My Prayer Partner

Dear Friends,

If you haven’t already heard, there is a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit happening at The International House of Prayer (IHOP) in Kansas City.

This is from a newsletter sent out by John Arnott of the Airport Vineyard in Toronto, Canada

“About a month ago, we got word from Mike Bickle the pastor of IHOP that the Holy Spirit fell on some students in one of their IHOP University classrooms. It quickly spread from that class to the whole University, soon many started flocking from all over the world.

These moves of God are a wonderful and treasured thing and Carol and I wanted to share what God is doing with all of you. We want to support Mike Bickle in this new outpouring. To help with this, Bill Johnson from Bethel Church and I will be at the Awakening Meetings starting this Monday Dec 7, 2009. We will be there to be help in anyway that we can and we would love for you to tune in a watch those events live on both ReviveTV or IHOP. Our hearts is to join together as the body of Christ, and let the Holy Spirit do what He wants to do. To help where needed, to pray where needed, and most of all to work together in a spirit of unity, so that God can continue doing great things.

This outpouring is being streamed nightly, live to the internet so that people everywhere can be a part. We would love for you to tune in, and if you are able, join us in Kansas City. Let’s take this time to join with our brothers and sisters and pray that God will be glorified and that He will touch peoples lives in a powerful new way. God is on the move and now is the time to seek after Him for more!

Mike Bickle has written this amazing letter below, sharing his heart for this time and what God is doing.”

Many Blessings

John Arnott

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Dear saints,

We stand at a critical juncture in our nation’s history. It is time to encounter God and to take action. The Holy Spirit is visiting His people with power. At the same time, the powers of darkness are raging against the moral fabric of our nation. The light is getting brighter as the darkness gets darker.

The crisis in our nation is real. The serpentine stranglehold of abortion continues to squeeze the life out of over 4,000 wombs daily. Sexual immorality, both heterosexual and homosexual, are reaching epic heights of perversity. The number of women and children being trafficked into the dark underbelly of the sex industry in our cities is growing at an alarming rate. Entire school systems are giving way to darkness. The sanctity of marriage is under siege, threatening to destroy the moral foundations of our nation.

We will also address the growing crisis that is emerging in many churches across America. A new wave of confusion is systematically seducing many young adults into deception. Sincere young people whose hearts were once ablaze for Jesus are being allured into compromise on foundational biblical truths and practices, while at the same time they are increasing in works of compassion and justice. No amount of increased ministry activity can “balance out” their profound spiritual compromises. In the name of tolerance, they are settling for a humanistic and “politically correct” theology that trivializes the glory of Jesus. Many young adult ministries are falling prey to this as they are seeking “relevance” that dulls the razor’s edge of truth for the sake of man’s approval. It is not enough to mention Jesus’ name if they deny foundational truths about Him. Our works of justice must flow from deep allegiance to Jesus and the Scripture.

Our nation has never stood on such a precarious footing as today. The onslaught of spiritual darkness is increasing in our classrooms, boardrooms, courtrooms, and bedrooms. We must confront the confusion that is pouring forth from many pulpits as well as from the halls of Washington. It is time to draw a line in the sand. We must hear what the Spirit is saying and we must act on it. The Spirit will confirm the truth with demonstrations of power.

It is darkest before the dawn. Our hearts are full of faith. We know another historic “Great Awakening” is soon to sweep across our nation. We look with confidence to God’s promise: “In the last days… I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh” (Acts 2:17-21). All nations will receive the witness of kingdom with power (Mt. 24:14; Rev. 7:9). What a privilege to live in this awesome hour of history.

At this very hour, Jesus is raising up young adults who are being mobilized to cry out in night and day prayer, win the lost, heal the sick, and do works of compassion and justice as they impact the very fabric of our society.

Please join us in Kansas City from December 28-31. The onething’09 conference is FREE. You can register at www.ihop.org

With passion for Jesus,

Mike Bickle and Lou Engle

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Student Awakening so far

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On November 11, during a 9:00am class of first-year students, led by Allen Hood and Wes Hall at International House of Prayer University (IHOPU), the Spirit moved in their midst with physical healings, deliverance, and a spirit of joy. That class, on November 11, continued for more than 15 hours. The word spread quickly, and nearly 2,000 people spontaneously gathered in the auditorium from all over the Kansas City area, as deliverance and physical healings increased. The meeting continued well past midnight. Recognizing that the Spirit was moving, the leadership of IHOPU canceled all classes for the next few days so that we could gather to receive all that the Spirit wanted to do.

We recognize that the Holy Spirit is awakening our students and many others. In each of these meetings, many people are being set free from addictions, shame, depression, demonic activity, and every sort of emotional pain. We are also witnessing an increase of physical healings, as God is touching and restoring bodies inside the building, as well as healing people watching via the webstream. Moreover, we greatly rejoice as we are seeing lost souls being added to the kingdom of God during these meetings. We are receiving many testimonies and reports that this move of the Spirit is spreading to other churches and prayer rooms that are joining with us each night via the webstream.

It all began on November 4, on the last day of the monthly Global Bridegroom Fast at the International House of Prayer of Kansas City (IHOP-KC). A move of the Holy Spirit began to stir during the student chapel at IHOPU, as students testified about receiving deliverance from self-hatred, shame, and depression. Students began to experience supernatural joy at the revelation of God’s love for them. A powerful spirit of joy rested on many the next day at the IHOPU student-led 6:00am prayer meeting, and the Spirit continued to move throughout the week in our classes and during the faculty meetings.

What started during our IHOPU student chapel on November 4 is continuing today. Visitors are coming in from many places, with some driving over 1,000 miles overnight to participate in these meetings. Consequently, on November 12, we moved the Prayer Room to our Forerunner School of Ministry sanctuary from 6:00pm to midnight each night, to accommodate more people. We will continue these nightly meetings as the Holy Spirit leads us. We earnestly pray that this awakening will continue, as our nation is in desperate need of another great awakening in this hour.

Throughout history, college and university campuses in our nation have been an epicenter and a catalyst for spiritual awakening. Since the 1700s, our nation has witnessed multiple moves of the Holy Spirit that have touched and awakened students on college campuses, including Princeton University, Yale University, Asbury College, Wheaton College, and more than a dozen other college campuses. These spiritual awakenings often progressed beyond the campuses and resulted in a great number of souls being added to the kingdom of God. History also attests to a strong correlation between spiritual awakening and missionary movements. We pray that this spiritual awakening that is touching IHOPU and the rest of our IHOP-KC Missions Base will break out all over our nation in different cities.

Testimonies

We have received many testimonies about how the Lord has been touching other college campuses, churches, and houses of prayer. Read below how the IHOPU student awakening has touched students at Wheaton College and Asbury College.

The Holy Spirit moves at Wheaton College
In our dorm tonight at Wheaton College, we were watching the webstream. The warmth of the love of God filled the room. We prayed fervently as He released His Spirit of intercession upon us. His kindness led to repentance and we experienced a breakthrough that has never occurred before!

The Holy Spirit moves at Asbury College
A group of us at Asbury met to watch the live webstream. Over 30 students were present. God poured out His Spirit in such amazing ways. The Spirit filled people on campus who used to be quiet and reserved. God has removed that spirit of timidity and replaced it with one of power. We’ve broken out of the Asbury House of Prayer. Tonight there’s singing and rejoicing in the streets. One person was healed of lifelong blood clots, another of knee pain, and someone else of a stomach virus. There’s so much more. I can’t even begin to describe it all in words.

For more information on upcoming events at IHOP including their Onething09 conference visit www.ihop.org.

via Catch The Fire Newsletter