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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.
Highlights from Fascinate I, a Conference for High School Students
Each summer we host Fascinate conferences for high school students, to encourage them in the love of God and call them to be transformed by God’s grace, that they might walk in His truth and power. Fascinate I began on Thursday, June 24, with over 1,300 attendees. Misty Edwards and Luke Wood led us into the presence of the Lord during worship, and Corey Russell spoke about turning our eyes away from worthless things to behold the beauty of the Lord (Ps. 119:18, 37). Mike Bickle taught about becoming a person after God’s heart, encouraging us that the Lord is preparing an entire generation to walk in an anointing and calling like David’s.
On the second day and into the weekend, we heard from David Sliker about Jesus the Servant, and from Zack Hensley about God’s affections being our motivation for faithfulness. We can miss out on the joy of the glad-hearted God if we don’t understand that He loves to serve us, even in the midst of our immaturity. Laura Hackett, Cory Asbury, Tim Reimherr, and Marcus Meier led worship. Many people received physical healing during our awakening services each evening, as the Holy Spirit touched lives and bodies.
Visit IHOP.org/fascinate to register for Fascinate II, starting July 22, or to watch archives of our Fascinate I conference.
onething Dallas/Fort Worth – Recap
This past weekend, June 4–5, there were over twenty-five prayer ministries in the Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) area that came together in a collaborative effort to host an IHOP–KC onething regional. Two thousand hungry believers gathered to worship and cry out for revival in DFW, and to receive teaching and prophetic and healing ministry.
After speaking about Mary of Bethany in the opening session, Brian Kim gave an exhortation to live with wholehearted abandonment, spending our lives at the feet of Jesus. Hundreds responded to the message with tears, and with a fresh commitment to love God with all of their heart, soul, mind, and strength.
Matt Gilman and Justin Rizzo pressed in for the presence of God as we exalted Jesus in powerful times of worship, dance, and adoration. Matt and Justin, along with their worship teams, also led a breakout session, to teach musicians, singers, and worship leaders about the honor and importance of building the house of prayer in this generation.
Wes Martin ended the weekend with a message to summon forth forerunner messengers like John the Baptist and with an invitation to commit to the Sacred Charge. He spoke from Mike Bickle’s recently released book, 7 Commitments of a Forerunner: A Sacred Charge to Press into God. Nearly 400 people responded as we bowed before the Lord to ask for grace to stay the course.
Let’s continue to pray for God to increase the hunger in us all, as we stand in allegiance to Jesus, that we would be those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.
Begin to pray for our next regional conference— onething Fremont, CA: July 4-5 Register
onething Queens, New York – Recap
Many different ethnic groups and congregations gathered with anticipation to encounter the Holy Spirit and cry out for revival at onething NYC. During the very first session, the Holy Spirit met us with His tangible presence and with grace to enter into prayer and worship. We spent most of the first night in intercession for college campuses, for high schools, and for various leaders within the city.
We held the conference at Promise Ministries, a Korean church in Queens. They hold daily prayer meetings at 5:00am, which prepared the way for us to enter into prayer. A foundation for corporate prayer has been established in this congregation, and we sensed that the Lord was calling the Church of New York City to pray and fast.
We witnessed the ministry of the Holy Spirit in physical healings, first-time salvations, and on Saturday night the Holy Spirit imparted zeal for the sacred charge commitment. A young lady suffering from spiritual oppression was delivered and filled with holy joy as the Lord’s presence rested on her. As they committed to the sacred charge, about eight people fell to the ground under the power of the Spirit, shaking and crying. They later testified that they experienced the fire of God.
The onething team from the International House of Prayer preached about intimacy with God, the end-time worship movement, and the forerunner calling. The worship team held a time of Q&A for several hundred worship leaders, musicians, and singers. The Lord stirred many anew to the place of prayer and to deeper allegiance to Jesus. May God receive the reward of His suffering in New York City!
Begin to pray for our next regional conference— onething Dallas, June 4–5.
onething Tacoma Recap
1,500 gathered for the onething young adult conference in Tacoma, Washington, just outside Seattle. The Lord moved mightily as we witnessed hundreds experiencing the power of the Holy Spirit. Many were filled with joy, laughter, fire, and zeal to see the name of Jesus exalted in the Northwest. This weekend was particularly marked with unity in prayer, healing, and deliverance.
One of the purposes of the onething conferences is to ignite prayer and fasting in the region where the event is held. In this hour of human history, the Lord is raising up a prayer and worship movement in the Church all across the earth.
In Tacoma, we witnessed many congregations and denominations joining together in worship and intercession for revival in Tacoma and the surrounding area. God met us, and I believe many were stirred to continue to pray and cry out as they meet in the place of corporate prayer. The Luke18 Project was there as well, doing follow-up ministry to spark and fuel prayer furnaces in the area. God, build Your house of prayer in the Northwest!
This morning, I read roughly fifty testimonies that we were able to record from the events of the weekend. One man, who had been in pain for over twenty years from a motorcycle accident, was instantly healed on Saturday night. He had pain in his left leg that extended from his ankle to his hip. He said that he could feel the fire of the Spirit on his leg so strongly that his leg was hot, almost too hot. Then suddenly, all pain in his leg and ankle was gone!
Many were delivered from sexual addictions, a spirit of religion, self-hatred, and the performance mentality of trying to earn the love of God. People were touched by the palpable presence of God, and some were filled with the joy of God.
On Sunday morning, I met a woman who was excited about her impending visit to the doctor to confirm the healing her damaged kidneys and liver. She had been in pain and was taking a great deal of medication. The Lord touched her body on the first night of the conference with His powerful healing presence. Two days later, she was still pain-free and convinced that the Lord had healed her body. She was filled with joy and testified that the night after the Lord touched her, she woke up laughing and joyful, still feeling the presence of God.
Pray for the churches in the Tacoma/Seattle area to be strengthened, and for the house of prayer to touch the Body of Christ.
Check out IHOP–NW at internationalhouseofprayernorthwest.org
onething Nashville – Recap
Our first onething regional of the year started off with a powerful move of God’s Spirit. A crowd of 1,400 gathered at Belmont Church in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, and we waited for the Holy Spirit to move among them like He has been ministering to our student body at IHOP–KC since November 11.
As we waited on the Lord before our first session on Friday night, the Lord filled us anew with His Holy Spirit and boldness. Our hearts were expectant, as we called upon the Lord to bless those who had gathered for the conference, and within the first worship song, the presence of the Lord filled the sanctuary and the overflow room. We gave a history of the student awakening at IHOP–KC, set in the context of the ten years we had previously spent crying out for God to send us His Spirit in a greater measure. Our faith was stirred, and we began asking God to visit Nashville in power and to raise up His house of prayer.
That night we witnessed many being touched by the power and fire of God’s Spirit, and many experienced the love of God in a new way. The next day, a young lady testified that she had experienced the love of God so strongly, and that she had been set free of suicidal thoughts and immoral desires. In their place, love for God was burning in her heart. Another young man came under the power of God and testified that he had been delivered from homosexual tendencies. Many were healed of physical pain, and one man was instantly healed of a shoulder injury; he removed his arm sling and left the conference carrying the sling in his hand.
On Saturday we taught about intimacy with God from the life of Mary of Bethany, about the knowledge of God in the person of Jesus, and about fasting and prayer. Our worship team led a Q&A session with hundreds of singers, musicians, and worship leaders. We also gathered around eighty student leaders and college campus ministry leaders to strategize and pray for revival on college campuses.
The Lord met us powerfully again that night. The joy of the Lord came, and many were set free to enter into authentic worship. Sixty students attending from Lee University experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit resting on them for over two hours. Many of them experienced the fire of God’s presence and the joy of the Lord. They left filled with boldness to see God’s glory come on their campus.
Please continue to pray for our onething regional conferences. We’re asking God to pour out His power, and presence, and to strengthen the believers who gather for these conferences.
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onething’09 Wednesday Recap
What Happened Today
A Call to Missions – Mark Anderson
This morning’s session with Mark Anderson and Loren Cunningham of YWAM was inspiring. What a privilege to hear from men who have given their lives to taking the gospel to the nations. They have such an anointing for missions and spoke powerfully about how God is doing a new thing as he brings the prayer movement together with the missions movement for a worldwide release of the Holy Spirit’s power. Mark highlighted that we are now at the beginning of the greatest outpouring the world has seen. Acts 1:8 declares that “we will be witnesses” to the ends of the earth when we receive the Spirit. Whether we go across the street or across the sea, we are called to go and make disciples. It is time to take the message of Jesus to where the people live. God is redefining missions as reaching everyone in every culture, in every society, everywhere.
Mark encouraged us to trust the awakening and the move of the Spirit in our midst. He dared us to dream, to go, to be witnesses—everywhere and at all times. What would it look like if 20,000 people began to speak the word of the Lord as Peter did at Pentecost, when 3,000 came to the Lord in one day?
Mark shared about Call2All, a worldwide movement calling the global Church to reach the least, the last, and the lost, networking churches, missions organizations, and prayer ministries to work as one to complete the Great Commission. See www.call2all.org and www.uofnkona.org for more details on how to be involved.
A Call to Obey – Loren Cunningham
Loren Cunningham founded YWAM 50 years ago and has been to every nation and territory on earth as an ambassador for the Lord. YWAM has permanent bases in 150 nations. Loren spoke with faith and passion about the need for abandoned believers with fearless spirits who are willing to intercede, hear God’s voice, and obey without regard to comfort or safety so that the message of the gospel would reach all nations, including those who have never heard and do not have the gospel in their own language. God has given this generation the tools necessary to fulfill the Great Commission: the Word, His Spirit, technology, transportation, media, spiritual gifts, and understanding. We have everything we need to reach a lost world with power and clarity. For those willing to risk everything, God is willing to grant anything so that Jesus would be glorified in the earth!
“The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.” –Hudson Taylor
A Call to Love – Mike Bickle
This afternoon Mike spoke on the first commandment. God is restoring the first and great commandment to first place as He calls His Bride to be equally yoked in love. The reality is that God wants us to love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength because He loves us in this way. The ability to love God and feel His love is the greatest gift that the Holy Spirit can reveal to us. One of the core issues concerning the end times is the definition of love. There is no such thing as loving God without seeking to obey Him (Jn. 14:21). Jesus did not call it the first option but the first commandment; He is after love from us and the mystery of all of life is found in this truth.
onething’09 Welcomes International Visitors
As over 20,000 gather in Kansas City at onething’09, the Lord is drawing international communities. Many have traveled here from China,Taiwan, Korea, Spain, Mexico, and South American nations. Many attendees are receiving the ministry of the word of the Lord in their own languages (Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Spanish) as the Spirit moves in our midst. We have information meetings for four ethnic/language groups (Chinese, Korean, Arab, and Latino) where the heart of the Father is being shared. The spirit of prophecy has been prayed over individuals who will take the fire back to their homeland.
onething’09 Tuesday Recap
onething’09 welcomes Loren Cunningham
One of today’s highlights was welcoming Loren Cunningham, the founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM), recognized by many as the premier statesman and father of the modern-day missions movement. Celebrating 50 years in 2010, YWAM has 25,000 full-time staff worldwide. It is an honor to have Loren with us. He was stirred by the Lord last week to come and join Mike Bickle and the IHOP–KC leadership and will share tomorrow morning (Wednesday) on the significance of the growing partnership between the missions movement and the prayer movement—a very significant development in church history.
What happened today?
Both Wes Martin and Corey Russell spoke this morning, sharing their hearts on what the Spirit is saying in this hour. Wes opened up, stressing the reality that the Lord had this specific generation in mind when He prophesied through Isaiah that His house would be called a house of prayer for all nations (Isa. 56:7). We each have an active role in partnering with His heart to see the release of His purposes. Corey spoke on Jesus’ teachings from John 13–17, developing the ministry of intercession as it pertains to the Church in this hour, highlighting the need to understand the Father’s heart and to be stabilized in His love so that we might remain unshaken as trouble looms on the horizon. The session gave way to a time of ministry as many were healed of spiritual and emotional wounds.
The Lord is awakening in His people an earnest desire to be vessels of His supernatural power. During the afternoon Mike Bickle exhorted us that as His sons and daughters part of our inheritance is this very reality—that all would prophesy, heal the sick, and manifest His gifts. Mike shared some very practical principles of the supernatural ministry, touching on receiving words and giving expression to gifts and impressions. Whatever the gift, whether in small or large measure, all that the Lord gives us is to be pursued and valued as we seek to live out lives of obedience and partnership to Jesus.
Why are we here? What’s it all for? What does life consist of? Tonight, Misty Edwards examined the purpose of life, existence, and our future as eternal beings. Our lives are to be centered on the reality that is found in the life, death, resurrection, and promise of the return of Jesus. We were made to bring God pleasure and feel His joy within us. Misty called us to live from the heart before God’s eyes alone, as living examples of His love. The message of Jesus’ commitment to redeem and sanctify us, we who He loves with a desperate passion, leaves room for only one response: total abandonment and lovesick worship until He returns!
The Holy Spirit descended upon the children’s meetings today with clear and powerful revelations. As Lenny LaGuardia led the ministry time, the Lord came into the room with His tangible presence. It was a powerful time of encounter in which many young children were undoubtedly marked for life with the love of Jesus Christ, some for the first time.
onething’09 Monday recap
What happened today?
The onething 2009 conference is officially underway. With people watching on six continents and 22,000 plus registered so far, we are excited and expectant to see what the Lord will do amongst us this year. This is our biggest onething to date.
During the first afternoon session today, Wes Hall began by highlighting some of the different encounters many in the IHOP–KC community have had during the recent awakening meetings. The Lord has been meeting us with healings and deliverance and Wes talked about how this awakening began with the IHOPU students in early November and how it has been continuing and growing ever since. The Lord, in His kindness has broken in and set many of us 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 have experienced physical healing and manifestations of power and of the wine of His presence. We are looking forward to a greater outpouring of His Spirit in our midst and, in faith, we are anticipating more from the Lord during the next days and weeks.
Mike began the evening session by stressing the importance of having a clear, prophetic ear in this desperate hour. The Church is on the verge of a great revival as this nation stands at a critical juncture in history. The Holy Spirit is visiting His people with power as the light of righteousness grows brighter and the onslaught of darkness becomes darker. The Lord is speaking clearly and many are responding with wholeheartedness. We are encouraged and confident as we wait for the coming outpouring that will sweep across the nations.
