Summer Can Be The Shift

I'm in the prayer room at the International House of Prayer and I've been thinking about the impact that each summer has on teenagers. I remember my summers and mostly the desire to do nothing during them. I remember going into vacation mode and just goofing off year after year. Then there was one year where God apprehended me. Suddenly I was given a vision and a purpose for my life that I could pursue. Suddenly I had something to do with all of my time, and my focus became the evangelization of my high school.

Summer can set the course for an entire school for years to come. In my case, one summer set the course of the whole Olathe School District for years to come.

Understanding this, I have been praying that God will apprehend many of high school students the same way he took hold of me. In one night God gave me a vision for my school, and that school year was different than any before because of it. What if that happened to 10 or 20 or even 50 students in Kansas City. Suddenly high school students walk into the school year no longer coasting through classes, tossed around by every opinion of their peers, but with a heavenly vision to lead their schools into revival. The most dangerous thing to the kingdom of darkness is a teenager with a vision, no joke.

For a long time now, I have been praying for the schools in Olathe that the Lord would send leaders with a vision for prayer and for a change. Many come and go, but it's those who have really encountered God's heart for their school who really stick with it. Those are the students who will wake up early and pray in secret when no one else sees.

Pray with me for the youth of this nation, that God would awaken them from the culture of coasting. Pray that they would be encountered by God's heart for their schools and they would return to their schools with a vision for revival. Pray for Shawnee Mission Northwest, Blue Valley Southwest, and Olathe East. Don't be afraid to name schools even near your hometown and begin to play an active role in the heavens.