I love Uganda.
It's a very loving country, caring country.
But something frightening is happening
that has potential to destroy Uganda.
Reject all your sin!
Turn from your sin!
And it is coming from the outside.
If we don't move fast, I foresee a lot of deaths happening.
The fire has already been set.
And I think it is important to trace it back
to where it is coming from.
Thank you Lord
I'm part of a leadership team here
at the International House of Prayer.
We are called to be a missionary people.
I believe the Lord is calling me to, to pray for a great missionary force, again,
that America's not yet done sending her sons and daughters
to bring the Gospel to the nations.
He is coming.
Are you ready?
Since the birth of the church God has raised up cities set on a hill,
flaming torches in a dark world, prayer warriors crying out day and night.
The International House of Prayer began in 1999
with a handful of people and it's grown since then
and so we have about 1,000 full time staff.
There's 84 different departments and so prayer is, like, center,
and so we have, like, the prayer division
and all of the different things that kind of come off that,
the different prayer rooms and the different prayer initiatives.
And the marketing and the global communications and technology.
Bible school, the music school, the media school, the e-school, the internships.
So, yeah, so it's, the prayer's the center but there's a whole lot that goes on.
Jesus is saying, "Guys, we're not gonna put guns in your hand,
you're not gonna take over the world with guns and knives and swords.
You're gonna take over the world by the power of the Holy Spirit.
You're gonna take over the world by preaching words
that slay the hardest of hearts."
We also broadcast out to TV networks
as well as over the internet and we,
we broadcast about a million video hours a month.
It does reach 160, 170 nations on a regular basis.
It's part of the great commission that Jesus says, "Go and disciple the nations" so,
so that would be something which we hold dearly.
The west has been in a decline.
But right now I think Africa is,
it's the fire pot of spiritual renewal and revival. It's very exciting to me.
Okay.
Who wants some?
Me.
You could taste it.
Let us pray, guys.
Father, we ask You to bless this food for us,
With a smile for those without, in Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
All right.
My kids don't know anything on history about Uganda.
It's a sad thing.
We try by all means to make our home more African.
But the only country they know is America.
This one.
This is yours.
We always think about the possibility of going back there.
But I can't go back.
It's no longer safe for me.
So then we'll go over the Uganda team's outreach, can I see it real quick?
So your mission statement is to serve local believers, strengthen a culture of prayer,
and preach the gospel to non-believers.
And so part of that is building the community there,
but then how do you guys see that happening?
What defines success for me, specifically related to orphans
is walking away and seeing the orphans
have a desire and a knowledge of how to pray.
You know, the Lord says "Tell the children to come unto me"
and I wanna actually point them to Jesus.
Cool.
Lord help us with Uganda.
Amen.
We come together to cry out for the nation of Uganda
that we believe that the name "the pearl of Africa" is not just a name,
but it is a prophetic declaration over that nation,
that it is a pearl in Your eyes
in which Your Son gave everything He had
to see this pearl harvested.
Abba we cry out
For Uganda
Abba we cry out
Send Your Spirit
Send Your power
Oh, God
We have a time of rapid-fire prayer for the nation of Uganda,
five to ten second prayers, if you wanna come and line up.
Father, we know that You move at the sound of our voice.
So we ask that you would send forth
the love of Christ in Uganda.
Father in Heaven,
I pray that, Lord, Your love may abound in the body of Christ in Uganda.
That, Father, Your Kingdom would come
in Jesus' Name.
Send revival
To Uganda
Raise up the youth to prophesize
Send revival
To Uganda
Raise up the youth to prophesize
Send revival
To Uganda
Raise up the youth
I remember at six years old I knew that
I wanted to be a missionary.
One of my greatest hopes is to deposit
what I've kind of received at IHOP, that DNA of prayer and worship.
DNA replicates itself and so I think
that everybody wants to replicate their,
you know, their values and um,
the core parts of who they are.
The fastest growing portion of the church globally
is evangelical people that will look at the Bible
and say, "I want to obey the commands of the Bible."
And evangelical believers that hold the Bible
as their source of authority will say,
"Okay, all sex outside of marriage is wrong.
So adultery is wrong, fornication is wrong, acts of homosexuality are wrong.
It's sin."
If you throw God out of the picture then everybody has rights to do anything
and you get moral chaos and that's really
what's going on, I think, in our nation.
During the 2008 Prop 8 campaign
for upholding marriage between a man and a woman,
which I believe is the best for society, and, also, I believe, is the Biblical truth
and Biblical foundation, so I wasn't a part of that,
but I received a phone call from those uh,
from the leaders in California
and they said, "We realize, Lou,
that this is a, that what we're doing
is actually a political dimension,
but what you bring is prayer."
And so I came in and we had a solemn assembly
in San Diego, 33,000 cried out to God.
Help the whole world pray for this
which is going on today in California because what happens in California
will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam.
A spirit of lawlessness and anarchy
and a sexual insanity will be unleashed into the earth.
We beg you, pray for California elections.
Pray that God would break in with yes on 8.
Opponents of California's ballot measure
banning same sex marriages state the reason
the measure passed by a slim margin
was because of conservative churches
from out of state's campaign
to intrude on the lives of gay couples.
There's a hill above Capitol Hill.
There is a government above the governments of men.
I don't believe we should have a theocracy
where the church rules a nation.
I do believe that God has foundational laws
by which He set, He set into the universe
and expects governmental leaders to uphold natural and spiritual law.
So we do believe that God wants the righteous to rule.
The International House of Prayer is part
of this global phenomenon with thousands of churches across the United States.
But this movement also has churches
across the world, mostly in Africa.
Jesus is the way for God's kingdom!
If you are to enter into God's kingdom, accept Jesus.
Don't expect tomorrow.
Tomorrow might be too late for salvation.
coming to Jesus Christ...
It is real life in the word of God.
You're part of God.
Change those who are committing sin.
That is it.
Thank you Jesus for the Gospel.
Thank you, Lord!
First of all I want to thank
the American people
for their unwavering love for the world, especially Africa.
For their giving over the years.
For their donations,
their sacrifices.
American money helped us build this church.
Whatever you see here is the fruit of American labor.
So let's be blessed of the Lord as we give, as we praise
because the almighty is powerful.
Father, in the name of Jesus we give You praise, we glorify Your name,
Thank You Lord, that You do things
and You do incredible stuff today
and now please lord do You bless us.
By the power, by Your grace, and by Your spirit,
in Jesus' holy name.
In order to reap the maximum harvest
out of Africa.
You're free, you're free,
you're free, you're free, you're free!
I'm raising up a million new messengers
for the harvest worldwide, yeah, okay.
A million new messengers, that's more than we prayed for.
Secondly, a billion new souls.
And a trillion dollars to finance it.
That would be the budget.
So I pray for the release of one million new soldiers in the kingdom.
Yeah, praise God.
I mean, they're going to be going into the thick of it to Uganda,
they're all leaving this weekend.
Lord, I ask You to reignite them,
to give them a fresh commissioning of Your Spirit.
Those that are going, bless you in the name of Jesus.
Good to see you, man, good to see you.
Let me help you out here.
This isn't all my stuff.
Sure, man.
Hey, how are you?
Nice to meet you.
It's a hole in the ground.
It's just cement floor, a hole.
And that's it.
And sometimes there's toilet paper.
So you can always carry your own.
Oh, my gosh.
Cameras.
This is the school kitchen.
And so this is sorghum flour mixed with cassava flour.
This is supper, I hope you're ready.
I was 11 years old and I saw Rachelle and I fell in love.
Now, I was, one night I was praying
and I said, "God, if You make me give up everything,
just give me that girl."
Eleven years old.
And we got married when we were 18.
He gave her to me.
And then we had to leave everything and move to Africa.
We came here to develop a house of prayer
and train missionaries.
And the world's that often consider love
to be sexual desires
outside of God's love.
There is sexual immortality, there is all of those things
that is not God's way for love.
There is a battle, even a daily battle,
between my flesh and my spirit.
This is our prayer room.
We're just moving in here.
Today is the first time we're gonna actually
come together and pray here.
Yeah.
Hello?
When I was a teenager I went to Bible school
with the International House of Prayer.
So we're kind of partnering with IHOP in Africa
by training and helping to mobilize.
We're looking for creative ways on this end
but the majority of our funds are coming from the west.
And the majority of our funds are coming from donors and sponsors and...
and lovers of the ministry, then they help us and we move forward.
Yeah.
Okay, mine's not coming off.
God has what I like to call an army of young people.
Only because I like that word, it's an intense word.
But they're not a military army, I wanna make that distinct,
they don't have guns, they have Bibles.
Hey, Dean, I need your help.
- Come on, I need your help. - No!
It's for Jesus, you can't say no.
There's a very strategic position that Uganda is in.
Fifty percent of the population is under 15 years old. This is a youth nation.
What Jesse and I could do is so limited.
But we can multiply ourselves in these young people
and they can reach multitudes, they can reach nations.
Baby Jesus, baby Jesus
I love you, I love you
You are my Savior
Everyday
A lot of people have embraced Christ in this nation
and the gospel has really transformed a lot of people's lives.
Many years ago the United Nations
and World Health Organization declared Uganda
would be wiped out because of AIDS.
We lost villages.
God helped us, he gave us friends
who could stand with us and who could uh, reach in their pockets.
We're here today to urge both houses
of the United States Congress to pass
the emergency plan for AIDS relief
which will dramatically expand our fight against AIDS across this globe.
Earlier this week we heard the president describe
a compassionate vision that would put a priority
on the values of the American people.
Abstinence and marital faithfulness before condom distribution
are the cure for what ails the families of Africa.
It is important that we not just send them money,
but we must send them values that work.
Use a condom.
I use them all the time.
You do?
I do.
You must learn how to say no.
I do not want
to have sex.
And if they are not responding, this is what you must do.
Some of the American foreign aid agency workers,
for them, some of them think that abstinence
is President George Bush's big joke from Texas.
But the message is, I believe you can abstain.
Promoting abstinence before marriage
and fidelity in marriage is the major way of fighting HIV/AIDS.
The principles of Christianity and the values,
they teach us which lifestyles are actually the best
and which ones will keep us healthy and alive and happy.
When people actually bring their lives
into obedience to what He says in His word
suddenly you realize that these types
of infectious diseases, they don't have anywhere to go.
We have to look no further than Uganda
for proof of the effectiveness of abstinence
in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Hello, how are you?
Fine.
Good, good, good.
This is your repeat test for HIV
that you are going to include.
Yes.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
We're gonna be doing ministry together for the next couple months.
Anyways, there's one more person, she's gonna introduce herself,
she's a missionary of Uganda.
Stand up.
I've been coming to Uganda since 2002.
I spend three months at IHOP in 2009
doing an internship, but I've known about the ministry since it started,
I visited when it first moved into the trailer
through friends and so I believe in that ministry.
I believe in the House of Prayer
and my vision to see the House of Prayer in Kampala area.
And um, I'm here.
When I was in the States this lady in my church
asked me if I would be interested in marrying a black man.
And I said, I mean, "I have no problem with it,
it's not a matter of color, it's a matter of the heart.
But I don't know that that's,
there's no desire for me for that,
I'm not in, looking for a husband."
And she said,
"Well, let me go back and pray for a while" and she comes back a couple weeks later
and she says, "God showed me that you're married
to a people group.
You're married to a nation."
The next of our saints, you are the light of the world.
Come on, it is time to come out
as a light of the world and shine to the world and say,
"Hey, I got a new life through Christ.
He's telling me I'm blessed because of me."
And I believe if we walk in the scripture
and apply these principles into our lives
we are going to bring this nation to a place called change.
Which is the power of God, to say no to our flesh,
to say no to that old sin nature and to say yes to God.
And it's a choice, as I said earlier, we have a choice.
And, and we're here because He wants you
to be the leaders of your next generation,
finishing and taking Uganda to that next place.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
Missionaries have come here mostly from the United States
and when they come here there's no control,
there's no like, uh, state controlled agencies
trying to limit you to what you can do,
but instead everybody from the state to the civilian, they will tell you
"Oh, you can't do that, oh, you can't do that."
So it's been such a blessing to see these missionaries
come to Uganda and add on their contributions.
Good morning, everyone.
My name is Scott Lively.
I am a pastor with a degree in theology
and after twenty years of observing homosexuality
I have understood things that few people really have...
The gay movement doesn't care about what you think, right?
They know they're not gonna change your views.
They're focused on the young ones.
Homosexuality does not benefit the society,
it harms the people that engage it.
It harm-, it harms the society that embraces it.
Now that said, so we need public policy
that discourages homosexuality.
Discourages it.
Good evening and welcome to "Spotlight", I am Marlin Ssempa.
My guest today is Mr. Scott Lively.
And I'm glad you've also come with your wife, Sister Lively, good to have you.
I'll be asking Scott what we can do
in light of the fact that homosexual groups
are actively growing through recruitment.
That is, recruiting your child, your daughter,
into a homosexual, even lesbian club.
Scott, what can we do?
It's become like Sodom and Gomorrah.
And my message to you, my message to Uganda,
is don't let that happen here.
As Christians we're to step forward
and to assert ourselves to, to compete for authority in society.
So that as people who are guided by the Holy Spirit
and who have the truth of God that are making the rules, that are setting the policies.
As the scripture says, when the righteous rule, the people rejoice.
Whether it's homosexuality, whether it's murder,
whether it's racial hatred,
whether it's corruption, sin is sin.
Homosexuality is incompatible with the Word of God.
In this country we cherish no other God.
And if you're proclaiming that other God,
you want to stick to it faithfully.
A hundred or so years ago Europe, America, brought us the Gospel.
Now, that Gospel was planted on the soil in the hearts of Africans.
We received it, it has grown, it has born fruit.
The controversial bill proposed death sentence
for homosexuality continues to attract international concern.
Ndorwa West MP David Bahati is a man
whose idea of criminalizing homosexuality in Uganda
has been received with lots of joy by locals,
and an equal measure of scorn by the international community.
Truly we can agree that it is unconscionable
to target gays and lesbians for who they are
whether it's here in the United States or,
as Hillary mentioned, more extremely
in odious laws that are being proposed,
most recently in Uganda.
We have a lot of admiration to president Obama.
He is a man who inspired the whole world,
a man who stood on the platform of change.
But we think homosexuality is not the change the world is looking for.
It's the evil that the world should fight.
When Bush was in, America said no.
When Obama came in, Obama quickly started supporting homosexuality.
There are people in the western world
who don't agree with homosexuals.
Are you working together with... We are working as partners.
This is where politicians and prayer people work together.
Now I want to warn any politician
that if they dare to come and support homosexuality
they're committing political suicide.
The government is the government
and they have a responsibility to do what they wanna do.
Right now is, the law says no homosexuality in this nation.
God, it's an abomination to God.
And I, I will stand in agreement
that they should not open the doors because God doesn't want it.
He wants it stopped.
And Uganda's trying to take a position.
Hallelujah.
God said that iron sharpens iron
and the purpose is to sharpen one another
because as the pressure goes, as the pressure gets on
it's gonna be harder and harder to stand.
God is doing something mighty in this nation
and He's using each one of you to do it
so that you will be strong and not walk in compromise.
Woo, thank you.
Thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus.
I'm here teaching and if they're not gonna learn
what God has given me to teach and they wanna continue in their ways
then I have to let them go and let God deal with them.
Every nation has issues and has sins,
but I believe Uganda's at a crossroads right now.
And I thought wow, we need to bring
Lou Engle and The Call to Uganda.
1999, January, I was crying to God,
"How can I turn America back to You?"
And the Lord spoke to my heart
"Call the youth of America to fast and pray"
with God's promise that He would turn things around
if you would gather together, that became the burning vision in my heart,
that is to launch the movement of The Call.
I believe it is about turning American back to God.
I met Joanna Watson in Kansas City, we talked about what The Call was
and when she began to talk about Uganda
my heart was kind of burning because, because I've heard its history.
I got excited, let's do The Call in Uganda.
And just a couple weeks before I found out
that I was heading into this great bill controversy
and I can't tell you the pressure
that was on me from some folks to say don't go,
and others saying, "Lou, you just need to go."
And I just determined that I was just going to, to keep my word.
We call upon our Parliament
not to waste time,
but to pass the bill and say Uganda, say no
to homosexuality.
We know that Uganda has been under tremendous pressure, the church.
We felt that same pressure.
And I felt like The Call is to come and join with the church of Uganda.
To encourage you
that in the nations you are showing courage
to take a stand for righteousness.
What I found out
is that NGOs,
the UN,
and UNICEF
were coming in and promoting an agenda
that the church of Uganda did not want to be in this nation.
But I believe Uganda has suddenly become ground zero.
Not because they asked for it.
But God brought you to make a statement,
instead, for righteousness.
From the US we pray.
We pray wisdom to the government of Uganda.
Pray courage to stand.
When it comes to the individual,
those struggling in issues of the sin in their life,
whether it's homosexuality or whether it's adultery or pornography,
all of these things the Bible speaks against.
I grew up in a Christian home
addicted, massively, to pornography, I knew it was wrong.
And I had an encounter with Jesus at age 22 that changed my life.
It's not like I didn't struggle with those things
time, through the years.
But I, God changed my desires and my life.
And so I'm not ashamed to say I'm praying
for 100,000 gay and lesbian men and women
to have encounters with Jesus, the love of God,
the transforming power of Jesus.
I'm not ashamed to say that because I believe the Gospel.
Come up and go up to the mountain
He will teach us His ways
The church is supposed to be responsible
for taking in homosexuals or anyone
that would wanna come into a relationship with God.
And I wanna share, God really protected me
when I was young, in my 20s and, and I was involved in acting.
You know, that whole scene is full of homosexuals
and um, I had some male friends and we would go
to the homosexual bars and dancing and da-da-da.
But God, there was a point in time
where God really, I, I really started to be attracted to other women.
I am one from, been healed from sexual brokenness
and it took a long time.
It took a long time.
The anti-homosexuality law, there isn't a national dialogue around it
and it's much more of a western media portrayal of what's going on in parliament.
And, honestly...
And maybe Christian leaders' influence on it
which seemed random, you know.
What do you think?
We don't know all the details of the bill even. We've never read it.
What we've heard is what the western media has said about it.
Do I believe that that's a lifestyle, a Godly lifestyle?
No, I think it's against God's law.
This is heavy.
It's gonna be my first time, like,
open air preaching the Gospel.
It's gonna blow off the smoke.
I bless you, bless you king God of the universe.
Father in the name of Jesus...
Chicken on a stick.
Chicken on a stick!
Sir.
This is lunch, you guys, so if you wanted something.
It's fast food.
Dark meat?
Dark meat.
So what is it, what do you believe about Jesus?
I don't understand about that.
You don't understand it?
Yeah, she does.
So you need to find out.
Uhhuh.
Me, I'm a Muslim, I don't need to find out.
Oh, you're a Muslim, oh, okay.
Mohammad came after Jesus,
Mohammad came later, much later.
Mohammad came 500 years after Jesus.
But then he said Isa is a prophet of Islam.
In the Bible it says if you believe in Jesus you can have eternal life.
If you accept Jesus into your life, you can be saved.
So, have you, have you read the Bible at all?
The Bible?
Can you give me a Bible?
Have you read one?
Do you read the Koran?
Yeah.
And the problem is you don't read the Gospel, you don't read it.
But if you read it you would know Jesus says
in John 14:6, he says "I am the way,
the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father but through Me."
Bro.
You must call upon the name of the Lord
and the Lord is Jesus.
Did he baptize you in the Holy Spirit?
He anointed me.
Do you speak in tongues?
What?
Do you speak in other tongues?
Yeah?
No, I don't, I don't.
The rain is coming.
Oy vey.
What grabs you is a bright yellow banner.
"Hang Them" it reads.
The headline a call to action.
A hit list of what this tabloid calls
"100 of Uganda's Top Homosexuals".
Inside portraits and home addresses of prominent Ugandans.
I'm going to pray.
Let's pray.
Holy.
The son of God.
The King of Heaven.
Who protect us from the journey.
The flame from the airplane.
In the name of Jesus, amen.
Amen.
I just wanna thank God for Starbucks
because it's helping us in Africa
to preach the Gospel.
One Via packet at a time.
Thank you, Jesus.
Lord we love You
Lord we choose
Lord we need You
We have come to share with you the good news.
We came all this way across the ocean
to tell you of His love.
That God loves you so much.
We all need a savior.
Because if we're not living the way we should live
the Bible says that we deserve to die for that.
The reward of sin is death, the Bible says.
But Jesus Christ can make you the kind of person you should be.
So if you die today and have not repented
then you will not be with Him in paradise.
Does this scare you?
So are you believers in Jesus Christ then?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's good, very good.
Very good.
For God so loved the world
that He gave His only Son
that whoever believes in Him shall never perish,
but have eternal life.
Father, I ask you for this woman
as she takes time to think,
God, I ask that you would give her dreams
and visions of Jesus.
We thank you this day for all of heaven is rejoicing
because another sinner has come home.
Today I make Jesus my Lord and Savior.
I forsake all other gods.
And I cling to You...
the one true God
in Jesus Christ.
Fellow Ugandans!
We are here to proclaim Jesus Christ to you!
Are you ready for Jesus?
Yes, I am ready.
Hallelujah.
When you see the abominable things being done in the cities
the Gospel proclaim
woman burning with lust for another woman.
Repent!
For the forgiveness of your sins!
Our Father who art in heaven.
Hallowed be Your Name.
Your Kingdom come.
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from suffering!
In the name of Jesus.
I wrote a letter to Barack Obama last week.
I said, "Barack Obama.
We do not fight sodomites because of who they are, but what they do.
The impertinent acts which they do.
However, in America Barack Obama's administration
supports a campaign of killing babies that are aborted every day
in America and in the rest of the world,
babies who have never done anything,
but just because they're babies they're killed,
they're destroyed, they're pulled out from their mother's womb
and they're choked off, and yet you have the hypocrisy to come to Africa
and tell us not to stop the fight to protect our children from sodomy!
It is hypocrisy and ignorance of the highest order!
They make the argument homosexuals have...
is what people do in the privacy of their bedroom
is nobody's business.
But do you know what they're doing in the bedroom?
I did research and I gathered their information.
Now, they start off by touching each other's genitals
and smelling each other.
Now he puts his hand inside the other person's rectum
As I told you, the hand goes all the way inside.
As if that is not enough
this is a man licking another man's anus.
And this one is eating the poopoo
which is now all over his face.
As Africans we want to ask Barack Obama
to explain to us is this what he wants
to bring to Africa and the human race
to eat the poopoo of other true men?
Homosexuality is prohibited in Uganda.
David Kato who made fighting homophobia his life's work
was bludgeoned to death on Wednesday by an unknown assailant.
His murder has left the community in shock.
Very angry.
Because everybody who knew David, I mean,
he was dynamic, he didn't have any trouble, he was just an activist.
This, to me, is a hate crime, really,
to put it bluntly it is a hate crime.
We have not come here to fight!
We are gathered to let him rest in peace!
We love these guys.
These are graduates and uh, they're, they're men of God.
They came and they did this training.
In the next week these two young men,
they'll be going as missionaries to a remote area.
They're going to places they don't know,
to people they don't know, and uh,
going to share the good news of Jesus Christ.
Father, we thank you for raising up messengers.
You're raising up young evangelists and apostles.
Lord, we ask you to enable them to speak the word of God even in hostile territory.
Father, we ask that You be the light before them as they go,
You'd be the protection around them as they go.
In the name of Jesus, amen.
Amen.
If you found treasure you'd wanna share that with everybody.
It's good news.
I've come here to share with you
the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.