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Jerry Uchechukwu Eze (born 22 August 1982) is a Nigerian Pentecostal pastor, best known as the founder and Lead Pastor of Streams of Joy International. [2] He is also recognized as the convener of the New Season Prophetic Prayers and Declaration (NSPPD), a popular online digital prayer meeting platform.
A prayer meeting in Victoria Square, Birmingham. A prayer meeting is a group of lay people getting together for the purpose of prayer as a group. [1] Prayer meetings are typically conducted outside regular services by one or more members of the clergy or other forms of religious leadership, but they may also be initiated by decision of non-leadership members as well.
The House of Prayer Christian Church (HOPCC) was established in 2004 by Rony Denis, [2] [3] whose work in Christian ministry may date to at least 1989. [note 1] Denis had previously served as a minister at another Christian church, [3] the New Testament Church of Christ, [5] which had church locations nationwide, including in Hinesville, Georgia, and Graham, Washington. [5]
Christian prayer is an important activity in Christianity, and there are several different forms used for this practice. [1]Christian prayers are diverse: they can be completely spontaneous, or read entirely from a text, such as from a breviary, which contains the canonical hours that are said at fixed prayer times.
Jesus told his followers to heal the sick [30] and stated that signs such as healing are evidence of faith. Jesus also told his followers to "cure sick people, raise up dead persons, make lepers clean, expel demons. You received free, give free". [31] Jesus sternly ordered many who received healing from him: "Do not tell anyone!"
The World Day of the Sick is an awareness day, or observance, in the Catholic Church intended for "prayer and sharing, of offering one's suffering for the good of the Church and of reminding everyone to see in his sick brother or sister the face of Christ". [2]
Detail of The Seven Sacraments (1445) by Rogier van der Weyden showing the sacrament of Extreme Unction or Anointing of the Sick. Anointing of the sick, known also by other names such as unction, is a form of religious anointing or "unction" (an older term with the same meaning) for the benefit of a sick person.
IHOPKC is best known for its prayer meetings, based on its "harp and bowl" worship model, which have been held 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, since September 19, 1999. [9] These meetings, streamed live on the internet and through GOD TV , [ 10 ] alternate regularly between music and prayer in two-hour sets through all hours ...