Lou Engle - Women Warriors of Faith: The Upcoming 'A Million Women' Gathering in D.C

Hearts of Oak Podcast

Welcome to "Hearts of Oak," where today we delve into a profound discussion on spiritual revival and cultural transformation. Our guest, a pivotal figure in the American Christian movement, shares insights on the upcoming "A Million Women" event set for October 12. This gathering isn't just an event; it's a call to action for women across America to unite in prayer and fasting, mirroring the biblical Esther's stand against injustice. We explore the event's significance in addressing critical issues like abortion and the erosion of family values, and how it aims to be a catalyst for national repentance and revival. Our conversation also touches on the power of collective prayer, the impact of recent cultural shifts, and the urgent need for a unified Christian response to contemporary challenges. Join us as we discuss the role of faith in public life and how this movement might just be the spark needed for a sweeping moral restoration in America.

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. Lou 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 7 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.
For the past twenty-two years, Lou has been an international voice calling a generation to Nazirite consecration, fasting and prayer, and the pursuit of God’s dreams for their lives through the ministry of TheCall.
Lou has raised up prayer movements, has been a voice for the shifting of the supreme court for ending abortion, and has encouraged a movement of adoption to be the answer for the great injustice.
Now, Lou is prophetically declaring that we are on the verge of the 3rd great awakening, and Jesus the evangelist will be manifested in great salvation and deliverance power. A mighty Jesus movement is coming to America, Billy Graham’s mantle is falling on a new generation of evangelists, and streets and stadiums will be filled with a new song of God’s salvation.

A Million Women: Day of Atonement Solemn Assembly amillionwomen.org
October 12, 2024 The National Mall, Washington D.C.

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Transcript

Hearts of Oak:

Absolutely honoured to have Lou Engle with us today. Lou, thank you for joining us today.

Lou Engle:

What a pleasure, Peter. I look forward to connecting and getting to know you. I don't know what Hearts of Oak is, but I'd love to hear about that. But thank you for bringing me on.

Not at all. For the 20 years I've known your name in the background for the phenomenal work you're doing. Just to the before we delve into what's coming up in DC with a million women which is on the screen amillionwomen.org everyone needs to go and check out the website find out what's happening in DC I will discuss all of that @LouEngle on X on Twitter and make sure and the website is there make sure and delve into that but for maybe our audience just a little sidestep before I jump in with Lou. I mean, I am honoured to have someone on who has called America and the nations to repentance over decades, has called individuals to take the responsibility as Christians, has called the church to actually stand in the gap for the nations whenever there weren't many other voices. And it is a delight to have someone who actually,

For 20 years, I've certainly known your name, Lewis, someone who actually is bold and is taking the word of God to the nation and to the nations and calling them back to a position where they put God where he should be, the honour he should be. So I'm absolutely delighted. But even before I get into Million Women, before I get into the call, I want to ask you personally, what's your story? How did you end up being used by God to fill stadiums up with tens of thousands of Christians calling out to God? What led you to that point and starting such events like that?

Yeah. Well, I can go back. Thank you, Peter, for asking. I can go back 40 years to a book I read by Derek Prince, an Englishman, a statesman who loved Israel, loved America, and he wrote a book called Shaping History Through Prayer and Fasting. Basically, the premise of that book is this, that nations are shaped by fasting and prayer. Governments, leaders are shaped by the prayers of God's people. And then in the book, he talks about that in the days of the crisis of nations, the answer will be collective, united, massive fasting and prayer, like Joel chapter two, like Esther's fast.

Those gatherings actually shifted history. And his premise is that those gatherings will shift history even in our day. I was gripped by this book. It's been my textbook book for 40 years. I've done long fasts for 40 years because of an Englishman who gave me my marching orders. In fact, before the first call, I had never met him, but the first gathering 24 years ago, 24 years ago, where 450,000 primarily young people gathered to fast and pray in D.C. I heard he was in Fort Lauderdale I called his people and said Can I have a half an hour I just want to thank a father Who gave me my calling And I ended up meeting with him In Fort Lauderdale He was like 84 years old.

Not well. And there in that hotel room I said as a son, I want to thank you. As a father, that you gave me a calling. He laid down on his bed and began wailing.

And weeping. And I knew that God had given me a father's blessing to carry united fasting and prayer. So it goes really back to Derek Prince, an Englishman, statesman, who loved Israel and who called for fasting and prayer. Then in 19, I led fasting and prayer movements in the 90s with a group called Rock the Nations. And I won't go into the whole story, but promise keepers put a million men on the mall in 1997.

A week later, I held up the front page of the USA Today, which shows the picture of that gathering. And the spirit of prophecy came upon me. And I said, the hearts of the fathers are turning to the children, but the hearts of the children return to their fathers. And there's coming a corresponding movement of young people who will go to the mall in D.C. To fast and pray that America would turn back to God. I didn't know how to pull that off. We actually held three gatherings, 1997, 1998, 1999, where up to 4,500 kids gathered for three days to fast and pray that stadiums would be filled, that massive gatherings would take place to turn America back to God. And then the brief version is in 1999, Peter, I prayed a prayer that has defined everything that I've done since that point. And that prayer was this, God, how can I turn America back to God? It seemed crazy, but I knew my heart had reached up into heaven. Couple of weeks later, a woman came to me and she said, you don't know who I am, but the Lord told me to pay your salary this year because you're going to start something with the Youth of America in prayer that will change the destiny of the nation. She paid my salary for 15 years.

And she came to me and she said, have you ever thought about putting promise keepers on the mall in D.C.? I mean, kids on the mall like promise keepers. She said, I'll give you $100,000 to start. And I said, I'd prophesied it. So 24 years ago, September 2nd, in a week, it will be the 24th anniversary. They came to a sound and the sound was this. We're not speaking. We're not telling anybody who the speakers are or the worship teams are. We've had enough personality-driven religion. When there's no hope for a nation, when there is no remedy, blow the trumpet in Zion. Call a fast, Joel 2. And they came to a sound. We've taught our children to feast and play. The times demand they fast and pray. And that launched the movement of the call 24 years ago. And since then, we've done stadiums and arenas all across America. The lady who paid my salary is 100 years old. I just visited her. I didn't know if she knows who I am, but as a son, I said, thank you for giving me the calling of God in my life. And that's how the journey began. And I believe we're in a divine narrative, though, even though we're in such a crisis in America, I still believe the promise. America, something stronger than the the rebellion can be poured out in America. That's the story.

Can I ask you through stadium, because I've only ever been once, coming from a small Baptist background, ending up, as Esteban knows, in a charismatic church in London. But it was 2003, I went to Bogota with MCI and actually saw a stadium full of Christians calling out to God. And I'd never experienced something like that before or after, you were doing this on a rolling basis. Maybe give the viewers an insight and the listeners an insight who may not have any concept of what that is to have a stadium not calling for a football team, but calling out to God.

Yes. Well, really, our gatherings were 12-hour gatherings, which you've come here not for a festival, but for a fast. Because we had festivals, but we have not had a fast. And so those 12 hours is like lots of presence worship. If God's not there.

It's not worth to call a gathering. And literally, really, in many ways, I believe these solemn assemblies are like court cases, that God holds a court case for a nation or a city, and basically he calls for repentance to remove the enemy's accusations before the very throne, own the courtroom of God. And so we go through repentance. We go through repentance and personal encounter. A lot of it is literally people praying in small groups on the grounds. It's not just stage driven. It's people calling on God, praying for revival. And then even recently more so that that these will be massive gatherings of communion, lifting the blood that is really our only answer, the mercies of God. So this is what it would look like. And then releasing sounds of authoritative decree, declaring the victory of God over our nations. I don't know if that answers your question, but that's what it looks like. Ten hours, this one will be a fasting and prayer.

And Yeah, so that's Peter, that's kind of what we do.

Can I before we jump into what's happening in DC and I think even for the WarRoom posse, I am sure that Steve Bannon if he wasn't in jail, would be talking about this and Mo Bannon or someone else can correct me but I'm sure he would be here seeing this a nation calling out to God and he understands the importance of that. But can I ask you personally, what's your salvation experience? Because I think it's important. We've only ever had two or three people on, I think, in like 700 interviews who have mentioned their salvation experience, how they came to Christ. But I think what you're doing, it's important to hear your personal side. So how did you actually come to Christ?

Well, actually, I grew up in church and prayed a million times to get saved. You know, when I went to Christian college, I played basketball for four years and I was lost. I believed in Jesus. I yearned for him. I would go down by the river and cry to God, but I never felt had an assurance of salvation. And I hated the gospel team, the Christian group on the Christian campus. I hated them. They bothered me, but they put me on a hit list, most wanted, least likely to be saved. And they prayed for me for three years. I graduated from college unsaved. And I went back to California in the midst of the Jesus movement where thousands were being saved all over, not not even in the churches, in the streets. And I was invited to an Afterglow meeting where they're in the charismatic movement. And my parents invited me. I went into this living room and there was singing in tongues.

And all I know, the whole room seemed to be lit up. I could say I was saved by a sound of the presence of the Holy Spirit. And I invited the, I get so hungry to know Jesus. I invited the leader of that gathering to come to my house and I said to him, I've got to get saved. And he said, well, you just pray to receive Christ. And I said, I've done it a hundred times, but I've never felt it. He said, you may never feel it, but God's word is true. You believe his word. You take a stand and he that comes to me will no wise be cast out.

I prayed a prayer and felt nothing. And for 13 days, a war went on in my mind. The devil would say, you're not saved. You don't feel it. I said, I'm saved. I'm saved. And I went into a 13-day battle. On the 13th day, I was in the White House. That's where I lived, in the White House. In an upper room, my bedroom, I remember kneeling down, and suddenly the love of God was shed abroad in my heart to the Holy Spirit. Instantaneously, I knew I had passed from life into death. I ran down the stairs screaming, I'm saved. I'm saved. I went and bought all the gospels of John. They kicked me out of the mall. I preached in movie theaters. Something happened that this religious kid encountered Jesus and turned me into a journey and a hunger for revival that marked me, and that was 49 years ago.

This is October 9th will be my year, the jubilee, going into the 50th year, and I believe it's time for another Jesus movement.

Tell us about this gathering you've called it would have been easier for it to call maybe a thousand women or ten thousand, I'm wondering, tell us about that that boldness calling for a million women to gather in DC.

That boldness really I mean it's all scary but that boldness comes because when you get the word of the Lord, I remember years ago saying that what happens with me is dreams come and it's sovereign supernatural confirmations to the point that I simply talk about those things and bones rattle and movements occur. And I said to my friend 40, 30 years ago, I think my calling is to just tell dreams and prophetic confirmations, and that my calling is to bring forth movements. And that's how it's worked for me. So it began 24 years ago, and then we've done these gatherings that I believe every one that we have done is a part of the divine narrative. This gathering that we're entering into is not an isolated event. I don't want to do events, I want a breakthrough that is connected to 25 years, 25 years of believing God, and this one was supernatural.

2014, I was in a prophetic gathering, and an explosion took place in the spirit, and a word came for two hours, and it was this. Like promise keepers, again, a million women will go to the mall in D.C. It will be the last stand for America. I believe America in many ways with the ideologies that are coming into this nation. I believe it could be our last stand. Once a nation adopts transgenderism, that nation literally collapses in the times of that adoption.

We're losing the school system, the education system. There's coming a point where the church has got to take a stand and can't be silent anymore. more. So this word came forth, a million women will come to the mall and it will be a last stand for America. And they will come in the spirit of Jeremiah chapter nine. Death has climbed through our windows. The fentanyl, the death culture that is rolling. Death has climbed through. Call your daughters, teach them to mourn. And they'll come and they'll give birth to a revival that will save a nation. And so since 2014, I've lived under the shadow of that dominating prophecy waiting for the moment. Then in 2017, witches rose up worldwide to curse President Trump.

Now, you've got to ask the question, and I started to ask, why would witches worldwide rise up to curse President Trump, a man that's not necessarily moral, a man that, you know, character is suspect, even though who could stand the barrage of witchcraft coming against him? And oh, my goodness. Anyway, so I asked that question. I wondered if the witches understood more than the pulpits of America, that this man was a threat to the blood altar of Roe v. Wade, that the bloodshed of the unborn 62 million babies. Listen, the Bible, the two things, the hills that we must stand on, in the image of God, he made man male and female, and the other images, it's in Genesis, you shall not shed innocent blood. When a nation changes the laws of God like that, that nation is under judgment.

I think that they understood this man was a threat to Roe v. Wade. He gave us three judges. Peter, we started a movement, 18 years, five days a week, pleading the blood of Jesus in front of the Supreme Court, 18 years. Jesus, I plead your blood over my sins and the sins of my nation, God, end abortion, send revival to America. That was our assignment. Roe v. Wade was brought down partially by the blood of Jesus. So I went up into the mountains. The Lord led me. He said, to go up into Esther's Park in Colorado. Some people call it Esther's Park, to fast and pray. I was fasting and praying on the third night I had a dream. And as far as I could see, I saw women coming from everywhere, young and old. And they were all coming to hear the book of Esther be taught. I'm looking at this women's revival.

And this Esther movement, I'm stunned by what I'm looking at in the dream. And I'm the only man there with an ancient Bible, which now I understand was an ancient call of Mordecai to mobilize what I'm looking at in this dream. And then the woman stands up in the book of Esther. I mean, it's teaching the book of Esther in the dream. And she says, and these two words in the book of Esther actually mean Nazgul, N-A-Z-G-U-L. I explode out of the dream instantly knowing what it means because I watched the third part of the movie, The Lord of the Rings, where the Nazgul witch king is destroying the armies of men and says, no man can kill me. But the king's daughter takes off her helmet, lets her hair down and says, I am no man. And she pierces the Nazgul. I explode out of the dream knowing there is coming a righteous women's movement that are going to take a stand like Esther, to stand in fasting and prayer, to challenge the ideologies of this nation, to fight for their children, but not just that, go public into the governmental places.

Go public into the education systems. She must fast and pray to break Haman's divination. When Haman was releasing divination in the casting of lots, he was the avatar. He was a governmental host carrying the ideologies that were going to destroy the Jews.

Today, we have governmental leaders that are avatars, that are literally the ones that are being possessed. Maybe not demon possessed, but they're carrying the ideologies that are fueled by the spirit realm. That's why Esther knows, I think she knows, that she calls for a jolt-to-kind of fast. Because you can't deal with spirit powers, witchcraft, that are fuelling ideologies. By politics alone, you must break those through united fasting and prayer. Then it's not enough to pray and fast. She's got to go public into the governmental realm. And I believe the nations of the West are going to find the discovery of what Derrick Prince actually preached. United Mass, a fastening prayer, challenging the powers in the heavens, and then raising up leaders like you're doing.

Raising up voices that will take a stand for righteousness. If I die, I die. Out of that movement, that was 2017, we have launched this movement that is now going to the mall on October 12th, the Day of Atonement. My Jewish friends literally have said to me, Peter, that the Day of Atonement is a court case. To see if a nation will get a verdict of mercy or judgment. And on that day, where there is repentance, then that blood is applied. And I'm believing that God is going to give a verdict of mercy to America. But I don't think it's just America.

I think we're in a worldwide Esther movement. When we started mobilizing this, we had no idea that October 7th would take place. And worldwide anti-Semitism. We're going to stand on that day and we're going to declare our covenant with the Jewish peoples and we're going to declare your people will be my people. We're believing that America doesn't have to divide Israel. And I have a word for Great Britain.

I'm just going to deliver it right now. My friend had a dream several years ago. He was in Wembley Stadium and I was on the stage of Wembley Stadium and we were singing that song. Hey Jude, don't make it bad. Take a sad song and make it better. Remember to let Jerusalem into your heart and it will start to make it better. This is the interpretation. Hey Jude, it's the word for juice.

Don't make it bad. Don't make that name bad. Take a sad song, your history in Great Britain, that in 1948, you rose up and did everything almost to stop Israel from becoming a nation. Take a sad song, your history, and make it better. Remember to bring Jerusalem into your heart, and you will start to make it better. My wife had a dream last night that in my backyard, there was a massive gathering of people People from England celebrating and lines of people were being baptized among the English. Why would she dream that the night before I talked to you?

I believe there's coming a massive gathering, and Peter, I said it today. I'm sorry about prophesying, but I wonder if we're being connected for a massive movement of righteousness, maybe a solemn assembly in Wembley Stadium, where we would repent on behalf of England, who divides the nation. Joel 2, I will gather the nations, and I will judge them on how they scattered and divided my people. Joel 3 is a massive word for the world right now. I believe this gathering on October 12th, the blood of Jesus will be applied. But I believe nations are going to be looking on online. Many are coming from the nations to stand and repent for their own nations, like Esther, to break the anti-Semitism and to pray that God would pour out his revival on all nations, America, because we are beginning to understand that God is saying, I'm going to raise up a movement to end, to stand against anti-Semitism. Sorry, I just went into, I hope that's okay, Peter, but...

No, and for UK viewers who are Christians, please do pray into that, because I'll take that dream your wife had, that word of prophecy, because we need revival in the UK so much. So I'll certainly take that and I encourage the viewers, if you're a Christian watching, and then you pray into that and pray that God sees that fulfilled and pray that you have a part to play in this. But can I... In the U.S.. We are 80 days from election. You talked about the Roe versus Wade. That was the 24th of June, I think, 2022. So just over two years ago, that was overturned. And this gathering in October, it fits into actually where some things are being pushed back. That change, I remember that day vividly, whenever that result from the Supreme Court came, him as like, no, it can happen. And then you begin to believe that God can change the institutions that we maybe accept or have come to accept as evil and destructive. God can, if he so chooses, push those back and change them. So tell me how this gathering of million women fit into that current situation, I think, in the US, where a lot of people are beginning to question how far the pendulum has swung, certainly on the issue of life, on abortion, and the whole transgender issue that people are becoming very concerned about, especially how children are being sexualized. So how does the gathering fit into that current climate in the U.S.?

Huge. 2004, I gathered 70 young people to fast and pray for 50 days and 50 nights continuously is he praying for the ending of abortion and a pro-life president, Derek Prince's stuff. We had a dream of two tornadoes coming to destroy America. The tornadoes had the letters H-A-H-A, abortion and the homosexual agenda. Not people, the agenda. In the dream, our company was called to restrain that. When Roe v. Wade fell, which was our assignment in intercession 18 years later, by the blood, the Lord said, now the next tornado. A prophet gave me a word 20 years ago that he had a transvision of 100,000 LGBTQ being saved and transformed. I've been praying this for 20 years, our team has been. We had a dream of a Wailing Wall with names that said 100,000 LGBT saved and transformed. And people on this Wailing Wall were names, and they were weeping over their names, and their names would leap off the Wailing Wall board to the testimony board. I believe this is what we're believing, even on that day. I don't think you're going to shift this in politics, the issue of the LGBTQ. It's going to be shifted by a massive Jesus movement, an awakening, that they're going to put it on Time magazine. What is going on? This is what this gathering to me is.

I literally had a dream, Peter, after a 40-day fast last year. I had a dream. I had this dream. I said to the Lord, Lord, you showed us how to reach the Supreme Court by the blood of Jesus, by dreams. If I'm your friend, give me a dream tonight. Show me how I can reach 100,000 LGBTQ. I go to sleep. I have a dream. And in the dream, it is Delta Factor. I wake up and I said, Lord, I know that's you, but I have no idea what Delta Factor is. So Lord, I'm going back to sleep. Give give me a dream and tell me what a delta factor is. I go back to sleep and I have a dream. I see a tall, strong military officer. And I said, excuse me, sir, what's a delta factor? He said, it's the leader of a million. I woke up and I knew the groans.

Of mothers that are losing their kids to the transgender, to the counter-cultural movement. God is going to hear their groans. I believe when Roe fell, it closed something and opened the womb of America. I am believing the womb of America is going to be open. We're going to see a Jesus move, but Delta means change factor.

And so on that day, we're going to cry out to God. We're going to have testimonies. We're going to have a testimony of a transgender woman who literally is a firebrand and is going to war against transgenderism. There's got to be a stand. It's going to be costly. There's a movement called Don't Mess With Our Kids coming out of this gathering. Jenny Donnelly, who I'm running with, is raising up a movement that we're going to believe in the days ahead. Millions will go to the streets, maybe in the next 10 years. Millions of women will go to the streets and they'll say, and men, don't mess with our kids. We will not go with your pronouns.

When you say you can't ever, we'll go to jail if we need to, but we're not giving you our kids. I think once you start pushing the button on children, mama bears will arise and say no more. And we're believing that, I mean, it's controversial, But we're believing for a stand that day that actually could set things in motion to challenge the spirits that are behind this whole agenda.

Can I tell you how it fits with the church? Because your agenda is radical, yet you take your marching orders from God and not from denomination or from cultural agenda. And churches have probably believed up to a certain point, you know, we'll just be left alone. We'll get on to our church business behind closed doors. We'll meet for a Sunday service and we'll be good. But I think some churches are wakening up to the reality, especially during COVID, that actually the government won't leave us alone. We will not have the right. We are moving towards times where Christians are having their freedoms restricted. So how does your radical approach of God says this, let's do it, fit into a church has maybe been lulled into a false sense of security?

Well, I've been saying this for some time. I said, Esther, do not think that you can hide in your palace, and have self-preservation, I'm saying, hey, this stuff about the grooming of your kids in public schools isn't stopping there. They're coming for your home-schooling. You can't hide in the palace of your home-schools. The spirit of Jezebel, however you want to say it, begins by simply raising up a culture of sexual immorality and the likes. She doesn't stop there by putting the prophets in prison, hiding in prisons, she actually slaughters them. That spirit hates Christianity, and it's being manifested in our governments. And I just want to say, the preachers that are saying, don't get involved in politics, is like saying, it's like Like the guys of Mount Carmel. How...

He says, how long will you hold between two opinions? And they were all silent. You cannot divorce the political realm from the protection, the view that you think you can protect your children. No, that spirit of Athali is looking for all the offspring. And I'm telling you, I'm fighting for my grandkids. And actually, people don't like because of my stand, Christian nationalism. I don't even know what that means. It has nothing to do with nationalism. It has everything to do with fighting for my grandkids. That's my answer.

100%, 100%. Can I, men might be watching thinking, this is a million women, so do I not have a part to play? Is this only a call for women?

Well, the main assignment was, I think, like Esther, She took a place of leadership when God called her. I'm not saying this big question, you know, men, women in ministry, all of this. All I know, there are moments of time in history, biblical history, where God raised up a woman, put his hand on them to actually lead great wars, I mean, cultural wars. And I believe that right now, even with the story of Israel right now and rising up, God is laying his hands on a new Esther moment all over the world to take a stand against false ideologies. There's something about women and when it affects children.

God put Esther in place. Mordecai needed to understand that.

But Mordecai was a man that cared for his adopted daughter. She was sex trafficked, Peter. She was in a harem. Her name is Esther, named after the spirit of Eshtar, the goddess of transgenderism, homosexuality, and pornography. That spirit. She's living in that culture. And God uses a woman under the culture of Ishtar, named Ishtar, to actually overthrow the various powers.

But it was never to be disconnected from the Mordecai movement. I want to call men. Call your women to this movement. Call your women and men on the Day of Atonement. Tune in with a millionwomen.org. Tune in online. Maybe many would want to come from England and actually join the battle, and so we're saying every man a Mordecai, every woman an Esther. We don't want to have like a women's movement that's separated from men. It's families. This is the only way it makes. In the image of God, he created men, male and female, and he gives them dominion. Together they take dominion, but we're recognizing now there is a hand of the Lord being pointed on the Esther movement worldwide, and that's my answer to that.

This, I mean, there may be people watching, you know, people are busy, they've got a lot of responsibilities, and I've been challenged recently with that verse, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from in the mouth of God. And I think Christians have forgotten what it means to feed on and exist on the word of God, the word of God who spoke the universe into existence, who is the creator. I think people are often caught up in their lives and think, actually, I'm serving God by doing this. And they forget that actually it is the Word of God that brings life. And this type of event speaks into, we need to hear God speak. And that is what it is about.

Peter, you're asking a great question. Sometimes I appeal to people. On the basis of a narrative, a prophetic storyline, where a woman paid my salary for 15 years to do solemn assemblies. I wasn't looking for this Esther thing, but I was interrupted by the word of the Lord. I think we've lost something that the scriptures are very clear, even in the book of Nehemiah. Let the trumpet player be next to me, Nehemiah says. When you hear the sound of the trumpet, gather to me there, there the Lord will fight for us. There are times when God will not fight for people unless they're willing to drop their denominational differences, their gender differences, their race differences. Brothers and sisters, the church is being massacred in some way, and she still wants to fight one another. Father, I believe how often I would have gathered you under my wings, but you would not have. God says there are times when you must gather. And Joel chapter 2, blow the trumpet in Zion, call a fast, gather the people, consecrate a solemn assembly, and afterwards I'll pour out my spirit. There is this sense that we become used to the prophetic, but a casual approach to the prophetic brings casualties. I believe we're in a last stand for America. And a dream was given in 1998. I was kneeling down and my friend was flying over me and he heard the voice of the Lord reading Psalm 50, The Lord, the mighty one, God, he comes to judge the earth. Gather to me my consecrated ones who have made a covenant by sacrifice, and let them call upon me in the day of trouble. Even in 1998, the Lord was speaking through this. And in the dream is Psalm 50, verse 15, all the way to verse 15. And it was this, there's still a window of mercy when God comes to judge his people. But the answer is gather. God put a gathering anointing on my life. I don't understand it. Stadiums, arenas, thousands, you know, I don't know, millions.

Anyway, Peter, I think the Ninevites, who had heard only one prophet, immediately repented. Yet with Judah, they had prophet after prophet after prophet. They became dull of hearing. And so they're judged when Nineveh, an unrighteous, ungodly nation, actually gets mercy because they respond to the urgency of the moment. I'm saying there's a last stand for America. And I believe those who hear will respond. Gather the consecrated ones. You don't need everyone. You needed the ones that have heard the fire in their bones and move. Move. We're doing 20 on September 22nd, Peter.

We received phone call from a man from Egypt, so concerned. He's in a network of 110 million intercessors worldwide. They called us and said, we are all concerned about your elections. We want to call 110 million people to fast and pray for you. Pray for America on September 22nd. Maybe the world understands more than even the church in America understands. Then we're calling 21 days of fasting right up to October 12th, because I mean, I love it. I never wanted to do an event. I only wanted a breakthrough. I'd like to call England. Fight for your, even though we were a rebellious son or daughter, fight for America Derek Prince said that years ago a great revival will come to America and sweep into England and we dream it last night I'm wondering out of my it's bizarre I think our two nations, I've been prepared for a great revival.

Amen. And can I say that it's not up to us to understand the call of God. It's up to us to respond in obedience. And often that's in confusion and not understanding. And I'm sure there are people watching and listening, Lou, who say, I want to be there. I know they can go to the website at millionwomen.org. They can click on that tab and register. They're coming. They can also register to volunteer because this event takes people. And I think there'll be people watching and listening that say, I want to go not only participate, but I want to go and be part of making sure this event happens. So just tell the viewers why being part of a volunteer team is so important for events like this.

Well, it's so interesting. 24 years ago, I think it was 500 Australians came a week before that gathering because they had this ancient calling of the Light Horsemen. The ones that went before and fought for Jerusalem. There's an army of people coming from Australia. We're talking to those from China and Korea, Brazil. There is a sense that they come as representatives. And some of them have said, we are coming to pay back. What America said for missionaries to our nation. I think there is something about representing a nation. In a sense, we're all coming to stand before God. As representative priests. But it's really for the whole world. There are 70 elections coming this year worldwide. The whole world, we're looking at world war possibilities. And many people believe that even the elections in America will determine the future of world wars. I think there's something about coming and representing your people and standing there, not just for America, but for the nations of the earth and for Israel. And so, yeah, absolutely. We're just believing for thousands to come from the nations.

Lou, I want to let you go because I know your time is precious, but I just wanted to finish just for you to take just a minute to pray for this because the time we are living in is uncertain. The elections are critical in America in the 5th of November. This event in October is also essential into that. So maybe could I just ask you just to finish and just take a moment to pray into those two situations?

Yes. Well, years ago, a guy said to Derek Prince, what do you want your legacy to be? Something to that effect. And he said, have you ever heard of the call, which was the name of the gatherings we held? And when I heard that, I said, Lord, if you'll allow me, I'll carry Derek Prince's seat to the nations. I want to pray for the grace of fasting worldwide. England, this is our roots. This is where we all came from. So, Father, right now, in the time of crisis of nations, Joel chapter 2, Lord, I pray that you would loose a trumpet sound, not by men, not by, you know, just because of podcasts or phones, but because you yourself are sounding an alarm worldwide. Lord, I loose your trumpet sound over Great Britain. Lord, I loose your trumpet sound over the nations of the earth. Lord, we pray that in the name of Jesus, the God you would restrain worldwide war.

Because in the days of world wars, the gospel is hindered. I pray, give us a shot with one more massive missions movement from Great Britain, from England. Lord, I pray, Father, that you would shift elections. You raise up kings and you bring them down. Lord, I pray for America, that you would preside. You would preside over this great assembly. You would preside over the shifting’s of governments. Again, in the name of Jesus.

I'm just taking my headphones off in my ear. Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray that those who are hearing this, you would stir them to fasting’s and prayer in these days. I pray for Israel. I pray that you would restrain Hezbollah. You would restrain the spirit of Haman in Hamas. That God, you would release, Lord, Lord, Lord, a movement worldwide of the roots, the Gentile church that said your people will be my people. I don't know how to pray. All these things coming down. I pray that you would restrain China and the Taiwanese. But think, you would restrain the Prince of Persia. Lord, in these days, let a massive shift. Father, I pray that you would do a miracle, even in this gathering, to release hostages. You're the unrestrained, unchallenged sovereign of the universe. Arise, O God. Arise with worldwide revival. The promise of Joel 2. After the fast, I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. And so I pray these things. And I bless Peter. I bless Hearts of Oak. I pray you'd put a trumpet to his mouth like never before. That his podcast will explode. and Lord, it'll come a sound of revival and reformation. And I pray for all those, Lord, listen, stir hunger.

Call them from the north, south, and east and west. Gather to me my consecrated ones who have made a covenant by sacrifice. And may your blood be exalted over all ideologies, over all demonic powers, that when you went to the cross, you said, Father, forgive them. And you dislodge principalities and powers. Do it in these days. Let the blood of Jesus be exalted. Amen.

Amen. Lou, thank you for your time. I really appreciate it. 12th of October.

Everyone make sure if you're there, you can go to millionwomen.org and be part of that. So thank you.