10 Days

While prayer changes us, Intercessory Prayer is one of God's chosen means to change and renew the earth. God is a delegating God, and His chosen means of government is through our prayers. Learn what it means to resist the "prince of the power of the air" and be an agent for the in-breaking of the Kingdom of God, "On Earth as it is in Heaven".

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One of the best ways to pray, to have a conversation of the heart with God, is through the Scriptures. In this episode you'll learn several ways to pray through the Scriptures and be invited into a daily appointment of communion with God through His written Word this week!

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Praise, Worship, and Thanksgiving are perhaps the most fundamental modes of prayer.  When we meet with God, when we behold Him, our hearts overflow and our mouth is filled with praise.  In this episode you'll be given the framework for having a daily, personal time of worship this week.

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In the "How to Pray: A Beginners Guide" series, Jonathan Friz lays out some of the basics of prayer, what it is, why it works, and four different ways to engage in God with Prayer.  In Episode 1, he defines prayer as communication with God.  Prayer is an essential ability for every person and can happen in many different ways.  He lays out 3 reasons to pray: Fellowship with the Creator, to be eternally transformed, and to transform the world according to God's design.

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Gregg and Jonathan continue their discussion of challenges faced while pursuing the 10Days in particular and following Jesus in general. Gregg shares a heart-breaking testimony regarding spiritual attack on his own family during 10Days. They discuss the mystery of seeing so many miracles while at the same time seeing other prayers not answered and how to navigate painful losses with the Lord. 

Having sequentially covered the years from 2004-2013, Gregg and Jonathan take a step back from the story-line to discuss difficulties they have experienced while pursuing this 10 Days calling.

 Episode 9 focuses primarily on difficulties related to financial provision and how God came through, but not always in the timing they would have preferred. They discuss how believers are called to share with Christ in suffering and how meditating on the love of God is necessary to persevere through trial.

Building on the success of 10 Days Boston in 2011, the movement begins to expand to new cities, first to 3 locations in 2012, and then to 12 in 2013.  

Jonathan and Gregg discuss notable stories from those years including how God connected them for closer partnership in 2013. Jonathan shares key words from the Lord in that season including how God taught Him to expand 10 Days to new locations and how the Lord began to redeem the first "failed" 10 Days vision casting road-trip of 2005.

2011 was the beginning of the 10 Days movement as we know it today -- city-wide prayer, worship, and repentance during the 10 Days of Awe.  However, this new expression was built firmly on the more "hidden" experiences of the past seven years in small groups, retreats, and in smaller city-wide settings.

After sensing God's calling and confirmation in the midst of answered prayers and strange weather phenomena, the 10 Days Boston team begins to pray into how God would have them call their city to extraordinary prayer, fasting, and repentance with John 17 unity as a primary goal.  God leads them into new patterns and strategies, resulting in a significant move of God in the city of Boston.  Jonathan and Gregg discuss notable experiences, both good and bad, from the first 10 Days in Boston.

While the original vision of 10Days was of a city that had stopped everything, until 2010, 10 Days had never successfully been done at a city-wide level.

Having been "kicked out" of their retreat setting, Jonathan saw this as the Lord moving them out of the comfortable and into the next phase of developing the vision.  10Days had happened in a small group and in a retreat setting.  Now, how do you call a whole city to prayer for 10Days?

Jonathan and Gregg discuss how this happened for the first time (2010) in greater Salem, Massachusetts and the strengths and weaknesses of this new 10Days model.

From 2008-2009, there were four formative 10 Day retreats that still shape the movement today.  Jonathan and Gregg discuss miraculous happenings, God encounters, mistakes made, and lessons learned from these early efforts.

Shortly after the life-altering experience of the first 10Days retreat in 2007, Jonathan heads back to Yale to hear first hand from the Fijian "Healing the Land team", a team of revivalists seeing entire towns and villages transformed by the presence of God.  The similarities between their strategy for village transformation and 10 Days encourages him that 10Days is intended to be a city-transformation blueprint.  During 10Days Pentecost in 2008, God "comes to town" in America just as He did in the Fijian villages with signs and wonders and...rain. After hearing stories of transformation, they are now actually living out one of their own.

Jonathan shares the process of learning through trial and error what it really means to "mourn" and what God meant when he said that "My people will mourn before I return".  This mourning is not burdensome--it is not full of condemnation towards ourselves or accusation against others.  It's focused on what we have lost and what we lack both personally and corporately and rooted in a deep longing for the Lord's Return.  As he would powerfully experience at the end of 10 Days in 2009, the end goal of Godly mourning is Joy!