Students at Liberty University got to witness an incredible moving of hundreds of hearts during a 24-hour prayer and worship service on Thursday, February 29. During the service, organized by Liberty’s Office of Spiritual Development for the students, a huge number of college kids at the Christian university turned out for the all-day service.
The event took place on the National Collegiate Day of Prayer, an event organized across more than 4,000 colleges and universities in America and meant to be “a united, multi-generational day of prayer for revival and awakening on college campuses in America.”
Describing why such a day is important, the event’s website noted, “200 years ago in 1823, nearly every major denomination and university across America united in prayer for our nation’s college students. Campuses were being radically transformed by powerful seasons of spiritual awakening. Today, churches and campuses across America are once again uniting in prayer for the next generation on college campuses.”
It also said, “Throughout American history our colleges have been repeatedly blessed and transformed by intense seasons of spiritual awakening. The early records of many of our best universities read like a virtual history of spiritual revival. In fact, no other nation has ever enjoyed as many student awakenings for as many consecutive years as the United States of America. Some of the first reports of these student revivals emerged during the First Great Awakening in the eighteenth century. However, it was the Second Great Awakening (1790-1845) that produced our most powerful student revivals and the prayer movement that sustained them.”
In any case, the turnout at this event was massive. A third-year religious studies student, Daniel Spinney, noted that he saw far more people in the prayer chapel than he has seen before, saying, “When we got there, there was a line out the door which I’ve never seen at the prayer chapel before.” He added, “There were so many people that were there…that couldn’t even fit inside the chapel to where they started worshipping and praying outside on the lawn, in front of the chapel…it was like 30 degrees outside but they were undeterred.”
Spinney went on to add that the massive crowd and the event in general were a whole new thing for him, and that the event was full of joyous, singing people. He said, “It was like something I’ve never experienced before. There were so many people in there to where when we were singing, we were singing so loud that we couldn’t even hear the microphones and the worship collective singing through the speakers. The voices of the people in the room were just overpowering the microphones.”
Watch the incredible event here, which the Liberty Worship Collective posted with the caption, “no better sound than everyone coming together in worship🥹🙌”:
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video