How do provide prayer support for an student event today?
It is important to avoid becoming formulaic or mechanistic in our corporate prayer structures – like “I put my penny in the box and out comes the chocolate bar.” “If we have five people in a room around the clock praying during the convention it will keep the demons away and God will do something” etc. It’s very easy for it to become that kind of humanistic strategy. Of course, I believe that the more the Lord’s people give themselves to prayer, and are really understanding that that is what they are doing – that they are calling in helplessness and weakness, that God will do what he sovereignly wishes to do. We would have prayer teams particularly at bigger occasions, or when there was some urgent issue on hand, but it may sometimes be from quite unexpected quarters. One of the people who was most significant in my husband’s generation at Cambridge was an old woman who had dropped out of school when she was twelve. She was in her eighties, she had never had any formal education, she l
