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Urgent Call For a Three-Day Fast For the USA
March 8-11 – “For Such a Time As This”
From Lou Engle, Pasadena, CA
Esther said, “I and my young women will also fast as you do. Afterward, though it is against the law, I will go to the king…and if I perish, I perish” (Esther 4:16).
There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens. Great revolutions, either good or evil, spring up in the vacuum created by these openings. In such divine moments, key men, women and entire generations risk everything to become the hinge of history—the “pivot point” that determines which way the door will swing.
The Esther Hour
Esther is a prototype of history’s hinge—a courageous woman who humbly and artfully spoke truth to power. Facing witchcraft and dark conspiracies in Persia’s power base, Queen Esther risked her life, armed with nothing but a dying love for her people, a providential position of authority, her own dignity, and the secret arsenal of corporate prayer and fasting. Through her a nation was spared annihilation. (Photo by Donna Smallenberg“For Such a Time as This” via Elijah List Shopper)
Three years ago in a leaders summit in Fredericksburg Virginia, our meeting was sovereignly hijacked as the Lord shifted our focus toward the hidden taproot of strength in the godly women of America. We began to envision something of a million women gathering on the mall in Washington DC, similar to the Promise Keepers gathering, that would be a last-stand breakthrough to hold back darkness in America. Those hours of corporate intercession were as strong and clear as any prophetic moment I have ever encountered in thirty plus years of prayer, but at the time we could not see how it could be brought to pass. Habakkuk’s statement seemed to be the counsel of the Lord to us, “Though the vision tarry, wait for it, it will surely come” (Habakkuk 2:3).
The Truly Empowered Woman
That moment arrived January 21, 2017, the day after the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, as we watched hundreds of thousands of women take to the streets with the purported aim of “empowering women.” A vacuum had been created by this election, by historic women’s injustices, and it seemed that a false heiress rushed in and was seeking now to become the hinge of history by framing the narrative of a future America that does not acknowledge God’s exalted view of women and His Biblical design for her glorious purpose in the earth. Instinctively we had a corporate knowing: it was the time for the true empowered woman to stand up, for the meek (strength-filled humility) shall inherit the earth.
Hundreds of thousands of women watched the March, heard the vitriol, and couldnot identify with the radical ideologies being expressed that would not acknowledge God’s Word and ways in the public controversy. This new woman declared deep inside her heart this is not my revolution.” Now, like Esther, she is arising for such a time as this. It’s time for this corporate Esther to frame the future by recognizing and taking up her God-given role of persistent public persuasion in the open square as well as that of her humble appeal to God in prayer.
Fasting Through Purim
The Women’s March was the first shot across the bow, heralding a revolutionary rise against the President of the United States, “We the People”, and in reality, the foundational Biblical truths upon which our nation was founded. Soon after, the second shot was manifested publicly: an unprecedented global summons of witchcraft to curse President Trump, his cabinet and all of those aligned with a Biblical worldview. Suddenly, the whole controversy was elevated to a global spiritual dimension, inaugurating a spiritual battle that cannot be won on the playing field of protests and political arguments.
Only the Church has the answer to this unprecedented manifestation of witchcraft. Spiritual strategy must be used to overcome this open-faced, brazen challenge of the powers.
According to Derek Prince, Haman (the adversary in the Book of Esther), was practicing divination through the casting of lots, and was clearly aligning himself with demonic spiritual powers to destroy the whole Jewish population in the earth. Esther’s three-day fast broke the spiritual power channeled by Haman’s witchcraft. It effectively reversed the curse and shifted the whole public policy of the Persian Empire towards the Jewish people. I cannot stress this enough: we are in a similar day and a cataclysmic battle for the soul of our nation. We cannot live the same way we lived yesterday.
Recently, two women contacted me and asked me to use my influence to call for a three-day Esther Fast to answer this challenge. Immediately after, I experienced a life-changing dream where I saw a nation-wide Esther movement arising that alone could break a major spiritual power of death.
I knew then that I was to take my place as a Mordecai and call not only “Esther and her handmaidens” but the whole nation, to fast and pray for three days leading up to Purim. The Jewish holiday Purim celebrates God’s deliverance of the Jews through Esther’s fasting, sacrifice and courage. This year, Purim begins on Saturday evening, March 11th.
Therefore, we are seizing this sudden moment for a three-day Esther Fast from sundown on Wednesday, March 8th through the evening of Saturday, March 11th to counter this witchcraft, to stand against the rising anti-Semitism, pray for the President, and contend for the uprising of an Esther movement in America that will, among many things, reverse the decree of ’73, Roe V. Wade, just as Haman’s decree was reversed.
Let the women (and the nation) arise as Esther’s for such a time as this and take their place in the courts of Heaven and in the public courts of man to shape history in this hour. If your heart burns, mobilize this fast to all your connections. Blow the trumpet in Zion! Call a fast!
Consumed by the call,
Lou Engle Co-Founder of TheCall, Inc. Founder, Bound 4 Life Email: response@thecall.com Website: www.thecall.com
Here is a good prayer to pray and proclaim during this week (modified from a prayer by James Nesbit). Let’s all be praying this aloud in unity:
Father, as we enter the feast of Purim we thank You for Donald Trumps presidency, and we present the case of Jeff Sessions, head of the Department of Justice, before the Highest Court of All. We ask that you reverse the curses of witchcraft and counsels of darkness and expose the cunningly devised labors of the spirit of Hamon that seeks to undo what you are doing to heal the land. May the mischief of media and cooperation of enemies in government be turned back and hung on its own journalistic gallows. May the sources of betrayal deep inside the government be uprooted.
Lord, You are the justice of the Highest Court, and we are thanking You for Your intervention and Your will to be established in this matter! If there are those who have conspired to ruin this man’s good name and reputation, and sabotage the presidency of Donald Trump, and thereby committing treason against this nation; we thank You, that whatever has been, or is being done in darkness, and every person who is behind it all the way to the source, be brought out into the fullness of Your light, and Your justice! What they have intended for him, in Your infinite wisdom, and eternal justice, measure back a just sentence to them.
It seems we are constantly having to appropriate Isaiah 57:14 on behalf of someone in this administration. And this day, on Jeff Sessions behalf, through the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, we decree: No weapon formed against Jeff Sessions (or any other cabinet member) shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against him in judgment will be condemned!
Father, we thank You for this word that You gave concerning Alabama’s destiny and impact on our nation through Cindy Jacobs on 4.11. 2014:
“And the Lord would say to the State of Alabama, I am going to cause you to be the voice of Judicial Reform. God says, there will be an anointing come out of Alabama that is going to reverse the judicial activism that has been in this nation, says thy God. I’m going to give weight to your voice. I’m going to give strength to your voice. I say Alabama will be a first fruits state that will be a bastion, that will begin to undo the agendas to take the values of Jesus Christ out of this nation, God says. And I’m going to use Alabama to reverse what satan has done. And it will begin, it will tip the nation.”
We believe Jeff Sessions appointment as Head of the Department of Justice is the beginning of the fulfillment of this word. And a part of the strategy of hell is to force his resignation, to abort this word. So Father, we thank You for rendering Your verdict and making Your justice swift, stiff, and strong.
Just as president Trump issued the executive Order that for every new regulation, there would be the removal two! We are thanking You that every time there is an unjust assault released against a leader, a seven-fold release of blood bought light, will minister to every king pin in each of the seven mountains!
“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.” Deuteronomy 28:7