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Why Students in Kentucky Have Been Praying for 250 Hours
The Free Press ^ | 2/19/23 | Olivia Reingold

Posted on 02/20/2023 10:31:45 AM PST by 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.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: asburycollege; asburyrevival; asburyuniversity; bloggers; chapel; kentucky; revival; youth
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To: RoosterRedux

They like to hire many Mormons for some reason as do many of the intelligence agencies as most Mormon job candidates seem able to pass lie detector tests. Most people who often fail federal lie detector tests do so because they are honest. “Have you ever stolen anything in your life” “Yes”...instant fail.


41 posted on 02/22/2023 7:17:28 AM PST by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: Elsie

Not specifically. I know very little. Just to note that faculty (and adults in general) are typically impervious to Dionysian movements.


42 posted on 02/22/2023 7:19:10 AM PST by aspasia
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To: SouthernClaire

Amen Sister. We may be witnessing the beginning of the latter day Outpouring. We are in the last of the last days before that Trumpet sounds. Thanks for the ping.

2 Chronicles 7:14
King James Version

14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.


43 posted on 02/22/2023 3:59:59 PM PST by patriot torch
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To: Salvavida

You don’t have to respond to them.


44 posted on 02/22/2023 6:03:36 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: mdmathis6

Damned with faint praise


45 posted on 02/22/2023 6:04:32 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie; admin

You added me to a message in which I didn’t originate. I asked you to stop. You are refusing. That is harassment.

If I post and you wish to respond, fine. But you are harassing when you add me when I specifically asked you not.

I don’t want to hear from you on posts having nothing to do with me.


46 posted on 02/22/2023 6:53:03 PM PST by Salvavida (“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”)
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To: Salvavida
If I post and you wish to respond, fine.

OK; I'll add you to my list of Thin-Skinned People who say others are unteachable and do no wish to be challanged.

47 posted on 02/23/2023 3:45:24 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

My favorite lie detector story(and true as far I can verify it, knowing the nurse personally) involved a husband of said nurse who was going for a federal job in a field he was good at. Part of the hiring process was to be able to pass a lie detector test. He faced an African American technician who was asking the questions and operating the machine and did the final analysis. The usual questions ran well but the tech added one question of his own...”Are you a racist?”(the job applicant was white) Thinking quickly on his feet the job applicant said ...”Oh hell yeah!: despite the question not being on the standard list and despite the fact that the applicant didn’t have a racist bone in his body according to his wife. The technician passed the applicant who then asked him....”So what if I had said no I wasn’t a racist and the machine showed that I was telling the truth?” The tech said he still would have failed him because he just knew “that all white people were racists and couldn’t let any white person through who had somehow cheated the test!”!!!!

That’s when I knew that the whole racism /woke crap was a whole bunch of gaslighting hooey that can go to the Blazes as far as I’m concerned...and Lie detector tests can go there too!


48 posted on 02/23/2023 6:26:30 AM PST by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: InkStone

Yes,I agree. That book is the best,,,really amazing what the Lord did through that group of intercessors.


49 posted on 02/23/2023 3:32:13 PM PST by Cedar
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