Why Students in Kentucky Have Been Praying for 250 Hours

The Free Press ^ | 2/19/23 | Olivia Reingold

[CFW]

For the last four years at her Christian college, Gracie Turner had been keeping a secret.

She had lost her faith.

In high school, she watched cancer ravage her great-grandmother. Then she saw her family fall apart. One fight drove her to call the police on a relative.

“I just remember thinking, why is this happening? How could this happen? And my first thought, or first person to blame was God,” Turner, a 21-year-old film major, told me. “I would lay in bed sometimes and just pray to God, like, it would be really nice if I didn’t wake up tomorrow.”

When she got to Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, she was required to go to chapel three times a week for college credit. But she never believed God would fix anything, since life only seemed to be getting harder between the anxiety, depression, and recent back injury that brought her to a “breaking point.”

[RoosterRedux]

Yep. Here's a thread from yesterday here at FR. Vy exciting .

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[Chode]

yup, that stream is coming up on 12hours live

[Ciaphas Cain]

Lost that feeling many years ago. God hears prayers of those He favors and ignores the rest.

I know precisely how you feel, because for a very long time that was me too.

I was very angry at God, that He listened to the prayers of others but whenever mine went up He turned a deaf ear.

It's taken some time but I see now that He was hearing every one of them. He was also working overtime to keep me from many of the things I was praying about, because in retrospect those turned out to have not been for my well-being.

Long story short, I can see His hand at work in my life better than I could before. But that doesn't come overnight.

Just please know that you're in company with others. PLENTY of others :-)

[Cedar]

For the past 5 months I’ve felt the need to pray so much more than I had been. It’s like the Lord has been drawing me more to prayer and reading the Bible for most of the day. Other activities have been set aside. I’m on a seasonal layoff at work, so that has helped keep me focused more on seeking God and His will, and also intercessory prayer.

[HereInTheHeartland]

I have been following two FB threads on this.
A constant stream of posts from ordinary people who are giving first hand accounts.
It’s amazing and it’s genuine.
It’s starting to really overwhelm the university however.

I thought of going out there. But it’s spreading as it should. I think the people of Wilmore need a break now

[InkStone]

Many say the VERY best book on prayer (other than the Word) is “Rees Howells, Intercessor” by Norman Grubb.

If you’re serious about Learning About Prayer, get this book.

BTW: thru this man’s prayers (and those of his Bible students) the course of World War 2 was changed!

[InkStone]

“God hears prayers of those He favors and ignores the rest.”
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How do you define “those He favors” ??

If you mean ‘born again’ then probably yes. Why should He hear those who belittle the priceless shed blood of Christ?

Yet our God is merciful, and yes, He may hear the pleas of the lost.

In which camp are you?

[RCFlyer]

Thanks for post #18.
Bob

[daniel1212]

Sounds like Grace. Glory to God. I keep expecting to see some liberal denigration in the article, but it was not in this one. Thank God

[metmom]

I spoke to a very close friend who knows some people at Asbury and she said it was genuine and anyone who comes in and tries to derail it is politely, but firmly asked to leave and is escorted out.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Devils and Demons (The FBI, CIA and basically the rest of Gov’t and every American institution) hate Jesus. They would be repulsed by the Holy Ghost.

[SouthernClaire]

“Sounds like Grace. Glory to God.”

Amen, brother. God is better to us than He has reason to be. Glory, glory, glory.

[miserare]

Maybe some of the fibbies will be converted.

Stranger things have happened.

Just look at St. Paul.

[miserare]

Yes. I feel the same.

I can’t get down on my knees anymore (arthritis) but I pray in all other positions and at random, day and night.

These kids at Asbury are an inspiration.

[SouthernClaire]

This should make every single Christian - wherever they may be - thankfully go to God in praise for what He is now accomplishing.

You’ll really appreciate this article, Patriot.

[Elsie]

“Whom the gods would destroy...

[Elsie]

I hope Salvavida doesn't find this thread, or he'll bring his wet blanket to the party.

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1 Corinthians 3:4-9 niv

4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere human beings?
5 What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 
6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. 
7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 
8 The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor. 
9 For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.

[Elsie]

I’ll like it when it takes over faculty.

Do you know something about the faculty that needs to be shared here?

[Salvavida]

Don’t add me to any of your posts. Appreciate it.

[mdmathis6]

Yes, I have had those same deep feelings of grief and joy since Asbury...and a kind of grieving for the nation especially over the exploitation sexually of our children by ruthless socialist woke persons. Everything is out of kilter and we are about to be slammed hard. The nation’s Christians need to be prepped for it for Christ is our only hope to get out of the chaos we are in.