What is the 4/14 Window?

On April 14, 2011, Christians around the world will be praying for the 4/14 Window.

What is the 4/14 Window?
It refers to the demographic group from age four to fourteen years old. Approximately 1.2 billion children and youth comprise this segment of the world population (70% of them living inside the 10/40 Window). It is during this ten-year window that people are most open and receptive to spiritual and developmental input.
"In God's hands," says the 4/14 Global Initiative, "this enormous and largely ignored people group can become agents of transformational mission under the headship of Jesus Christ."
The goal of 4/14 Prayer Day is to mobilize focused, fervent, united intercessory prayer in every part of the globe. April 14 has been set aside as a special day to fast and pray for the raising up of a new generation.
Based on Esther 4:14, the 4/14 Prayer Day calls for fasting and prayer for:
1. the protection of 4/14ers
2. their deliverance from the evil one
3. the raising up of a new generation to transform the nations
"For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" (The Bible, Esther 4:14)


As suggested by the International House of Prayer, pray for:
• believers to see the heart of the Father for the new generation and focus on discipling this generation. Malachi 4:6
• the Lord of the Harvest to send a new army of laborers to serve this emerging generation. Luke 10:2
• for the Lord to help the global prayer movement and global missions to labor together for the 4/14 Window. I Corinthians 3:9
• for the Lord to supply and multiply the seed for the sower and bread for the eater. II Corinthians 9:8-11
• a one hundredfold fruit that remains for His glory Matthew 4:20
SOURCE: 4/14 Window Global Initiative, International House of Prayer