Prayer = Change

lHey Everyone,

This week Tami is taking a vacation from journaling everyone and I thought I would give blogging a try. God is amazing. Everyday we are more excited by what God is doing in our generation. Even this past 24 hours we had non-stop prayer and worship from Friday night Saturday night. It was amazing to see people passionately running after God through different styles of worship, praying for our nations, praying for our outreach locations, praying for one another and just plain enjoying

Now there were certain times we needed to be in the prayer room because each outreach team covered an hour, but many spent hours crying out to God. One guy stayed in the room for the whole 24 hours. But it isn’t just about the prayer, it is about having relationship with Jesus. It amazes me so much that the one far above all rule, power, authority and dominion (Eph. 1:20-21) wants to have deep friendship with us. It amazes me that this God who laid the foundations of the earth intimately knows us. He has numbered the hair on our heads. He is not one who is far off but one who is longing to show is goodness. Many of the students, after having a day of prayer, noticed the difference in each other’s faces and stature. Just as a quick story cause I love amazing stories. There was a man in the early 19th century in New York city who sought God on how to reach people. The Lord told him to send out invitations to people and tell them he is having a praying meeting once a week over lunch for an hour. In this time in the United States the church was on a downward turn and many were turning away from God. I believe if I remember correctly that someone even declared in the next generation there would be no one following Christ. So he sent out thousands of invites and only 20 people showed. Then the next week 40 and it is said it almost doubled on a weekly basis. Then even started making the lunch bell 5 minutes early and 5 minutes late so that people would have time to get to the nearest church and pray for the lunch hour. That year in the United States of America 1,000,000 people were added to the church, in today's terms, that would be like 6 million people (The Layman's Prayer Revival)! It is absolutely amazing that when we pray, God moves in a way that draws people to himself. Everyday we get to pray together as a school for nations, people, spheres of society and get to hear testimonies of how our prayers are making a difference. Tami’s friend Emma goes to the famous St.Andrews University in Scotland and she led a 24/7 prayer week with her friends in the same week. They put together a really good video that shows what we’re all going after through prayer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRekujFQm1U). See you next time! Peace,

Jon