until the whole world hears

As we have been reading and studying Paul's letter to the Colossians, it has been stirring and encouraging to see how much thanksgiving and prayer run like a clear and beautiful stream through this letter. We see Paul giving thanks for their faith in Christ and love in the Spirit for one another. We also get to find out what he is praying for them as a church community.  He says 'we haven't stop praying for you'...'asking God to fill you with the knowledge of what he wants for you, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. This will mean that you'll be able to conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the Lord, and so give hom real delight, as you bear fruit in every good work and grow up in the knowledge of God. I pray that you'll be given all possible strength, according to the power of his glory, so you'll have complete patience and become truly steadfast and joyful. And I pray that you will learn to give thanks to the Father who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of God's holy ones in the light'. (Colossians 1:9-12)

Later in the letter he encourages the Colossians to 'devote yourselves to prayer; keep alert, with thanksgiving. While you're about it, pray for us, too, that God will open in front of us a door for the word, so that we may speak of the mystery of the King [Jesus Christ] .....pray that I may speak clearly about it.'         

So as we start the year,  as a local church family, we have five days of prayer from Monday 27 to Friday 31 January.  We will provide five days of devotional notes and prayer points to steer and stimulate your prayers.  We will also be offering these different opportunities to meet for prayer:

Tuesday 28 January: Morning Online Zoom Prayer, 7am to 7.30am
Wenesday 29 January: Lunchtime Online Zoom Prayer, 1pm to 1.30pm
Thursday 30 January: Morning Online Zoom Prayer, 7am to 7.30am
Friday 31 January: In Person Hour of Prayer, 1pm to 2pm, Brigade House
Friday 31 January: In Person Friday Evening Prayer, 7.30pm to 9.30pm Brigade House

As Pete Grieg has written: 'the truth is this: there are terrible evils that will only be restrained, and wonderful blessings that will only be unlocked, by our prayers' so, as Martin Luther has said about the spiritual battles we are engaged in....'the best thing we can do....is to put our fists together and pray'.  

Hi everyone at King's Church.  I love reading what the apostle Paul wrote to the Philippians at the beginning of his letter of thanksgiving encouragement to them for their support, friendship and partnership in the Gospel. He says with the deep loveand affection of Jesus Christ for them:

I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 1:3-6 NIV).       


As a local church family we are beginning a new chapter together and, perhaps more than ever before, we need to seek God, and ask Him to lead us forward together by His presence into his good purposes and good plans for us. The eldership team here are confident that God will continue the good work he has begun in us a a church family and want to urge us to pray together during these next five days of prayer (Monday 23 to Friday 27 September) with expectation for fresh encounter with and encouragement from God.

We have provided five days of prayer points and devotional notes to help steer and stimulate your prayers this week. We look foward to meeting as a church together for our Prayer Evening, this Friday 27 September, starting at 7.30pm at Brigade House.  Do hope that you be there if at all possible.

With love and thanks, the King's Church Eldership

As a church leadership we want to invite everyone at King’s to have a focus during most of the month of May on Revival Prayer. We want to call out to God together for personal revival, church revival, national revival and global revival. J I Packer says revival is: ‘God’s quickening visitation of his people, touching their hearts and deepening the work of grace in their lives’, Edwin Orr wrote it is ‘times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord’. Duncan Campbell: ‘Revival is the going of God among his people, and an awareness of God laying hold of the community’ resulting in ‘a community saturated with God.’

God alone is the initiator of revivals, and he stirs a revival cry from his people for him to: ‘Revive us again’;(Psalm 85); ‘Renew your deeds in our day’(Habakkuk) and ‘Rend the heavens and come down’ (Isaiah). We desperately need God’s Revival Power that flows from his Holy Presence. God has given us a Revival Promise (2 Chronicles 7:13- 14) to seek him in humble and expectant prayer, until he comes to touch and transform the church, community and country and ‘heal the land’. Over four weeks in May we invite everyone at King’s to seek God for:

Week 1: Personal Revival 6 - 12 May
Week 2: Church Revival 13 - 19 May
Week 3: National Revival 20 - 26 May
Week 4: Global Revival 27- 31 May

During the ‘Revival Prayer’ days weekly notes will be provided to help focus our prayers as we pray on our own. We really would love for everyone at King’s to be involved.

During this time we will have four evening opportunities to meet together:

Saturday 11 May, Revival Praise & Prayer, 6.30pm, Kingsbury Venue.

Wednesday 15 May, Encounter Evening, 7.30pm, Brigade House  

Wednesday 22 May, Revival Intercession Meeting, 7.30pm, Brigade House.

Friday 31 May, Revival Praise Evening, 7.30pm at Brigade House.

During the day there will be weekly Revival Prayer times from 10.30am to 11.30am at Brigade House on: Wednesday 8 May, 15 May, 22 May, 29 May for anyone who is free at the time. Also we are offering ‘Prophetic Appointments’ where individuals can sign up for a 15 minute slot to receive prayer and prophetic encouragement from a team of two or three people at Brigade House.

In Matthew chapter 6 Jesus tells his followers to pray 'Our Father in heaven.... ....Let Your Kingdom Come'.

At King's we have 'Let Your Kingdom Come: Twenty One Days of Prayer', starting on Monday 15 May running through to Sunday 4 June. During this time we are encouraging everyone at King's to express our faith and love for Jesus by praying for his kingdom to advance in this city and nation. Daily devotional notes will be provided for everyone who'd like to take part. During this time we will continue our Monday evening gatherings at the Kingsbury Venue, on Tuesdays we have Expression 3:16 evenings for anyone who would like to talk and pray with people in central Harrow town centre. We have a Prayer Walk in Carpenders Park on Wednesday 17 May and a Prayer Walk in West Harrow on Wednesday 24 May, both at 7.30pm. We are also offering Kingdom Prayer Appointments, where you can book a 20 minute slot at Brigade House to be prayed for by a ministry team. A note giving available slots will be sent out by email to the church.