Ask God

If you’re smart, you want God to lead you and provide for you. Why?

God can accomplish 1,000 times more than you can on your own. Each day, ask God to go before you, set the path.

In John 15, Jesus said, "By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit..."

So, that's God's goal. He wants you to bear fruit. He wants to produce results through you. He will lead. Your job is to abide in him, stay close to him, follow him.

Ask God for whatever you need. Jesus told his disciples, “Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.” (Jn 16:24) Helping students on your campus know Jesus is a bold endeavor. An exciting one. Ask God for what you need.

Ask him to give you love for the students on your campus.

Ask him to bring along students to do this with you. If you don't know any believers on your campus, pray for that!

As God provides, get together with these other Christians and pray with them for your campus. At the beginning you might only know one other Christian. That's ok. Jesus said, "Where two or three of you are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of you." Matt 18:20

For you personally: Set an alarm to pray every day for your campus. Once a week, walk through your campus, praying for the students in each area of the campus. Ask others to join you.

Here are some suggestions as you pray…

Each day, praise God for who he is, what he tells us about himself in the Bible. Thank him for your relationship with him, that you are declared righteous, forgiven, secure as his child, a recipient of his love and eternal life.

Tell God your desire for him to be Lord of your life, and to be led by the Holy Spirit. Confess your sins to him and thank him for his forgiveness, for Jesus’ death on your behalf, and that you now live under his grace.

Pray for students on your campus by name who need to know Jesus. It’s a good idea to make a list of those students. Each day ask God to move in their hearts, answer their questions, open their eyes, and give them a desire to know God.

Pray for students you don’t know, that God will lead you and others to be able to make Jesus “findable” to students on your campus, and perhaps on campuses beyond yours.

Pray for your own needs, that God will give you faith, lift your burdens, teach you how to trust him, guide you in his wisdom and his ways.

1Peter 5:5-7
“Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for ‘God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.’ Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”

Psalms 40:1-3
“I waited patiently for the Lord;
   he inclined to me and heard my cry.
He drew me up from the pit of destruction,
   out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock,
   making my steps secure.
He put a new song in my mouth,
   a song of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear,
   and put their trust in the Lord.”

Matthew 7:7,8
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.”

1John 5:14,15
“And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.”