January 1, 2025

Happy New Year! It’s good to be with you again. And we are going to start the year off with a bang!

Introduction

My friends Lou Engle and Matt Lockett are spearheading 21 days of fasting and prayer, beginning today, to launch us into 2025. They’re calling for a Daniel Fast, based on Daniel’s 21-day fast in Daniel 10:3, during which he fasted meat, “pleasant foods” such as sweets, and wine. The reasons and prayer focus from Lou are delineated in the following release by Cheryl Amibile in The Briefing. The title of her briefing is:

The 2025 Jehu Fast

After decades of mass prayer and fasting for the nation, we have come to a critical juncture for America to turn back to God. We stand now in a window of historic opportunity for governmental reform and national revival, but we must see it through in prayer. As President Trump prepares to take office in 2025, we urge you to join us as we govern in prayer over the government. Today’s briefing lays out a prophetic vision for Trump’s second term, along with clear prayer directives from Lou Engle to unify our intercession. Let’s shape history together through prayer and fasting! 

We’ve sensed a shift in the nation since the A Million Women gathering in Washington, D.C., on the Day of Atonement, and experienced a breakthrough with President Trump being elected. Now it’s time to pave the way for God’s agenda to be accomplished through his administration. For this purpose, we are launching a national 21-day Daniel Fast, January 1-21, led by Lou Engle, in partnership with Matt Lockett (Executive Director of Bound4Life International and the Justice House of Prayer in Washington, D.C).
Daniel’s 21-day fast (Daniel 10) shifted Cyrus’s mindset and prevailed over the powers of darkness, changing the whole Persian public policy. We believe right now we have an opportunity to see the government of our nation impacted, the deep state removed, and ideologies shifted. 

However, for this to happen, we believe the church needs to “get into the chariot of Jehu.” Jehu was anointed king by the prophet Elisha during the reign of Ahab (2 Kings 9). King Ahab was one of Israel’s most infamous leaders, who allowed the idolatries of his wife Jezebel to infiltrate the nation and corrupt the culture of God’s people. The Lord’s purpose for Jehu was to destroy the house of Ahab and eradicate Baal worship from Israel. Rabbi Jonathan Cahn recently prophesied to President Trump at the Inaugural National Faith Summit, declaring that his life and calling followed a similar template to Jehu’s. Other prophetic leaders have sensed the same.
Lou Engle was stirred a few weeks ago while reading 2 Kings 9–10, noting that it was during Jehu’s second ride that Jehonadab, the conservative leader, climbed into his chariot. Jehu then exclaimed: “Come watch my zeal for the Lord.” Lou has sensed from God a strong exhortation that in Trump’s second term, the church must “get in his chariot” by supporting him in prayer. Let us intercede for God to put a hedge about him, that the right cabinet members would be put in place, and that the president and his administration will sweep away the “house of Ahab” that has been seeking to destroy this nation.



Along these lines, Matt Lockett had a fascinating dream in September of 2022, which we believe paints a prophetic picture of our responsibility to pray for Trump. In the dream, Matt and his team from JHOP (Justice House of Prayer) were with Donald Trump and other intercessors, standing outside a fast-food restaurant. They were in a single-file line, waiting to go through the drive-thru that had not yet opened. It was understood in the dream that they were to keep Trump’s place “in line” and “drive him through” when the window opened. Matt’s team has prayed regularly regarding this dream for the past two years.

Just after the A Million Women prayer gathering on the National Mall in October [2024], President Trump surprisingly showed up at McDonald’s to work in the drive-thru window. For most of the nation, this was just a human-interest story and a photo op for the would-be president. However, for Matt and his team, it was a sign that the “window” was now open to “drive” Trump through the election.
Then, approximately a week later, President Trump was pictured in another window—this time, the window of a garbage truck! Once again, the images were all over the news. It suddenly struck Matt with prophetic clarity that his original dream was not just about “driving” Trump through the election but through an ongoing agenda to “take out the trash,” so to speak, in Washington, D.C. We resonated with Matt’s insight, recognizing God’s intent to use President Trump to address the wickedness, idolatry, and corruption in the nation’s high places and policies. Our prayers must “drive” this agenda.

Another prophecy that has shaped our intercession for the president-elect is a word given by the late Kim Clement in 2007. Clement had specifically prophesied that Trump would become a trumpet. He went on to speak of a president fitting Trump’s description who would have “hot blood” and would raise the walls of protection around the nation. He said this leader would rapidly change the economy. In the same prophecy, Clement declared of this man: “God says, ‘I will put at your helm for two terms a president that will pray, but he will not be a praying president when he starts. I will put him in office, and then I will baptize him with the Holy Spirit and My power.’”



We have often pondered Donald Trump’s spiritual legacy. His great-aunts were instrumental in the intercession leading up to the tremendous move of the Spirit in the Hebrides Revival (see The Briefing 088 -The Promised Revival). What if God has ordained for that holy stump [this great revival] to sprout again at this time? It may be that President Trump is a sign and a symbol of an outpouring God desires to spread across America and beyond.



Therefore, as we head into these 21 days of a Daniel Fast, let us pray daily for the Jehu anointing to rest upon President Trump, his Cabinet members, and all those in leadership. Pray that they would sweep away the “house of Ahab” and its ungodly ideologies that have taken root in America. Ask for grace to empower them to accomplish what God desires - not their own agendas - but God’s purposes in this second term of President Trump.
Secondly, let’s pray daily for President Trump to be filled with the Holy Spirit while in office, as was spoken in Clement’s prophetic word. Let us also pray for all the men and women in his Cabinet, that they would be filled with the wisdom of God as they navigate complex decisions, according to Daniel 2:21 (NIV): “He changes times and seasons; He deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.” 

Lastly, we have always recognized that transforming government alone would not be enough. America must experience a Third Great Awakening - a spiritual revival - in the hearts of men, women, and children alike. This aligns with a prophetic dream we received in 2020, in which there was a massive gathering and fervent cries of “Revival, revival, revival.” May this be our ongoing prayer until our communities are swept up in the fire of God’s Spirit.


Pray with me:

Father, we begin by giving You thanks for the answers to prayer we have received up to now. Recovery, restoration, and reformation all involve processes - tearing down, uprooting, planting, building. We have embraced the process of seeing America restored to You and Your purposes for her. 

As we join our hearts in fasting and prayer at the beginning of this year, we ask for momentum to increase. We ask for the Jehu anointing to rest on President-Elect Trump, his cabinet, and all working with them. We ask that You give them the determination, wisdom, and strategies necessary to sweep away the “house of Ahab” and its ungodly ideologies in America. Give them Your agendas. 

We ask that President-Elect Trump have a powerful encounter with You, and that he be filled with Your Spirit. Make him a man of prayer, just as the prophetic word said. Place an insatiable hunger in him for Your Word. Teach him to hear Your voice, and know Your ways. 

And we ask You for a Third Great Awakening, a spiritual revival, the likes of which have never been seen. We cry “revival, revival, revival.” Pour this out not only on America, but throughout all the earth. We ask for Ezekiel’s river to increase until it flows at its deepest level (Ezekiel 47). And we pray all of this in the great and holy name of Jesus. 

Our decree: 

We decree that revival and reformation are coming to the earth, covering it as the waters cover the sea.

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