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IHOP-KC

Jan
05

onething 09 recap

It’s hard to believe that the KC onething conference is over and another year has passed. Paco and I were walking into Bartle Hall the day before the conference started agreeing together that it had seemed like we were just there only a few months ago.

For those of you who were able to watch the onething conference via the free webcast, I hope you were blessed, encouraged, challenged, and provoked to pursue Jesus and give Him the preeminence in your life in a new way.

There were over 20,000 in attendance at this year’s conference and for many, it was a life-changing 4 days. The Lord in His kindness broke in and set many free from wrong paradigms, self-hatred, a spirit of fear, a religious spirit, depression, suicide, and anxiety, bringing joy and freedom, a greater love for the Word, and a passion for souls. Many experienced physical healing and manifestations of power and of the wine of His presence. The worship from Cory Asbury, Misty Edwards, Matt Gilman, and others was faith-filled and anointed. Our (Justin Rizzo’s team) set on Tuesday morning was great!

All of the conference teachings were knit together in a common theme, centered around the supremacy of Christ, His purposes, His desire, and His heart to heal and deliver. Wes Martin spoke on the centrality of prayer and the identity of the church as a praying people before Jesus returns. Corey Russell spoke on the passion and desire of Jesus towards us from His prayer in John 14-17, and how the knowledge of His love will stabilize our hearts in the midst of a shaking world. Misty Edwards examined the ultimate purpose of our life and powerfully explained that it must be centered around the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Dec
22

onething Kansas City '09

December always turns out to be a busy month for us at IHOP because we host our annual onething conference on December 28-31. This year, we’re expecting perhaps close to 20,000 young adults to gather in downtown KC’s Bartle Hall for 4 days of worship, prayer, teaching, and ministry. As usual, I’ll be playing keyboard for several sessions – as of right now, once on the main stage, and 3 times in the prayer room (which moves from our south KC location to the downtown area for the 4 days).

The theme for this year’s onething conference is “what is the Holy Spirit saying to the church?” The emphasis of the teaching will be centered on the deception that is creeping into the church regarding holiness, God’s grace, and the person of Jesus. Mike Bickle and several of the other key IHOP leaders and teachers will be sharing at the sessions. Check out this letter from Lou Engle and Mike Bickle for more information on the conference.

Dec
18

CBN News reports on the IHOPU Student Awakening

CBN News has recorded this news segment on the IHOPU Student Awakening that provides a great summary of what the Lord has been doing in our midst.

Also, be sure to read this older article from Charisma magazine.

Dec
15

The IHOPU Student Awakening: Manifestations, part 3

If you haven’t read the first two posts in this series, be sure to read them here and here.

In the first two posts of this short series, I’ve taken the time to show Biblically that when a human encounters the presence of God, there’s often times a dramatic effect on their body. For many in the church in the West today, seeing this can sometimes be very distracting or can cause confusion or offense - simply because we are used to our existing church culture. But hopefully I’ve given some encouragement thus far to understand the Lord’s heart for all of us in the midst of moves of God like this is to become more and more humble as Christ was.

Manifestations and bizarre things have been a common occurrence of past revivals. Charles Finney, Charles Spurgeon, and Jonathan Edwards experienced much of the same things that we see today, and revival historians have documented it well. I may take a post later on and talk about this a little bit, but I want to take this post in the series to answer several of the common questions I’ve received about this topic.

Dec
14

The IHOPU Student Awakening: Manifestations, part 2

As the IHOPU Student Awakening continues here in Kansas City, the Holy Spirit continues to move by healing bodies and hearts. His presence has come and filled so many with peace and joy in a fresh way. So many friends that I have spoken to personally have been changed from the inside out and filled with a new measure of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is truly preparing His bride to meet Him through this time of refreshing!

With this increased measure of the Holy Spirit’s activity however has come a new level of “manifestations”, or human bodies reacting to the nearness of a holy God. For some attending and watching via webcast unfamiliar with such manifestations, this has created confusion, offense, or distraction, so I wanted to write a series of posts to bring biblical clarity to what is happening so that our perspectives can be aligned with the Lord’s in this move of the Spirit.

In the last post in this series, I gave a little bit of background and some scriptural evidence for corporate “manifestations” of the Holy Spirit. If you have not read it, be sure to check it out here. It will make this post make much more sense!

Dec
10

The IHOPU Student Awakening: Manifestations, part 1

I've received several questions and emails about this topic, so rather than answering them all individually I want to take a few posts and give you some of my thoughts on physical manifestations of the Holy Spirit. Are they from God or are they demonic? Are they carnal and fleshly? Are they biblical? And if so, what is their purpose? Often times we look for easy answers to difficult questions like these, and I’m not so sure that the answer is as cut and dry as we’d like – mostly because God the Holy Spirit is a Person with a personality as opposed to a coin-operated vending machine that dispenses Himself in a predictable measure every time.

To give you some personal background, I grew up in a church where the gifts of the Holy Spirit were welcomed and honored, but I don’t remember any physical manifestations of the Spirit on a person’s body that ever took place in the way that many would refer to them today. When I say “manifestations”, I refer to things like joyful dancing, falling over or being unable to stand under God’s power, being filled with God’s overwhelming joy and laughing, or shaking uncontrollably because of the Holy Spirit’s presence on a human body.

If you’ve attended or watched any of the IHOPU Student Awakening meetings at all by webcast, you’ve probably noticed an increase in the physical manifestations of the Holy Spirit on peoples’ bodies compared to what we normally see around here. When the awakening meetings first began back on November 11th, I was a little shocked as to who and how many people were moving their bodies in bizarre ways. Shaking, laughing, and falling down would sometimes occur in ministry lines at our weekend services, but never in a room corporately with so many people for such an extended period. It was obvious that something unique and different was happening in our midst, and it was clear to me that there would be new dynamics that we would all have to navigate in our hearts as a result.

Dec
07

The IHOPU Student Awakening: God's greater purpose

I've been posting the past several weeks on what the Lord has been doing here in Kansas City at IHOPU, our base’s ministry school. The Holy Spirit has been coming with power to heal people physically, emotionally, and deliver people of wrong mindsets about God. There have been several amazing testimonies the past week – be sure to watch this one from Neil, and watch this chorus that has taken off. They are awesome!!

Acts 2 tells us that a few thousand years ago an "awakening meeting" took place in an upper room in Jerusalem. 120 had gathered, and it was about 9am. Suddenly the Holy Spirit began to visit them with power. A strange noise poured out of the upper room windows and drew a crowd. Many of them were acting eccentrically, and the crowd that gathered from the noise supposed they were drunk. They all were speaking in all sorts of different languages, bringing praise and glory to God. People were mocking what was going on, some of them offended and many of them confused. But the Holy Spirit had a greater purpose in releasing power. Out of their meeting came a simple and profound sermon from Peter that brought a line of division among the people in Jerusalem – those who believed the truth about Jesus and those that didn't.

I believe the Lord is highlighting the same principles seen in Acts 2 in the IHOPU Student Awakening meetings today. The infilling of God's joy, the freedom from shame, oppression, and self-hatred, and the healing of our bodies are all unto a greater purpose – that the people of the earth would boldly hear the message of the gospel of the Kingdom (Matthew 24:14; Psalm 2:10-12). But in order to preach that message with boldness like Peter did, we must be filled with the Holy Spirit in a new way. If we are not confident in who He is, what He's like, and what He wants to do, we won't be able to point others to the same great hope. He is setting us free so He can use us to set others free.

Nov
24

Technology and the IHOPU Student Awakening

Though I’m an intercessory missionary in my day-to-day occupation, my university degree is in computer science, making me still a bit of a technology nut. So when Jesus and technology are combined in really cool ways, my heart really begins to fall off its rocker.

Wes Hall, IHOPU’s provost and one of the main leaders of these awakening meetings, mentioned last week that there were over 10,000 viewers in 163 nations watching the meetings by webcast. The latest statistics from our webcasting department show that there has been between 6,000 and 10,000 unique viewers each night for the awakening services, which is about fifteen times the normal amount of viewers usually watching IHOP’s weekend services (which typically sees between 400 and 700 simultaneous viewers). The average view time has been over an hour and at the peak evening so far the servers have transferred about 1500 GB per evening. Wow.

It’s absolutely amazing to see how the Lord is using technology to connect people with Jesus as He touches their hearts, heals their bodies, and provokes them to a deeper level of commitment to the First Commandment. I personally know people across the US and across several nations (including Egypt, Canada, and the UK) that have been tuning in and receiving from the Lord. We’ve received testimonies from so many nations of lives being touched – simply because we turned on a video camera, connected it to a computer, and published a website. Praise God that the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Trinity, is omnipotent, omnipresent, and is certainly not confined to a small 2,000 seat building in south Kansas City!

Nov
19

Letter from Mike Bickle and Lou Engle - onething09 and the move of the Holy Spirit

I am sure this will be all over the internet and facebook, but I wanted to post it here for my blog readers too. Mike Bickle and Lou Engle have cowritten a letter to the body of Christ in America inviting us to onething 09 at the end of this year. In addition, the IHOPU Student Awakening meetings from 6pm-midnight each night at the FSM building will continue until onething at the end of December.

Will you be attending onething 09 in Kansas City this year? Be sure to vote on my poll. Props to those who also leave a comment and let me know where you are from!

Nov
17

The IHOPU Student Awakening: Receiving from the Lord

There’s been so many testimonies of people receiving emotional or physical healing from the Lord as a result of the extended meetings at IHOP’s FSM building that we are now calling the “International House of Prayer University Student Awakening” (see my previous post). If you haven’t been tuning in, you can watch some of them directly on IHOP’s website at http://www.ihop.org/watch through the player by clicking on “testimonies”. Live broadcasts will continue to be through this Saturday from 6p-midnight Central time.

As I said in my last post on this topic, the Holy Spirit has three general purposes when He releases His heightened activity – power for salvation and healing, wisdom, and humility. The main one I’m absolutely sure He is establishing in every single one of us, even external participants and observers to the meetings, is humility.

Here’s an illustration I am sure you can relate to. You know the story – there’s that guy – the one weeping uncontrollably across the aisle, and then that girl, the one jumping and filled with the joy of the Lord in row three. And there’s you, sitting there at the meeting or even in front of your computer screen watching the webcast, not feeling a thing. Everything within you says “why God?” And you believe a lie in that instant – “I must not be receiving from God. He must not want to touch me. What’s wrong with me?

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