Collegiate Day of Prayer Global: 40-Day Prayer GuideSample

Day 18: Seek God

By Sergey Shidlovskiy (Sergey is the founder of the international Christian mission “God Seekers Movement,” the largest Christian prayer movement in the Russian-speaking world. Pastor Sergey lives in Estonia with his family.)

Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

—2 Chronicles 14:7 (KJV)

What do people dream about in our time? The same things people dreamed about thousands of years ago: to earn money, build a career, influence the world, become famous—and to have good health, a happy family, a united society, and a peaceful life. They also dream to "make about them walls" so that they do not lose and no one takes their gains away. It is with such motivation that many young people go to college and university.

King Asa achieved all of these things and revealed the key to prosperity: Seek God. Find Him, and you will find everything. The further you are from God, the worse it gets; the closer you are to God, the better it gets. This is true because God is the source of all blessings.

Everyone must understand this. But in understanding this truth, there is one danger—we can make God merely a means to achieve our goals. Whatever your main goal is will also become your god. Look at the words of King Asa: "...we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us…."

There is a difference between seeking gifts or seeking the Giver, healing or the Healer, revival or the Reviver. We can seek God for the sake of His gifts or we can seek God for the sake of God. Let there be no other gods before Him. Seek God for the sake of God. He is worthy!

If we have everything but do not have God, we have nothing. If we have nothing but God, we have everything.

Seek God.

PRAYER POINTS:

• Pray that God sends a spirit of seeking Him to all campuses. No one can seek God in his or her self-righteousness but only by God’s mercy. Seek Him so that all glory may be to Him.
• Pray that God raises up modern-day King Asas: politicians, architects, businesspeople, creatives, scientists, economists, and others who will "seek God and He will give them rest on all sides, and they will build and have success."
• Pray that "rest on every side and prosperity" do not overshadow the main value—God as a Person. May He always come first.