Missions and Prayer Movements Merge

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!