IHOP OBTAINS NEW PROPERTY PROPHESIED 25 YEARS AGO

In our staff meeting Monday, Oct 22nd, Mike Bickle shared some exciting news.  IHOP had just been given 120 acres to build on.  Now this in itself is a miracle, but wait until you read the whole story.

 25 years ago Bob Jones ( A well known prophetic voice) met with a young Pastor named Mike Bickle.  Mike was a Senior Pastor of a large church in Overland Park Kansas…a wealthy suburb of Kansas City.  Bob told Mike he was a youth pastor that was going to lead a significant prayer and worship movement. A youth movement in Grandview MO.  Grandview is a much poorer neighborhood in Kansas City.  Bob told Mike that he would be placed next to Harry S Truman, and the spirit of Truman would be on Mike.  Truman was a major player after WWII in helping ISRAEL become a nation.  Without Truman the jews would not have had a nation to return to in the Middle East.  Mike says he did not believe anything Bob was saying, and that he did not understand half of it.

Fast forward to today.  IHOP is a 24/7 prayer and worship ministry made up mostly by youth.  IHOP has an “ISRAEL MANDATE” to pray for the nation of Israel.  Not long ago a young jewish couple walked in IHOP.  They were not Christians, but curious.  They owned 120 acres of Harry S Truman’s farm land located near IHOP just east of a major Highway in Kansas City…HWY 71. 

The couple are so struck by the spirit of prayer and worship they decide they would offer this land to IHOP. They were looking to sell it to the city.   They lowered the price way below it’s value.  A man from DALLAS TEXAS came to visit IHOP and heard about this. He decided he would buy the land for IHOP and also pay all fees in the sale.  So IHOP is getting this land without any debt or cost.

The young jewish man’s Dad had bought the land in 1958 from Harry Truman.  They closed on the land on January 28th, 1958.  It so happens IHOP will close on the land on January 28th, 2008.  EXACTLY 50 years later to the day.

This 50 represents JUBILEE.  Jubilee is being debt free, and when the land returns to it’s rightful owner.  IHOP will build a new MISSIONS BASE on this land.  It will allow IHOP to build a wonderful campus for the schools IHOP offers.  Also other facilities needed to handle the growth of IHOP.

More later.