Collegiate Day of Prayer Global: 40-Day Prayer GuideSample

Day 40: The Absolute Worth of Jesus

By Dr. Jason Hubbard (Jason is the director of International Prayer Connect, a global prayer network calling the nations to exalt Jesus through united prayer.)

“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom, and strength and honor and glory and blessing!”

– Revelation 5:12 NKJV

In 1722, several persecuted Moravian families fled to East Germany and were blessed to build a small community on the estate of a wealthy aristocrat named Count Zinzendorf. Zinzendorf named this community Herrnhut, which means "the watch of the Lord." Zinzendorf had a passionate love for Christ, and as a college student, he started seven prayer groups at his university!

After five years, this small Moravian community experienced a powerful visitation of the Holy Spirit on August 13, 1727. It was described as a “baptism of love” because God's love was shed abroad in their hearts and poured out in love for one another (Romans 5:5). While they had been divided before, now they were united in love, bearing one another’s burdens, forgiving, honoring, and praying for one another as family.

During this revival season, the Lord spoke to Zinzendorf from Leviticus 6:13, that the “fire should never go out on the altar!” Because of the sacrifice of Christ, they should respond with unceasing night and day prayer and worship because of the absolute worth of Jesus. They were compelled to build a canopy of committed “hourly intercession” every day. This committed 24/7 prayer chain swept through the community and continued for more than 100 years!

For Zinzendorf and the Moravians, prayer was the conversational part of the most important love relationship in their lives. They were convinced from the Scriptures that God releases His power in response to the prayers of His people. The Moravians would pray around the throne, around the clock, and around the globe, asking the Father to give His Son the nations as His inheritance (Psalm 2:8).

Under this canopy of Christ-exalting prayer, God began to mark missionaries to carry the gospel to the ends of the earth. Three hundred-plus missionaries responded to the call to go and make disciples of all nations. Two of the first missionaries wrote in their journals that they were even willing to sell themselves into slavery in order to reach the slaves of the West Indies with the gospel!

These missionaries helped to establish over 5,000 missionary settlements around the world. Reflecting on this powerful Moravian movement, I am reminded of Dick Eastman’s words, “The degree to which prayer is mobilized is the degree to which the world will be evangelized.”

On this Collegiate Day of Prayer, may God raise up a modern-day Moravian movement of prayer, unity, revival, and missions on campuses in the nations of the earth! The Father is always looking at the wounds of His Son, and I believe He is asking this generation, “Will you give My Son His due reward for His sufferings on the cross?”

“May the Lamb who was slain receive the due reward for His sufferings!”

PRAYER POINTS:

• Pray for God to call students to start worship-based prayer meetings on their campuses.
• Pray for God to call students with fresh missionary zeal to go to the nations to share the gospel.
• Pray that God would “pierce” this generation with a piercing revelation of the Glory of the Lamb!