College Students Fellowship

For some reason or other, the college students meeting that every church with college students is supposed to have has not been practical in the church in Gurugram. Though we used to have a very active college students' meeting in the past, of late nothing has been happening. Partly because there are already other meetings that the college students join regularly. In addition, I had been traveling a lot in the past few months and was not even physically present to take care of the college students. Two weeks ago, the Lord's speaking through the fellowship was quite clear that we should be reviving the college student's meeting. Therefore, we recovered the meeting after all the meetings on the Lord's Day ended. 

The burdens the Lord gave me for the college students were all very basic. I wanted to help all the young ones establish a strong and stable personal prayer life. I wanted them to go before the Lord and be under the shining light of the Lord. Only the Lord's light and life supply can shepherd them and make them grow. Of course, I will do my part in shepherding them too. But I confess, the real Shepherd is only the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. So, I did my best to help the young ones in their personal prayer life, reading the Bible regularly, being revived every morning by morning, and interceding for their unsaved friends and classmates. So that, as a student they can bear at least one fruit for the Lord before they graduate from the colleges or universities. I also encouraged them to have a prayer book or spiritual diary where they can record their experiences and enjoyment of the Lord which is the greatest treasure that one can acquire in this age and that will last unto eternity. All the other treasures will vanish when one dies physically. In addition to all those, I also told them to seek the will of the Lord in prayer for all things giving my testimony as an example.

To me, if I can help the young ones in these areas, I think my burden will be fulfilled for the young ones. I am not too keen on other things that they already have been practicing. For example, truth pursuing, they have pursued a good number of ministry materials on a regular basis. As long as they stay in the church life, the ministry of the word will never be lacking. But what I felt they needed the most was what they had not received much help for. A time of fellowship with them to fill the gap of whatever they might have missed out in the church life. One other goal for all the college students is that they should be shepherded to join the full-time training after they graduate from the college. All the young people are for the Lord and they must be gained when they are young.

Lord, gain all the college students in the church here and make all of them useful vessels to You for Your divine purpose.