The Call To Urgency

It is my confession that there is an innate burden within my heart of the eternal weight of glory and of the pressing times of this generation for the Church. I wonder if you share the same?

As I am becoming more and more aware of the spiritual repercussions of the political decisions of today, I am weary and afraid that our Christian members of the Church are not fully aware or fully comprehending the implications of our times. I don't claim to know fully either but I do feel a spiritual trembling within my heart and a vague yet seriousness of the implications of today's sociopolitical position. I am far from understanding and I am far from correctly expressing these implications, but my soul confirms it with a concern that is beyond conspiracy.

Or on the other hand, I fear that our generation understands the spiritual repercussions of our sociopolitical times and yet is uninterested and apathetic to them. I fear that our generation thinks it is unimportant and inevitable to go against the currents of the times. Oh God have mercy!

I'd like us to ask ourselves in light of our current situation in global and eternal perspective, whatever you think it may be, what kind of desperation or a lack thereof is in our desire for the Lord. I find it more and more explicitly required of those who have the innate burden within our hearts to seek the Lord all the more at this very hour of history.

"When judicial and governmental rulings threaten to silence the voice of the Church, she only has one great recourse; united fasting and prayer as an appeal to heaven. Esther and the Jewish world, finding themselves under the death decree of Haman, fasted and prayed and then God turned the tide on their behalf. So still, we believe that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. When Daniel and his three friends were threatened with abolishment of their club on the campus of the university of Babylon, they united together in an all-night prayer gathering and God reversed the king’s decree and the testimony of Daniel’s God was proclaimed to the whole nation. What the enemy means for evil, the Lord brings about for good." - Lou Engle, July 26, 2010

I firmly believe there truly is another call from God to His people in this generation, that we have been raised up in His presence for such a time as this. There is only one response now, therefore, let us come together in our own respective quiet places to our knees in prayer and even in personal fasting of physical things and grab hold of and ask God more of the spiritual things. We require discernment. We require the Holy Spirit. We require it and there is no other way or means.

Praying that the urgency to gather in prayer especially at Gethsemane would be ignited within our campus leaders.