Prayer in Schools

The student prayer movement is crucial to the future of Christianity in America. More and more, the youth are showing signs of massive deviation away from the Biblical truths upon which our nation was founded. In this moment in history, the Christian heritage of our nation is being removed from our schools, and the truth of Jesus is no longer tolerated. The need is dyer but we still have hope.

The youth do not need another hip teaching or cool youth group with the latest music and activities. The last thing they need are more games. Our schools don't need another Christian club or hidden Bible study, because soon there will be no one left to attend. To a teenager today, being a Christian means holding a set a morals and agreeing with a certain list of ambiguous beliefs. Hardly any of our churched teenagers are really introduced to a relationship with the living God. Teenagers are searching for a church that takes their faith seriously, and many are leaving Christianity because they have not found the authenticity that their hearts desire. This is a crisis.

Now in our schools, the Ten Commandments can no longer be displayed, teachers cannot ask who's birthday is celebrated by Christmas, teachers cannot be seen with Bibles, and no one can share the gospel because the pressure of political correctness. Something needs to change.

The answer is not more boldness. The answer is not another message. The answer is encounter with the living God. Christianity is not about another charismatic speaker. The earth is full of great messages and talented speakers. What we need is the revelation of Jesus on the heart level.

That is why prayer is essential. 2nd Chronicles 7:14, Daniel 9-10, Joel 2, Luke 18:1-8, and many other scriptures show us the profound impact of desperate prayer and returning to God, and no one is exempt. This move of God has to start within the church with desperate hunger for God. We need to give our students the living God. What is fun about such a crisis, every time in history, such a movement of God starts in the youth!

One of the Satan's greatest lies is the promise of tomorrow. We must give ourselves to the place of prayer, and if we really want to see a shift in the youth of America, it has to start in the schools. The catalyst event to revival in the youth is going to be the return of prayer to schools. That was the catalyst event in 1962 when prayer was removed and the school culture shifted to wickedness. Prayer can still happen through student-led gatherings. This movement of prayer in schools is not just another fad or another random initiative to give us something to do. It is the foremost opportunity to see a move of God in the youth of the nation, and its outcome holds the very future of Christianity in America.