Experiencing the Holy Spirit in Prayer

Many are awakening to the love of prayer, and are seeking to connect with God in a deeper way.  Seeking to experience the Holy Spirit is a biblical, tangible reality.

• The bible highlights two ways to focus our mind in seeking God: God on His Throne (Rev. 4) and God in our innerman.  The Spirit flows from our “innermost man,” its where the Holy Spirit lives in us if we are born again.  He dwells in our innermost man, but we only experience Him in the innerman.  We turn the attention of our soul to the Spirit in our spirit to grow in the deep things of God.

38 If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.  He that believes on me, the way the Scriptures say,  From his innermost being (belly, KJV) will flow rivers of living water.  (Jn. 7:38 NAS)

• By believing the Scriptures with authentic faith, we will connect with God and experience the Holy Spirit.  This experience Jesus likens to drinking from rivers of living water.  I’m going to talk about some very powerful activities that have been highlighted as a focus in the prayer movement.   Its easy to slip from the discipline of pursuing God, we must resolve to go after loving Him with all of our heart.  Getting the Word alive in your heart takes time and focus, it must become your main priority, and you must resist activity and speech that hinders it.  If we will commit to agressively feed our heart on the Love of God, we will take spiritual ground and be anointed by the Spirit to love God in yet greater ways.  If we are not agressively taking new ground, we will lose the ground we have, in stagnation.

The Mind Mouth Heart Method

Reading Scriptures gets them in our mind, and we need to love God with all of our mind, but speaking them over ourselves and speaking them to God, gets them in our heart.  John 15:7 If my words abide in you..

1) Pray-Read Scripture to God (thanking Him, asking for revelation or power to obey).

• Jesus said “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me.  But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.” (John 5:39-40)   Scriptures will impact us when we pray them directly, not just thinking about them or studying them.  We when meet with Jesus, the Scriptures are our anointed conversation material.  ”We let the written word take us to the Living Word, Jesus.”
• So depending on the verse, we can thank God for the truth in it, and then ask for revelation on the verse, or ask for power to obey them.  The Scriptures are living and active (Heb 4:2) and are so powerful to transform us and renew our mind as we pray them.  They rewrite the code of our inner man enabling us to abide in God/Christ to dwells within us (Eph 3;16-19).  We renew our mind (Col 3:10) and walk as a new creation.
• So with a verse like 26 The Holy Spirit…will teach you all things… (Jn. 14:26) We would pray, Thank you Holy Spirit that you teach me, I ask for revelation on what it truly means for you to teach me, and help me to understand you leadings.  Or John 15:9 As the Father has loved Me, I love you.  We would pray, Jesus thank you for this love, strengthen me with might (Eph 3:16) to experience this love.  I ask for greater revelation of this love.  And we would worship and journal revelation.

• Continually asking for revelation is so powerful, we grow in revelation.  Each Scripture is like a door we knock on, as God is inviting us into encounter, in the Knowledge of God.
• The Holy Spirit is with us to teach us, like Jesus taught His disciples.  We must lean not on our own understanding, but seek God.  It helps to ask for the Eph 1:17 Spirit of wisdom and revelation and enlightening of the spiritual eyes.
• 26 The Holy Spirit…will teach you all things… (Jn. 14:26)
• 13 The Spirit of truth…will guide you into all truth; He will tell you things to come. (Jn. 16:13)
• 27 The anointing…abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things… (1 Jn. 2:27)

2) Sing the Scriptures to Him

• Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord. (Eph 5:18-19 Niv)

• I believe Eph 5:18-19 is being emphasized by many Spirit-led ministries, as the way to be filled with the Spirit.  The verse says we should not answer the longing of our hearts with drunkeness, but rather be filled with the Spirit, by Singing to Jesus the Scriptures. I believe this is one of the most important verses in the bible.   This message of singing the Word is being spread all over the world through the prayer movement, and it needs to be a part of our prayer life.  God created the human heart so that singing opens the heart in a way that nothing else does.  Singing the Word is the main biblical prescription, the premier way, to be filled with the Spirit and set on fire for God.  Jesus was the Living Word before He became a man, and now we encounter Him by singing and praying/dialoguing the written word.  So we let the written word take us to the Living Word.  But we must grow our hearts in praying the Word.  Click on the picture on the top right to see an archived worship with the Word set, with us at ihop-kc, a 24-7 worship and intercession ministry.
• When we stand before God on Judgment Day, He is not going to ask us how big of house did we get, or how big did we make our bank account, but how big did our heart get by experiencing His love and revelation (1st commandment.)

3) Fast

• Fasting does not ‘earn’ us more of God.  It does increace our capacity to experience the Holy Spirit, and accelerate the process of communing prayer.  I have found fasting on water, 1 day a week, to be unparelled in terms of its impact on my experiencing of God. Ihop-kc calls believers to fast at least one day a week.  The benefits are tremendous in fasting two days a week, but let desire for God drive your fasting, not commands or religious spirit.
• This depth of fasting is well within the reach of most people.  But we desperately need more revelation of Jesus as our Bridegroom who has burning desire for us and fiery affections toward us.  As we live in the truth of the bridal paradigm, we fast because we long for Jesus.  Jesus told the Pharisees the day would come when the Bridegroom would be taken away from the disciples, and then they would fast out of longing for Him (Matt. 9:15).  When Jesus ascended to Heaven after His death and resurrection, He was taken away in the sense indicated in this Scripture.  The Bride of Christ is meant to long for His return, His Second Coming, and fasting is one way we express this longing.
• By knowing Jesus as our Bridegroom and seeing ourselves as His Bride, we will become energized with a spirit of prayer and filled with courage to live lives abandoned to God in holiness. Only then will fasting seem appropriate, reasonable or even wise.

4) Quiet your soul (from Mike Bickle)

• David calmed and quieted his soul (ps 131:2). We need to dial down or just take our foot off the gas pedal and listen (without stirring our souls up to fervor). An over-active soul keeps us out of sync with the subtle movements of the Spirit. We quiet our soul to connect with the Spirit’s whisper in our heart (the still small voice (1 Kings 19:11-13)). We quiet the turbulent activity of our soul in our clamoring for attention, pleasure, a restless anxious spirit that naturally active. It takes a while to get in sync with this (few months).  The dicipline of waiting on the Lord, is invaluable.
• To fellowship with the Holy Spirit means we talk often to Him as we give our heart to Him. It means we hear back from Him in a two way dialogue. The Holy Spirit honors our part in the relationship by not forcing us to dialogue with Him, if we do not want it. He does not want conversation or friendship with anyone who is not desperate or hungry for it. Love requires a voluntary response. He waits beckoning us to a deeper and more continual conversation.
• 6 Set Me (Jesus) as a seal upon your heart…its flames are flames of fire. (Song 8:6) We set Jesus as a seal on our heart by fellowshipping with the Spirit as God’s light, fire or river in us. The Holy Spirit ministers in us a bright light that drives darkness out and overpowers the darkness of confusion, accusation and rejection (Jn. 1:5); a consuming fire that devours everything that gets in the way like bitterness and addictions: a flowing river that connects our heart with the spontaneous movement of God’s heart (Jn. 7:37-39).
• As we linger in His presence, speak affectionately (intermittently saying to God, “I love You”) speak slowly (not rapid fire), softly (not shouting at the indwelling Spirit), briefly (short phrases not paragraphs, even reducing phrases to one word) and minimally (listen twice as much as talking by limiting our speaking to one third) with many pauses, praying with our spirit (1 Cor. 14:2) along with gently sighing (Rom. 8:26) with gazing in silence for few seconds or minutes.  “Less is more” in terms of amount and volume of speaking. Journal: take time to record thoughts and prayers so as to capture the truths He gives us.

Experiencing His Love

SEEKING TO KNOW THE HEIGHT AND DEPTH OF THIS LOVE

• We can ask for revelation and understanding, of the Deep Love of God’s Heart… But God has revealed -the deep things- unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God..Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. (1 Cor 2:10-12)

• Personal meditation on the Word of God, made reality by the Spirit in our inner-man, is primarily His way to communicate His spiritual affections, His love touches our heart this way (Sos 1:2).
• Meditation is most effective by turning the Word into personal conversation with Jesus. As we do this we are giving our heart to Him and receiving His heart through the Word of God.

• And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little scroll. And he said, take it, and eat it up (Rev 10:9). To eat the scroll (bible) we take a verse and meditate, make it personal and pray it. Anointed loving meditation.  A few related verses can have an hour’s worth of revelation.
• The sweetness of the Holy Spirit tenderizes our hearts through meditation on the Word. It is powerful as the Word of God kisses our hearts in this way.

• Isa 56:7 I will make them joyful in my house of prayer.  For many in the church, prayer is not joyful until we see how Paul tied singing our Scriptural revelations to being filled with the Spirit in Eph 5:18.  -What a revelation that music makes sustaining prayer easier!  The Ihop model of singing passages of Scripture in Worship with the Word sets, facilitates encounter with the Holy Spirit, by unlocking the heart.  See fire link on the right ->

MEDITATION

• Meditation rewrites the “code” of our heart like a computer program writes data on a disk.  When we have His words abiding in us, then John 14;23 can happen in greater measure.  If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.  

The Mind Mouth Heart Method

Reading Scriptures gets them in our mind, and we need to love God with all of our mind, but speaking them over ourselves and speaking them to God, gets them in our heart.  John 15:7 If my words abide in you..

The Song of Solomon is His love in concentrated allegory form (See notes at mikebickle.org)

Even Rabbi’s teach God-based, non-marriage application of song of solomon.
Sos 1:2 Father, Let Him touch my heart with love by the Spirit and Word, for Your revelations and affections are better than the permissible pleasure of the world.

• Sos 1:4 The King has brought me into His chambers (take me to the secret place of Your Presence, Encounter – Your affections, help me to press in and connect with you, so I can feel your love and you can declare your Name to me.)

• The Revelation of Sos 1:3  “His name poured forth” speaks of the unique exaltation of His Name. It also speaks of His attributes being openly revealed to us, His beautiful personality, virtuous character, holiness, love, power, terrifying glory… and we fall in love. Oh the beauty of this Man!
• Jesus is not our ‘lover’ like some misinterpret, we don’t go on date-night with Jesus.  Our relationship to the Bridegroom is sacred and holy.  Our culture hardens our heart to the purity of love.  This will change when Jesus returns, and in the church of Rev 22:17.

The Anna Calling

“And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them?I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”” (Luke 18:7-8 NKJV)

Jesus here ties finding faith on the earth to finding a people crying out to Him day and night for justice.  Jesus will return and bring the ultimate justice, though that parable is about crying out for justice to break in before His return also.  John saw the church at the end of the age in a vision and she had a bridal identity and she was in intercession, in unity with the Holy Spirit.  The verse is Rev 22:17 The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come!”

Isaiah 56:7 For my house shall be called an house of prayer for all nations.  Matt 21:13 Jesus said to them, It is written, My house shall be called an house of prayer.

Many such as myself have been called to pray as a full-time job day and night, serving the Lord with fastings, worship and intercession.  Out of this lifestyle we also evangelize and disciple.

The Lord is raising up a prayer movement to usher in His Return.  It is in the model that the Lord instructed King David, with continual worship and prayer.  The International House of Prayer in Kansas City which you can see at the prayerroom stream at ihop.org, has prayer going 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and has since 1999!  Every two hours a worship/prayer team starts a set of worship and intercession.  This intercession is led by “Annas” or “Intercessory Missionaries.”

We are all familiar with missionaries who focus on preaching or mercy deeds (providing food, medical care, etc.). But the Lord is also calling forth a new type of missionary that is essential to completing the Great Commission. The foundational example of this type of missionary is found in Luke 2:36-38:

“Now there was one, Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. ..and this woman was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.” (Luke 2:36-38 NKJV)

Anna prayed night and day in the temple with fasting for over sixty years just prior to the First Coming of Jesus. Anna was also the first evangelist that we see in the New Testament. The Holy Spirit is raising up those like Anna once again to pray, fast and preach prior to Jesus’ Second Coming. This “Anna Anointing” transcends gender and age, where men and women, young and old live as intercessory missionaries laboring for the fulfillment of the Great Commission, the spreading of the Gospel to all nations.  We also do mercy deeds and evangelism locally on a regular basis.

Wisdom of Intercession

Intercession and worship is the means that God has chosen to establish His kingdom on the earth. Prayer changes the spiritual atmosphere over cities and nations (Matthew 6:10, Psalm 149). Prayer brings us into agreement with God’s heart, and from that place of full agreement and partnership God’s kingdom breaks in to the earth.  Man cannot bring in the harvest alone, it is the strategy of God to use people to pray  and ‘release’ the Holy Spirit in power on the world.

So many ministries have so many ‘better’ ideas than prayer and that is why we see so little fruit.  By praying the prayers for the lost that the Spirit gave Paul like the “Eph 1:17 release of the Spirit of revelation unto the knowledge of Christ”, God responds and draws real people to Jesus (John 6:44).  He enlightens their spiritual eyes to see Christ.

The ministers and preachers who have labored in prayer and are covered in prayer move in the power in of Spirit, as Jesus did.  John 14:12 states that some will one day do greater works even, and this will happen through the power-releasing prayers of intercessors.

Jesus’ desire was that the kingdom and the will of God would be completely manifest on the earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10). Jesus won’t do this “in a vacuum”, apart from men and women doing it in partnership with Him.  Jesus said that His kingdom would not come not by human force or might and not by human intellect or wisdom, but by Godly wisdom – simply by saying back to God in prayer what He told us to tell Him through the Word and Spirit. It is as the church all over the globe and these “set”, full-time watchmen like myself ask the Lord persistently and cry out day and night (Luke 11, Luke 18:7-8), He promises to release speedy justice and establish the kingdom of God on the earth.

Supporting the Prayer Movement

Amos prophesied of the restoration of David’s Tabernacle. When Israel went astray, God raised up reformers who restored worship as David commanded. All the 7 “OT revivals” restored this. In May 1983, the Lord called IHOP-KC to establish 24/7 prayer in the spirit of the Tabernacle of David.  Again, we are so grateful we have been graced to do 24 hours a day, 7 days a week since 1999 there has been worship and intercession going forth in our house.

David established 4,000 full-time paid musicians, 288 prophetic singers and 4,000 gatekeepers. Thus, he financed about 10,000 full-time staff to facilitate worship. In today’s terms it would cost about $200 million a year to provide $3,000 a month for 5,000 full-time people (plus buildings costs).  The Lord is zealously moving on the hearts of people who have marketplace callings to commit to make offerings to support intercessors and musicians directly, as they all raise their own support and are not paid by the Houses of Prayer.  Many have families and houses, fully financially supported by the Lord through His church.  I need only $25 more dollars for this months expenses.  I’ve heard it taught that the tithes are like taxes into the kingdom and offerings are investments.  You can’t out give God but you can have fun trying.  He returns the investment twofold, threefold and beyond.  Mal 3:10 says we can test God in this;

Bring all of you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in mine house, and test me now herewith, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

“I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; They shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent, And give Him no rest till He establishes And till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”  (Isaiah 62:6-7 NKJV)

“Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”  (through intercession) (Matthew 6:10 NKJV) 

Signs of the Times

Three Timing Indicators of the Return of Christ

³² Learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near–at the doors! 34 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words (prophecies) will by no means pass away. (Matthew 24:32–35)

But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only (Matthew 24:36). 

• Jesus said present tense “knows.”  Does Jesus know now that He is in heaven with the Father?
• We don’t want to get into ‘date-setting’ and we know the Harlot and Antichrist will come first (2 Thes 2:1-4, 1 Thes 5:3) but we must know the generation in which we live. These are days. Mat 24:37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark.  Our ‘ark’ is inside us, by fellowshipping with the indwelling Holy Spirit and being led and protected Goshen in Exodus.
• There are many prophesied signs in Scripture that mark the final generation, that Jesus returns to, as unique.  These signs give us the understanding that we are in a unique season in redemptive history. Yet many make wrong assumptions regarding Matthew 24:36 and 44:
• Wrong assumption #1: “No one can know the day or the hour”, which would falsely imply a sudden, unexpected departure.  No one can know the day or the hour, but Jesus Himself made clear that we could (and should) know the season, or the generation, of His return.
• Wrong assumption #2: “No one will ever know the day or the hour.”  It is true that “of that day” no one knows, only the Father Himself.  That does not mean, however, that we will never know the time of His coming.

Jesus exhorted us to know the Generation

Luke 12:54 And he said also to the people, When all of you see a cloud rise out of the west, immediately all of you say, There comes a shower; and so it is. 56 All of you hypocrites, all of you can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that all of you do not discern this time?

• The Bible gives precise information to believers (number of days, months, and years pertaining to certain events in the last days) that will give us great hope in the midst of great trial.  We may still not know the exact day or hour, but we will have great hope alive within us that there is a predetermined end to the trial that will soon come.
• The subject of the signs of the times is greatly neglected by many within the Body of Christ. Yet many Scriptures emphasize how important prophetic signs are at the end of the age. Scripture shows that Jesus, more than any of the apostles, instructed on our need to discern the times. Jesus gave severe rebukes to those who did not pay attention to the prophetic signs that pointed to His first coming.  The following verses are examples of the mandate to Jesus to pay attention to signs of His return: Matthew 16:1-4 and 24:32-44, Luke 19:41-44, and Luke 21:34-36.
• There are three types of biblical “indicators” that indicate to the generation in which the Lord returns that His coming is near:

1).  Sign events: these are predicted in Scripture and alert us to the timing of Jesus’ return.
2). Sign trends: both positive and negative sign trends will signal His coming
3).   Prophetic experiences: subjective personal experiences alert us to the end times.

Jesus connected three events to his Return

1. There are three key sign trends that strongly indicate that we are in the generation of the Lord’s return.  Jesus personally connected the timing of His return to the earth to three events that are all emerging simultaneously in this hour of history:
2. Jesus connected the timing of His return to the repentance and revival of Jewish political and spiritual leaders in Jerusalem in Matthew 23:37-39.
3. Jesus connected the timing of His return to the preaching of the gospel throughout the whole earth in Matthew 24:14.
4. Jesus connected the timing of His return to night and day prayer happening on the earth in Luke 18:7-8. He deliberately tied the idea of finding faith on the earth to a people crying out day and night for justice.  Ultimate justice will only be found in His return.  Rev 8:1-5 details bowls of prayers which the saints fill and then are poured out and answered at His return.

All three trends are, in a clear, measurable way, happening in this generation in a manner that is unique to any other time in redemptive history.

1. Messianic (Jewish) congregations of believers in Israel and Jerusalem are experiencing more growth through conversions than any time in church history since the 1^st century.  There has been a notable statistical increase in particular over the past ten years. This trend is one that has also been reflected in the modern missions world: a notable spike in the increase of church planting and world evangelism over the past decade alone.
2. Evangelical missions organizations are now conservatively projecting that the gospel will have been heard by every people group and language on the earth for the first time in church history in the time frame of 2025 to 2032.
3. The recent increase of night and day prayer across the earth more unique than in any generation throughout church history – this is a historic hour for prayer initiatives (24/7 and otherwise), prayer gatherings, stadium gatherings, and the planting of houses of prayer worldwide.   Isa 56:7 My house shall be called an house of prayer for all nations.

Inspired by Dave Sliker notes

Tweets from the Onething Conference

 At www.ihop.org/onething, you can download the #onething11 notes as a zipped PDF.  You can follow along for new ones or tweet yourself.  On twitter search for #onething11

LouEngle Lou Engle -God dreams may be chapter titles to the next scene of the divine storyline the Author is writing about you life

Spiritual hunger gets us God but its elusive when you’re filled with worldly pleasures. To be hungry, get empty

Dwayne Roberts 

I am calling a generation to detach from the gods of this age. @drobertsihop #onething11

My gifts and abilities don’t matter. “What excites me is the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.”@drobertsihop #onething11

the message @drobertsihop spoke this morning at #onething11 was life changing. #thankyouGod  I don’t really care about my ministry anymore. I want to have tenderness in my heart towards Jesus.” —@drobertsihop #onething11

If you are wise you will adjust your life NOW… @drobertsihop #onething11″

Our earthly calling is not our reward, God and His glory is our prize. He is our reward @drobertsihop Gen 15:1 #onething11″

Detach. Get rid of. Downsize. Do whatever it takes to break your addiction to the American dream. Say “no.” @drobertsihop #onething11″

Find out who you are in God, and be diligent! @drobertsihop. #onething11″

Living for the accolades of men will leave you spiritually bankrupt @drobertsihop #onething11

The cry for eternity can not be answered by the American dream. @drobertsihop #onething11″

Say no to the American Dream-find out your mandate from heaven and be diligent. #dwayneroberts #onething11″

Wes hall

You cannot love Jesus unless you are in agreement His purpose and His plan; not just His personality. #onething11 #WesHall

Jesus says, if you want to deliver men from sin, you have to first let me deliver you from yourself and your ambitions. #onething11#WesHall

A preacher can deliver a message, but a voice can deliver a soul. #onething11 #WesHall”

 Jesus will have a bride who will look like Jesus in power, character and wisdom (His glory) @wesleymhall #onething11

 

davidsliker David Sliker -Endeavoring to be like Christ is more than a function of obedience; it’s encountering Him, being moved by who He is, and loving His way.

davidsliker David Sliker  - Protesters fight in vain against that which they are powerless to change; intercessors fight for the eternal alongside the Omnipotent One.

Shelley Hundley – The Judge 

Mind mouth heart formula. To get the truths of the Word into your heart fill your mind with them then speak them to Jesus -@ShelleyHundley

You can forget what happened, because I never will @ShelleyHundley speaking on God as Judge at #onething11 @ihopkc”

Jesus is our Righteous Judge who looks at us and says “You are worth fighting for.” @ShelleyHundley #onething11

Allen Hood – 24/7 Prayer 

Since99 24/7 worship/prayer teams minister nonstop at ihop-kc This reality is moving to all cities, see: www.ihop.org/prayerroom/archives 

@allenhoodihop: God is gathering a global upper room of prayer – where every tribe, tongue and nation lift their voice in intercession.

“@allenhoodihop: Every Nation will be given a Revelation of the God of Revelation 4 and the Christ of Revelation 5.”#onething11

“We are a part of the generation that hastens the Day of the Lord.” @allenhoodihop #onething11”

This generation has been ruined by night & day worship & will never go back to Sunday-only Christianity. -@allenhoodihop #onething11 #viral”

Do you know the ecstasy of exploring a God who is unsearchable? @allenhoodihop #onething11”

Our image of God is so boring; He’s more glorious & breathtaking than anything that Hollywood could ever produce. @allenhoodihop

God makes living creatures that have such a big hard drive, to see how fast he can fill it up! @allenhoodihop #onething11”

We who have the Holy Spirit possess the revelation & fortitude to do what our OT fathers could not: 24/7 worship @allenhoodihop #onething11”

The very question on why we should worship night and day only reflects our poverty in the knowledge of God. @allenhoodihop #onething11

God’s greatness has gone viral and there is a generation caught up that is never going back. @allenhoodihop #onething11

 ”24/7 is not our obligation – it’s our constraint. He’s worth more.” – @allenhoodihop / THAT is good.

The Humility of God- Mike Bickle

SarahSunKim Sarah Sun Kim  -A mere glimpse of the beauty&humility of Jesus compels unceasing worship frm lovesick hearts. Thanks @mikebickle @allenhoodihop #onething11

The miracle is what He didn’t do with the power He had @mikebickle #onething11

“The very fact that God loves us and so zealously wants our love expresses His deep humility.” @mikebickle #onething11”

Daniel 7… a premiere prophecy that we have got to get down! @mikebickle #onething11”

“When I meet God will I tell him something that is interesting? Yes! Because it’s an idea in your heart & He loves you.” @mikebickle”

You move Him so much not b/c you’re so brilliant but b/c He is so humble & loves you so much. @mikebickle #onething11”

“Beloved you have it made forever” @mikebickle #onething11”

 Jesus had made the trees He got the wood from to make tables when He was a carpenter. Yet told no one @mikebickle #onething11 #humility

“John saw the father in his jasper-like glory. Jesus has this same glory. He came to earth to win us in the mystery of humility. @mikebickle

mistydedwards misty edwards -Mike Bickle’s message on the humility of Jesus moved me deeply. I want to love and imitate Jesus to a much greater level this year.

If we don’t accept Jesus as the humble servant, we can’t abide in all that He is. @mikebickle #onething11

Jesus will be the most honored, discussed, valued Man on the earth in the age to come – stirred by Rev5 and @mikebickle #onething11

Stuart Greaves on the Humility of God

We cannot grasp how low He came: the beautiful Son of God became flesh and dwelt quietly, anonymously amongst the arrogant and ignorant.

“The Greatest amongst you will be your Servant.” Jesus was laring an eternal & immutable truth about Himself: thank you @stuartgreaves 

“The greatest expression of godliness is to live in love.”- @stuartgreaves #onething11″

Humility is expressed when we patiently embrace the hiding of God & the resistance of man.-@stuartgreaves #onething11

Humility is rooted in the knowing of who we are in God, not denying who we are. @stuartgreaves #onething11″

Jesus will wash your feet before you go to the cross just like Mary did for Him – @stuartgreaves

 Meditation on my position (in Christ) changes my condition -@brotherrussell

If you have not yet heard @zacharysimms new EP go do so now, and then purchase it shortly there after j.mp/tRgotM

Praying Isa 33:17 for the eyes of the youth at onething to see the King in His beauty and be ruined for lesser things

drobertsihop Dwayne Roberts  David cried “one thing” I want is to see God! We r praying for a generation in the nations with this cry! #onething11 

“We imagine that hearing a message of preparedness makes us prepared.”// – @davidsliker

Misty Edwards – Thurs 7pm

“If you’ve accepted Jesus and ided to follow him, then you’re only at the BEGINNING- thats it. Theres SO much more!” -@mistydedwards

Without vision, without purpose, people perish. @mistydedwards #onething11

If you say what you want from me is love, then I am going to give you all my love @mistydedwards #onething11

My purpose has to be found in God and eternity because this life is vanity n the chasing of the wind. @mistydedwards #onething11

“God did not create you so he can have a workforce. He wants you!” – @mistydedwards #impact #love #relationship #satisfaction

The only way to figure out what the Lord wants is through His word. @mistydedwards #onething11″

I want the very depth of Jesus, I want more then the introductions of my faith @mistydedwards #onething11

You shall love me with all your mind. Matthew 22:37 @mistydedwards #onething11

‘The entire story of God hangs on LOVE’ @mistydedwards #onething11

‘You SHALL love the Lord your God..’ -Jesus and @mistydedwards #onething11

Your mind is designed for God. For intimacy with Him. Love God with your mind! – @mistydedwards #onething11

We have criminally underestimated the power of our mind. @mistydedwards #onething11

Your mind was designed for prayer! Fill your mind with Scripture and allow it to continually talk with God! -@mistydedwards #onething11

“Get rid of everything that gets in the way of constant conversation with Him” – @mistydedwards #onething11

“Turn off entertainment & embrace prayer and fasting because you were made for it.” @mistydedwards

“This is love: take up your cross and follow me.” — Jesus said THIS is love. We don’t get to redefine love! @mistydedwards #onething11

You will never find what you are looking for until you find what He is looking for– @mistydedwards @ihopkc #onething11

You will never be fully satisfied until you find what will satisfy the Lord. @mistydedwards #onething11

You’ll never be fully ALIVE you learn to DIE! @mistydedwards #onething11″

Fasting and Prayer is a form of self denial. But here’s the thing @mistydedwards says, you were made for it. #onething11

Life is battle,but You are made for it,You are made to fight for something,You are made for someone bigger! @mistydedwards #onething11

I want to be one with that holy pulsating heart that has been pulsating from eternity past. – @mistydedwards #onething11

He’s fashioning you into love. -@mistydedwards #onething11

You were created to be one with the Holy Heart” – @mistydedwards #onething11

God says “I love you.” Misty- “Fine I love you too!” God says “Are you satisfied with My LOVE!? @mistydedwards #onething11

 I want to be one with that Holy pulsating heart that has been pulsating from eternity past. – @mistydedwards #onething11”

 If you want to be obsessed with Jesus, LOOK AT HIM. @mistydedwards #onething11

 You will either die to your sin or die to yourself. Therefore live! @mistydedwards #onething11

 We were designed for God and by God. Until we connect with that purpose we will never be satisfied @mistydedwards #onething11

If you’re at #onething11 & want more end-times teaching check the class notes from Biblical Foundation of Eschatology @ Ihop authors table 

Mike Bickle – The Bridegroom’s War and Wedding

Our sweet Jesus is so committed to love He will cleanse the earth from evil once and for all’ – @mikebickle”

#onething11 @mikebickle says Rev  shows us how far Jesus is willing to go for the sake of love and how committed He is to justice.

I want her with me where I am on that Day #onething11

The reason His eyes are burning with fire is because His heart is burning with desire, His wedding day has come #onething11

What the body of Christ does with the nation of Israel is NOT a secondary matter. @mikebickle #onething11

Bob Jones told me 30 years ago you will be involved in mobilizing millions to pray for Israel, and now.. @mikebickle #onething11

The Israel storyline is very very important in understanding His return @mikebickle #onething11 

@MikeBickle He called the twilight vampires demons. Launch it brother. #onething11

As we mediate on the Day of Rev  and Psa 45 we get insight into His personality @mikebickle #onething11

The prophesy is being fulfilled in us Isa 33:17 we will see the King in His beauty #onething11

Don’t watch Harry potter or the like read your bible instead @mikebickle #onething11

Hollywood is trying to make demons cute never watch that stuff it is a setup for the occult that is about to explode #onething11

I believe people in this room will see the return of Jesus #onething11 @mikebickle

The sin will get more intense but the power on the church than the book of Acts @mikebickle #onething11

Why is the Day of the Lord so violent? The nations will be blaspheming God like never in history. @mikebickle #onething11

If you’re at #onething11 and want more end-times teaching check @davidsliker class notes from Biblical Foundation of Eschatology #sogood

@mikebickle is giving a commerical for the value of getting revelation on Rev 19 full notes at ihop.org #onething11

Jesus isn’t just our savior from hell, He is our husband and we are His inheritance. @mikebickle #onething11

We are making choices that we will wear as garments FOREVER #onething11

 The brides voice sounds just like thunder and many waters just like the bridegrooms @mikebickle #onething11

@mikebickle just said we are now seeing the beginning of the harlot #onething11

Read more about the coming false Harlot religion at mikebickle.org #onething11

The two main reasons for Gods Judgments will be the immorality and oppression by the Harlot on Christians @mikebickle #onething11

All the governmental power of the earth will go to Jesus @mikebickle #onething11

I am preparing you for a wedding in which you will be equally yoked for my Son @mikebickle #onething11 

the bridegroom message is about Jesus’ emotions for us! @mikebickle #onething11

Love is not something God does, it’s who He is. He is an eternal overflowing fountain of desire for His people. #onething11

JESUS is looking for more than a adoration and a free work force!He really is looking for a PARTNER! #onething11

Do not bring any sensual or romantic dimensions into the bridal paradigm #onething11

Isaiah was the first to say He is more than a King with power, He is a bridegroom with desire. Hosea next. @mikebickle #onething11

He didn’t save us to worship and work, He saved us to love Him

The Kingship relates to what Jesus does, a Bridegroom is who He is. He is the God of burning love @mikebickle #onething 11

Rev 22:17 shows that the church will move to a bridal identity at the end of the age @mikebickle #onething11

Paul showed us in Eph 5 that the creation of Eve is parallel to the bride of Jesus @mikebickle #onething11

God’s ultimate purpose is to provide a family for Himself and a Bride for His Son as His eternal companion to reign with Him. #onething11

He did so much more than save us, we are His inheritance @mikebickle #onething11

The endtimes is God preparing the optimum environment for us to get prepared, to respond in wholeheartedness @mikebickle #onething11

@mikebickle the way to understand the wedding of Rev  is to understand the war of Rev  #onething11

The judgment in the endtimes is to remove everything that hinders love, it is not contrary to love. -@mikebickle #onething11

Check out : “Ask Mike Bickle,  bit.ly/tX9jMI”

@brotherrussell @stephenvenable and I discuss the power of speaking in tongues #glorywithin youtube.com/watch?v=8BeUop…

Watch the Onething Conference!!

http://www.ihop.org/onething2011/

25,000 attended last year in Kansas City, mp3s are free on the link there.

Click HERE to for mp3s of misty’s set

Transforming hearts and cities with God’s justice through encountering Jesus

I count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus. (Phil. 3:8)

The apostle Paul proclaimed that he gladly sacrificed all things to position himself to experience more of the excellence, or majestic beauty, of Jesus and to bring His transforming power to others. Paul was so dedicated to Jesus, because he was so fascinated with Him. As we see what Paul saw about Jesus, then we will live like Paul lived.

Many believers only know Jesus as the One who forgives, heals, and provides for them, but the Jesus of the Bible is so much more. He possesses a magnificence and grandeur that many believers never think of. He is the most fascinating Man who ever walked the earth. Oh, that we would be as fascinated with Jesus as Paul was!

Today, many who have given their all in ministry are burned out, spiritually bored, and living with dull hearts. We need a breakthrough in our hearts, as well as in our ministries, campuses, and neighborhoods. Encountering the Jesus of the Bible is the answer to burnout and powerlessness. The revelation of His excellence and magnificence is the sustaining power of our hearts and the transforming power in our ministry to others.

Jesus asked His apostles a very significant question: “Who do you really think that I am?” (see Mt.16:15). He asked this question of dedicated men, who had given all to follow Him, who had healed the sick and even raised the dead. Yet, what they needed in their leadership was to understand and encounter Jesus in greater fullness. Again, in our day, the most important question the Holy Spirit is asking the Church is: Who do you really think He is?

One of the primary battlefronts in the kingdom today concerns the truth of who Jesus is. He alone is fully man and fully God. The implications are staggering, not just for our ministry to others, but in how we carry our heart before Him.

We must proclaim the Jesus of the Bible, not a “Jesus of American culture,” who simply forgives us and then blesses us with a more comfortable life. We are called to live fascinated with this glorious Man, who alone is fully man and fully God.

We err when we think of Jesus as less than He truly is. A hundred lesser evils are caused by this one great error. The Church will be revived to the degree that she encounters the Person of Jesus instead of just working for Him. The most overlooked aspect of the kingdom of God is God Himself. It is common in the Church to teach many kingdom principles but to neglect so many glorious truths about Jesus, the great King.

As we see more of who He is, we will gladly love and serve Him on His terms. This will cause us to give our loyalty fully and only to Him. This is the foundation from which our works of justice, missions, and outreach flow. In September 2009, the IHOP–KC family made a commitment to join 24/7 prayers for justice with 24/7 works of justice. We understand that this is only possible as we see more and more of the fullness of who Jesus is.

Too many in the Church are giving mental assent to a “contemporary Jesus.” The world needs the real Jesus, not just a form of Christian religion that has no power to move their hearts or transform their lives (2 Tim. 3:5). We have the truth; therefore, we can offer them true beauty, true fascination, true life. All this is found in Jesus.

Before Jesus returns, the Church will witness the greatest move of the Holy Spirit in history.

The end-time revival will surpass even the book of Acts in power. The Body of Christ will surely “take the promised land” in terms of touching the nations with the gospel and impacting every sphere of society with the kingdom.

But let us remember what Joshua experienced just before he led Israel to take the promised land. Jesus revealed Himself to Joshua as the most glorious One, the Captain of the armies of heaven (Josh. 5). Joshua fell on his face, awestruck with the grandeur of the Man standing before him. This very experience equipped him for the victories that were soon to follow. The same principle is true today. As God’s people are “taking the land” with increasing spheres of victory and power, we also, like Joshua, must come face to face with the most glorious truths of who Jesus is. He is the One we must proclaim, talk about, and sing about.

Seeing the King in His beauty and glory (Isa. 33:17) is an essential part of seeing the kingdom increase on earth as it is in heaven.

We invite you to join 25,000 young adults in Kansas City this December to encounter Jesus through extended times of worship, teaching of the Word, and ministry in the power of the Spirit. Our primary aim is to encounter Jesus, so that we might go forth to do His works and change the world.

Faith through Love

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love (avails much). (Galatians 5:6)  The prayers of a righteous man, avails much (makes much available) (James 5:16).

Understanding the Prayer of Faith

James 5:15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well.

The prayer of faith means the prayer offered in faith, or in the exercise of confidence in God.

1. Faith operates in the context of love (see Gal 5:6 above).
2. The overriding principle of the how the Kingdom of God operates is in the context of loving God with the whole heart:

Jesus said to him, “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment.” (Matthew 22:37-38)

1. The prayer of faith cannot be understood rightly unless the first commandment is in first place in our understanding (Gal 5:6 above).
2. The prayer of faith cannot be reduced to a set of principles.  It must never be taken out of the context of loving God.  It is the fire of loving God that ignites our faith, and enables us to live a prayer life from a biblical point of view.
3. The prayer of faith will not be alive and vibrant without a turning away from sin and to God.  We must turn away from the issues that resist the Holy Spirit’s leadership.

Turning to God with all our Heart

“Now, therefore,” says the LORD, “Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.” (Joel 2:12)

1. Turning to God with all our heart is the precursor to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in an unprecedented way.

And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I  will pour out My Spirit in those days. (Joel 2:28-29)

How do we turn?

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. (James 1:22 NIV)

1. We must make decisions that stop the actions and attitudes that the Word of God and the Holy Spirit are convicting us about. However, it is not enough to turn away from the wrong things. We must turn to the right things.
2. We must turn our actions and attitudes towards servanthood, humility, a spirit of devotion, and using our time and energy in a way that is pleasing to the Lord.
3. We must weep and mourn over the areas of compromise that quench the Holy Spirit
4. As we grow in fellowship with the Holy Spirit, He will reveal the areas of our heart that are unyielded. The Holy Spirit will express His grief over areas of darkness in our heart, not anger. He is jealous for the nearness that sin prevents. He longs for us to come under the liberty and the dignity of His leadership in a greater way.
5. It is the gift of God to reveal the areas in our heart that grieve Him. This type of sorrow is the work of the Holy Spirit. It is the blessing of God.

 

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. (Matthew 5:4)

…the Comforter…I will send him unto you.  And when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. (John 16:7-8 KJV)

1. When we mourn over an area, it gives us zeal to turn away from that area. It makes the area unwanted. We are able to see how it hurts our walk with God, how it diminishes our joy, and hinders our faith.
2. Fasting positions us to freely receive God’s tenderizing of our heart. When we fast with a spirit of obedience, the power of revelation on our heart is increased. Fasting helps to loosen the grip that darkness has on us.  The power of fasting is in the grace of God, not in the fasting itself.

Rending Our Heart

So rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the LORD your God… (Joel 2:13)

1. In the ancient world, tearing the garment was a religious, ritual act during crisis to express grief. Tearing the heart is what moves God.  God wants us to deal with those unsettled issues in our lives that stand between us and a life of full obedience.
2. We must not be casual in our approach to areas of darkness in our heart.  We must be actively confronting these issues, declaring war on them.
3. Asking for forgiveness is not sufficient without true repentance. We must turn from the sin that grieves the Holy Spirit in order for the Holy Spirit to cease being grieved. Turning to God and away from sin is the vital step to releasing God’s power in our life.