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For the last six years, I have been going to the annual conference held by the World Prayer Centre. They hold the conference at a conference centre in rural Derbyshire. My friend, Rosemary, has been going some 25 years or more to it. The first year she took me along, she explained what it would be like, the type of schedule, and then said, right, I'll leave you to it, go make some friends and pray with anyone. It was a bit like a boat that is towed out to sea by a little tug boat, that then cut it loose and went away. She had people to see whom she hadn't seen in a year and God opportunities for prayer to discover. And so did I.
The first meeting was was unlike any other I had ever attended. Rosemary was the only person I knew there, and yet, it felt like I had found my people, a tribe I belonged to. These were people who prayed like they meant business - everyone all at once and like they were agonizing alone before God in the privacy of their own home. We worshipped hard, prayed hard, took in lots of information, and chatted with each other over meals and tea breaks. I loved it. It was rather intense, however, and I told the Lord, "Lord, I need more spiritual stamina!" Each year, God has spoken to me personally at that conference. And as the year has unfolded, I have seen the things we have heard and prayed about at the conference happen. I call that time at the WPC conference "strategic" for prayer people who watch and wait before the Lord to see what He would like us to pray about.
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