Posts Tagged ‘pray’
COLLEGIATE DAY OF PRAYER: THIS THURSDAY
Wednesday, February 27th, 2019
This Thursday February 28 is the Annual Collegiate Day of Prayer across America. Many of us have signed up to pray for more than one college. As men and women of prayer, we encourage every praying Christian to take this challenge up to really pray hard for our young people in college.- 70% of college age kids who grew up in church, and/or Christian homes lose their faith in college (Campus Renewal 2017)
- 47% of young people/millennials and college kids, think that sharing their faith is wrong! (Barna February 2019)
- Only 33% of so-called “evangelical” young people (high school and college) believe Jesus is the only way to Heaven! (Christian Post 2013)
- The salvation of the souls of these young people in our college. The majority are oblivious to the facts of the brevity of life or heaven and a literal hell, which will be overpopulated if they ignore the facts.
- That campus ministries be allowed to flourish, even in some of the Midwest and friendly western states which still believed in the US Constitution of freedom of Assembly and Religious Liberty.
- That churches around our campuses will invest time and effort and outreach to college age young people as is done in North West Arkansas. Cross Church, formerly First Baptist Church of Springdale, invested in a campus pastor – Brian Mills – who has devoted his home and his life to the current and next generations of college kids, not just from America but from ALL nations, at the University of Arkansas. Pray for more men like Pastor Mills.
- Pray for mentors to step up and reach out to these young people – men and women, mentoring young men and young women respectively.
- Pray for a renewed love of the Savior by those who grew up in church but walked away, as well as those who are yet to encounter Christ.
- Pray for the Word of God – the Bible – to be distributed into the hands of every college student in America, and that they will read, comprehend and find comfort and salvation in God’s Word
THE 100 YEAR PRAYER MEETING (August 1727-1827) REVISITED
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
America and western civilization were both founded on Christian principles. This is undisputed no matter what the history revisionists and secular humanists say. One of these principles has always been prayer. Prayer has been with us from Creation and will carry us through the end. (My book on the Prayers of the Bible – ACTIVATE – looks in fast moving detail, into the Origins of Prayer.)
It was Prayer, in the 100 Year Prayer Meeting, in particular, which basically spurred the still-vibrant prayer movement, still alive and well in the United States. While church leaders and others can cite good data to dispute that Christians even pray at all, this does not negate the fact that more and more organized prayer movements are now being revealed everywhere across the fruited plain.
It was on August 27, 1727 in the community led by Count Zinzendorf, the once wealthy launched a prayer meeting. They made a covenant on that day, with twenty-four men and twenty-four women committing to spend one hour each day in scheduled prayer. This happened in Hernnhnut, Germany and not only lasted 100 years, but heavily influenced the spiritual direction of America. The Moravians, who were the backbones of the 100 Year Prayer meeting, operated on the Principle of what Pastor, Author and Ministry Leader Chip Ingram calls B.I.O.
B.I.O. is not short for biography, but is an acronym for the following: