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I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord Almighty. ‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,’ declares the Lord Almighty. ‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,’ declares the Lord Almighty.” Haggai 2:7-9

Pill Prayer Beacon Logo

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1 Oct 2012

Salvation Army Houses of Prayer (SA-HOP)

This is a reprint from the Army's Website  ...... Centre for Spiritual Life Development

http://www.salvationarmyspirituallife.org/ihq/www_ihq_csld.nsf/vw-dynamic-index/52252FE5EEC37FB780257995003D9DFA?openDocument

Salvation Army Houses of Prayer (SA-HOP)

While the Global Call to 24-7 Prayer - A Day and Night Cry for Justice seeks to be an ongoing prayer initiative, there are already several Salvation Army centres with a sense of vision and calling to become Houses of Prayer (SA-HOP) - places where the fire of intercession never goes out and where God makes himself at home according to Isaiah 56:7 '...my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'.

Pill Prayer Beacon Corps

Emerging from the 24/7 Prayer Movement, specialist prayer centres known as Boiler Rooms have been set up in numerous places around the world. Boiler Rooms are very experimental and regularly re-invent themselves to explore new territory and structures.
Prayer Beacons seek to apply Boiler Room principles and practices in the context of familiar and recognisable Salvation Army Corps settings, humbly desiring to help others to move deeper into prayer.
In November 2011 Pill Corps, South Western Division (United Kingdom with the Republic of Ireland Territory) was launched as a Prayer Beacon. Prayer has always been its DNA and a clear establishment of a rhythm of prayer and the transition to a Cell based model of doing mission has strengthened this.
The ideals at the heart of a cell-based church and a prayer beacon blend together. At Pill these values are based on:

Praying and developing intimacy with Jesus;
Engaging in mission;
Learning through good teaching, training and equipping;
Reaching out to those who don't know Jesus;
Sharing authentic and honest community and hospitality
Caring for those who are in need or who are hurting.

The Salvation Army has been part of the community of the village of Pill, South West England, for 125 years. Locals attended one of the Army's meetings in the neighbouring town of Bristol with the intention of disrupting what was happening there, but ended up getting saved. They returned to the village and decided to start the work - the Army's been there ever since.
Located on the River Avon, the village was traditionally the residence of pilots, once home to 21 public houses and known as a rough place. Today, however, the Corps is standing in the gap in prayer, not only on behalf of the village, but with a strong sense to pray beyond the boundaries of the community. These words from Isaiah 54:2 were given to Pill Corps in 2007:
‘Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes. For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your descendants will dispossess nations and settle in their desolate cities'.
Since then the Corps has committed to pray for the needs of the Salvation Army in the territory on a regular basis through the Pray for a Day initiative. Corps Officers Majors Alan and Carol Young explain that the hall is open for 12 hours for people to drop in to spend time in personal prayer and to pray zealously for the requests received through email. "This ministry continues to grow each time with petitions being sent in from other countries. Following the Pray for a Day, the topics are distributed to the Sunday morning congregation so that the prayers can continue after the event".
In the building there are two designated areas for prayer. The upstairs Prayer Room is usually themed and there is a quiet area set aside in the corner of the downstairs hall which is particularly useful for those who are unable to access the Prayer Room. These are available for use any time the hall is open and on request.
A prayer list is issued quarterly and identifies a different group of people connected to the Corps to pray for each day. There are also two weekly early Morning Prayer meetings and prayer walks around the village at various times.
Prayer Beacon Corps seek to re-focus all the elements of their corps life through the lens of prayer. In other words they are working out how to "do" Salvation Army from a place of total immersion in prayer. As such they light the way for other corps to go further and deeper in prayer.
If you would like to connect through Pray for a Day e-mail your prayer request to
heather.godwin@salvation.org.uk


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Spurgeon's Daily Readings

19th October
"Babes in Christ."—1 Corinthians 3:1.

RE you mourning, believer, because you are so weak in the divine life: because your faith is so little, your love so feeble? Cheer up, for you have cause for gratitude. Remember that in some things you are equal to the greatest and most full-grown Christian. You are as much bought with blood as he is. You are as much an adopted child of God as any other believer. An infant is as truly a child of its parents as is the full-grown man. You are as completely justified, for your justification is not a thing of degrees: your little faith has made you clean every whit. You have as much right to the precious things of the covenant as the most advanced believers, for your right to covenant mercies lies not in your growth, but in the covenant itself; and your faith in Jesus is not the measure, but the token of your inheritance in Him. You are as rich as the richest, if not in enjoyment, yet in real possession. The smallest star that gleams is set in heaven; the faintest ray of light has affinity with the great orb of day. In the family register of glory the small and the great are written with the same pen. You are as dear to your Father's heart as the greatest in the family. Jesus is very tender over you. You are like the smoking flax; a rougher spirit would say, "put out that smoking flax, it fills the room with an offensive odour!" but the smoking flax He will not quench. You are like a bruised reed; and any less tender hand than that of the Chief Musician would tread upon you or throw you away, but He will never break the bruised reed. Instead of being downcast by reason of what you are, you should triumph in Christ. Am I but little in Israel? Yet in Christ I am made to sit in heavenly places. Am I poor in faith? Still in Jesus I am heir of all things. Though "less than nothing I can boast, and vanity confess." yet, if the root of the matter be in me I will rejoice in the Lord, and glory in the God of my salvation

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