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The International House of Prayer of Kansas City is a missions organization located in south Kansas City, Missouri, USA. IHOP at its core is deeply committed to prayer, fasting, living the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7), and seeing Jesus exalted and proclaimed to all nations with power as God’s way to establish justice in the earth (Luke 18:1-8). IHOP’s community of believers is committed to God, each other, and to establishing a 24/7 house of prayer in Kansas City – a perpetual solemn assembly where believers gather corporately to fast and pray.
IHOP–KC’s core foundation is to do outreach from prayer instead of outreach without prayer. The primary mandate of IHOP is to “keep a 24/7 sanctuary of worship and prayer” (Ezek. 44:15), not to be a traditional missions organization. IHOP is focused on intercession that is led by worship flowing from intimacy (the Father’s heart and the understanding of Jesus as a bridegroom), with faith for the release of God’s power, in the context of the truth of the coming day of the Lord (like John the Baptist as a "forerunner"), motivated by compassion that turns our hearts to the children (Mal. 4:6), and coming from those who embrace the fasted lifestyle, who seek to walk in 100-fold obedience.
The prayer room, staffed by full and part-time intercessory missionaries and open to anyone, is the heart of the IHOP Missions Base and is biblically inspired by Jesus’ words in Luke 18:1-8, the persistence and dedication of Anna (Luke 2:36-38) and the worship ministry of King David (1 Chronicles 23:1-25:31). All of IHOP’s ministries would not function without the 24/7 prayer room. On May 7, 1999, the prayer room began operating for 13 hours a day. On September 19, 1999, non-stop 24/7 worship with intercession began and has ascended to the throne of God without ceasing since then. The prayer room is a place of encounter, transformation, revelation, and equipping for the work of the proclamation of the gospel of the kingdom in all the nations (Matthew 24:14) as well as a “rallying point” for believers in the city to gather to intercede for the Great Harvest and plead for mercy in times of crisis. Structured in 84 two-hour prayer meetings each week, each worship team at IHOP plays for two hours at a time, praying the prayers of the New Testament apostles and singing the Scriptures.
The prayer room fuels all of the other departments on the Missions Base, including:
National and regional conferences to equip the saints for the work of ministry
IHOP is staffed by about 500 full-time intercessory missionaries, who all raise their own financial support and have all committed to living a lifestyle of simplicity in order to extravagantly give themselves to Jesus and to the church.
Is this a new idea?
No, not at all. In fact, perpetual solemn assemblies have played a key role in the formation of church history throughout the centuries.
A brief history:
Bangor, Ireland. In AD 555, a Celtic monk named Comgall and colleague Columbanus gathered 3,000 monks to a place called Bangor (the High Choir). They began a prayer meeting, which continued with singing for twenty-four hours a day for 300 years resulting in the first Celtic missions movement in history.
Clairvaux, France. In AD 1120, a Catholic monk named Bernard gathered 700 monks to a valley called Clairvaux (the valley of light). They began a prayer meeting that continued twenty-four hours a day for many years resulting in a dynamic release of evangelism through signs and wonders across all of Europe.
Herrnhut, Germany. In 1727, a young German nobleman named Nicholas Ludwig Count von Zinzendorf (1700–1760) gathered persecuted Christians to his large estate in Germany. This large estate, Zinzendorf called Herrnhut, which means “the Watch of the Lord”. These Christians, known as the Moravians, began a prayer meeting that continued twenty-four hours a day for 120 years and resulted in the first Protestant mission movement.
Herrnhut also provides IHOP with inspiration to continue praying, because the Lord has been making profoundly deep connections at IHOP with major missions organizations – including YWAM and Campus Crusade for Christ. It is clear that the missions movement and the prayer movement are inextricably entwined, and that the witness of the gospel of the kingdom and the Great Commission cannot be advanced without the work of day and night prayer.
IHOP–KC’s core foundation is to do outreach from prayer instead of outreach without prayer. The primary mandate of IHOP is to “keep a 24/7 sanctuary of worship and prayer” (Ezek. 44:15), not to be a traditional missions organization. IHOP is focused on intercession that is led by worship flowing from intimacy (the Father’s heart and the understanding of Jesus as a bridegroom), with faith for the release of God’s power, in the context of the truth of the coming day of the Lord (like John the Baptist as a "forerunner"), motivated by compassion that turns our hearts to the children (Mal. 4:6), and coming from those who embrace the fasted lifestyle, who seek to walk in 100-fold obedience.
