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Fascinate Conference, July 12–15, 2011 at the Kansas City Convention Center
Our annual Fascinate conference for high school students is coming up in three weeks, July 12–15. There is still time to register and we would love for you to join us. Why not bring your youth group out to join us in downtown Kansas City!
Fascinate is geared towards teenagers, but all are welcome.The conference focuses on themes that help us grow in intimacy with God, to live in wholehearted abandonment to Jesus, and to bring His love and power to a broken world, that our lives, our campuses,
and our cities might be transformed.
Worship leaders: Kim Walker-Smith of Jesus Culture, alongside several of our own IHOP–KC worship leaders, including Misty Edwards, Cory Asbury, Matt Gilman, and Jaye Thomas.
Speakers: Mike Bickle, Lou Engle, Allen Hood, David Sliker, Corey Russell, and others.
Registration: Only $45.
Accommodation: We have negotiated special room rates with our partner hotels within walking distance of the convention center.
Find out more: IHOP.org/Fascinate
Coach Bill McCartney at Forerunner Christian Fellowship, Saturday, June 11
Coach Bill McCartney is the founder of Promise Keepers, a Christ-centered organization dedicated to helping men, women, and families hear and obey the Word of God.
He is the former head football coach of the University of Colorado, and also founded The Road to Jerusalem ministry, which has a mission to encourage Gentile believers to love and serve the Messianic Jewish community.
Coach McCartney will speak at our Saturday night Forerunner Christian Fellowship service on June 11 at 6:00pm. Join us live via the free webstream.
Joseph Company Conference
Great change is occurring in the nations. We see the early shakings of the Lord, yet at the same time He is speaking with clarity, pouring out His power and transforming areas of some cities and nations. Today, God is equipping modern-day Josephs, Daniels, and Nehemiahs—forerunners who will help to establish His transforming presence in the marketplace and in every sphere of society.
In the days of Joseph there was a worldwide famine. God raised up Joseph as the second wealthiest man in the earth in his generation and trained him as a skillful businessman. Joseph was trained in the Word and tested in the fire, becoming a man of humility who understood God’s strategies, much like the sons of Issachar, “who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do” (1 Chr. 12:32).
The Holy Spirit is raising up forerunners in the marketplace who are cultivating a life of prayer, intimacy with Jesus, and prophetic insight into God’s strategies. Gone are the days of the marketplace being viewed as secular and devoid of God’s presence or purposes. It is the great mission field for which God is raising up His servants to express the kingdom.
Join us as we discern God’s strategies for this hour in our nation, as we grow in prayer and learn to flow in the prophetic.
IHOP–KC News Video
IHOP-KC News April 2011 Final Exit
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Final Exit April 2011 IHOP-KC News
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Over several weekends in March and April, IHOP–KC took part in a presentation of Final Exit, an extreme reality drama, to preach the gospel in our local community, where 257 people gave their lives to the Lord. In this video, Jono Hall reports on the event, showing short clips from the drama and interviewing Hal Linhardt of IHOP–KC’s evangelism department, and John Neel, executive producer of Final Exit.
A New IHOP–KC Training Program: ACTS, July 2011
Antioch Center for Training and Sending Launches July 10, 2011
The Antioch Center for Training and Sending (ACTS) is a nine-month training program designed to equip and send young, pioneering leaders as cross-cultural intercessory missionaries to plant worship-based prayer furnaces in the hardest and darkest places of the earth. This program is especially designed for singers, musicians, worship leaders, and intercessors who have a heart for missions, worship, and prayer.
Beginning with a three-month module of lecture training at IHOP–KC in Kansas City, participants are trained in missions, prayer, and worship as they grow in the knowledge of God and His Word. The program then continues with a three-month international outreach to regions throughout the 10/40 Window, including the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asia. During the international outreach, participants will work with local leaders to plant worship-based prayer furnaces throughout the region and to train other young adults in a culture of prayer and a life of mission.
The first ACTS program begins July 10, 2011. The application deadline for this program is May 31, 2011, but we encourage you to submit your application as soon as you make a decision to participate in ACTS, as enrollment is very limited due to the nature of the program.
For more information about ACTS or to apply online, visit www.ACTSschool.com.
Final Exit
Can you handle extreme reality? You’ve never been to anything like this. Experience it for yourself, if you dare. Final Exit is a graphic 40-minute, multi-dimensional, 11-scene, extreme reality walk-thru tour with over 100 live actors, high-tech visuals, and special effects that will assault your senses and captivate you.
Experience it now, right by IHOPU, at the junction of S. 71 Highway and Main Street in Grandview.
12905 S. 71 Highway, Grandview, MO 64030
Bring your friends. Open 7:00pm until midnight on the following days:
Thursday, March 24
Friday, March 25
Saturday, March 26
Thursday, March 31
Friday, April 1
Saturday, April 2
Thursday, April 7
Friday, April 8
Saturday, April 9
Thursday, April 14
Friday, April 15
Saturday, April 16
Tickets $10 at the door.
Contact evangelism@ihop.org if are interested in helping in any way. More information about Final Exit at finalexit.com.
I will Build My Ekklesia
“For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.” —Isaiah 56:7
God’s plan has always been for His house to be a house of prayer. His desire is to raise up a house of prayer to contend with the powers of darkness in every place, and with “every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God (2 Cor. 10:5). It will confront every other ‘house.’
Jesus laid out a blueprint of His house in Matthew 16:13-19. The conversation recorded in this passage is the epicenter of divine revelation, divine definition, and divine calling for His people. Jesus asked His disciples, “Who do you say that I am?” (Mt. 16:15) and Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Mt. 16:16). In response, Jesus said, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven,” (Mt. 16:17) and He declared “You are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it” (Mt. 16: 18).
“On this rock I will build My church.” On what rock? On Peter’s revelation that Jesus is the Christ. Peter got it! He connected the dots! He understood that Jesus is the Messiah, the King of kings who will crush oppressors, the kings of the earth, and the powers of darkness (Ps. 2; 72:4; 110: 5–6, Rom. 16:20; Rev. 17:14; 19:19–21).
Yet when Jesus announced His intentions, He meant a very different thing from what our English Bibles say. He did not say He would build His church. Those are not His words. He said, “On this rock I will build My ekklesia.” The Greek word ekklesia and the English word church do not mean the same thing. Ekklesia means “assembly.” “Church? Assembly? What’s the difference?” we might ask. “We all know what we mean.” But do we?
The Bible is inspired, and God’s Word is infallible. Even so, human error can lead to translation mistakes. The mistranslation of ekklesia as “church” is acknowledged by scholars as a critical error, yet it is perpetuated in nearly all modern English translations. We’ve come to accept a substitute word! But God says what He means and means what He says. In this passage, He means ekklesia.
The word church derives from the Greek word kuriakos which means “belonging to the Lord.” In early church history, believers called the place in which they met kuriake oikia, “the Lord’s house.” Ekklesia, however, derives from two words: ek, meaning “out of,” and klesis, meaning “a calling.” It came to refer to an assembly because people were summoned or “called out” to assemble. It is used 115 times in the Greek New Testament. It is translated “church” in all but three verses (Acts 19: 32, 39, 41). An important dimension of our Christian identity has been lost through this translation mistake, diminishing the strength of our role in society.
By the time of Christ, the word ekklesia had been in use for over 600 years. It had specific, well-acknowledged connotations. When early believers heard ekklesia, they didn’t think of a building but of a ruling body. It was a political term, not a religious one. The ekklesia was an assembly of the government in Greek city-states. Open to all male citizens over the age of eighteen, the ekklesia was responsible for declaring war, military strategy, and electing military generals and other officials, including chief magistrates of the city-state. Members voted on decrees, treaties, and law proposals.
This means that when Jesus said He was going to build His ekklesia, He meant He was going to build His governmental center. He was going to establish His ruling body with the revelation that He is the Messiah and the supreme ruler of the earth. The gates of hell would not prevail against the kind of assembly Jesus intended to build. We can be sure, too, that when He said ekklesia, His hearers understood what an ekklesia was.
A change of mindset is needed in the Body of Christ. We are not just going to a building on Sunday. We are joining an assembly, a spiritual body governing our cities, states, and nations, with Christ as our Head. We are not just leading a prayer session in our houses of prayer. We are gathering an assembly around the throne of God, and releasing leadership. We are binding principalities and powers. We are part of an ekklesia.
Understood properly, an ekklesia is a threat to every corrupt government, drug lord, rebellious king, and demonic principality. The ekklesia of Jesus is equipped with weapons. It is not on the defensive, but the offensive. Gates don’t move of themselves. When He says the gates of hell won’t prevail against His ekklesia, He’s identifying His people as an attacking body. We are going after the gates of hell. Whatever we bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever we loose on earth will be loosed in heaven (Mt. 16:19). We’re in battle. We’re at war. Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, and neither are our weapons of warfare “carnal.” They are “mighty in God for pulling down strongholds” (2 Cor. 10:4).
We have been the “church” for too long. It’s time to build His ekklesia!
This article is taken from Lou Engle’s teaching “The Contending House of Prayer” during our onething 2010 conference. To listen to this teaching, visit IHOP.org/onething2010
All Scripture references, unless otherwise stated, are in the New King James Version.
An important message from John Mulinde
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03/01/11 – John Mulinde
John Mulinde of World Trumpet Mission, based in Kampala, Uganda, spoke to the entire IHOP–KC staff on Tuesday, March 1. John spoke of God’s zeal for the holiness of the believer by relating a powerful encounter he had with the Lord. Listen to this message and let it pierce your heart with sobriety and strengthen your determination to live a life worthy of the Lord and please Him in every way (Col. 1:10).
Passion for Jesus Conference April 2011
A conference for those who want to experience more of God’s love and live for Him alone.
It is our destiny to live in intimate relationship with God, knowing the depth and delight of being loved by Jesus, our Bridegroom God and, in turn, loving Him with all our hearts. Yet many of us feel that our experience is far from this. Come receive practical instruction and impartation from the Spirit who empowers the Church to love God wholeheartedly. No matter how weak or strong you feel, regardless of your previous failures, irrespective of your personality, you can be ablaze with passion for Jesus. The Holy Spirit is restoring the first commandment to first place in the Body of Christ.
Come and encounter Jesus through worship, teaching, and ministry. Become the person you were born to be—an extravagant lover of God.
onething 2010 Highlights
Every December, thousands of young adults gather at Kansas City Convention Center for our annual onething conference to exalt Jesus. This year, 30,000 registered for onething 2010, though the east coast storm prevented some people from coming.
Our cry is for an entire generation to be gripped with a spirit of prayer and a longing for Jesus, the man from Nazareth with burning eyes of fire, our Bridegroom, King, and Judge.
Worship Highlights
Worship is always a highlight at onething, and this, our tenth annual conference, was no exception. Misty Edwards, Cory Asbury, Matt Gilman, and host of others led us into the presence of the Lord daily, and Justin Rizzo’s worship team included a choir from our IHOPU Forerunner Music Academy. Ardent love songs ascended to the throne of the Lamb.
Thousands responded to the call of God on their lives, as prophetic preaching was interwoven with practical teaching.
Teaching Highlights 
Mike Bickle expounded on the seven commitments of a forerunner—pray daily, fast weekly, do justly, give extravagantly, live holy, lead diligently, and speak boldly—charging us to live out New Testament Christianity with allegiance to God’s Word, to resist the fear of man, and to live before God’s eyes alone.
David Sliker challenged many to pray daily for an entire year for the destiny of their parents. Corey Russell’s exhortation to reorder our lives to receive the fullness of God’s grace stirred many to commit to living wholeheartedly for the kingdom of God.
On the final night of the conference, Mike Bickle highlighted what he considered to be the two most important messages: Allen Hood’s teaching on God’s view of our physical bodies, and Shelley Hundley’s sharing on how she processed the pain of her childhood and found her identity and emotional wholeness in God.
Our evangelism team reports that 400 people came to the Lord and that 500 people were filled with the Spirit.
Free Conference Archives
We invite you to view the free video archives of each session and to download teaching notes from the conference, both for your personal Bible study and to use for teaching others.
If you were unable to be with us for onething 2010, we invite you to join us for our “Passion for Jesus” conference, April 7–9, 2011.
