Posts in the month of: Aug, 2010
Prayer and Prophetic Conference: October 14–16, 2010
And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams. (Acts 2:17)
IHOP–KC will be hosting the annual Prayer and Prophetic conference, October 14–16, to prepare the saints to walk in the promises of Acts 2. We are called to be a people of prayer who operate in the power of the Holy Spirit. At this conference, you will receive practical training in prophetic ministry on topics such as discerning the Lord’s voice, cultivating the Spirit’s power, and receiving prophetic revelation. Come be further empowered to move in the prophetic anointing from a lifestyle of prayer.
Early registration runs until September 24, and is $40. Registration after this date is $50. Registration for children’s tracks (ages 1–12) taught by our Children’s Equipping Center (CEC) team is $35 per child. To find out more about CEC, click here.
We provide simultaneous translation into Mandarin, Korean, Spanish, Arabic, and Russian for a fee of $25.
We have arranged special room rates at our local partner hotels. Book here.
Registration Options
Webstream Improvements
Dear Webstream Viewers and Donors,
Thank you so much for your continued support and participation with IHOP–KC through our live webstream from the prayer room, the IHOPU student awakening, our conferences, and our Sunday services. We regularly receive testimonies from houses of prayer and individuals throughout the globe, who are being encouraged and blessed through the webstream. We are encouraged by these testimonies; so if you have a story, please let us know.
Our media team is continually working to make your online experience from IHOP–KC better, (we also listen to your input!), and we would like to share with you our current webstream improvement plans.
In the coming months, we will be working on five major projects to improve your ability to join us here in Kansas City over the Internet:
1. Adaptive Bitrate Streaming – This technical term means that you will be able to receive the webstream at the best quality and speed that your internet connection can handle; less pausing, less buffering and a better overall experience. This improvement will also include the ability to rewind the live video stream.
2. Better Quality Audio Streaming – As many people listen to the prayer room audio stream only, either on their PC or a mobile device, we are working to provide better quality audio that will reach all devices.
3. Prayer Room Webstream on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch – We are currently developing an IHOP–KC app, which will be available from Apple’s iTunes App Store. Amongst other features, this app will enable you to view the webstream on your mobile device.
4. Faster, More Reliable Streaming for More People, around the Globe – We are aware that people in nations with lower bandwidth connections often find it difficult to access our online videos. One of the key solutions we are using to improve this situation is a partnership with Akamai, the largest Internet content distribution company in the world. Akamai have 65,000 servers in over 70 countries. This means that wherever you are in the world, you should be able to receive faster and more reliable streaming from IHOP–KC.
5. Downloads – As part of the improvements, we will be including the ability for you to download video and audio files and save them to your computer or machine, so that you can view them at any time you want, even when you are not connected to the Internet.
We will be testing different video players over the next several weeks as we begin to implement these improvements. Thank you for your patience with us during this stage of development.
We greatly value your prayer and financial support in this process. If you have questions or feedback, please contact ihopwebstream@gmail.com. If you would like to help keep the prayer room webstream free, please consider becoming a Webstream Partner.
Every blessing,
Jono Hall
IHOP–KC Media Director
IHOPU Awakening Meetings in the UK
Mike Bickle, Wes Hall Awakening UK
Title
Awakening UK 2010 Invite
Description
For ten days at the end of October and the beginning of November, Wes Hall, Cory Asbury, Laura Hackett, and a team of musicians, singers, and students from the International House of Prayer of Kansas City will be in the UK to encourage the Body of Christ there.
If you are in the UK, see below for locations and dates. We’d love to see you there.
Glasgow October 29–30
October 29, 7:30pm
October 30, 10:30am, 2:30pm, 7:30pm
Location: Hamilton College, Bothwell Rd, Hamilton, Lanarkshire ML30AY
Email: info@ghop.org.uk
Phone: 07866 008331
Website: www.ghop.org.uk
Manchester November 1–3
November 1-3, evening meetings at 7:00pm
Location: Maxwell Hall, Maxwell Building, Salford University, The Crescent, Salford M5 4WT (TBC)
November 2-3, conference sessions, 9:30am-4:00pm
Location: St. Peter’s Church, Halliwell, Church Road, Bolton BL1 5RR
Contact: Martyn and Linda Smith
Email: vinelifeuk@gmail.com
Phone: 07974 375931
Website: vinelifeuk.org
Shaftesbury (Southwest England) November 5–7
November 5-7, evening meetings at 7:30pm
November 6, 10:30am, 7:30pm
Location: Shaftesbury Christian Centre, Christy’s Lane, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 8PH
Contact: Simon Baddeley and Dawn Merry
Email: events@shaftesburychristiancentre.co.uk
Phone: 01747 854993
Website: shaftesburychristiancentre.co.uk/ihop/
London November 6-7
November 6-7, evening meetings at 6:00pm
November 6 (with IHOPU students); November 7 (with Wes Hall, Cory Asbury, and team)
Location: London City Temple, Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2DE
Contact: Elcio Lodos or Steve Mallison-Jones
Email: steve@indigored.co.uk
Phone: 0208 965 0070 or 07940 426497
Website: ihoplondon.org
IHOPU Fall Semester Now in Session
We are pleased to announce that the fall 2010 semester has officially begun at International House of Prayer University (IHOPU) with 1,400 full-time students and interns in attendance this academic year. Doors opened for classes at the new campus with anticipation of a new year to equip young adults in the Word, prayer, and the power of the Spirit for the bold proclamation of the Lord Jesus and His return. Even as IHOPU pours into the students and interns, these dedicated young disciples, both new and returning, will stir up our zeal to lay hold of the promises of God in the place of prayer and worship. We are excited to begin the process of witnessing the powerful work of the Lord in the lives of the students, interns, and IHOP–KC community members as He leads us forward in this new academic season.
Healing by Confession
I am discovering a powerful secret to living with a free, healthy heart: the confession of sin to another trustworthy believer. “Telling on myself” is not easy. It’s humbling. It crushes the hard shell of pride that I like to hide behind. But I am learning that through confession, God gives a healing balm for the soul by pouring His love and light into its chamber of dark secrets.
It’s different than confessing sin to God. When we confess our sins to God and turn from those sins, 1 John 1:9 promises that we are forgiven. God removes the death punishment we deserved when we confess our sins to Him. But we all know it’s possible to be forgiven yet continue to struggle intensely against going back to the same sin. James 5:16 shows profound insight into how the soul is actually healed: “Confess your sins to one another . . . that you may be healed.” How do we walk out the forgiveness that Christ gives us so that we are made whole in a functional way? We need to confess our sins to another trusted believer.
Perhaps the biggest hindrance to confessing our sins to one another is shame. Shame is like a dreadful grip around the neck that paralyzes us from reaching out to take hold of the healing that could be ours. Poisoned imaginations usually accompany shame. What will they think of me? Will I be rejected or held at a distance? Will they ever trust me again? Such thoughts keep us stuck in a prison of dark secrecy that feeds the urge for fast relief . . . so we sin more.
Confession to a brother or sister breaks the reproductive power of the secrecy of our sins. Secrecy fuels the fires of temptation and of sinful acts. As long as no one knows, we are empowered to continue. Confession to a brother is like pouring water—life-giving water—on that hellish fire.
I’ve lived in such enflamed prisons of the soul. But the healing I’ve experienced as I’ve faced shame and walked out into the light is worth it—very worth it!
In Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer says this:
Why is it that it is often easier to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy and sinless. He is a just judge of evil and the enemy of all disobedience. But a brother is sinful as we are . . . We must ask ourselves if we have not often been deceiving ourselves . . . confessing our sins to ourselves and also granting ourselves absolution? Self-forgiveness can never lead to a breach with sin; this can be accomplished only by the judging and pardoning Word of God itself . . . [Confession of sin to] our brother breaks the circle of self-deception. A man who confesses his sins in the presence of a brother knows he is no longer alone with himself; he experiences the presence of God in the reality of the other person . . . Since the sin must come to light some time, it is better that it happens today between me and my brother, rather than on the last day in the piercing light of the final judgment. It is a mercy that we can confess our sins to a brother. Such grace spares us the terrors of the last judgment (p. 115–16).
When I bring my sin into the light, I begin to see the cross of Christ as essential to my life. No man can have complete, heart-felt gratitude for the cross unless he sees the depths of the wickedness of his own heart. Thus, “anyone who has once been horrified by the dreadfulness of his own sin that nailed Jesus to the cross will no longer be horrified by even the rankest sins of a brother. Looking at the cross of Jesus, he knows the human heart” (Life Together, p. 118).
Bonhoeffer calls this posture of heart “living beneath the cross”:
Only the brother under the cross can hear confession. It is not experience of life but experience of the cross that makes one a worthy hearer of confessions. The most experienced psychologist or observer of human nature knows infinitely less of the human heart than the simplest Christian who lives beneath the cross of Christ . . . It is not lack of psychological knowledge but lack of love for the crucified Jesus Christ that makes us so poor and inefficient in brotherly confession (p. 118–19).
When we confess our sins to a brother or sister who lives under the cross, we experience part of what it means to be a priesthood of believers. We pronounce forgiveness to each other, proclaim that our sins are sent into the cross, and we glory in the sufficiency of Christ’s atonement. Here we touch the joy of true friendship with others and with God (1 Jn. 1:7)
Oh, the joy of friendship when our only boast is Christ crucified! In the age to come, we will look upon each other with such smiling, open hearts. We will all know we have nothing to boast in except the cross, and the sweet aroma of grateful love will be the fragrance that fills the company of the saints. Forever.
Why not start living like this now?
Acoustic Rhythms – Isaac Meyer (Reviewed)
Acoustic Rhythms is Isaac Meyer’s latest instrumental CD, featuring intricate guitar parts, fretless and upright bass, original rhythms, and stirring piano. Isaac works layers of melody and harmony together to create a truly unique sound. Defying category, Acoustic Rhythms breaks new ground with its honest composition and equally honest production. It is sure to be a constant source of inspiration during times of relaxation, prayer, meditation on the Word, or work.
I have been listening to this CD for two weeks straight. As a writer, this is the type of music I look for and love listening to while I work. Anyone who appreciates meditative, accomplished, or thoughtful musicianship will love Acoustic Rhythms.
