May has been a special month as it marks the 10-year anniversary of the International House of Prayer here in Kansas City. This house of prayer began on May 7th, 1999 with 12 hours a day of prayer; the prayer meetings later went 24/7 on September 19th, 1999 and have never ceased. There have been [...]

Something that stood out to me today: Daniel 9:20 – Now while I was speaking, praying, and confessing my sin … yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel … reached me.” The words that affect us the most are the words that come out of our own mouths. There is power in [...]

There are two types of people. 1) Those who say the rules are there for a reason and we ought to obey the letter of the law. 2) Those who can get behind the ‘idea’ of the rule and then morph it to fit their current situation. My wife and my mother fall into the [...]

It is the End-Times This post isn’t trying prove we’re headed towards the end-times, but tell us how to live in light of it. Jesus said the Church will look like… …ten virgins who took thier lamps and went out to met the bridegroom. Five were wise and five were foolish…The wise took oil in [...]

Today 10,000 in people Kansas City are praying and fasting for 10 hours. That’s 100,000 man hours of prayer or 11.5 years of someone praying 24/7 That’s 4,166 “National Days of Prayer” If the average person prayed for 2 hours a day, it would take them 137 years to pray 100,000 hours If five people [...]

We have finally gotten into a rhythm with the stage schedule, the bands and all that jazz (actually, nobody has played any jazz yet). I played my last prayer room set with Merchant Band yesterday, and tonight I will play my last set ever…. I’ll be wearing the old-school, traditional, button up shirt with a [...]

I have been thinking about ‘staying steady’. About maintaining a longevity and passion in my life with God. There have been so many people my age that have started out strong and passionate and then fizzled out 5 or 10 or 15 years later and are now lukewarm, bitter or have even given up their [...]

John G. Lake on the Baptism of the Holy Ghost When we stand before the bar of God and are asked why we have not fulfilled in our life all the mind of Christ and all His desire in the salvation of the world… How terrible it will be for us to say we neglected, [...]

TWO DAYS AGO our prayer room team decided to do a little experiment with praying in tongues. For 24 hours we were going to try to pray in tongues whenever we were not talking. After 24 hours we decided to continue the experiment for a whole week. Some of the testimonies so far after only [...]