Prayerwalking @ ASU

WHY?

How does prayerwalking help?

*Thaw the ice in your college or neighborhood.
-Gradually coming to understand and care for them. -Steady prayer can warm the atmosphere of friendship
-Hearts opened by prayer can lead to doors opened for God’s healing touch.

*Overcome fear
-Prayerwalking helps you re-enter your college, dorm, or neighborhood with godly confidence.

*Becoming Aware of the spiritual battle around us.
-Prayerwalking is a form of warfare where as you walk, God can reveal to you what the evil one has taken from the place you are defending.

*Progress in Prayer
-Praying walking allows for those struggling in intercession a way to "see" what they are praying for—it is stimulating way to stretch yourself in prayer, and often as you walk, you are stirred up to go after every sort of prayer.
-Walking helps sensitize you to the realities of your communities. Sounds, sights and smells, far from distracting your prayer engage both body and mind in the art of praying.

WHAT?
Prayerwalking is…

Genuine prayer—it is essentially a relationship with God, talking and walking with God himself, through Jesus.
Directed Intercessory praying.
-Prayerwalking helps pray-ers learn how to pray for others, deferring urgent matters in their own lives from the top of their prayer agendas.
Intentional praying.
-Walking in order to pray, rather than praying only at the extra moments you find walking.
On-Site.
-Simply praying in the very places you expect your prayers to be answered.

**Prayerwalking should never be an end in itself. Evangelism and church-planting efforts often spring from prayerwalking. We are to PRAY, CARE and SHARE with the people groups for which we are burdened.

CIVA 10/12/2007

• Greetings everyone! Praise God! He is always faithful and good! This week CIVA got together and prayerwalked the art buildings again this week and for His glory there are more testimonies to share from this past week!

More relationships are being built as we have prayed, and more opportunities have come to share Jesus with His children around us. One of the girls in our group shared a testimony this week of a student in her class who approached her asking if he had overheard her talking about a Bible Study! He has been looking for a church and God has drawn his heart and he has responded! Thankyou Lord for bringing Him to us!

This same student also shared this week that she has been praying for peace in a lab class and this past week the peace was restored the group she is working with!
This past week I also had the privledge of doing an exhibition with the honor's college at ASU, with the added benifit of not only showing my paintings, but also speaking to the parents about my work and why I create the pieces I do. My paintings are inspired by God's word which I was able to share with the parents this weekend. The particular verse I mentioned comes from

2 Timothy 2:21--"Therefore it anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work."

• As we were prayerwalking more confirmations and revelations were recieved as we went through the rooms. A vision of the lost coming to Jesus and also roots of tension and stress were revealed. The enemy may be working harder, but now his plans are being exposed!
• Let's keep praying and keep encouraging one another! This weekend I was tempted to give up, but right now is not the time to get weary. The time is NOW, this is the Year of the Lord's favor! Claim and take back what is the Lord's! We must not restict Him because we do not ask. God's promises come to pass as His people recognize what He is doing and enter into prayer (read Daniel's prayer in Daniel 9).

God Bless you all! Freely we have recieved, now freely let us give away!

Testimonies!

This week was a very encouraging week! Though it has been busy and at times tiring, I am glad that it doesn't phase God! He is Alive and He continues to be working all across our campus and right here in the art buildings at ASU!

So for the edification and of thegroup I would like to encourage you also with the testimony that belongs to God!

This week as one of our students was working in her drawing class, she noticed that one her peers was working on drawing of a lit candle with a beautiful necklace of a cross at the base of it. It looks like an illustration of Jesus as the Light of the World! Bethany found out later that he is not a Christian, but thought the cross looked really good in his drawing of the candle! Yes! Jesus is the Light of the World, even to a world that may not know it yet! He is coming and His light is filling the art building! Prayer is powerful!

Relationships are also being built and one in particular is one with a new grad student who is from Korea. She arrived just about two months ago and is working really hard to adjust to the culture and the new language. At first it has been hard to connect with her, but this week was much easier and I was able to visit her studio and help her with whatever she needed. She even said she could help me learn some Korean!

While prayerwalking the Art Tower building (which used to be a church), we noticed that the show case that holds the freshman undergrad's most recent work, had a piece entitled "The Center of the Earth." It was a depiction of Jesus in the middle of the world! Jesus is being displayed in bold testimony in the art school, whether the students know Jesus or they do not yet.

Another opportunity opened up today to testify of the prayerwalking and what the CIVA group has been doing. I talked to Honor's college students who want to start a similar club which brings artist's together and also has professional artist's come and speak to the club. It is exactly what the heart of the CIVA group is, aside from the prayer. As I am in the honor's college I can help them organize and begin a similar group! Christian art will be showcased in the Honor's college too!

Students are starting to show that they are crying out for something more, so get to know them, care for them, pray for them and share with them the hope that you have in Jesus! It would be amazing if God would want us to make that Tower building a Church again! If God leads it would be wonderful for students in the art college to have a place where they could hear the word of God in a setting that they are familiar with! Join me in prayer for more workers and for the harvest to come in (Luke 10:2)! Wherever you are, I want to encourage you that God uses art as a universal voice that speaks to those who don't know Christ! His creativity speaks to them in powerful ways that they may not understand. You can explain it to them and see a harvest of God's Glory whether you are a student, a proffessional artist or one who just wants to glorify God with a song! The world needs to hear that song, they need to see that painting and they see the dance that you can't keep inside!

The Work of an Artist

The fall semester is well underway for those of you who are students in art so I want to send a message of encouragment to you who in the schools of art or even just doing art as a full time career or hobby. I began this group because of the work of an artist. It is not what the world would define our work as.

Whether you use a paint brush, a pencil or the pick of a guitar, the work of the artist is that of submission to The Creator. It is only in the hands of the Master Artist when the work of our human hands can have eternal significance.I want to let you know that wherever you are, you are in a place of influence. God has given you an incredible gift of prophecy--to see as He sees. When we allow God to use us to create His master pieces, they can influence more people than we know in specific way. I was encouraged when I read a testimony of such influence (check out this website.... http://www.ibethel.org/features/testimonies/index.php?f=testimonies.php&d=343)

This semester at Arizona State University we have decided to use our authority in the art college again to prayerwalk and specifically pray for the faculty and students that need to encounter their Savior. I am expecting God to move as we come together as two or more gathered to call on His name. Keep praying for your fellow classmates, faculty, family and friends this semester. I believe that God is going to use us for such a time as this!

There is an urgency of the hour and I suspect that God will use His artists in new creative ways. Don't be afraid of looking foolish...it is the foolish things that God uses to confound the wise! Art may seem like a foolish work to others in this success-oriented culture...but to God it is sacred. The devil is not creative. He is countered by it.

Take up your arrows this year! "Just as the darkness of the Middle Ages was overcome by the brilliant light of reformation and Renaissance, so too the dark perversions of the arts in this age will be overcome by the bright shing of God's arrow artists. He is launching you into spheres of heavenly creativity and lightning. From the place of intimacy, those who have been in His hidden quiver are about to fly. And the world will see His beauty again."

Psalms 27:4 "One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD."

This group is for Believer's in Christ who also find their passion in the creativity of God, be it in painting, drawing, intermedia, photography, etc. Also this is a place where prayer requests will be posted so that you can pray that God's creativity will be instituted again in the art realm. God's beauty and inspiration is Amazing!

As artists we are Co-Laboring with God. Today we are experiencing firsthand what David felt when he lived with God’s presence as his priority. We are working with God, not for Him. When we embrace this promotion, several things happen.

What we know changes.--We know the living, loving and Creative God!

Our experience changes,--We experience His love for us as life givers!

Our function in life changes,--We are made to love Him!

And our identity is radically transformed.--We are His Bride!

We begin working from His presence, rather than for His presence!

Join together with CIVA Arizona and we will discover the amazing, transforming power of a renewed mind and focus on what God has created us to do---Dream and Create!