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June 23, 2014

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST FROM ANNE GRAHAM-LOTZ

From Anne Graham-Lotz:

Blow the trumpet…sound the alarm…for the day of the Lord is coming. It is close at hand– Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God… Joel 2:1, 13

As you may know, my husband is in declining health. I am no longer traveling and speaking as much as I have for the last 26 years since I am staying home to care for him. As a result, I have had time to be quiet and listen more to the whispers of the Spirit. He has revealed things to me in the stillness that I’m not sure I would have heard in my former busyness.

One of the things He has impressed on me is that we are living at the end of human history as we know it. In light of this, He has given me some practical assignments. One was to be the Honorary Chair for the National Day of Prayer 2014 this past May. He gave me the message I was to deliver, which was from Joel 1…the Day of the Lord is at hand. It was a message warning that judgment is coming.

Just recently, He has given me another assignment, which is to call His people in our nation to prayer. This assignment came indirectly from a Syrian pastor through a National Day of Prayer attendee. In obedience, I am blowing the trumpet…sounding the alarm…issuing a national prayer initiative entitled 7 7 7: An Urgent Call to Prayer. The Call is for God’s people to pray for each of the first seven days in the seventh month-July 1-7. Then on the 7th day, July 7, we are to pray and fast for 7 hours. The purpose is…

For God the Father to restrain, protect, and deliver His people from the evil that has come into our world.
For God the Son to be exalted, magnified, and glorified in His church, in our nation, and in our lives.
For God the Holy Spirit to fall on us in a fresh way, compelling the church to repent of sin and our nation to return to faith in the living God, resulting in a great national spiritual awakening.

I’m asking you to partner with me, and send out the word to everyone on your email address list, or who follows you on facebook or twitter. I will be sending out an eBlast this week and next, which you can access at http://www.annegrahamlotz.com/events/urgent-call-to-prayer. Please feel free to use it, and place your name in the paragraph that includes mine to make it more personal for your constituents. Feel free also to forward this letter.

I will provide a prayer I have written for each of the 7 days to help unite us in one spirit and one voice as we cry out to God. Those who receive the eBlast are invited to sign up for the daily email prayers. Please be assured there is no other agenda in this initiative. This is not about promoting anything or anyone. This is all about calling God’s people together to pray, before it’s too late, and judgment falls on our nation.

Urgently,

Anne Graham-Lotz

I can't pray for 7 hours! I wouldn't be able to think of enough things to say to God throughout that time. Short periods in a day are the best I can manage.

Kathy , I agree, and will do what it is that I can.

But the truth is the hour is late,
People have harden their hearts aginst the truth,
And I am not sure that we are going to see a revival just
before the rapture. I believe that will happen after the
rapture, when God Almighty displays his displeasure with
our choices.

The message gave me renewed hope that the time is short and we are
soon out of here.

Kathy, I agree with you. The problem is---as long as the Pastors and ministers don't understand right from wrong. You will never tell their
congregations or sheep, what sin is.

Ok to split Israel in 1/2,
Gay marriages etc.

Yeah, right. Not!!

What a coincidence that the first day of July I have to fast for an early morning lab test for my annual check-up. Is God trying to tell me something?

As far as praying for seven hours, pray silently or out loud as often as you can. Put appropraite Bible verses on some index cards and read them as part of your prayer time during the day. God says in Isaiah that His word will not return to Him empty or void but will accomplish what it is sent to do. The sound/vibration of sound of the spoken word has more power than you can imagine. If we pray God's own words we know that we are on the right path because God's WORD will stand forever and has great power of fulfillment. Some suggestions are II CHRONICLES 7:14 - "If MY people who are called by My Name will pray....".

If we don't pray (I am preaching to myself here mostly) then the evil realm of demonic spirits and fallen angels have an open field to wreak havoc with everyone's lives. Prayer from the heart and mouth of a Christian whose life belongs to Jesus IS the RESTRAINING FORCE that holds back evil until we are removed from the earth.

Mary thank you so much for posting this alert from Anne Graham Lotz for us. I would not have known about it otherwise so I am very grateful. If God told her to gather all who can to pray for this set time and to fast then there must be something that HE wants to do in this world. How blessed we are to participate with God our Father in His plans. We may not know what it is going to accomplish even afterwards but we will know when we get home. God bless you dear sister!

From Anne Graham Lotz prayer website accessed by link in Mary's original post above:

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Blow the trumpet…sound the alarm…for the day of the Lord is coming. It is close at hand-- Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God… ~Joel 2:1, 13

Join Anne Graham Lotz and thousands of other followers of Jesus Christ across our nation and around the world, as together we return to the Lord our God, rend our hearts, repent of our sin, and cry out to God for His mercy on behalf of our nation. Before it’s too late.

Pray! in the 7th month, July
Pray! on each of the first 7 days of July
Pray! and fast on July 7th for 7 hours (of your choosing)

The Purpose:

For God the Father to restrain, protect, and deliver His people from the evil that has come into our world.
For God the Son to be exalted, magnified, and glorified in His church, in our nation, and in our lives.
For God the Holy Spirit to fall on us in a fresh way, compelling the church to repent of sin and our nation to return to faith in the living God, resulting in a great national spiritual awakening.


Color emphasis is mine. I thiought this may be a quick reference for those who are joining in prayer this week. God bless, Sue

Posted originally by Mary - Excellent Video

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