Nothing is more challenging, or fulfilling than working with young people. With us, however, the challenging part was most apparent in those early months. It seemed we immediately locked horns with typical teen rebellion and disrespect. I soon became confused and even wondered if perhaps that college administrator had been right in telling us not to leave school. It was a crucial crossroads. The advice a pastor would give me would set the tone for my entire ministry.
“It’s not easy to work with young people,” he cautioned. “You’ll run into problems of rebellion almost impossible to handle,” he added.
Then came the advice… “Prayer is the answer Dick. If you get young people to pray on their knees, your problems will disappear.”
I started immediately to develop a prayer emphasis among our teens. They became the “prayingest” young people I knew. And the pastor was right. Prayer made all the difference in the world.
Dick Eastman On the prayer movement that saw 75 million people come to Christ and was the forerunner to 24/7 prayer and most other modern day-and-night prayer movements.