The second daughter of evangelist
Billy Graham, Anne Graham-Lotz, is blowing the trumpet and sounding the alarm,
following in the footsteps of her father and with the impassioned spirit of the
prophet Joel.
“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)
Due to declining health of her
husband, Dr. Dan Lotz, Anne has limited her speaking engagements and has been
spending more time at their home in Montreat, North Carolina, caring for him.
In December, 2012, Dr. Lotz was hospitalized and overcame a serious bout with a
MRSA staph infection.
“As a result, I have had time to be
quiet and listen more to the whispers of the Spirit,” she wrote in a letter
dated June 20th to Pat Robertson. “He has revealed things to me in
the stillness that I’m not sure I would have heard in my former busyness.” Anne
believes we are racing toward a dramatic conclusion to world events. “One of
the things He has impressed on me is that we are living at the end of human
history as we know it,” she writes, based on her careful study of the Bible.
Last month, she was the honorary
chair for the National Day of Prayer. She delivered a sobering message from
Joel 1: “The Day of the Lord is at hand.”
Anne with her father
“It was a message warning that judgment is
coming,” she writes.
Now she is calling people to pray,
an assignment she says came indirectly from a Syrian pastor who attended the
National Day of Prayer.
“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…
1. For God the Father to restrain,
protect, and deliver His people from the evil that has come into our world.
2. For God the Son to be exalted,
magnified, and glorified in His church, in our nation, and in our lives.
3. 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.
Anne asks for many like-minded
people to partner with her, by going to her website.
“I will provide a prayer I have
written for each of the seven days to help unite us in one spirit and one voice
as we cry out to God. Please be assured there is no other agenda in this
initiative. This is not about promoting anything or anyone. This is all about
calling God’s people together to pray, before it’s too late, and judgment falls
on our nation.”
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