A message from Anne Graham-Lotz

I am posting this message from Billy Graham’s daughter. I received a copy of it on June 23rd, and I believe that it is an important one involving prayer for the nation for the first seven days of July 2014. Here is the email I received:

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST FROM ANNE GRAHAM-LOTZ:

Blow the trumpet…sound the alarm…for the day of the Lord is coming.  It is close at hand– Rend your heart and not your garments.  Return to the Lord your God…   Joel 2:1, 13

As you may know, my husband is in declining health. I am no longer traveling and speaking as much as I have for the last 26 years since I am staying home to care for him. As a result, I have had time to be quiet and listen more to the whispers of the Spirit. He has revealed things to me in the stillness that I’m not sure I would have heard in my former busyness.

One of the things He has impressed on me is that we are living at the end of human history as we know it. In light of this, He has given me some practical assignments. One was to be the Honorary Chair for the National Day of Prayer 2014 this past May. He gave me the message I was to deliver, which was from Joel 1…the Day of the Lord is at hand. It was a message warning that judgment is coming.

Just recently, He has given me another assignment, which is to call His people in our nation to prayer. This assignment came indirectly from a Syrian pastor through a National Day of Prayer attendee. In obedience, I am blowing the trumpet…sounding the alarm…issuing a national prayer initiative entitled

7 7 7: An Urgent Call to Prayer.

The Call is for God’s people to pray for each of the first seven days in the seventh month-July 1-7. Then on the 7th day, July 7, we are to pray and fast for 7 hours. The purpose is…

-For God the Father to restrain, protect, and deliver His people from the evil that has come into our world.

-For God the Son to be exalted, magnified, and glorified in His church, in our nation, and in our lives.

-For God the Holy Spirit to fall on us in a fresh way, compelling the church to repent of sin and our nation to return to faith in the living God, resulting in a great national spiritual awakening.

I intend to join in and pray with Mrs. Lotz and others around the nation. Hope you will be able to as well!

Dorothy