Mission Statement: ”The Prayer Room” exists to usher in city-wide revival through night and day worship and intercession. In preparation for the Lord’s second coming, we labor before the Lord in training up a community of End-Time Forerunners that embrace prayer and fasting, service and giving, and dedication to the sacrificial lifestyle found in the Sermon on the Mount.
Our Values:
1. We value first and foremost intimacy with God. Our primary purpose and focus in the House of Prayer is to encounter the God who so tenderly loves us. We value the simple devotion to the life of ”one thing” – to see the beauty of God – with the confidence we will find our highest expression of love and joy in connecting with His heart. We believe corporate prayer is the place of encounter. The original purpose of the tabernacle was to have a place where everyone who had a desire to seek the Lord could go and meet with Him (Ex. 33:7). King David’s heart drew up the plans for night & day prayer and worship out of a desire to simply be with God (Ps. 27:4). We want to live out the Greatest Commandment to its fullness (Mt. 22:37)
2. We value the Lord’s call to us as a ministry that He is going to use us to help birth 24/7 prayer in the Metro Detroit area. Our response is to live out this call with the faithfulness, fervor and persistence, in the place of night and day intercession.
3. We value true revival; breakthrough in the Church and transformation in our city, understanding that unless the Church ushers in God’s Presence through prayer, the Church of Detroit will not come into her full destiny. Historic revivals are heavenly seasons where God manifests His kingdom in power. They are divine seasons in which Heaven opens and the kingdom of darkness is plundered. Our desire is to see the “greater works” that Jesus promised, along with justice at every level of society, and absolute power over all forms of darkness. We keep the assurance that the Lord’s kingdom will come primarily in context to prayer (Mt. 6:10). God promises that He will use the prayers of His people to bring justice and breakthrough swiftly if they call to Him night-and-day (Lk. 18:8).
4. We value the ministry of the Word. Our heart is to see anointed evangelism that has the ability to save the lost in radical numbers. We maintain a belief that only through anointed intercession comes anointed preaching. The strongest witness to the Gospel is an internal conviction upon the hearts of those who will hear the message. When we enter into a “spirit of prayer” undoubtedly the lost will be saved. Targeted night & day prayer will gather in the Great end-time Harvest of souls.
5. We value prophecy and deep understanding in the Word, especially end-time revelation. The Psalms, in themselves, are evidence of the divine insight into the future given to those who ministered in night and day worship and intercession. Our motive is to be equipped in understanding as these last days unfold and to act as a voice to prepare the Church for the coming judgment. We desire to know God’s heart and His plan for the last generation, to be prepared and to prepare others. There is end-time revelation reserved only for the praying Church. (Da. 12:4, 11:32-33).
6. We value city-wide Church unity and believe that it’s primary expression is found only within the frameworks of unified prayer. Corporate prayer is God’s answer for unity. When we pray we come into agreement with God and as a result we come into agreement with each other. We want to see the power and possibilities of a Church unified in the name of Jesus under one purpose, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel (Php. 1:27) The unity among the end-time Church will act as a witness to the love of the Father for the lost and for Israel (Jn. 17:20-23).
7. We value the Sermon on the Mount (Mt. 5-7) as normative Christianity. As this was Christ’s first public sermon, it was laid out as the foundation of the Kingdom of God, and it is His call to all believers to live lifestyles in accordance to these principles. The standards set in this sermon can not be negotiated or disputed as they are Kingdom principles. We strive to both live and teach the values of the Sermon of the Mount, especially holding to character traits commonly referred to as the “Be-Attitudes”.