A Rees Howell’s Company
by Lou Engle
Scripture Focus
Daniel 10
Jesus’ forty day fast prepared the way for His messianic shout, “The Kingdom is at hand!” The redemption of the world depended on Jesus’ abandonment to the Father as He fasted in the wilderness. Here was a focused man. Without failure, without faltering, He faced the strong man of the earth and bound him with His, “it is written.” Then from His facedown 40, He returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit. This was the first Jesus Movement!
This 40-day fast, being trumpeted across California, the nation, and the world, must take on the dimensions of do or die. Spiritual awakening is not an option in California! All hell is bent to squeeze the Church into its mold, and muffle its’ prayers that defy this present darkness. We must have another Jesus Movement and the 40-day fast could be God’s prescription.
As well as revival, California must have a cultural reformation. “The Bible has alerted us to the possibility of supernatural evil powers establishing themselves in local cultures and then controlling life and custom…Satan’s infiltration reaches its intended climax in the establishment of a control center on earth, from which to direct the powers of darkness in their opposition to God’s purposes of grace.” (Born For Battle, Arthur Matthews, Page 31) This has happened in California, where the government and the Supreme Court of California have conspired to change the very definition of marriage. California has poised itself to break away from God’s fixed moral standards and lead the nation in this rebellion. Principalities and powers are clearly mustering their forces. Chuck Colson quoting a professor from Princeton declared, “The marriage battle in California, which will determine the future of the institution of marriage in America, is the Armageddon of this nations cultural wars.” That means there is no tomorrow.
But there is hope!!! One man, Daniel, fasting with total focus, no side issues, refusing to take no for an answer, was the deciding factor in the heavenly war between the archangels of Heaven and the Prince of Persia. In like manner, the great prayer movement in the earth today is being called once again to this holy place of influence in the heavens, to restrain antichrist systems and lawlessness, and unleash another great wave of revival. We must be all out for this one!
Reese Howells and his praying band understood their place of intercession and its role in shaping history and withstood the spiritual powers that raged over Hitler and the Nazi regime. Listen to Howell’s journal as he challenges his holy band:
May 17th
9:30am
“You are more responsible for this victory today than those men on the battlefield. You must be dead to everything else, but this fight.”
1:00pm
“Because you have committed yourselves, you are responsible. You will never have peace again until the world has peace, but you have a place in the cleft of the Rock,”
Friends, there is no peace in California! You cannot peacefully coexist with ideologies that attack the image of Christ “For in the image of God he created them male and female.” You cannot remain silent when laws are being passed that ultimately will bring destruction to our children and our children’s children. Will God find His Reese Howells’ company again? I say yes and let it be now! The fast begins today, September 24th through November 2nd.
Prayer
Oh God, Ruler of nations, Lord of history, we set our face to seek you with prayer and fasting. Find in us the spirit of your own Son, the great intercessor, who loved not his life unto death. Call forth thousands now, those who have found their place in the Rock, and out of that place are committed to war in the spirit for a great awakening in California, our universities, among our children, and in the cultural power centers of our nation. God restrain homosexual marriage and send revival to California. We pray for the sake of your Son, Jesus. Amen.
