8:30am – Forerunner Christian Fellowship (FCF) Service
10:30am – Forerunner Christian Fellowship (FCF) Service
6:00pm – Forerunner Christian Fellowship (FCF) Service
I have been gripped with the reality of the coming kingdom lately. This life will soon be over and the choices I make today will greatly affect my life beyond these few minutes we are here on this side of eternity. If I waste a day I will never get that day back. If an hour goes by I didn’t use in an intentional way it is gone forever and nothing I can do can change that. I remind myself daily to be vigilant in how I use my time, being wise, redeeming the time as the scripture says “see then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil” (Ephesians 5:15). Yet I know that even when I rest, that rest is not wasteful but purposeful as it refuels my body for other pursuits.
This life will come to an end very soon. In a matter of moments it will all be over for each one of us and though it seemed like it lasted forever, a lifetime comes and goes as a vapor. There is a time to be born and a time to die, and that death will be here to bring closure to a life. There will be no reruns, no do-overs and no chances to do things better a second time. Very soon we will either bite the dust or see our King returning in the sky and at that point we will receive our rewards and face our regrets.
Live without regret, redeem the time now before its too late.
Christmas has passed, our annual Onething conference is over and 2009 has finally come to an end. It’s hard to believe but the new year has started whether I was ready for it or not. Life on the missions base here in Kansas City is getting back to semi-normal; that is if we can get through all of this snow and negative degree temperatures that have been plaguing this city for the past few weeks.
Our awakening services have began again and we are continuing to see God move on the hearts of people. I love this stuff. I love hearing the testimonies of people who were bound by addictions, wrong mindsets and so many other things testifying of the power of God on their lives in setting them free.
Even at our Onething conference, which drew over 20,000 people this year, we saw so many set free from wrong mindsets, self-hatred, a spirit of fear, religious spirits, depression, suicide, and anxiety bringing joy and freedom, a greater love for the Word, and a passion for Jesus and souls. In addition, in the last 2 months or so we have had more than 900 salvations and baptisms.
God is on the move. He is up to something. We have also seen the convergence and greater partnership between Toronto Vineyard, Bethel Church, YWAM, Urbana and the Call2All with IHOP-KC in the last 2 months. My soul is stirred with a greater passion for the Word, a desire to intercede for others to make wrong things right and give myself to doing His works of justice for those who are oppressed.
I know many of you joined with us at the Onething conference online as we had more than 25,000 viewers over the web. I want to encourage you to continue to join us for the awakening services every Wed – Sat at ihop.org or on GodTV. But more so, that you would press deeper into the Word and intercession for others; that you would carve out more time in each day to pray, to be in the Word and to give yourself to works of justice.
“Therefore… I beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.” (Ephesians 4:1)
This is Davy’s testimony about how God gave her boldness to share the gospel with her father. It’s very powerful. View more video testimonies and the IHOPU Student Awakening services Wednesday – Saturday from 6pm – Midnight at www.ihop.org/watch.
This song / chorus is in my top 5 choruses coming out of IHOP-KC at the moment. As far as I know it was written by Laura Hackett, but if I get new information I’ll update this. The lyrics for this song / chorus are:
No one else can love You like I love You Lord
For I was made unique in Your heart
I was made to bring You joy
Now I have a purpose
Now I have a destiny
You made me for Your glory
You made me for Your glory
Zach had an incredible encounter with the love of Christ I wanted to share with you. This really powerful and I think it will hit home with a lot of people who feel trapped and feel like they can’t experience the love of God. View more video testimonies and the IHOPU Student Awakening services each night from 6pm – Midnight at www.ihop.org/watch.
Thousands of Christians from across the U.S. have been flocking to Kansas City, Mo., where a Bible college class at the International House of Prayer (IHOP) has sparked nightly revival services.
More than 1,600 people have been packing into IHOP’s ministry school auditorium to pray, worship and experience what many are describing as spiritual renewal.
At services held last weekend, participants shared testimonies of healing from chronic back pain and migraines, deliverance from shame and self-hatred, and experiencing God’s love for the first time. Similar testimonies have been sent from around the world, where the services are being viewed via live Web stream.
Wesley Hall, provost of IHOP’s Bible school, said several people have been saved and 80 people baptized since Nov. 11, when students in his 9 a.m. class started breaking into small groups and praying for one another.
“Some were lying on the floor, others were weeping, and some were laughing,” said Hall, who led the class with Allen Hood, president of the ministry school. “So I asked the Lord for a release of Pentecost, and it just snowballed. Other teachers brought their classes in, and the Holy Spirit moved for 15 hours, with reports of physical healings and deliverance.”
Almost 2,000 people from the Kansas City area heard about the “awakening” and came to the campus to participate. Since then the meetings, held nightly from 6 p.m. until midnight, have been drawing capacity crowds to the ministry school’s sanctuary.
College students are also gathering across the country to watch the services online. Testimonies have poured in from such schools as Georgia Tech, Wheaton College, Asbury College and the University of California-Berkeley, where students reportedly are experiencing great joy, deep peace, and emotional and physical healing.
“We will continue these nightly meetings as the Holy Spirit leads us,” IHOP founder Mike Bickle co-wrote in a letter with prayer leader Lou Engle, founder of TheCall, which has offices in Kansas City. “We earnestly pray that this awakening will continue, as our nation is in desperate need of another great awakening in this hour.”
Hall said the younger generation is very broken and looking for authenticity. “It’s the students who used to make fun of the manifestations who are now being hit with the power of God,” he said. “Those students don’t want to fake anything or create a culture. Rather, they want to experience God.”
And while Hall said he is grateful for the renewal, he and Hood are praying for more. He said most of the people being touched by the meetings are Christians.
“We want to see the lost saved and the culture changed,” Hall said. “We want this to grow and expand. We want an anointing where no known disease would stand against the people of God. We want to see this on the body of Christ worldwide, the third Great Awakening.”
Bickle said IHOP is not the next place of revival, but “one of many places that the Lord is visiting in our nation.”
“We believe that many other places are soon to receive a visitation of the Holy Spirit,” he told Charisma.
Bickle says the meetings will continue in the run up to IHOP’s One Thing conference Dec. 28-31 in Kansas City. Leaders expect some 20,000 students to attend, and seek to mobilize them to evangelize their cities and campuses in partnership with area houses of prayer.
Bickle and Engle said the conference would also address “a new wave of confusion that is systematically seducing many young adults into deception.”
“Sincere young people whose hearts were once ablaze for Jesus are being lured into compromise on foundational biblical truths and practices, while at the same time they are increasing in works of compassion and justice,” the ministers said.
They believe the renewal meetings are a sign that the Holy Spirit will release His power at the conference.
“We must confront the confusion that is pouring forth from many pulpits as well as from the halls of Washington,” they wrote. “It is time to draw a line in the sand. We must hear what the Spirit is saying, and we must act on it. The Spirit will confirm the truth with demonstrations of power.”
We are now having baptisms every other night because of the salvations and people being set free from all types of addictions and oppression. Here is part 1 of the baptisms, enjoy! View more video testimonies, baptisms and the IHOPU Student Awakening services each night from 6pm – Midnight at www.ihop.org/watch.
Amanda was one of the many here that have been healed of asthma. Praise the Lamb! View more video testimonies and the IHOPU Student Awakening services each night from 6pm – Midnight at www.ihop.org/watch.
Wes Hall is the head of our bible school, the International House of Prayer University (IHOPU), and in this video he explains how the current awakening that is happening among IHOPU students, the IHOP-KC family and others started. View more video testimonies and the IHOPU Student Awakening services each night from 6pm – Midnight at www.ihop.org/watch.
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