136 - The Luke 4:14 Fast
Letter from the Editor:
We have come full circle to our annual 40-Day Jesus Fast. The Lord has led us to a Luke 4:14 moment where we stand at the threshold of the greatest healing revival the world has ever seen. But every threshold comes with a threshing floor of preparation. We invite you to join us as part of a corporate breaker company. Ask the Lord how you might empty yourself, making room in your schedule, and perhaps even your stomach, over these next 40 days. Our core team is heading to California for much of the fast. It is ground zero for revival. We would deeply appreciate your financial support at this time to help carry us through these weeks of travel and intercession. As always, we’ll keep you posted on the prophetic dreamstream along the way. Thank you for your love and support!
With gratitude,
Cheryl Amabile
THE LUKE 4:14 FAST
Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region. Luke 4:14
Lou Engle was recently invited to preach in San Diego at Morris Cerullo’s Legacy Center. Morris Cerullo was a Jewish orphan whom God raised up as a renowned healing evangelist in the 1950s. For seven decades, he preached the gospel worldwide, demonstrating the Spirit’s power through miracles, signs, and wonders.
Something very significant was happening in San Diego in the years leading up to Cerullo’s ministry. In 1946, thousands gathered in the city to experiment with extended fasts from food. This movement was documented in Franklin Hall’s book Atomic Power with God through Prayer and Fasting. It sparked a global fasting movement that many believe contributed to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 and the great healing revivals of the 1950s. We believe that San Diego was - and still is - a birthplace, a John the Baptist-type of city that God has used to unveil the arrival of Jesus in His miracle-working, dunamis power!
What is also significant is that the Morris Cerullo Legacy Center is located right next to the hotel where Lou stayed in 2002 during the 31st day of his original water fast, inspired by Franklin Hall’s book. That night, Lou dreamed he was flying over California, roaring the victory of the cross over the powers of darkness! With this recent invitation to return to the very place where he had this dream, Lou felt the Lord say,“Re-dig that well!”
It is remarkable to us that Lou was invited to San Diego on February 28th, which happens to be the eve of our annual 40-day Jesus Fast. As we anticipate the prophetic promises of another great healing revival, we sense that we have come to a moment of birth - a “Genesis moment” - on 2/28 for Joel 2:28:
"And it shall come to pass afterward (after the fast) that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions."
We have learned that if we want the “afterward” that Joel speaks of, there is always a “forward” of prayer and fasting. Even Jesus subjected Himself to this process and returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit. Throughout our own prophetic history, the Lord has faithfully led us into ongoing cycles of fasting and fulfillment. Therefore, we are launching into this new 40-day season with great expectancy.
Following San Diego, Lou will travel to Orange County and then to San Francisco to mobilize the fast (see itinerary below). We believe that California and the nation are in a time of Great Awakening. Now, we must dare to believe for a breakthrough season of fasting and prayer to unleash the headwaters of the healing revival that the world so desperately needs.
Many in this season are being wooed into the wilderness of preparation for the breaker anointing. We invite you to join us as we experiment anew with the atomic power of fasting and prayer from March 1st to April 9th, the anniversary of the Azusa Street Revival.
Perhaps you or a loved one needs a miracle. For many of us, the battle for physical healing has become deeply personal. We can identify with Hannah in the Bible, who was crying out for a son while God was in need of a prophet. The birth of Samuel was His answer for both. Out of barrenness, God brought forth fruitfulness for all of Israel. Believe with us that He will do it again!
On April 4th, near the end of the fast, Lou will be holding a Field of Dreams Communion Service at Bethel Church in Redding, California. Twice Lou has dreamed that he asked Bill Johnson, “Where can you catch fish along the Sacramento River?” Bill answered, “You can catch fish where the river turns red.” Then, in the dream, Lou ran down to the river and saw that the waters were red. Fishermen lined the banks, casting their rods.
This dream depicts what Lou has referred to as “the redding of California” through the sacrament of Communion. It reveals our priestly privilege to appropriate the Lord’s cleansing and forgiveness by applying Jesus’ blood. In doing so, we remove the offense and defilement from the land and its people. Then, as kings, we stretch out the rod of God’s authority over the demonic realm, loosing souls from bondage and darkness into healing and salvation (Revelation 18:13).
The Great Communion Blood Revivalinvolves the raising up God’s people according to our birthright as sons and daughters of our great High Priest and King in the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 7:1-3; Genesis 14).As we learn to function faithfully in our priestly and kingly authority, we will reap the greatest harvest the world has ever seen!The fact that Lou has dreamed thistwiceconfirms, as Joseph said in Genesis 41:32, that“the matter has been firmly decided by God, and God will do it soon!”Get ready, California!
On April 9th-11th, A Million Women will join in a three-day Esther Fast leading up to Passover. Then, on April 12th, we are planning an outdoor Communion Service at Harvest Rock Church in Pasadena. We are believing for the rains of revival to bring beauty for ashes in this city ravaged by fire.
Forty years ago, Che Ahn, the founding pastor of Harvest Rock, had a dream in which a black man said to him, “Come to Los Angeles! There’s going to be a great revival.” We haven’t yet seen that revival, but we believe we have entered the days of harvest. Che is currently seeking to rent the Rose Bowl in August for a mass evangelistic crusade in the 100,000-seat stadium.
Just a week ago, Lou had a dramatic dream in which he was sitting in a cafeteria at a table with no food, only a glass of water. Lou accidentally knocked over the glass, and it broke on the floor as the water poured out. In the next scene, Lou was speaking into a camera, saying, “Can you dream with me? Can you see it? The Rose Bowl will be filled...” Then, music began to play behind him, and he could feel the presence of the Lord. He continued, “And the presence of God will come, and there will be miracles!” When he awoke, Lou understood the imagery of the dream: when we break the fast, the Spirit will be poured out!
God is going to fill the Rose Bowl. He is jealous for the sons and daughters of California as for sheep without a shepherd. Let’s pray and believe for a shaking of the state and a shifting of the culture. As California goes, so goes the nation!
PRAYER OBJECTIVES:
1. Healing Revival - As we re-dig the wells of past revivals in California, let us pray for a breakthrough of mass healings, miracles, signs and wonders.
2. California - Pray for the turning of the state into righteousness and the cutting off of her unjust rulers. Decree that California will become the fruitful vineyard of the Lord once again.
3. Government - We continue to ask for heavenly wisdom to be given to all three branches of government. Pray that President Trump is baptized in the power of the Holy Spirit and girded as a Cyrus for Israel and a Jehu in our domestic affairs.
4. Israel - Let us pray for Israel's protection from her enemies and for power to possess the lands of her inheritance. We're contending for freedom for the hostages and revelation for the people to know and embrace their Messiah. (Please consider signing and sharing this petition for Pres. Trump)
ITINERARY
Feb 28 - 7PM Outpouring with Lou Engle - Morris Cerullo World Evangelism in San Diego
Mar 1 - 6PM Lou Engle, Nate & Christy Johnston - 1518 Brookhollow Dr. #19, Santa Ana, CA
Mar 2 - 6PM Lou Engle, Roger & Gabrielle Joyner - DWELL H.O.P. San Francisco
Apr 4 - TBD Lou Engle Field of Dreams Communion Service - Bethel Church, Redding, CA
Apr 9-11 - Esther Fast with A Million Women
Apr 12 - TBD Lou Engle Passover Communion Service - Harvest Rock Church, Pasadena, CA
