Prayer: Connecting with God

Hello,

I think one of the most tremendous privileges that we have as believers is to be able to talk to the Lord of the Universe - to be able to boldly approach His throne in prayer!

"Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need." Hebrews 4:16

"Again , I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them." Matthew 18:19-20

We talk about prayer a lot, and all know its important, yet we often struggle to actually pray!

How can we help create a culture of prayer on campus? Here are a few ideas:

• At your weekly meetings: open and close with prayer, occasionally have times of corporate prayer during the meeting, have people turn in groups of 3 or 4 to pray for a certain topic.


• During Bible study: make an effort to have a time of prayer for one another, write down prayer requests on an index card and each person pulls one out and prays for that person during the upcoming week


• Try setting up prayer partners or triplets for those that want to meet for prayer and accountability


• Prayer chain: have people sign up who would like to participate and when someone has an urgent prayer request, they can call the first person on the prayer chain, and that person calls the next person and so on... You could also set up a prayer email list serve.


• Set up a prayer table on campus: reserve a table in the student union and have a sign for people to come over and share a prayer request. You may also want to have some articles to handout or info about your ministry, but the emphasis would be to encourage people to share their prayer requests. Don't forget to actually pray for them! If they are okay with it, you can do this right then and there!

It is great to pray for people's physical concerns (my aunt has cancer, my brother broke his leg) or concerns about school, work etc. However don't forget to pray for spiritual needs! Pray for friends & family to come to Christ, pray for the lost on your campus. Pray for revival. Expand your vision and the vision of those in your ministry beyond the temporal, focus also on the eternal! It is important to ask God to bring students to Christ, help our ministries grow, and change the culture/environment on our campuses. Please take a few minutes to check out some more ideas and information related to building a movement of prayer on campus at the Godsquad website: http://www.godsquad.com/prayer/index.htm Then choose an idea or two to put into action on your campus!

We are praying for you!