God Speaks the Same Message to a Father and Son

🔥 IGNITE April 2026

• • Start the 60-Day Waiting on God Challenge
  • Three Powerful Days at San Marcos Academy
  • A New Generation of Prayer Igniters!
  • The Same Message at The Well Church
  • The Invitation Continues…

 

Dear Waiting on God Disciple,

On April 13^th, at 3:53 AM, the Lord spoke to me like an arrow of lightning! It came as a clear call to go deeper in the practice of Waiting on God and the PRAY NOW Lifestyle. By 6:00 AM, 300 copies of this challenge began to roll off my printer! Would you please ask God if He would have you commit to our 60-Day Waiting on God Challenge?

 

 

START TODAY:

1. 1. 1. 1. Go to bed and get up 15 minutes earlier
         2. Read the meditation for today’s date, be sure to read it out loud, slowly and prayerfully.
         3. Be still and wait on God for 5 minutes, every day for 60 days.
         4. Write 1–2 personal reflections
         5. Thank two people each day for who they are, and ask, “How can I pray for you?”

 

Please Text Your Testimonies To: Colin Millar  (832) 515-7022

 

🔥God had ordained one of my fullest weeks of teaching Waiting on God and The PRAY NOW Lifestyle at San Marcos Academy.

At 8:00 AM that same morning, the lower school—Pre-K3 through 5th grade—led the chapel service in prayer. A beautiful worship team and 25-voice choir ministered, and then two 5th graders preached the Word of God from John 15. Throughout the week, I sensed that God was bringing a shift in the spiritual DNA of San Marcos Academy (SMA), touching alums, staff, faculty, students, and families—opening hearts to a deeper lifestyle of waiting, worshiping, and walking with God.

 

 

After chapel, we combined our 12 8th-grade students as part of our Waiting on God devotional, which Dr. Brian Guenther had asked me to bring to the 35 Texas Baptist school principals and presidents gathered in the Shulz Theatre for their annual meeting, hosted at San Marcus Academy.

First, I briefly shared how the life-transforming impact of the joy- and peace-filling practice of Waiting on God is having in multiple communities in our nation and other nations.

Then the 12 students took turns, slowly, clearly, and prayerfully, reading the title and scripture of their favorite day from Waiting on God, revealing a glimpse into 12 of the 31 facets of this diamond of a bible study. So faith comes from hearing and hearing by the Word of Christ, Romans 10:17.

Like in our chapel service, the presence of God manifested, and when I asked the president of Hyde Park Baptist School to pray over the students. He prayed:

“Lord, we are overwhelmed. Your presence is palpable in this room today, thank You for these students! Please, will You bless them beyond measure?”

Over the next three days, in every one of the seven 30-minute classes in lower school, and the ten 50-minute classes from the middle and high school, we joyfully asked God about the 60-day Waiting on God challenge.

There was a holy tenderness and hunger through the week, including a growing openness to God, a fresh responsiveness to His presence, and a deepening desire to wait on Him and walk in the joy of Jesus.

 

🔥 The SMA 6th Graders Encounter the Living God

On Wednesday afternoon, back in the Shulz Theatre, the Lord drew us into something sacred. Two 6th-grade classes, 32 students in all, including their teachers and our core SMA PIT Crew, gathered together around Day 15 of the Waiting on God devotional.

The room grew still. It wasn’t empty stillness but a full stillness. We read the devotional slowly, paragraph by paragraph, with different voices sounding across the room. And after each paragraph, we waited in stillness with 30 to 40 seconds of silence. Then prayer began rising from that very portion, lifting up the life of San Marcos Academy.

This phenomenal move of God was like watching young hearts learn to breathe with heaven!

 

 

Then, about 20 minutes into the prayer, just as we were drawing to a close, a 6th-grade boy quietly asked, “May I pray?” We nodded, he stepped forward, and the Spirit of the Lord rested upon him. He prayed with a gentle, steady authority in Christ, not striving or reaching, but just flowing in the Spirit. There was weight in his words, clarity, and a sure calling.

Then, two of our PIT Crew leaders and I sensed the same thing: ‘God’s hand was on this young man!’ So, I asked him, “Have you ever sensed the Lord calling you to preach His Word?” And, without hesitation, he said, “Oh yes.”

 

We invited the entire room to move forward!

 

Students, teachers, and every leader formed a large and united holy gathering to lay hands on him. We anointed him with oil, and as we began to pray, the room broke open into weeping. This weeping was a deep, tender, Spirit-breathed cry that spread across the room. Hearts responded, and the Lord was marking the moment.

In that moment, I recalled how this move of God carried the same weight I’d experienced at the 2009 Prayer Summit in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. I had that same sense of heaven touching earth in a way you don’t manufacture or ever forget!

 

 

Overall, this experience with God was more than a moment; it was evidence that He was continuing to shape something deep within the very spiritual fabric of San Marcos Academy. What He was doing was awakening hunger, calling forth identity, and marking lives for His purposes. Young voices are rising, tender hearts opening, and a new generation of prayer igniters are learning to wait and walk with God!

 

🔥When Sunday came, so did another Sovereign move of God take place at The Well Community Church!

For four years, I have prayed and waited on God for this very moment. And just like that, the Lord fulfilled it! Our son, Pastor Chris, and I had not met that week because of my teaching at SMA. Yet God had sovereignly and independently spoken the same Word to both of us.

That Sunday, he was to preach about our call to “WAIT ON GOD,” anchored in Acts 1:4, where Jesus commanded the disciples “…not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father…”

The message included a call to wait, the promise of power, and the coming of the Holy Spirit. With that same heartbeat and invitation, the Spirit of God moved sovereignly across the room! And in that moment, before a church family of around 350 people, we extended the invitation: “Ask the Lord—do You want me to accept the 60-Day Waiting on God Challenge?”

Many responded with ‘Yes,’ and now various people are stepping into His presence as a church and leaning into waiting, with a movement taking root.

 

 Click below to listen to Pastor Chris Millar’s message in its entirety!

 

🔥 The Invitation Continues…

I have great news for you: The invitation remains open. You can come before the Lord and ask, “Lord, do You want me to accept the 60-Day Waiting on God Challenge?” Await His answer and then begin!

You may also lend your support to Igniting Prayer Action through a generous donation and/or by purchasing copies via Amazon of the “Waiting On God 31-Day Adventure into the Heart of God Devotional” for family members, friends, and neighbors.

Thank you in advance for your support in our continued work of igniting prayer in the hearts of every believer!

✨ Wait on God… Walk in Jesus’ Joy

• Colin