Supporting Intercessory Missionaries

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.  I am at the 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, people like you.  I’ve heard it taught that tithes is 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)

“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)

Please consider supporting me as an intercessory at the house of prayer through this link:

Staying in the Will of God

The Apostle Paul wrote, “I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound.” Philippians 4:11-12

Some times God draws back to see if we will move without His leadership. We may feel discontent because of the lack of activity. When we are driven by discontent, we will always find pain. Sure, to stay until God sends us is not always comfortable. Joseph ended up in prison by staying. But God meant it for good. We must keep trusting have have confidence God will bring us through the better for it.

When we step into a job, church, or even a town, where God has not sent us we lose something. God can bless us and use us there, but we may be fighting an uphill battle until we can get back into our calling. Some of God’s greatest blessings can be found in being where He wants us to be. Spiritual insight and discernment comes easier, the seems to be a greater release of His wisdom as we ask for it, when we are where He is calling us.

Many Christians move places for climate, easier living, friends etc, without a thought to ask God for confirmation. I’m not saying doubt where you are now if you feel like God put you there. But if think you should ask God where He wants you, then ask. Our God is the God of miracles and today is a new day. There are the resources of heaven available to you as you ask, seek and knock.

I know also debt is a chain the devil uses to keep Christians immoblie and unable to answer the call of God on their lives. He wants us to be free and able to go about the world in obedience to Him. The key is favor, think of our tithe as your tax to the Kingdom and offerings (additional secret gifts He leads you in) as investments. Mal 3 challenges you to test God to see if He won’t return the funds two-or-more-fold. Then you just have to ask God each new income is seed to sow into others, or bread to eat (provision) or blessing to pay off debt. Now some will say ‘i can’t afford to tithe,’ i’ve heard it said ‘you can’t afford not to.’