I Prayed for 1500 Hours in the Prayer Room Then This Happened…
A very personal story of how Mike Bickle makes young people religious and weak instead of spiritual and powerful
A 5,000-word well-written report now available for the first time in a narrated 30-minute presentation. This is one of the most thoughtful and insightful presentations by a former IHOP member you may ever find, and it's particularly relevant again, ten years later, as Bickle's personal views on repentance are a topic of discussion. It was written by a very articulate teacher, and it's not a rant, so it's easy to listen to.
Excerpts
"My friend was touching on something deeply disturbing. Despite all the time I had spent in the prayer room-about 1500 hours over six years-and despite all the FCF services I had attended, the Encounter God Services, the conferences, and the hours at the Awakening, I was not experiencing daily deliverance from sin."
"For so long in my life, and very soon after my involvement with IHOP, 'change' meant doing religious things more: reading my Bible, praying, and fasting. In a couple of those disciplines, I was 'changing.' However, the 'change' my friend was talking about was very different. It was the change that happens in a person when Christ delivers him from sin and empowers him to walk free from it."
"When teaching about false teachers, Jesus said, 'By their fruit you will know them.' I was the fruit of Mike Bickle's teaching, and I wasn't very good."
"Bickle was saying, 'Sin is not rebellion against God, it's only a sign of immaturity. We can run to God to experience His mercy in our time of need instead of expecting to be crushed.'
"For a young believer, mostly unacquainted with the gospel and the power contained in it for holiness, this message was as powerful as any I've ever heard. It was the promise of freedom from sin and intimacy with God without shame. All I needed to do was run to God when I sinned, pour out my heart to Him, and He would accept me.
"That night something profoundly evil happened in my understanding of sin. The conviction associated with sin, the conviction that led me to repentance and true freedom, was replaced by a delusion that sin wasn't that big of a deal.
"Instead of sin being the manifestation of a rebellious flesh, and worthy of judgement on the Cross, it became merely the by-product of immaturity. At that moment, while listening to Bickle, the massive, crushing weight of conviction was lifted off my shoulders. But it had not been lifted by Christ.
"Instead, the Cross was taken out of the equation, replaced by a God whose character was so loving and merciful that He eclipsed sin's destructive power by the sheer force of His desire for humanity.
"A new method of repentance was introduced, which was not repentance at all."
TLDR: Mike Bickle and IHOP-KC offer intimacy with God without genuine repentance and obedience to Christ, who said, "You are My friends if you do what I command" (John 15 : 14-16).
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