DWQA QuestionsCategory: PrayerCan Creator comment on the religious revival that’s been going on at Asbury University in Kentucky that’s been making Internet news, including Fox News channel? It’s been reported that the youth at Asbury University had their regular church service 10 days ago but it never ended and is still going on. They’re saying that it’s an army of awakened people who are worshiping, singing, reading Scripture, having short sermons and people are crying on their knees, asking for more Holy Spirit, and praying for the whole nation. People are flying in from all over the world to participate and there are crowds outside to get in. What is causing this?
Nicola Staff asked 12 months ago
This, indeed, began with a churchgoer who was touched by us and inspired to speak out about what he was witnessing, in his own mind and heart, in reviewing his life and being guided to reassess things. This, in turn, touched others, and this created a situation where we could chime in and reward them with a greater sense of our presence. This is the virtue of group worship, after all, that it can become a shared experiencing of the divine for the asking. The energy of a group is self-supportive and encouraging to the group overall, it raises everyone up, and that increase in vibration facilitates more ready reception of a divine response to inner thoughts and desires. This is a good illustration of seeking an active divine partnership. It is one thing to do it with fleeting thoughts, at random times, as one thinks of it during the day, perhaps in conjunction with an unpleasant thought about something and wanting God to help. Attending a regular service sets a more deliberate and prolonged intention to give oneself to the process of communing with God and having an experience of sharing something personally with the divine. That opens the door for us to respond in a more direct and perceivable way, and is the purpose of prayer, after all, if done well. The fact this is still rolling is because we are sending out hints through the higher selves and directly to people who are ready to take part in such a group experience. Many have been yearning for just such an experience to touch their lives and provide a validation that God is not dead after all and will make our presence felt in some way or another. Developing belief in us is a journey, after all, and it can become eroded over time if it is not supported in an ongoing way. Those who are responding to the story, and taking the time and trouble to join what is becoming a movement, are honoring desires deep within that are true and helpful and in alignment with their life purpose. All are here to help the cause of the divine but do not know it consciously. That is why so many can have a strong emotional reaction to this story, because it resonates for them, as it is a living example of what all yearn to see come about—a shared embrace of the divine so it touches all and raises everyone up in the doing. You are not there yet, but this example and others on an individual and group scale that appear random are all representing a movement underway to support a greater awareness of the divine, and a reawakening in people's minds and hearts of the importance to embrace it and live the truth it represents as a way for all to excel and thrive in being in divine alignment.