"Behold I have put my words in your mouth. See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and throw down, to build and to plant." Jeremiah 1 v 10

In 2008 we met each month from January through to June at St Mary's Wollaton to pray for the city. Out of these times of prayer we felt God was speaking to us from Nehemiah 8 v 1-3 ("Now all the people gathered together as one man in the open square that was in front of the Water Gate; and they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded Israel. So Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, of men and women and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month. Then he read from it in the open square that was in front of the Water Gate from morning until midday, before the men and women and those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.").

Therefore in July we went into the Market Square where we declared the Word of God in the heart of the City. We also stood on the steps of the Council House and declared the Word of God over the government of the City.

We had sensed that it was particularly significant that Ezra had read the Book of the Law in the "open square that was in front of the Water Gate" (Nehemiah 8 v 1,3). As we stood by the water fountains in Nottingham's 'open square' we declared the releasing of the living water into the life of our City.

Towards the end of 2008 we felt God speak to us through Isaiah 42 v 22 "but this is a people robbed and plundered; all of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses; They are for prey, and no-one delivers; for plunder, and no-one says, 'Restore!" The Pray for the City team meet twice a month to seek God's blueprint for HIS restoration of our City. We have sensed him reminding us that it was 'on the mountain' that Moses received the blueprint for the building of the tabernacle and that we must spend time in his presence in order to hear what He wants us to do and how He wants us to pray for the City of Nottingham.