Hello and thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

And the title of today's post is, Hannah, We Were Right.

I want to encourage you today with an amazing account of God's sovereign ability to work through us in spite of our weaknesses.

It was 2003, and the story begins with a dream sent to me from a friend.

Dream said, Lou Engel and Dutch were together in a building used for banquets and other gatherings.

Lou was talking to people around him about prayer and fasting, was growing frustrated that they were not listening to him, but instead were chatting, chattering, and eating. Dutch, on the other hand,

was being listened to by those around him. The scene changed, and Dutch approached Lou,

handed him something I could not yet see in the dream, and said, Here, Lou, if you will strike this, they will listen to you.

Dutch also handed him a conductor's wand with which to strike the unseen object.

Lou did as instructed, and a sound reverberated through the room.

When the sound was heard, everyone began paying close attention to him.

As Lou turned around to Dutch in the dream, what he struck could be seen. It was the scales of justice. Dutch then looked at

Lou and said, this will crescendo on March the 1st. As I sought for insights from the Lord, from Holy Spirit and from the word,

etc., concerning the dream, I knew the scales of justice referred to the judicial system.

Striking them pictured intercession. The Hebrew word for intercession is

Paga also translated strike or strike the mark. So I knew striking was intercession.

The conductor's wand indicated agreement in prayer, since the Greek word for agreement is symphonyo, also the word for symphony.

That Lou and I were together, and I handed him these items, indicated a need for our partnership in the endeavor.

In response to the dream, Lou and I launched a 40-day prayer initiative for the judicial system, 2003,

focusing especially on the Supreme Court, up to March 1, crescendo day in the dream.

Many people responded and joined us in prayer.

Coinciding with the end of this 40 days, March 1st, I was scheduled to minister in England.

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