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12 Prayers of Repentance for the House of Prayer

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#IHOPKC folk: At the end of the day, if we don’t see that the tribulation that has engulfed the House of Prayer is foremost about the Father judging His household, WHATEVER else we have to say, either as accusation, or in defense, is gonna be OFF POINT. Profoundly.

Generally speaking, us humans would rather do the easy work of “destroying”, than the hard work of “healing”. In a nut-shell, this is the kind of endemic, and warped way of the curse, that Jesus came to save us from.

What if, we paused our cursing and accusing, and defending, and instead, used our many words to cry out to the Father for His tangible power and presence to rest upon us, the House of Prayer and the praying church?

What if we poured out our broken passion and pain, and tears and angst, and our many sins together at His feet?? Are His arms short? Would He not purge us, forgive us, and heal us? Would He not gather us to Himself? Would He not fit us for His purposes in this hour? Perhaps with even increased fidelity to His heart as the contra-Christ spirit intensifies around us?

This is what I am endeavoring to do here. I’m sick from eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. I’m tired of throwing my stones. I’m bruised from my own punches and counter-punches.

Here are 12 PRAYERS of REPENTANCE that I’m using to enjoin the Lord and His healing mercy.

#01 • A PRAYER of THANKSGIVING and SURRENDER to GOD and HIS JUDGMENTS

“The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desire are they than gold; yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.” (Psalm 19:9-10)

#02 • PRAYER FOR FORGIVENESS FOR OUR REBELLION AND UNBELIEF

“Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: ‘Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness…’ Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?” (Hebrews 3:7-8; Hebrews 10:29)

#03 • REPENTANCE AND PLEA FOR DELIVERANCE FROM THE CURSE OF THE SERPENT

“(When) they knew that they were naked; they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?” So Adam said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.” And the Lord said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”” (Genesis 3:7-13)

#04 • REPENTANCE FOR OUR HYPOCRISY RE: OUR FAITH IN GOD THROUGH CORPORATE PRAYER

“Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning. So rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the Lord your God… Blow the trumpet in Zion, consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly; gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children and nursing babes… Let the priests, who minister to the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar; let them say, ‘Spare Your people, O Lord, and do not give Your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’“ (Joel 2:12-17)

“Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says the Lord of hosts. (Zechariah 4:6)

#05 • PRAYER of REPENTANCE for OUR DEEP HYPOCRISY and PROFOUND REBELLION AGAINST the LORD and HIS WAY

“Our iniquities overwhelm us; only You can atone for our great rebellion.” (Psalm 65:3)

#06 • PRAYER of REPENTANCE for ASSUMING WE HAD THE HOLY ABILITY TO FIX THE LORD’S HOUSE

“So they carried the ark of God on a new cart from the house of Abinadab, and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart. Then David and all Israel played music before God with all their might, with singing, on harps, on stringed instruments, on tambourines, on cymbals, and with trumpets. And when they came to the THRESHING FLOOR, UZZA put out his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled. Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against UZZA, and He struck him because he put his hand to the ark… David was afraid of God that day, saying, ‘How can I bring the ark of God to me?'” (1 Chronicles 13:7-10,12)

#07 • PRAYER of REPENTANCE for GIVING OURSELVES to DEVOURING OUR SISTERS and BROTHERS

“If you go on attacking each other and tearing each other to pieces, watch out, or you will be destroyed by each other!” (Galatians 5:15) [CEV]

#08 • PRAYER of REPENTANCE for DISMISSING and MARGINALIZING the CONCERN and PAIN of OUR SISTERS and BROTHERS

“As for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting; and my prayer would return to my own heart. I paced about as though he were my friend or brother; I bowed down heavily, as one who mourns for his mother.” (Psalm 35:13-14)

DAY #09 • PRAYER of SELF-EXAMINATION and REPENTANCE

“Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my fears; and see if there is any wicked way in me.” (Psalm 139:23-24)

#10 • PRAYER of CORPORATE REFLECTION and REPENTANCE

“I pray, Lord God of heaven, O great and awesome God, You who keep Your covenant and mercy with those who love You and observe Your commandments, please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You now, day and night, for the #HouseOfPrayer Your servants, and confess the sins of #IHOPKC which we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned. We have acted very corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded.” (Nehemiah 1:5-7)

#11 PRAYER OF REPENTANCE for SHUNNING the WAY of the CROSS

“If you do not take up your cross and follow Me, you are not worthy of Me.” (Matthew 10:38)

#12 PRAYER of REPENTANCE for SELFISHLY SEEKING OUR OWN PROTECTION and SELF-JUSTIFICATION while in the MIDST of CRISIS

“All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” (Isaiah 53:6)

“In those days… everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” (Judges 17:6 and 21:25)

“There is none righteous, no, not one; there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God…” (Romans 3:11)

“He who knew no sin became sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)

“For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:6-8)

“He poured out His soul unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.” (Isaiah 53:12)

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JSB • February, 2024

10 Pastoral Encouragements, and One Urgent Plea to House of Prayer Leadership

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No one’s asking me, but in light of the calls for the closure of #IHOPKC here’s one urgent plea, and 10 strong pastoral encouragements for the House of Prayer family as we respond to the fire-storm of revelations, and accusations being leveled against Mike and House of Prayer leadership:

1. Set-apart 3 – 6 (or more) months for this season of focused grieving, lamenting, confession and repentance.

2. Shut EVERYTHING on the base down and focus EVERYTHING on repentance before the Lord. (This is central to the radical, Joel Paradigm.)

3. Require all staff, leaders, group-leaders, pastors be present at these gatherings – multiple times each day. If they’re unwilling, kindly give them their exit papers.

4. Be as thorough as the blood of Jesus bids us to be. Let all of our “ways” get scrutinized and brought to the threshing-floor. Own it all. Without one plea; or an ounce of excuse. Stay in the number. Get entirely naked before God. Get to the roots of the mundane to the most wicked inclinations of our hearts.

5. Invite Houses of Prayer around the globe into this season; for their own well-being, for solidarity w IHOPKC, and ultimately for their own unique integrity before the Lord.

6. Establish and enforce an atmosphere of open prayer and grief that the “Tammy’s” and the “JaneDoes” tell us are “safe” and “real” before the Lord. Hire professional counselors to minister to those who “dare” come and need intimate, respectful, Christlike care.

7. Cultivate lament, tears and travail as values, and vital expressions of prayer in Houses of Prayer everywhere. Normalize these types of prayer as much as the Spirit does.

8. Let (John 12:24-25) be the driving vision of the whole of the base; no less than “changing the expression of Christianity in one generation” was in the past. Let the style; the ethos; the language; and the prophetic history die. Bury it. Erect “Achan memorial stones” (Joshua 7) over it. And then train every worship leader, singer, musician, intercessor, pastor and teacher in the theology of the cross, so that NOTHING is done apart from embracing the crucified, dead and buried life-style.

9. Hire a truly, independent, third-party investigation team. Let them do their work. Compare notes with their findings, and the prayer room’s repentance. Across the board. Post the findings to the IHOPKC web-site, as additional memorial stones.

10. Restart prayer and worship ONLY on God’s terms. Listen to the Lord for His design; His style; His formation; His unction; His vision. And gather objective prophetic, prayer leaders from the nations to speak into, help shape, ordain, and release the new expression of the tabernacle of David prayer according to their sense of the Lord’s timing.

None of this will be easy. But it IS what’s necessary. It’ll go against every natural inclination to “save self” that IHOPKC has been evidencing the last four months. For the sake of authentic healing. For the sake of the integrity of the prophetic histories of the beloved hundreds of individuals, and families who came to pray in this community at the behest of the Holy Spirit. Do. Luke. 9:24. Anyway.

Why is it imperative to have #IHOPKC #HouseOfPrayer leadership facilitating such radical, self-restrictive measures “today“? And why does the work of personal and corporate introspection, confession and repentance become exponentially more difficult the longer the time goes by without it?

We are not only personal beings, we are relational beings. We form norms, values, beliefs, language, histories and narratives between ourselves that shape how we view ourselves, our significant others, and our place in our world. Once a “narrative” is set, it is extremely difficult to unravel the thousands of threads of belief, value, normative behavior, histories and episodes that have formed that narrative.

This is the reason why millions could vaunt a Hitler in the 30s and 40s, and why billions looked on with horror at the warped beliefs, norms, values and episodes of the German people when they were finally exposed. Through their shared culture; conversations, relationships, propaganda etc. Germans were accumulating evidence for their narratives, and then reenforcing their values, norms, behavior with those pieces of evidence.

This was also the reason why the prophetic messages of Jeremiah were so adamantly opposed by the people of Judah. Their aggregated narratives had placed them in a paradigm of thinking and believing that WOULDN’T ALLOW FOR YHWHs WORDS to be embraced as TRUTH and REALITY.

The point? If the current leadership of #IHOPKC does not quickly, do an about-face, cease with its narrative of persecution, and cultivate an atmosphere where it trusts the independent, objective analysis of both God and other brothers and sisters, the dominant, self-saving narrative will become too engrained within the people; too engrained for them to want to do the thorough self-crucifying work of untangling the months and years of accumulated belief, values and episodes. This is the ONLY WAY any of us will come through the chaos of this tribulation into vibrant righteousness.

ASIDE: I generally believe, pray and hope for the continuance of the Spirit’s authentic worship and intercession through my #IHOPKC family. (Mike’s profound sins, do not have the ability to negate the millions of sincere expressions of love and adoration to Jesus, the brilliant, Kingdom-enhancing friendships, the testimonies, the gazillions acts of Kingdom witness, the healings, the souls saved, nor the many, many miracles manifest over the decades.)

HOWEVER, the base, (the WHOLE base) MUST let go of self, and undergo a long, radial, self-abasing, self-analyzing, self-crucifying fire of the Holy Spirit. Without this arduous, focused work being engaged, we should not entertain any hope of the Father’s anointing upon us. (I honestly can’t swallow that I am saying this.)

PRAY FOR the current leadership at #IHOPKC. Pray for #HouseOfPrayer leaders in the nations. Pray that we/they would abase our/themselves before the objective analysis of the Holy Spirit, and humble our/themselves before what He says is true and real, that we might appropriate the Father’s authentic healing and righteousness. He IS a complete, and mighty Redeemer.

This is where I’m aiming my little energy in this hour.

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JSB • February, 2024

What Would a Joel Assembly ACTUALLY Look Like?

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‘Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the Lord is coming, for it is at hand… Now, therefore’, says the Lord, ‘Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.” So rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the Lord your God.’” (Joel 2:1, 12-13)

I don’t believe there’s a more important Kingdom concern for the body of Christ right now than to be responding to the Lord’s judgments over His praying church. The Lord is passionately bidding His priests, His intercessors and His prophetic messengers to be purified so He can retrofit us with His zeal, vision and strength for His end-times purposes. This is the primary lesson for us to learn from the last 6 months, as the Lord brought His swift judgment upon the largest, most far-reaching, and longest corporate prayer community in the history of our nation. Through all the contention, real, human abuse, sin, deceit, pretense and accusation the Lord is calling His house; (Isaiah 56:7) His house of prayer, to lose our pride, let go of our self-preservation, and meet Him on His threshing floor, where the abundance of “God-only” resurrection power is to be found.

“The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.” (Joel 2:24)

This is where the prophet JOEL is inviting us to go. In three chapters, the Lord gives us the most complete set of instructions on how to humble ourselves before Him that we find anywhere in the Bible. I believe these three chapters also constitute some of the most oft-neglected and needed, but unapplied scriptures in the history of the people of God.

THE JOEL ASSEMBLY PARADIGM
I’ve studied, prayed through, and taught the book of Joel intensely for nearly 20 years. The Joel assembly is not a call to a weekend festival. It would have taken Judah months to fully prepare and respond to this exhortation. This is most likely the chief reason the Lord’s summons was never heeded by the nation. It would have been too costly; too unsettling to their status quo lifestyles. Actually doing the Joel assembly would require a wholesale adjustment of every aspect of their lives. It would have disrupted the order of the temple, the administration of the government, the pattern of families and parenting, the schedules and details of commerce and the arrangements for festivals, marriages and funerals.

Any ministry, church or fellowship who wants to take the Joel assembly seriously in our day will need to face this thoroughness of application head on. Doing Joel demands a lot of time, prayerful consensus-building and detailed preparation.

Let me be REALLY clear here. There are many who are washing their hands of the #IHOPKC implosion, and moving on with their lives – crippled, stunned, PTSD, burned, disillusioned, betrayed – many in delusional denial… (I get it… I live w the same gravitational pull every day.) Because of the way IHOPKC leadership has disastrously dealt w this judgment of the Lord, MOST of us will never get the full healing we need, or deserve. This is a bonafide carnage of souls, relationships, and trust. With this in mind, let me also say to all of us: NONE OF US will come through these months walking with full hearts, in vibrant righteousness with Jesus, without doing what the Lord prescribes and provides for in the book of Joel.* This isn’t just a crisis. It’s first and foremost, a judgment of the Lord upon His people. We CANNOT circumvent what the Lord is after in this hour. We either get to the threshing floor or we will be winnowed like chaff through a thousand different personal, and interpersonal tensions attendant to this horrific episode. No matter how unjustly we’ve been treated; no matter how much pretense we’ve lathered on our ministries; no matter how much sin we’re still hiding in the dark; no matter how passionately we want to get back to our assignments, our families, and our lives… …our God is still a consuming fire preparing a bride for His Son. Large or small, no matter how we manage to engage its dynamics, Joel 2 is THE unavoidable way to participate in that preparation.

The brilliance of Joel 2 is that it marvelously empowers community to enable the weak, the young and the broken to do and receive what they need as the whole body engages the Lord. When a people choose to do Joel 2, the wounded and the traumatized are embraced, strengthened and provided for.

In chapters 1 and 2 of Joel, the Lord issues 16 specific instructions that will help Judah corporately yield their ways to HIs purging and redemptive work. In these few verses the eternal God is literally giving His people the blueprint for how to see their condition clearly, come before Him in humility, be cleansed, ask for forgiveness, receive His mercy, and be realigned to His righteous purposes.

16 ELEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH DEPLOYING THE JOEL ASSEMBLY

“Hear and listen to the Word of the Lord.” (Joel 1:2) The call to listen and hear the Word of the Lord is at the forefront of Joel’s instructions. The God of Mount Sinai is speaking to His children. By nature of what it is, His Word demands that the people stop what they’re doing, give the Lord strict attention, ardently study, understand and meticulously obey the prophetic Words that are being spoken. The God of Genesis 1 is releasing His Words of power. This is a call for the people to wholly yield themselves to every diagnosis; every truth; every exhortation; every word of conviction; and every word of hope and promise that the prophet is declaring. “Hearing” and “listening” is a matter of life or death.

The context of (v.2) makes it clear that the Lord is also issuing a two-fold admonition to the elders (v.14) As the Word comes through the prophet, it would have first been submitted to the priests, teachers and other prophets. As it is announced to them, they would have understood that the Lord is saying:
A.) Be certain that you (elders) hear, digest and internalize these Words yourselves; correcting the deficient norms, values and ways of your leadership and systems that have become cross-purposes to My heart.
B.) Make sure that the people comprehend what I Am saying. The lives of My sons and daughters are on the line. I Am making you responsible for the sufficient dissemination of My Word. Teach. Answer questions. Cultivate applied understanding. I Am putting this obligation on you. Work toward corporate consensus and thorough obedience to My Word. I Am holding you accountable for My people adequately understanding, humbling and adjusting themselves to My Words of life.

HERE ARE THE REST OF THE EXHORTATIONS GIVEN TO US BY THE PROPHET JOEL…

“Be awakened.” (Joel 1:5) Let the light of the Holy Spirit illuminate your heart.

“Blow the trumpet.” (Joel 2:1) Declare the need to gather together corporately.

“Gather the elders.” (Joel 1:14) Share and dialogue what the Lord is saying with the leaders.

“Call a sacred assembly.” (Joel 1:14) Do the preparatory work to assemble the people into a holy convocation.

“Sanctify the congregation.” (Joel 2:16) Establish the purpose and intent of your gathering as holy and focused on the intentions of the Lord.

“Consecrate a fast.” (Joel 2:12) Focus the hearts and appetites to be fully attentive to the Lord.

“Rend your heart.” (Joel 2:13) Make your self, your ways, your history, your heritage, and your hopes exposed and vulnerable before the Lord.

“Tremble.” (Joel 2:1) Be aware of your unrighteous nakedness before the uncreated God of perfect holiness and power.

“Lament.” (Joel 1:13) Meditate upon how hopeless and barren you are apart from the Lord. Consider how you have lived so short of His glorious realities.

“Weep and wail.” (Joel 1:5 and Joel 2:17) Let your bankrupt condition bring you to tears and touch your emotions.

“Be ashamed.” (Joel 1:11) Let yourself feel the shame of your wretched state before the Holy One and all the holy ones in heaven.

“Lie in sackcloth.” (Joel 1:13 and Joel 1:12) Let your whole being be brought to nothing – to death – the grave – despair and ashes. Lie in that reality. Let it be your clothing.

“Cry out to the Lord.” (Joel 1:14) Repent out loud. Pour out your heart, your sins, your barrenness, your inability, your need, your hope, your falseness and your despair before the Lord. Keep on crying out.

“Prioritize the Lord’s paradigm.” (Joel 2:16) As you continue to listen to His Word, let Him reveal His righteousness and His righteous ways to your heart. Dialogue these righteous ways among the company of the repentant ones until they become agreed upon values and priorities.

“Gather and tell your children.” (Joel 1:3) Establish an agreed upon paradigm for teaching yourselves, and your children the right order of the Lord. This is where your repentance becomes your new cultural narrative that emphasizes the mercy and the right order of the Lord.

Each of these elements points to a relational reality that is important for us to follow in the repentance process. They are like lights in the cabin of an airliner that’s filled with smoke and plummeting into the ocean. They help us know how to navigate to safety and security in a “time of trouble” (Psalm 27:5). It’s vital that we know how to come to Him “without one plea” in wholehearted truth, and not in a superficial, religious, or self-saving spirit.

Each of the 16 elements are important, but we can’t make each element happen. Nor should we attempt to. What’s most important is that we make room for, and create corporate experiences where when these elements happen under the power of the Holy Spirit they are appreciated, encouraged and facilitated well, and not resisted and/or left unsupported.

Here are SEVEN PRACTICAL STEPS for IHOPKC, and HOUSES of PRAYER to implement the Joel Assembly:

1. STOP ALL BUSINESS AS USUAL. This includes pushing pause on all ministries, outreaches, group meetings, and administrative affairs. The world will understand something sober is happening when web-sites, and phone systems announce the Missions Base is closed for three months of “seeking the Lord.”

2. ELT, IHOPKC pastors, former leaders (AG), national House of Prayer leaders and/or even Mike himself: BLOW THE TRUMPET and call other Houses of Prayer to solidarity with a 3-month season of mourning, confession, and crying out to the Lord.

3. Dedicate 1 month to RAW TEARS, expressions of GRIEF, and stories of BROKENNESS – without judgment or correction. Agree to let the Prayer Room become a threshing-floor where there are no human fixes. Sanctify the GPR so that it becomes free space to weep, share and listen to pain in prayer. Require all pastors and leaders to be “all present”. Hire a team of counselors for the grieving and wounded who dare come, and want compassionate help re any kind of religious abuse; and/or trauma. This is seeing the value of becoming an ash-heap before the Lord. (See Ezekiel 20:37)

4. Dedicate one month to nothing but utter, 24/7, basement-level, public and private CONFESSION and REPENTANCE before the Lord. Confession needs to be specific. Repentance needs to lead to the purging of sins, and sinful ways.

5. Dedicate one month to CRYING OUT TO THE LORD, in a spirit of poverty, humility and unction, for the Presence of His Holy Spirit, and the joy of the Lord’s intervention, salvation and leadership within His sanctuary. Again. There are no fixes here. This is Matthew 5:3 posturing before the Lord.

6. Deploy a truly INDEPENDENT THIRD-PARTY INVESTIGATIVE TEAM to thoroughly analyze and scrutinize all aspects of the House of Prayer with regards to sexual, spiritual and manipulative abuse of the precious ones the Lord has sent to IHOPKC over the last 25 years.
Agree to PUBLISH THE FINDINGS as “memorial stones” of where the Lord buried our great sin, and brought us into His light in righteousness solely by the blood of His own Son.

7. RESTART 24/7 INTERCESSION with those who remain. SANCTIFY these ones to live with awareness of our great sin, but with dependence upon the greater mercy of God. CONSECRATE them into an atmosphere of reverence, humility, and contrition before the Lord.

THE DANGER IN NOT DOING JOEL
To NOT deploy Joel is
a.) to fail to give the family what it needs to authentically survive, heal and be restored to the Lord through this crisis.
b.) to call God a liar; and not employ the thorough measure that His Word says we need…
c.) to idolize the way of self; believing we have the power to “save ourselves” and do something better than what the Lord has prescribed.

In THIS MOMENT, we have an opportunity to redress months, years and decades of scandal, and the calamitous, sinful response we’ve given Him through our “hiding, redaction, shaming, image-management, and stone-throwing.”

O, the dishonor we’ve brought to His Name.

We also have a real-time opportunity to give the church, and the next generation a relevant paradigm on how to respond to the judgments of the Lord.

They’re coming.

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JSB • February 2024

Jonathan Boegl has been a pastor for more than 40 years. He was trained at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA • M.Div. in Christian Formation and Discipleship • He’s been associated with the International House of Prayer in Kansas City since 2001. He served as a District Pastor on staff at IHOPKC, primarily responsible for the development of Friendship Groups and Evangelism from 2010 to 2018. He and his wife, Kathy now serve as directors of the All Nations House of Prayer Southwest in the mountains of Arizona.

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“Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet… I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling… And I will cast those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds… and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts.” Jesus

Beloved. It’s a holy, holy, holy moment that’s engulfed our House of Prayer.

The One from Whom galaxies and black-holes flee away is in our front-yard, judging, pulling down, exposing sin, uprooting leaders, and uncloaking the thoughts and intentions of hearts.

This is an hour of Achan (Joshua 7), and Ananias and Saphira (Acts 5). This is GOD IN OUR CAMP with His jealous fury over thousands of His beloved sons and daughters in Kansas City, and Houses of Prayer around the world, who have made a pledge to the Living God to keep His fire, on His altar.

Imagine how the Lord felt about Joshua and Moses as they served Him inside the tent of meeting. Now imagine what Joshua and Moses experienced as the God of Mount Sinai Himself burned and thundered before them, face to face. This is where the House of Prayer is:

“Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who sought the Lord went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp. So it was, whenever Moses went out to the tabernacle, that all the people rose, and each man stood at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle. And it came to pass, when Moses entered the tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses. All the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the tabernacle door, and all the people rose and worshiped, each man in his tent door. So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.” (Exodus 33:7-11)

Can you envision it? – All the Israelites who got up one morning and approached the tabernacle, shaking as they put on their sandals, believing it was better for them to be incinerated in the pillar of fire than to spend the rest of their lives wondering what this God was like.

Now consider the millions around the earth, who, over the last several decades have responded to this same primary, priestly lifestyle of encounter with the living God of Job 37:

“At this also my heart trembles, and leaps from its place. Hear attentively the thunder of His voice, and the rumbling that comes from His mouth. He sends it forth under the whole heaven, His lightning to the ends of the earth. After it a voice roars; He thunders with His majestic voice, and He does not restrain them when His voice is heard. God thunders marvelously with His voice; He does great things which we cannot comprehend.” (Job 37:1-5)

But it’s not an organization, or social fad that’s led their hearts to the House of Prayer. It was never about coming to a ministry leader, or a geographical location, or having a career. It’s been about responding to the Eternal God of Hebrews 12, Who, in a generation filled with gimmicks and options and endless opportunities for self-exaltation, issued personal invitations into intimate, purifying fellowship with Himself through nothing less than the blood of His own Son.

“For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. (For they could not endure what was commanded: “And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow.” And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.”) But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.” (Hebrews 12:18-29)

How does this God “rumble” as He sees this sea of seekers, and worshippers, and elderly, and families, and young ones coming close to His Presence? How does He feel about the viral-thousands of simple leaders who have said, “We need the tabernacle of His Presence back home – in Russia, Nazareth, Florida, England, the Solomon Islands, China and Brazil?”

Can you for a moment conceive of the tempest that would burn inside this God toward any person, or group of people who would use these ones for their own lust and pride of life!? (If this doesn’t make you tremble – pray for yourself…)

Can you hear His flaming roar against those who would cry that this tabernacle, where millions are making melody in their hearts toward Him, must come down!?

Beloved. This is where we are: in the middle of this tempest – as God cleans His house, and fiercely defends what His Holy Spirit has established on the earth. He is dashing brothers against brothers, and sisters against sisters, as He “ruins our pride” (Jeremiah 13:9) and cultivates tempered, agape love in His family. He is standing in the center of His lampstands, purging hearts, relationships, conversations and jot and tittles with His Eyes of fire.

…(SELAH)…

“Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: “Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? He who rebukes God, let him answer it.” “Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me: “Would you indeed annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified? Have you an arm like God? Or can you thunder with a voice like His? Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor, and array yourself with glory and beauty. Disperse the rage of your wrath; look on everyone who is proud, and humble him. Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low; tread down the wicked in their place. Hide them in the dust together, bind their faces in hidden darkness. Then I will also confess to you that your own right hand can save you.” (Job 40:6-14)

While being confronted by the God of Job 40

…who would dare to remain hidden in the shadows, resisting the calls of brothers, family members, and the Father Himself, shrouding themselves with fig-leaves and pretensions?

…who would continue to stammer that they can redress their own soul and chronic sin issues?

…who would not lament the countless lives, families, and noble ones whose destinies are considered as pawns in a living self-saving chess-match?

…who would not see the prophetic significance of this moment, and believe it’s prudent to give themselves to organizational status-quo and damage control?

…who would continue to throw stone after stone against sons and daughters of the Father, and then claim “moral high ground”?

…who would incessantly stand in angry protest, condemning others within the tabernacle of the Lord?

…who would gleefully hope to see the Lord decapitate someone – or a dozen “someones”?? (C’mon now, let’s be honest…)

…who cannot wail with utter terror, under the weight of this sovereign hour of sudden destruction; trembling over the swiftness of His judgments?

…who doesn’t weep and weep and weep, hearing beloved priest after intercessor after musician bare their anguished, naked souls in the public square?

The Lord is in His house confronting OUR sin, and OUR ways, and so many of us are “slow-to-believe” this reality, treating it all like some video game.

The Lord, our Lord, will be exalted in His glory. But, by necessity, His exaltation will bring down everything else about us that we have exalted in our own selves.

“Now I will rise,” says the Lord; Now I will be exalted. Now I will lift Myself up. You shall conceive chaff. You shall bring forth stubble. Your breath, as fire, shall devour you. And the people shall be like the burnings of lime; Like thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire. Hear, you who are afar off, what I have done; and you who are near, acknowledge My might.” (Isaiah 33:10-13)

The Lord is bringing us into the strong bonds of His eternal covenant for this hour. But it requires that every part of who we are, pass under His rod.

“I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant; I will purge the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against Me; I will bring them out of the country where they dwell, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.” (Ezekiel 20:37-38)

There’s a great promise of new wine and abundant harvest. But it won’t come without His household going through the wine-press and the threshing-floor.

The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. (Joel 2:24)

Father. We humble ourselves before You. We need Your vision for this hour!!

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JSB • December 19, 2023

FINAL NOTE:
I’ve been a pastor for 35 years, and have been connected to Mike, and the International House of Prayer in Kansas City since 2001. From 2001 to 2010 I personally took hundreds of individuals to IHOPKC, and their various conferences. In 2011 my wife, two daughters and I moved to Kansas City where I served as a senior pastor with Forerunner Christian Fellowship, and helped develop pastoral ministry and small groups within the community. In 2018 we moved back to Arizona, where my wife and I actually live in All Nations House of Prayer Southwest and maintain prayer with worship five hours per day, and six days per week.

I am overall appalled at the level of deceit, moral perversion and abuse that’s being “named among us”. When the “allegations” themselves came out, it should have led all of us to fall on our faces in the fear of the Lord. It grieves me to no end that the extreme holiness of what’s been/being desecrated simply doesn’t seem to be a thought among so many in our family. Leaders, prophetic leaders, in all sectors of the House of Prayer, and the Body of Christ, seem to have so little awareness of the significance of what the Lord has shaken over the last several months.

Beloved. The ONLY WAY our family will encounter “justice” and “wholeness”; the ONLY WAY we’ll remain faithful to the Lord through this “Holy Hour”, is by coming to Him in our own sackcloth and ashes, face-down on His threshing-floor. This is the only way that’s worthy of who we’ve been called to be, and Whom we stand before, in our calling.

But the window of opportunity is quickly closing. Thousands will trudge along, bruised and bruising others, without having availed themselves of the holy fire available for purging, healing and preparation for the future that awaits the Bride at the end of this age. Without collectively entering into this moment, we will remain self-made, impure, diseased, ill-equipped and disconnected from Him and His end-time purposes.

38 Kingdom Truths about the Ash Heap

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“But wisdom – where does it come from? Where is the place of understanding? (Job 28:20)

ASH-HEAP (Def.) = Where weeping, mourning, baring of the soul, confessing, remembering, searching, repenting, being vulnerable much longer than you’re comfortable, anguish, travail, near-death breathing, circumcising, trembling, naked reflection, listening, lamenting, despairing, emoting, purging, burying, disillusionment, pain, deep weakness, and more weeping all “happen” imperfectly, and without make-up, under the perfect gaze of the only One Who is righteous.

For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears. (Psalm 102:9)

1. The ash-heap is the Lord’s remedy for those who are addicted to “saving self”.

Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it. Whoever loses His life for My sake, will save it. (Luke 9:24)

2. The chief lesson we learn on our ash-heaps is “the fear of the Lord”. 

3. No one does an ash-heap “right” – or even in the same manner. On the ash-heap everyone learns that there’s only One Who is righteous (Revelation 16:5). The only way to fail at doing the ash-heap, is to not acknowledge that you need one. (1 John 1:8)

4. An ash-heap takes time. No one does the ash-heap on their own time. A man or woman on God’s ash-heap is on GST: God Standard Time.

5. From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible is a Living exhortation for humanity to trust God into the ash-heap of our lives. Job. Abraham. Joseph. Moses. Joshua. David. Jeshoshophat. Daniel. Shadrach, Meschach, Abdenego, Jeremiah. The prophets. John the Baptist. Y’shua. The disciples. John the beloved.

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore Him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. (Daniel 9:3)

6. It’s on ash-heaps that we learn things (about ourselves and God) that we can learn nowhere else.

7. If you find yourself on an ash-heap listening for the voice of the Lord, your ash-heap has just become a threshing-floor. (That’s a good thing…) In the hands of the Lord, an ash-heap will always become a threshing-floor, and a threshing-floor will always ultimately become an ash-heap.

8. Christian: We’ll never achieve our purpose in Christ apart from the ash-heap and threshing-floor.

He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes. (Job 30:19)

9. The Lord brings us to ash-heaps because He is FOR us.

10. All the work of the cross is done on God’s ash-heap.

11. There’s always room for more on the Lord’s ash-heap.

12. If we spurn the ash-heap, we ultimately spurn the way and supernatural power and glory of our crucified Savior, and our only means for unity in the Body of Christ.

13. The Lord brings us to ash-heaps because He will not lead a covenant people who will not walk in resurrection power.

14. Our God establishes redemption, healing, justice, reconciliation and destiny on ash-heaps – not moral high-ground.

15. No one cultivates first-commandment love for Jesus without enduring ash-heaps.

16. Whether it’s the Church or Israel, when the Lord wants to bring His people back to His heart He always brings them to the ash-heap.

17. The waters of baptism were always meant to be synonymous with ash-heap.

Every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.  I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. (Matthew 3:10-12)

18. The predominant Hebrew word for REPENTANCE; “SHUBV” literally means “to burn your house down and go with the Lord”. Repentance is a call to come to the Lord’s ash-heap.

Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes! (Job 42:6)

19. The ash-heap provides no cover for sin; none. It does, however, credit all legitimacy to the utter destruction that sin causes.

20. God’s redemptive plan is strategically filled with ash-heaps and threshing-floors. He has no use for a prayer-movement that has no use for ash-heaps and threshing-floors.

21. Ash-heaps are “attractional”… It’s where Bildad, Eliphaz and Zophar were drawn to Job. It’s where the lost, the blind and the wounded find authentic, redemptive and reconciling answers to a deeply broken world. “Christ in us” witnesses well on our ash-heap. If we want truth, justice and reality – within ourselves AND our communities – we cannot excuse ourselves from the ash-heap the Lord has designed for us. 

22. A judgment of the Lord is meant to produce an ash-heap. Whether it be for rebuke, reward, or recalibration, the Lord brings no judgment upon a people except that it produce an ash-heap among the people. When David declared that the judgments of the Lord had become precious to him (Psalm 19) he was ultimately telling us there is a superior joy to be had that’s greater than saving our lives from the ash-heap; a joy that comes from being brought up out of the ashes, with our gold having been refined in YHWH’s good and pure “consuming fire” (Hebrews 12:29). 

23. Jesus put the ash-heap this way: “Whoever seeks to save his life will actually disconnect himself from the purifying process and – lose it; and whoever loses his life for My sake – and the pure increase of My glory – will find it.“ (Matthew 16:25)

NOTE: The most ruinous thing everyone related to IHOPKC (IHOPKC leaders, the former leaders, victims, heroic servants, Houses of Prayer worldwide, disaffected saints, friends of… and open critics of…) could do right now is attempt to justify why it’s not prudent for “me and my group” to be on the ash-heap. Wherever this happens we are “attempting to save our own life” and actually “losing” our way unto His life.

24. If we have no theology of the judgments of the Lord (and we American believers don’t) we will forever spend our energy trying to save ourselves from the potential ash-heaps that the Lord has designed to save and purify our lives. (Beloved. There’s going to be a LOT of them in our world in the days ahead…)

25. It’s the chief job of the Christian leader to make the ash-heap available and safe for everyone. (If the leader ain’t learned this, she/he is unfit to be called “leader”.)

26. It’s the courageous task of the wounded ones to sit in the ash-heap unarmed. But they get to disarm on their time-table, not someone else’s. Only God gets to disarm them. But He does it on the ash-heap.

27. Those who fear, deny, avoid and/or minimize the ash-heap ultimately do not believe in resurrection power. They are imposters, empty clouds, and tares, (not wheat) in the field of the Lord of glory.

28. In this hour of history, do not walk with leaders who will not walk with you, and train you how to walk through ash-heaps and threshing-floors. Walk with no pastor/leader who doesn’t smell like ashes.

?? Did I already say ash-heaps take time??? They do. And we Americans have made an idol of time.

29. When we attempt to relate to each other as though we ourselves, and our sisters/brothers themselves are not all on the same ash-heap we serve the devil…

30. No one does “image-management” on the ash-heap.

31. Neither does one “campaign” against others from an ash-heap. When we don’t have a paradigm for the deep way of the cross, when “it all comes down”, and we find ourselves on an ash-heap, we will predictably use angry, alienating rhetoric (commonly disguised as “theology”) against our own family for the sake of our own ego-preservation… an alive self does what an alive self is gonna do.

32. 36 chapters of Job tell us the worst thing we can do is try to turn an ash-heap into moral high-ground. If we’re using this season to aim blogs, pod-casts and social media at others in the family, we don’t know it, but we’re lookin’ just like Bildad, Eliphaz and Zophar.

33. You can’t do the ash-heap from social-media. At all.

34. Ash-heaps are, by nature, messy. But the Lord does have rules about how to navigate ash-heaps well. The beatitudes are Jesus’ hope-filled instructions about how to behave on His ash-heap…
Come to Me with nothing. (Matthew 5:3)
Grieve. Mourn. Groan. Weep. Lament. (Matthew 5:4)
Come meek. (Matthew 5:5)
Come hungry. (Matthew 5:6)
Come to mercy; intent on being merciful. (Matthew 5:7)
Come transparent unto being pure. (Matthew 5:8)
Come intent on peace. (Matthew 5:9)
Come knowing the devil won’t make it easy for you to do the first seven rules. (Matthew 5:10-12)

35. The apostle John writes: God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us… They went out from us, but they were not really in covenant with us, because had they been in covenant with us, they would have endured with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that they were not with us. (1 John 1:5-10: 2:19)
When we’re all on the ash-heap with the spirit of 1 John, three things become abundantly clear:
1. We recognize who is NOT there, and has “gone out from us“ (2:19)…
2. We recognize who’s there for reasons other than “forgiveness, righteousness and fellowship”…
3. And (here’s the best part) “the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin” (v.7); and we have heaven-forged, mercy-stained fellowship with Him and each other.
The One Who is most merciful, is also the One Who is most relentless to shine His light on sin. He’s THAT confident in both our need, and the power of His Son’s blood to cleanse us from all sin.

36. The ash-heap is the only safe way to “pass under His rod“. (THIS is where the House of Prayer movement is in this hour…) Accept no other way!

37. Y’shua “laid down His life” for us on OUR ash-heap!

38. Truth is, the Father has built His whole Kingdom on earth on the ash-heap. Every bit of it.

39. One day, the whole earth will be an ash-heap – literally (2 Peter 3:10). The Lord calls those who know this reality to be “forerunners” of the ash-heap. (What did we think a “forerunner” meant?)

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JSB • November, 2023

Old Pastor’s OFFICIAL STATEMENT about IHOPKC

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One old, praying pastor’s OFFICIAL STATEMENT about #IHOPKC, and the spiritual family he loves, and couldn’t detach himself from if he wanted to…

I am praying for my House of Prayer family, again this morning; those “in the land” and those in the “diaspora” (like Kathy, my daughters and I) 🙂❤

Old Pastor’s Observation #1:
It’s important that we understand that our family is on an ash-heap right now.

Old Pastor’s Kindly Advice:
(It’s also important that we not INSIST that others be here, or TRY to be somewhere else.)

Old Pastor’s Observation #2:
The narratives, dynamics, responsibilities, and diagnostics to an ash-heap are never as clean as we, or “outsiders” want or assume them to be.

Old Pastoral Warning:
A lot of “outsiders” want the privilege of having an “insider pass” to the ash-heap while retaining their “certificate of cleanliness”.

Old Pastor Using the Blunt End of His Shepherd’s Staff:
If we’re stirred enough to make public (SM) comments about the ash-heap (like me) it’s done just become “OUR ash-heap”. (Those be the Holy Spirit’s rules…)

Old Pastor’s Experience:
One thing that makes the ash-heap infinitely more messy is for us to think we know enough to be throwing stones at others on OUR ash-heap. For most of us, it’s been a handful of days since we’ve learned of the stunning allegations.

More Old Pastor’s Experience:
No one who’s stunned throws straight. No one.

If the apostle Paul (who knew a thing or two about being stoned and stunned) were writing an epistle to IHOPKC today, this’d be his words to us in his last chapter:
Weep with those who are weeping.
Weep yourself…?
Go low. Stay low. Be bold before God in being low.
Listen.
Pray w compassion everywhere…
Listen some more…
Celebrate the MANY (hidden and public) who are heroically serving, praying and loving our family and our assignment.
Stand in the light of His truth everywhere (including our own soul)…

Thankfully, Jesus loves to meet us on our ash-heaps. It’s how He’s built His entire Kingdom on earth.

To my House of Prayer family: I love you all… forever.
Old pastor in the diaspora

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JSB • November 5, 2023

The Importance of Race in the Father’s House

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Few topics animate humanity, (including the family of God) more than race. We can debate theological truths, leadership dynamics, and/or political ballistics all day long, but nothing generates more strong objections, tears, and delirium than when the people of God hazard to confront our “racial stuff”.

What evoked more wild fervor than the dozen (plus) instances when Y’shua poked His Jewish brethren re the gentiles and Samaritans??

(Fact: Right now, many reading this post are either priming themselves for offense or emotionally hopeful about my merely mentioning the issue of race… C’mon now.)

This social/psychological observation should tell us how important our racial relationships are to the Kingdom – and to our King. As long as we think “we’re good” and sufficiently clean in this department; or worse yet, “regard (racial insensitivity) in our hearts” (Psalm 66:18), the Holy Spirit will not let us be at peace in communing with “the One Father of us all” (Ephesians 4:1).

There is also a great reward for us as we respond to the judgments of the Lord re: this issue. The Father has “commanded blessings” (Psalm 133) in store for us as we enter into authentic, clean, compassionate unity under the banner of His Son.

I’ve experienced this supernatural “blessing” on dozens of occasions over 40 years. When races engage in crucified repentance, contrition and celebration with each other the Father delights in clothing His family with His glory. For years I’ve also suspected that racial reconciliation is one of the Father’s big keys in unlocking revival in a region. The enemy fears this anointing like nobody’s business!

One of the most profound encounters I’ve had with the Father’s passion for racial reconciliation was in 1990 when I was serving as a teaching assistant for C. Peter Wagner at Fuller in Pasadena. Peter was teaching a two-week course on evangelism and discipleship with one-hundred pastors from various countries in attendance.

Throughout the sessions some of the Korean pastors were being offended by some of the statements being made by several Japanese pastors. After one particularly contentious episode Peter wisely called for a 15 minute break…

While the rest of the class grabbed coffee, or went for a walk, the Korean pastors gathered in the corner of the room and wept openly – and loudly. Soon their voices echoed through the garden that surrounded the seminar room.

At some point two courageous Japanese pastors re-entered the room and approached the Korean pastors. These two Japanese pastors tenderly knelt down before their brothers and asked them to forgive them and their fathers and their father’s fathers for the long, racial hatred, murder and subjugation that they had inflicted upon the Korean people. The wailing went up by fifty decibels.

When the rest of the class returned, we found the Japanese pastors and the Korean pastors all weeping together in one huddle. (One of the most powerful spiritual encounters I’ve ever witnessed.)

How do you re-engage 100 pastors in this kind of atmosphere???

Peter, again with great circumspection, asked if anyone would be willing to lead the class in worship. A pastor’s wife from Cameroon stood up WITH A GUITAR that SHE HAD JUST PURCHASED and began to sing us into an ocean of praise.

Quickly, the waves of the Father’s glory washed over the room; women and men lost in adoration, arms to heaven, on their faces on the floor… when suddenly, one of the large classroom lights inexplicably exploded overhead and rained glass and florescent powder down on the group.

Peter looked up and observed, “The enemy obviously doesn’t like what we’re doing…” He concluded with a wry smile: “Let’s keep exalting Jesus.”

Truth-be-told, the world has yet to face the greatest of all racial conflicts. And it WILL take the stage – front and center. At the end of the age the whole world will shake with the age-old ethnic strife of Jew vs. gentile. Furthermore, the sons and daughters of God will be shaken more than most (Hebrews 12:26-27).

(Philippians 2:9-11) tells us that billions of hearts will soon be charged to bow before a resurrected, very Hebrew God/Man. What’s more, this One is promised to rule from a very Jewish capital (Psalm 2:6). You can already feel how deeply offensive this race-based reality is in our world.

Beloved. It behooves us, pastors, teachers, fathers and mothers to take up His Word today; to enter into the chambers of His heart, and ask the Holy Spirit to show us the magnificently glorious vision He has for His entire family – from every tribe, and nation and tongue…

Imagine the day we experience the indescribable splendor of billions of “ta ethnos” hailing the (Revelation 5:5) Lion of the tribe of Judah with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength. I can’t think of another Kingdom materiality that brings me to higher exultation.

But buckle-up beloved.

It WILL be a rocky ride getting there…

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Original Post: October 28, 2021