A Commitment to Pray

Prayer is the number one commitment that we ask of our Campus Missionaries. I think the five commitments should not be just for our Youth Alive Campus Missionaries, but it is a good commitment for us all.

Prayer is the fuel for our very spiritual existence. E. M. Bounds stated, "Prayer is far reaching in it influence and its gracious effects. It is an intense and profound business that deals with God and His plans and purposes, and it takes wholehearted men to do it. No halfhearted, half-brained, half-spirited effort will do for this serious, all-important, heavenly business. The whole heart, the whole brain, and the whole spirit must be engaged in the matter of praying, which is to affect so mightily the characters and destinies of men."

Think about it with me for a moment. In Youth Alive we challenge students to reach students. Should not that be all the challenge to all of us. People reaching people. Somebody once said that all we are is one beggar telling another one where to find bread. It all begins in prayer.

I challenge you that where ever you are in your prayer life to kick it up a notch. Kick it up in time, passion, direction, and intensity.