Liberty College college students are in awe of how God touched the hearts of a whole bunch of younger individuals throughout a 24-hour prayer and worship service held final week.
Liberty's Workplace of Religious Growth (OSD) usually coordinates 24/7 prayer and different particular prayer occasions all through the educational 12 months.
However this 12 months OSD organized a service and prayer to coincide with the Nationwide Collegiate Day of Prayer final Thursday.
And the turnout shocked your entire scholar physique.
Daniel Spinney, a third-year spiritual research scholar, instructed Ok-LOVE that he normally doesn't see greater than 10 individuals within the Worley Prayer Chapel at one time.
“After we received there, there was a line out the door that I've by no means seen earlier than at a prayer chapel,” he defined. “There have been so many individuals who couldn't even match into the chapel that they began worshiping and praying outdoors on the garden in entrance of the chapel…it was about 30 levels outdoors however they have been undaunted.”
Spinney describes these experiences as a uncooked and actual expertise of assembly God.
“It was like nothing I've ever skilled earlier than. There have been so many individuals the place after we have been singing, we have been singing so loud that we couldn't even hear the microphones and the choir singing over the audio system.” the voices of the individuals within the room have been simply drowning out the microphones,” he added.
OSD works all year long to help college students to develop of their religion.
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Day by day at 6am the Worley Chapel of Prayer opens for college students and employees to return and pray alone or with others.
From 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on weekdays, college students, primarily Neighborhood Group Leaders (CGLs), take turns praying, in response to Liberty College.
Within the night, some dormitories take turns praying in a single day for your entire semester.
“We wish to train them easy methods to pray of their corridor and watch them develop over the 4 years they've been right here,” mentioned prayer ministry assistant Kara Wheeler. “It's superb to see their transformation…”
Final 12 months, LU Shepherds, the college's pastoral care workforce, began a 9-5 prayer initiative on choose days that included church providers.
“We're doing these occasions now to determine a tradition of prayer,” mentioned LU Shepherd Director Brandon Milks. “We wish to create an understanding that prayer isn’t just at sure occasions of the day or on the occasions we maintain, however that it’s really the cornerstone of life.”
The February initiative coincided with the Nationwide Collegiate Day of Prayer, which CBN Information reported was a day of centered prayer to unfold revival throughout school campuses and universities.
That day, Liberty college students lined the Worley Prayer Chapel for almost 24 hours searching for the Lord.
“It was superb,” mentioned one present scholar. “I believed I used to be going for an hour and ended up staying for 20 hours. I misplaced my voice.”
“It was actually highly effective,” commented one other scholar who confirmed up for the midnight service. “The Lord confirmed up cool… It was actually overflowing outdoors. It was so cool.”
College students confirmed that at the least 300 college students confirmed up.
“God moved in some ways. [People] he was ready in line to get into the prayer chapel. There was only a complete group of individuals worshiping outdoors…it was so evident that the Holy Spirit was on this campus,” commented a younger girl.
“It was a life-changing expertise,” added one other.
Spinney instructed Ok-LOVE, “I received to expertise a bit little bit of heaven on earth. Being in a room full of individuals worshiping and singing was like nothing else.” 
