wash and make yourselves clean

2 Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth!
For the LORD has spoken:
“I reared children and brought them up,
but they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knows its master,
the donkey its owner’s manger,
but Israel does not know,
my people do not understand.”
4 Woe to the sinful nation,
a people whose guilt is great,
a brood of evildoers,
children given to corruption!
They have forsaken the LORD;
they have spurned the Holy One of Israel
and turned their backs on him.

10 Hear the word of the LORD,
you rulers of Sodom;
listen to the instruction of our God,
you people of Gomorrah!
11 “The multitude of your sacrifices—
what are they to me?” says the LORD.
“I have more than enough of burnt offerings,
of rams and the fat of fattened animals;
I have no pleasure
in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
12 When you come to appear before me,
who has asked this of you,
this trampling of my courts?
13 Stop bringing meaningless offerings!
Your incense is detestable to me.
New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations—
I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.
14 Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals
I hate with all my being.
They have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you spread out your hands in prayer,
I hide my eyes from you;
even when you offer many prayers,
I am not listening.

Your hands are full of blood!

16 Wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong.
17 Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.[a]
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.

18 “Come now, let us settle the matter,”
says the LORD.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow;
though they are red as crimson,
they shall be like wool.
19 If you are willing and obedient,
you will eat the good things of the land;
20 but if you resist and rebel,
you will be devoured by the sword.”
For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

isaiah 1

false peace

¹⁴ They dress the wound of my people
as though it were not serious.
‘Peace, peace,’ they say,
when there is no peace.
¹⁵ Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct?
No, they have no shame at all;
they do not even know how to blush.
So they will fall among the fallen;
they will be brought down when I punish them,”
says the LORD.

jer 6:14-15

have mercy on us, LORD. give us the spirit of conviction. give us the fear of the LORD. let your kindness overwhelm us. for your kindness leads to repentance. we want to be clean before you. we want to be holy as You are holy.

purify your bride

Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place. ⁴Do not trust in these deceptive words: 'This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.'

⁵"For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, ⁶if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, ⁷then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.

⁸"Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. ⁹Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, ¹⁰and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, 'We are delivered!'—only to go on doing all these abominations? ¹¹Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the LORD. jer 7:3-11

²⁷"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. ²⁸So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. matt 23:27-28

Jesus, would you purify your bride. we come before you as the church, as christians, with sober spirits and humble hearts. forgive us for our hypocrisy. oh the many times we would live in sin, come before your presence saying "we are delivered", only to go back into sin! let us not in a mindset of false grace! forgive us for the ways we are so easily prone to make peace with our sin and compromise with our sin. forgive us for the ways we subconsciously reason our ways around sin. make us unusually uncomfortable with our sin, let us be ones who hate sin and every impure and unholy desire. let us be uncomfortable even with 99% holiness, not that we can ever be perfect and without sin, but that our hearts would be at war with sin, set to pursue complete holiness. let us be 100% holy as you are 100% holy.

Jesus, forgive us for the pharisee mindset we are so prone to live in. woe are we who are like whitewashed tombs (matt 23:27), the ways we think we are okay because we look good on the outside--the ways we appear to be holy with our religious masks, and cover-ups, yet on the inside we are full of judgment, sin, and compromise. oh, the ways we think we are okay just because we are in "ministry", and the ways we hide behind our religious activity and make peace with our own personal areas of sin and compromise. oh God forgive us for the ways we point fingers and judge others when we have a plank in our own eyes! teach us God, how to live from the inside out, and not from the outside in! forgive us for the ways we pursue outer beauty, fame, reputation, and outer acceptance rather than internal purity and internal holiness. woe are we who have turned our hearts, your internal house of prayer into a den of robbers!

Jesus, let us be ones who pray that which david prayed, that you would search us and know our hearts, try us and know our thoughts, and see if there be any offensive way in our hearts, that we would be led in the way everlasting. Jesus, come and let your jealous love root out everything and anything that hinders you from fully possessing our hearts. make known to us our hidden sin, those sins that are not obvious, (you said that even the thought of adultery is committing adultery), the ways we subconsciously judge others or think of ourselves better than others--those sins!

Jesus we repent from our ways. we set our hearts to pursue holiness and purity. give us grace, that we would awaken from our subconscious habits of sin. expose every impurity in our hearts. let us not wait until tomorrow to repent. come LORD Jesus come.

not done yet

LORD, i believe that you have not given up on UCSD. i believe that you love UCSD more than i do. i believe that every bit of darkness, brokenness, and sin are under your dominion. Jesus, i believe you have the power to send revival and an outpouring of your Spirit without effort. i believe that you don't even need to make an effort to set every soul free and open the eyes of every heart to your beauty and your love. i know that you can easily have, at this very moment, every knee bow and every tongue at UCSD confess you as LORD. i know that because you said it will happen at the end of the age. but that time has not come yet.
in your love for man and your desire to honor free will, you wait patiently until more at UCSD will recognize their lack and depravity without You and turn to you.

Jesus, you said blessed are those who aren't offended in you (matt 11:6) i will not be offended by your leadership. i will not be offended by the ways you have yet to answer our prayers. i'm trusting your perfect wisdom and perfect sovereignty. your timing is perfect. your leadership is perfect. you love UCSD.

until then, let us not stop crying out. give us justice. will you not give justice to those who cry out to you day and night? will you delay long over them? You said that you will give us justice speedily. (luke 18:8) we hold you true to your word. Jesus, send justice to UCSD.

God, send revival to UCSD.

rise up, O God, and defend your cause

¹ O God, why have you rejected us forever?
Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
² Remember the nation you purchased long ago,
the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed—
Mount Zion, where you dwelt.
³ Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins,
all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.

⁴ Your foes roared in the place where you met with us;
they set up their standards as signs.
⁵ They behaved like men wielding axes
to cut through a thicket of trees.
⁶ They smashed all the carved paneling
with their axes and hatchets.
⁷ They burned your sanctuary to the ground;
they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.
⁸ They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely!”
They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.

⁹ We are given no signs from God;
no prophets are left,
and none of us knows how long this will be.
¹⁰ How long will the enemy mock you, God?
Will the foe revile your name forever?
¹¹ Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand?
Take it from the folds of your garment and destroy them!

¹² But God is my King from long ago;
he brings salvation on the earth.

¹³ It was you who split open the sea by your power;
you broke the heads of the monster in the waters.
¹⁴ It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan
and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.
¹⁵ It was you who opened up springs and streams;
you dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
¹⁶ The day is yours, and yours also the night;
you established the sun and moon.
¹⁷ It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth;
you made both summer and winter.

¹⁸ Remember how the enemy has mocked you, LORD,
how foolish people have reviled your name.
¹⁹ Do not hand over the life of your dove to wild beasts;
do not forget the lives of your afflicted people forever.
²⁰ Have regard for your covenant,
because haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
²¹ Do not let the oppressed retreat in disgrace;
may the poor and needy praise your name.
²² Rise up, O God, and defend your cause;
remember how fools mock you all day long.
²³ Do not ignore the clamor of your adversaries,
the uproar of your enemies, which rises continually.

keep waiting, UCSD

² The nations will see your vindication,
and all kings your glory;
you will be called by a new name
that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.
³ You will be a crown of splendor in the LORD’s hand,
a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
⁴ No longer will they call you Deserted,
or name your land Desolate.
But you will be called Hephzibah,
and your land Beulah;
for the LORD will take delight in you,
and your land will be married.
⁵ As a young man marries a young woman,
so will your Builder marry you;
as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,
so will your God rejoice over you.


waiting for the rain

we give ourselves no rest

1Awake, awake,
put on your strength, O Zion;
put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city;
for there shall no more come into you
the uncircumcised and the unclean.
2Shake yourself from the dust and arise;
be seated, O Jerusalem;
loose the bonds from your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.
isaiah 52:1-2

arise, intervaristy
arise, UCSD
come LORD Jesus, come

student revival movement ucsd: day 18

"Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. ²⁵For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."
matthew 16:24-25

God i'm asking for you to raise up ones at UCSD who will follow you at whatever the cost. would you raise up men and women at UCSD who will follow you in wholehearted abandonment, that they would not put themselves or their own comfort before you, God. God would you raise up ones who are empowered with boldness, ones that would preach your word and share your love free from the fear of man. would you raise up ones who would take a stand for you, unafraid to proclaim your name boldly on this campus.

God would you raise up ones at UCSD who are willing to lose it all to have you.

student revival movement ucsd: day 16

¹²"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ¹³Greater love has no one than this,that someone lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. ¹⁷These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
john 15:12-17

God, would you teach us what love is. would we be reminded that your command for us is to love others just as you have love us. teach us what love is, God. thank you for sending your son Jesus to be the perfect example of love. let us be stewards of Jesus, as we study how He loved those around Him. let us learn how to love with a love that is bold, direct, and filled with truth, yet tender and gentle.

teach me, oh LORD, how to love.

student revival movement ucsd: day 15

¹Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry!
Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!
²From your presence let my vindication come!
Let your eyes behold the right!

³You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night,
you have tested me, and you will find nothing;
I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.
⁴With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips
I have avoided the ways of the violent.
⁵My steps have held fast to your paths;
my feet have not slipped.

⁶I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God;
incline your ear to me; hear my words.
⁷Wondrously show your steadfast love,
O Savior of those who seek refuge
from their adversaries at your right hand.

⁸Keep me as the apple of your eye;
hide me in the shadow of your wings,
⁹from the wicked who do me violence,
my deadly enemies who surround me.

psalm 17

student revival movement ucsd: day 12

Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. ¹³ For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. ¹⁴ Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
1 corinth 12:12-14

God today i'm asking for unity among fellowships at UCSD. would your church sense the need to unite as one body, that we may set aside our cultural and denominational differences and seek one thing and that is Jesus. give us a spirit of humility, that we would not think of ourselves as better than another, that we may not carry a self-righteous spirit, or love our programs and ministry agendas more than loving what you want to do.

speak to your church, God, that your church and fellowships at UCSD would respond to your desires for this campus. that fellowships at UCSD would submit under your leadership and what you want to do in establishing your kingdom at UCSD.

student revival movement ucsd: day 11

When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling. ⁴⁶ “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be a house of prayer; but you have made it ‘a den of robbers.
luke 19:45-46

God remind your people of the importance of prayer. God, i'm asking that you would restore prayer in the church. God, would you raise up those who are gifted in prayer and intercession to influence and lead a movement of prayer on this campus. God would you teach your church how to pray. God, would you establish a culture of prayer on this campus.

God, would you raise up intercessors, prayer ministers, those who would spend their lives contending for spiritual breakthrough on this campus. show us how to make prayer relevant and urgent. teach us how to depend more and more on you. would you remove anything and everything that distracts us from praying. LORD, would you have the freedom to shake everything that can be shaken, that we may become desperate to do nothing else but to pray.

student revival movement ucsd: day 10

"For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. ¹³For ^AA)">in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit."
1 corinth 12:12-13

God i'm asking that you would unite your church. God i'm asking that your church, one united under on Spirit, would humble herself, set aside her differences, and strive to love one another as is your desire. God i pray against all divisions among your church, by theology, denomination, cultural, or experiential background. God would no one in your church think of themselves better than others! open our eyes to work together in love and unity, in the preaching of the gospel, in the advancing of your kingdom on earth.

oh God, that your church would learn to love one another!

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God, i'm asking again, send a spirit of revival to UCSD today. awaken your church to be a people of psalm 27:4, that your church at UCSD would be one of one thing: to behold your glory, your presence, your face above anything else. removed DISTRACTIONS from your church. burn away anything and everything that has taken the place of beholding your beauty first and foremost. shake everything in our lives that has taken our eyes off of you. give us a yearning, a groaning, a hunger, a desire, a passion to see your glory fall in our lives. let us not rest until we taste and experience your glory in our own lives. let us not rest until that glory goes before us to the ends of UCSD, to the ends of the world. let us persevere and run into the secret place, that we may wait upon you until your glory falls.

student revival movement ucsd: day 7

"if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land."
2 chronicles 7:14

God, i'm asking that you would raise up ones at UCSD who would seek you with all their heart soul strength and mind. i'm asking for you to raise up lovers, worshipers, who have chosen to set their gaze upon you. would you raise up ones at UCSD who will seek after your heart, and desire to see your face over anything else this world has to offer. God, would you raise up ones who will die to themselves for the sake of gaining you. God, raise up ones at UCSD who would choose you above self gratification, above ministry priorities, above the fear of man, and above establishing a good reputation. God, would you raise up ones who would run to the secret place to be with you, ones who would choose to pursue the knowledge of you above anything else.

we humble ourselves before you, God. we recognize our depravity apart from you. God i'm asking for you to come and heal UCSD. as we humble ourselves and draw near to you, we are saying that we need you, and we want more of your Spirit to come and touch hearts. come and do what only you can do.

God, i'm so sick of emotional hype. i'm tired of watching your people love you based on spiritual highs. i'm so sick of watching your people worship you based on emotion and circumstance. God i'm asking for you to revive hearts, that you raise up those that would love you in and out of season.

student revival movement ucsd: day 6

⁶"Is not this the fast that I choose:
to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?
⁷Is it not to share your bread with the hungry
and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover him,
and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
⁸Then shall your light break forth like the dawn,
and your healing shall spring up speedily;
your righteousness shall go before you;
the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
⁹Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer;
you shall cry, and he will say, 'Here I am.'
-isaiah 58:6-9

God today i am asking for you to take your people into the heart of true fasting. God i'm asking for your church to know how to love in a real and genuine way. that we would walk the talk, that we would live out the fullness of the gospel of Jesus in our lives. teach us, convict us of the ways that we have become comfortable in our christian bubbles. convict us of the ways we have been too lazy, apathetic, or too fearful to step out in boldness to preach your word, to share the gospel, and the ways we have failed to demonstrate your love to others.

God, i'm asking that you would remove all hypocrisy in church, start with me. God i ask that you would convict hearts of those who have settled for a comfortable christian life. continue to stretch your people, oh God. may we allow ourselves to be stretched, may we be simply obedient to the commands written in your word.

as you revive our hearts, God, teach us what it means to be revival. start with me.

student revival movement ucsd: day 5

¹⁵"'I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! ¹⁶So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth."
-revelation 2:15-16

God i'm asking that you would awaken hearts at UCSD. God i'm asking for you to stir up a holy dissatisfaction in the hearts of your sons and daughters, ones who have abandoned you as their first love. God i'm asking that those who claim to be christians at UCSD would you enlighten the eyes of hearts, that they would know the depths of your love demonstrated on the cross. God i'm asking for eyes to be opened, that there may be a freshness to the grace demonstrated on the cross, that the message of the gospel would be filled with power and conviction once again.

oh God, would you awaken passion and desire for Jesus once again! would you stir hearts that would run to you in the secret place, to fall on our knees in prayer and to eat your word. God, would you awaken christians at UCSD to help us realize that anything apart from you does not satisfy, that we would become so bored and discontent with all forms of entertainment apart from you.

remind us of our calling, stir up urgency in your people that we would proclaim the gospel with boldness in Jesus' name.

student revival movement ucsd: day 4

"Then he said to me, "Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words."
-daniel 10:12

LORD would you raise up intercessors at UCSD, ones who would humble themselves and seek your face in the place of prayer. God i'm asking that you would open our eyes to our depravity and inability to do anything without you. help us to be aware of our weakness, and cause us to call upon your name once again.

break our hearts for souls around us to the point where we can do nothing but pray. stir in our hearts an urgency and desperation to see your kingdom come, to the point where we realize we cannot do it on our own, and all we can do is fall on our knees and call upon your name.

give us faith, that your people may pray with such fervency, knowing that our prayers shape history. help us to believe that the course of history is determined on our knees in the prayer room. give us faith, God.

student revival movement ucsd: day 3

"But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way."
-daniel 1:8

God i'm asking that you would raise up daniels at UCSD. God i'm asking that you would mark hearts among christians, that you would set apart ones who will seek you with all their heart soul strength and mind. i'm asking for you to raise up in the christian community, ones who will not compromise, ones set apart to pursue a life of holiness and righteousness, ones who do not seek pleasure in the things of this world, nor seek pleasure for themselves for their own gain.
raise up ones who will be emboldened to declare the gospel with power and authority. raise up daniels who will will be abandoned to pursue you in prayer, fasting, and the word, to die to themselves so that they may gain you.
raise up ones who, like paul, know nothing but Christ crucified. daniels who will live life filled with the hope and the revelation of the good news of the gospel. raise up ones who have no fear against the fear of man, ones who fear you more than they fear man. raise up ones who will boldly declare truth and love boldly as you would love.
raise up a new generation of christians, God. raise up lovesick worshippers, harbingers of truth. ones willing to lose it all to gain you.

student revival movement ucsd: day 2

“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. ”
--Acts 1:8

we will wait for You. we will wait for you power. we will wait upon You. You are the only solution. you are the only resolution.

Jesus, bring breakthrough at UCSD right now unlike years in the past. bring breakthrough in the hearts of nonchristians. bring breakthrough in the hearts of christians. bring breakthrough in my heart.

Jesus, bring breakthrough. start with me

student revival movement ucsd: day 1

'In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.
-acts 2:17

just like you promised,
just like you said
pour out Your Spirit

Father today we take our stand for UCSD. over these next 21 days, God we will cry out for one thing--that You would pour out your Holy Spirit. that heaven would invade earth, beginning here at UCSD. that your kingdom would come to UCSD in tangible and historical measures, oh God, let it be! i'm asking for the power your Spirit to manifest and transform lives. i'm asking for lives to be turned upside down, in the students, professors, and administration.

i'm asking for you to release a new movement of Your power, where Christians and non-Christians alike will become awakened with fresh hunger and fresh passion to seek your face, oh God. that you may be glorified and your name praised across UCSD. that every tongue and every soul would confess that you are God, that every person stepping on the campus of UCSD would worship Jesus Christ as LORD. i'm asking that every soul on campus would encounter Your love, and submit their lives to your leadership.

we will keep asking, God.