Friends and Family in Christ,
I feel great excitement this week
at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City. God is doing what I believe is a historic
event. The IHOPKC leadership team is
hosting 300 missions and church planting leaders from 120 different
organizations for a three day “Call2All Congress”. YWAM and Campus Crusade have come together to
birth this vision, giving leadership as two of the largest missions
organizations in the world. There are a
few major focuses: To connect strategically at a practical level to see the
gospel of the kingdom go forth to every nation, people, tribe, and tongue; To
empower communities, as prayer furnaces pop up throughout the world, to pray
strategically for world evangelism and the fulfillment of the Great Commission
in our generation, unto ultimately crying out as one voice for the return of
Christ, “The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come!’“; To empower leaders from the
persecuted Chinese underground church to raise up a MILLION missionaries for
the “Back to Jerusalem” movement, which is the vision to carry the gospel BACK
across Asia and specifically reaching the Muslim nations such as Iran, which
originally brought the Gospel to China!
There has
been a noticeable shift in intensity in the prayer room this week as we, the
staff, interns, students, and greater IHOPKC family have been paving the way in
prayer for God to impart vision this Thursday through Saturday and to unite
across denominations and ministries and to do “above and beyond all” that the leaders
who are coming can ask or imagine! I
feel so humbled and blessed to have these beautiful leaders from the thriving
though terribly persecuted Chinese underground church here in our midst. They will be staying here with YWAM and
IHOPKC for three more months to be built up before they return at great risk to
raise up the “Back to Jerusalem” missionaries.
I won’t risk endangering them more by naming names, but I will say that
at least two of these leaders have impacted many in the Western church through
a book written about their imprisonments and persecutions...and I will be here
in the prayer room at the same time with them each morning for several
hours! So humbling.
So I just
wanted to share such exciting news, especially for someone like myself who
feels equally called as a "musicianary" to both the prayer and the missions’ movements. “On earth as it is in heaven....” we pray, so
please join us over these next three days and three months. My internship will be in the prayer room 8
hours today and 9 hours tomorrow covering them in prayer as they meet down the
road. Unity commands a blessing, and I am anticipating great breakthrough from
this step of unity on the part of 300 leaders.
We believe that our prayers and actions actually make a difference in
the kingdom, as 2 Peter 3:12 says, “You ought to live holy and godly lives as
you look forward to the day of God
and speed its coming.” There is a day in the heart of God when the
Great Commission will be fulfilled. Let
it be in our generation! Let us rise up
in this hour as an army of laid down
lovers to bring the gospel of the kingdom to all peoples, being built up to
the whole measure of the fullness of Christ (Eph. 4:13), until the Church in
every nation is crying out with the Spirit, “Come Lord Jesus!” (Rev. 22:17)
Three more days left of Intro Track 1! Update from this experience to come! They run us pretty hard, so it won't be till my 4 day break between Track 1 and Track 2 next week...Praise God, I get to do Track 2 right away!
