Day of Prayer

SEEK: A Holy Addiction

Seek the Lord while he wills to be found; call upon him when he draws near. Isaiah 55:6

"In seeking him they find him, and in finding they will praise him. Lord, I would seek you, calling upon you—and calling upon you is an act of believing in you. My faith, Lord, calls upon you. It is your gift to me. You breathed it into me by the humanity of your Son . . . ." So writes Augustine in the first book of his Confessions.

The exhortation to seek the Lord is not a summons to undertake a task that finds completion. Rather it is an invitation to a perpetual posture of questing after God. And although the seeking knows no end, it is not without reward. We seek with the promise of finding. Jesus put it simply: “Seek and you will find.” (Matthew 7).

In our spiritual seeking the recompense is no less than God himself: “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart,” says Jeremiah (29). For the believer, the seeking leads to finding which, in turn, leads to further seeking. Like a holy addiction, seeking the Lord results in finding Him, and the finding deepens the desire and fuels the quest for more.

Spiritual seeking and finding come to expression in Christian worship through patterns of prayer and praise, supplication and song, entreating and exalting. On November 6th the Gordon College community will suspend normal activities for an extended time of seeking the Lord during our annual Day of Prayer. The day will include opportunities to lay requests before the Lord, acknowledge our dependence, look for His provision and offer our praise.

Let us together seek the Lord while He may be found.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5

8 p.m. Floor Prayer
Prayer to examine our hearts
Time and Locations Specified by RAs

9:15 p.m. Preparing Our Hearts (non-credit)
Catacombs service of preparation
Carlberg Worship Center

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6

6:30 a.m. Student-Led Prayer (non-credit)
Prayer for the Gordon community
Claymore Lounge/Chasement

8:30 a.m. Matins
Morning prayer in the Orthodox tradition
Phillips Recital Hall

10:30 a.m. SEEK THE LORD
All Campus Service of guided prayer and song
Carlberg Worship Center

1 p.m. Departmental Prayer
Time and locations specified by department

4 p.m. Prayers of our Hymnal
Hymn singing as a form of prayer
Phillips Recital Hall

5:30 p.m. Vespers
Evening prayer in the Roman Catholic tradition
KOSC Chairman’s Room

7 p.m. DRAW NEAR
Congregational celebration of the Psalms through song
Carlberg Worship Center

(Ongoing) Creative Prayer
9 a.m.–6 p.m. Artistic expression of prayer
A.J. Gordon Chapel Lobby

(Ongoing) Praying through the Psalms
9 a.m.–5 p.m. Hosted by Men’s Ministry
Chapel Lawn (rain plan: KOSC 302)

(Ongoing) Prayer for the Persecuted Church
9 a.m.–6 p.m. Prayer for the global family of Christ
Tavilla Conference Room

STUDENTS MAY RECEIVE UP TO FOUR CHRISTIAN LIFE AND WORSHIP CREDITS FOR PARTICIPATION IN DAY OF PRAYER EVENTS.