International House of Prayer - KC

The Prayer Room of IHOP-KC is the heartbeat of all that goes on at the FOTB Missions Base. IHOP-KC is a ministry serving the entire Kansas City area, open 24-hours a day for any person or group desiring to come at any time to worship and pray individually and/or corporately.  Structured in 84 two-hour prayer meetings a week, full teams of musicians, singers, and intercessors lift their voices in praise and supplication, asking God to fulfill His promise and give the nations of the earth to Jesus as His inheritance. Each prayer meeting functions with live worship teams in one of four formats including devotional, prophetic worship, worship with the Word, or intercession with fasting for corporate breakthrough, city transformation, and revelation of Jesus Christ in the earth. 

Jesus said the harvest is plentiful, so his disciples should pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers. Traditionally the Church throughout history has sent out missionaries to preach the gospel without first encountering the heart of God through a lifestyle of prayer with fasting. When our hearts deeply experience the love of God in the place of worship and intercession, we are strengthened and empowered to give ourselves to the labor of the work of the Kingdom with greater diligence and authority.

24/7 worship and prayer changes the spiritual atmosphere of the city, thus opening the heavens (Jn. 1:51) for more anointed evangelism and unity in the Church.   We believe that the Holy Spirit is orchestrating a global prayer strategy far eclipsing any other prayer movement in history resulting in an unprecedented harvest of souls in the nations. The International House of Prayer in Kansas City is only one expression of the prayer movement across the earth today. Ministries are arising all over the earth that literally offer supplication night and day before the Lord and function as catalysts for the entire Church becoming a House of Prayer (Isaiah 56:7), causing the work of the harvest to go forth with power and effectiveness.

Intercessory Missionaries

We currently have a full time staff of over 400 people who each raise their financial support as "intercessory missionaries" who labor for the Great Harvest through a commitment missionary work in the following 5 ways:

1. Prayer - by doing the hard work of prayer and fasting for the release of the Harvest locally and in the nations Matt. 9:37-38). Also, by providing diligent prayer covering for missionaries currently on the missions field. Night and day prayer with fasting is a primary Scriptural requirement for the release of revival and the Great Commission. 

2. Outreach ministry - to the unsaved, poor, sick, and needy locally and abroad.  3. Training - we have extensive programs to train missionaries desiring to be sent to the nations.  4. Short-term mission trips - our team serve other missionary works across the nations.  5. Being sent - personally relocating to other nations as long-term missionaries.

We require that all our full-time staff missionaries commit themselves to at least 50 hours per week of dedicated service.  This includes helping to lead prayer and worship meetings, training missionaries and leaders, evangelism, outreach to the poor, administration of the Missions Base, etc.  Our missionaries maintain a rigorous prayer life with regular fasting as they serve the poor, sick, and needy in our outreaches. 

Global Bridegroom Fast

What is the Global Bridegroom Fast?   A monthly global solemn assembly of believers in unified holy abandonment to Jesus for three days. We are calling believers worldwide to join together in unified prayer and fasting for revival motivated by experiencing love for Jesus. This is a time when we are called to listen to God directly, not just the words of man. This is not an event but a new lifestyle in the grace of God.  It is fasting that is motivated by having experienced the burning desire of Jesus' love (Matt. 9:15).   

When is the Global Bridegroom Fast?   The first Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of every month. Three days each month and seven days in December. The result is a total of 40 days throughout the year of unified worship, prayer and fasting as a top priority in our lives.  We are calling all pastors, leaders, youth groups, campus ministries, business leaders, moms and dads, students, etc.  

What are we praying for?  1. Fullness of the Holy Spirit and unity in the Church (John 14:12; 17:2-23)

Spiritual breakthroughs in the Church worldwide with unprecedented unity, purity and power.  2. The Great Harvest (Matt 24:14) - Over one billion souls converted by the power of God.  3. Youth Revival Movement (Mal.4:6).  4. Worldwide revival especially among the poor of the earth.  6. Revival to Israel (Romans 9-11) - Fulfillment of all the prophetic promises to national Israel.  7. Houses of Prayer (Isaiah 62:6-7) - The release of ”grace for fasting“ with worship and prayer to establish 24 hour a day houses of prayer in the cities of the earth (including Israel).  8. Wealth of the Nations (Haggai 2:7-9) - Release of finances for the Harvest, the prayer movement, and the poor.  9. The Wall of Fire (Zech. 2:5) - Divine protection of all that is birthed through prayer.

Extreme Measures for Extreme Times!  It is time for the church to rise up in her bridal identity and abandon herself to Jesus in lovesick worship with fasting and purity in order to more effectively preach the Gospel, heal the sick and serve the poor.  Millions of Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims fast and pray with intensity unknown by the Western Church. The Holy Spirit is answering the fasting of the world religions by raising up a globally unified church that fasts, worships and prays to Jesus as a lovesick bride in all purity.

Fasting Teams

Presently, over 400 intercessory missionaries at IHOP-KC are involved on ongoing fasting teams that cover Kansas City in 24 hour prayer, worship, and fasting.  These teams