Jacksonville International House of Prayer IHOP

BIBLICAL////
The Tabernacle of David - around 1000 B.C.

King David was a man of “one thing” (Psalm 27:4). As an outflow of his heart, he commanded that the Ark of the Covenant be brought up on the shoulders of the Levites amidst the sound of songs and musical instruments to his new capital, Jerusalem. There he had it placed in a tent and appointed two-hundred and eighty-eight prophetic singers and four thousand musicians to minister before the Lord, “to make petition, to give thanks and to praise the Lord” day and night (1 Chronicles 15–17). This was unlike anything that had been done in Israel’s history, but it was God’s plan for Israel.


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Bangor, Ireland – in 555 A.D.

A Celetic monk named Comgall and his co-worker Columbanus gathered 3000 monks to place called Bangor (i.e. the High Choir). They began a prayer meeting that continued with singing 24 hours a day for 300 years resulting in the first Celtic missions movement in history.

Clairvaux, France – in 1120 A.D.

Herrnhut, Germany – in 1727 A.D.

In 1973 David Yonggi Cho, Pastor of the Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea, established a Prayer Mountain in night and day prayer. The Prayer Mountain was soon attracting over a million visitors per year, as people would spend retreats in the prayer cells provided on the mountain. Cho had a commitment to continuous prayer, to faith and to establishing small discipleship cells in his church. Perhaps as a result, Cho’s church rapidly expanded to become the largest church congregation on the globe, with membership now over 780,000.

International House of Prayer(IHOP) - Kansas City

On September 19, 1999, the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, Missouri, started a prayer and worship meeting that has continued for twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week ever since. With a similar vision to Zinzendorf, that the fire on the altar should never go out, there has never been a time when worship and prayer has not ascended to Heaven since that date. (Note:IHOP-Jax is not officially affiliated with IHOP Kansas City)