It is exciting to hear how students are yielding their lives to the Lord on various college campuses around the nation. They are repenting from sin and committing their lives to the Lord and being water baptized to show that commitment. Christian students are getting right with God and re-committing their lives to the Lord. This is wonderful. When I was enrolled at HSU in the late 60’s and early 70’s, I also took some courses at OBU on the credit exchange program. I had friends at both schools and I participated in activities at both schools, including the chapel services at OBU. In a small way, we experienced the same type thing as what is happening on some school campuses today. I know people today whose lives were influenced for the greater good from those meetings. Years later, in the 90’s, my wife and I were having home meetings for the students in our home in Arkadelphia. There was a revival of similar operation in a nearby town that drew the students from the two schools. They went there and experienced the presence of God leading them to repent and re-commit their lives to the Lord. As the students continued to attend the meetings, in time some were coming back and asking, “Okay, I’ve repented and repented. I have committed my life to the Lord and re-committed my life to the Lord. Now, where do we go from here?” We ministered the Word to those students, showing them from the Word how the early believers who repented and committed their lives to the Lord, being baptized in water, went on to receive the Holy Spirit with miraculous power upon their lives. In that power, they began taking the gospel to all people with signs and wonders following the preaching of the Word. Some of the students received that Word and some did not. Last Thursday, October 24, I received a facetime call with three of those young men who were in those meetings back in the 90’s. Two of them received the Word of “the way of God more perfectly,” the fulness of the Holy Spirit, at that time (Acts 18:26). For the other one, it was made real five years later. They have all been through “fire” and through “water,” but through it all, God has brought them to a wealthy place in Him (Psalms 66:12). They all are walking with the Lord and are still excited about the things of God, and they are guiding their children in the ways of God. For the students today, and for every person: If we stop short of receiving all that God has for us, then that is exactly where we are with the Lord—we are short of all He has for us. He wants us filled and running over with His power and His presence. It is plainly and simply stated in the Word of God. Read it. Receive it. Walk in it and be blessed in it.
Receive All that God Has for Us
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