On Labor Day weekend in September 2000, over 400,000 people gathered to the
National Mall in Washington, DC. They came not to the sound of a music festival
or to hear the biggest names in Christendom, but they came to the sound of Joel
2: "Blow the trumpet in Zion! Consecrate a fast! Call a sacred assembly." This
gathering was known as TheCall DC.
After TheCall DC between 2000 and 2003, TheCall mobilized hundreds of thousands
of believers from all across the nations to gather in culture-influencing cities
across America for TheCall Boston, TheCall New York City, TheCall San Francisco,
and others to seek God in prayer and fasting.
Now, after four years of dormancy, TheCall is on the march again back to the
National Mall in Washington, DC already having gathered tens of thousands to LP
Field in Nashville on 07.07.07. In 2008, TheCall will gather people to
different cities around the nation and then converge again in Washington, DC in
summer of 2008 for TheCall DC II, where young and old alike will gather to fast,
pray and ask God for a historic visitation of epic proportions.
TheCall California - November 1, 2008
Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego
TheCall California Part 1:
They came like waves crashing onto the shores of California. Leaving behind a
legacy of glory and apostolic influence, great manifestations of the power and
love of God broke in on past generations of hungry saints. Waves of God’s great
presence cascaded upon her shores in 1906, 1919, 1947, 1948, 1967, 1971, 1980,
and 1994. These waves are California’s revivals. In the midst of unspeakable
decadence, corporate greed, cultural trend setting, and global pornographic
exportation, there lies deposited deeply below California’s crusty surface
gold-there’s oil in her hills. Something continually draws God to the scene.
Could it be that God is drawn to her pain? Maybe God sees her shores as hosting
planet's lost prophets with misplaced passions or maybe he is drawn to the cry
of her wandering masses. Whatever be the case, He comes, and when he does, the
entire world is changed. The tongues of fire that erupted at Azusa have lit up
the world. The revivals sown in Hollywood loosed great evangelists like Bill
Bright and Billy Graham. The Jesus Movement gave us Calvary love songs that have
kissed the youth of the globe. The new wine of worship and healing came from
California’s vineyards. These ancient songs awaken us from our nightmare and
remind us something that was and can be again. Hollywood, the “woman at the
well”, could become the great evangelist again in these last days.
In 1946, Franklin Hall launched a fasting and prayer movement out of San Diego
with a book called Atomic Power With God Through Fasting and Prayer. Thousands
were stirred to enter into extended consecration fasts. Shortly after, the great
healing revival broke out in 1947, followed by the campus revivals, and the
Hollywood revivals in 1948. In the very same year, across the globe in the heart
of the middle-east, by God’s divine mandate Israel was again called a nation.
Could there be that there was a connection between what God was doing in
California and the orchestrating of His divine purposes in the creation of the
nation of Israel? Is it possible that the outpouring of God presence and the
igniting of prayer in California were in reality connected with God’s heart to
birth an entire nation? I believe it was global Joel 2 moment in which the
scripture promises that after the fast, God would restore the land and pour out
his spirit on all flesh. I hear TheCall again; “Gather the people, call a fast,
and afterwards I will pour out my spirit.”
Now 50 years later, California sits
within a fog of Jezebel confusion. Recently the Supreme Court of California
disregarded the votes of the people and legalized homosexual marriage. The
entire world listened attentively as the mayor of San Francisco boasted, “As
California goes, so goes the rest of the nation. Its inevitable, this door is
wide open. It’s going to happen whether you like it or not. This is the future,
and its now.” The world is looking to California for moral leadership while
California finds herself caught in the snare of idolatry and self-worship.
Recently I received an urgent call on behalf of hundreds of pastors admitting
that California wouldn’t be saved simply political petitioning and confessed the
reality of an ongoing spiritual battle within the state and the need to mobilize
for mass fasting and prayer. They asked us to bring TheCall to San Diego, not
knowing that we received several powerful directives from the Lord a year ago
that TheCall was going to go to the stadium in San Diego.
This bill mentioned is a reflection of how far down the line we have come in
removing the very moral foundations that preserve society. The moral levies in
America are breaking and once marriage is redefined, it will be a matter of time
before the entire structure of morality collapses within our nation. In one
sense, this bill mirrors our own inward moral concessions as a church to the
prevailing culture, and it is the fruit of a compromising silence that has
failed to confront the rising spiritual and political contenders. But it is not
too late! This is not a time for hiding in caves. This is a time to resist
mightily the spirit of peaceful coexistence and apathetic resignation in the
face of this prevailing darkness. We are coming to a Mount Carmel moment, which
I believe could be the church’s finest hour where she challenges her own
compromise and then gains authority through prayer and action which is her true
vocation. Then our light will break forth like the dawn and truth will no longer
be trampled under the feet of renegade kings and judges. The church is not at
the mercy of political decrees of destruction. Jesus is the Lord of history!
Though these decrees stand today, they will not stand forever. God is the one
who reverses the edicts of man, using the church as an agent of righteous
revolution to displace kings and overthrow their decrees through the weapons of
fasting and prayer.
Therefore, we are summoning believers from all across the state of California
and the nation to gather for a Joel 2 moment. When there is no remedy, when
there is no natural hope, God still has a holy prescription. Blow the trumpet in
Zion, gather the people, and call a fast. Let the believers of this great state
gather and cry out to God believing that California could become the flash point
of real change in America not the open door to societal collapse. Let us return
to the fasting praying womb in San Diego and seek the face of God on November
1st, 2008 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, CA.
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