The founder of TheCall, Lou Engle, discusses Rise Up, an event for women to model true femininity and empowerment in the face of societal female outrage.
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Prepare like Esther,
fight like Deborah.
That's the challenge
for women in America
from TheCall founder, Lou Engle.
Because he says our
country needs women,
now more than ever.
You don't have to settle
for a generation in our nation
be destroyed by deception.
It's time for the
woman to step out
of the shadows of insecurity
and fears and shame.
Be who God created you to
be and set your world on fire.
It's time for the
women preachers to arise.
It's time for the
women voices to arise.
It's time for the real thing.
It's time for the outpouring
of Acts Chapter 2.
That's why I believe
in this call to women
to rise up as mothers of a
nation, mothers in your family.
And if you'll come, and
if you'll cry together,
God is going to birth it.
I am Deborah.
I am Deborah.
I am Esther.
I am Esther.
I am Deborah.
I am Esther.
For my sons and daughters.
For my sons and daughters.
Sons and daughters.
I will rise up.
I will rise up.
I will rise up.
I will rise up.
For my sons and daughters.
Beginning today,
and on October 9--
We will rise up.
Lou Engle, from TheCall
is here with us now.
Lou, welcome back
to "The 700 Club."
Good to see you, my friend.
Wendy, 17 years
ago, you stood with us
in DC for the first Call.
So good to be with you.
So great.
I'll never forget
it, never forget it.
Well, in January of this year,
we saw thousands of women
on the Mall in
Washington, DC, mainly
in protest of the election
of President Trump.
You met a lot of
Christian women who said
to you, that's not my march.
And now you're doing
something about it.
What are you doing?
Well, we're gathering,
really, the 6th, 7th, and 8th,
50-state tents.
It's called Awaken the Dawn.
50 states are coming for three
days of day and night worship.
It's called Awaken the Dawn.
And then on the
9th, Columbus Day,
we are calling the women
of America, young and old,
to gather together to
seek God and to pray,
daring to believe it's going
to shift history in America.
Why is this the
hour for women, Lou?
Well, it's interesting.
Psalm 68 is very interesting.
We've been hearing it
all over the place.
One young lady was
reading Psalm 68 11.
It says, "and the Lord
gives the command.
Great is the number of the
women who Herald the good news."
Wow.
She went into 21
days fasting, praying
God would birth a Psalm
68 women's movement.
This is what that is.
We feel it is the hour
for women to arise
with a godly foundation, not
looking to that march that
took place after the elections.
A godly foundation to pray.
It really started
with a woman, 2010,
was praying on a rock,
Mary Washington's rock
in Virginia, where Mary
Washington prayed for her son
during the war.
George Washington,
every day, praying
for the survival of the nation.
I prophesied over her,
hundreds of thousands of women
will be a part of this movement.
God exploded, three
years ago, a revelation
that the women would go.
It would be a last stand
against unrighteousness,
and they would birth
a new Jesus movement.
Three years later, that
vision is coming to pass.
Speaking of the
Jesus movement,
it's been said by
many people that that
was birthed because of the
mothers that were praying.
Is that right?
A dear friend of mine, Francis
Frangipane studied revivals.
He said, I found
a prayer movement
that preceded every revival
except one, the Jesus movement
in the '60s and the '70s.
He said, Lord, was
there a Prayer movement?
And the Lord answered, yes.
I answered the cries
of a million mothers.
They were losing their kids
in the '60s and the '70s.
It was the Cultural Revolution.
They began to cry to God
and God gave us thousands.
We haven't seen a revival like
that since the '60s and '70s.
We have to have it again because
we're losing our generation.
And you say that women, you
need to prepare like Esther
and fight like Deborah.
What does that mean?
Well, actually, we've
only got two months.
Esther prepared for a year.
We need to mobilize,
move women, to build
an altar, to cry out to God.
And also, I believe
that God is raising up
women for voices in reformation
and great evangelists.
I went to Estes Park for
five days in Colorado to pray
and had a dream of
thousands of women coming
to study the book of Esther.
And I knew, there's
coming an Esther movement,
and I was to be a part
of heralding that.
With that vision, we're
calling women, young and old,
by the thousands to
come together October 9
and cry out to God.
Shift this nation,
raise up voices,
and dare to believe for
a new Jesus movement.
We're seizing the day, only
having two months to prepare.
Well, hey, with God,
all things are possible.
And if anybody can
do it, Lou Engle can.
Well, you know,
speaking of Esther, God
used her-- she was
obviously a woman--
to save an entire
race of people.
And in this case, only
a woman could do that.
You are saying that in
this hour that we're in,
this spiritual hour, that God is
saying to you and many others,
this is the hour for women.
Only women can turn the tide
of what's happening right now.
When I had this dream, the
Lord showed me, in the dream,
there are certain
powers of darkness that
can only be broken by women.
And I believe abortion
is one of them.
See, we're going-- we want
to raise a million petitions
to go to the Supreme Court.
It's time for Esther
not just to pray.
She has to petition the king
to end the death decree.
We're in a moment.
If the church
responds, we could see
things shift in this nation.
And I actually believe that we
called a three-day Esther fest
because the witches--
you heard this--
the witches were
calling a worldwide
cursing of the President
and all those allied.
I realized at that
moment, you can't deal
with this on a political realm.
You must deal with it
in a spiritual realm.
I called a three-day
Esther fest.
You knew about that.
Yes.
And in 10 days, the largest
mobilization I've seen,
83 countries, seven continents.
They were fasting
in the Antarctic.
Women were rising up.
It's the hour for a great
mobilization of women, Esthers
and Deborahs.
You know, but
it's interesting.
It seems like,
oftentimes, when God
is doing something
in the spirit realm,
it manifests in
the natural realm.
For example, "Wonder Woman"
came out this summer.
The first female superhero
film in over a decade, I think.
And the actress was Israeli.
It was directed by a woman.
Very unusual to have a female
director of an action film.
And one of the things that
was interesting in the film
is that Wonder Woman, she
goes into no man's land.
And she is the only one who
can turn the tide of the war.
And I'm thinking,
is Lou getting this?
Is Lou hearing this?
Does Lou know about this?
I mean, what are the spiritual--
do you see the
spiritual parallel?
Oh, absolutely.
The movie is amazing.
She doesn't have a bit of
anger, bitterness, as a woman.
She's feeling compassion
for all the people.
And she says, you can't deal
with the violence on the ground
unless you deal with the
principality in power.
You go watch the movie.
In fact, my dream
was that only women
can break certain kinds of
principalities and powers.
I think God is--
I think sometimes
Hollywood prophesies better
than the church does.
OK.
Lou, we've got one minute left.
This is happening in two months.
October 9 is a
Monday, Columbus Day.
Why is that significant?
Well, it's
significant in the sense
that we're holding three
days of tent meetings.
It's so interesting.
Three days tent-- on the
Feast of Tabernacles.
We didn't plan it that--
when the tents come, we
believe it's harvest time.
And secondly, it's the 20th
anniversary of Promise Keepers.
And how can
women get involved?
You want to see half a
million women on the Mall.
We'll see.
How can women get their
women's groups, their churches?
How can they get involved?
Register.
Go to TheCall.com
and register now.
And just mobilize.
Everywhere, young and old.
Bring your daughters,
bring your sons.
We're going to cry out
for the next generation.
And if men want to join
their wives, they can.
OK
We believe that
God is saying, I
want men and women
to love one another,
not to divide from one another.
We're in a great hour.
OK.
That's good to know.
Men are welcome, and
it's going to be--
LOU ENGLE: But it's a
women's [INAUDIBLE]..
It's a women's--
October 9, my birthday.
OK.
Awesome.
Well, you can find
out how to register
for Awaken the Dawn and
Rise Up by going to CBN.com.
Go right now and register.