Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Tuesday, February 21st, 2023.

Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum.

The ongoing revival at Asbury University drew an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people over the weekend. This is all happening

in Wilmore, Kentucky, which normally has a population of 6,000. One eyewitness reported that the

services filled five overflow buildings and a grass lawn with a 2.5 mile backup of cars going into Wilmore. Beginning today, the services will be

available to the public at another location in the central Kentucky area, while Asbury will continue

to host evening services for college age and high school students through Thursday, which is

the National Collegiate Day of Prayer.

The fires of awakening are spreading. Revival services have begun at Sanford University in Alabama,

Cedarville University in Ohio, and Lee and Belmont Universities in Tennessee.

Students have gathered at Baylor University in Texas to pray for revival. Over 20 college campuses

have been affected so far. True revival begins when we want more of Jesus than we have. Do you?

Why should you? In psychologist John Powell's Why I'm afraid to tell you who I am, he writes of,

and I quote, the imprisoning fears and self-doubt,

which cripple most of us and keep us from forward movement on the road to maturity, happiness,

and true love. He adds, none of us want to be a fraud or to live a lie. None of us want to be

a sham, a phony. But the fears that we experience

and the risks that honest self-communication would involve seem so intense to us that seeking

refuge in our roles, masks, and games becomes an almost natural reflex action. Pell continues. After a while, it may even be quite difficult for us to distinguish between

what we really are at any given moment in our development as persons and what we pose as being.

It is such a universally human problem that we might justifiably call it the human condition.

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