Introduction from Cheryl Amabile:
Last October, on the Day of Atonement, 300,000 women gathered in our nation's capital to plead the blood of Jesus in the heavenly courts. We believe God judged powers and principalities and released a verdict of mercy over America.
This week, the Lord is summoning a great remnant to D.C. once again to honor His body and His blood at Communion America. If you can attend in person, we urge you to come. But even if you're joining from online, know that you still have a seat at the table.
Today's Briefing recounts key prophetic signposts and dreams that illuminate the significance of this moment. God is seeking hearts that are aligned with His, so we might be the hinge upon which history can continue to turn.
Cheryl Amabile, Editor
The Briefing via TheCall
Back to Life
"O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel... answer me, that this people may know that You, O Lord, are God, and that You have turned their hearts back." (1 Kings 18:36–37 ESV)
In March of 2012, a group of thirty-nine women embarked on a 250-mile prayer journey from the nation's largest Planned Parenthood clinic in Houston to the federal courthouse in Dallas, where Roe v. Wade first began. This "Back to Life" campaign was more than a prophetic act; it became ground zero for the prayers of the saints contending to overturn the death decree of legalized abortion and to restore a culture of life in America.
On April 5th and 6th of that year, we converged in Dallas for The Esther Call. One morning before the event, our intercessory team was crying out for an Elijah Revolution—the turning of the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the children back to the fathers. There was a palpable weight on those prayers as renewed faith ignited within us to see Malachi 4:5–6 fulfilled on the dates of 4/5–6.
"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." (Malachi 4:5–6 NKJV)
A few weeks later, one of our leaders was visited in the night with a message from the Lord. She was told that we had indeed been granted the spirit of Elijah in answer to our prayers, and that he would cause many "u-turns." Ten years later, Roe v. Wade was overturned. Just last week, the Houston Planned Parenthood clinic closed its doors and went out of business.
Cindy Jacob's Dream
In January of 2017, our team gathered in Washington, D.C. to pray with Matt Lockett and his JHOP (Justice House of Prayer) team for President Trump's inauguration. Cindy Jacobs had a profound dream that she sent to Matt. We received a transcript of it in an email at 1:17 on 1/17/17, which instantly brought to mind Luke 1:17. (Photo of Cindy Jacobs)
"And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord." (Luke 1:17 NIV)
In Cindy's dream, she was in a Bible school praying for the nations when suddenly she found herself standing with Donald Trump. She said, "I felt the weakness of our own understanding—even in this Bible school. We didn't know enough. Yet I knew I was to declare to him, 'God will turn your greatest enemies into your greatest allies. The tables will be completely reversed.' Then I looked to a group of millennials and asked, 'Who will stand for honor? Who will honor the president?' Yet none rose—only one or two at most. I pressed them again, but still they remained seated."
Cindy felt the Lord say, "This generation must be turned. We need to focus our prayers on the millennials, that God would turn their hearts. For honor's sake, He will take those who have said, 'Not my president,' and those who have opposed him the most, and He will turn Trump's greatest enemies into his allies."
Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA
Last month, our attention was dramatically drawn to Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA. It became evident how powerfully God has been using this young man to fulfill this prophecy and answer these prayers. His very life seemed marked by the Spirit of Elijah as he gave himself to turning his generation back to the wisdom of our Founding Fathers and to faith in God Himself.
In the wake of Charlie's assassination, Erika Kirk has been thrust into the forefront of this move of God. Spiritually, she has become a living example to us of aligning with God's heart, even in the midst of unbearable grief and injustice. At the memorial service, despite the obvious pain in her soul, Erika extended forgiveness to her husband's killer. In doing so, she bore witness to Christ and the forgiveness He extended to us all at the cross. In that moment of surrender, her act of forgiveness intersected with the greatest turning point in all of history.
We believe that Erika's proclamation was an explosion in the spirit that released the power of God. But it's not enough to stop there. In response to Erika's forgiveness, Lou Engle said, "We must respond in like manner, or we've missed the whole point. We need to ask ourselves the question 'Am I walking in that same kind of spirit? Is there bitterness? Is there resentment? Is there unforgiveness in my life?'"
Communion America
The timing of Communion America seems more strategic now than ever. On October 11th, there will be a Communion table stretching the entire length of the National Mall. Scripture tells us that "on the night [Jesus] was betrayed," He sat with His disciples, broke bread and offered them the cup (1 Corinthians 11:23–26). We see that Communion was meant for betrayal. In the midst of relational and political divisions, hostility, violence, and bloodshed, the Lord still prepares a table for us in the presence of our enemies (Psalm 23:5). (Image via Picryl)
In a recent exhortation, Lou Engle asked, "What would happen if we all came to that table—every tribe, every ethnic group, every church, division, denomination—with a heart that says, 'Father, forgive them, they know not what they do'?
Lou went on to acknowledge, "It wouldn't mean that all the questions are answered or all the issues taken care of. However, we must begin where Jesus began. He did not ask for an apology before offering forgiveness. When the Church begins at that place, we could possibly experience a baptism of love that is stronger than all the wounding of our hearts."
Let us, therefore, prepare ourselves to partake of the Lord's Supper in a worthy manner—not just for ourselves, but for this generation. We believe God has brought us to another climactic moment for spiritual breakthrough. May He find a remnant in this hour through whom He can glorify His Son and turn many hearts back to Him.
"I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart." (Jeremiah 24:7 NKJV)
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Lou Engle
Lou Engle Ministries | TheCall
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Lou Engle is an intercessor for revival, and the visionary co-founder of TheCall, a prayer and fasting movement responsible for gathering hundreds of thousands around the globe. He has been involved in Church planting, establishing prayer movements and strategic houses of prayer. He is the founder of the pro-life ministry Bound4Life. Now residing in Colorado Springs, he is married to his beautiful wife Therese and blessed with seven wonderful children. He is the president of Lou Engle Ministries, recently launched to mobilize fasting and contending prayer, and to envision and empower stadium Christianity, and to ignite reformation prayer into the nations of the earth.
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Cheryl Amabile, Editor
The Briefing via TheCall
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Cheryl Amabile is the co-founder and editor of The Briefing which fuels intercessors across the globe with prophetic insight for strategic intercession from the very prayer community that birthed the movement of TheCall. Cheryl and her husband Paul have served on the leadership team of TheCall and the Justice House of Prayer movement for many years. They are blessed with six children and three grandchildren and reside in Colorado Springs.
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