Creating A Prayer Storm – Cross Rythms
POSTED ON 30/11/10
With hugely popular youth prayer gatherings and movements in America like The Call and IHOP, at Cross Rhythms we were encouraged to hear about a brand new initiative in the UK called Prayer Storm. Based in Manchester and led by James Aladiran, it’s a movement of radical worship and intercession, crying out to God for a great awakening in the UK. Rebecca Duffett caught up with James to find out more.
Rebecca: What does Prayer Storm involve?
James: Prayer Storm is a day of prayer. The vision is to summon the youth of the nation to a lifestyle of intercession. Over the last few years the Lord has really been stirring our hearts to pray. The more we gave ourselves to prayer, the more we realised that many young people don’t seem to be catching the passion for prayer. A load of prayer meetings I went to were mainly your stereo typical prayer meetings; older ladies and very little men and virtually no young people. We started to see the need for our generation, the young people, to arise in intercession and prayer.
I went to America a few years ago for a youth gathering called The Ramp and the Lord massively impacted my life. My heart was stirred for prayer in a way it had never been before. What I realised, was because I was around people that carried a heart of prayer and intercession, I caught something that really stirred what was already inside me. When I got back, I thought, maybe people that are not praying or giving themselves to intercession are not doing it because they’re not around people that are giving themselves to intercession and prayer, so they can actually catch the heart of prayer. Intercession and prayer is more caught than taught. It’s a spirit, it comes upon you. It’s not like someone tells you how to pray; it’s not even about the words you speak; it’s more about the heart… CLICK HERE to read more.
