above (James 3:17).
   

Please comment below if you have any questions about this, or if you have any words of encouragement. We would love to hear from you.  

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New 24-7 CD! Exit With God's Agenda…  Charlotte Terris  5th Mar

The new 24-7 Exit CD is out now!

We've compiled this album to help people walk in the presence of God, and to inspire creativity and communication between Our Father and people who crave the things of His heart.  It's filled with 13 popular worship tracks and interspersed throughout with prayers to focus the listener on praising God.

I have the great opportunity and privilege to hear stories from Prayer Rooms from all around the world and thank God for each one. But the stories that really stick out are those where God has changed someone, either through miracles or a massive leap in their personal faith, and that change results in them looking out from the Prayer Room at the world around them. These are the people who are driven by prayer to "go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” [Matt 28v19.]

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1 Million Haitians Pray: 3000 Saved!  Alana Wiens  3rd Mar

This week a remarkable video from Haiti has come to our attention.  Out of the death and suffering caused by January's earthquake, a revival of repentance and healing is arising.  On February 12th three days of prayer and fasting for the country was called.  President Rene Garcia Prevel urged his fellow citizens to pray and one million gathered to answer his call...

Haiti - "A Call To Fasting & Prayer" from anthony gehin on Vimeo.

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Ten Years, Seven Messages: Hear What Leaders Had to Say  Carla Harding  1st Mar

As we prepared to celebrate 24-7 Prayer's tenth Birthday we invited key leaders who have encouraged and championed the 24-7 vision to send us a special anniversary message.  Much thought, juggling technology and file downloading followed as video greetings poured in from across the UK.  Some were humourous, all expressed praise to God and one or two contained a challenge to look to the future.

After gathering them in and watching them with the UK team I compiled for them into two videos for our UK celebration, IAM10. The messages proved a great encouragement.  Today we share them with you, the wider 24-7 movement and hope they spur you on to a deeper walk of prayer, mission and justice as you celebrate and praise Jesus with us...

 

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It's a girl!  Scot Bower  26th Feb

Congratulations to Zach and Kelly Tietsort who lead the 24-7 Prayer Community in Reynosa, Mexico on the birth of a beautiful baby girl. Felicidades!! Welcome to the world Hazel Clementine!

'God bless you and keep you, God smile on you and gift you, God look you full in the face and make you prosper.' (Numbers 6:24-26 The Message)

 

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