Students On Fire
Students On Fire
“Even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit.” Acts 2:18
On this day, February 3, in the year of our Lord 1970, the manifest presence of Christ filled Hughes Auditorium at Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky. The Academic Dean, Custer Reynolds, was in charge of chapel. Rather than preaching, Dr. Reynolds chose to share a brief testimony and asked others to do the same. One after another, students came to the microphone, most of them in tears, confessing sin. Chapel continued through the next class. Classes were then suspended for the rest of the day. No one left for lunch, nor dinner. At times, every chair in the fifteen hundred capacity seat auditorium was occupied. Some stood around the walls. Others looked in from the doorways. People were kneeling everywhere.
Asbury’s President, Dr. Dennis Kinlaw, was out of the country at the time. When he called his office from a payphone in Calgary, Canada to ask how chapel went, his secretary answered, “Well, Dr. Kinlaw, it’s still going on. God has come to our campus.” Dr. Kinlaw later wrote that he could feel the presence of God fill the phone booth. He got the first flight back to Kentucky, got in his car, and drove to campus in the wee hours of the morning. When he drove on campus, he was immediately so overwhelmed by the sense of the presence of God, he pulled over and parked his car on the side of the road. He walked the rest of the way to chapel, entered the back of the auditorium, and sat down next to students. He was overwhelmed by God’s presence. That service continued for one hundred and eighty-five hours without interruption. In the next months, at least one hundred and thirty other colleges, seminaries, and Bible schools experienced a similar touch of revival. It is all recorded in the book One Divine Moment.
Father God, just as You promised, pour out Your Holy Spirit today on our students.
YEAR ON FIRE
© Fred A. Hartley, III
All rights reserved
Unless otherwise indicated, the English Standard Bible (ESV) is used.
This daily Christ-encountering, fire-starter is not intended to replace your daily Bible reading and prayer time, but rather to motivate you to spend extended time in His presence.
“Even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit.” Acts 2:18
On this day, February 3, in the year of our Lord 1970, the manifest presence of Christ filled Hughes Auditorium at Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky. The Academic Dean, Custer Reynolds, was in charge of chapel. Rather than preaching, Dr. Reynolds chose to share a brief testimony and asked others to do the same. One after another, students came to the microphone, most of them in tears, confessing sin. Chapel continued through the next class. Classes were then suspended for the rest of the day. No one left for lunch, nor dinner. At times, every chair in the fifteen hundred capacity seat auditorium was occupied. Some stood around the walls. Others looked in from the doorways. People were kneeling everywhere.
Asbury’s President, Dr. Dennis Kinlaw, was out of the country at the time. When he called his office from a payphone in Calgary, Canada to ask how chapel went, his secretary answered, “Well, Dr. Kinlaw, it’s still going on. God has come to our campus.” Dr. Kinlaw later wrote that he could feel the presence of God fill the phone booth. He got the first flight back to Kentucky, got in his car, and drove to campus in the wee hours of the morning. When he drove on campus, he was immediately so overwhelmed by the sense of the presence of God, he pulled over and parked his car on the side of the road. He walked the rest of the way to chapel, entered the back of the auditorium, and sat down next to students. He was overwhelmed by God’s presence. That service continued for one hundred and eighty-five hours without interruption. In the next months, at least one hundred and thirty other colleges, seminaries, and Bible schools experienced a similar touch of revival. It is all recorded in the book One Divine Moment.
Father God, just as You promised, pour out Your Holy Spirit today on our students.
YEAR ON FIRE
© Fred A. Hartley, III
All rights reserved
Unless otherwise indicated, the English Standard Bible (ESV) is used.
This daily Christ-encountering, fire-starter is not intended to replace your daily Bible reading and prayer time, but rather to motivate you to spend extended time in His presence.
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