I got quite a response to my February article on the National Collegiate Day of Prayer that took place on February 26, 2010. There was a great surge of prayer on that day that I believe will acclerate in the coming years.

One coalition that is promoting collegiate prayer is Campus America,  a bold network of young people who believe that a great awakening is coming to the college and university campuses of America that could lead this nation into a much needed reformation. Their focus on 24/7 Prayer Rooms is a global strategy that we're instituting this year at our new YWAM headquarters in Port Orchard. Campus America is really on to something, because as Jonathan Goforth said over one hundred years ago: "What is the secret of revival? There is no secret. Revival always comes in answer to prayer."

Here's their story and vision to encourage you--and accelerate your own prayers.

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) had one of the greatest minds in history. Receiving his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Leipzig in 1869, he spent a major portion of his life teaching at Basel in Switzerland and writing from his chalet in the beautiful village of Sils Maria in the Swiss Engadine.

Though possessed with a brilliant mind and great breadth of knowledge, Nietzsche was an immoral man, engaging in numerous adulterous relationships. His lustful heart molded a deceived intellect that was the first to say, in the modern era, that God is dead. His concepts of "supermen" and the "will to power" greatly influenced both the rise of Nazism in his home country and Marxism in Russia. In 1869 he had a breakdown and ultimately went insane. He died on August 25, 1900, of syphilis. Though brilliant in mind, his impure heart had driven him to error, insanity, and finally death.

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As a lover of history, I was thrilled to learn on a nation-wide prayer conference call that the last Thursday in February was once designated as the Collegiate Day of Prayer. That tradition went on for over one hundred years in America as collegians, parents, churches, and even school children cried out to God for revival on America's colleges and and universities.

In many different decades, God answered those prayers and helped direct the destiny of our nation through spiritual awakenings on campus.

On the last Thursday of February--February 25--many of us will be reviving that great and important tradition. The First Thursday in May is now firmly established as the National Day of Prayer. We want to re-establish the Last Thursday in February as the Collegiate Day of Prayer--a sacred day to pray college and university students.

Will you place February 25 on your calendar as the Collegiate Day of Prayer and gather with your friends to seek God's face?

Here is the full story to inspire your praying...

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Prayer has always been the fuel of Christian missions. Jesus Himself set the standard when he began his ministry with forty days of fasting and prayer. Afterwards he returned in the “power of the Holy Spirit” and people flocked to his message.  Later Jesus chose twelve apostles after a night of prayer, and sent them out to share the Good News.  In the Matthew nine passage above we see Jesus engaged in mission activity in various towns that made his heart ache and caused him to exclaim: “What a huge harvest! “How few the workers!” He then announced the key to future success: “On your knees and pray for harvest hands!”

Though we don’t fully understand the whys of prayer, we do know that God has designed the moral universe around its efficacy. Without prayer, God doesn’t act. Through prayer, people’s lives are changed. It might be said that prayer gives an impartial God a reason to be partial in someone’s life. 

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Today we remember that infamous day of January 22, 1973 when the United States Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade put every conceived child in America at risk of premature death.

Fifty million of them have met that cruel fate in the past thirty-seven years.

They say the currently-debated health care bill will affect one-sixth of our economy. The abortion industry has already done so. In the past four decades we have killed over one sixth of our population. That' the staggering consequence of a very bad law.

Over one hundred thousand people died recently in the Haiti earthquake. We were stunned, wept, donated money and sprang into action to care for the dead and help the living. But fifty million fellow Americans have been slaughtered by abortion on demand at the shrine of convenience and sexual promiscuity during the last four decades--and we've hardly blinked an eye.

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