After God’s Own Heart

The above is the title of a Mike Bickle book I’m reading.  Overall I think it is the best summary of what IHOP and the prayer movement as expressed here is all about.  I’m particularly grateful for the treatment of the issue of the fasted lifestyle and how that impacts those around you.  Bickle points out that  the typical pattern is that people warn you that you are “extreme” and “unbalanced”.  If that doesn’t get your attention, then you can end up in the “you are demonized” category.  Check out the commentary on John the Baptist in Matthew 11:18 for proof on that one.  It has helped me in particular because I have struggled with the tension this has brought on my life from family and friends.  I’m coming to a place where I’m more at peace with the accusations, realizing that it is part of the territory and that it is those very folks that I’m praying for.  Forerunners are meant to help break out of old ways of doing things and break into the new, and that is what the prayer movement is all about – breaking us out of where are to prepare us for what is coming.