Be praying in your region and set aside April 14 in each of the remaining four years of the 4/14 Global Initiative as the 4/14 Window Day to Change the World. The goal is to mobilize focused, fervent, united intercessory prayer of God’s people in every region for the Raising up of a New Generation from the 4/14 Window to transform the world. The call to the body of Christ and each local church in the nation is for a congregational fast beginning on the 14th April and going through the 16th.

Following the good example of Dr. Julio and Ruth Ruibal in Colombia, Latin America, before Julio was martyred, encourage the local churches to prepare and implement by means of all or some of the following steps:

• Explain through preaching/teaching the needs of the church, the city, and the nation as it relates to the 4/14ers.
• Set the objective of the fast. There would be a two-fold purpose related to the 4/14ers in the church, city, nation, region and world:
• First, as with The Esther Fast, we are fasting for protection of the 4/14ers and deliverance from the Evil One (Esther 4:16).

2.    Second, we are praying for the Raising up of a New Generation from the 4/14 Window in the local church, city and nation to transform their nations, regions and the world

• Have meetings every night for intercession and testimonies.
• Open up the church for early morning prayer times and other times during the day.
• Encourage groups from the church to meet over lunch hour at their work place and involve other Christians in the work place.
• Give them clear instruction in a sheet of how to fast. Provide the option of a water only fast or organic juice fast.
• Have a temporary hotline where people can call in with their questions.

Our key text is Esther 4:14. “For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai, “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do (Esther 4:14-16).

We are following the example of Esther to the challenge by her Uncle Mordecai to call a three-day fast as an essential part of the 4/14 Window Day to Change the World. The historical background affirms that the world was transformed as a result in Esther’s day and sets the stage for a 4/14 Global Initiative that could change the world in our day. In Esther’s Day, God’s people were mobilized to fast, and God’s people were preserved. Their children were protected from the schemes of the one who planned for their destruction which provided the lineage of Jesus Christ—deliverance in the fullness of time. In God’s providence, it was the children in Jesus’s Day who recognized this and praised Jesus (Mt. 21:20) even as the adults were silent. For the children being called to “silence the foe and the avenger” through their praise of Jesus was in fulfillment of God’s decree from the beginning of time (Ps. 8:2) according to Jesus (Mt. 21:20). Jesus came to destroy the work of the enemy (1 John 3:8), and the world was transformed. Indeed recorded history is His story as highlighted by the historically grounded events.

We encourage you to pass this call to prayer to as many churches and other members of the body of Christ as possible and let them to join in these days of prayer for a new generation of 4/14ers to be raised up.