Sisters,
I’m going to periodically send out requests for prayer.
URBANA. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship runs an international missions conference for college students every4 years ( I think it’s four….may be wrong). Anyway. Thousands of young men and women attend this conference. many missionaries, campus workers, pastors, and general servants of the Most High God can point to an Urbana conference as a tipping point in their journey with Jesus and their calling in God’s kingdom work.
The Urbana conference is scheduled for this December. Already, prayer and intercession teams are forming to cover this powerful, important outreach to students. God has used this conference to light fires in people’s hearts and to get them to a place where they could hear Him say "Go" or "Stay" or "Move" or "Pray." Or many other instructions for "life and calling."
So, you KNOW the enemy has full-force opposition to this. God wants a new generation filled with fire and willingness to lay down their lives for the lost, the hurting, and the Kingdom of God revealed in the midst of this present darkness.
Will you pray with me for Urbana?
Remember the blog I wrote on intercession a couple of days ago?
Well, here’s how I suggest we enter this intercession:
Ask the Father what His will and heart is for Urbana and the students who will attend.
Agree with that. Add your Yes in praise and prayer. Speak that "yes" as positive, affirmation that our Holy Spirit can and will bring about the will of the Father.
Then, ask God Himself to act to bring about His will. As Him to work in the lives of these students. To soften and prepare hearts. To protect the staff and those young men and women He is already calling.
Then, Act Yourselves….Release and Declare in the heavens…Release the good and right will of God over the lives of these students and staff. Declare that God’s will is good and sovereign. Declare that what He showed you is on His heart is good and right and WILL come to pass. Cut off all hindrances and obstacles and interference in the name of Jesus. Release God’s calling over Urbana and everyone attending.
Thanks for adding your "yes" to the chorus. I think of our agreement as one more "tug" on the rope that brings God’s will into the world and resists the enemy.
Blessings,
Julia