London(ZimEye)A group of Zimbabweans based in the UK have been fasting and praying for their nation continuously for the past 5 years.
The group known as ‘The Zimbabwe Watchmen’ have committed every day of their lives to pray for change in their motherland.
They have been reportedly continuously fasting and praying for the past 2,278 days.
The prayer and fasting program began on the 1st March 2005 when the founder John Yohane says he together with his wife inspired others into the program after a twenty one days initial endeavour.
According to their program, a person fasts from 5am for the next 12 hours without water or food, and after the period they then pass the button over to the next person.
“My fasting day is every 16th of every month and my wife prays on the 22nd, with others taking the other days,” said Yohane.
When I receive a revelation message (during my prayer session), I then pass on the message to the next person.
Speaking to ZimEye, Yohane outlined the chief motivation for his prayer program:
“We belong to a sovereign God. but when it comes to Zimbabwe obviously things have gone wrong” he said pointing at economic and political problems facing the nation.
 
Yohane said that many prayers had been answered so far which include among others the provision of aid and also the change to a provisional national currency to the US dollar at a time when Zimbabwe’s currency became virtually useless in the years up to 2007.
“And I will give you an example you go on our website you will see that we have prayed for the money that people are celebrating today, the US dollar that people have today, we prayed before it happened. We have got enough evidence that we prayed…” he said.
However, Yohane said in recent months there are now gaps in the chain of prayer-fasting as others have dropped off the program.
“We have got some gaps now because some members have got some work committments,” he said.
The Zimbabwe Watchmen’s website is: http://www.zimbabwewatchmen.biz.ly
(ZimEye, UK, Zimbabwe)