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ExploreIsrael.com invites you to discover the holiest place on Earth—a place of history, prophecy, faith and sacrifice. But they don't want you to limit yourself. Along with the sacred spaces, modern Israel is a place with cities and beaches, deserts and forests. You can go jeeping to the Ramon Crater, float on top of the Dead Sea, and do some parasailing in Eilat. The possibilities are literally endless. It's overwhelming—and that's why you need them.
You may know that you want to visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, The Garden Tomb, Nazareth, the Jordan River and some of the "classic" tourist spots. Here are a few other ideas from ExploreIsrael.com:
The Western Wall Tunnels - The Western Wall is the No. 1 tourist site in all of Israel and the center of constant 24/7 prayer. Aside from making a pilgrimage to the site, don't forget to take a trip through the tunnels. They excavation runs underground along the wall so you will actually be standing on what was street level 2,000 years ago. In the tunnels you will bear witness to all the civilizations that attempted—and ultimately failed—to conquer the Holy Land.
The Jesus Trail - Starting in Nazareth and ending in Capernaum, this trail takes you through 65 km of easy to moderate terrain that follows the footsteps of the Bible. Along the way there are holy places, archaeological sites and historical landmarks. There are also shops, inns and cafes along the way for weary hikers to take a load off. Most people try to do 10 km a day, but if you only have a limited time in Israel, you can just do one portion of the trail.
The Friends of Zion Heritage Museum - This technologically cutting-edge museum is an hugely engaging interactive display on the contributions of the Christian community to the establishment of the State of Israel. It's a moving and edifying experience. Some people profiled here are well known—like Queen Victoria. And some are lesser known, such as Clay Lowdermilk. Never heard of Mr. Lowdermilk? Check out the museum and find out who he is and what he did for Israel.
City of David Segway Tour - This is the coolest way to do some urban sightseeing. The segway tours take you through the city of David in a fun and modern way. Great tour guides will show you this most ancient parts of the Old City. You will glide through ancient paths and past stunning vistas. You'll learn and have fun at the same time.
Nahal Perat - Wadi Qelt - One of the most popular hikes in Israel combines archaeology, the Bible (Prat is the biblical Perat mentioned in the book of Jeremiah), and adventure. There are great swimming holes and ruins of the oldest discovered synagogue in Israel, originally built by the Hasmonean Kings. There is also a monastery still inhabited by Greek monks with visiting hours.
The Blind Museum - Check out the award winning exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" that is part of the Children's Museum in Holon. Don't be mislead though—this exhibit is only open to age 9 and older. The Exhibit allows people to experience the world of the blind and introduces people to the rich sensory world within. It will forever change your perceptions and attitudes on disability.
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“David inquired of the Lord, saying, "Shall I pursue this band?
Shall I overtake them?" And He said to him, "Pursue, for you will
surely overtake them, and you will surely rescue all." (I Samuel 30:8-9 NASU)
In my daily Bible reading I have been appreciating the life of David, and
how there is so much for us to be encouraged by how he did it. Even in those
times when David was being chased by King Saul, who was out to kill him, David
was learning to communicate with the Lord. Getting the basics down would be
instrumental in his entire walk, as he himself went on to become the anointed
king of Israel.
When I consider my own walk with the Lord, I appreciate the times when I
myself inquire of the Lord, to ask Him what His plan is, what He would want me
to do, or how I should consider that situation before me. When I do seek Him,
He does respond. In His time and place, which all the time is at the exact time
needed.
Even a simple ask, like “What now Lord?” will bring a response from Him.
It may come in the form of a word from a friend or family member. He may choose
to give us a dream. A specific word can come through the prophetic gift being
exercised, speaking into our need through another that we may not even know. Or
He may direct you to a Bible passage, enlightening a written Scripture in your
own daily reading that speaks to your spirit.
Having that relationship with the Lord, of simple communication, shouldn’t
be an odd thing. Nor should communicating with Him be an occasional thought, or
only when we get in desperate situations. If we make it one of our foundational
stones, to know His voice, it will be a natural thing to ask, listen, hear and
respond accordingly. The Holy Spirit after all was promised to us to be as our
Helper, given to abide with us always.
I can recall times when I felt I didn’t need to inquire of the Lord.
After all, I was old enough to know what to do, right? And yes, at a later
point, it could have saved me a lot of trouble if I had. Lesson learned.
“Evil men do not
understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand all.” (Proverbs
28:5, NKJV)
In these times of
trouble, it is vital that we are comfortable in asking the Lord His thoughts on
subjects, and what His heart is. The voices we hear of the many others giving
their opinions can drown out the truth, so we need to be able to discern His
voice, and abide in His presence.
Have you inquired of
the Lord lately? Now may be as good a time as any.
Now think on this,
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Now Think On This - In the New Year of our Lord 06.14.16 -
#260 –“Inquire of the Lord Lately?”
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Click hereto watch Richard and Betty Odgaard tell their story of being forced to close down their dream business because of their religious objections to gay marriage.
When the state of Iowa forced Betty Odgaard to shut down her dream, she nearly lost the will to live.
"It was just devastating, it took me down. I didn't want to be on this earth anymore," she said.
Betty and her husband, Richard, owned and operated the Gortz Haus Gallery. They bought a former Lutheran church made of stone in 2002 and converted it into an art gallery.
"It's a gorgeous building, built in 1937 with the stained-glass windows and beautiful architecture. It was just perfect," Betty told CBN News.
In time, they added a bistro and a flower shop and began hosting weddings and receptions. The gallery became a popular venue, hosting 15 to 20 weddings a year and the extra income helped keep the business afloat.
Shutting Down the Dream
It was the Iowa Supreme Court that set in motion the circumstances that forced the gallery to close and destroyed Betty's dream. In 2009, the court struck down the state's law defining marriage as between one man and one woman.
Betty remembers the day their nightmare began: "August 3, 2013, our lives changed drastically, forever."
A same-sex couple came to the gallery seeking to book their wedding, but the Odgaards are Mennonite Christians and they couldn't particpate in a ceremony that violates their religious beliefs.
"We are all sinners. I don't want to celebrate my sins. I don't want other people to celebrate my sins, nor do I want to participate in celebrating anybody else's sins," Richard said.
The couple filed a complaint against the Odgaard's with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission and when the news hit the press, a deluge of hate came crashing into their lives.
"Our Facebook page blew up -- our phones -- they were calling us just constantly...just with the ugliest, most vile stuff," Betty said.
The intensity of the anger from the gay community shocked the couple. They never refused to serve homosexuals at their restaurant and did not discriminate in hiring.
"We've hired gays," Richard said. "It's not a situation where we're vetting what their sexual orientation is. If they're good people that had the talents, we hire them to work with us."
With the help of The Becket Fund for Religius Liberty, the Odgaard's fought the case for more than a year, but the negative publicity and harrassment took its toll and they settled with the couple for $5,000.
Because of the overwhelming negative publicity they received as they fought their case -- and the possibility of more lawsuits -- the Odgaard's felt they had no choice but to stop hosting weddings and providing wedding services.
"We knew that we'd be in trouble if we tried to do more weddings. They would just come in and sue us," Betty said.
Within six months of that decision, due to the loss of income, the Gortz Haus Gallery closed down in 2015.
God's Original Design Ministry
Today, the Odgaard's are using their experience to engage the culture and encourage the church with a message of defending traditional marriage.
"It became very apparent during the two years of our litigation that the good Christians had caved to this idea of same-sex marriage and were accepting it," Richard said. "We have to educate those folks and remind them of what the truth is and get them back on track."
The message is simple: Marriage = one man plus one woman. In just a few months, they had four fully funded four billboards across the country.
Richard and Betty Odgaard
"We call them drive-time epiphanies," Richard said. "It's about reminding people the intention between male and female and what God had in mind for that plan."
The Odgaard's also want to reach the gay community with a message of love.
"We're looking for avenues to reach them, because we feel that's half of our mission field, that's half of our ministry," Betty said. "They're the ones that are hurting, they're the ones that we need to pray for and we need to just reach them for Christ."
Despite the stress and the struggle, they count the whole experience a blessing.
"It has been difficult, I won't lie," Betty said. "It has been the hardest thing that we have ever been through and I don't wish it on anyone."
"The ugly continues to come at us, but I wouldn't want to be anywhere else and we would do it all over again the same way....we are in the middle of God's will and He has blessed us so richly," she said.
"The Holy Spirit Did Not Leave"
In a way, it's not the Odgaard's or gay marriage or the State of Iowa at the heart of the story. It's the building and what it stands for.
The building is where people worshipped for more than 70 years; where Betty saw her dreams come true; where the couple poured out their hearts to make so many weddings a beautiful experience; and, where one of the first battles over religious liberty and gay rights was fought in America.
If the Odgaard's story can be redeemed by God's purpose for their lives, what about the building that sat empty and abandoned at the death of their dream?
"The Holy Spirit did not leave that buidling," Richard said.
Not long after closing down, the Odgaards' church found itself in need of a new building, and they knew just the place. Today, it's once again a house of worship.
Lou Engle at TheCall, Washington, D.C., August 2008
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Sixteen years ago, Lou Engle started asking the Lord how he could be part of turning America back to God. This John the Baptist-style prophet and intercessor discerned the perils facing our nation before 9/11, before the Great Recession, before this new wave of racial tension—and before the rise of an Islamic terrorist group that is beheading Christians and threatening to "strike America at its heart."
Lou's humble question birthed TheCall, a prayer movement that has gathered hundreds of thousands of believers to stadiums in America for solemn assemblies in the spirit of Joel 2. TheCall is a summons to prayer, fasting, repentance and sacrificial worship that does not advertise bands or promote speakers—but exalts the Lord Jesus Christ.
On April 9, 2016—the 110th anniversary of the Azusa Street outpouring that essentially birthed the modern-day Pentecostal movement—Lou is taking this holy prescription to the Los Angeles Coliseum. The goal is to unite believers in urgent, humble fasting and prayer, seeking the Joel 2 promise that God will pour out His Spirit again. It's noteworthy that this is the same venue where Billy Graham once preached the gospel to 140,000 souls.
TheCall Azusa Now could be the most pivotal of all prayer meetings for Lou, who found Christ during the Jesus Movement—and was mowing lawns and sweeping basements for a living when he says he heard the voice of the Lord speak these words clearly in 1975: "I've called you to be an instrument of revival."
"I began dancing in the room—and that began my journey. That call became more clear in 1984 when I was reading a book called Azusa Street by Frank Bartleman, who prayed and fasted before the Azusa Street Revival. His wife thought he would die," says the 63-year-old revivalist. "I went into days of fasting and one night cried out to the Lord to give me the mantle of Frank Bartleman."
Marked for Prayer
It seems God took him up on his petition. As Lou tells the story, the very night he was crying out for Bartleman's mantle, his friend had a dream in which he saw a big black book with the title "revival." In that dream, his friend opened the book to the inside cover and there was a picture of Frank Bartleman—and his face turned into Lou's face.
"From that moment on, I knew my calling was revival and I was an intercessor for revival. My calling is to fast and pray," Lou told Charisma in his characteristic rough voice. "I am a fire starter in prophetic intercession who calls people into fasting and prayer for breakthroughs with the end goal of seeing the spirit of revival."
Lou entered full-time ministry when Ché Ahn, founding pastor of HRock Church in Pasadena, California, set him in place as his intercessor in 1984. Ché, who is also the founder of Harvest International Ministry and international chancellor of Wagner Leadership Institute, describes Lou as "one of the most amazing prophet-intercessors I've ever met."
"TheCall and mobilizing prayer for revival has been historic," Ché told Charisma. "There has been a turning point. Even though laws haven't changed, the number of abortions is declining almost every year—especially since 2000, when abortion was the primary focus of TheCall D.C. that saw 400,000 people crying out to God."
Ending abortion has been a burden on Lou's heart for decades. In 2004, he founded Justice House of Prayer DC, which is committed to pray for national leaders and seeks spiritual transformation and cultural reformation from the government gate of our nation's capital, and Bound4LIFE. Both ministries were birthed after 50 days and nights of 24/7 prayer and fasting that led a large group of prayer warriors to Washington, D.C., to re-enact a prophetic dream one of the intercessors had during the fast. On Oct. 4, 2004, they stood in a silent siege (Ezek. 4:1-3), wearing red tape with the word "LIFE" written over it, praying for an end to abortion.
This Bound4LIFE grass-roots movement, which seeks to exalt Jesus, see an end to abortion and contend for a great awakening in every sphere of society, has spread like wildfire in the pro-life community, even finding its way to the cover of TIMEmagazine. Although Roe v. Wade still stands, pro-life laws are passing across the nation and a recent Associated Press report reveals abortions have dropped by 12 percent nationwide since 2010.
"Lou has pioneered for a whole generation the reality that we have to stop abortion," says Cindy Jacobs, co-founder of Generals International, a prayer-based organization that works to change lives and transform nations. "History will say Lou was a major voice that was the impetus for abortion to be stopped."
40-Day Fast and a Dream
Perhaps the king of 40-day fasts, Lou is known for fasting as much as he is for prayer. His ministry is marked by prophetic dreams and visions God uses to lead and guide him on each step of his journey. One of those dreams came in 1996 during a 40-day fast inspired by Bill Bright, the late founder of Campus Crusade for Christ (now known as Cru). Bright, who also wrote The Four Spiritual Laws and was the visionary behind the Jesus film, realized that evangelism efforts were not bearing transformational fruit. He called 2 million people to join him in his annual 40-day juice and water fast. Lou responded to the call.
"I had a dream, and I was supposed to be giving a letter to a little boy named Joel. I lost the letter and I was looking for it frantically," recalls Lou, who says he was raised on Derek Prince's book Shaping History Through Prayer and Fasting. In Prince's book, the late Bible teacher declared the only answer in the last days would be united fasting and prayer. "I woke up and the Lord just spoke to me: Don't lose Joel's letter. Call the youth of America to fasting and prayer, the book of Joel. Little did I realize I would be calling solemn assemblies."
On Oct. 4, 1997, Lou watched in awe as Promise Keepers, a men's ministry on a mission to ignite and unite men to become warriors who will change their world, assembled 1.4 million men on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In a subsequent meeting with 600 young people, Lou started proclaiming from Malachi 4:6 that the hearts of the fathers would return to the children, and the hearts of the children would return to the fathers. He says he saw in the Spirit a corresponding move of young people—a John-the-Baptist, Nazarite generation—who would go to the National Mall and fast and pray as the older men had. When that day came, Lou declared prophetically, it would be a sign that America is turning back to God.
Then it happened. In 1999, a woman asked Lou if he had ever considered putting young people on the National Mall like Promise Keepers did two years earlier. When he told her about his proclamation and prophetic insight, the woman wrote him a check for $100,000 to fund what would become Lou's first major solemn assembly. TheCall D.C. hit the mall Sept. 2, 2000, shortly after a dream Lou says he had in which he was overwhelmed with the possibility of America turning back to God.
"In that dream, a scroll rolled down before me, and I read Luke 1:17 to go on before the Lord in the spirit of Elijah and turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the rebellious to the wisdom of the righteous," Lou says. "I woke up, and the Lord told me, 'What I'm pouring out is stronger than the rebellion.' I knew TheCall was a John-the-Baptist, Nazarite movement. If TheCall is truly a John-the-Baptist movement, you can bet there's a Jesus Movement coming."
Mike Bickle, director of the International House of Prayer (IHOP) in Kansas City, got to know Lou when he was at IHOP for five years. Mike told Charisma Lou has a gift for national assignments that galvanize thousands of intercessors and mobilize them to action in a key day. Lou has held TheCall at over 20 sites in America with strategic focuses. For example, TheCall D.C. focused largely on abortion. TheCall Nashville in 2007 focused on the church renewing her marital covenant with the Lord, to repent of her tolerance of Jezebel and to pray for a new Jesus Movement to sweep the nation. TheCall Detroit focused on uniting races and ethnicities to pray as one unified body.
"Only people with these values gather to Lou's voice—people who are desperate for breakthrough and are confident it's coming," Mike says. "Some people are desperate, but they are not confident. Some people are confident, but they are not desperate. Lou brings thousands of desperate, confident people together, and they are encouraged because they are not alone. They see there's an army out there."
Facing Down Goliaths
Lou's ministry moves in a prophetic swirl of sorts, but he's had plenty of spiritual warfare along the way. He's tackled principalities such as Baal and Jezebel and wrestles with the spirit of mammon. In fact, he says funding has always been one of his greatest challenges: "It's hard for people to lock on to funding prayer, but it happens." But he says his feelings of personal failure and weakness are the greatest challenge. Indeed, Lou Engle says his greatest challenge is Lou Engle.
"It's the challenge of having faith when you can't see results," Lou says. "You don't even know people are coming. The enemy lies and says, 'You can't do it.' And yet we have fought through and seen hundreds of thousands gathered. That in itself is a miracle. People say God is not answering the prayers. People criticize prayer rallies. Prayer rallies of 100,000 or 400,000 or 40,000 are the answer because it is the birthing. Prayer has always been the birthday of the great awakenings."
Lou points to the Bright 40-day fast in 2000 as the catalyst for the greatest harvest in America's history to date. After that, day-and-night prayer exploded around the world, the Global Day of Prayer was born, and TheCall was established. Lou believes God has answered Bright's prayers and fasting with a massive proliferation of prayer that's preparing the way for an explosive worldwide outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And Lou's going to keep praying and fasting—and calling others to join him—until he sees it.
"People say we don't see immediate answers to prayer," Lou says. "I tell you, bowls have to be filled, and it might take years until they overflow. Think of the 70 years of people crying out for release from communism. In one moment, the Berlin wall came down. Everything shifts. Give us one moment of revival. God will change everything. I think God is bringing a massive prayer movement as part of the answers to our prayers."
Dutch Sheets, an internationally recognized author, teacher and conference speaker, says he has never met anyone who lives what he preaches and teaches more than Lou, particularly with regard to prayer and fasting. "There's no one more committed to the cause of the Lord, and more specifically, the causes that God has put on his heart: the pro-life issue and awakening and revival," Dutch told Charisma. "Those things have made him so powerful and flow out of who he is. You'll never find a more passionate person than Lou Engle."
Mobilizing Intercessors
Lou will go down in charismatic church history as a general of intercession who mobilized the church to pray; a John-the-Baptist-like prophet who called the nation to repentance; a pro-life leader who understood that the blood of abortion is on our hands; a spiritual warrior who refused to tolerate Jezebel; and, hopefully an instrument of transforming revival.
"What releases the spirit of prayer is the spirit of prophecy," Lou says. "When I tell the story of Azusa, bones start rattling, movement occurs, people begin to pray. I am convinced that the problem is not that there isn't enough prayer. The problem is there's not enough prophetic unction to create the spirit of prayer, or it's the unbelief of the church, (who) won't believe the prophecies until she sees."
James Goll, president of Encounters Network, international director of Prayer Storm and founder of God Encounters Training, compared Lou to Kentucky Fried Chicken—he does one thing and does it right. "Lou Engle is not a show horse—he's a trained racehorse with God-given blinders that hems him in to see the finish line," James told Charisma. "Lou keeps his eyes on the prize to pay the price no matter what the cost. The prize is Jesus."
Lou not only has his eyes on the prize, but he has inserted himself into the storyline. He's standing in the gap and making up the hedge. He's positioned himself as a watchman on the wall. And he is encouraged by what he sees: a growing number of churches across the nation holding 21-day, 30-day and 40-day fasts every year. He's encouraged because he hasn't seen this since Bright led the charge.
"The problem in the church isn't unmotivated people," Lou says. "It's that we're not listening to the right dreamers. When the Israelites were re-establishing the house of prayer when they came back from Babylon, the prophet Zechariah started prophesying, and it stirred the people. We've had 20 years now of storyline that's fueling fasting, fueling prayer. God is in this generational Elijah movement, and I think we're about ready to shift."
Brian Kim, director of the Antioch Center for Training and Sending School of Frontier Missions in Colorado Springs, Colorado, told Charisma Lou embodies the marriage of prayer and prophecy and called him a visionary dreamer in every right.
"I have seen him lead hundreds of thousands in prayer, and I have seen him weeping in prayer in the early hours of the morning when he thought no one was watching, seeking solace in the front seat of his 15-passenger van for lack of a proper prayer closet," Brian says. "I have seen him give literally all he has for the sake of the gospel—and not just one time, but on numerous occasions."
Significance of This Call
Indeed, Lou sold his house in Pasadena to fund Asuza Now, and he's hoping to fill the stadium for the glory of God. Beyond fasting, prayer and worship, Bill Johnson, senior pastor of Bethel Church in Redding, California, is joining forces with TheCall Azusa Now to hit the streets with evangelism in the weeks leading up to the main event. The evangelism component marks a shift of strategy toward proclamation of the gospel with the signs and wonders Lou sensed prophetically in 2011.
Leaders in the prayer movement agree that TheCall Azusa Now is significant at a time when America desperately needs revival. God never sends revival without first stirring united prayer.
As James Goll sees it, TheCall Azusa Now is strategic in the life of Lou Engle, which makes it strategic in the life of the nation. "There's going to be grace, grace, grace, grace, and it's a turning point to turn the innie into an outie," James says. "TheCall is going to take us into a modern-day Salvation Army where we are not just doing prayer and fasting in rooms; we are taking it to the streets coupled with the worship and evangelists and gifts of healing and working of miracles. It is a turning point."
Dutch believes God has another outpouring in mind at the Azusa Street level and says TheCall is part of the prayer momentum toward that outpouring. "God wouldn't be moving so sovereignly if there was not hope for this awakening," Dutch says. "TheCall is very significant and will bring great hope."
Mike sees TheCall Azusa Now as important for several reasons. Beyond the 110th anniversary of Azusa Street, he's looking at Lou's 30-year history of blowing the trumpet and gathering people to prayer. "Lou is a class of his own," Mike says. "I don't know of another person who has his resume in the Spirit. That's what makes this significant. That's what gets my attention."
"We are not saying this event will be what brings revival to America," Ché says. "TheCall is one of a number of initiatives for revival. But gathering to humble ourselves and pray and fast and seek His face en masse is especially significant on the 110th anniversary of Azusa Street."
Lou is asking the body of Christ some serious questions: Can you believe with us that denominations will unite, that the races could come together, that God could make us one as the antidote to the terrific division in our day? Could you believe with us for stadium Christianity where signs and wonders are breaking out and mass evangelism explodes across our country—the Third Great Awakening?
"I don't believe that God will fasten our soul to a dead-end vision," Lou says. "I stand in awe of the God who has been faithful to His promises. He will come to us like the rain. Though darkness covers the Earth, the glory of the Lord rises upon us. I pray your heart burns with this faith. Can a nation be saved? I still believe!"
Lou may or may not see 140,000 people fill the Los Angeles Coliseum as they did in Billy Graham's day, but tens of thousands are likely to unite in prayer, fasting and worship, intent on turning America back to God. Cindy Jacobs told Charisma TheCall Azusa Now is one of those events that, 10 years from now, people will say "I was there" or "I wish I had been there."
Jennifer LeClaireis senior editor of Charisma, director of the Awakening House of Prayer, a senior leader of the New Breed Revival Network and author of many books, including Jezebel's Puppets: Exposing the Agenda of False Prophets. Visit her online atjenniferleclaire.org.
Watch the incredible story of how God prophetically orchestrated each step leading up to TheCall Azusa Now at azusanow.charismamag.com.
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"Lou Engle's MIRACULOUS Story About This April 9, Azusa Event at the L.A. Coliseum"
by Lou Engle The Elijah List Mar 2, 2016
From the desk of Steve Shultz:
OMG! God does such amazing, miraculous things with Lou Engle, Fred Berry and other men of God.
YOU HAVE GOT TO GO to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum this April 9th!!
When you read this story of miraculous occurrences of God speaking to various people about this event, YOU WILL NOT WANT TO MISS "AzusaNow" on the 110th Anniversary of the WORLD FAMOUS AZUSA STREET REVIVAL.
Quick Note: Fred Berry may be the very first person who ever invited me down to an AZUSA STREET EVENT in the year 2000. It was significant!!! Now you've got to read this amazing story involving Lou Engle and Fred Berry and the GOD EVENTS that led up to this Event on April 9.
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"Lou Engle's MIRACULOUS Story About This April 9, Azusa Event at the L.A. Coliseum"
Lou Engle, Pasadena, CA
God is the Author and Finisher of our faith. In other words, He has written a story about our lives that has a beginning and has a fulfillment. So it is with my personal story.
In 1982, my Pastor, Che Ahn, dreamed of an African American man waving to him and saying, "...come to Los Angeles, there is going to be a great revival." Because of that dream, 12 of us moved to Pasadena, California, in 1984.
I was reading a book called Azusa Street by an intercessor named Frank Bartleman who became the key eyewitness to the Azusa Street Revival of 1906. While reading his book my heart was lit on fire. I went into days of fasting, and one night cried out for the intercessory mantle of Frank Bartleman like I had never prayed.
The following day, a friend came to me and said, "I had a dream last night. In this dream I saw a big black book, and the title said Revival. In the dream I turned to the inside cover and I saw a man's face, and his name was Frank Bartleman, and in the dream his face turned to your face, Lou." At that moment I knew the title of the book God has written over my life is "Revival," and my job description is to raise up fasting and prayer to that end.
Fast forward 30 years to when we were holding TheCall in Berkley, California. For 16 years TheCall has gathered hundreds of thousands in arenas, fields, and stadiums, praying for the outpouring of the Spirit. As such, in Berkley, we were fasting prior to TheCall when the Lord suddenly interrupted me and said, "Get reconciled with Fred Berry the leader of the Azusa Street Mission."(Photo of Fred Berry via Facebook)
Six years before, I had written an insensitive letter to African American leaders in America and Brother Fred, and I had a hurtful interaction over it. He had tried to call me a few times to work out our differences, but I just put it off. Sensing the Lord's heart this time, I reached out and called Fred on the phone and we got reconciled. Then he said, "Lou, 'TheCall: Azusa Street' is still waiting for you." This word struck me like lightning. Could this be a fulfillment chapter of my Bartleman dream of 30 years ago?
The story I tell here begins with reconciliation between an African American man and an Anglo for such a time as this. As I was praying into this, God's thoughts filtered into my mind, "Look up April 9th, 2016, the 110th anniversary of the Azusa Street revival. It's a Saturday."I knew the Lord was saying we could hold TheCall on that day. I looked it up and it's a Saturday.
So I called my friend that had the Bartleman dream and told him this run down. He said, "Lou, do you remember the dream that I had in 2013 while we were fasting 40 days?" No, I didn't remember.
He said in the dream we had to buy five sets of five plane tickets, and the only airline we could fly was United Airlines. In the dream he knew that grace was being given to the Church and knew that she must fly United because only a united Church can heal a divided nation. In the dream, he was also concerned that he would miss the flight, so he looked up the expiration date and it was in "1,080 days."
Waking from the dream, he Googled 1,080 days from that day. You guessed it: It was April 9, 2016, the 110th anniversary of the Azusa Street revival! I knew in that moment that God had a date for the Church to gather together in unity and prayer for Azusa and beyond. (Photo via TheCall.com)
I believe God is shouting John 17 to the Church right now: "I pray that they may be one even as I and the Father are one." The Church must be united because the nation is so fractured, and this is the prayer of Jesus.
Another interesting point in my prophetic journey toward AzusaNow happened while we were fasting at the end of 2015 for 40 days on the campus of USC right next to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. While in the middle of that fast, someone came to us and said, "Do you know there is a United Airlines jet on the USC campus and it is facing the Memorial Coliseum?"
On April 9, 2015, we had gone to the Memorial Coliseum and the USC officials told us that this coliseum was where the first Super Bowl was played when Vince Lombardi was the coach of the Green Bay Packers. This single piece of information so struck me because 20 years ago I recorded an encounter and wept from 12 midnight to four in the morning as two 11-year-old Asian girls in the midst of revival in Mott Auditorium in Pasadena, CA, were caught up in the heavens and described the angelic realm.
(Photo via TheCall.com; Billy Graham Crusade – September 8, 1963 & TheCall Nashville – July 7, 2007)
One moment stood out amongst them all when the girls began to prophesy, "Mott's too small! Stadiums will be filled! There's Vince Lombardi in Heaven!" I asked them, "Have you ever heard of Vince Lombardi?" They said, "No, we have never heard of him and don't know who he is, but he has a football helmet on in Heaven." I was shocked.
Because of these visions, I've been asking God for 20 years now, "Is there coming a super bowl for the Church where stadiums will be filled? Why did they see Vince Lombardi in Heaven?"
When the USC official said, "This is where the first Super Bowl was played," I instantly knew that TheCall was the answer to those prayers and AzusaNow was to be held in the Memorial Coliseum on April 9, 2016. Amazingly, the Jubilee Super Bowl was just recently played in California. We hear the sound of Jubilee. The natural things speak of the invisible.
It's jubilee, it's time for unity, it's time to release those we've held in bondage. It's time to forgive, it's time for Luke 4:18, the time for signs and wonders, and the proclamation of the Gospel!
At Azusa Street an African American man, William Seymour, opened the heavens, and by the power of the Spirit, races and churches united and the tongue of fire exploded out of L.A. into the nations of the earth. We must have revival, but "they were all together in one place and one accord" before "suddenly out of Heaven" took place. They saw "Azusa Then." Now we must see "Azusa Now." (Photo via TheCall.com; William Seymour, Azusa Street, Los Angeles, CA)
Gather to AzusaNow on April 9, 2016, the 110th anniversary of the Azusa Street revival at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and dare to believe for a flash point into a new Jesus movement, a new day of harvest, and signs and wonders. Let us gather together to bless and forgive so that all the streams may flow into one river.
Lou Engle Co-Founder of TheCall, Inc. Founder, Bound 4 Life
Lou Engle is a revivalist, visionary and co-founder of TheCall, Inc. For more than three decades, Lou's passion has been to call Believers into radical consecration through prayer, fasting, and acts of justice. Lou has been involved in church planting, establishing prayer movements, and strategic houses of prayer. He is the founder of the pro-life ministry, Bound 4 Life, and has inspired other justice movements.
Lou resides in Pasadena, California, where he is a part of the leadership team at the Pasadena International House of Prayer. He recently launched the Spiritual Air Force Academy with a mandate to train and deploy teams across the world for breakthrough intercession in partnership with missions.
Lou and his wife, Therese, have been married for 34 years. They have seven children.
He said in the dream we had to buy five sets of five plane tickets, and the only airline we could fly was United Airlines. In the dream he knew that grace was being given to the Church and knew that she must fly United because only a united Church can heal a divided nation. In the dream, he was also concerned that he would miss the flight, so he looked up the expiration date and it was in "1,080 days." 
On April 9, 2015, we had gone to the Memorial Coliseum and the USC officials told us that this coliseum was where the first Super Bowl was played when Vince Lombardi was the coach of the Green Bay Packers. This single piece of information so struck me because 20 years ago I recorded an encounter and wept from 12 midnight to four in the morning as two 11-year-old Asian girls in the midst of revival in Mott Auditorium in Pasadena, CA, were caught up in the heavens and described the angelic realm. 
At Azusa Street an African American man, William Seymour, opened the heavens, and by the power of the Spirit, races and churches united and the tongue of fire exploded out of L.A. into the nations of the earth. We must have revival, but "they were all together in one place and one accord" before "suddenly out of Heaven" took place. They saw "Azusa Then." Now we must see "Azusa Now." (Photo via TheCall.com; William Seymour, Azusa Street, Los Angeles, CA)