A small snapshot of remembering the good times at UAB Ignite! 2018-2023 and The rise and fall of nations by Alexander Tytler
I was looking over my pictures today and remembering the great times I had in Birmingham with UAB Ignite as a volunteer staff under the awesome couple Mr. Paul & Mrs. Lucy Hughes and thought I’d would share some 🙂. UAB Ignite was one of the best Christian college ministries I’ve served under with it being more of a family then a club; I hope to one day share more about my season there and the awesome friends I made and still have while having such a blast it didn’t even feel like volunteering! Such good memories! Also, it was somewhat difficult getting group pictures and deciding where to eat at on the trips we would take but that’s a story for another time…(it was the girl’s fault haha 😂)…
2018 Ignite Stone Mountain One Race Event:
2018 Ignite Prayer over the Alabama Capitol:
2019 Ignite Lovelady Outreach Team:
2021 Ignite Lovelady Outreach Team:
2022 Ignite Campus Movement:
2022 Ignite National Summit:
2022 Ignite Lovelady Outreach Team:
2023 Ignite Campus Movement:
This is probably one of the funniest things that happened on that trip!
Credit to Yohan for the video! - Left to Right: Ja’Lyn, Lillian, and Cole
2023 Ignite Lovelady Outreach Team:
2023 Ignite National Summit:
The Rise and Fall of Nations, by Alexander Tytler:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship." "The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."
I heard this quote yesterday morning on a podcast I’ve been listening too, and although The United States of America is somewhere in the “complacency to dependence range,” the speaker said that the only thing that can break this cycle is a grassroots Revival, meaning a nationwide repentance of sin and turning completely away from it. However, for that to happen, the church must deal with its own sin as stated in 2 Chronicles 7:14:
if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
So, if the church, not Washington D.C. or Congress, or your local mayor, will:
Humble themselves.
Pray.
Seek His face.
Turn from their wicked ways.
Then God promises to:
Hear from Heaven.
Forgive their sin.
Heal the land.
I’ve been praying and will continue to pray for a Fresh Holy Spirit Revival to burn across our country and save us from our current moral collapse that is quickly speeding up at a rate I’ve never personally seen in my life. As for my part, I will continue to be lead by Holy Spirit going out and praying with the strangers as a lifestyle as every prayer counts, and I sincerely believe prayer helps tip our nation’s justice scales from either collapse to Revival! We can save our country with Holy Spirit’s help!
‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty.
My prayer request for today:
REVIVAL in The United States of America!
To seek the Lord’s Face & to know His Ways!
To know the Lord’s Character as Moses did.
Revival and Repentance in my own heart that I would crucify anything holding me back from Jesus, take up my cross, and die to my worldly desires.
Sharing Jesus with the lost and not shy back from it.
Healing for:
Brain Cancer.
Epilepsy.
My pancreas which will lead to weight gain.
Headaches / Migraines will not return.
Any kind of brain swelling will not return.
Blessing in Christ Jesus,
Andrew Jordan