TheCall Detroit 11.11.11
Venue: Ford Field
Date: November 11th & 12th, 2011
Attendees: Approximately 27,500 |
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Purpose
The purpose of TheCall Detroit was to pray as one unified Body—as in the Azusa Street Revival of 1906—where Black and White, Jew and Arab, young and old, every ethnic group, every denomination stood together and cried out for the turning of America back to God.
Summary
Earlier this year, I (Lou ) dreamed that I was in a circle of leaders and I turned to Mike Bickle, Director of IHOP–KC, and said, “We are going to Ford Field.” And Mike replied, “Let’s go.” I have never dreamed of a venue before in the history of TheCall, but we believe that at Detroit Lions’ stadium God made a staging ground for a revolution of prayer, forgiveness and healing.
In 2011, the atmosphere in our nation felt like we were entering a season like the protests, the race riots, and the social upheaval of the sixties and early seventies; but way beyond those past years in its implications and expression. Revolution was in the air. But the revolution that is needed is not a revolution of snarling protestors or angry mobs; it’s a Jesus revolution, a revolution of forgiveness, racial reconciliation, compassion. It’s a revolution of revival and LIFE. It’s a revolution of massive fasting and prayer and its watch cry is, “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all ethnic groups.”
It is in Detroit where the tectonic plates of the great social upheavals collide. But we believe that God has chosen this great city and its praying people to be a sign of resurrection and a great mercy unleashed from the cross. Even the seal of the city is, “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” It is the convergence of the church of North America—Jew, Arab, Black, White, every ethnic group, every denomination. The trumpet has sounded. We gathered to Ford Field for a great communion service at the cross—the only answer to the great fissures and factions that threaten to destroy the nation. The Canadian prayer movement cancelled its own national prayer gathering to come and pray in Detroit for America. Come, let us return to the Lord with all our hearts. Let us empty out our baggage and our bitterness, turn our swords into plowshares, dam the flow of the shedding of innocent blood and call upon God in the day of trouble. He will answer us and He will heal us.
“When one person stands up, he is often not noticed, but when thousands stand up together they cannot be overlooked.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
Though man may overlook us, God will hear, and when He hears—believe me—the earth shall see REVIVAL.
Detroit will lead the nation
When Black and White and all races stand together, shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand, God will release His blessing and healing to our nation. When the people who have been wounded can empty out the bitterness and forgive their offenders, they actually gain redemptive authority to lead others together to a place in God they could have never otherwise gone to alone.
Church leaders from all over Detroit have been praying for years, uniting for such a time as this. The color lines are being washed away by the blood of Jesus. Black and white, young and old, all denominations. Detroit is writing a new spiritual history.
This is a critical hour, not just for Detroit, but for the future of America. Everybody knows something about Detroit demands a breakthrough from Heaven. God is the answer, not another political or social program. We need something from Heaven.
There are no new paths, it’s time to return to the ancient paths. As in the Azusa Street Revival in 1906, the black man William Seymour stood with the white man Frank Bartleman in prayer and fasting until revival came. So too the Spirit will be poured out as we become the Father’s house of prayer for all ethnic groups.
“There was no pride there . . . in that old building, with its low rafters and bare floors . . .” —Frank Bartleman on the Azusa Street Revival
“No sacrifice on the altar means no fire. The fire of God never falls on an empty altar. The greater the sacrifice, the more the fire.” —Frank Bartleman on the Azusa Street Revival
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