The Justice Prayer Room: “Contending for Life, Revival, and Israel”
May 29th, 2007
As you may or may not have heard, I am giving the primary leadership to the second prayer room that IHOP-KC is birthing on July 2nd. The current prayer room is now the Global Prayer Room, and is the focal point for our broadcasts and webstream to God-TV and the nations. We have felt the need now for some time to establish a second prayer room on our missions base - one that can continue to function as a “prayer laboratory”, even as we seek to establish the first one as our primary “prayer furnace”.
Night and day for speedy justice
This second prayer room, then, will be known as the “Justice Prayer Room”. Like the Global Prayer Room, this prayer room will also be part of our webcast as we launch. In both prayer rooms, the continual night and day cry according to His heart will help fill bowls of prayer (Rev. 5:8) and stir up the zeal of the Mighty Man of War (Isa. 42:13).
Our entire ministry was birthed on the premise of Luke 18:8 - that there would be a people of faith that would contend night and day for “speedy justice” and not lose heart. Theologically, I define “justice” in context to Matthew 6:9 - “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” The establishment of true “justice”, according to Deuteronomy 32:4, is according to God’s nature - as a God of truth He is without injustice, He is fully righteous and upright in all of His ways. “All of His ways are justice,” as Moses said in that passage. And so His will, or His ways, established on the earth are according to His perfect justice - that which is right and true according to His definition and wisdom.
Thus righteous justice runs deeper than the laws of our nation - the true justice of God is found in the reconciliation of all that is outside of His will and outside of unified relationship with Him. The desire of Jesus is to reconcile all of the natural and supernatural order in Himself in fullness (Eph. 1:9-10; Col. 1:19-20). The removal of all that is “wrong” and outside of God’s order and the establishment of all that is “right” according to His soveriegn will is the fullness of justice. Thus, right treatment of the widows and the orphan, righteous legislation to stop the spread of darkness, and the shifting of hearts in a region to agree with God’s righteousness - all of these are part of God’s justice breaking in on the nations of the earth.
Raising up those who will not lose heart
My passion and zeal in establishing this prayer laboratory is to serve all who come to our missions base by training and equipping them to stand, serve, minister, and burn before the Lord in the place of prayer and fasting. My heart is to see a generation that will stand unoffended, crying out night and day for revival with patient endurance and persistent hope. As we equip and train thousands to join the prayer movement in whatever manner God calls, we want to see young adults lay hold of iron in their soul to set themselves in the place of prayer “until”.
Ultimately, the day will come in which these who are being trained and equipped in the Justice Prayer Room will be launched into the prayer movement and all of its various expressions. Some will be “sent” into the prayer furnace of the Global Prayer Room to serve the nations by leading prayer meetings for thousands at a time. Some will be sent to the nations and the various prayer rooms and prayer ministries that will excitedly receive seasoned leaders skilled in the various facets of leading worship, prayer and people. Many will be sent out in the days to come in teams to plant and launch new prayer rooms accross the globe. I cannot wait for those days to come.
What the future holds
We have always known that there would come a time in which we would have a missions base that fueled five prayer rooms. What we are launching next month is simply the next phase in the broader plans of the Lord related to how IHOP-KC serves the prayer movement and His end-time strategies. In the days to come, we hope to launch an International Prayer Room filled with teams of singers, musicians, and leaders from around the nations praying and contending for the earth in their own languages. We hope to establish a Kansas City Prayer Room that will contend night and day for revival in this city. We will see, at some point in the future, a Prayer Room fully dedicated to extravagant worship and contemplative prayer.
Until then, I am honored and humbled to be a part of our present phase of growth. The establishment of the Justice Prayer Room is a critical component of our prophetic history, and our little team is thrilled to be a part of it. I am jealous for the prayers of the saints in these days related to the mandate that we have been given for this spiritual family and for this nation as we contend for God’s justice to be established through historic revival.
David
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14 Comments Add your own
1. Cathy | May 29th, 2007 at 8:13 am
Wow - sounds fantastic! Thanks for the update!
2. Esther | May 29th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Thanks for the update, Dave. Where is the location of this new prayer room? is it close to the current one? Are you out looking for old mobile homes at the junk yard or will the carpet be nicer?
3. chuck scott | May 29th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
That is so cool! And of all places across from a muslim school. I pray grace to you. God’s hand is upon you all.
4. Lisa Russell | May 29th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
“Ultimately, the day will come in which these who are being trained and equipped in the Justice Prayer Room will be launched into the prayer movement and all of its various expressions. Some will be “sent” into the prayer furnace of the Global Prayer Room to serve the nations by leading prayer meetings for thousands at a time. Some will be sent to the nations and the various prayer rooms and prayer ministries that will excitedly receive seasoned leaders skilled in the various facets of leading worship, prayer and people. Many will be sent out in the days to come in teams to plant and launch new prayer rooms accross the globe. I cannot wait for those days to come.”
Dave - this is my favorite part of your update on the new prayer room. I can’t wait for those days either!
5. Jenn S. (a.k.a. Ducky) | May 29th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
I’m really excited about this. I’m happy that the interns and students will have a chance to learn and grown in such an environment without the immediate pressure of being on TV.
I’m also excited that we get to coin two new acronyms. Instead of just “the PR,” now we will have “the GPR” and “the JPR.” Which sound similar and could lead to confusion, thereby forcing Derek Loux to write “The Acronym Song Redux.”
6. Jared Diehl | May 30th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
I am pumped!
The new PR is by our house.
I could skateboard, rollarblade, ride my BMX and do a wheelie, or use my skooter to get there.
My only dilemma is that I own none of the things I just listed.
maybe someday my dream will com true but until then I still will come and pray hard. What else are we going to do?
7. Annie | May 31st, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Dave,
My roommates and I (all on staff at ihop) were having a dicussion and the origins of your last name randomly came up in the conversation. Our curiosity was so peaked that we decided to embark on further research. Before entering our query via ‘google’ we each submitted a guess as to what we supposed the original etymology of ‘Sliker’ to be. Collectively we agreed that it originated from a trade or occupation held by one of your ancestors, similar to the names Smith, Tanner, or Mason. With that in mind, we differed as to what we supposed a ’sliker’ to be. The guesses were as follows. A sliker could be one in charge of the squeegee in the window washing profession. OR a sliker could be a bell maker. OR a sliker could be one who slings adhesive substances such as concrete before cobblestone is laid or pitch on the side of a large boat. If that is true, one of Noah’s son’s was most definitely a sliker. We googled, but alas, to no avail. We dictionary.com-ed. We wikipedia-ed. We did everything short of paying the fee on ancestry.com. But it was all for naught. We were like fools on an arduous journey at the end of a cul-de-sac. So we decided the only thing left to do was go to the sorce itself. Dave, just what is a sliker?
8. Cathy | June 1st, 2007 at 5:33 am
From Ancestry.com:
sliker
1. nickname for a furtive or stealthy person, from an agent derivative of slijken ‘to creep about’. Compare German Schleicher.
2. topographic name from slijk ‘mud’, ‘slime’ + -er, suffix denoting an inhabitant.
9. Stumpy & Stil | June 2nd, 2007 at 10:09 pm
We’ll be in the Justice Prayer Room with bells on.
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11. Dave Rose | June 7th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
I will keep you and your team in my prayers in this next phase of IHOP. Blessings Dave!
12. Patrick | June 9th, 2007 at 2:35 am
WOW. This is amazing. I am here in Alaska preaching a summer camp and am reading this at 130 in the am, and am so stirred as to what the Lord is doing. I love so much that comes out of Ihop-KC in that, it is so counter culture from what I see in modern Christianity around our nation. Me and my father will be visiting IHOP here in a couple of weeks for about 4 days, and are very much looking forward to it. Thanks for your zeal for the secert place, you have no idea how far the passion of yours and those that are apart of this ministry have gone. Even to the small no where city that I am from. Thanks
13. David | June 12th, 2007 at 7:14 am
Thanks Dave and Patrick!
David
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