We are believing God to bring an expansion on this new season in our Youth Fellowship. We are praying that an outbreak of God's glory and love will saturate all corners of our university as we endeavor to make His name great. We are crying out as one Body of Christ that indeed there will be a deeper hunger in our hearts to reach and to saturate this place which the Lord has given as our inheritance.That there will be more people who will respond to the message of God's grace; that there will truly be an encounter experience every time we gather together to pray and to praise.
For this unique season, the Lord has put in our hearts to expand our reach and our influence in the campus. Claiming that the time is already ripe and that the harvest is plenty and is ready, we've decided to intentionally saturate the university by bringing LAYF to the eight colleges of the Central Luzon State University.
We are claiming this command and promise of the LORD in Isaiah 54:2-5,
"Enlarge the place of your tent,
stretch your tent curtains wide,
do not hold back;
lengthen your cords,
strengthen your stakes.
For you will spread out to the right and to the left;
your descendants will dispossess nations
and settle in their desolate cities.
“Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame.
Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated.
You will forget the shame of your youth
and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
For your Maker is your husband—
the Lord Almighty is his name—
the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;
he is called the God of all the earth."
In God's Kingdom, there's no holding back! We are called to literally break out from the comfort of our place to bring God's glory to desolate places; we are called to be radical Christians by claiming communities and nations under the authority of Jesus Christ! We are called to saturate the world and make His name known in all the earth. And with God, this can be done.
Through our youth fellowship, we are praying to:
a. To reach: get out to a more massive and intentional campus evangelism, classroom witnessing, soul-winning. The first step is to get out and share the Word. If we want God's will to be done on earth, then Christians must not get so comfortable with just watching from the sidelines. It's time that we intentionally fire up the Gospel in our respective places and make the name of Jesus known wherever we go. It's time to share the best thing that we have: a relationship with a living Savior.
b. To saturate: get into a more intentional consolidation through established college LAYF; respective college LAYF will serve as training grounds for leaders and committed attendees. This should be done by mobilizing current leaders to internalize the importance of consolidation, or preserving the harvest. We must not content ourselves by just proclaiming the Word. We need to water it, nurture it, and make it grow and bear fruit eventually. The need to nurture the seed of faith planted in the souls of those we have witnessed is a hard labor, but it is not without a promise. It's time to intentionally impact lives that will impact other's.
I believe that the campus is a great place to impact the nations and change the world. If we want to see a greater collective transformation in our community, there must first be a tangible individual transformation. And If we are to create a movement that will again turn the world upside down, we have to do it in the campus, and we have to do it now.
We have to begin changing the nation one campus at a time; the campus, one college at a time; and each college, one student at a time. This comes with an assurance that there's no campus which is beyond the reach of God's grace; and there is no student who is beyond the reach of God's love.
God is now ready for an outbreak. And we better be.
