We had our second Prayer Congress a couple weeks ago. For students who are interested in going deeper and learning more about Prayer and how to lead Prayer Movements on their campus, we have this monthly training. It involves worship, some teaching, a lot of application, questions, and prayer time. It's evolving to be a great resource to students (not my words, this is feedback from the participants). But at the end, one thing happened that absolutely broke my heart.
The son of one of the speakers had come along to participate. He goes to a University in Pennsylvania, and is really involved there. At the end of the day, when we were doing Q & A, Jacob asked if we could come and do one of these at his school. He said it kind of joking, and we all laughed. As we closed in prayer, though, he asked again, and said how that there are people on his campus that desperately need this. There is this desire to come together in prayer, desire to see transformation happen on their campus, and they just don't know how to do it. Jacob said, "Can you bring this Prayer Congress to PA?"
All I could do is hang my head. The Macedonian Vision passage came to mind: "A vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing and appealing to him, and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” (Acts 16:9). This was no vision, but a bold face request. My heart broke, because we have the training, that particular resource, but we don't have the people and the funds to make it happen easily - we are just not enough. The hunger in his voice as he plead, and the emotion that broke his voice just undid me.
We are going to do our best to go, no worries. This is the harvest field we are in. Please continue praying for more workers!
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