Since the beginning of April, nightly meetings in Lakeland, Florida have attracted thousands from all over the US and across the globe to what has been called ‘The Florida Healing Outpouring.’ Beginning as a 4 day Healing Conference with Todd Bentley at Ignited Church in Lakeland, the outpouring has moved from venue to venue in order to accommodate the crowds and has been broadcast live on God TV and via the internet. Night by night many claim to have been healed in the meetings with thousands calling or emailing their stories of what God has done.

Imagine...What it would be like to be in a situation: Where the tangible presence of God was being frequently experienced, where peace and harmony reigned on our streets, where crime of all kinds was declining, where social problems were diminishing, where the media was taking notice of what God was doing both in the church and in society.

The basics of dreams and what they can mean.

Author, Christian speaker and charity worker Fiona Castle, OBE, is the epitome of calm and grace. Full of smiles, her self assured manner belies the time when, with so much self imposed pressure, her life reached a critically low point.

Meeting in the picturesque valleys of South Wales, ITN 08 exceeded organizers expectations. Trying to demonstrate the relationship between Prayer, the Prophetic and Social Action (Mission) is a slow and difficult road to navigate, yet biblically you see the three working seamlessly particularly in the early church experience as told in Acts.

UCB has just launched a prayerline for the British Forces The launch held at St. Clement Danes, military church in London, was the culmination of several years work by both the armed forces and UCB.

Canterbury to Rome Benedict Protheroe endured torrential downpours, blistering sunshine and an Alpine snowstorm on his pilgrimage from Canterbury to Rome this year, writes Fiona  Rutherford.

Gill does all this as part of Prayer Stop– an initiative born out of Greyfriars Church in Reading. Having run their Prayer Café project for a few years, they decided to ‘get hold of Hope08’ and felt led to set up Prayer Stop. ‘It’s always been our hearts to do something like this’, says Gill, ‘but Hope08 prompted us to get on and do it’.

Your prayers move God to change the world. You may not understand the mystery of prayer. You don’t need to. But this much is clear: Actions in heaven begin when someone prays on earth. What an amazing thought!–Max Lucado.

Gatherings are picking up a momentum, says World Prayer Centre’s Jane Holloway

Vision of a new building for the World Prayer Centre is unveiled to the public for the first time

We talk to Christian leaders about an increase in secular interest.

Worship leader notices shift after ‘best’ Prayer Week ever

Hope 08 is launching a multimedia programme to raise awareness of next year’s initiative – that aims to help Christians reach the lost – and boost involvement with young people.

You cannot separate prayer from worship – prayer is worship and worship is prayer.

If, as John Wesley said, God can do nothing for humanity unless someone asks him, then the thousands who gathered to pray at this year’s Global Day of Prayer impacted seismically on London and the world.

A prayer network set up in Nottingham is seeing great growth after raising a flag on the city’s castle declaring ‘Jesus is King’

REES HOWELLS WAS a man of little wordly fame, yet throught the bestselling book, ‘Rees Howells – Intercessor’, his life story is known to millions, writes David littlewood.

ALL OF THE GREAT MEN of God who I read about had what they called their 'meeting place' with God.

JONAH'S MOST AMAZING prayer catches all the principles of believing prayer, although in this instance to an extreme degree.

PRAYER FOR A Christian is like an ordinary person without a mobile phone: you can't live without the communication.

LOCKED INTO A marriage with a wasteful and domineering husband, Susanna Wesley could have allowed the poverty and hardships of her existence to crush her spirit and embitter her soul, Instead, she turned her considerable energies to praying for and educating her children, in the process producing two sons who were to help change the face of England.

YOU KNOW WHAT I really love? Hanging out with my friends.

IN OUR NEW FEATURE, Bible teacher and former Westminster Chapel pastor Dr R T Kendall answers questions about prayer we've all been longing to ask.

ERM, EXCUSE ME, but, err, I think God has told me we're to get married.

THE FATHER OF a boy who was diagnosed with a tumour has told how persistent prayer helped his son get the all-clear.

THE FATHER OF a boy who was diagnosed with a tumour has told how persistent prayer helped his son get the all-clear.

A YOUNG GERALD COATES would trek nearly two mites every Thursday night to get to the prayer meeting, His life was so consumed in the things of God that he couldn't imagine not attending church three or four times each week, Then again, he had nothing else to do, either.

I'VE DECIDED TO stay anonymous - for obvious reasons - but I'd like to challenge Prayer magazine readers about concerted, persistent prayer.

ONE OF MY sons came home after his first week at school and announced he would not be going back, Anxious to find out what had up- set him, my wife and I asked why he had reached such a firm decision.

EVERY ONCE IN a while you stumble across equate that says it all, something that sums up the present and illuminates the path towards a better future.

He gives his top ten prayer list tips to guide your intercessions in 2008

Fasting together with prayer is an act of love for God, but plan it carefullt, says evangelist Roy Todd.

Jailed for perjury in 1999, former cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken became a disgrace to the British government. But his spiritual lifestyle flourished during his prison term and now he describes how his life is devoted to God.

If community action and outreach initiative Hope 2008 is to be successful prayer must remain right at the heart of all that is undertaken, says joint leader Andy Hawthorne. We must pray and seek God if we are to see a change in the spiritual atmosphere of the nation.

AMONG THE LEADERS of the revival that gripped America in the mid-eighteenth century, Jonathan Edwards is probably the best known, writes David Littlewood Born in October 1703, in the frontier town of East Windsor, he was one of eleven children.

WHAT ARE YOU praying for? Obviously, it's 'always good to talk to God. But there's more to prayer than just having a chat.

Beware! The devil will export any tiredness, says Dr RT Kendall

RESIDENTS FROM every London borough turned out on 7/7/07 to pray for their lo- cal government.

THERE AREN'T MANY men who have stood up in the middle of a cinema to preach, But American intercessor Lou Engle has done it twice.

OUR AMERICAN FRIENDS are always quite surprised when we tell them that in the UK Christians have many opportunities to be involved in local schools.
They're even more surprised to know there is still a legal requirement for 'mainly Christian' religious education and school assemblies.

On fire for Jesus after attending a leading Christian festival, teenager John Lewis was determined to make a difference in his home village. Now his prayers have helped ignite a massive breakthrough in South Wales as part of Hope08.

HOPE08 National Prayer Director Jane Holloway says prayer momentum has to be maintained throughout the rest of the year.

Every secondary school in the UK is being challenged to get involved in community work as part of Hope08.

A WOMAN WHO spent six years in a wheel- chair had to demand that her incapacity allowance be stopped after she said she had been healed by prayer.

A mum says her daughter has been healed of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) after receiving prayer.

YOU WERE probably given lost of new stuff for Christmas, and perhaps one or two of the gifts you received had the words ‘new and improved’ on them.

Recently, I was talking with some of my friends and this topic came up. How do you keep the every day disciplines of reading and praying, fresh? Silence ruled, but only for a second. Suddenly ideas began to flow.

25th March 2007 Darks the bi-century of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. Although the reasons why Britain finally ended over three centuries of lucrative slave trading are still debated, there's no questioning the desire and effort of slave trade abolitionists such as John Newton, Jolm Wesley, William Wilberforce, Graville Sharp, Thomas Clarkson and Hannah More.

The Year of Prayer for Hope 08

Just imagine what could happen in the next couple of years if prayer, word and action were mobilized in every village, town and city so that thousands upon thousands hear and understand the good news of Jesus! That is the dream of Hope 08, a year of mission launched at Trumpet Call V.

It doesn't take much searching through memories of years gone by to stumble upon a worldwide phenomena of the 1960s: The Beatles, from Liverpool. This rags-to-riches story touched a whole generation and left a legacy of fond memories, and in some cases a misspent youth.

LAST ISSUE I focused on a priest's at- tributes: priesthood belongs to every child of God; it is part and parcel of being a Christian; it is not a matter of gifting, discussion or choice. I talked about how the gateway to kingship is priesthood (see Joel 2:17: ''Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the temple porch and the altar").

E is for email services TEN YEARS AGO hardly anyone had heard of email. Now if you want to participate in what is happening around the world, you can't live without email and the World Wide Web.