Crying out for God

"It will come about after this
That I will pur our My Spirit on all
mankind;
And your sons and daughters will
prophesy,
Your old men will dream dreams,
Your young men will see visions.
Even on the male and female servants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days."
Joel 2:28-29 NASB

Today is the first day of the nation-wide 40-day Daniel Fast. The focus of this fast is for God to pour out His Spirit on college campuses all over America (and the world) and that their would be a third great awakening that sweeps across the United States and the world. In the focus of our prayers is that God would tear down the powers and principalities of intellectualism and humanism that have an intensely strong hold on the East Coast schools (especially the Ivy league schools). The Ivy league schools, which were founded to be Christian schools of higher learning, have ceased to be what they once were. In fact today, it could be that there is not any school farther away from God than these elite schools. They have turned their backs on God in return for knowledge and wisdom of the world. Forsaking all knowledge based on biblical principles or the life of Jesus and turning to secular humanism and secular intellectualism. I believe that God's desire is to tear down these powers that are controlling the secular school systems all over the world. I believe that He wants to destroy the wisdom of men that He might raise up of the wisdom of God before all men.

"Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work
Among this people,
A marvelous work and a wonder;
For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.”
Isaiah 29:14 NASB
"The wise men are put to shame,
They are dismayed and caught;
Behold, they have rejected the word of
the Lord,
And what kind of wisdom do they have?"
Jeremiah 8:9 NASB
“Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
Let not the mighty man glory in his might,
Nor let the rich man glory in his riches;
But let him who glories glory in this,
That he understands and knows Me,
That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness,
judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
For in these I delight,” says the LORD.
Jeremiah 9:23-24 NASB

Directly opposite to the disease of intelectualism that has quickly spread through colleges, is what these schools were first founded on...
Princton
“Cursed be all learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ."
-Rev. Jonathan Dickson (Princton's first president)
Dartmouth
School motto: “A Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness."
(This school's motto has not changed.)
Brown
Roger Williams founded the school “to train ministers and educate youth properly in the Christian faith.”

If you are crying out to God for a great revival to sweep across this nation, pray that God would grip the hearts of my generation who have been swept up in the wave of intellectualism. It has to start with us because we are the ones who have influence to set a standard and pattern for this generation and generations to follow. Ask God to have mercy on us, and to pour out His Spirit on us!! Pray Joel 2:28-29 over us, and pray that we would be filled with the Spirit and for the believers of my generation, that we would begin to speak with boldness (Acts 4:29-31) and proclaim the coming kingdom of Jesus to the earth. Pray that the 4% of my generation that claims to be Christian, would speak out and be heard as if they were the majority of my generation. Like John the Baptist, pray that we would be a voice of one crying in the wilderness and preparing the way for Jesus to come!