The Cause

ANNOUNCING THE 50 DAY GOVERNMENTAL HOUSE OF PRAYER IN COLORADO SPRINGS
1 Tim 2:1 makes it clear that praying for government and civic leaders is an important priority. This summer, a House of Prayer dedicated to praying for our nation and its leadership and the upcoming elections.


LOU ENGLE: 120 NAZIRITES
We believe God is calling for 120 YOUNG NAZIRITES to come to Colorado Springs for 50 days of day and night worship and intercession. We're inviting thousands more to join them from July 10 to August 28, 2004.

This will be no easy walk in the park. It will be intense. Each student will be expected to give eight hours a day or night... Many will go on extended fasts. The night watches will be as important as the day battles. Pleaase forward to your friends this week.

I am asking for worship teams that can carry the fire of worship. There will be two-hour shifts for devotion and spiritual refreshing. Then we will follow the Lord again into the battle for the elections, for the courts of our nation and the overturning of Roe v. Wade, for a great youth awakening, for peace and stability in Iraq and for a powerful move of the Holy Spirit in the homosexual communities of America...

CINDY JACOBS:
The previous generation stood by, largely silent as prayer was removed from school. Today, we face similar threats to our freedoms and we have to ask ourselves:

How will the next generation judge us? Will we be those who fought valiantly for the cause of Christ, or will we be silent and apathetic while the courts of this country take that which is precious to us?

It is matter of months, not years before this could happen. We must be fierce in our passion for Christ and our love for America or else find our religious liberties taken and the biblical foundation of our nation eroded. I urge you: do whatever you have to do to come to Colorado Springs this summer to stand in the gap for America!

THE CAUSE USA
The Cause USA (www.TheCauseUSA.com) is a prayer initiative to urgently mobilize nationwide prayer and fasting for America. Though The Call offices have officially closed since January 2004, the need to fast and pray for our nation is greater than ever! In the four short years since The Call DC, America has endured the horrors of 9/11 and fought two wars that continue to claim lives.

SPIRITUAL CRISIS
The nation and the church are buckling under an escalating spiritual and moral crisis, punctuated by events such as the removal of the Ten Commandments from the Alabama courthouse, the Catholic Church sex abuse scandals and the ordination of a practicing homosexual being given a place of prominence and spiritual authority within the Body of Christ as an Episcopal Bishop...

Our nation is in desperate need of historic revival leading to righteous reformation! Recently, Massachusetts became the first state in our nation's 200 year history to recognize homosexual marriage, in bold defiance of the law of God.

AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS
The outcome of this election will shape America's judicial future for decades to come.

The next President of the United States of America will almost certainly decide the fate of abortion: whether millions of innocent lives will continue to be taken 'legally' in our country.

Chief Justice Rehnquist, appointed 32 years ago by Nixon, is now 80. Justice Stevens, a liberal, is 84 years old. Justices O'Connor and Ginsburg are 74 and 71 years old respectively. Any of these Justices could vacate their seats during the next 4 years, due to illness, death or retirement...

In addition to electing our next president, thirty-four U.S. Senate seats and all 435 U.S. House seats are up for re-election in 2004 and in light of what is at stake, it is crucial that the church gather for extended prayer and fasting.

SEPTEMBER 11 PRAYER VIGIL
We are urgently calling for 24-hour fasting and prayer vigils on September 11, around the country, in all 50 states. This is a grass roots event, mobilized by local churches at state capitols and city halls.

GOVERNMENTAL HOUSE OF PRAYER
There will also be 50 days and nights of continuous worship and prayer in Colorado Springs at the Governmental House of Prayer to cry out to God for following issues:

- For righteous senators, congressmen and a godly president to be elected.

- For a shift in the courts of this land, back to the biblical foundations our laws are based on, and for the reversal of Roe vs. Wade.

- For a revival that leads to reformation in America.

- For a sweeping outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the gay and lesbian communities and for a great harvest with true repentance and for the church to receive these new believers with love.

- For a great youth revival on college campuses and the birth of another Student Volunteer Missions Movement.

"There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens. Great revolutions for good or for evil occur in the vacuum created by these openings. It is in these times that key men and women, even entire generations, risk everything to become the hinge of history, that pivotal point which determines what way the door will swing."

This November, that door of destiny is once again opening for America as we face what will surely be a closely contested election and a fight for the moral and cultural direction of our country.

This is not the summer to sleep! Join us in The Cause!
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