A Call To Serve in 112 Days

Hey guys, here’s some info on a great opportunity I just found out about. It’s a way to serve the new freshmen on campus this fall, as they move into the residence halls during Welcome Week:

Join Sparky’s Welcome Team!

There is some training required, but I think we get free shirts, yay! =)

They want to have everyone signed up by May 1st, but I think it will be open until all slots are filled, so don’t delay.

My group has signed up for the early shift on August 15 & 17-- join us!!!

Blessings,

Reid

changing...

My favorite author at the moment is Henri Nouwen. And after coming off of a week of 24/7 prayer here at ASU, meeting a bunch of new friends who have the same passion, and just searching for a deeper experience in prayer myself, these ideas really struck a chord:

"Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched."
-- Henri J. M. Nouwen

"People who pray stand receptive before the world.
They no longer grab but caress
they no longer bite but kiss
they no longer examine but admire."
-- Henri J. M. Nouwen

So many times we pray -- trying to change things around us -- when maybe, the real purpose of prayer, is to change us....

-cindi

The Elite Covenant of Spartans

Yo. There was something really cool this Friday in the context of the 24/7 prayer. A speaker named Becky Tirabassi talked about what holds revival back. Revival is pretty much constant obedience to the Spirit of God, so revival can't come to this campus until it comes to the body of Christ. This is why it is so important that the church gets cleaned up. So much of the church is no different from the world, especially in terms of sexual immorality.

James5:16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

So we spent some time confessing our sins before God. He moved me to make a public confession of my sins of lust. More specifcally, not being pure with my eyes, and even looking at porn.

John 3:20-21 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light so that it may be seen plainly what what he has done has been done by God.

So I just wanted to get it out into the wide open. I have shared this with a few others before, but right now I just want to be completely transparent. I haven't done this before because I thought that I could bear the struggle on my own. And I might stand strong for a few weeks, a few months, maybe even a whole semester, and then stumble and fall again. And each time I would say to myself "This is the last time!" So I would confess to God and try to go on as though nothing had happened.

I'm sick of it. I HATE this sin! I can't express enough my deep, seething, undying, profound, burning, passionate hatred for this. I refuse to let it shame me anymore. I want everyone to know that I crucifying my flesh and I am not going back.

Some of you guys reading this have had, or are having the same problem. Me and Shawn are in the process of putting together a group to fight the evils of sexual immorality. Tentatively called the Elite Covenant of Spartans, (the name isn't final. It was just the manliest thing I could come up with on such short notice.) we intend to be open with each other and fight together as brothers.

Satan is a pimp. Don't be his ho. If you are struggling, talk to me as someone who understands. God has freed me, and I'm not going back. He will free you too.

Romans 6:14 For sin shall not be your master, for you are not under the law, but under grace.

Now is the time to worship and pray!

Today I visited Hope Christian's prayer meeting. It was amazing! So many people passionately praying like crazy! It made me think about ASU's intercessors~

Guys, now is the time to arise as prayer warriors and intercessors. If there was ever a time to let the Holy Spirit squeeze your heart, now would be that time. I believe we are in a crucial hour with many things hanging in the balance. I believe there are four very important events going on this next month:

1. The ASU House of Prayer
2. 7 days of 24 hour prayer
3. Worship and Prayer night with Becky Tirabassi
4. Rez week

I know I don't have to remind you all of these things, but I have been feeling such an urgency over ASU right now.

I feel like the father whose wife just went into labor. You know, like how you see in all of those old movies: The woman is rushed into the emergency room. The man just watches her go. He begins to pace around the room with a worried look on his face.

I am feeling such a holy anxiety over the birth of a holy revival at ASU.

We are all so close. Lets worship God and intercede for our brothers and sisters incessantly this next month. I think we're on the brink of something really beautiful.