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"Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence."
-Martin Tupper

"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."
-Apostle Paul (as he wrote in Ephesians 3)

I know there are many who want to see Jesus lifted high at Iowa State this semester. We want a new wave of souls saved, we want to see prodigals come home, we want to see Saul-to-Paul conversions. The list goes on-- we want to see a fresh coat of purity and holiness cover this campus like the the January snow, replacing the late-March ditch sludge of sexual immorality. We want to see the Church rise up and send laborers from this place to go throughout the globe and bring the kingdom in every way possible.

All of these are in vain unless we pray.

Now I want to be clear that you can pray from anywhere. You can bow your head and close your eyes before you eat your meal in the UDCC. You can keep a dialogue with the Lord going in the back of your mind as you sit in class. You can partner up with your roommate and hit your knees in your apartment. We need to be lifting him up everywhere, that the fragrance of prayer is just carried with us.

But, there is something special about setting apart certain times and certain places to cry out to the Lord. We are extremely fortunate this semester at Iowa State to have a certain place available to all students. And we our doubly fortunate that we have been given a certain time, too--all the time. Through the watches of the night, through the weekends, through the early mornings.

We have that place set apart. St. John's Episcopal church has graciously volunteered to allow access to their chapel for students to be praying around the clock. I bet you've see St. John's before, you may not remember it though:


Just picture lots of snow and ice, the google map pic was taken a few months ago. Enter the back, on the side furthest from Lincoln Way. The room is labeled as the "chapel." They also just ask that you take your shoes off, so that we're not tracking too much sand and salt in there with all our extra traffic.

Let's get after it. What might the Lord do?
"And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly." Luke 18:7-8