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IHOP-KC News Video

Watch our latest news video to see what’s been happening recently.

As one of our ministries, Hope City is active in the heart of downtown Kansas City, serving the community through food distribution, acts of kindness, and prayer ministry. Hope City prayer room is now open and on the way to becoming 24/7.

The new International House of Prayer University (IHOPU) campus officially opened for classes this August. New and returning students are enjoying state-of-the-art facilities as they study the Word to become messengers of the gospel in music, media, and preaching.

Join Jono Hall as he shares the story of how he became a media messenger. Media impacts culture and is molding this generation. Therefore, we need skilled, godly messengers of the gospel to learn how to make a positive impact in this sphere. Through our Forerunner Media Institute at IHOPU, you can be trained as a messenger in the media world.

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

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.

Impacting Your Generation

God has placed within each of us a desire to make an impact in life. Many people try to fulfill this desire by pursuing the fading dreams of the world. But there are those who are willing to risk everything for Jesus. God wants to use you to impact those around you. All He needs is a willing heart.

You can have a lasting and positive influence on others simply by encouraging them. Encouragement gives others courage to stay steady in their pursuit of God and to lead lives of holiness and consecration. Another way to be a person of impact is to pray. Whether you offer thirty-second prayers throughout the day or hold regular prayer meetings, prayer is powerful. You can also use the gift of prophecy to speak into the lives of others. God promised that He would pour out His Spirit in the last days (Acts 2:17). This is a promise for you to walk in today.

From July 22–24, hundreds of high school students are coming to Kansas City for IHOP–KC’s Fascinate II conference to touch the heart of God and to learn how to make a lasting impact on their friends and families. Fascinate is an annual high school conference for young people who long to live radical lives of abandonment to Jesus.

Join us by live webstream for Fascinate II here.

To find out more about other IHOP–KC events, visit us at IHOP.org/events.

IHOP-KC Staff Interview – Brian Kim

We recently interviewed Brian Kim, a senior leader at IHOP–KC and director of Luke18 Project, a missions movement that exists to train 10,000 young leaders to plant communities of prayer and fasting in the hardest and darkest places of the world. In this interview, Brian comments on the urgency of the hour and the necessity for revival in America.

Nate: We have heard much about the merging of the missions and prayer movements. As a representative of both, how do you think the convergence of the two will impact this generation?

Brian: We are living in one of the most unique times of human history. Missiologists tell us that we are within reach of fulfilling Matthew 24:14 in this generation, which promises that the gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed to every people group. In tandem with this growing missions movement, we are seeing a burgeoning prayer movement explode across the nations of the earth. The Lord is bringing together both the missions movement and the prayer movement—which I believe from heaven’s perspective are, and always have been, one movement—in a glorious convergence to finish the task of world evangelization and to pray for Jesus’ return.

Nate: What do you see transpiring in the coming years through this convergence?

Brian: I believe that over the next five to ten years, we are going to see traditional field missionaries, church planters, and evangelists teaming up with intercessory missionaries, and that together they will reach some of the least-reached peoples of the world. I believe that God is establishing intercessory missionaries to gain “air supremacy” over regions with intercessory worship and prayer so that the “ground troops” can reap a great harvest in the hardest-to-reach places, among the least-reached peoples. I am excited to see prayer and missions come together in a more dynamic way for the task of the Great Commission.

Nate: Will you tell us a little bit about the upcoming Luke18 Project tour of California? What is the heart and vision of the Purple Pig Tour?

Brian: The Purple Pig Tour is a two-week journey (September 26–October 9) through the state of California to call college students and young adults to plant prayer furnaces, or communities of prayer and fasting, on their campuses and in their cities. We plan on visiting college campuses, churches, and houses of prayer in California. We believe that California is in a critical hour, and we must contend for revival and pray for another Jesus Movement to sweep across the state.

Nate: What is the purple pig? Why use that name?

Brian: “Purple pig” is taken from a book written by Dick Eastman called The Purple Pig and Other Miracles. That book has been foundational in the mission and vision of Luke18 Project. Eastman describes a vision of a movement of young people who are radically and totally given to 24/7 prayer, evangelism, revival, and missions. Eastman is a true father and statesman, not just in the missions movement, but even more so in the prayer movement. Dick had visions of 24/7 prayer and worship in the late 1960s and early 1970s, long before people in this generation were even talking about night-and-day worship and prayer. Both Mike Bickle and Lou Engle say that Dick Eastman and his teaching ministry gave them a vision for prayer and revival in their early years.

Today, 24/7 prayer and worship is normal and accepted in the Body of Christ, because men like Dick Eastman have been calling people to the place of persistent worship, adoration, and intercession for over forty years

Our hope is that through this tour, many young leaders will give themselves afresh to the vision of planting prayer furnaces, where people can pray for God’s justice to be released on the earth, and where Jesus is worshiped and adored.

For more information about the Purple Pig Tour, please email purplepigtour@luke18project.com or visit www.thepurplepigtour.com.

Nate: Why do you feel California is strategic right now?

Brian: As the popular saying states, “As California goes, so goes the nation.” California is one of the most strategic—if not the most strategic—states in our union. California exerts more cultural influence than any other region, perhaps more than anywhere around the world.

Even more important than its cultural reach, however, is the history of revival and movement of the Holy Spirit that have been sustained in California over the past 100 years. Beginning with the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles in 1906, California has been a hotbed of revival activity, especially among the youth. From Azusa Street to Aimee Semple McPherson and the Foursquare, and from Billy Graham to the Jesus Movement, California has seen the moving of the Holy Spirit. I believe, as Lou Engle states, that “where there are godly roots, at the first scent of fresh water, new shoots can still spring forth.”

Nate: Do you know how many houses of prayer or prayer furnaces exist on college campuses?

Brian: We are connected to about 400 prayer furnaces on college campuses in our nation. Our goal is to serve students by planting prayer furnaces on all 2,600 four-year, accredited colleges in the U.S. by the 2012/2013 school year.

Nate: What is the goal for these houses of prayer?

Brian: Our goal is to call students to pray for revival, and to create an environment for training and discipling—where students are discipling other students and growing as leaders. We believe that these prayer furnaces can help students cultivate the gifts of leadership, communication, and discipleship, which will prepare them to be the next generation of Christian leaders.

We believe that college campuses are particularly strategic in missions and prayer because, historically, they are epicenters of missionary activity. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, God used college students in the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions to serve in one of the greatest missionary enterprises in history. In just forty short years, the Student Volunteer Movement mobilized nearly 20,000 students to give themselves as missionaries under the guiding principle, “the evangelization of the world in one generation.”

Moreover, college campuses are important because they are melting pots of different cultures and peoples. While it may be difficult for some Western students to serve as missionaries in some parts of the 10/40 window, college campuses are filled with students, often the most privileged and influential, from those regions. This provides a unique opportunity for Christians on campus to share Christ’s love with those people and disciple them, with the knowledge that they will go back to their regions as carriers of God’s love.

onething Fremont – Reviewed

During the past Independence Day weekend, 1,300 hungry believers gathered to worship, to hear the Word, to receive prophetic and healing ministry, and to cry out for revival at onething Fremont, California. Our host for the weekend was Forerunner Christian Church (FCC), which is a predominantly Chinese-speaking congregation.

Mike Bickle shared about Asia’s role in the end times and the pivotal role of the church in China in the days ahead. Dwayne Roberts preached about the life of Daniel and intimacy with Jesus, calling young adults to be steadfast, unwavering, and abandoned to Jesus. Luke Wood led worship as we exalted Jesus in praise, dance, and adoration. During the last night of worship, the presence of the Lord was felt in a significant way, and many were restored and healed.

Pray for God to continue to do a great work in Fremont and throughout California. There is a true spirit of hunger in FCC, and many stand in allegiance to Jesus in Fremont and California.

IHOP-KC News Video

Join Brent Steeno in this video as he shares news from the IHOP–KC community. This video includes reports from the Children’s Equipping Center Signs and Wonders Camp, the Awakening Teen Camp, and our Community Care department. We hope you are inspired and encouraged as you watch. Enjoy!

Watch Zachary Simms and team perform his song “The Truth”

Watch Zachary Simms and team perform his song “The Truth.” The song was so well received the first time that Mike Bickle asked him to do the whole thing again. As soon as Zachary began for the second time, teens from all over the room ran forward and began dancing and shouting with great joy and freedom. This is a powerful song, conveying a powerful truth!

Highlights from IHOP–KC’s Fascinate I high school conference with David Sliker

More than 1,000 teens, parents, and youth pastors gathered for Fascinate I. Many encountered the power of God in healing, deliverance, freedom, and joy through the worship and teaching from the Word. Lives were changed, and many teenagers will never be the same again, having been called to a life of intimacy with God.

Register now for Fascinate II, as seating is limited.

Speakers and worship leaders include Mike Bickle, Lou Engle, David Sliker, Corey Russell, Misty Edwards, Matt Gilman, and Cory Asbury.

From the Forerunner Bookstore: Loyalty (Reviewed)

One of the signs that we are living in the last days before Jesus returns will be when we see the hearts of the fathers turn towards the children and the hearts of the children turn toward the fathers (Mal. 4:6). There is one character trait that I believe will be predominant in the turning of the hearts: loyalty.

In Loyalty, Bob Sorge sets out a working definition of loyalty as a noble, unswerving allegiance, rooted in faith and love, which binds hearts together in a common purpose. Blending this definition of loyalty with masterful storytelling, Bob uses biblical accounts and his own personal history to paint vivid word-pictures of the character of a loyal heart, while also defining its antithesis: the treachery of disloyalty.

In an age of capitalism, greed, self-seeking, pride, covetousness, and fear, disloyalty is common. But God is changing this. God is establishing those like David, men and women after His own heart. David was a man loyal to God in the midst of suffering, persecution, doubt, fear, and oppression. This was possible for David because God was loyal to David first. Loyalty is a gift from the Lord because He is loyal. As a sign and operation of love, loyalty is rare but powerful when it’s operating in the human spirit.

This book is an eye opener. I knew the term and understood the principle of loyalty, but I seriously began doing some soul searching while reading Loyalty. Not only did this book provoke me to desire loyalty in a greater way, but it also gave me a hunger to refuse disloyalty in my heart. Disloyalty is like spiritual cancer; it spreads quickly and painfully unless it is countered by forgiveness, humility, and love.

I absolutely loved this book. Full of wisdom and insight, Loyalty brought issues to the surface of my heart that I didn’t even realize were there. This book is a must-read for anyone involved in ministry, discipleship, or leadership. If you deal with people on a day-to-day basis, you will want to understand and grow in the grace of loyalty and avoid the stinging, deplorable operation of disloyalty at all costs. With questions for discussion at the end of each chapter, this book is a great tool for leaders and anyone interested in learning the reach of a noble heart.