Friday, January 8, 2010

Join me in Revolutionary Prayer

I have slept a total of 3 hours tonight. Why? I believe God is calling me to pray and not to just pray for a few minutes, but apparently, all night. About what? A spiritual awakening to take place on my university's campus and around the world. I think it's a combination of coming off of the Winter Conference, reading Fireseeds, and gaining a heart for prayer, but I feel burdened to pray for my campus.

Why pray specifically for my campus and not other institutions? History shows that revivals have started on college campuses. I believe God is at work in this world, doing something crazy awesome for His name and His glory. I, for one, would like to be part of the work He is doing. Don Hayes, in his book Fireseeds, quotes G. Campbell Morgan, "We cannot organize revival, but we can set our sails to catch the wind from Heaven when God chooses to blow upon His people once again." I like this quote for a number of reasons, but for one, it places the emphasis of starting a revival on God. We cannot do anything without Him, let alone create a spiritual awakening. But, we can play our part and ask the Lord to show us the dire need of a revival for our generation and pray that He will use us.

God is the God of the universe. He is Love. He sent His Son to take upon Himself the sin of the world and to die in our place on a cross. Jesus Christ sacrificed His life for ours, so that we may have a relationship with the one true God. You may have heard this a million times before, but God has given me new insight into this magnificent truth. We are unworthy, undeserving, and yet, God has written for us and played out the ultimate love story. He has given me hope, guidance, and sacrificial, unending love. I desire to share this love with others on my campus and around the world.

My encouragement, burden, and/or call to you is this: join me in PRAYER. Pray for our college campuses around the world, that God will create a spiritual awakening and use us in His work. Pray that we would not be a generation that simply saw a need and did nothing, or worse, overlooked the most important need of all humankind. Start with prayer and be available. Thanks for partnering with me in this! We will not regret a life lived for Christ.

"'And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.'"
-Jesus, Luke 8:9-10

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