WELCOME!
Welcome to the website of Harp & Bowl in Guildford!
We are a group of people from across different churches in Guildford who all have a heart for prophetic and intecessory worship. It started from a trip to the International House of Prayer in Kansas USA where the Harp & Bowl model has been used for 7 years not stop. Interestingly enough they started in the same month - September 1999 - that the international prayer movement 24-7prayer was launched in Bojanglez night club in Guildford! Some of us felt that 'harp and bowl' had a part to play in the emerging prayer life within Guildford so over the last few years we have been looking at how this could and should emerge.
Please have a look round our website for more information - the calendar tells you where and when our sessions are and we'd love to see you!
WHAT IS HARP AND BOWL?
Harp and Bowl - it's name taken from Revelation 5:8 - is a type or tool for worship. It is music that is intregrated into prayer, the "harp" representing the music and the "bowl" being representative the prayer of the saints (Christians) that are constantly going up like incense before the throne of God. This type of worship is used in sustaning long periods of worship and has worked out best for the International House of Prayer in Kansas City which has sustained a prayer meeting since September 1999!
The main function of Harp and Bowl is antiphonal singers, who use the Bible as a song book, singing and declaring the Word of God along with musicians that accompany the singers. In Harp and Bowl, the major focus is not the singers or the musicians, but on worshipping and giving glory to God. Harp and Bowl is not a new device however, but has been used for thousands of years in hundreds of different settings through out Judiasm and Christianity.
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Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints Rev 5:8
