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Spring 2012

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What Happened on February 23, 2012?
The Collegiate Day of Prayer
1253 prayer groups from 776 cities in 50 states interceded for 2539 campuses by name.
The Lord was unusually near, with 800 YWAMers praying into the night. (Kona, HI) Weeklong prayer chain (Indiana State University) 8 campus ministries come together for 24-hour prayer chain (University of Kansas) One of the largest prayer meetings in a decade. (University of Tennessee) 24-hour prayer chain (Montana State University) 200 students cry out to God. (Georgia Southern University) 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000

Raging Fire
From the Director, Dave Warn
he nineteenth-century South African pastor and author Andrew Murray once said, Jesus never taught his disciples how to preach, but he did teach them how to pray. Implied is the idea that something vital is found in prayer that is not found in (as important as they are) our various ministry activities, including preaching. Without prayer, our souls cant stay connected in any meaningful way to God Himself. For this reason, Jesus admonishes us to abide in Him and never give up in prayer; and Paul encourages us to pray continuously (John 15:1-7; Luke 18:1-8; 1 Thess. 5:17).

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This newsletter highlights a special daythe Collegiate Day of Prayer. But why does it seem that we can so easily engage in prayer at special times such as the CDOP, prayer meetings, and church, but we often struggle with continuous personal prayer? Why do we so readily give up? Too often, our vision of God is not something that captures our own hearts. When we use our spiritual vision to look into the mysteries of God, we see a raging fire of purity, holiness, and love that piques our curiosity, shakes our lethargy, and draws our affections to Him. Rather than trying hard to focus on prayer, we find it hard not to be drawn to Him.

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Conversely, when we begin prayer with a focus on self, we miss this reality, and our prayers eventually wander and fade. Initially, focusing on who we are talking toindeed, who is in the room with usis more important than what we are saying. The raging fire of Gods Spirit also will not fill hearts bent on personal comfort, luxury, and less subtle forms of disobedience. Three times in the book of Revelation, Jesus holy presence is described by the piercing phrase, His eyes are like blazing fire. He is waiting before He draws near. What is Jesus waiting for? Hes waiting for us to humble our hearts, turn from the multitude of ways the world has captured our affections, and return to Him wholeheartedly. A humble, contrite heart is the one God desires to make His home (Isa. 57:15). We often spend five or ten minutes petitioning God and then wonder whats taking Him so long. But while He can do anything at the snap of a finger, He waits for good reason. Do you enjoy your friends, children, or grandchildren more when they need something from you in a hurry, or when they come and share their hearts with you? Prayer is much more about delighting in Gods presence, sharing our hearts with Him, and understanding what is on His heart . . . and that takes time. What if we became captured with the presence of the living God and spent extended time with Him? What if while praying we resisted the constant distractions of texting, Facebook, email, movies, TV, video games, reading, etc., and decided to keep seeking Him until meaningful heart engagement took place? I believe the mysterious, raging fire of purity, holiness, and love would be ours.

Jesus never taught

his disciples how to preach, but he did teach them how to pray. Andrew Murray

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Crying Out Across the Nation . . .

Within the United States, there are over 500 federally recognized Native American tribes. During CDOP at Haskell Indian Nations University many of these nations gathered together to prayOnly 2 weeks after CDOP, I saw the largest gathering of Native students worshiping Jesus Ive seen in the last five years of laboring here. It brings joy to my heart to see this urgent call to prayer and sharing the message of Jesus being carried by these Native American leaders. Praise God!
Haskell Indian Nations University Lawrence, KS

Igniting Hearts Transforming Campuses Our vision is to see the body of Christ on college and university campuses experience life in Jesus Christ on such a deep, powerful, contagious level that lives are changed and campuses are transformed for the glory of God.

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We gathered in the quad of our campus - we had some faculty join us and 9 students including myself. I felt a completely different peace over the school, and just a joy around us. People would watch us and some would look at us weird, but others would just watch and I truly felt God was touching their hearts.
Taft College Taft, California

Our prayer meeting was held at the Russell Union in a huge auditorium. There were at least 200 students there, maybe more. Lots of ministries were represented on campus, and there was lots of repenting...silent prayers... the atmosphere was filled with the awareness of God and the thankfulness of what Christ has done and the urgency for churches and cities to be in unity.
Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA