In the craziness that is college with classes, homework, intramural teams, working out, hanging out, and spending time on Facebook it can be hard to remember to take time to pray. And no time is busier than the beginning of the school year, especially if you are a freshman, because it is all so new. And even if you haven’t started classes yet, Buckeye students, there is even more reason for you to pray as you prepare for a new year.

As college Christians, there is no greater way to change an entire campus than through prayer. D. L. Moody said,”Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.” We can’t expect God to move through anything we are doing if we taking the time to lay our plans before Him and listen to His plans.

I read a book in college called “Red Moon Rising” by Peter Greig and Dave Roberts, and it totally inspired me to start seeking God more through prayer. If you need some inspiration, click here to read the author’s interview.

So as the school year starts remember to pray for:

• other students on campus to come to know Jesus
• for the faculty and campus workers
• campus ministries and churches to become movements of God.
• for the people you interact with daily, that they will see Jesus in you.
• for Christian leaders on your campus that they would continue to rely on God.

If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this will lead us to prayer: Intercession is a way of loving others. 
-Richard J. Foster

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. — Martin Luther