1985 Miracle Yearbook

How's Your Prayer Life? B y the rime Spring Enrichment Conference rolls around each year, most students' ears have been so inundated with names, speaker styles, and messages that distinguishing among them is a difficult task. This spring, how- ever, students woke up, sat up, pricked their ears, and rook our notebooks to record the messages of a special man of God. Dr. Warren Wiersbe had come to Cedarville College. Instead of giving the College a continuousset of messages on one subject, Dr. Wiersbe elect- ed to serve up a buffer of topics pertinent to the College Family. His first message dealt with purring a life back together using the principle of submission as found in the book of Ruth. To emphasize this, he stared that the purpose of life is not to find freedom but to find the Master: only in the Master is freedom. His unique blend of dry humor and humility appealed to the wide range of individuals who came varying distances to hear him speak. Throughout the morning and evening mes- sages, Dr. Wiersbe wove the thread of one particular aspect of the believer's life, that of prayer. He gave o series of admonitions for receiving answered prayer: the first of which was for the believer to be "washed" or cleansed of the sin in his life. Encouraging a prayer inventory, his second point, contained four different levels or depths of a prayer life. Most importantly, Dr. Wiersbe drove home the importance of each believer's being a part of the answer to prayer: a role that he himself played in the conference this spring. Yible Conference Adalit One Spring, /985 54