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I’ve never before seen so many believers rallying together to pray—and crossing denominational lines to do it.

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When God intends great mercy for His people, the first thing He does is to set them apraying.” Those are the oft-repeated words of the 17th-century Welsh minister and author Matthew Henry.

Little did Henry know when he uttered those words that perhaps the greatest revival in the earth’s history—the Welsh Revival that took place from 1904 to 1905 and, many believe, is the root of every great revival in the world since—would break out in his homeland.

Indeed, the Azusa Street Revival, which is widely considered the birthplace of the modern-day Pentecostal movement, was inspired by intercessors who saw or heard how God was moving in Wales and prayed for the Holy Spirit to sweep over their city. And in 1906, He did.

Over 100 years later, our merciful God has set His people apraying once again—and Lou Engle has been partnering with Him to issue calls for massive intercession over America for more than three decades. Lou is a modern-day revivalist; a prophetic voice who has inspired a generation of youth to fast and pray for God’s mercy and labor for social justice.

When God called me in 2012 to make prayer my life’s work, I looked to the likes of Lou, IHOP’s Mike Bickle and Dutch Sheets—along with history’s intercessors such as Daniel Clary and Father Nash—for inspiration. What I discovered was that there are many different ways to pray for a nation.

You, for example, can walk out 2 Chronicles 7:14—”If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” You can execute strategic Spirit-inspired prayer assignments in your city. You can launch a house of prayer, as I did four years ago. You can gather the masses at stadium prayer events that unite generations to cry out to God—or work on many other initiatives.

Lou has done all that and more and is pulling off perhaps his biggest, most pivotal prayer event ever April 9 at TheCall Azusa at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. It was thrilling to interview Lou for our March cover story hear about how God called him to intercession for revival and learn about plans for what could be, prophetically speaking, a historic prayer meeting in America.

On the same day in Washington, D.C., pastors will band together to make an appeal to heaven. Meanwhile, Dutch Sheets, who birthed the Appeal to Heaven movement, has launched an app that encourages every Christian in America to pray for the nation 15 minutes a day—and equips us with the tools to do it.

When God intends great mercy for His people, the first thing He does is set them apraying. I’ve never before seen so many believers rallying together to pray—and crossing denominational lines to do it.

From The Response prayer events in strategic American cities to prayer rooms in revival centers and churches across America, God is uniting believers to pray for a nation in crisis, invading the seven mountains of society—arts and entertainment, business, education, family, government, media and religion—with the Word of God that promises not to return void but to accomplish that which it was sent to do.

As I wrote in my book The Next Great Move of God: An Appeal to Heaven for Spiritual Awakening, God is not done with America. He wants to bring a Third Great Awakening to the nation. I believe it’s a Great Awakening that will spill over into the nations of the Earth, just like Azusa Street.

For all the doom-and-gloom prophecies over America, there is yet a rising cry from respected voices from various streams of the body of Christ who sense God’s heart—and God’s hope—for America even in the midst of discipline. Despite the reality that a degree of judgment has come to America—and that we may continue to reap from the wicked seeds we’ve sown for a longer season—many agree that God is not done with America. There is hope.

As Lou once said, “Now, many look at the state of the nation and are deeply discouraged, but I am filled with hope. I have read history; most great moves of God erupted in the darkest times of crisis and were preceded by years of intercession. Today, I have more expectation for the Great Awakening in America than I ever have had.”

Jennifer LeClaire is senior editor of Charisma, director of the Awakening House of Prayer, a senior leader of the New Breed Revival Network and author of many books, including Jezebel’s Puppets: Exposing the Agenda of False Prophets. Visit her online atjenniferleclaire.org.

Jennifer LeClaire is senior editor of Charisma. She is also director ofAwakening House of Prayer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, co-founder of awakeningtv.com, on the leadership team of the New Breed Revival Network and author of several books, including The Next Great Move of God: An Appeal to Heaven for Spiritual Awakening;Mornings With the Holy Spirit, Listening Daily to the Still, Small Voice of God; The Making of a Prophet and Satan’s Deadly Trio: Defeating the Deceptions of Jezebel, Religion and Witchcraft. You can visit her website here. You can also join Jennifer on Facebook or follow her on Twitter. Jennifer’s Periscope handle is @propheticbooks.

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The man of God is offering an encouraging word for the United States.

When I first met Kenneth Copeland in 1979 to interview him for a Charisma magazine story, his understanding of faith changed my life. Copeland believes faith is something a believer can use like a carpenter uses a tool. I’ve used that concept many times in the years since to believe God to build this media ministry, so it was good to reconnect with him at his beautiful ministry headquarters near Fort Worth, Texas.

In nearly 50 years of ministry, Copeland’s aim has been to teach the church to walk in faith—or as his website elaborates, taking people from religion to reality, from milk to the meat of God’s Word, becoming skillful in the Word of righteousness according to Hebrews 5:12-14.

In Texas, our conversation turned to the current political environment and the state of our nation. I know Copeland is concerned about America. We’ve been at some of the same leaders’ meetings with political candidates, and he’s had speakers at his conventions share about important political issues of the day. I was interested to hear what he had to say about where America stands now. This word should encourage the church.

At a time when many are saying America’s best days are in the past and God is abandoning our country, Copeland is optimistic that God is “rebirthing America” and He has not abandoned us.  The reason, he says, is that America is the only nation founded by men who loved God. Israel was founded because God loved Abraham, but America was founded by men who loved God “for the purpose of loving me”—words Copeland says God spoke to his spirit.

“Do you think our Founding Fathers—George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and others—had any idea what this nation would look like in terms of its purpose and meaning?” he asked. “The answer is no. They had no frame of reference to know what was happening.”

Copeland said the Lord told him the Christian community has no idea what God is doing to rebirth this nation. As he’s prayed recently, Copeland has come to believe strongly that in spite of how things look, this is not the end of the United States. It’s the end of what he calls a “Babylon system” trying to take over the country for the past 115 years. A Babylon system, as he explains it, is any system in which man tries to meet his needs without God. President Obama’s actions are shining a light on this Babylonian system, and the church is waking up and rallying.

Copeland believes Christians must go back and confess the Word of God. This is one nation “under God,” and we must get back to that, recalling the words of the late Smith Wigglesworth: “I am not moved by what I see. I am not moved by what I feel. I am only moved by what I believe.”

When people talk about the economy and how bad things are, Copeland states flatly: “Who cares?” In 1 Peter 5:6-10, the Holy Spirit tells us to roll all your cares onto Him. It’s one of God’s marvelous promises.

What about this politician or that politician and how awful the state of our nation will become if they are elected? “Who cares?” Copeland says. “We roll that care over on the Lord. Mark 11: 22 says, ‘Have faith in God.’ No matter what, have faith in God! This nation belongs to God, and no one will take it down. People might say it’s going down or it’s God’s judgment, but it’s not going down.”

Many of the bad things we see, such as the tragedies of 9/11, are the result of seedtime and harvest. Judgment is not until the end, and judgment is always brought by God for mercy. So what should Christians do? We vote and plant our ballot as a seed. Then we pray. God’s choice will be elected.

Our culture tends to look at things from a secular point of view—without understanding or even considering the spiritual aspect. Since we are bombarded with that viewpoint in the media and with the people we interact with, it’s easy to only look at things in the natural.

But remember, the most important aspect is the spiritual aspect. God has a plan and purpose that is higher than ours. So as the body of Christ, we must confess the Word, believe the Word and know that God is in control.

People who live by faith keep going. It may seem rough, but then haven’t things always been rough? We keep going. We keep believing God. He’s in control and He is not done with America.

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The Lord recently reminded me of something regarding mountains: They rarely stand alone. A mountain range, by definition, always involves a series of mountains connected by passes or valleys.

Likewise, a nation’s society isn’t made up of a single mountain but of seven distinct peaks. In between those cultural mountains is a connective landscape just as powerful as those majestic formations: intercession. This powerful spiritual discipline is the natural bridge between each of these mountains, and those who are called and gifted for a lifestyle of prayer—intercessors—serve a vital role throughout the kingdom.

In every nation and culture, the Lord searches for those who will stand between the mountains of society and intercede for those believers ascending the sloped terrains. In all likelihood, you already have a proclivity to pray for a certain mountain because of the way God wired you.

How to Pray for the 7 Mountains

Ask an experienced sports coach, business leader or army general which is more valuable—strength or strategy—and he will likely agree that strategy wins out any day of the week. One of the reasons prayer warriors can feel tired, drained or even defeated after times of intercession is because they fail to ask God for a plan beforehand. Instead of being tactical in their approach, they subconsciously believe that just showing up is good enough.

The result is a “wing it in the Spirit,” anything-goes time of prayer. Though the Holy Spirit may lead us to pray this way on occasion, that is rarely the case when confronting the powers of darkness that rule the seven mountains. It is no wonder why demonic forces attack us so heavily when we pray for a specific mountain. If we are praying with the Holy Spirit’s miracle-working power, then we are, after all, announcing Satan’s defeat and reclaiming the territory. He will not go down without a fight, and that is precisely why we must have a plan of attack that is heaven-sent.

As we encounter the enemies upon each of the seven mountains, we must keep our spiritual ears tuned into heaven’s channel. In Genesis 1:28, we see that the Lord has given us the “Seven-Mountain Mandate” to take dominion; this is our authoritative order from God. Yet we must not only have strategy to follow through with this order, we must also recognize that our ultimate Commander is ready and willing to provide us with this strategy.

In my years of personally interceding for these cultural spheres and leading others in a similar prayer journey, I have discovered a few recurring elements of strategy the Lord continues to provide for each mountain.

The Religion Mountain

The Religion Mountain is more than the temple or building; it is any gathering of people who worship God, Allah, Buddha, Satan or Shiva. The war in the heavens has always been over who will be worshipped. The prayer of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, is inspiring: “If disaster comes upon us, the sword, or judgment, or pestilence, or famine, then we will stand before this temple and before You because Your name is in this temple. And we will cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear and deliver” (2 Chr. 20:9). Almost 3,000 years after King Jehoshaphat lived, we stand in a similar place as he did when he uttered those words—on the brink of war with a fast-approaching enemy, declaring with assurance the faithfulness of God. With that stance in mind, here are the specific points we can pray:

• Pray that believers on the Religion Mountain will reflect Christ.

• Pray those upon the mountain—believers and nonbelievers—will worship the one true God in spirit and truth.

• Pray believers on the mountain will pray out of an intimate, living relationship with Jesus.

• Pray God will eliminate religious rituals.

• Pray the Holy Spirit will stir up a passion for the Word within every person on the mountain.

• Pray believers on the Religion Mountain will have a strong presence upon the other six mountains.

The Family Mountain

Families have never been as fragmented as they are today, and our modern cultural progression—or digression, in most cases—continues to wear away at the core unit of society. Here are some specific prayer points we must hold up in the Spirit:

• Declare that marriage will remain the foundation of the family unit.

• Pray marriages are restored. This involves praying for healing in marriages fractured by affairs, alcoholism, pornography, drug addictions and other vices the enemy uses to tear husbands and wives apart.

• Declare that the Family Mountain will stand for life. Our entire culture’s future depends on how well we defend the unborn.

• Pray parents would step up as the authority in the home and would model godly behavior.

• Renounce family curses from previous generations and release blessings upon the next generation.

• Pray that Christian families will recognize how to engage in spiritual warfare.

The Education Mountain

We are light-years away from the Bible-based education system our nation originally used. Given that sober fact, here are some key prayer points to use as we intercede for the Education Mountain:

• Pray that educators will teach knowledge and truth that is applied with wisdom. To thwart the enemy’s schemes, we must pray for a spirit of wisdom for those who teach.

• Pray that educators will teach the truth about God.

• Pray that educators will teach the full view of creation.

• Pray that educators will impart destiny and purpose.

• Pray that parents will take authority over what their children are taught.

The Government Mountain

The call to prayer for the Government Mountain is the continual responsibility for all Christians, not only intercessors (1 Tim. 2:1-4). With that in mind, intercessors can focus on the following key points of prayer.

• Declare a holy alignment of the nation’s civil laws to God’s laws.

• Pray that government officials will tremble at God’s Word and walk in the fear of the Lord.

• Pray that God will raise governmental apostolic prayer teams.

• Pray that our political leaders will guide with wisdom, revelation and truth. This is particularly apt for the judges who preside in courts throughout our country.

• Release a spirit of justice in the land as the armies of heaven restrain evil.

The Media Mountain

The media’s negative, biased reporting has already made a mark on generations who are now conditioned to distrust any news report. As intercessors, we can pray for a restoration of truth on the Media Mountain as we lift up the following key points.

• Pray that those on the Media Mountain will report the truth with integrity and without exaggerating the facts.

• Pray that those shaping media coverage will report both the good news and the Good News.

• Denounce information that is reported through the lens of evil.

• Call for the voices of righteousness and truth that have not been heard. Just as Ezekiel called forth life from a dead environment, we must call out those whom God has appointed to declare His character upon a mountain that has been ruled by the forces of evil. Remember, whoever controls the language controls the culture.

The Arts and Entertainment Mountain

Moviemakers have known about godly values since the beginning of film, which explains the dozens of epics based on Bible stories. But as Western culture has entered into postmodern thought, biblical values have been completely ignored, replaced by edgier and more graphic depictions in the arts.

It is impossible to say that arts and entertainment are not setting the standards for our culture. This is a key mountain the Lord desires to reclaim through His kingdom ambassadors. Given that, those called to intercede for this mountain should pray specifically for the following:

• Pray that believers called to this mountain will overcome darkness with the Light. Through prayer, we can empower those in the entertainment industry to shine the Light of the Holy Spirit within them and reflect the glory of God that casts out every hint of darkness.

• Pray that this mountain will produce entertainment that displays godly lifestyles, behaviors and values.

• Renounce corruption within this mountain.

• Pray that believers will actively support Christ-honoring entertainment.

• War against the outright celebration of ungodly values and the distortion of godly virtues. As intercessors, we must discern the spirits and the times—choosing to love those who oppose us, while fighting in the spiritual realm. When the enemy celebrates his perversion of morality and values, we must raise up the kingdom standard even higher and declare our Lord’s righteousness over this highly contested cultural territory.

• Pray for relationships and unity in the body of Christ. You will find this on all of the Seven Mountains, but it is especially critical in Hollywood.

The Business Mountain

Regardless of whether it is a bull market or a bear market, our God remains in control. Too often as believers, however, we lose sight of this and succumb to the prevailing spirits of fear and panic. The spiritual war we fight on the Business Mountain is both intense and integral to every other mountain’s success. Without finances, none of the other mountains can effectively grow, given today’s world structure. Keep this in mind as we intercede using the following prayer points.

• Call forth companies, leaders and workers who build for the glory of God.

• Declare an abundance of resources consecrated for the kingdom of God.

• Pray that leaders on the Business Mountain will not only be concerned about the bottom line but will also have compassion for those affected by their leadership.

• Pray that kingdom-minded leaders in this sphere will learn to receive—and integrate—intercessory prayer into their businesses.

As leaders ascend higher and become more influential on these mountains, they must rely on the prayers of supporting saints even more. Without that prayer shield, they are open targets, waiting to be picked off for the fall. Whether you are an intercessor or a leader, it is crucial that you not only recognize but also incorporate the power of intercession into every aspect of life upon the Seven Mountains.

Tommi Femrite is an ordained minister and the founder of GateKeepers International and the Apostolic Intercessors Network and author of Invading the Seven Mountains With Intercession.

Watch Lance Wallnau explain the seven mountains of influence and our Christian mandate at sevenmountains.charismamag.com.

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In her book Invading the Seven Mountains of Influence: How to Reclaim Society Through Prayer (Creation House), Tommi Femrite teaches how to reclaim society through prayer. Learn how to intercede for believers ascending each mountain. You can find this book at amazon.com, christianbook.com or wherever Christian books are sold.

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