Seek the welfare of the city and pray to the Lord on its behalf.” One of the encouraging prayer developments in my home city of Stoke-on-Trent over the last few years has been the monthly united prayer gatherings. They began in 2001 with hundreds of Christians uniting to cry out to God together using 2 Chronicles 7 v14 as a basis for our praying and, as a consequence, the meetings received the nickname ‘2C7’.