IHOP-KC’s Justice Commitment: Reviewing our Assignment
I. OUR JUSTICE COMMITMENT (SEPTEMBER 19, 2009)
A. As a spiritual family, we took a big step in making the justice commitment: By God’s grace, we commit to combine the 24/7 prayers
for justice with 24/7 works of justice until the Lord returns.
B. We went from an 80/20 focus (ratio of prayer to ministry) to a 50/50 focus. Our mandate to “keep a 24/7 sanctuary of worship and
prayer” (Ezek. 44:15) is foundational to our larger assignment (Great Commission). We do outreach from prayer instead of outreach
without prayer.
II. THE GREAT COMMISSION: MAKING DISCIPLES
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations…20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with
you always, even to the end of the age. (Mt. 28:19-20)
A. All believers are called to make disciples of individuals and to participate in disciplining nations. As a rule, the Lord gives each
believer an assignment first to the nation that they live in and then to other specific nations. Each of us has responsibility to help in
discipling the nation of Israel. This is a most strategic yet challenging mandate and privilege for all believers to participate in.
B. All believers are to embrace these seven aspects of the Great Commission or disciple making in seeking to walk in the whole
counsel of God (Acts 20:27). The by-product is a community spirit.
1. Intimacy with God: encounter the Father, and Jesus (as our Bridegroom King), as God’s beloved, with confidence even in our
weakness as we repent. We cannot impart what we do not have. The Spirit is restoring the first commandment to first place in the
Church.
2. Winning the lost: locally and internationally (by partnering with missions initiatives)
3. Supernatural ministry of the Spirit: healing the sick and prophecy, etc
4. Compassion on the needy: fatherless, poor and oppressed
5. Justice that transforms the culture: impacting the 7 spheres of society (Family, Education, Government and law, Economy
(business, sciences and technology), Arts, entertainment and sports, Media and Religion)
6. Equipping others in the Word: making disciples and preparing the way of the Lord
7. Building the local church: giving a local expression of God’s family in our city in context to the five-fold ministry and in
relationship and honor for other congregations
C. IHOP-KC has other specific assignments in expressing the Great Commission. Our mandate includes sending out forerunners who
win the lost, heal the sick, and do works for justice.
1. 24/7 intercession and worship: contending for full release of God’s purpose and power. Key to our vision is the occupation of
full-time intercessors i.e., the “Anna calling” (Lk. 2:37-38) or the full-time occupation of the worshiper-intercessor (1 Chr. 23:5; 25:7).
Our full-time staff commits to invest 50 hours a week (25 hours in the prayer room and 25 hours in service/outreach) unless on the
operations staff (12 hours in the prayer room).
2. Forerunner ministry: preparing for the unique dynamics of the generation Jesus returns
3. Church planting: planting “house of prayer communities” in other cites
D. Inside the prayer room, we cultivate intimacy, offer intercession, and grow in understanding of the forerunner message. Outside the
prayer room, we walk out the Great Commission or do works of justice as we love God and people by serving them and manifesting God’s
power.
E. Summary: Forerunners who encounter God, do His works and change the world.
1. Forerunner messengers: preparing ourselves to prepare others for the unique dynamics of the generation in which Jesus
returns, by gaining understanding to overcome fear, confusion, and offense to discern and embrace the right things and resist the
wrong ones
2. Encountering God: encountering the Spirit in our personal life in intimacy with God that empowers us to walk in love with purity
and humility
3. Do the works of God: releasing God’s love and power to others as we win the lost, heal the sick, do justly (compassion to the
poor, fatherless, and oppressed), proclaim the word, make disciples, build godly families, lead in prayer meetings and/or serve in the
marketplace by releasing grace (power, love, and wisdom) and multiplying finances
4. Change the world: impacting the seven spheres and imparting biblical ideologies
F. We are to cultivate a prayer culture that manifests the supernatural power of the Spirit. Intimacy and intercession involves prayer
“with our eyes closed”. Healing and prophecy involves prayer “with our eyes open.” We do intercession that is led by worship flowing from
intimacy (Father’s heart and bridal paradigm), with faith for the release of God’s power, in the context of end-time truths (forerunner spirit),
motivated by compassion that turns to the children (Mal. 4:6), and coming from those who embrace the fasted lifestyle in seeking to walk in
100-fold obedience.
G. The tension in the kingdom: to operate in faith now with diligence, and gratitude, while earnestly seeking God for a greater measure
of the Spirit in future