The Forever Prayer Vigil

I just spent an entire hour praying; I prayed for the campus, the students, the faculty and staff, the community, the unity, the spiritual warfare and my own life. I sat on my bed, with my Bible and the piece of paper with all the ideas for things to pray for during that one hour that I signed up for. I picked Monday @ 2 p.m. Why? Because there was no way that I wanted to get up at 3:00 a.m. and pray for one hour when I could be sleeping. Selfish much or in need of my rest? Oh, probably both.

I think the idea of the prayer vigil is a wonderful idea to really get the campus filled and showered with God's Word and God's love. I mean, I'm sure at some points, people forget that they signed up for a time, so for that one hour, there is nothing going on. I don't think that's a bad thing by any means, but maybe that person then makes it up later (when, at that time, two people might be praying at the same time.) However, could something happen in that hour, something horrible, just because someone forgot to pray? Oh, probably.

But if you think about it, this prayer vigil is only taking place in a one week span of time. That means that all other weeks, there is not usually someone praying for our campus and it's needs. Does bad stuff happen then? Oh, probably.

I believe that prayer really does change things; otherwise, why would we even do it or believe that it works? 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 specifically says, PRAY CONTINUALLY. What the heck does that mean? Well, obviously it means that we are to be in constant prayer with God. What the heck does that mean? Well, obviously we need to always be talking to him and thinking about him - that's what I think. That's what I mean by the forever prayer vigil. But, that is mighty hard to do when we have homework to do, blogs to write, people to talk to and places to go. God also says "Because your love is greater than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands." Psalm 63:3-4. Everything that we say and everything that we do and everything that we think is supposed to be glorifying to God - praising to God. How come we don't always do that? It's hard, I will definitely admit to that. But I think it can be done. I think we need to have a Forever Prayer Vigil - but I don't think it needs a sign up sheet. We need to live our lives worthy of the one that made it worthy to live. We need to always have God in our thoughts, heart, words and actions. This is something that I have been working on in my heart since school ended last semester, and continue to strive towards that goal and that lifestyle. Can we do that? Can I do that? Oh, probably :)