THOP - Tauranga House Of Prayer

Throughout history a stream of day and night prayer has existed. And in our generation that stream is becoming a mighty torrent. It's important to understand that the modern day prayer movement is simply an extension of the historical prayer movement that began in Genesis 4 when, in the wake of Adam's exile from the Garden and the giving of the promise of a coming Deliverer, "men began to call upon the name of the Lord."

From Adam, Eve, Enoch and Noah crying out for the promise of that deliverer, to Moses and the establishment of the priesthood, from Samuel in the House of the Lord to David and the building of the Tabernacle where 4,000 musicians and 288 singers ministered to the Lord day and night, from the emergence of prophetic voices such as Elijah, Jeremiah and Malachi; from the place of prayer to raising up of John the Baptist and Anna to pray and fast to prepare Israel for the first coming, from the day and night prayer in Jerusalem of the early church to the missions movement that grew out of Antioch where day and night was first established outside of Jerusalem in the first century we see the stream of prayer flowing steadily throughout Biblical times.

And in post-Biblical history we see the emergence of the desert father in the North African wilderness to challenge the apostate nationalized church of the day in the first 4 centuries. Around 550 AD we see Comgal in Bangor Ireland who established day and night prayer in the spirit of the Tabernacle of David where hundreds of men sang the Psalms 24 hours a day. From Bangor came a missions movement that touched the edges of the Roman Empire. Between then and the time of the Reformation we saw the pioneering of thousands of missions bases centered around day and night prayer in various different expressions. Out of one of those expressions came a young monk named Martin Luther who sparked the Reformation and forever changed history. In the wake of the Reformation came a century of sustained day and night prayer and worship in Hernhut Germany. From Hernhut came the greatest missions movement in history that covered the globe.

Between then and now the earth has seen day and night prayer catalyzing hundreds of dramatic revivals from Edinburgh to Wales to New England to Columbia, Indonesia, China, South Korea and beyond.

And now, at the ends of the earth, at the end of the age, in Tauranga New Zealand God is raising up day and night prayer and worship in the spirit of the Tabernacle of David as full time singers and musicians minister to the Lord and messengers are forged "to prepare the earth for Jesus' return"