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The Blueprint Prophecy and the Black Horse
Mike Bickle

Mike Bickle (1955 - ). American evangelical pastor, author, and founder of the International House of Prayer (IHOPKC), born in Kansas City, Missouri. Converted at 15 after hearing Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach at a 1970 Fellowship of Christian Athletes conference, he pastored several St. Louis churches before founding Kansas City Fellowship in 1982, later Metro Christian Fellowship. In 1999, he launched IHOPKC, pioneering 24/7 prayer and worship, growing to 2,500 staff and including a Bible college until its closure in 2024. Bickle authored books like Passion for Jesus (1994), emphasizing intimacy with God, eschatology, and Israel’s spiritual role. Associated with the Kansas City Prophets in the 1980s, he briefly aligned with John Wimber’s Vineyard movement until 1996. Married to Diane since 1973, they have two sons. His teachings, broadcast globally, focused on prayer and prophecy but faced criticism for controversial prophetic claims. In 2023, Bickle was dismissed from IHOPKC following allegations of misconduct, leading to his withdrawal from public ministry. His influence persists through archived sermons despite ongoing debates about his legacy
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Sermon Summary
Mike Bickle discusses the 'Blueprint Prophecy' received from Bob Jones, emphasizing the vision of a young adult movement that transcends traditional church structures. He recounts the significance of a prophecy that foretold the establishment of a 24-hour house of prayer and the rise of a community connected by shared values and vision. Bickle reflects on the challenges and spiritual warfare represented by the black horse, symbolizing demonic opposition, and the assurance of divine intervention through Michael the archangel. The sermon highlights the importance of perseverance in faith amidst trials and the call to engage in justice and prayer as part of the movement's mission.
Sermon Transcription
Well, this eighth and final session, I'm calling the blueprint prophecy. That's a phrase that some of our leadership team uses because we received a prophecy from a man that we did not know. And it said in it blueprint, and not only that paragraph B Bob Jones came to us on a Friday in March 84. And I have the details written down. He came to me on a Friday and he said, I heard the Lord speak to me audibly again. I've given, I think the 20 audible voice messages that Bob has received from the Lord, I'm sure he's received a few more, but I've given you about all that I know. And about the 10 or 20 times I've been touched in 30 years, I've told you all of those, so again, don't interpret these and think, Hey, this is happening every day. It really is not like that. I'm just laying them all out. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 20, 30 years worth. And so the Lord speaks to Bob audibly and tells him this. He says, he's going to give the Lord tells him he's going to give me blueprints for this young adult movement. Now, March 84, the solemn assembly had been 10 months ago, nearly a year ago. And, you know, I, I believed in it, but I didn't know, you know, cause again, I was aiming for a great revival. I was, uh, my paradigm was that of an evangelist and still is. I wanted to see soul saved. I didn't want to see a movement, you know, with, you know, uh, an in-depth, you know, a set of values and ideas that we're building a community together and connecting with others around the world. That sounds wonderful, but that wasn't my vision. My vision was just getting thousands of people saved and moving on to the next place, get thousands of people saved and let pastors take care of them. The Lord's idea was a movement where people would stay connected. I mean, they'd be in other cities and places, but they would have a connectedness to vision and value. And they'd be going somewhere together in the spirit, not organization. I've never had an interest in, you know, everybody connected in one organization. We've had a lot of people that have said, Hey, we want to join IHOP. We want our house of prayer to join yours. I go, you can't join IHOP. It doesn't work that way. You can be friends. You can use our stuff. We're happy for that, but we don't want a franchise. I said, there's already one and they're doing a great job. We do not want a franchise. You can't join us. That's not, I'm not interested in that. And so the idea of a movement, again, it's not organizational, but it's people with values and vision that's similar, many different structures and streams. And I wasn't thinking this at all when I met Bob Jones in 83, I wanted soul safe that that was really the end of my vision. And so he, he's constantly from the word of the Lord, getting my mind to shift thinking long-term set of values, the sort of thing where people would live in this, I mean, live walking in the spirit for decades and building something that had a continuum and a continuity to it. So here we are 10 months after the Selma Semblanes talk about this movement. Again, that always at first kind of chafed me because I thought, I don't want a bunch of people connected. They'll end up getting mad. I just want to lead them to the Lord and move on. You know what Bob told me? I mean, that's a legitimate calling for some, you know what he told me when I would say that to him the first couple of years, no, he really did. Cause I just, I want to lead them to the Lord and move on. He said, you're speaking like a coward. He said that for real. He goes, you're a coward. He goes, you can't just gather them. I mean, get, they get saved. The Lord saves them. Then you move on. No, now some are called to that. I'm not calling them cowards, but he says, for, but for your call to that, you're a coward if you do that. And I used to just, you know, who, where'd you get that information? Of course, he had a lot of information. So I finally yielded, but this idea, even in 84, I'm talking about a movement. You'd read it and go, wow, that's kind of neat. That was still a ouch word to me. Movement was an ouch word and the way that Bob used it and which was the right way. Well, the next day I see him on Saturday. And he, uh, came, uh, called to, uh, talk to me and he said this, I want to reinforce the certainty that you're going to receive the blueprints on Monday. He goes, and they're very significant and you're going to receive a Monday. Don't overlook this. Then I see him on Sunday and he says the same thing Monday. I said, yeah, yeah. He goes, no, you're not really listening to what I'm saying. This is really important. Paragraph C. So Monday, a man comes now. We don't know the man. He drives in four hours from central Kansas and he shows up at the church offices at a time he shows up at the church offices at a time where nobody is in the building. So he has this five page prophecy and he lays it just on the receptionist desk. And the prophecy says confidential Mike Bickle's eyes only. And, uh, so none of us had a chance to connect with him or anything like that. So I come in later that day and there's this strange big package. Mike Bickle's eyes only. Well, so I open it up and in the cover letter it says the, the spirit of God fell on me and he's talked about how the Lord used him prophetically. And of course I never did know anything about his prophetic ministry and he, and he talked a little bit how the Lord used him. And he said, the Lord gave me the blueprints for your movement. I went, huh, it's five pages. I mean, I just kind of looked at it. I went, man. So I read it and it was intense and we're going to look at some of it. Not all of it. I edited some of it and what I actually edited, I didn't edit anything except for things that were, uh, seemed, uh, just bigger than I wanted to have in print. There was a few things in it that just were, I thought, you know, I don't know. I don't know what that means. And I don't want that in print. So I didn't take out anything that was negative or anything. It's just some of the things that seemed bigger than what I could get my brain around. So I read it, then Bob Jones calls. He is so excited. Did you get the blueprints? I said, well, there's a guy who we didn't have a chance to meet that dropped off a big envelope that said blueprints. He goes, that's the blueprints. I said, Bob, this is pretty intense. He said, this is a historic day. He goes, you must acknowledge this day. This is a historic day in your life. Market. So I'm excited. You know, I'm going, okay, you know, let's just see what, see where this goes. You know, I'm new at this. You know, I've known Bob now one year, March 83. It's a March 84. I'm really inexperienced with these ideas and how this works. And I still am. I mean, you never get experienced on these things. Paragraph D this prophecy included the 24 hour house of prayer in it. It included the forerunner ministry, John the Baptist, the bride of Christ, which was an idea in 84 that I'd never thought about. I mean, I believe conceptually the church is the bride of Christ. That was it. After one sentence, I had nothing more to say on it. He talked about the Joseph's and the Joseph's company rising up. Now these are ideas that we had not emphasized. They were not, we were not familiar with them. I mean, conceptually we could imagine what they meant, but they were not values to us. And we didn't actually use the blueprints. Maybe we should have. We might've grown faster, but we didn't use the blueprint to guide our future. My vision. I mean, my value has always been the Lord speaks prophetically and I want to honor. I want to respond, but I want the Lord to also unfold it in real life. Like I don't want to try to make events happen, prophecies or invitations. And then I'm alerted that details circumstances will come. And when you're alerted and circumstances happen, then you could respond to them. But some people, they hear a prophecy, then they go force the circumstance and they push things out of God's will. So I've always had a value that you get a prophecy. Don't, don't try to make circumstances happen, but rather be alerted so that when they do happen, you've already been alerted on the inside, then you can respond and say, this is the Lord. Paragraph E, it was going to be a few months later, March, April, May, June, July, August, six months later, September 13th, the Lord was going to confirm this word in a very unusual way. And we're going to look at that in a minute. Now I've only shared that this, how he, he, he, uh, did this, how he confirmed it. I just hinted at it once in 2002. It's just, it was such a dramatic story, dramatic and such an unusual story that I've just never wanted to talk much about it, but I'm going to tell a little bit about it today. And in that dramatic confirmation in September, six months after I received this blueprint prophecy, an angel says concerning the prophecy, it contained much truth and great light. That's what an angel said. This prophecy doesn't have all the truth, but it has, in other words, it has real insight that's helpful to us. Now I've only, I didn't share this prophecy for 18 years. I may share it with our inner core, a few of the leaders, but even then I wouldn't let them have a copy of it. You know, maybe one or two, but a few I'd let, I go, no, I don't want this. I just have to know that I know what we're supposed to do with this. So I kept it, uh, uh, hidden away for about 18 years. Shared only one time actually publicly, and that was seven years ago to the IHOP staff. So this is the second time I've shared this word publicly in 25 years. Roman numeral two on the notes, the unusual prophetic word in Tulsa. This is how it starts on a Sunday, Bob Jones and Augustine and myself are in Tulsa speaking at a church on a Sunday morning, and it's in a big gym and there's nearly a thousand people there and Bob Jones and Augustine are on the platform and they're calling out people. They did that a lot. They would say, you know, brother in the blue shirt, they would speak up and just amazing, accurate words. And I would stand on the platform to give a little explanation because they would often speak in parabolic language, you know, the lion roared and the wind blows and the trees bend over and your life is going to be different. They would go, what? And I would say, well, and I would just, you know, put a little, a little touch on it every now and then when it was real parabolic and I could see the guy kind of going, I don't have a clue what that guy on the stage, that prophet guy just told me. So we worked as a team, the three of us, they were the anointed revelatory ones, and I was the storyteller and then kind of helped put the pieces together after they told great revelations. It worked real well. So paragraph B, Augustine, so it's quite a large stage. He's over on one end and he's bending over a leaning and he's talking to this young man, this young man, and me and Bob Jones, the stage is about the size of this. So we're on the other, actually a little longer, and we're on that far end over here cause we're letting Augustine have, you know, a while to minister and we're behind Augustine and Bob whispers over me, whispers at me. He says, you see that lady, you know, like the 10th row. That elderly lady, we found out she's in her eighties, said, uh, the red dress. He goes, the Holy Spirit's resting on her. Can you see it? He said, I see the lady. And he said, uh, no, no spirit is resting on her. Can't you see it? He goes, I got a word for her. I said, yeah, okay. You know, Augustine will probably go a few minutes and, and then you'll go a few and then Augustine will call out a few. And so we're back there and Augustine can't see us. Bob just whispers it real quick. And so Augustine gets through praying for this young man. Then he looks up and he looks around the congregation. I remember so clearly he goes, lady in the red dress, you know, back there, 10th row, whatever, stand up and Bob goes, that's the one, that's the one. I said, wow, because you know, there's nearly a thousand, seven, eight, 900,000. I don't know how many, but it's enough to where you're not going to just look over a crowd and find the same person exactly the same time. So I'm alerted and I say to myself, there's something possibly important right now, two prophetic guides call a person out of a thousand the same minute I go and it ends up, it really is. But I said to myself, there's, there's, I got to pay attention to this one. Paragraph D Augustine calls the lady. He says, mother, because he's an elderly lady. He says, would you come forward? He goes, I've never done this in all my years of prophesying, but the Holy spirit told me to ask you to pray for me. And I thought that was really humble. And that August two later said, no, I wouldn't humility. I actually heard that because I would never give over a meeting to a stranger. They might do anything. He goes, are you kidding me? Because I thought that that was so humbling. He goes, no, no, there was no humility about that. I actually heard it from the Lord. So she shook her head, which was surprising. She came forward. I mean, she was eager and I thought, wow. You know, I thought she would say, you know, not now, not here. Like, what are you doing? You know, so me and Bob and Augustine, we go down to the floor, to the ground level, but we're up on the stage and she comes and he gives her the microphone and whoever this lady is, she took the microphone and she prayed. I mean, with a zeal and a energy, I was shocked and the Lord would say to you. And I went, whoa, you know, that little thing, you don't less than a hundred pounds, five foot, you know, little skinny little, she had a voice and she had a fire in her eyes. And I thought, who is this lady? To this day, I've never had a chance to meet her. You know, just that moment. She looked at Bob Jones and she says, I have the word of the Lord for you. The Lord has called you to be a prophet. Of course, that was obvious. He was prophesied to people, but the Lord has given you unusual or much understanding in his purposes of the nation of Israel, not now nobody else knew that in that room of a thousand. I knew that. And I went, she gave Bob a few words and Bob said, that was powerful. Then she looks at Augustine and here's the part that's becomes unusual. She said, you're about, she said, young man, you're about to have a supernatural encounter very soon. Matter of fact, this is Sunday. It happened that Thursday night, that Thursday morning. I mean, it's Wednesday night, early Thursday morning, and it ended up confirming the blueprint prophecy. This is the angelic encounter. That's going to confirm this blueprint prophecy that we got six months earlier. Paragraph F she says, young man, in your visions, you have seen angels and in your visions, you have seen demons, but you have never seen an angel and a demon in the same vision. But that's an interesting prophetic word. I mean, this bold 80 something year old lady, I mean, she is not at all intimidated and she goes, you will see very soon an angel and a demon in the same vision, the same encounter, and it will be manifest in the flesh. Thus says the Lord. And then she was, you know, said another thing or two and then was done. Then we get in the car, we go after the service, we go home to Kansas city, about four hour drive. And I said, that was the most unusual lady. What do you guys think about her? And they both, they said that woman had the word of the Lord. She was anointed that she had a clear spirit. She had an authority and she had clarity from the Lord. Bob said, I liked her. That was, that was good. We need more of them around here. You know, you could just hear Bob in Augustine. He said, you know, it is true. I've never thought about it, but I have seen angels and demons. I mean, I've seen them. I mean, direct face to face encounters, but I have never seen an angel and a demon in the same experience because that's actually true, but he was perplexed. He said, I don't know what she means by manifest in the flesh. And Bob said, Oh, I know. He says, I know what that means. That's happened to me several times. He says, it's manifest in the flesh. I go, yeah, that's what it means, Augustine. And he said, I've had a demon appear to me and he says, I woke up and my body was hurting. He goes, I mean, it's like, I mean, if it's a demon, you're going to be hurting the next day. He goes, I've had that happen a few times. He goes, Hey, you don't like that. That's not good. Augustine said, well, I've never seen that before. Bob says, well, you're going to according to that lady. Well, he does. It happens on Thursday night. I mean, I keep saying Thursday night. I mean, Thursday morning, 5 AM in the morning. So we're on a paragraph I for those that are following as we're, or still at age, the spirit of prophecy falls on Augustine in the car, this four hour drive. And he starts prophesying to me about this young adult movement. I mean, again, we've been there for a year. I've known Bob Jones. I mean, now it's been there about two years. Cause we moved in November. Now it's September. We moved there, uh, November 82, now September 84, about two years. So I'm kind of, you know, starting to understand a little bit what's happening. But in Augustine lived in Phoenix and he would come and visit five and 10 days at a time. He probably did that, you know, I don't know, five or 10 times for 10 days at a time. So he was kind of part of the family and everybody knew him and he was, it was always a big deal when Augustine came for a week or two and sometimes longer. And so he's prophesying about this young adult movement that Bob Jones had prophesied that, Oh, cause Augustine was the first one to get the word in St. Louis about, about what would happen in Kansas city. And those four words, he said, there'll be thousands of young people, full manifestation of the gifts of the Holy spirit of the Lord's timing. He said, there'll be a false prophet there and there's going to be a great controversy or a great pressure, a persecution or resistance. It's going to come against you. That was his first word, you know, that he gave me two years earlier. So Bob, so Augustine was really connected with this movement, though. He was, uh, didn't live in Kansas city. Now this blueprint prophecy, this five page prophecy, I had never told Augustine about it, though I'd had it for six months because I kept this thing private. Bob knew about it. I didn't want a bunch of people to know about it. Very few people knew about it. Kept it under lock and key for 18 years, actually. Just a few of the leaders here and there. And so I don't want to tell Augustine about it because Augustine has such a revelatory gifting. I saw Augustine named dates and I mean, times and dates of the future was such precision. I mean, he got up and it would be this thing. He, you know, the story that I love to tell, he got up in front of our church and he said on February 1st, by June 1st, you will have your new building. And we get this building on June 1st. I mean, it was like remarkably accurate, not sort of accurate. He called me up and I've already told you this and said, the Lord's going to visit you tonight. I said tonight. And that's when I have my one major visitation in my life that night. My brother who was paralyzed, he went on to be with the Lord, but he's paralyzed over 30 years. He had one supernatural encounter where the Lord stood before him at four Oh three in the morning. I mean, it was a terrifying experience for 13 minutes. I mean, he had a visitation, the president, the Lord, and my brother called me on the phone that morning. He said, Mike, he was still like crying. I saw the Lord or something. Oh my God. He was trembling. He said, I've never encountered the dread of God. And he was on the phone that minute Augustine called me and said, the Lord's about to visit your brother. I mean, that's the kind of accuracy. I mean, on the phone, I get both phones going. I go, Augustine, give me a minute. Click Pat, finish the vision. No, I'm talking about that. And I had to call Augustine back. I said, that's remarkable. How does that happen? And he goes, what do you mean? How's it happen? Maybe the Lord says it or he doesn't. It is the Lord. So Augustine had a, I haven't talked that much about him, but he had an accuracy in his prophetic ministry with times and dates and people that was absolutely remarkable to me. And of course, Bob was the same way. Those two were quite a combination together. They were very different just to have a little fun with it. I mean, Bob Jones, you've seen him in the videos, born and raised in the hills of Arkansas. And Augustine was a young man that it looked like it's probably, he wouldn't fully appreciate this. He went to be with the Lord in 96, but it looked like his favorite magazine was GQ. I never saw him without a hair out of place. I mean, immaculate. I mean, everything matched and perfect and perfumed. And I mean, when you know everything, he was immaculate. He's like, Augustine, how can you look this good all the time? And then Bob Jones, those two were just so different. I remember the Cardinal sent Augustine. I went up and touched his head. I didn't know hair was that sacred on a guy. I go, Augustine, he goes, don't you ever touch my hair. I went, whoa. I go, we're guys. I didn't think that mattered. I'm at group with five sisters. I know you don't touch girls hair. I've had that real clear for years. Okay. I need to get back into this. So we're in the car and Augustine has a spirit of prophecy comes on him. And I just want you to have a sense of who the kind of way the Lord used him. And he's talking about this young adult movement and he uses a number of phrases straight from the blueprint prophecy. And I didn't show him on purpose because I really believe the Lord would tell him about it and he would tell me. And so this is Sunday. And so Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, I'm thinking he has said so many things. I think it's time to show him this prophecy. Paragraph five. So it's, you know, four days later, it's Wednesday night. Now we're in Kansas city. And I said, Augustine, I drive him over to a friend's house. There was this one particular guy that he would had a nice home and he would host Augustine each time these five and 10, 15 days stays that he would come to Kansas city and he had his room and, and, uh, so I drove him there about 10 o'clock at night after the evening prayer meeting, we had the prayer meeting seven to 10. So in August, he would come when he was in town. So I drove me and I said, okay, Augustine, I'm going to tell you something that I have, I've kept from you because I wanted the Lord to tell you, but in the van on Sunday, you were getting real close to it. This man gave me a prophecy six months ago in March that I think of as the blueprint prophecy and me and Bob Jones have talked about it. And Bob heard about it three days before I got it, but I didn't want to tell you because I wanted to see if the Lord would tell you. And it seems like by the phrases, you said the ideas that were unusual ideas. I mean, straight from this prophecy that you're touching the truth of what's in this prophecy, he goes, well, let me look at it. So it's late Wednesday night. And I said, here you go. So we're at this guy's house and he's looking at it and Augustine says, I think it's the Lord, but he goes, it feels right as I read this, but he goes, this prophecy is far too important for me just to say, I bear witness to it. He goes, I have to hear from the Lord. He goes, I'm going to ask the Lord, Lord, tell me directly from heaven about this prophecy. And it happens at five o'clock that morning. So paragraph J it's about midnight or so. We've talked a couple hours there. That's ready for me to go home, but my car doesn't start. I mean, I don't know. I go, I was like, I don't know what happened because the next day it started perfect. So I don't know how to make sense of that. My, my, my car won't start. It's past midnight. The guy who owns the house is in bed or I'd say, Hey, can I borrow your car? He owned a Mercedes. He probably wouldn't have let me borrow it, but he could have given me a ride home, but it was past midnight. I go, you know what? I'll fix the car tomorrow and let's just, I'll sleep here. So the guy's only got one extra room and Augustine goes, I get the big bed. You get the little one. This is my room. And we would have fun about stuff like that. So he gets the big bed. So I'm in the room and we go to bed, go to sleep. And it's at five o'clock in the morning. Now, this unusual encounter happens from my end. I wake up suddenly what's up with such terrible pain in my right knee. It is so painful. I find out later I get hit or touched by a demon. Of course, I don't know that I'm waking up. I go, Oh, come in sound asleep. And I'm awake. It's hurting so bad that I'm actually beginning to sweat. I mean, it was the most painful thing I've ever experienced in all my days of, on the earth, all my life. I've never felt anything. So it hurts so bad and I'm, I'm in so much pain and I hear Augustine kind of making, he's over there on the other side of the room and he's kneeling down and he's, Oh Lord. And he's talking and little gently weeping. And I look, he's praying at 5 a.m. Wow. That's intense. After we went to bed so late, I don't want to bother him. So, but I'm hurting so bad. I don't know what to do. So I get up. I can't walk. I hop up the stairs. I might have to get backwards and go up and I want to put ice on it upstairs. It's five o'clock in the morning. I'm in so much pain. I have eyes on it. And so now the guy who owns the house wakes up and says, Hey, what do you got the eyes on your leg for? I go, I have no idea what just happened. And this was intensely painful for about 18 hours. And then the pain lift lifts and then it comes suddenly and it lifts suddenly for about 30, 40 days. I mean, just, I'd be just everything fine. Then I'd hit me again. I go, oh, there it goes. And the person next to me go, what, what just happened? I go, I don't know what just happened. Just, oh, and they'd go, Mike, are you okay? Like, did I say something? And then it would be there for an hour or two. It didn't lift suddenly and be gone. Then I'd be fine. And like, I don't know, then boom, it would hit again. And that went on again for 30, 40 days. And just the strangest thing. Of course, when you meet Bob Jones, he goes, I told you it's in the flesh. That's what it means. It's in the flesh. It's made of meat. That lady said what she meant. So Augustine comes up about eight o'clock and, uh, I said, uh, wow, you were praying this morning. He goes, Oh, I mean, he was very seriously dramatic. He goes, I had the most intense encounter in my entire life this morning. I said, really? Oh, he goes, Oh, he goes, he was trembling. He goes, I can't even talk yet. He goes, I said, well, try to tell me a little bit and then tell me more later, but give me a little bit. And the guy who owned the house, he was there to the three of us. My, my legs in ice. Now my leg is under the table. He doesn't even see that it's a big table. And he's, we're sitting up there talking and he said, well, it starts off. He goes, I saw the white horse that Bob Jones talks about this movement. I saw it with my eyes. He goes, it was amazing. And this white horse was walking down the road. He goes, but the white horse that Bob saw was always a big white horse. And of course it's symbolic, you know, it could, it could, uh, have several meanings to it, but, and he said, but the white horse was a tiny little white horse. He goes, this is a tiny little, and the wings were just a real little, just little wings and I'm going, wow. Okay, cool. That sounds like our movement. He goes, so it was, he goes, but here's the thing. He goes, the white horse was kind of marching down the road and just kind of like he owned the road. Just enjoying life and just, and suddenly out of nowhere, he goes, this was not a vision because this is one of those Bob Jones ones I was there. This was, this was in a whole nother order. He goes, and this black horse, which was a demonic, like a demonic principality, because I don't know what it was, but it was a very powerful. Huge. He goes, his chest must've been eight foot. The chest of this whole, he goes, it was the biggest giant horse. You could imagine very tall, you know? I don't know, but it was a demon and it was, uh, he was snorting and just like fume and smoke was coming out. He was so angry and he hated that white horse and he goes, the white horse was, you know, maybe two or three foot and this black horse was like, I don't know the actual number, but he said it was like 20 feet tall. He had huge, you know, legs and mouth and he goes, he was so terrifying. And he walked up to this tiny little horse right before the horse looked up at it, a little horse and the black horse took his paw and he said, he shattered the right kneecap of that little pony. I don't say anything. I go, what did you say? Cause we're not connecting this with the lady in Tulsa four days ago yet. I go, what? He goes, he shared. He goes, this little pony spun off into the ditch and he was crying. He was in so much pain. He goes, that poor little pony. You know, I'm thinking not only is my knee hurt, I'm just a little pony. You know, I'm thinking, I was thinking I was mightier in the spirit or something. You know, I know it's all symbolic, but I was thinking, you know, the poor mighty horse was afflicted, but he says that poor little ponies is a little thing, his wings are about like that. And I'm connecting now. He doesn't connect yet because my leg is under the table with the ice on it. And I said, well, what happened then? And Augustine said, well, he just, he's outside. He's, he's just in the ditch crying. He's he's out of the picture. He says, and now this big, giant black horse, he goes, it's a demon. He goes, I don't know what it is. I don't know all the categories, but it's a big one. He's a fierce one. He started coming straight at me and he was going to take me out. He goes, I was so afraid. He goes, I was crying, Lord, help me, help me. And he said, I've never seen, because I've seen angels several times, but I've never seen Gabriel or Michael. Bob Jones saw Michael, you know, when he talked about, uh, give the young man, Daniel chapter nine. He says, I've never seen Gabriel or Michael seen angels a few times. And he goes, Michael, the archangel appeared. I knew it was Michael. And he came and he took this horse out. Black horse entirely wiped him out. He goes, this horse, this big monsters horse was sent running and fleeing in completely defeated by this night. He goes, this Michael is so mighty and so powerful. Now, you know, biblically that Michael appears when what it relates to the nation of Israel. So somewhere, I don't have it connected the dots, but I do now. This purpose is related of course, to praying for Israel. It's not the only thing we're going to do, but it's one of the main assignments that we have to stand for Israel. When I first meet Bob Jones, he says, you're going to pray for Israel and God's going to put you next to Harry's Truman over in grand view. And one of our mandates again, with many ministries, many ministries have this mandate. I mean, I'm thinking hundreds and hundreds do to mobilize the body of Christ. Our vision is to work with many, many ministries. We don't care who leads it. We don't care about that part of it. To mobilize a hundred million Gentile intercessors for Israel and the last days, because I got to show you one thing, Michael, the archangel will be involved in this and it won't be a big black horse. It will be Satan himself coming against the nation of Israel. And Jesus has assured us through the word of their salvation, the salvation, and they are going to get profoundly saved. The nation that hates Jesus the most is going to love him more than any other nation. It will be the most dramatic turnaround we could imagine. But when it's Michael, you know, it's Israel, it's involved with Israel. He said, I saw Michael. And he defeated this black horse. And this horse was sent, I mean, fled in complete defeat. He goes, it was amazing. He goes, then I was told the name of a man and I will, I won't ever say the name of the man to anyone. I've mentioned it to just the smallest people. I'm the smallest group of people, but I told Noel Alexander about this man. He saw a man and Augustine said in the communication of this vision, and we'll go through all the details, but he said, this man will be used in a significant way to bring a great attack against this little pony, this little white horse. Now it finds, it has so happens when I look back over the, over the years, there's been six or seven different men that really had energy about telling a horrible lies about what we say and what we do and publishing around the word six or seven different ones. And different guys have tried to figure it out. I go, no, don't figure that out. There's don't don't forget all that stuff. That's not my point, but because I'm going to relate this man in a moment, he goes, he saw a man. So Augustine said, there's this man. And the angel said the angel that was there that when they go to the east, this man will strike and there will be a great, a fierce attack against this little pony, but the Lord will take care of it. And so I'm thinking, wow, this is a whole lot of information. So suddenly after Bob, after Augustine sees the man and he hears the angel say when they go to the east, a great attack will come, but the Lord will answer it and it will be a marvelous divine intervention and the Lord will settle it. And then now this is talking about you. Now, this is not talking about me. I mean, this sincerely, it's not about you. Augustine said, I saw the white horse after many years passed. It was a long period of time and he came bursting out of this ditch where he was lying for some long period of time. And he had nine foot wings and he was as mighty and as big as that black horse was. And he said he had nine foot wings and he goes, I understood it was the nine gifts of the spirit of the nine fruit of the spirit. He goes, I just, that's what I interpreted Augustine's telling me. And he went soaring up into the heights and the winds of the Holy spirit. And the Lord is going to allow this movement to lie in that ditch for a while because this movement's so immature, but one day this young adult movement will come forth in strength and maturity. So Augustine's tell me all this. I said, Augustine, this is the most remarkable thing. Then before I'm done, I mean, before we move on, Augustine looks at the angel, this attending angel, this interpreting angel. I don't know how, I don't understand, but the other angel that's there, the St. Michael, the one that's Augustine's talking with and Augustine, I don't know how he had the permission to do this or even the frame of mind, but Augustine said, what about the prophecy? Was it of God or was it not of God or is it not of God? And the angel said, this prophecy has great light and much truth or, or the way that I wrote it there, sometimes I mix it up that, how did I say that? Great light, much truth. And he said, Mike, he, I heard it direct from an angel. This is a true prophecy. He goes, I'll bet my life on it. I saw it with my eyes. And so we then now wanted to pull out the prophecy again and look at it again. So then Augustine's, you know, he's kind of moving around and he says, what's going on over there? I got a bunch of eyes and melt and everywhere. I said, well, Augustine, I don't know what happened, but at five o'clock in the morning, when you were on your knees, praying something hit my leg really bad. And then it struck us that the, what the woman said in Tulsa, there you will see angels, angels, and demons in a conflict very soon, and it will manifest in the flesh. I said, I don't even know how to interpret such a thing. I mean, I don't have a grid for this. Can this is the first time I've ever told the whole story. Well, I haven't told the whole story, but I mean, a bunch of it, I kind of mumbled around seven years ago to our staff and I said, nah, I don't want to go into the details of this. It's just too complex. But I just feel like I'm supposed to, I mean, I don't know what you're supposed to mean. I mean, I just feel like there's wisdom in it and there's benefit of it is what I mean by, by that. Well, let's look at the blueprint prophecy. Now we're just going to kind of go through a little bit of it. You read this on your own. Now, some of you here and those that are listening by the internet and will watch us by DVDs, you won't be connected to this purpose in any way, besides just we're friends that will at a distance kind of thing. And a number of you will be. And again, we're not interested in organizational connection. That's not at all what we're interested in. We don't want formal organizational ties, nothing like that. We don't want people having our name or nothing. So I just want to say that over and over because some folks kind of think that that's, you know, one day we're going to say, now that's, this is the master plan. We are the leaders and you must follow us. It's nothing like that. But, uh, those that don't have a specific sense of connection, this prophecy, I think is a benefit because if this is the sort of thing God is saying to weak people like us in Kansas city, that is, this is the sort of thing he's saying to weak people like you in your city as well, I don't mean every line will apply, but this is the sort of thing. God's doing something from our traditional mindset of the last generations, he's doing something outside the box. It's unique. He's doing something. I don't mean in Kansas city, I'm talking about, he's doing unique things in his kingdom all over the earth. This is an hour to think outside the box of our traditional experiences of the last couple of generations. The Lord says I have more, much more. It's all in my word. I will back up my word. I will honor my word. But it's much beyond what we've experienced in the last few generations. And so as you read this, you might just casually look over it. You can say, well, Lord, you can do that with weak people. There is different parts, touch you, do it here, do it in my city, do it in my life. I want to be a part of something. And I think the, the Lord has a huge wide open invitation to his people worldwide. He has purposes for cities and ministries in Asia and Africa and Latin America and city and the islands of the earth and Europe and the remote places. He has very powerful things and things that are different than what are this blueprint prophecy and things that are similar, but here's the exciting thing. There's something dynamic that's outside the box. That's other than what we're used to in the last couple of generations in our thinking. And that's an, that's an important thing to get ahold of. Okay. Let's just read through part of this. And I don't have it all here. Cause again, some of it, it just had a, uh, uh, uh, I just took out part of it, but I didn't take out anything negative. Cause I don't like edit the bad stuff type thing. That's not what I did. And the reason I say that, cause I think if you edit something of somebody else wrote, you need to say it. He says, God shall confirm in your spirit and do not proceed till he does. Upon the confirmation of after God confirms it begin to act, take the bride to the city, to the city of Kansas city, rather than having the city come to the, come to him, go after it, go after it. And, uh, we're one thing we're going to share tonight in the, uh, final session. Where do we go from here in this 10 year anniversary? The Lord's given us a real clear plan. Not, I'm not saying we have the whole plan, but we have a clear mandate that we're going to begin to evangelize block by block different parts of our city and built, uh, uh, a major outreach called hope city in the inner city and, and, uh, take a hold of whatever God will give us and resource and people, this issue of human trafficking and the issue of, uh, uh, babies that are being aborted, working to stop it and adopting them and taking in orphans. And we want to, we're at a place now at our 10 year mark where our commitment that we're going to make tonight is we're going to break bread, make the commitment that we are committing by the grace of God to commit 24 hour prayers for justice with 24 hour works of justice until the Lord returns. This is our commitment. 24 hour prayers for justice. We're going to recommit to pray 24 seven all the days of our life, but we're going to have something. We've had lots of works of justice, but we're adding not works of justice, but 24 hours a day works of justice. And so, and as I read this, when the Lord confirms it, take the bride to the city. I think some of that is related to this 10 year anniversary. And so that strengthens me in my heart to share this because this is a little awkward to share this again. I've only shared this once 25 years, which was seven years ago. And this black horse thing, I just kind of mumbled it a little bit, but I just feel like God is confirming in our spirit. It is time to act. And I want, I want our body strengthened because we're thinking, you know, we hear stories with thinking power, glory. I'm telling you, there will be a rage of darkness. There will be a fear and timidity that people will be tempted with. I mean, men will get angry people in the church, outside the church, the government will get stirred up the, uh, you know, political processes. I mean, from legal to illegal things, there will be stirrings against the purpose of God, and we need to have a heart of a warrior. We need to be resolute. We need to be facing this thing. The promises aren't so we can have, wow, it's going to be a great time in the next 10 years. I can't wait. Oh no. The promises are because the attack and the war is going to require the promises to stay steady in the attack. I see great promises, but I see conflict like never before. And the weakest among us, which we could all qualify for that. There's grace for us to stand, but it will take resolve to get ahold of that grace. It won't be automatic. There'll be many faint hearted. So, you know what? I don't like this controversial stuff. I don't like what they're saying. And you know, we had some real intense attacks against us for about two or three years in 1990 and, and all kinds of lies. And they teach this and they said that they did that. I mean, significantly radically. Uh, I mean, not significantly. I mean, totally false statements. And they were saying they teach this and they teach that in complete lies. And we had three or six or seven different groups of guys around the world. I don't mean just in America, some in other nations, they were pushing this stuff and it was, I mean, profoundly false. People would say, well, how did you, why did you do this? I go, we didn't do anything close to that. We're totally against that. Well, did you do it? And then repent of it? No, that's a heresy. We've always been against that. Well, they said, you said it. I go, do you believe everything that you read? There's demons that are storing this up. Here's the reason I'm saying that. Because the Lord didn't want me to answer back then. And I'm not, I'm not answering now. That's not what I'm doing now. Cause that's unimportant to me now. All of that stuff is still all over the internet from 1990. You know, our interns come and join us and their parents, you know, check out IHOP and they believe in, it's all that false stuff that these men, it was, I mean, just fabricated lies. And again, in those days of the nineties, the Lord said, don't answer it, and I wouldn't answer it. I just said, let the Lord, he told me not to, and I'm not answering it now. Here's all I'm saying. Here's the reason I'm mentioning it. That was just a dress rehearsal for what's coming. If you think those lies about me are ending there, let me tell you where it's going. They're going to be far more intense, far more credible people, and they're going to include you. It won't be, well, Mike sure went through the hard time in the nineties. It will be you going through it because you will be related to it. Not just the guy on the microphone. That's why these prophecies are important prophecies. I've heard some people, they said, well, those prophecies, man, you could get proud. I said, yeah, that's true. I mean, cause the human heart's so prone to pride, but I said, where these prophecies are leading us. I think our big issue isn't going to be pride. It's going to be quitting. Our big struggle is not going to be strutting. It's going to be quitting. You know, what do you mean? I go, you've never been in a conflict. The number one temptation is quitting, not strutting. I said, trust me, we have these prophecies for one reason. We will need them to keep from quitting. That's how intense it's going to be. Because what happened to me in the nineties and all, again, the internet's full of it, full of all these stories. And I mean, the poor interns and their families and they're embarrassed. I go, Oh, just number one, they're just not true. I don't even want to go to it. But number two, it's going to be far more severe than anything that you've just seen, you know, that's 20 years old from the old stuff, because that was that black horse breathing threats. It gets, Oh yeah. I forgot to say that. That's what Augustine, what was the term is that this black horse was breathing threats at the little pony, just snorting and breathing threats. I will destroy you. I will destroy you. What busted his knee. And he ran in the fell in the ditch and, and obviously he says he'll be in that ditch and it will be a season. And he's kind of out of sight. He then Michael came and that black horse was driven far away. And the black horse will not ever win, never ever win, but he really will touch us and we will limp. We will not strut. The people of God will be limping, not strutting where they're doing greater works than these. Well, let's get back to this. I only got a couple of moments. You know what? Why don't you just read it on your own? Let's just do it that way. Let's just, I'll leave it to you to read on your own. Let's just pray. Cause I'm thinking, man, this is going to take a long time to get through this and we got more, more to do today. Okay, Lord, we thank you. And we ask you Lord, for those that are a part of this purpose, that this would bolster them so they would persevere. Like the Lord spoke to me in that chariot experience, young man, do not be impatient, which meant don't quit, don't quit. Or my many people will have harm. It will be turmoil. You can't quit Lord may these prophetic words and all the testimony, these eight help us not to quit and let the folks in other places, in other streams be strengthened by the things you're saying and doing, they would be strengthened in their confidence that you will say and do things extraordinary outside the box of traditional thinking, even in their midst. And we thank you in the name of Jesus. Amen. And amen. We're going to take a 10 minute break and then we're going to have a video and then I'm coming back to do session seven. This was session eight. So we're going to, you know.
The Blueprint Prophecy and the Black Horse
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Mike Bickle (1955 - ). American evangelical pastor, author, and founder of the International House of Prayer (IHOPKC), born in Kansas City, Missouri. Converted at 15 after hearing Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach at a 1970 Fellowship of Christian Athletes conference, he pastored several St. Louis churches before founding Kansas City Fellowship in 1982, later Metro Christian Fellowship. In 1999, he launched IHOPKC, pioneering 24/7 prayer and worship, growing to 2,500 staff and including a Bible college until its closure in 2024. Bickle authored books like Passion for Jesus (1994), emphasizing intimacy with God, eschatology, and Israel’s spiritual role. Associated with the Kansas City Prophets in the 1980s, he briefly aligned with John Wimber’s Vineyard movement until 1996. Married to Diane since 1973, they have two sons. His teachings, broadcast globally, focused on prayer and prophecy but faced criticism for controversial prophetic claims. In 2023, Bickle was dismissed from IHOPKC following allegations of misconduct, leading to his withdrawal from public ministry. His influence persists through archived sermons despite ongoing debates about his legacy