Mike Bickle emphasizes the significance of a 40-day fast that will unite hundreds of thousands across America, linking the prophetic histories of the International House of Prayer (IHOP) and the nation. He believes that both stories are converging in the summer of 2007, marking a pivotal moment in God's divine plan. Bickle reflects on past prophetic events, particularly the Solemn Assembly of 1983, and the importance of repentance and prayer as a means to invoke God's mercy on the nation. He calls for a solemn assembly on July 7, 2007, to gather and cry out to God, echoing the call in Joel 2:15. This summer is seen as a Kairos time, a strategic moment for spiritual renewal and action.

Our heart and our understanding for our response to a 40-day fast that we're going to join in with Lou Engle and the call and many ministries across America. It seems there will be hundreds of thousands of people participating in this and I want to help make sense of this to us because something very, something dramatic is unfolding in God's book, in his leadership over history. I think of different movements and spiritual families as having chapters in an unfolding storyline. Well, our spiritual family is in the midst of a divine drama right now because we are vitally connected to two different dynamic stories. There's two distinct stories that are unfolding and in the summer of 2007, both of those stories, I believe, are going to the next chapter. They're going to the next level, so to speak. There will be clearly a new installment of the Lord's purpose and activity in both of these different storylines, if I can call them that. And the first one is a very personal one to us as a spiritual family. It's the IHOP prophetic history that I began telling the story with Bob Jones back in August 1975 when he was first visited in a experience and the Lord spoke to him about a young adult movement that would come forth out of Kansas City and touch the ends of the earth. And then in seven or eight years later, in May 1983, we had a 21-day fast that we refer to as the Solemn Assembly. We called it that for many years, referring to the one in 1983. We've had many Solemn Assemblies, but that was the Solemn Assembly of our past. That was 24 years ago. Well, the second dynamic story has to do with America's prophetic history. Now, America has a very, I mean, an in-depth and prophetic history that goes back some hundreds of years, but particularly beginning with the storyline in the summer of 1967, 40 years ago. And Lou Engle, who gives leadership to the call, he was just here two weeks ago, most of you know Lou. He spoke on this subject and the Lord has entrusted to Lou the telling of this story to our nation, the story of what's happened in the last 40 years. He's doing an excellent job. He wrote an article, just a four-page article. We have it on our website. We sent it out widespread to many of you on email and it's being sent out through many networks, ministry networks around the world, this four-page article. And so I encourage you to look at it. We'll talk more about it next week, but it's the summer of 1967. Several very dynamic things happened and we're at the 40-year mark and we believe it's time to call our nation to a fast as a transitional, as something that in the grace of God will prove to be transitional for the purpose of God and our nation. And so the storyline of IHOP and the storyline of our nation, I believe both of them go to the next chapter. We receive the next divine installment in September 2007, I mean in the summer of 2007. And I've not felt this sort of thing in the last 24 years, that it was a significant installment of this level. And so that's why I'm taking these two weeks to prepare our hearts for this fast because I think this fast is significant in going forward. Well both of these storylines, they overlap at various occasions, in various ways. And many of us are a part of both of them, and so it's really relevant to us. Both of them are based on Joel chapter 2 verse 15. Call a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders together and cry out to me. I believe this summer is a Kairos time. That's a fancy word that people use as a Greek word, but it boils down to it's just a prophetic, a strategic prophetic time on God's calendar for a geographic area, a nation, a region, a city, a person. A Kairos time, and I believe that that's going to happen. Now in 2007, already in the last three or four months, we have this very distinct parallel with 1983. That being a unusual release of snow that was told prophetically, rain, floods, a comet in the sky that both, on both times, it was announced on May 7th in 2003, and in 2007 we haven't talked much about that. And my brother Pat, who went on to be with the Lord on May 5th, just two weeks ago, and how he was uniquely highlighted in 2003, and again in 2000, I mean in 1983, and 24 years later in 2007. So the comet, the snow, the storm, the flood, and my brother have a unique combination of relationship to each other in both of these years related to the IHOP story, 1983 and 2007, 24 years ago. Well just a minute on what Lou is saying, and then we'll look again a little bit more on that next week as I tell more of the story, but just to kind of get our minds around it, I know he mentioned a couple weeks ago, but he's calling America to fast, a 40-day fast, beginning on May 28th. It'll continue on to July 7th, where we will gather together, many across the nation, to a stadium in Nashville. And many places around America will be gathering in sanctuaries connected to the stadium in Nashville. Matter of fact, right here in our missions base, at the FSM, at this auditorium, we're gonna bring all of IHOP here for a 12-hour solemn assembly and connect electronically and through God TV with what's happening in Nashville. But I'm calling all of IHOP to come to this 12-hour solemn assembly. We just shut everything down that's possible to shut down, and we take a 12 hours, not a two-hour thing, not a four-hour thing, not the night watch that, so we'll have a different schedule for that. We'll take that into consideration, but we want to take this day of crying out on July 7th serious, because many people will be doing it in auditoriums all across America and coming from this larger place in Nashville at the large stadium there. Well, Lou points out some of the significant things that happened in 1967 when a hundred thousand people gathered, young people, 15, 18, 21, 22, 23, they gathered to San Francisco. A hundred thousand of them. Now, I don't know how they knew about it. I was 12. No one gave me the email or the phone call, but a whole generation gathered to San Francisco, and there was a leaders that were there, and they were declaring their message. At the end of the day, their message was, hey, we're free. And it was a very perverse definition and pursuit of freedom. We're free from God's laws. They experienced, they experimented with LSD, and they with free sex, and rebellion against authority, and a new mindset. And these hundred thousand young people, I mean, they stayed an entire summer there, and when they came back to their cities in America, they came back with a new boldness that righteousness did not matter, authority did not matter, nothing mattered but what they wanted to experience in that time. And this new culture was really birthed in America. A new boldness for sin, a new toleration, a new permissiveness that was okayed even in the church, began to take root in the next decade or two. And Lou is pointing that out as a turning point in America, and we're at the 40-year mark here in 2007, and he's saying instead of a hundred thousand gathering to San Francisco, we're gonna have a hundred thousand gather to the music capital of our nation, where tremendous perversion is being shipped out to America. Much compromise in the secular and the Christian music industry coming out of Nashville, and we're saying that our values are the values of the kingdom of God. They are not the values that are in our culture that are being shipped out from Hollywood, being shipped out from Nashville, and many other places. We're taking a stand as a nation before God, and again, many sanctuaries across America will be doing this and joining with us, and this is a wonderful thing. This is a gift of God to our nation. Lou describes it in a very compelling way in this four-page letter or statement that he wrote about we're at the hinges of history right now for our nation, and the balance of our nation is before us. Our nation is in the balance, rather, and it's before us, and what we do, our decisions really do matter, and it's not enough to just let the other group do it. Somebody has to stand up and say, we are the group that's going to do it, and there's hundreds of thousands in America that are saying, we are that group, and we're doing it together. In other words, we don't want just some other group to take a stand before God, and hopefully it all sorts itself out in the end, because God really takes serious the decisions that his people make. They are not predetermined and automated. The final story of what happens has not been determined in many ways. In the broad sense, it's true. Jesus is coming. The church wins. In that broad way, God's sovereign purposes will be established, but there's the quality of life in our nation has not been determined yet in the spirit or in the natural. Those things are still partially in the hands of the people of God. If they rise up, then good things happen. If they don't rise up, then those good things are withheld. Well, it was Lou that the Lord stirred up in 1999. The Lord gave him Joel 2.15, call a fast, gather the people. I remember he got a hold of me and spoke to me about this. I've known Lou for many years, and it's just been a joy to walk with him as a good friend and just a comrade in intercession. He's been, you know, in California all these years, and we interacted many, many times here and there. And he said, Joel 2.15, and he's called a fast and said, gather to Washington, D.C., and 400,000 people gathered. He was shocked. You know, he said on the day, he couldn't believe it. It worked. It was really God. I love his humility in that. And then the call leadership had seven different events. Then the Lord said, lay it down. I was on the call leadership team back then, and I'm on it again this time. The Lord spoke prophetically, lay down the call three or four years ago. And recently, he said, pick it back up now. And so we're launching in Nashville. And as you know, we're having the call. The national office will be based here in Kansas City. Then we're going to have regional calls, one-day events, 10,000 or 20,000 people in regional events all across America in the, like the municipal auditorium-type buildings. And Lou will be giving the leadership of it. We'll be providing the administration here, and we're in partnership, the call and IHOP. And we get to be involved in these, a multitude of one-day solemn assemblies all across America. It's Joel 2.15. That's what it's about. Now, let's go ahead and look at Joel 2 for just a moment. I know you know this passage, but I don't think that we can look at it enough. It says here, Joel chapter 2, verse 12. Now, therefore, says the Lord, turn to me with all of your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning. So rend your heart and not your garment. The Lord says, tear your heart, because traditionally, in a time of fasting, they would tear their garments in a ritual way. He says, I don't want you to do the ritual thing. I want you to tear your heart. In other words, embrace costly righteousness. Well, this is a really intense and passionate cry of God, because God tore his heart in his pursuit of his people. And he said, I want you to rend your heart and to tear it, and I want you to return to me with all of your heart. Well, people would say, maybe it's too late. I've gone too far. Is it too late for this nation? Is it too late for an individual's life? And Joel, by the anointing of the Spirit, says five statements. He goes, no, it's not too late. He's gracious. He's gracious. You haven't gone too far. It's not too late, is what Joel is saying. He's merciful. He's slow to anger. He has great kindness. He doesn't have kindness. He has great kindness that he's prepared to show to America, and he's prepared to show to the church in America, as well as the nation as a whole. And he will show great kindness to anyone that will tear their heart and return to him. And he relents from doing harm, meaning the plan that was determined in his courts in heaven, he says, I will cancel that plan if my people turn. You say, well, how could God, who knows all things, how does that work? Well, I don't want to go into that right now, but I'll tell you this. God declares judgments on a nation, and then he cancels them out if the nation repents. It's a very clear biblical principle. It says, verse 14, who knows if God will turn away from judgment on a family, on a person, who knows if God will turn away from judgment on a nation and relent, which means change his mind, and leave a blessing behind. Instead of a disaster zone, he makes it a revival center. But here's the answer. When there is no remedy for a nation, and beloved, I assure you this, there is no natural remedy for America. The government cannot make laws or create an economic situation to cause America to turn around. The family is absolutely disintegrating in America. Marriage as an institution and as a covenant is disintegrating in America. The moral fiber of our nation is eroding. Unrighteousness is filling the land, and wherever unrighteousness goes, demons follow, and death follows, and destruction. We are moments away from an outbreak of rage in the streets, and riots reoccurring time and time again. Not just the outbreak of a madman, you know, killing a bunch of people on a campus. I think those kinds of things are going to happen as well, more regularly. I don't think it'll be the rule of the day, but I think we'll see more of that. But there'll be riots, and rage, and there will be economic troubles, and problems from terrorists, and disease, and judgments. I mean, there is no hope. There is no natural hope in America to stop these things by human hands. They have a momentum that is huge, but there is a hope. When there is no remedy, God said, here's the answer. Verse 15. Here's the verse that God gave Lut as he led the call. This is the very verse that God gave us in May 83 for the Solemn Assembly. It was Joel 2.15. Call a fast. This was the passage. This was our key passage right here. IHOP was birthed out of Joel chapter 2. Verse 12 to 17 are really the whole passage. Blow the trumpet. Consecrate a fast. Call a sacred assembly or a solemn assembly. Gather the people. Sanctify the congregation. Assemble the elders. So we're blowing the trumpet right now. We're making it known that we're calling a fast. And this trumpet is being blown widely across America, and we're receiving responses from leaders all around the world that are saying, our ministries are going to announce this fast, this 40-day fast, and we're going to join you on 7707 from a number of countries around the world. We're going to follow it with God TV and through the internet, and we're going to gather our people. We're going to go on the fast. The trumpet is being blown. All the major Christian television networks are advertising this, and they're asking different ones to come and tell the story and to have it told over and over. And this is a God thing. The trumpet is being blown. Consecrate a fast. What's that mean? That means establish it. To establish it is not just kind of casual. To consecrate it means to make it holy. It's the same word. Holy and consecrate, the same word. Make it special. Make it sacred. Now I'm encouraging many of you to go on a juice fast for 40 days, or a Daniel fast. And a Daniel fast, you can read about that in Daniel chapter 10, verse 3, where Daniel ate just a very limited supply of vegetables and fruits, a very, very narrow diet. He went on it for 21 days as a man in his 80s. Some people say, well, that Daniel fast didn't really count. Well, the angel visited Daniel. It certainly worked for Daniel. If it is sacred and you really do it, and if you step outside of the lines of what you committed yourself to, then just realign yourself, push delete, and go right back to it. A lot of folks on a 40-day fast, I've seen this over the years, or 21, they'll start, you know, we're gonna go on water on day 5. They feel released to go on juice. Then on day 8, they feel released to go on vegetables. On day 12, they release to go on everything besides sugar. And by day 15, they're eating pumpkin pie double because they've been starving for two weeks. And I understand that, having done that. You thought I just heard the story. No, I know all about that kind of stuff. But I'm not putting that down. That's not the point. But what I'm saying is to consecrate it. Set the boundaries. Set it in the fear of the Lord and say, Lord, this is what I'm endeavoring to do. And you might do it in a more intense way than you're committing to. You're saying, I'm committing to this, but I'm gonna try it even in a more focused way. But if not, I'm committed to at least this level. And again, if you step outside of what you committed to, get right back to it and finish the entire 40 days. And if it's a Daniel fast, you'll find it will change your life as well. Or a juice fast. And some do these things on water, and undoubtedly some will. And it is very possible, if you're healthy, to do a 40-day water fast. People think, you know, I remember when, it was Lou, he doesn't mind I say this because he said it publicly, when he went on a 40-day water fast, and he was in Kansas City about day 10, he says, I really think I'm going to die. I need to meet my family. And then I said, Lou, I promise you, you will not die. No, he was like really serious, thinking about his will, his last day. I go, I promise you, you will not die. He goes, are you sure? I said, Lou, you could probably fast 80 days on water before it would kill you. You're so far from dying at the 40-day mark if you've got a normal, healthy body. You know, I remember when I first went on a 7-day fast, I thought death was around the corner. Then a 21-day, surely. And I assure you that the human body, a 40-day fast, again, if they're healthy, I'm not talking about somebody that's sick and has complications. So my point is, go for what God gives you and don't be afraid of it. But consecrate it. Make it sacred, not just casual. And I would encourage us not to talk about what you're doing. I mean, you might to a friend, but I don't want it spiritual one-upsmanship, you know. That kind of thing or judgments or, you know, when people talk about it, we've had a rule over the years not to talk about it. You know, don't ask, don't tell. It's kind of the policy kind of deal. And, you know, guys come and, you know, in accountability, repent to me because they ask. I go, stop repenting to me. Go. It's between you and the Lord. And it's not, you didn't cheat and lie against IHOP. It's not that kind of thing. So you don't need to do that. But just push delete and get right back on it. Consecrate a fast. Call a sacred assembly. And we're calling that 12 hours on July 7. But for the 40 days, we're gonna figure out ways to where we can interact in various ways as a community. And we won't do it every day, all day kind of thing. But we're gonna work on that schedule in this next week. Gather the people, sanctify the congregation. To sanctify the congregation means to free the congregation from their normal responsibilities so they can give their strength and time to this. That's what it means to sanctify a congregation for a fast. To free them so they can give themselves to this and allow the responsibilities to go undone for a season, different ones of them. And he says, assemble the elders. Now I have found over the years that the last group to show up to the fast is the elders, is the leadership. And it's not because they don't care. It's typically because they're busy. That's why they're elders. That's why they're leaders. But the elders, the leaders of the community, must make this a priority. He goes on in verse 17, let the priest who minister to the Lord weep between the porch and the altar. Let them say, spare your people, O God. Verse 18, and then the Lord will be zealous for the land. Then the Lord will have pity or mercy, another translation says, he will have mercy on the individuals, on the family units, and upon the nation. He will have mercy. He will be zealous and he will have mercy. Verse 28, and it shall come to pass afterwards. That's the key phrase in verse 28, is afterwards. The afterwards of verse 28 is clearly related to the fasting and prayer of verse 15. So if you study Joel 2 carefully, the afterwards of verse 28 is clearly about the fasting and prayer of verse 15. Well, I want to now go from here and begin to tell a little bit about our own storyline. Just a little bit of it, more next week, and again some of what's happening in our nation. That Lou has been entrusted with that story, but we're all telling it together with him. But no one tells it better than Lou does. He has an anointing for it. He's been called and raised up as a significant prophetic voice in America for this time of history. I mean, I am so honored to be able to walk with this man who has given himself in such a singular way to fasting and prayer and calling the nation to it. Well, the IHOP story and the natural begins on August 8th, 1975. And what happens is that, what happened on that day is that Bob Jones, who was a, he worked with trees. He was a tree trimmer and he sprayed trees. That was his employment for many years. Just a regular guy going about his work. He's always reminded me of Amos, because Amos was a prophet to Israel, but he was a, he took care of the sycamore trees. That, his job was a tree guy, tree trimmer, or tree something-er, and that's what he did. And during the day and at night he had dreams and visions and prophesied. And so I've always thought of Bob as related to Amos. And for many years that's what Bob did. That is what his career was. Well, he was prophesying against abortion on August 8th, 1975. And a demon appeared to him and warned him, if you don't stop I will kill you. And he did not stop. And the demon touched Bob. And it's a long story. I'm not gonna give the details. But he ends up, Bob has, dies. His spirit leaves his body. He's going down that tunnel that you've heard about so many times in death experiences. He stands before the Lord and he says, Lord, how did this happen? And the Lord says, I want you to go back. And the Lord told him, he goes, there's some leaders. And I'm gonna put a couple visions together. The Lord told him there was a young adult youth movement of prophetic singers and musicians that would break forth out of Kansas City. The Lord told him that in many, many different visions. He said, I want you to go back and touch the beginning of the leadership of that movement to prepare them for what's coming. And Bob was really involved with this purpose for 10 years in a really dynamic, daily way. Bob claims to have had about a hundred different visions, dreams, open visions, angelic experiences, you know, many categories of experiences. But about a hundred of them, he said, between this experience in 1975, this death experience, and when we met in March 1983, in that seven-year period, he said, he said, probably 100 times the Lord told me about this young adult movement. Well, he heard two angels speaking and the angels were telling him about the purpose of God that would break forth out of Kansas City. And they told him that it would explode like an atomic bomb out of Kansas City and light would go forth at supernatural speed across the nations of the earth. That what God would begin to do miracles and signs and wonders. And Bob all but prophesied the the TV dimension. He said, because what they would, what will happen in Kansas City will be instantly known within a second around the world. Well, that's TV. It's what it sounds like might be more than that. I don't know, but certainly that. And the Lord showed him that light would break forth and it would be noised abroad across the nations, this explosion of light, and they would know instantly what was going on and they would participate with it. And then the angels told Bob this, this is important. The angels told Bob, John 14, 12, they will do greater works than these in the Lord's timing. The works of Jesus in greater works than these. So Bob has this very dynamic experience. He's very excited about what he hears. And so he begins to pray, starting in August 1975, about this youth group. Well, seven years later, it's again August 8th. He had two major experiences, both on August 8th. This time, it's 1982. It's the year before just preceding a number of us coming to Kansas City. We'd been in St. Louis for seven years. This time on August 8th, what Bob sees, he sees a riverbed. And this riverbed has four inches of water. And in this riverbed, he sees a white horse. And this white horse is depicting this young adult movement that would overcome the flesh, is what the Lord told him. They would be strong in the Lord and they would overcome the strength of their flesh. That would be the promise to this people. And the Lord saw myself and my brother Pat. He saw two people. He saw two people. He didn't understand all the personal dynamics of what was going on. And we were in the riverbed together, four inches of water. And there were dogs with rabies on both sides of the riverbed. And these dogs were barking. And there was only four inches of water in the river. But the dogs, a rabid dog, a rabid dog, cannot get in water because they can't drink water. And the Lord told him, he says, these are like righteous men, even in the body of Christ. And they will bark. And they will accuse. And they will put down this purpose of this young adult prayer movement. Because they won't understand it. Because we have such a focused assignment from the Lord. I mean, the Lord has told us, keep a sanctuary 24 hours a day. That's your primary assignment. And everything else will take care of itself. I mean, that's offensive to the mindset of many in the body of Christ. And these dogs were barking. And they were saying, it's not right. What about this? What about this? What about this? What about this? What about this? And the Lord told Bob, he says, you're to stand behind these two guys. Because they don't have enough discernment to stay away from those rabid dogs. Because what they'll do is they'll be lured to the side. Those dogs can't bite them, except they go to the side. And to be bit by these rabid dogs meant that we would buy into their ideas. And we would let go of the focus of the prayer movement. This laser-beam focus of fasting and prayer. Fasting and prayer. Night and day. Singing. Worshiping. Fasting and prayer. Night and day. Intimacy with God. This laser-beam focus that is strange to many in the body of Christ. And I do understand why it's strange to them. I mean, we do more than that. But that's our consuming mandate. And the Lord told me many, many times, this is the one thing I've told you to do. He's told me this through various ways. And so the rabid dogs are well-reasoning, righteous men. They just don't understand it. They have no grid of understanding for this kind of thing. So they would seek to get us to go a different direction. And he said, if you get off course and these dogs bite you, they will poison you. And you won't, it won't make sense to you to stay focused on this IHOP mandate we know it to be now. And in truth, I got off the course of several times. And the Lord corrected it. There were times of public repentance and where we had myself and the other leaders acknowledging we got off the course, even with so much prophetic help through the years. Well, Pat has had my brother, who most of you know, was injured in a football accident in 1973, in a high school football accident. Was paralyzed for 33 years. He went home to be with the Lord on May 5th, just two weeks ago, after 33 years of being totally paralyzed. And he has been a mysterious prophetic sign post for this movement. I mean, it's mysterious. There's numbers of levels of meaning to it. I don't want to go into that. I'm not quite ready to go there yet publicly. But I have some understanding, more than I've talked about. But I know there's much more understanding to have. But he's been a mysterious signpost for this movement. In 1983, he was spoken of on several times, supernaturally. The Lord had this thing about emphasizing Pat. And so, Bob Jones is in this riverbed with us. This is seven years after his death experience. It's again August 8th. It's not 75, it's August 8th, 82. It's seven years later. And he's standing there, and he's helping us with prophetic revelation, not to go to the right or to the left. And then suddenly, the Lord descends from heaven and reaches forth his hand. And he said, when I touch him, talking about my brother, and when I raise him up, then the floods will break forth from this place, and they'll go to the nations. The floods will break forth. Now, the Lord meant the floods of the Spirit, as all we could understand it. But it's so interesting that on the day that Pat died, 24 years after the Solemn Assembly, it says on the bottom of the newspaper, on the front page of Section C, or whatever section it was, you know, the story, Pat Bickle dies. And they have this, they highlight him, because he, the Kansas City Star, maybe did, you know, between five and ten stories on him. Maybe four or five of them, front page stories over the years. So, he was a point of interest in the Kansas City area. And so, they have this story, Pat Bickle dies is the story, on the bottom, on the front page of this Section C, whatever. On the top, it says something, this isn't the exact title, you know, floods break out, historic, you know, that kind of thing. And here it is, the Lord told Bob, when I touch this young man and raise him up, the floods will surely break forth, and then this movement will go forth. Now, we always thought, for 33 years, that the Lord raising him up meant physical healing. And as recent as the day before he was taken home to be with the Lord, we all just, we were focused on believing God for physical healing. We talked about the possibilities of, for some years, we talk about it softly, it was kind of like, we just don't want to go there, you know. But what if raising him up means the Lord takes him home? And we decided, as many of us in my family, we were just gonna, we'll leave that to, if that happens, that's the Lord's business, we're going for physical healing. Well, it ends up, the Lord raised him up. And the Lord raised him up, and the very day the Lord raised him up, and on the very newspaper reporting of it, the floods are highlighted in the Midwest. And the Lord said, I will send the floods when I raise him up, and then I will be, I will release this young adult movement to its next purpose, was the idea. The Lord showed Bob that there was four inches of water, and there would be for some years, enough to get clean, enough water of the Spirit to walk holy, but not enough to launch a global movement. And he said, I'm gonna keep it at four inches until the appointed time. We've had times where we grew, went up to four and a half inches, then we went up to three and a half inches, you know. Enough to get clean, but not enough to launch a movement. But he said, when I raise up this young man, the floods will come, and the movement will break forth. Now, you know, with the Lord, it's tricky, because he says, I'm coming back soon. It's 2,000 years later, so you don't know what, what it means, exactly. But I know that the Son, we're in a timing of the Lord, where we're gonna receive the next installment. Well, the next thing that happens, is that we're in St. Louis, we were church planting in St. Louis, seven-year period, and the Lord sends a prophet by, and the message of it, at the end of the day, was go to Kansas City, and four things are gonna happen. The Lord said, I'm gonna raise up, I'm gonna bring thousands of young adults to Kansas City, gather them together, I'm gonna release the full gifts of the Holy Spirit. He said, there will be a false prophet in your midst, in your early days, that false prophet is come and gone, and number four, there will be a controversy that will break out, that will be widespread, that will break out, that will cause trouble, and told us a few things about that. This prophet tells us this in St. Louis, so we come to Kansas City, and you know, and begin the church, and now we'd be going four months, it's March 1983, just a few months before the Solemn Assembly of May 83, it's the first day I meet Bob Jones, he walks in. Now, I'm convinced Bob Jones is the false prophet, that I'm supposed to be aware of. So Bob Jones, so I'm not really enthusiastic to talk to him, or to meet him, because I'm convinced he's the, he's a false prophet, because this prophetic man that gave us this word, it became clear he had a true prophetic anointing, many stunning, accurate prophecies with good fruit behind them. And so I had, you know, I was beginning to have confidence in that at this time, just beginning to. I didn't know anything about the prophetic. Well, Bob Jones walks in, and some of you who know him, you can picture it, and he has his winter coat on, and it's, you know, 60, 70, 80 degrees, just like, very parallel to the, to the spring of 2007, that it's warm, but the prophetic word is that the snows are coming. Just very similar, parallel to 24 years ago, what happened this spring. Surprising, the parallels. And Bob's, his first statement is, he says that the first of spring, when the snow melts, they will sit around the table, and they will accept me. And I said, well, who, who, who's going to accept you? And he said, why you will, with your own mouth. The first of spring, when the snow melts. I said, I don't think the snows are coming. You know, it's 70, 60, 70, 80 degrees, different days, you know, for a couple weeks. And he says, yes, they're surely coming. It was so reminiscent this year to 24 years ago. As, as Julie had spoken the word, the snows were coming, and we were all ready to let her off the hook, and say, well, maybe the snows are coming, maybe it's next year. She goes, no. And she, you know, she came to visit Pat at the hospital a number of times. She had on her coat, you know, in the spirit of Bob Jones. I go, got your coat on? She goes, yep, I sure do. I gotta, and we both understood what we were saying, and it was, it was funny. We had short sleeves on, she had her coat on, and her boots. Well, the snows came, and the Lord was speaking through Julie. It meant righteousness, righteousness, righteousness. I will cleanse you white as snow. If you repent, I will forgive you. I will forget. I will give you a new beginning. But you must, I hop, all of you, you must repent, and I will forgive. I will forget a new beginning. I will make you white as snow. Righteousness, righteousness, righteousness. The snows are surely coming. I'm giving you time to repent. That's what the message of that, that Julie had. And then following it, that after the snows, the rains will come. The rains of renewal. And then the flood will break forth. And beloved, the floods breaking forth, they're speaking, there's floods of, it means floods of the spirit of power. It means both of them. Well, Bob Jones walks in, and he says, yeah, it's gonna snow, and at the first of spring, the snow will melt, and you will accept me. And he said, the Lord told me, he said, you're a youth pastor. And I've told this story so many times. And he said, he said, you're gonna have thousands of young adults come, singers and musicians, from all around the world. He said, you're gonna, you're a youth pastor. You know, and I put my chest down and said, I beg your pardon, I'm the senior pastor. And he goes, no, he says, you won't be a youth pastor for years. He goes, you're not mature enough. He says, you have to grow up first. He goes, there's a, there's a youth movement that's gonna break forth, and it's gonna touch Israel. And we could go on and on about that, but I say it all the time, so I won't. And then Bob Jones explained the dynamic. He said, from Acts chapter 2, and we know the passage well, and if you have your Bibles, just open it if you need to. In Acts chapter 2, verse 17, he says, I'll pour out my spirit, I'll give you dreams and visions to my sons and daughters. Then in verse 19, he says, I'll show you wonders in the heaven and signs on the earth. He says, do you know what that means? He goes, God will send a prophet to give you the vision, and the vision may be true, the vision may not be true, but then the prophet will give the vision, and the prophet will declare a sign in the heavens in the weather patterns, or an earthquake, that kind of thing, or a comet, something that no man can manipulate. And when that weather pattern comes to pass some weeks, months, or years later, then go back and review the vision, and know that the vision was a true vision. So Bob Jones says, I'm gonna give you a vision. He said, here's the vision. He says, God's calling a young adult youth movement to come forth here, and you're going to accept me, and I promise you that's going to happen. And here's, that's the vision. Now here's what's gonna happen. The snows will come on the first of spring. We'll sit around the table, and I just said, there's not a chance that's gonna happen, because it was just so warm. Well that happened with Bob, maybe seven, eight, nine times. I don't, I never actually counted him up, where he would give a vision, and then talk about a future weather pattern, and the pattern, when it was far enough out, nobody could know it, or manipulate it, and it would happen exactly on the day, like he said. And then we would go back and review the vision, and go, wow, we got to pay more attention to that vision. So Bob, he's leaving this first in meeting with me, and he stops at the doorway, and he goes, oh, by the way, he said, the Lord told me you like things, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, is that right? I said, yeah, I kind of do. He says, well, number one, he said, there's thousands of young adults that are going to gather over to Kansas City. Number two, the full manifestation of the Holy Spirit's going to come in God's time. Number three, there's a false prophet in your midst, beware. And number four, there'll be a great controversy that will break out, but the Lord will answer it. The very four things the prophet gave me in St. Louis. And I looked at him, and I said, I didn't say, I didn't say, wow, I just, I was dazzled, because I thought Bob was the false prophet, so I go home and tell my wife. Do you remember this, Diane? I come home, and I tell her, I say, I met this guy, you know, he's either totally of the devil or totally God, and I told her the whole story. She goes, he's obviously from God. I mean, it's obvious to me, and I said, well, he might not be. He might be the bad guy. She goes, oh. Anyway, we'll skip that part. Well, the snows came. It was dramatic. I'm not going to go into that. Most of you know that. It's on the prophetic history tapes, anyway. But even at that night, my brother Pat was a key figure in the confirmation of Bob Jones as a prophet in our midst. Just this strange thing with Pat. Like, why is he emphasized so clearly in those early days? Again, it's a mysterious signpost. Well, a month goes by now. It's April, and in April, I'm at one of the prayer meetings. We had the nightly prayer meetings. We went from seven to ten every night, seven days a week for some many years, you know, 10, 15 years, something like that. And so, we're just in our nightly prayer meetings. We've been doing them from the beginning. Our church is four or five months old. I've only known Bob Jones now for two months. I've only believed, I thought he was false for the first month. The second month, I believed he was right. And so now, I need a prophet. I'm at this prayer meeting, and the Lord speaks to me by what I call the internal audible voice of the Lord, which I've only received something of that level maybe three, four times in my entire life. I'm not talking about a clear impression. I'm talking about the Lord spoken with such clarity. And he said, Daniel 9 and Daniel 10. And the emphasis was on Daniel 9. Now, I had taught on Daniel 9 in St. Louis in the seven years I was there. And so, I had a little bit of understanding about Daniel 9. Daniel 9 is one of the most dramatic prophecies about the end-time move of God and the purposes of the salvation of Israel. I mean, Daniel 9 is as high as you can go in terms of drama. And the Lord speaks to me clearly, Daniel chapter 9. Call a fast like in Daniel chapter 10 for 21 days. And I hear this and begin it on, and I understand that we're to begin it on May 7th. And the Lord makes it clear to me that Gabriel is going to be involved in this somehow. And of course, I assume, kind of assume, I, you know, you never know fully what you're thinking about these things. But I'm, Gabriel's gonna be involved. Like, what's, you know, what's this mean? So, after the prayer meeting, Diane and I were driving home. I said, it was remarkable. Because, you know, our prayer meetings were 10 or 12 people, no music, three hours, rock pile, one after the other on the microphone. We just did it every night for years. We didn't have enough sense to put musicians involved. I mean, what were we thinking? Well, that was then, and this is now. Okay, so I tell her in the car, I said, the Lord just spoke to me. Daniel chapter 9. I mean, huge implications. I mean, Daniel 9, if you don't know it, again, it's the chapter of the ultimate end-time visitation to touch the nations, for Israel to be saved, Jesus to return, the Antichrist to be destroyed. You know, it's like, Gabriel will be involved. And, you know, Diane's like, wow. Are you sure? That's intense. I said, I heard that with such clarity. So, the next morning, I get up and I call Bob. I said, Bob, I said, I I've only known him, I've only, again, I've known him two months. I've only took him serious for one month. I said, I need a prophet really bad right now. He said, I know. He said, I already saw, I saw what happened. No, I said, no, no, something really intense happened last night. He goes, yeah, I know, I saw it. He goes, that's why the Lord sent me back from death was to help you. I said, well, okay. He says, come over to my house. So, he gave me his address and I put a couple guys in the car and in the car, we're driving there. I said, we're going to this guy's house because nobody, no one in the church knew Bob Jones. He hadn't talked at all and sit in the back row, you know, I go, we're going to this guy. He's a tree trimmer and, uh, and these guys go, why? I said, well, I want to talk to him. I said, something really heavy happened last night. I heard the voice of God. Cool, what do you say? I said, Daniel chapter 9. They go, what's that? They didn't know anything about Daniel 9 and I said, and something about Gabriel being involved in a 21-day fast on May 7th and that kind of thing. And they went, whoa, you know, so we get over to the house and we walk in and Bob Jones, we sit down and he says it. I'm in opening sentence. He goes, well, I saw him. I'm saying, we saw who? He says, I saw the one the Lord spoke about. You know, these guys are like, whoa, you know, they're 20 years old and they're just so excited. I'm 27. I'm so excited, but I'm terrified. I'm too, they are terrified. I am because I'm just, what if I go saw who? He said, I saw the one the Lord spoke to you about last night. He said, I saw Gabriel. It's the only time I've ever seen him. And even these many years later, this Bob would testify. This is the only time he's ever seen Gabriel was on this one occasion. He said, he told me to give the young man Daniel chapter 9 and the young man would know what to do with it. He would understand. Oh, I was just shaken. And he said, and he told me may 7th and he brought his calendar out. It was circled in red may 7th. He goes something on may 7th. I, of course I just told the young guys in the car, we're going to begin a 21 day fast on may 7th. And he said, the Lord told me that he would send a comet across the heavens. He goes, you know, like that snow that came on the first day of spring, he goes, well, a comet is going to come across America on may 7th, unpredicted by scientists. And nobody knows it's coming, but it's coming. And on may 7th, it will be a sign in the heavens that the Lord is orchestrating this fast. He goes, because you're going to need to know this when it's over, because the vision is that Daniel nine and Gabriel, the confirmation is there'll be a sign of the heaven. So we take the vision serious, but I was already taking it serious because I heard about Daniel nine and Gabriel before Bob Jones that he told me what I heard last night. This was very true. It was, it was troubling, actually more than exciting. It was, it was, it was mystifying to me. I thought, you know, I don't understand where this is going and what this means. And, and Bob says, it's this young adult movement. I'm telling you, it's what it's about. And then the Bob spoke and he said, the Lord's going to answer on may 28th. So 21 days later, the Lord's going to answer. That sounds good. Well, we all gather on may 7th, you know, a couple of weeks after this experience with Bob, we get the word out. 700 people are there on that first night, about a thousand people were involved in the whole 21 days. We meet from six in the morning till midnight. Again, we don't have music the whole 18 hours, except for seven o'clock. That, that at seven to eight, we worshiped and that was our one relief. We would go there at six in the morning and I would give everybody the look and they, nobody would look at me because I'd give them the look as we prayed nonstop on the microphone. There'd be, you know, be a couple hundred people in the room and I'd look at them and we'd pray for a half hour at a time. At those days, we didn't care. I said, you can tell poems, you can tell dreams, you can go on and on, preach your favorite sermon as long as your eyes are closed, you do anything you want to do and we'll call it prayer. You know, I probably went up, you know, eight or ten times a day for a half hour. We all did. I mean, we just didn't have very many people that would go on the microphone. It was really a labor. But we did it. Well, May 7th, we're all gathered, about 700 in that little church, jam-packed, and Bob Jones brings in the newspaper and shows me. Again, nobody in the room knows him. Some people know him from his past in the city as a prophet, but the room as a whole, they do not know him. In our young, our new young church, we have about 500 people in our church. He's about six months old now and none of them really know Bob because he's never, he's always sitting at the back and I've never appointed him out or, you know, drew attention to him anyway. But anyway, he brings the, I'm out there on the front row during the worship time, getting ready to start the fast and he hands me the newspaper and it says, comet comes across America, unpredicted by scientists. The May 7th newspaper. I went, this is remarkable. He said, this is only the beginning. He said, there are so many signs the Lord is going to give. He said, there is going to be an explosion of the prophetic anointing that's going to come to these young people in the Lord's time. Well, the two main purposes, two main promises that were spoken during that 21 days, that 21 days is really mostly unanointed and mostly barren and mostly just to be honest, people said, it must have been awesome. Well, it really wasn't. It just really wasn't. We had two highlights, two real dynamic highlights. And that's when the Lord said audibly 24 seven, that's what your assignment is. I won't go through that again because we've gone through that so much in the spirit of the tabernacle of David, you will do 24 hour prayer. Now I had a vision of doing prayer, but now 24 hours with singers and musicians, where will we get them? Where, what will they do all day? And he says, I don't know. I don't know, but the Lord will give wisdom in that day. I thought, and he said, and when you get to 500, you'll go to 5,000 and then he, you know, the, the Mississippi flood sign, which I won't go into that, but it's, I'm just highlighting the fact that the flood happened again, another sign that was predicted ahead of time. And it happened just like Bob said it. We go to 5,000. I said, what will we do with 5,000 full-time musicians and singers sitting in a building? He says, we'll worship and pray all day. That's what we're going. That's why God's calling them. I said, and then what else? He says, that's all that he's telling us to do. We'll just, we'll just, he'll give us assignments when we get there. And then the next thing he said that we'd have a healing anointing that no, no disease known to man would stand before this people. And the Lord spoke that in a personal visitation as well. Well, it happens on May 27th, the day before the fast is to end on May 28th because the Lord promised I'm going to answer on May 28th. So I'm excited about May 28th. So May 27th, Bob comes to me again. He's never been introduced publicly to the, to the, to the prayer meeting or anybody related to the church. And so he comes to me and he says, the fast is going to be over tonight. I said, well, that seems odd. I mean, the Lord said, you know, May 7th and he's going to answer us on May 28th. And he says he is, but it's over. The fast is over tonight. I said, I don't think so. I said, you know, if you need to go eat something, go ahead, but we're not breaking the fast. You know, if you're, you know, I'm just assuming that he's hungry and tired. He's thinking, you know, I go, no, man, this is Gabriel, a comet, Daniel nine. Are you kidding me? We're going to do this thing to the end. This is awesome. So the young worship leader is, it's, you know, our seven o'clock hour, he gets up. He's a guy about 20 years old. I remember he's playing and he's, I can remember it so vividly. Uh, we begin to sing spontaneously and he has this chorus and he sings, it is done. Now he doesn't know anything about what Bob told me. He goes, it is done. Just this chorus. And of course the immediate thought is it is finished. Jesus on the cross. He says, it is done. And he wasn't a real heavy theological guy and never claimed to be. And he starts singing it. And the thing had such an energy on it that nearly an hour, not quite an hour, 45 minutes to an hour. We sang a one chorus song, the entire room with so much energy. He was playing. He stood, he came back and you know, the thing's going on. He goes, I'm not controlling this. He goes, I'm not doing anything. He goes, I can't leave this meeting. They won't stop. And I said, we'll keep doing it. My great prophetic insight. I go, we'll keep doing it then. And it went on for almost an hour. It is done. It is done. It is done. It is done. It is done. It is done. That's 15 seconds. Diane, do you remember that when they're Luke, do you remember that you were four years old? All right. And so I'm looking at Bob Jones. He's on the back row. He's, you know, you can just, those of you know, Bob, that brilliant smile. He's smiling. He goes, yep. Yeah. I told you. He's back there shaking his head, putting his thumbs up. You know, no one else is knowing what's going on. I'm just going, it can't be done. We're supposed to be answered tomorrow on May 28th. And so at the end, and we do this for nearly an hour and I get up and I go, I kind of muttered my first prophecy at the church. I go, well, I guess it's done. And that's all I said. And the place exploded with applause and everybody started, it's over, hugging and dancing. And they started getting food and they, wait, stop. It's not, you know, it was over. It was literally over. They just started going out and they went to the restaurants right in the area there. We were in Overland Park where the church was. I go, Bob, how did that happen? He said, it's over. I told you that today. It's going to be over tonight. Well, I said, well, let's go eat. You know, I mean, if it's over, it's over. Let's be practical. Then the next night, oh, the next night's bad. May 28th. May 28th, the place is packed because it's the, because we announced for three weeks before the fast began on May 28th, the Lord is going to answer. Well, what does that mean? It means the Lord is going to release power. Not necessarily. Well, that's what I thought it meant. I mean, why would the Lord, why would he answer any other way besides that? If Gabriel, Comet, angels, you know, Daniel 9, why would anything else be the answer besides that? Bob Jones gets up and he goes, first time he ever spoke publicly at the church. And they're looking like, who is this man, this tree trimmer guy up there talking? He gets to grab something. He just came straight off the, I didn't know this was going to happen. He just came right up and he said, well, I have good news and I have bad news. I go, you know, what, where's this going? Because the whole, you know, the, so many came, you know, the people who didn't do the fast, but they came for the breakthrough meeting or to check it out if the breakthrough came meeting. Place was so jammed. Lots of expectation. He says, I got good news and I got bad news. He said, here's, I'll give you the bad news first. He said, the spiritual drought that's on America is going to continue. I thought, that doesn't sound like, you know, the revival's breaking out. He goes, it's gonna continue until God's appointed time and God will send the reigns of the Spirit, the reign of the Spirit, at his exact appointed time. And he said, and as a sign, he goes, that's the prophecy. The drought is not lifting. That's the bad news. This is the Lord. I'm answering from the Lord. And he says, and the Lord's going to give you a sign in this city. Again, a sign in the weather patterns. He said, as surely as the drought in this nation has not lifted, there will be a drought on this city for three months. And he goes, exactly on August 23rd, the rains will come. This is May 28th. I mean, how do you know it's gonna rain on August 23rd, on May 28th? He tells this boldly to everyone. On May 20, on August 23rd, the rains will come. And he says, and when the rains come, you will know with certainty that God has an appointed moment to end the drought in this nation. He's not going to end the drought on May, on August 23rd. It's a sign in a local way, in our own city, so that we will know there's a day that the drought in America will end in the Spirit, and the floods will truly break forth in our nation. And he says, it's not gonna, there isn't gonna be a release of power. I can't believe he is saying this. I mean, I'm annoyed plus some. You can do the math. I am not happy at all that he is saying this. We have fasted, prayed, and believed, and you know, this Gabriel, and Comet, and Daniel 9. How could this be? The snows came, the youth movement, and I had one verse that came to my mind from David at Ziklag, and they took up stones to stone him. That's the only verse that came. There is no revival. The fast is over. Hey, we got to eat a day early. There's no revival. I mean, there was so much disappointment. I mean, there was a, I would go as far to say, even despair hit us. I mean, the meeting, we just nearly just did a little kind of, you minutes, and just ended the meeting. It was like, ah, this is terrible. He said, now, he says, we're not ready. And so what happened? The Lord put a pause button on this movement in one way. And there's many things have happened in the last 24 years. But this 24, this 21-day fast, this 21-day fast was about America being visited, Israel being saved. I mean, it was Daniel 9. It was global. It was our nation. It was much more than our city. I was happy just for our city to be touched. That would have been enough for me. But there's a pause that's on it. I mean, many things have happened in 24 years since then. Bob said, I said, well, what's the good news? He said, well, here's the good news. He goes, this is really good news. I thought, I wonder what this is. He said, if the Spirit comes now, this movement is not at all qualified. You'll blow it. You'll end up in sin and disqualification. The whole thing will get off, and then it will be over. So the good news is the movement won't be over. It's going to be saved. I went, that's the good news? He goes, yeah. He goes, in the future, you will really appreciate this. He goes, you don't really appreciate this right now, but the day will come where you really appreciate that point. He goes, this is good news. And now when I look back 24 years ago, if the IHOP reality was birthed then and the Spirit was released, the Spirit has not been released yet. I'm talking about more than what we have now. If all of that would have happened back then, 24 years later, I am confident the movement would be disbanded and disqualified and disregarded. It's really right. He said, that's the good news. The movement's going to stay intact. I mean, back in that day, that was a horrible word. Well, I'm going to have Julie come up in just a moment here, so just get prepared, Julie. Julie had a dream in June 2004, June 22nd. In this dream, the angel visits her and says, what goes up, the prayers of the saints, ascending. The angel said, the prayers have ascended out of IHOP. What goes up must come down. The Lord will answer. And a big five-by-five boulder blasted through the roof and there was an open heaven in IHOP in the Lord's appointed time. And somebody pointed out to me, we're waiting for this open heaven. The saints, the prayers have been going up. And someone pointed out to me on the day my brother died on May 5th, he said, that's the five-by-five. That relates to the five-by-five boulder. The timing is, we're at a divine timing. I'm not saying at all the fullness of our purpose is around the corner. Our fullness will unfold over several decades. But I'm saying the summer of 2007 is the beginning of a new installment, significant. It's not, we'll look in the years ahead, we'll look back at this and say 2007, it was significant before the Lord. In February 2007, Julie gave the dreams about the snows. And the Lord was really saying in the snow, because it didn't look like snow was coming, it was an unnatural, I mean it was a something that was odd because the snow seemed like they were finished. But I'm gonna get, he's already saying, I'm gonna give righteous, I mean I hope time to repent. I'm gonna give you time to repent. I'm gonna give you time to repent. I'm gonna give the rains of renewal. I'm gonna strengthen you. I'm gonna give you time to repent. I'm gonna give you time to get yourself right. Then on May 7th, the comet comes. This year like it did on May 7th, 24 years ago. I had several of you send me emails. I didn't really have a chance to read it in depth, kind of sped read it. This elaborate, once in a life, I mean once in, you know, thousands of years or something like that, comet came across America or something. I didn't quite read that. I did, I received it from a half a dozen of you. It was like, the comet on May 7th again. Wow, you know. We were just in the middle of the funeral and all that kind of stuff. So it was hard to lock into that. But I just, I just note that I'm looking forward to really figuring that out. Well, what about the answer on May 28th? You know Rory Alec, God TV, is sitting across the table some weeks back with our leadership team. And he says, you know, we were gonna launch this 24-7 in the fall. And we were gonna launch this daily devotion, this hour program out of IHOP, where you teach the people to pray and then IHOP leads them in prayer. And the 24-hour world stream, oh I mean a web stream, I mean on the cameras going across the world. He said, but it's clear to us, it's clear to us, we're to speed it up. It's not gonna be October like we thought. We're gonna launch it on May 28th. And I'm in the room and two or three of our leaders looked at me and I went, May 28th? That seems, that seems important. On May 28th, this young adult movement will be connected, will be connected to 200 nations of the world on May 28th. The Lord told us 24 years ago he's gonna answer on May 28th. On May 28th, a 40-day fast in America begins after the 40 years of the summer of love and the whole culture of sin and unrighteousness has been established in our nation. It's like the fast that did not quite finish in 83, it came up a day short, the pause button was pushed. On May 28th, it's not a thousand people fasting for 21 days, it's hundreds of thousands of people fasting for 40 days. It's launched on May 28th. The pause button is being pushed and released. IHOP is connected around the world on May 28th and the prayer movement in America is galvanized with hundreds of thousands of people in a stadium in Nashville and the prayer movement is strong in America and going forward contending for the fullness of God together and that's what Daniel 9 was about.