Tuesday, June 19, 2007

The Blueprint: Handbook for Revival on Campus

Book by Jaeson Ma..
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Foreword for "The Blueprint" by, Lou Engle
As I write this foreword, tears run down my face. I am praying and believing for such a revival to sweep our nation that homosexuals by the thousands could be transformed. My cry is that a bridal love could seal a generation’s heart in such a way that sexual sin could be quenched by a love stronger than death—a flame far hotter than the flames of pornography and lust. My prayer is that abortion, the greatest injustice of our day by which God sifts and judges nations, could be exorcised by a great people who could suffer and seize the day—a people much like those great generations in the days of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr., who let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

I dream of an awakening in universities in America that will shake humanism and its professors like a terrier shakes a rat in its teeth. I dream that Christian students would become more radical than anarchists, and that the preaching of Christ and the healing power of God would create riots in the public squares . . . that fraternity houses with sons of Greek philosophy would be taken over by the sons of Zion with their 24/7 houses of prayer! But is it merely a dream? No! A thousand times, no! We are in the throes of a great reformation of prayer. In the past two years, spontaneously and almost undirected by human hands, student-run houses of 24/7 prayer have popped up in colleges all across the nation. When God is getting ready to do something atomic, He always sets His people to praying. It seems that our universities are going to be ground zero for the revival balm of God.

Thousands of our churches’ sons and daughters have been taken captive by the wisdom of fools. They have rejected revelation for speculation and have spun out of control into the sexual seduction of the antichrist culture produced by the pagan professors and present-day prophets of Baal. God is demanding a new breed—a new leadership with a commanding moral vision that will lead our Christian clubs out of cruise control and into commanding destiny. A new apostolic witness is being demanded in our universities. Through fasting, prayer and dedication to a stand of no compromise, the Daniels of God are being forged into prophets who will be 10 times better than their peers in the hotly contested battleground for truth.

This is the new breed that will not be silent in the face of pressure to be politically correct. They are not the angry right; but neither are they those who cry “Peace, peace” when there is no peace. Their message and life is filled with compassion, but they will disturb the status quo by their unbending allegiance to a culture of life, love and the liberty to speak their faith and be heard.

This new breed is not interested in grades; they are committed to God alone. They are gathering into student communities—churches, if you will—of a righteous resistance to the culture of compromise. They are confessing their sins and confessing their Christ publicly. These little bands of Daniels will proliferate, and with their preaching and with their prayers they will permeate the current stifling atmosphere of the dominating darkness that remains virtually unchallenged in our universities today. A great light dawns! A new student mission movement is getting ready to rumble!

These are not just words! Words are taking on flesh and blood. The survivors of the abortion holocaust have been given the rod of deliverance and destiny. Jaeson Ma, my friend and compatriot in prayer, is one of those survivors who light my inward torch of zeal and generate within me spiritual groans for a Gideon greatness to expel our demons of defeat and despair. Jaeson is not one of those seminary-trained technicians of the Bible, but rather he has been summoned and sent by the Word of the Lord to preach the gospel of the Kingdom in the lions’ den of our universities. His book carries an authentic vision of hope that I believe will be the seed of the tree of life that will ultimately cut down the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that has found such fertile soil in our schools. That seed of the tree of life, though small and young, is nevertheless already sprouting with obvious Kingdom power and vitality.

This book is not theory. This spiritual revolution has actually begun; and of those who read this book, many will take up its message and run with it! That which most people would say is impossible could actually become possible. Harvard’s halls could be filled with heaven, and Berkeley’s rebellion could be betrayed by obedience! The students of this present day could become the professors of our schools tomorrow and disciple the next generation in wisdom and in righteousness.

So go on, Jaeson! May you and your comrades be strong and courageous! Just as Churchill, that great leader of men, declared, “History will speak kindly of me, for I intend to write it,” if you become the apostles of this present throbbing moment, history will speak kindly of you. If you win the universities, history will be your prisoner.

Lou Engle

President, Justice House of Prayer and The Call International

1 comment:

Karen said...

Cathy,

Having been a campus minister with a passion for that age group, I am stirred by this post. I had to "die" to that ministry as God was calling me to deeper character transformation. In fact, the death seemed so permanent, that, basically, I have not "looked back". Wonder if it truly IS dead? (In our area, there are 3 colleges/universities within a 10 mile radius. Coincidence? Who knows. *smile*)

Thanks for the post. May have to get the book.

Karen