UC Berkeley & San Jose State Prayer Pact

Repost, from 7 years ago...

The Treasure Island Report: They came from San Jose State University and UC Berkeley to pray for their campus and the students of the Bay Area. We all came hungry to discover God's agenda and to pray about it together. We wrestled in prayer about humbling ourselves and praying and seeking His face, ...and turning from our wicked ways (2 Chron. 7:14). 

 Then we began to discuss and imagine what our campuses would look like if they were fully alive in Jesus Christ. Inspiring, deep stuff was shared. Beautiful things that stunned a lot of us. We asked the question is revival happening now or are we waiting for it (or both), ...and how we can personally experience revival now and prepare for corporate revival in the future.

The high points of the evening for me were being taught and inspired by their prayers. Hearing one another's hearts for unity and love to break out amongst the entire Body of Christ on each others campus led to a decision at the end of our time to form a "prayer pact" relationship between leaders in the unity movements at Cal & SJSU. A desire to continue what God did at this prayer meeting by praying for corporate spiritual revival on one anothers schools and campus ministries was felt by everyone. Something like this recently sprung up between USC & UCLA called "United in Christ": http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2232046196

The view of San Francisco at sunset over the water was breathtaking. When the lights of The City came on as darkness fell, it stopped me in my tracks. But the most beautiful thing I saw tonight was the united prayers coming from the hearts of these students ...to see their campuses and cities and own lives revived and awakened to fullness of life in Jesus Christ. 

 Thank you Lord for what you did in our midst tonight. Jesus, help us fan it into full flame in the weeks and months ahead. Holy Spirit move powerfully amongst college student throughout the Bay Area, ...especially this spring. 

 Tonight was significant. Tonight was more than a spark, ...it was like a flare-up. The kind of flare-up that happens when scattered embers of a fire are gathered together in one spot (and fanned into flame). 

 Lord Jesus lead on. -daniel

Flash Prayer-Gathering on Treasure Island

Flash Prayer-Gathering on Treasure Island
Wednesday, March 26th, 8-11pm (Spring Break)

“Bay Area college students* praying for
HolySpiritual revival, renewal, and awakening”



The Old Treasure Island Naval Chapel
(just off the I-80 Bay Bridge in the middle of San Francisco Bay)
California Ave and Avenue Palms San Francisco, CA 94130

RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=12199331802

Hosted by: Daniel Curran

Sponsored by: The San Francisco Metro Ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ – http://www.metamore.org/

Simple Instructions:

-7-7:30pm –Arrive on Island, find parking, gather/hang out in front of chapel
-7:30pm –Read further instructions posted on Chapel main entrance doors
-8pm –Chapel main entrance doors open

-Wear sweatshirts, hats other clothing with your colleges name or logo on it
-Dress Warm (no heating in chapel; island is windy)
-Bring your Bible & a personal water bottle (no snacks or beverages provided)

-Prep by meditating on 2 Chronicles 7:14, Matthew 28:16-20 & Zechariah 4:6
-Musicians bring one instrument: non-electric guitar, drums, didgeridoo, etc.
-Worship leaders each bring 6-12 hymnals, songbooks or song sheets

-Consider bringing a small cash offering with you to help cover rental costs
-Drivers ask someone in your cars to pray for safey & for God to meet with us
-Facebook this event to your college group, small groups & friends

*this gathering is primarily (but not exclusively) designed for students on break from Bay Area schools like SJSU, UCSF, CSUEB, UC Berkeley/UCSF, Sonoma State, Stanford, AAU, UC Santa Cruz, etc., …AND their friends who are home on break from schools outside the area. Also invited are ALL Bay Area community college students, campus ministers, college pastors, college-bound high school seniors, grad students, college-university faculty/staff (wear clothing with a name/logo from your favorite college and to help organize a carload of students to come with you!).

Note: the concept of a “Flash Prayer-Gathering” was inspired by the concept of “smart mobs” ( see Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_mob )or “flash mobs” (see Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob ). Flash mobs are a specific form of smart mob, originally describing a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a brief period of time, then quickly disperse.

Pray for me, I think God is calling me to drop the R-bomb at San Jose State University tonight... eta 8pm (and I'm scared -but willing)

your servant, Daniel 1:8

I don't know how to describe it, ...but I feel like I'm walking into something tonight when I speak again at SJSU. Into something that has been paved by the prayers of the faithful for decades. The hearts of today's college student are tinder dry for the fires of God to burn through them. I've been encouraged by local intercessors to speak from the deepest part of my heart. I have this message that the Holy Spirit has been working into me as I meditate on Matthew 28: 16-20. It's a message about "all authority & all presense". A message of the simultaneous soveriegnty(sp) AND intimacy of Jesus Christ -a truth that is so beautiful that I can't stop thinking about it. I feel like I'm supposed to broach the subject of revival & spiritual awakening at San Jose State tonight at CCC's NightLife meeting @ 8pm in Spartan Memorial. I'm trying to make sense of all God is teaching me from his Word, ...but I feel like "I'm being set up by God the Spirit", broken by God the Father, ...and led by God the Son.

Pray for me, my heart is overjoyed. I've seen the white hot embers of revival fireseeds burning firsthand in Berkeley at in an upper room prayer meeting in an attic of a house in South campus last week. I followed the Lord go back to UC Berkeley last week to minister on campus, ...for the first time in 2.5 years! I felt God's power working through me, felt his Word abiding in me, sensed the Holy Spirit directing me, ...and saw more happen in one day at Berkeley last week than I would normally see happen in an entire month or semester back in 2001-5. It wasn't me it was God, ...I don't think I bring that much power and passion to bear on the scene. God is at work on campus and I am humbled to see it firsthand!

Pray for me. Even San Francisco State is transforming as a campus in terms of it's sociology and spiritual openess. Everyone is noticing the change. I'm excited and scared and passionate for God to work in and through me during the next 24 hours and in the weeks and months ahead. I feel like "this is the Bay Area's Year". It's time for us to be "in one accord with the Lord" and with one another.

I'm having lunch w/ my daughter Ebey & Sarah Allis Yang (my dear former student drummer girl from ccc@Cal back in 97-98). She's been transformed. A life saved and found in Jesus. I'm finding myself in giving myself away. The Gospel seems to drip from my lips. Everyone wants to hear about Jesus, especially from a soul who is in love with him. Muslims, atheists, skeptics, the usual non-candidates -along w/ Christians -all variations, ...all seem to be hungry and thirsty for pure unadulterated Jesus Christ. Jesus, period dot end.

I need prayer support and I'm asking others to prayI don't know what I'm doing, ...yet I do. God is choreographing my steps. Pray that I "stay in step with the Spirit". Pray for "homothumadon" (greek) to happen, ...for God to manifest himself in such a way that it's verifiably God (not man). Pray that the believers in SJSU will "rush along in unison" with the same hearts, in the ame directions, all burning with the same fire.


I'm speaking in Chapel in East Oakland the next morning @ the School of Urban Missions. Pray for the Holy Spirit's discernment to bring the same kind of message to them, ...they just opened this new school, 80 inner-city college students, the poorest of the poor, all going to Bible college to get equipped to serve back in their communities. I don't really want to preach to them because I'm simply so excited to just visit their campus and get to know these beautiful students that God has raised up, ..."for such a time as this".

Here is a 3min+ clip from last october's uic night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0nNaALKKJw ...listen to Lawrence's beautiful, pure-at-heart prayer towards the end, it sounds like Jesus' beautiful vision for SJSU, for all Bay Area campuses and beyond. Let's work, and preach, and pray Jesus' beautiful vision into existance, "Thy Kingdom come, even today.

<>< servant of all, Daniel 1:8