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A.W. Tozer
A.W. Tozer
Hailing from a tiny farming community in western Pennsylvania, his conversion was as a teenager in Akron, Ohio. While on his way home from work at a tire company, he overheard a street preacher say: "If you don't know how to be saved... just call on God." Upon returning home, he climbed into the attic and heeded the preacher's advice. Among the more than 40 books that he authored, at least two are regarded as Christian classics: The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy. His books impress on the reader the possibility and necessity for a deeper relationship with God.
Alisha Powell
Alisha Powell grew up in a musical family and began playing piano and singing at a very young age. She made the move to Kansas City in 1998, before the start of IHOP, from a small town in Southwest Kansas. Having been an intern at the church Mike Bickle was pastoring at the time, she was able to witness the formation of the House of Prayer as it took place. She remembers, "I knew that was something I would like to do but never dreamed it would actually be a possibility." A month before it began, she was invited to be a part of the first IHOP internship, and through that experience the desire in her heart grew to be involved in the house of prayer long-term. Today, after nine years, she is still going strong in the place of prayer.
Andrew and Emily McCoy
Andrew and Emily McCoy
Andrew and Emily McCoy are worshippers and students of the Word. Consider that before composing their debut of their instrumental worship CD, they spent time studying the Song of Solomon. Their desire was to depict the journey of the Shulamite and her beloved through melodies and harmonic motion, that each song would paint a musical landscape for the selected portion of Scripture. Listen to the beautiful strings in "Song 3," also called "The Bride's Troubled Dream," which depicts the difficult encounter the Shulamite faces when she cannot find the one she loves. On "Song 5," enter into the rest of knowing the Lord's thoughts towards you as the piano melody creates an atmosphere of tranquility and stillness. And let the Lord quiet your spirit as the guitar flows from Andrew and melodic vocals pour out of Emily.
Anita Tisdale
Anita Tisdale has been writing songs and leading worship for almost 20 years. She has a heart that pursues God's presence with a child-like spirit. She is gifted at bringing people into the presence of the Lord for a personal encounter and spiritual transformation. She understands how to listen and respond to what the Spirit is leading and in so doing to follow His leadership in spontaneous worship. She leads worship at conferences throughout the U.S. She teams up with an assortment of talented musicians and worshippers to explore a wide variety of wyas to bring people into personal encounters with God as well as to minister to the Lord with adoration and devotion.
Audra Lynn
Audra Lynn
Audra Lynn Hartke has been singing on stage in churches since the age of five. She began to take an interest in several instruments when she was seven, including drums and other kinds of percussion. Her mother was a worship leader at their home church in Seattle, Washington, so Audra was able to gain much experience in being part of a worship team. When she turned fifteen, Audra became aware of the lack of spiritual conviction and Holy Spirit activity in her life. She began seeking a more personal relationship with the Man Christ Jesus. Out of that deepened relationship, she began to write music and learned how to play guitar.
Brother Lawrence
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Brother Lawrence (c. 1614 - 12 February 1691) was a lay brother in a Carmelite monastery, who is today most commonly remembered for the closeness of his relationship to God as recorded in the classic Christian text, The Practice of the Presence of God. Brother Lawrence was born Nicholas Herman in Hériménil, near Lunéville in the region of Lorraine, located in modern day eastern France. He received a revelation of the providence and power of God at the age of 18, but it would be another six years before he joined the Discalced Carmelite Priory in Paris. In this intervening period he fought in the Thirty Years' War and later served as a valet. Nicholas entered the priory in Paris as a lay brother, not having the education necessary to become a cleric, and took the religious name, "Lawrence of the Resurrection". He spent almost all of the rest of his life within the walls of the priory, working in the kitchen for most of his life and as a repairer of sandals in his later years.
Charles H Spurgeon
Charles H Spurgeon
Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon (June 19, 1834 – January 31, 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the "Prince of Preachers." In his lifetime, Spurgeon preached to around 10,000,000 people, often up to 10 times a week at different places. His sermons have been translated into many languages. Spurgeon was the pastor of the congregation of the New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years. He was part of several controversies with the Baptist Union of Great Britain, and later had to leave that denomination. In 1857, he started a charity organization called Spurgeon's which now works globally. He also founded Spurgeon's College, which was named after him after his death.
Cory Asbury
Cory Asbury
Cory Asbury began leading worship at his church in North Carolina at the age of 17. Even from childhood, music has always had a profound impact on him. His goal through his music is that hearts would fall more in love with Jesus, and that a deep longing to know and love Him more would be awakened. Cory says his hope is that when people listen to his songs, they'd find themselves in the presence of the Lord, that they would know the delight of God over them, and that they would find true enjoyment in spending time with Him.
E.M. Bounds
E.M. Bounds
Bounds was born in Shelby County, rural Missouri to Thomas J. and Hatty Bounds. His father, Thomas J. Bounds, was instrumental in organizing Shelby County, Missouri, he was an original landholder in the county seat, Shelbyville, and he was a driving force in the building of the First Methodist Church in 1840. Because his father served as county clerk, the Bounds' home was used for court sessions. When Edward was fourteen years old, his father contracted tuberculosis and died.
Francis Frangipane
Francis Frangipane
Francis Frangipane was born in 1946 and grew up in Lodi, New Jersey. After graduating from high school in 1964, Frangipane entered the U.S. Air Force, where he was discharged honorably as a sergeant on February 2, 1969. He relocated briefly to Berkeley, California and then Honolulu, Hawaii before returning to the mainland U.S. These were the days when the hippie movement was emerging, and Frangipane, like countless other young people, was searching for meaning. He traveled extensively throughout the United States and Canada. Eventually his travels brought him to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia where he became a Christian on November 26, 1970. Five months later he met his wife-to-be, Denise Piscitelli, and led her to the Lord. In October of 1971 they were married.
John Edmiston
John Edmiston
John Edmiston is an Australian missionary who has been in full-time Christian ministry since 1981 and who has served in Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines, mainly in student ministry, urban ministry and Internet ministry as well as being a bible college lecturer. John first went online in 1991 and he helped found Australian BibleNet and participated in many Christian bulletin boards. In 1994 he started The Prayer Page – the one of the first Christian prayer sites where people could post prayer points on the newly emerging WWW. In mid-1994 the Prayer Page became Eternity Online Magazine, the first major bible teaching e-zine, which saw over 1 million readers per month during 1996-1997.
John Tisdale
John Tisdale
John’s passion is to experience deep measures of life and freedom as well as to help others do the same. Toward this end, he founded an epublishing and media production company called Bright Light Group (which is responsible for publishing this and many other such websites). John has worked as a technology and media consultant for over 25 years. His consulting company is called Tandem Partners. You can visit John's personal site at www.JohnTisdale.com. John resides in the Dallas area with his wife Anita (a singer, songwriter and worship leader). They are also involved in international mission work, particularly in the Baltic region (helping bring hope as well as spiritual and emotional healing to war-torn regions).
Jon Thurlow
Jon Thurlow
John Thurlow is a passionate worshipper who brings together his love for and devotion to Jesus with his music gifts. He has served as a worship leader at the International House of Prayerin Kansas City, Missouri. Jon boldly pours out his love and devotion to the Lor in his music. As Jon plays the piano and sings, he expresses his dedication to walk worthy before the Lord without compromise or regret. His songs, lyrics and worship is contagious and listeners enter into an atmosphere of adoration and exhaltation.
Julie Meyer
Julie Meyer
Julie Meyer is a longtime worship leader, songwriter at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, and has been leading since before IHOP's start in 1999. She is a prophetic singer who has a heart to carry the glory and presence of God as an abandoned worshipper. Through worship songs and spontaneous choruses her music has inspired many to lean into their Beloved. Julie has recorded several albums and recently authored the book Invitation to Encounter. In her traveling ministry at conferences and churches, Julie teaches about the kindness of Jesus from the Song of Songs and the wealth of going deep in God.
Justin Rizzo
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Justin Rizzo
Before moving to Kansas City in 2004, Justin Rizzo lived in New York where he was raised as a ‘pastors kid.’ The Lord awakened a hunger in his heart at a very young age to be in His presence, “I remember many times when I was younger that I wouldn't want the church service to end and I wouldn’t want to leave the building because I just liked being there. Little did I know that this was the Lord planting seeds of desire in my heart to be one, a priest, who ministers before Him.” After being home-schooled through the end of high school and working at a coffee shop for four years, Justin's dad gave him a brochure on IHOP. He came out to Kansas City for a 6-month internship and was encountered by the Lord during that time. "Halfway through the internship the Lord just wrecked me, and I realized I do not know who God is." After this realization, He committed to the Lord that he would not leave until told otherwise. Years later, Justin is still seeking to know God in a deeper way on a daily basis.
Luke Wood
Luke Wood
Luke Wood grew up in Harrisonville, Missouri, a small town 20 miles south of Kansas City. His childhood was rich with spiritual memories, "I remember attending church as a young boy with my parents and genuinely loving the Lord, in between fights and arguing with my brothers. I especially remember from time to time this fluttering feeling and this emotional explosion that would happen in my heart when the Holy Spirit would breathe upon the worship on those Sunday mornings." Luke's high school years were a bit more emotional and challenging, and he eventually found himself not wanting anything to do with God. After six years of resisting the Lord's call on his life, God broke in, "The Lord set a Divine ambush on me and I couldn't do anything but begin to look with new eyes of faith at the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me."
Matt Gilman
Matt Gilman
Matt Gilman has been leading worship since he was fourteen years old, having grown up in ministry with his father, a Lutheran pastor. In 2002, when Matt was a senior in high school, he arrived at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City (IHOP-KC) thinking he was just attending a conference about music, his favorite subject. "As soon as I walked into the building I knew this was different. It was not at all what I was expecting. God began to shake me to the core as He opened up a whole new understanding of worship with the Word of God. I knew right away this is what I was made for," Matt explains, "Something was awakened in my spirit and I knew I had to have more."
Merchant Band
Merchant Band was formed from a worship team at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City (IHOP-KC) when Marcus Meier, Tim Reimherr, and a few friends began playing some of the two-hour slots in the 24/7 worship schedule. Over the years that worship team has seen a lot of change and growth, recently leading six two-hour sessions a week at IHOP-KC, as well as leading worship at IHOP conferences. The band, more affectionately known as “Marcus and Tim’s worship team”, frequently travels with IHOP’s onething™ young adult ministry, playing at conferences and events internationally.
Mike Bickle
Mike Bickle
Mike Bickle is the president, and director, of the International House of Prayer (IHOP), president of Friends of the Bridegroom (FOTB), and co-founder of The Joseph Company of Kansas City. He currently is the most-featured speaker at Sunday worship services at Forerunner Christian Fellowship, the local church associated with IHOP, and the Head of Prayer/Prayer Director of the international GOD TV television network.
Misty Edwards
Misty Edwards
Misty Edwards is a worship leader, songwriter that has served on the Prayer Room leadership team at IHOP-KC since its inception in September 1999. She was raised in a home filled with music and her entire family is now heavily involved in raising young worshippers at IHOP-KC. Misty is committed to pursuing the Lord by living out basic scriptural principles. "My focus is to go deep in the Word of God; live in the First Commandment, which leads to the Second; stay faithful in the place of prayer; fast more; give more; and live the Sermon-on-the-Mount lifestyle to the highest degree, even in my weakness," says Misty.
Ronda Adams
Ronda Adams
Ronda Adams grew up playing the violin and has now served and ministered in Kansas City area churches for over 2 decades. From 1999-2003, she was part of the senior leadership for the International House of Prayer under the direction of Mike Bickle in Kansas City, Missouri. While at IHOP-KC, she recorded her debut CD, Blow Upon Me. Releasing anointed music is one of her passions. She currently gives her full-time focus to 3 different not-for-profit organizations along with traveling and teaching.
Third Day
Third Day
Third Day is a Contemporary Christian Music and Christian rock band formed in Marietta, Georgia during the 1990s. The band was founded by lead singer Mac Powell, guitarist Mark Lee and former member Billy Wilkins. The other band members are bassist Tai Anderson and drummer David Carr. The band's name is a reference to the biblical account of Jesus rising from the dead on the third day following his Crucifixion. The band was inducted in the Georgia Music Hall of Fame on September 19, 2009.
Watchman Nee
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Watchman Nee
Watchman Nee (1903–1972) was a Chinese Christian author and church leader during the early 20th Century. He spent the last 20 years of his life in prison and was severely persecuted by the Communists in China. Together with Wangzai, Zhou-An Lee, Shang-Jie Song, and others, Nee founded the The Church Assembly Hall, later which would be also known as the "Local churches". Watchman Nee became a Christian in 1920 at age 17 and began writing in the same year. In 1921, he met the British missionary M. E. Barber, who was a great influence on him. Through Miss Barber, Nee was introduced to many of the Christian writings which were to have a profound influence on him and his teachings. Nee attended no theological schools or Bible institutes. His knowledge was acquired through studying the Bible and reading various Christian spiritual books. During his 30 years of ministry, beginning in 1922, Nee traveled throughout China planting churches among the rural communities and holding Christian conferences and trainings in Shanghai. In 1952 he was imprisoned for his faith; he remained in prison until his death in 1972.
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