September 3 (Friday) was the "pre-Call rally" at the baseball stadium in Sacramento. The stadium was nearly full as well as the majority of the field for five hours of worship. It was an amazing time of coming before the Lord in abandoned worship as we prepared for Saturday. Jesus gave me so much joy as I worshiped before Him. He continues to humble me as He shows me His glory and perfection... it's all about Him, not at all about me! He's helping me to get over my tendency to worry about what people think about me or to compare myself to others. My identity is only in who He says I am, not what others think about me or what I think about myself.
Saturday was the Call, held right on the front steps of the capitol building in the capitol city of California. I'm not sure how many people gathered, but they projected the whole event on screens for blocks in the middle of Sacramento. It was an amazing experience to gather with thousands of Christians with one heart and one mind in intercession for our nation. It was very sobering, realizing all of the lies that Americans have believed, and that if we continue in the same path, destruction really is imminent. The Lord has given us so many chances to turn back to Him, but we continue to deny Him. We prayed for just about every major issue that Americans deal with as well as took time to repent for our own personal sins and make wrong things right in our own lives. There was a cross that was set up that we would turn to, symbolizing our need for the blood of Jesus and His mercy in our lives.
An amazing thing happened two hours after we prayed for the end of human trafficking: craigslist removed the adult section which facilitates prostitution and trafficking! (Link to the article about it http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20015629-71.html) Only God could have done this! I have so much hope that what we did on Saturday was the beginning of a new movement of people who will start prayer houses on college campuses and in the nations, starting a revival! God will be the one to do it, but He is inviting us to join Him by consecrating our hearts to Him and genuinely saying yes.
