The Calling September 2009

September 2009 the Holy Spirit began to move in a little church called “Restoration Life” located in the “Heart of the City” in Sacramento, CA. After 48 hours of corporate fasting and prayer that culminated in an evening to scribe what God was calling us to do, the following scriptural and foundational themes were revealed. The following are the unedited notes and themes that resulted in the formation of E49 Corporation.

Scripture Themes

  • Isaiah 58

  • Acts Chapter 13: 1-3 – Prophecy

  • Nehemiah Chapters 1-3

  • “Why should my face be not sad, when the city, the place of my father’s tombs, lays waste, and its gates are burned with fire?”

  • We are being called to rebuild the walls around this city, each ‘family” (church body) has a part in the rebuilding.

Confirmed Cautions

  • “It’s in front of you”

  • “Unstopping the wells”

  • “Take care of the children”

  • “Concentrate on walking it out today in our own homes and our own church”

Confirmed direction

  • E49

  • “Unity”

  • A “hub” in the community

  • “Unleash the gifts”

  • “24-hour ministry”

  • Focus on Youth, housing and sex trafficking

  • “Permanence without getting comfortable”

Focus moving forward

Prayer and fasting

Testing and confirming

Build our current house on a rock by concentrating on discipleship, teaching and prayer

 

Isaiah 58 “Shout it aloud, do not hold back.

Raise your voice like a trumpet.

Declare to my people their rebellion

and to the descendants of Jacob their sins.

2 For day after day they seek me out;

they seem eager to know my ways,

as if they were a nation that does what is right

and has not forsaken the commands of its God.

They ask me for just decisions

and seem eager for God to come near them.

3 ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say,

‘and you have not seen it?

Why have we humbled ourselves,

and you have not noticed?’

“Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please

and exploit all your workers.

4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,

and in striking each other with wicked fists.

You cannot fast as you do today

and expect your voice to be heard on high.

5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,

only a day for people to humble themselves?

Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed

and for lying in sackcloth and ashes?

Is that what you call a fast,

a day acceptable to the Lord?

6 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:

to loose the chains of injustice

and untie the cords of the yoke,

to set the oppressed free

and break every yoke?

7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry

and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—

when you see the naked, to clothe them,

and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,

and your healing will quickly appear;

then your righteousness[a] will go before you,

and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.

9 Then you will call, and the Lord will answer;

you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.

“If you do away with the yoke of oppression,

with the pointing finger and malicious talk,

10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry

and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,

then your light will rise in the darkness,

and your night will become like the noonday.

11 The Lord will guide you always;

he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land

and will strengthen your frame.

You will be like a well-watered garden,

like a spring whose waters never fail.

12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins

and will raise up the age-old foundations;

you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,

Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.

13 “If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath

and from doing as you please on my holy day,

if you call the Sabbath a delight

and the Lord’s holy day honorable,

and if you honor it by not going your own way

and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,

14 then you will find your joy in the Lord,

and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land

and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.”

For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Acts 13:1-3

1 Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. 2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” 3 So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.



Tammy Vallejo