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為了現今的機會-- 3月8-11日 以斯帖禁食
Esther Fast March 8-11, 2017


TheCall Lou Engle:為美國三天來禁食禱告的緊急呼召3月8-11日 - 為了現今的機會
Lou Engle: "Please Read! Urgent Call For a Three-Day Fast For the USA March 8-11 – For Such a Time As This"

以色列 "Succat Hallel" 回應 TheCall Lou Engle--Esther Fast March 8-11, 2017
"Succat Hallel" Kol Hallel: Call to Esther Fast from Lou Engle

耶路撒冷萬國祈禱院:普珥節為以色列和猶太百姓禁食禱告
Purim Fast for Israel and Jewish People


主題:為美國三天來禁食禱告的緊急呼召3月8-11日 - 為了現今的機會
日期:2017年3月3日
作者:Lou Engle

我和我的宮女也要這樣禁食。然後我違例進去見王,我若死就死吧!”(斯4:16)

在歷史上會有這樣一個讓大規模改變發生的大門打開的時刻。巨大的革命,無論好的還是壞的,都在這些開口處所產生的真空中冒出來。在這樣神聖的時刻裡,關鍵的男士,女士和整個世代不顧一切要成為歷史的樞紐 - 決定門將往那個方向打開的“樞軸點”。

以斯帖的時刻

以斯帖是歷史的樞紐的模範 - 一位勇敢的婦女,謙卑和巧妙地對權柄講出真話。在波斯的權力基地中,面對巫術和黑暗的陰謀,以斯帖這位王后冒著生命危險,赤手空拳地只憑著她對她的人民所抱存的一種垂死不滅的愛,以一個權柄的地位,她自己的威儀,以及集體禱告和禁食這個秘密武器。藉著她一個國家得以倖免於被殲滅。(圖像源自Elijah List Shopper,Donna Smallenberg所畫之“為了現今的機會”)

三年前,在弗吉尼亞州的Fredericksburg的一個領導者高峰會上,我們的會議被主的主權奪走,主將我們的焦點轉移到存於美國敬虔婦女中的力量的隱藏主根。我們開始想像在華盛頓特區的商場裡聚集一百萬婦女的事情,類似於Promise Keepers聚會,這將是阻止存於美國黑暗的最後一個突破。在那集體代禱的時間中所領受的強度和清晰度,正如我三十多年的禱告生涯中所經歷的任何先知性時刻一樣。但當時我們不知道要如何使之成就。哈巴谷書中的經文似乎是主對我們的勸勉,“雖然遲延,還要等候;因為必然臨到,不再遲延。”(哈巴谷書2:3)。

真正被授權的婦女

直到2017年1月21日,即唐納德·川普總統就職後的第二天,當我們看到成千上萬的婦女帶著“賦予婦女權力”的目的走上街頭。這次選舉產生了一個真空地帶,因著婦女在歷史中所承受的不公正待遇,似乎一個假冒的女性繼承者衝進來,要藉著不承認神對於婦女的尊榮觀點以及祂在聖經中為她在地上所設計的榮耀目的,來構築一個未來美國的敘事,並尋求要在現在成為歷史的樞紐。本能地,我們有一個集體的認知:這是真正被授權的婦女們站出來的時候了,因為溫柔的(充滿力量的謙卑)必承受地土(翻自太5:5)。

數十萬婦女觀看了這場遊行,聽到了諷刺,對於在公共爭議中不承認上帝的話語和方式這種激進的意識形態所表達的,並不能將自己與之視為其中一份子。這個新出現的婦女從內心深處所宣告出來的並非我所要的革命。“現在,就像以斯帖一樣,她是為了現今的機會而出現,現在是集體的以斯帖藉著認知並承接起神所賜給她的角色,在公眾場合進行持續公開的勸說,並在禱告中謙卑地呼求上帝以塑造未來的時候了。

禁食直到普珥節

婦女的遊行是射出的第一支箭,預示著針對美國總統的一場革命興起,“我們人民”,在現實中,我們的國家是建立在聖經的基要真理上。不久之後,第二個被射出的公然張顯:一個前所未有的以巫術來咒詛川普總統,他的內閣閣員和所有那些與符合聖經的世界觀對齊的人們的全球呼召。突然,整個爭議被提升到一個全球性的屬靈層面,啟動了一場是無法藉著抗議和政治辨論來獲勝的屬靈爭戰。

只有教會才能回應這場前所未有的巫術張顯。必須使用屬靈戰略來戰勝這權勢厚顏無恥的公開挑戰。

根據葉光明所述,哈曼(以斯帖記裡所記載的對頭)藉著掣籤來占卜,並且很顯然地將自己與魔鬼的屬靈權勢對齊,意欲在地球上毀滅掉整個猶太民族。以斯帖所進行的三天禁食破除了哈曼的巫術所導引出來的屬靈權勢。它有效地扭轉了咒詛,並將波斯帝國整個的公共政策轉換成傾向猶太人。我無法更加地來強調這一點:我們正處在類似這樣的日子,以及為我們國家的靈魂進行極度激烈的戰鬥的當中。我們不能再像昨天一樣地來生活。

最近,有兩位女士聯繫我,希望運用我的影響力來召集一個三天的以斯帖禁食來回應這個挑戰。緊接著,我經歷了一個改變生命的異夢,在其中我看到了單是此就可以破除一個重大的死亡屬靈權勢的全國性的以斯帖運動興起。

我知道我得要如同末底改般站出來,不僅是來呼召“以斯帖和她的侍女”,而且擴及到全國人民,來禁食禱告三天直到普珥節。普珥節這個猶太節日是藉著以斯帖的禁食,犧牲和勇氣,而慶祝神出手拯救猶太人。今年的普珥節是從3月11日星期六的傍晚開始。

因此,我們掌握這個突然的時期,從3月8日星期三的日落到3月11日星期六的傍晚,以三天的以斯帖禁食來對抗這個巫術,挺身抵擋上升中的反猶太主義,為總統禱告,為美國的以斯帖運動的起義來抗爭,使之在許多事情中,翻轉於73年所頒布的羅伊對韋德(Roe V. Wade)的法令,正如哈曼的法令被扭轉。

讓婦女(和這個國家)如同以斯帖一樣為了現今這個機會而興起,並在天堂的法庭和人民的公共法院中站定位,在這個時刻來塑造歷史。如果你的心中火熱,就來動員你所有的聯結來進行這次禁食。在錫安吹響號角!呼召一個禁食!


Kol Hallel: Call to Esther Fast from Lou Engle

Dear Friends,

We are sorry this is such short notice, but there was a strong anointing in the watch this morning as we prayed into the call from Lou Engle pasted below.

Blessings,
Rick & Patti


"Please Read! Urgent Call For a Three-Day Fast For the USA March 8-11 – For Such a Time As This"
Lou Engle, Pasadena, CA
Mar 3, 2017

Esther said, "I and my young women will also fast as you do. Afterward, though it is against the law, I will go to the king…and if I perish, I perish" (Esther 4:16).

There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens. Great revolutions, either good or evil, spring up in the vacuum created by these openings. In such divine moments, key men, women and entire generations risk everything to become the hinge of history—the "pivot point" that determines which way the door will swing.

The Esther Hour

Esther is a prototype of history's hinge—a courageous woman who humbly and artfully spoke truth to power. Facing witchcraft and dark conspiracies in Persia's power base, Queen Esther risked her life, armed with nothing but a dying love for her people, a providential position of authority, her own dignity, and the secret arsenal of corporate prayer and fasting. Through her a nation was spared annihilation. (Photo by Donna Smallenberg "For Such a Time as This" via Elijah List Shopper)

Three years ago in a leaders summit in Fredericksburg Virginia, our meeting was sovereignly hijacked as the Lord shifted our focus toward the hidden taproot of strength in the godly women of America. We began to envision something of a million women gathering on the mall in Washington DC, similar to the Promise Keepers gathering, that would be a last-stand breakthrough to hold back darkness in America. Those hours of corporate intercession were as strong and clear as any prophetic moment I have ever encountered in thirty plus years of prayer, but at the time we could not see how it could be brought to pass. Habakkuk's statement seemed to be the counsel of the Lord to us, "Though the vision tarry, wait for it, it will surely come" (Habakkuk 2:3).

The Truly Empowered Woman

That moment arrived January 21, 2017, the day after the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, as we watched hundreds of thousands of women take to the streets with the purported aim of "empowering women." A vacuum had been created by this election, by historic women's injustices, and it seemed that a false heiress rushed in and was seeking now to become the hinge of history by framing the narrative of a future America that does not acknowledge God's exalted view of women and His Biblical design for her glorious purpose in the earth. Instinctively we had a corporate knowing: it was the time for the true empowered woman to stand up, for the meek (strength-filled humility) shall inherit the earth.

Hundreds of thousands of women watched the March, heard the vitriol, and could not identify with the radical ideologies being expressed that would not acknowledge God's Word and ways in the public controversy. This new woman declared deep inside her heart this is not my revolution." Now, like Esther, she is arising for such a time as this. It's time for this corporate Esther to frame the future by recognizing and taking up her God-given role of persistent public persuasion in the open square as well as that of her humble appeal to God in prayer.

Fasting Through Purim

The Women's March was the first shot across the bow, heralding a revolutionary rise against the President of the United States, "We the People", and in reality, the foundational Biblical truths upon which our nation was founded. Soon after, the second shot was manifested publicly: an unprecedented global summons of witchcraft to curse President Trump, his cabinet and all of those aligned with a Biblical worldview. Suddenly, the whole controversy was elevated to a global spiritual dimension, inaugurating a spiritual battle that cannot be won on the playing field of protests and political arguments.

Only the Church has the answer to this unprecedented manifestation of witchcraft. Spiritual strategy must be used to overcome this open-faced, brazen challenge of the powers.

According to Derek Prince, Haman (the adversary in the Book of Esther), was practicing divination through the casting of lots, and was clearly aligning himself with demonic spiritual powers to destroy the whole Jewish population in the earth. Esther's three-day fast broke the spiritual power channeled by Haman's witchcraft. It effectively reversed the curse and shifted the whole public policy of the Persian Empire towards the Jewish people. I cannot stress this enough: we are in a similar day and a cataclysmic battle for the soul of our nation. We cannot live the same way we lived yesterday.

Recently, two women contacted me and asked me to use my influence to call for a three-day Esther Fast to answer this challenge. Immediately after, I experienced a life-changing dream where I saw a nation-wide Esther movement arising that alone could break a major spiritual power of death.

I knew then that I was to take my place as a Mordecai and call not only "Esther and her handmaidens" but the whole nation, to fast and pray for three days leading up to Purim. The Jewish holiday Purim celebrates God's deliverance of the Jews through Esther's fasting, sacrifice and courage. This year, Purim begins on Saturday evening, March 11th.

Therefore, we are seizing this sudden moment for a three-day Esther Fast from sundown on Wednesday, March 8th through the evening of Saturday, March 11th to counter this witchcraft, to stand against the rising anti-Semitism, pray for the President, and contend for the uprising of an Esther movement in America that will, among many things, reverse the decree of '73, Roe V. Wade, just as Haman's decree was reversed.



Let the women (and the nation) arise as Esther's for such a time as this and take their place in the courts of Heaven and in the public courts of man to shape history in this hour. If your heart burns, mobilize this fast to all your connections. Blow the trumpet in Zion! Call a fast! 

To sign up for the fast CLICK HERE.

Consumed by the call,

Lou Engle 
Co-Founder of TheCall, Inc.
Founder, Bound 4 Life