Join this HeartCry Prayer- Every Friday 11.30am-6.30pm (UK time)
Why is it important to invest prayers for students?
Adolescence and young adults experience a myriad of changes occurring simultaneously and in rapid succession. It is a period of making crucial choices that can make an indelible mark on their life and destiny. Focus is emphasised on all aspects of their lives except their eternity.
Peculiarities about this age:
- A time for making choices and decisions.
- Prime time for laying foundations (career, marriage, destiny).
- A season of great strength, zeal and vitality.
- A crucial stage for perspective taking and querying.
- A season for warfare i.e. where do I pitch my tent? Christ or Baal?
Other issues that confront students at this stage:
- Their capacities for thinking and reasoning begin to mature.
- Their social worlds expand as peer groups become more important.
- Emotional responses become more intense.
- Development of a sense of self identity (spiritual identity, self esteem, self efficacy, body image).
- Formation of character and direction.
- Reaching legal driving age and then legal adulthood.
- Leaving their family home and establishing independence.
- The true self emerges with precipitants such as sense of freedom from leaving home and peer pressure.
- Meeting and establishing lifelong friends.
What is the counsel of God for students?
- Do not let the excitement of being young cause you to forget about your Creator. Honour Him in your youth before the evil years come—when you will no longer enjoy living. (Eccl 12:1 TLB)
- If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Ps. 11:3 KJV)
Prayer Points:
- Help our students make the decision to pitch their tent with CHRIST.
- Make it clear that they are in the midst of a raging battle-: battle for their SOUL; battle for their HEART; battle for their focus; battle for their affections and mind.
- Let it dawn on students that the enemy wants to be part of their foundation laying.
- Open the eyes of our students to understand that a tampered foundation may be irreversible and the best time to destroy a glorious future is in the youthful days.
- Raise an alarm in their hearts of the need to sincerely and fully partner with CHRIST if they are to become something in life.
Join this HeartCry Prayer- Every Friday 11.30am-6.30pm (UK time)
