Prayer Calls & Guides

As we fasted and prayed during the Hosea 10:12 Daniel Fast, the Lord revealed to us the need to repair the altars of our hearts, lives and families that have broken down.

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An altar always represented a place of CONSECRATION. Before God gave His Law to Moses, men made altars wherever they were.

An altar was often built to COMMEMORATE an encounter with God that had a profound effect upon someone. Abram (Genesis 12:7), Isaac (Genesis 26:24–25), Jacob (Genesis 35:3), David (1 Chronicles 21:26), and Gideon (Judges 6:24) all built altars and worshiped after having a unique encounter with God.

An altar usually represented a person’s desire to consecrate himself fully to the Lord. God had worked in a person’s life in such a way that the person desired to create something tangible to memorialize it.

An altar also represents returning to the LORD in wholeheartedness. During times of Israel’s rebellion and idolatry, the Lord’s altar fell into disrepair. The prophet Elijah, confronting the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, “repaired the altar of the Lord, which had been torn down” (1 Kings 18:30). Elijah’s restoration of the altar was significant, given the rampant paganism of his day.

In the Bible, an altar means that all we have is for God and to serve God. Building an altar means that we offer everything we are and have to God. We need to place all that we are and all that we have on the altar.

An altar means that we do not keep anything for ourselves. An altar means that we realize that we are here on earth for God. An altar means that our life is for God, that God is our life, and that the meaning of our life is God.

Every human heart has an invisible altar where the war between the flesh and the spirit rages. When we surrender areas of our lives to the control of the Holy Spirit, we are in effect laying that area on the altar before God.

There were many incidents of Old Testament saints building altars – Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Gideon, David, Elijah, Zerubbabel, etc. Also, there were many hidden meanings concerning the building of altars in Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

This is vital for us in this season of RESET. This RESET is about returning and re-aligning to the LORD as our ONE THING and the MANDATE that He has invited us to.

Many of the “altars” of our hearts, lives and families have broken down. We cannot expect the Lord to send fire on a broken altar. There is an old song that we have often sung in the past that is really appropriate for this season.

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FIRES OF REVIVAL

Verse 1
I came into the gathering of the people of the Lord
And found my way among them to His throne
I needed to return unto the altar of my God
To renew again my covenant with Him

Prechorus
And there I build an altar to His name
And realise my life would never be the same
And the fires of revival will come
Sweeping through my soul
And I touch the holy presence of my God

Chorus
Come build an altar unto the Lord
Return to worship and hear His word
And the fires of revival will come sweeping through your soul
And we’ll touch the holy presence of our God

Verse 2
I wanted to discover the first love we once had shared
Rekindling the fire deep within
I found the lamp still flickering in the temple of my Lord
And pour a horn of oil unto the flame

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That is what RESET truly means!

Hosea 10:12 says:
“Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, till He comes and rains righteousness on you.”

1 Kings 18:30 says:
“Then Elijah said to all the people, ‘Come near to me.’ So all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down.”

RESET to the ONE THING THAT IS NEEDED
RESET to GOD’S STORYLINE
REACH for GOD’S FULLNESS

Click to read: The Heart Behind the Hosea 10:12 Daniel Fast

In September 2019, as we were completing our 16th year of standing, burning and ministering before the LORD as a House of Prayer, the Word of the LORD came very clearly to us that He is inviting us into a NEW BEGINNING, NEW NORMAL and DIVINE UPGRADE.

As a result of these Words, the Holy Spirit is stirring my heart to make room to hear Him more, to understand in a greater measure what He has invited us into, and to contend for His promises for the coming season.

To this end, I am calling for a three-month Hosea 10:12 Daniel Fast where we want to intensively and intentionally seek God for the reality and specificity of this New Beginning, New Normal and Divine Upgrade that Jesus has invited our House to enter into. We do not want to be passive or casual with His Word but we want to further position and posture our hearts to receive what He so desires to release to us in the coming season.

As a House, we want to RESET TO GOD’S STORYLINE for us. We refuse any other storyline. We refuse the secular narrative. We refuse to live life business-as-usual in these unusual hours of human history.

More than that, we want to REACH FOR GOD’S FULLNESS for this House and for our generation. We refuse to be denied the fullness of His prophetic destiny. We refuse to fall short of what He has in store for us.

This will be a time where we want to trim our lamps, get fresh oil, return to the centrality of Jesus as our Magnificent Obsession, and re-visit the prophetic mandate and promises that He has invited us into since 1989.

To reset simply means that we are giving the Holy Spirit permission to disrupt our routine so that we throw ourselves into more wholehearted love than ever before. We want to re-align to the storyline that He has for us because these are truly momentous days, and the best is definitely yet to come.

We are nearing the greatest revolution in human history – the eschatological revolution of Jesus. It happens only one time, one generation, and it is OUR MOMENT! I certainly do not want to be found wanting when it arrives.

:: RESETTING TO GOD’S STORYLINE ::
:: REACHING FOR GOD’S FULLNESS ::

Kay-Chong Yeo
Director, IHOP-One Thing Ministries
Repair the Broken Altars – God’s Word to us in late November 2019 as we fasted and prayed. (Click to read.)

Prayer Room Schedule – We welcome you to join us in the prayer room as we engage our hearts with God to reset to His storyline and enter into a new beginning with Him.

DATES
October 2019
Global Bridegroom Fast: 7 – 9 Oct
Daniel Fast: Thurs – Sun Every Week

November 2019
Global Bridegroom Fast: 4 – 6 Nov
Daniel Fast: Thurs – Sun Every Week

December 2019
7-day Global Bridegroom Fast: 1 – 7 Dec
Daniel Fast: 8 – 21 Dec
10-day Fast: 22 – 31 Dec

As we enter into 2019, we are venturing into a season of HIGH TRANSITION and DIVINE SHIFT at an accelerated speed. We have really arrived at a unique juncture and crossroad of human history.

Jesus Christ is the only answer in the coming storm. Being rooted in a real, deep and authentic relationship with Him is the only way forward. This is a time to radically ALIGN with His heart, ways and will! It will not get better, but we can grow stronger, we can burn hotter, we can shine brighter!

In order to align, we must hear the voice of the Holy Spirit with distinct clarity and receive the very Word of Jesus consistently. There is a need to downsize and to dial down the “noise” in our lives that has clouded our hearing and crowded out the Word of Jesus. We need to fine-tune our spiritual signal-to-noise ratio in order to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit and to receive the very Word of Jesus!

Often, we need to reboot our smartphones and computers to clear out unnecessary information and data from the memory in order for our device to start anew, run faster and operate more efficiently. A season of RESET is needed to lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and more importantly, to fix our eyes on Jesus so that we can run the race that is set before us in the coming season.

Truly one thing is needed! But it is especially needed in such a time as this!

Let us SHIFT! ALIGN! RESET!