Howdy and welcome to the Breakaway podcast. Thanks for listening.

Breakaway is a Bible study recorded on the campus of Texas A&M University.

Today's message is from Breakway's executive director, Timothy Ateak.

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Well, when I showed up to Texas A&M University as a freshman, before my classes even started,

I just wanna share with you my first encounter with prayer

on Texas A&M's campus.

My roommate and I, we were sitting in our dorm room,

just getting settled in. And someone came and

knocked on our door and invited us to a night of prayer out on the front lawn in front of the

administration building that's kind of on the main drive into campus. And so my roommate and I,

we were both believers. And so we decided that we were going to go to this prayer

gathering, and so we make our way out to the front lawn, and we all kind of gather around

the flagpole that's there, and it's late at night, and we gather with maybe 15, 20 students,

and we all just start praying. And so we pray, one personal pray, and then that person's done then the next personal pray and this

went on for probably an hour where it was just kind of bouncing around and this was a big deal for me

because I had been a part of different worship gatherings and I had been a part of prayer moments that

were kind of extended prayer moments but this moment became the longest prayer

moment that I had ever been a part of in my 18 years of life. And so there reached a point

during that maybe hour, that first hour, hour and a half that I began to lose focus, okay? And it

kind of turned from, this is really awesome, being at college,

praying with people to, it's time for the last person to kind of take it and close this thing up.

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