Last Thursday at 9 p.m. we kicked off 24/7 prayer on campus. Students signed up from various Christian groups on campus to pray at all hours of the day and night for the campus, state, nation, world and for rest, reconciliation, and personal healing.
My hope and prayer is that this might turn into an annual thing. It's been fantastic for everyone involved thus far. I think that ten years from now we'll look back on this 24/7 prayer event as the spark that sent missionaries all over the globe and the turning point in terms of seeing a dramatic increase in the number of people coming to Christ.
But in the mean time, it's been a great opportunity to talk about the bigger Story. 24/7 prayer is a participatory thing.
Hebrews tells us that Jesus is always interceding perfectly before the Father for all people. 24/7 prayer has been happening for a long time. Our praying is always and only an echo of that perfect prayer. Not that it doesn't matter that we pray. Indeed, Revelations talks about the bowl of incence that is the prayers of the saints that are poured out on the earth as part of the bringing about the end and the beginning of the renewal of all things.
It's just that when we pray, be it at 2 a.m. or over our noon-day meal, it always behooves us to remember that prayers is always already happening. This is a participatory action, not a voice crying out in the dark inky void of the universe.
In fact, we would be wise to listen first. To see if we might catch some whiff of what is already being said, to see if we might join in concert with the Voice that is always going before the Father.
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