Lou Engle Hopes to Fill LA Coliseum on Anniversary of This Great Outpouring

Robin Tench, Mark Ellis : Feb 11, 2016
God Reports

"I don't believe that God will fasten our soul to a dead end vision. I stand in awe of the God who has been faithful to His promises." -Lou Engle

(Los Angeles, CA)—The Azusa Call set for April 9th at the LA Coliseum will be the culmination of dreams, visions, and prophecies that inspired Christian leader Lou Engle to take a giant leap of faith in his hunger for revival to sweep the world. (Photo via God Reports)

He hopes 120,000 of all ages will join together for a day of worship and pray at the enormous venue. At a pastors' brunch January 20th, over 500 Southern California pastors joined outside the Coliseum's entry to pray and hear about Engle's vision.

"In the midst of the worldwide upheaval of Islamic terror, political confusion, racial tension, and the great moral slide in America we believe that the color line can be washed away in the blood of Jesus and the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit could be unleashed as it was at Azusa Street in 1906," he states on the azusanow2016 website.

For the past 16 years, Engle has led a youth movement seeking spiritual awakening called TheCall, best known for its prayer rallies. Engle sees the upcoming event as the pinnacle of that movement.

Engle's plans for the Azusa Call came together after a close friend had a dream that he was to buy plane tickets on United Airlines that would expire 1080 days after the dream.

When they calculated that day, it was April 9, 2016, the 110th anniversary of the Azusa Street revival. (Photo via americapraynow.com)

Going beyond the significance of the date, they believe the reference to "United Airlines" represents God's desire for racial and denominational unity in the Body of Christ.

"Can you believe with us that denominations will unite, that the races could come together, that God could make us one, as the antidote to the terrific division in our day? Could you believe with us for stadium Christianity where signs and wonders are breaking out and mass evangelism explodes across our country—the Third Great Awakening?" he asks.

Just as the Promise Keepers men's movement filled stadiums with men in the 1990s, Engle believes a coming outbreak of revival will...

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