Winter Revival this year was a special treat for students as they heard Pastor Jim Schettler challenge them with three life-changing biblical principles.

 

Monday’s principle, “God gives back to you according to how much you give to Him,” embraced the truth in Luke 6:30. “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.” After proving with Scripture that God will fulfill His promise to do great things in and through those who yield their whole lives to Christ, Pastor Schettler challenged students not to go half-way with God. “It just doesn’t work,” he insisted.

 

Tuesday’s principle, “He who finishes with the dirtiest towel is the happiest,” was illustrated by a shoe cleaning contest between two seniors asked to clean the shoes of seventh and eighth grade students. Both boys finished with dirty towels and each received $5 out of Pastor Schettler’s pocketbook. The message greatly challenged our students to exercise servant leadership by willingly serving others.

 

Wednesday’s principle, not the message he originally intended to preach, expounded the biblical passage in Luke 11 on prayer and was delivered in a three-point outline impossible to forget and absolutely life-changing if applied: 1) Never Let Your Prayers Be Hazy, 2) Never Let Your Prayers Be Crazy, and 3) Never Let Your Prayers Be Lazy.

After leading students through biblical teachings on prayer, including the need to be specific, the warning against lustful prayers, and the impotency of laziness in prayer, he concluded with a call for high school students to bring about revival in our church and school by exercising importunity (helpful, urgent, consistency) in their prayer lives.

 

Praise the Lord for the challenge our students and faculty received to seek revival from God in our school this year by yielding our lives to the Lord, serving, and praying with importunity. May these three principles guide us through another Christ-honoring semester and let’s not forget, “He who finishes with the dirtiest towel, is the happiest!”