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TheCall DC - God Has A Dream

Forty years ago this year, Martin Luther King sounded a prophetic trumpet to the nation.  Echoing the ancient cry uttered by Moses to the oppressive Pharaoh of Egypt, Martin Luther King and 250,000 Black Americans cried out “let my people go” in peaceful defiance of the oppressive edicts and Jim Crow Laws of morally eroded governmental leaders and a culture of systemic racism.  Gathering at the mall in Washington D.C the sound was born of  “I have a dream” and that same sound still resonates today. Today the sound is being carried across the pulpits of the pews of America, extending from the senatorial chambers of Washington D.C. to the movie industry of Hollywood.  It is the sound of another great movement on the horizon, a prayer and justice movement crying out for God’s dreams to be fulfilled in a generation. 

Can you hear the sound? In 1980 and in other successive gatherings, one man heard the sound.  Washington for Jesus, led by John Gimenez, gathered 800,000 believers to the mall in Washington D.C. to pray for mercy on our land. Then again, in 1997, Promise Keepers heard the sound.  Gathering a million plus men on the mall in Washington D.C., the Stand in the Gap gathering marked a whole generation of men for prayer, fasting, covenant keeping, and warring against the pornographic plague that was and still is sweeping the church.  I believe that this gathering provided a window of mercy for our nation in its great moral decline. Then in 1999, the sound was heard again as God burdened hearts to raise up a corresponding youth movement.  Through the providence of God and a series of supernatural events, on September 2, 2000 just before the elections, an estimated 400,000 young and old gathered for TheCall DC.  The nation gathered not to the sound of a band or the name of a great personality but to the sound of united massive fasting and prayer for God’s mercy to be poured out on our nation at the crossroads.  Two generations united together with a single voice saying,  “We have taught our children to feast and play, but the times demand they fast and pray.”

Now, eight years after the first Call DC, the nation again is at a great crossroads.   We are facing a political atmosphere that reflects how far the moral foundations of the nation have eroded.  In a true sense, the erosion of society runs parallel to our own inward moral concessions as the church to the prevailing culture.  We as the church have fallen victim to a compromising silence- a silence that has failed to confront the rising spiritual darkness and political animosity that strikes against the voice of the church and the character of God. But this is not a time for hiding in caves!  In the face of the mounting crisis, this is a time to resist mightily the spirit of peaceful coexistence and apathetic resignation. We are coming to a Mount Carmel moment; a moment that I believe could be the church’s finest hour; a moment in which she challenges her own moral compromise and rises up to overthrow the altars of immorality, abortion, and false ideologies.  The church must lead the parade of history by demonstrating a radical love to the Lord – a love that adopts every child in need from the womb to the foster care system, a love that gently cares for every pregnant mother in crisis, and a love that cares deeply for the poor.  Then she will gain authority to move heaven and then shake political thrones of iniquity that legalize evil.  This is the time for our light to break forth like the dawn! Truth will no longer be trampled under the feet of renegade kings and judges.  We as the church with our weapons of fasting and prayer are not at the mercy of political decrees of destruction- Jesus is the Lord of history! 

Today that ancient sound is summoning believers once again to the historic battlefield, the Washington Mall, on August 16th for TheCall DC. 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 us drop denominational barriers, racial barriers, age barriers, and gender barriers to gather unto Jesus and cry out for an undeserved mercy in America.  The crisis that faces us is far greater than the differences that divide us.  Let pastors and leaders gather their people to the mall and lead in repentance and prayer.  We can no longer halt between two opinions.  Now is the time for us to make war on every inward compromise that hinders love.  Let us break from the silence of the masses in the muddled middle and reclaim the prophetic voice of truth in the nation.  We must hold the line for marriage, for life, and for economic justice.  Now is the time for us to live out lives of love that demonstrate the glory of Christ before the eyes of a nation that is desperate for spiritual awakening.   For twelve hours, from 10AM to 10PM, in the heat or in the rain, the age-old song will be heard again. Let the sound of I Have a Dream echo throughout our nations capital once again as we rend our hearts and worship before the only One that can turn our nation back to God.  Can you hear the sound?  

Posted Apr 1st, 2008 Print Send to a Friend