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Transformation Thurrock Prayer (nearly) ends Boiler Room's 24-7
 Twelve people representing seven of Thurrock's churches gathered at the Stanford Boiler Room last Saturday morning (26 June) to pray for the borough.
The gathering was held on the last morning of the Boiler Room's week-long continuous prayer meeting, starting at 9am and ending at 12 noon. (The 24-7 ended at 1pm.)
A time of worship was led by good friend of TT, John Gorham.
Using elements drawn from the liturgy found on this website under 'resources' (see the link to the left of this article), we prayed for:
- Thurrock's community - institutions and individuals
- Thurrock's position - geographically, historically and spiritually
- Thurrock's church - uniting in united unity
 Edwin Hughes of Grays Baptist Church shared a word that he had while we were praying about the borough and unity.
Edwin describes seeing "a vast number trees establishing themselves at a rapid rate from saplings to fully grown trees. Not just trees moving together but springing up out of nothing."
Edwin continues: "Then came a rapid growth of strange new plants that seemed to be glowing with a strange light. Like they were on fire but not being consumed by the fire and also growing
and multiplying from nothing at a rapid rate."
Since the prayer meeting on Saturday, Edwin has told TT that there was other stuff in his vision but he's not sure yet what it means or how it all pieces together. But the scripture that 'leaped out' at him was:
 "See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland."
Isaiah 43:19
When it came to praying for the church, the scripture over Thurrock from Isaiah 41:17-20 was read out, which is about the trees being planted together as an oasis in the desert. This fitted in perfectly with the picture that the Lord had given to Edwin.
It also fits in with another image that Tim Harrold uses to describe what the Kingdom of God is like. "The Kingdom of God is like a pavement of heavy, grey concrete slabs - utilitarian, uniform and uninteresting. But the life in the soil underneath cannot help itself from growing up in between the slabs, and then through any cracks in the concrete - though rigid, brittle - making the cracks  wider. It may look untidy, it may look chaotic, it may look unseemly. The life maybe weeds. But it's the Kingdom, pushing up and pushing through and pushing out, wild and untamed, but good."
Transformation Thurrock would like to thank the Boiler Room 'for having us' and for their kind provision of a whole tray of about 12 Danish pasties which were nearly all consumed with some gusto at 'half time'.
The next Transformation Thurrock Prayer is a collaboration with Liberty Evangelical Ministries, meeting at Gates Of Praise International Centre (Curzon Drive, Grays) on Saturday 31 July, from 1 to 3pm.
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Tim Harrold with Edwin Hughes, 29/06/2010 |
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