Justice House of Prayer

Engle Likens Obama To Pontius Pilate

Lou Engle called on members of the Boston Justice House of Prayer last week during their Antioch Again summit to pray that President Obama and his family will have a revelation that convinces them to end abortion. Engle advised them not to “listen to Rush Limbaugh very much” because “you will get a bitter, angry spirit,” noting that God’s wisdom “was above our Democrat and Republican wisdom.” He went on to compare President Obama to Pontius Pilate, asking for Michelle to have dreams like “Pilate’s wife” had before the crucifixion of Jesus, and that Obama “wouldn’t wash his hands in water thinking ‘I’m innocent of the blood,’” regarding the issue of abortion:

Engle: I want to encourage people, don’t listen to Rush Limbaugh very much, you will get a bitter, angry spirit. I felt like the Lord is saying, ‘listen there is a wisdom above the right-wing political wisdom.’ I believe the future of our nation might rest on whether or not we pray for President Obama like we prayed for President Bush. What if God would use a black man to bring the races together if the whites would begin to pray for him as much as they prayed for President Bush, what if God had a wisdom that was above our Democrat and Republican wisdom? I’m not saying I could vote for him because I could never participate by my declaration on the shedding of innocent blood but I tell you what God’s box is bigger than ours. He doesn’t say point the finger, He says pray for those in authority. I have been feeling like I need to pray as if the future of our nation depended on President Obama having a revelation from heaven. Father I pray right now, just lift your hands, your heart, lift your voices, we pray for President Obama, we thank you, he is our president, I pray for President Obama, I pray that You would visit him with revelation, visit his children, visit Michelle, protect them from the Evil One, we pray that he would be a Lincoln-type president, we pray that he would be haunted by it, think about it, night and day, in the dreams Lord, Pilate’s wife, Lord that he wouldn’t wash his hands in water thinking ‘I’m innocent of the blood,’ oh come to him.

Engle: "We Are Dominion-Havers"

Lou Engle spoke at the Justice House of Prayer’s Antioch Again conference on September 22nd, where he promoted The Call: Detroit and as usual prayed against Muslims, abortion and gays and lesbians. Engle made clear that Detroit was selected as the next site for The Call so that Muslims in Michigan “will have dreams of Jesus”:

We're going to do The Call in Detroit ... on 11/11/11, right next to the greatest population in North America of Muslims - Dearborn. We're going in there and we're launching forty days and forty nights of intercession and we're daring to believe that God will invade the heavens over Dearborn and Muslims will have dreams of Jesus.

He went on to tell the Boston audience that he wants to raise up a prayer movement that will shatter the “demonic spirits that are playing the puppet strings of professors and presidents of universities and politicians.” He claimed that “Boston is the portal” of such demonic spirits and that Christians must challenge their “pagan professors.” Engle also referenced the growing scrutiny into his dominionist preaching including a recent article in TIME, and declared himself a “dominion-haver” who “will bring the Kingdom right into the Gates of Hell”

And we need a revelation of the captain of the Angel Armies who are over here that are more those for us than those who are against us, these pagan professors with all their petty little demonic gods playing the puppet strings of university students all across this region. I tell you God’s just looking for a people that will begin to unleash the Angel Armies. We just don’t know who we are and we don’t know who He is. He says I’m the Captain of the Angel Armies, and then He tells them, you’re gonna walk around this city for seven days, seven times, duh, what are you talking about? He uses the weak things to confound the wise, things like prayer, things like fasting, things like a little 'life' band. When we challenged abortion seven years ago, the Lord spoke to me: raise up a prayer movement to end abortion in America. I want to tell you I feel we are on that journey right now, you see politicians can’t end it, preachers can’t end it, we gotta deal with the Angel Armies. The realm, the Lord spoke to me in Boston out of a dream, no one’s targeting false ideologies with massive fasting and prayer. At the source of false ideologies, and Boston is the portal, at the source are demonic spirits that are playing the puppet strings of professors and presidents of universities and politicians. I tell you what until we deal with that realm we’re going to have only minimal effect on the nation.

Nobody wants to talk about it, nobody wants to talk about war anymore. Say ‘dominion.’ I’m in TIME Magazine this week, my name, ‘Lou Engle the Dominionist,’ yeah, not completely dominion in this life, Jesus must return and He will bring his dominion to every nation and tribe but until then we are dominion-havers. We are those who will bring the Kingdom right into the Gates of Hell, you’re at the right place.

Lou Engle's DC House of Prayer

While researching the Religious Right's newest start Lou Engle and his ties to the International House of Prayer which, as we noted last week, had recently canceled classes due to an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, I discovered something I had not known: namely, that Engle has a prayer house located right in Washington, DC known as the Justice House of Prayer, which is also the headquarters of Bound for Life:

In the Fall of 2004, the Lord led Lou Engle and a group of young people to fast and pray in our nation’s capitol with a focus on the upcoming elections and for righteousness and justice to be established in America’s government. The prayer mobilized before the elections soon became ongoing prayer for the ending of abortion and the reformation of our society. Since that time people of all ages continue the unending cry for justice and mercy in JHOP DC.

Our hope is for Jesus Christ to become the “desired of the nation.” We have faith for the reformation of society through revival and spiritual awakening. In the meantime, we contend in fasting and prayer in the cultural gate of America against false ideologies that are destructive to our nation and families.

Strategically located only a couple blocks away from the Supreme Court and the Capitol Building, JHOP DC facilitates training and corporate prayer and fasting through young adult internships and a network of local intercessors. While other interns in DC are learning the trade of government, our interns are learning the trade of governing through prayer. Luke 18 gives us a mandate to never give up in night and day prayer for justice. This draws us near the heart of God in His great desire to release justice in the earth and ultimately the return of Jesus–the Just One.

In addition, JHOP DC is the birthplace and headquarters for Bound4LIFE, a wide-spread grass roots prayer movement aimed at the ending of abortion, the increase of adoptions and the reformation of government and society through spiritual awakening.

I also discovered this Nightline segment from 2005 on Engle's DC-based prayer network that profiles the young men and women who have taken up the call to pray non-stop for the Supreme Court and our nation's government to end abortion:

Be sure to also check out this "mini-documentary" on JHOP uploaded to YouTube earler this year:

Keep in the mind that the man responsible for this has, in recent months, become one of the most influential Religious Right leaders in America, regularly rubbing shoulders with (and occasionally placing hands upon) current and former Republican members of Congress.

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Brian Tashman, Monday 10/03/2011, 2:15pm
Lou Engle called on members of the Boston Justice House of Prayer last week during their Antioch Again summit to pray that President Obama and his family will have a revelation that convinces them to end abortion. Engle advised them not to “listen to Rush Limbaugh very much” because “you will get a bitter, angry spirit,” noting that God’s wisdom “was above our Democrat and Republican wisdom.” He went on to compare President Obama to Pontius Pilate, asking for Michelle to have dreams like “Pilate’s wife” had before the crucifixion of... MORE >
Brian Tashman, Thursday 09/29/2011, 3:38pm
Lou Engle spoke at the Justice House of Prayer’s Antioch Again conference on September 22nd, where he promoted The Call: Detroit and as usual prayed against Muslims, abortion and gays and lesbians. Engle made clear that Detroit was selected as the next site for The Call so that Muslims in Michigan “will have dreams of Jesus”: We're going to do The Call in Detroit ... on 11/11/11, right next to the greatest population in North America of Muslims - Dearborn. We're going in there and we're launching forty days and forty nights of intercession and we're daring to believe that... MORE >
Kyle Mantyla, Monday 12/21/2009, 3:04pm
While researching the Religious Right's newest start Lou Engle and his ties to the International House of Prayer which, as we noted last week, had recently canceled classes due to an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, I discovered something I had not known: namely, that Engle has a prayer house located right in Washington, DC known as the Justice House of Prayer, which is also the headquarters of Bound for Life: In the Fall of 2004, the Lord led Lou Engle and a group of young people to fast and pray in our nation’s capitol with a focus on the upcoming elections and for... MORE >