Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA hosted several events during the week for its students to prepare for the school’s Collegiate Day of Prayer on February 26. The focus of the prayer event was to ask for revival throughout the United States and across the world. The school invited several special speakers to its Wednesday morning convocations, including UniteUs founder Tonya Prewett and Christian content creator Bryce Crawford. The event itself was a 24-hour prayer event that began at the school’s Worley Prayer Chapel and other stations and moved to the Vines Center in the evening where local churches and the Liberty community gathered to pray for revival.

The event is broadcast worldwide and has a 200-year history. This is the third year Liberty has participated, but the first year the school has hosted. “It’s no secret that God has been on the move in college campuses, obviously here at Liberty, but also campuses all over our country. Weaving that into what God is also doing on our campus in the spiritual vitality of what we see God doing the past few years, with His favor on spiritual formation and development taking place on campus, we’re using this last Thursday of February to highlight what He has done and continues to do,” said Liberty Worship Collective Executive Director Kevin Huguley. “It’s incredible to see our students really want to seek the face of God. It’s really beautiful.”

Participants were treated to special messages from Crawford as well as Heritage Creek Baptist Church pastor Jonathan Pokluda and apologist Cliffe Knechtle. Members of Liberty’s leadership also spoke. Participants broke into “prayer huddles” to repent of sins, seek spiritual revival, and seek God’s will for their lives. “When you think about this dynamic of prayer, this (is an) opportunity we have to connect directly to God,” said Liberty University Chancellor Jonathan Falwell. “No matter who we are, no matter where we are, no matter what we’re going through, understand that it is that power, that relationship, and that connection that not only changes us but has the opportunity to change the world.”

University Vice President of Spiritual Development, Joshua Rutledge, encouraged students to submit themselves to God’s purpose for their lives. “You are not responsible for your purpose. You are responsible only to be faithful to God and trust your purpose to Him. Whatever He chooses to do in and through you, you have the freedom as a follower of Christ to go, ‘The outcome was never up to me anyways. I was only ever called to be faithful,’” he said. “Once you understand that, you realize you cannot lose. No man, woman, event, circumstance, past, or anything in your future can separate you from the love of Christ Jesus, and nothing is standing in the way of God fulfilling His purpose for you, except for your refusal to trust Him with it. You cannot lose in Jesus.”