Our Vision
Prophetic Words at the beginning:
• I myself will build the house and prepare you to enter it.
• Don’t make a name for yourselves!
• Serve other ministries!
• Don’t bring strange fire to my altar!
• Prepare the Levites
…for my House will be called a House of Prayer for all nations (Is. 56:7)
• Don’t make a name for yourselves!
• Serve other ministries!
• Don’t bring strange fire to my altar!
• Prepare the Levites
…for my House will be called a House of Prayer for all nations (Is. 56:7)
Who we are
This is our name-giving Scripture:
ISAIAH 30:18
Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you;
And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
Blessed are all those who wait for Him.
Additionally, two more Scriptures have become important to us:
ISAIAH 30:15:
In returning and rest you shall be saved;
In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.
EZEKIEL 22:30:
So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.
ISAIAH 30:18
Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you;
And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you.
For the Lord is a God of justice;
Blessed are all those who wait for Him.
Additionally, two more Scriptures have become important to us:
ISAIAH 30:15:
In returning and rest you shall be saved;
In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.
EZEKIEL 22:30:
So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.
We want to be among those who step into the gap!
Our call and ministry must be deeply rooted in the intimate personal relationship of each pray-er to their God; otherwise we would lack foundation and authority (“YOU are My House of Prayer”). So He Himself must be the pivotal center of our prayer meetings.
Though called as intercessors, we meet because of Him first; for praise, worship and listening for His will, before we come and ask.
We have three main tasks:
Though called as intercessors, we meet because of Him first; for praise, worship and listening for His will, before we come and ask.
We have three main tasks:
1. God’s people and His holy city
We are deeply grateful for their inheritance we have been taken into and for the relationship to their God, Who has become our God. We confess what was written above His head on the cross: “King of the Jews”.
Out of that our call and goal is the Oneness of the Body, preparing the Bride and reaching out for His second coming. We pray at MHOP together as children of one Father.
ISAIAH 62:6-7
I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;
They shall never hold their peace day or night.
You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent,
And give Him no rest till He establishes
And till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Out of that our call and goal is the Oneness of the Body, preparing the Bride and reaching out for His second coming. We pray at MHOP together as children of one Father.
ISAIAH 62:6-7
I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;
They shall never hold their peace day or night.
You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent,
And give Him no rest till He establishes
And till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
2. As intercessors we don’t pray for "the others”
We identify with the manifold guilt of our nation, our politics, the Church and ourselves and bring it before the Lord. At the same time we won’t forget the promises He has already given and take them before Him.
DANIEL 9:3-5
3 Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. 4 And I prayed to the Lord my God, and made confession, and said, “O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, 5 we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.
DANIEL 9:3-5
3 Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. 4 And I prayed to the Lord my God, and made confession, and said, “O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, 5 we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.
3. Eventually we are called to “building a wall of prayer”
Practically we do that by prayer walking; on the one hand we try to find strategic places where the Lord would lead us to, on the other hand we simply learn to leave “traces of blessings” during our everyday moves through the city.
NEHEMIAH 6:15-16
15 So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days. 16 And it happened, when all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations around us saw these things, that they were very disheartened in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.
(Scriptures: New King James Version)
NEHEMIAH 6:15-16
15 So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days. 16 And it happened, when all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations around us saw these things, that they were very disheartened in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.
(Scriptures: New King James Version)