After See Your At The Pole Ends

SYATP 2012 at Olathe South High School

See You At The Pole (SYATP), which birthed the Global Student Day Of Prayer, started in 1990 with a group of students in Texas who had the idea to meet at the flag pole for prayer before school. As the vision spread, and more schools caught the vision, they coordinated to meet on the same day, and quickly the idea gained national attention and became an annual occurrence that has spread to schools around the world! 

SYATP was one of the first nationally successful attempts to rally students to pray at their school. After several Supreme Court cases continually removed God and prayer from school, this was the first real attempt to return prayer to America's schools that took root. Once a year, all of the Christians in school gather to unite in prayer before school, but the vision can't end there...

The devil's rage has all but totally removed God and prayer from our schools. With the growing sentiment towards tolerance and equality, student's religious rights are shrinking. Most schools would rather remove all religious student activities than have to navigate opposing religions. Back in January, 2012, I posted a blog where I outlined the reasons why religious equality really is impossible. It is a farce to think that all faiths can be treated equally, and it is foolish to assume that Christian students will continue to have the privileges they have now with the current course of our nation. Something has to change.

Scripture outlines a prophetic timeline that describes very well the hour we live in today. As we continue to approach the return of Jesus, both wickedness and righteousness will increase across the earth (Matthew 13:30). We can see this very clearly in the culture we live in today. On one hand, you have the 'religious tolerance' groups silencing the church, but on the other hand the Lord is raising up a movement of prayer for revival among students around the world! Satan is raging against this generation, I believe, because he sees the potential in this student movement to turn America back to God! Yet the wickedness increases.

It is clear that youth ministry as it is is not working. Statistically, we're losing an entire generation. We cannot assume that See You At The Pole will even be allowed next year and go on coasting through our teenage years. The Lord is calling students to wake up and pray not just one day a year, but to get lives of prayer like Daniel!

Allow me to make a prediction, according to my own observations. I think that very soon gatherings like See You At The Pole will face the threat of this antichrist religious tolerance deception and will actually no longer allowed at most schools. Did you know that already Christian groups on college campuses are being ordered to allow students from other religious to join their leadership team or be forced to shut down? Exclusivity is quickly becoming a reason to shut religious groups down on school campuses! BUT, I also predict that while See You At The Pole may be forced to end, daily prayer meetings for revival will spring up all across the nation! What is the loss of one day of prayer at the flag pole when students on that campus are praying daily for revival. It's already happening!

My prayer is that the church would wake up and answer 2 Chronicles 7:14, that students everywhere would mobilize into prayer groups and become missionaries in their schools that we would see America turn back to righteousness! I believe there is still great hope for America, if we pray, and if we act.

Is it so impossible to think that at age 15 your prayers are effecting what school will be like for your children? What will school be like 20 years from now? The answer to that question is in your prayers...