Students cry as they lay down their lives for God's Kingdom
- Ashly Estrada
- Mar 9, 2025
- 4 min read
Updated: Aug 4, 2025
by: Ashly E., March 17, 2025
Students respond after an altar call on the 4th night of the first open Nazarite Conference in an Asian nation.
From February 4th to the 7th, students gathered at a conference located in the capital of a nation in East Asia to learn about prayer, fasting, and stories of revival. This conference was called Nazarite Intensive. For each night of the conference, students had the opportunity to respond to various elements of God's character, such as receiving the irrevocable love of God.
On Thursday night, February 6th, 2025, the Holy Spirit enabled students to behold the Lamb of God and His worthiness in a very powerful and supernatural way. This occurred after the preaching of a sermon based on 2 Samuel 24:24. In this verse, David said we would not offer a sacrifice that costs him nothing. Post-sermo,n students were presented with a flag that had the phrase "sign the line" on it. The three flags presented during this altar call were filled with signatures.
On the second day of Nazarite Intensive, the Holy Spirit enabled us to pray fervently for a neighboring nation with unreached people groups and whose government has erroneously rewritten parts of the bible.
Following that time of intercession, the Holy Spirit reminded us through the preacher, that we ought to cry out in prayer to Heavenly Father, using the word Abba, which is an Aramaic word for father to address God in a relation of personal intimacy (Romans 8:15). It was a holy moment of intimacy as children of God and unity as the body of Christ.
The prayer and fasting ministry, which I served with during this Nazarite Intensive, had one of its directors teach the youth. Our director taught on a biblical worldview. Each attendee of Nazarite Intensive, which primarily included students, but also pastors and youth leaders, received a booklet with practical teachings on prayer and fasting.
However, we knew that only God could make these biblical teachings pierce the hearts of the youth (Hebrews 4:12). So that they would practically apply these teachings, personally and in their communities. During the sessions, there were young people who were looking at their phones for social media. But we also knew that God could replace hearts of stone with hearts of flesh, if we asked (Ezequiel 36:26).
Therefore, our team of 10 intercessors appealed to God's power and promises so that in every session, the lives of the youth would be marked.
It was not easy to travail prayer, not because we were begging God to let his word be sent out in power. For we know that if earthly fathers give good gifts to their children, how much more does our Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! (Matthew 7:11).
We fasted and spent hours in prayer because we wanted God to take us to the place where our prayers would break through the second heavens. We knew that if we were devoted to prayer like the early church was (Acts 1:14), God would break the strongholds that were hindering the hearts of the youth from receiving the word in power. We knew that if we prayed with commitment until breakthrough, God would dethrone the forces of darkness that were distracting the youth through their phones or through daydreaming.
And to God's glory, we certainly did see such mighty work of the Holy Spirit during Nazarite Intensive, as a result of God answering our prayers presented to him in fasting. It wasn't until this Nazarite Intensive that I witnessed so many youth crying continuously as they responded to the call to pray and fast for God's kingdom to expand not just in their nations, but throughout all the earth.
During Nazarite Intensive, the youth were invited to a spring campus tour that consisted of 6 tour stops. And each tour stop was located in a different region of this East Asian nation to gather youth from across the nation to pray. The tour occurred during the first week of March from the 1st to the 8th. And Contend reports that even more signatures were garnered during this tour!
A staff member at the prayer and fasting ministry I served with said, "6 sign the line flags filled with signatures of over 10,000 Nazarites crying out for revival and awakening for their nation."
Surely God is raising up a prayer movement that will lead to a student volunteer mission movement in this nation!
Thank you to those who partnered with me financially and who sent me to this nation in East Asia, to pray for the youth there. Thank you to those who covered me in prayer during my time there. God bless you!
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