The Call to Fast - Nashville 07-07-07
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"The Call" - A Cry For National Repentance & Revival
Decades after the Jesus Movement swept hippies across the nation, tens of thousands of Americans are mobilizing this year for another massive revolution labeled "TheCall." It has been 40 years since the Summer of Love when some 100,000 young people gathered for free food and free love in San Francisco in a counterculture rebellion against such traditional institutions as marriage and conservative morals. It's also been 40 years since the Jesus Movement produced "Jesus freaks" from those disenchanted with the hippie lifestyle and changed the cultural content to reflect of their newfound Christian faith. Now, another 100,000 people are expected to rebirth that youth revival this summer at Nashville's Titan Stadium. Nashville was chosen because it is the buckle of the Bible Belt, according to Julia Richardson, one of the event’s public relations people. "TheCall is a solemn assembly, found in Joel 2. It's when a time of crisis occurs, everyone drops what they are doing, even if it's their wedding, to gather together in unity to pray and fast," explained Richardson. The Call Nashville on July 7 or "07.07.07" is not a festival, event organizers emphasize. It's a fast. Some will fast only on water, others on fruits and vegetables and others will be giving up media such at television. The fast, however, is not only a one-day event. The Call encourages participants to be prepared for the anticipated day through 40 days of prayer, repentance and fasting beginning May 28. Tens of thousands of people from across the country are being called to cry out to God from the morning of July 7 to the late night. Although set to be a massive youth revival, The Call invites leaders and people of all ages and religious backgrounds to attend to bring today's generation and the rest of the nation back to God. "I believe that in this moment in time, if we respond in repentance, we could release the greatest revival of confession of sin and a cleansing by the blood of Jesus that could draw us back into marital faithfulness with our Bridegroom, God," said Lou Engle, co-founder of The Call.
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In 1993, Bob Jones prophesied, "The Houston Oilers would move to Nashville, and Nashville would build God a stadium. And 100,000 people, particularly youth, would gather for a great mobilization of the army of God." With this prophecy in effect, I was praying about holding The Call in Titan Stadium in Nashville on 07-07-07.
While in a prophets' gathering, I received a profound confirmation. Sharon Stone, a prophetic voice from England, who knew nothing that was on my heart, stood and began to speak forth this word over me, "There is coming a fresh recruitment on 07-07-07. I heard the day very clearly, and on that day, a stand will be taken, and it will bring forth a great shift." Could it be that The Call in Nashville is that day of recruitment and that day of shifting? Yet, I still needed more confirmation.
Then a few days later, I received a phone call from a woman I had only met one time. She said, "I have written you a check. What are you doing?" I told her about The Call Nashville, and to my amazement she said, "The check is for 100,000 dollars." She had no idea that the first Call was launched by another woman that I did not know, who gave me 100,000 dollars as well.
I experienced the Divine endorsement of God pour over me just as it did seven years before, and I knew this wasn't my Call, it was God's Call, and it was time to blow the trumpet again. If Heaven is releasing, "The Call" again, then there is still hope for America, for that is the very reason a solemn assembly is called. In times of crisis, when there is no hope and no remedy, God says, "Blow the trumpet in Zion, and call a fast."