Now that we know Mike Bickle was a sexual deviant, preying on young women, these revelations are more disgusting. Forcing young students to write about their sexual sins and even thoughts serve no legitimate biblical purpose, other than to shame them, keep them in line, and have something to hold over them. Note the punishments as they are very typical of cults as well. A word here as well about the 24-7 prayer room paradigm. After the revelations about Bickle and minors became public, Bickle backers switched from trying to save Mike to trying to save IHOP and the model. The reason? Because it is a million-dollar model. It is a proven money-maker. It also has a built-in natural defense in that most won't dare speak against the model for fear of sounding like you are against prayer itself. That is of course a red herring argument. Prayer is holy and important for all believers. Forced prayer however is not. Forced fasting is not. These punitive measures are about controlling the people under you. Consider also, how the leadership must have viewed the 24-7 prayer room if they designated longer time in the prayer room as being punishment. It was bad enough that kids earned credit for time in the prayer room but that it was mandatory and used as chastisement reveal how nefarious it truly was.
"Students are assigned seats in prayer room and not allowed to trade seats. Students are forbidden to contact anyone outside IHOPKC on weekdays. They are allowed to contact their families on the weekends if their behavior during the week was acceptable. They are taught that their families will question them and even tell them what they are doing is wrong. They are told to isolate themselves from anyone questioning what they are doing at IHOP. They are told specifically that everyone who questions them does not, will not, and cannot understand because they are not chosen as the elect seed to usher in God's kingdom and are distracted by religious thinking." - IHOP Investigation
Wow. Are we starting to get the point? What the cult leader sells is the appearance of specialty. That you are somehow different, special and set apart. I remember Joseph Prince once taught his minions that they were part of the "Benjamin Generation"; which was the last generation before the rapture. Think about how evil this scheme is. You take young impressionable kids and expose them to a leader with decades of built up false prophetic credibility. They are conditioned to learn about Bickle and the IHOP prophetic history, not so much the bible. They are warned that people on the outside, including their parents, will try and correct them but ignore all the outside voices because only YOU were chosen as an elect seed to usher in the kingdom of God. That anyone who dares to shine the light of scripture to these Satanic teachings must be suffering from a "religious spirit" or "religious thinking." To minimize the chances of someone from the outside influencing the brainwashing they receive, they are forbidden from contacting anyone in the real world during the week and can only call their parents on weekends if they behaved well during that week. That is a textbook definition of a cult.
"If a student shows any signs of doubting what is happening they are assigned leaders who follow them and keep close watch over them. They are forbidden from spending any time with their friends. If a student shows any doubt they are rebuked by a gathering of two or more leaders, forced to fast, and spend more time in the prayer room. Some are forced to leave IHOP all together. If a student shows any signs of doubt they are told it is from demons they have allowed to enter their thoughts and it is from the generational sins of the parents and grandparents. The leaders take the journals, read them and support special findings to the worship team. Next, the worship team prophetically speaks over the person, utilizing the information they learned from the journal. My team tested this by writing false information inside the journal. A few days later that false information was then prayed over her in the prayer room, almost verbatim to what she had written on the pages of her journal." - IHOP Investigation
Wow again. There can be no doubt! Assimilation is mandatory! If there are slivers of doubt, the person is stalked by leadership and rebuked if necessary! Then look, the prayer room is again wielded like a cudgel to smack doubters over the head! Tell me again how pious the 24-7 model was? Stop. It was from the pit of hell itself. Then they psychologically torture the poor kids, telling them that they are fighting demons in their thought life. Anything that goes against the leader, or the cult is branded as demonic. Other false charismatic teachings such as generational curses are also weaponized against the students but in this case, they get to blame those same intrusive parents that just aren't called to be the seed that ushers in the kingdom of God like they are. How despicable. What is truly telling here is how the "prophetic" at IHOP is now exposed. Remember, Mike Bickle lied about God speaking to him to start IHOP and the 24-7 prayer movement. This false prophecy was also reported by two other false prophets who ended up being sexual predators in Bob Jones and Paul Cain. So, three sexual predators devised the entire IHOP model including the false 24-7 paradigm but now we see how prophecy was faked on the inside at that prayer room. IHOPKC would force the kids to journal and then the leaders would read them, sift them, and report to the prayer room worship team details they could pretend to "prophesy" over the duped students. This is eerily reminiscent of when Shawn Bolz used a smart phone to look up people at a conference and then pretend God was giving him "words of knowledge" about them, when it was really their Facebook profile! So now we know for sure that the premise of IHOP was false and the maintenance was equally false. It reminds me of the old Peter Popoff scam where he would have people reporting to him in an earpiece details of someone in the congregation and then he would pretend to prophesy. Just vile and reprehensible.
"Those in the forerunner school of ministry are taught techniques of witchcraft and the occult. Some of this includes the summoning of demonic spirits using touch to transfer power to another and the chanting of mantras. All students are taught to pray inwardly and focus on the human spirit. They are taught how to meditate and ask the Holy Spirit for prophetic visions. Those visions are then supposed to be recorded in their journals and given immediately to their leaders. Summer camp for the youth consists primarily of meditative worship, fasting and journaling. They force the students to spend hours in the prayer room with no breaks. They allow very little sleep. They are forbidden to listen to any music other than what is offered at IHOP, which only consists of mantra meditation songs. They are not allowed tv or computers or any device that would enable them to maintain a grasp on the outside world or reality. Cell phones are confiscated on the first day of summer camp and not returned until the last day. During our time there, several students wept and begged their leaders to phone their parents but were denied this right. Several students became ill due to the lack of food and lack of sleep but were denied the right to contact their parents for medication or medical advice. Instead, they were prayed over by their leaders. One student tried to sneak out to a fast-food place to get food for him and his roommates but was caught. He was assigned to solitary confinement for 24 hours in a room with nothing to do but journal." - IHOP Investigation
The charges of witchcraft and the occult are nothing new for IHOP. Nearly everyone who has escaped speaks to the same testimony. It has just been Mike Bickle was unassailable in the past but now we know he has been a wolf all of this time, preying on our kids. This meditation for prophetic vision is not new either. It is practiced throughout Eastern Mysticism and other false religions. I have seen it at other cult churches such as Bethel, where they teach their worship leaders that they are all prophetic and they need to empty their head and speak whatever pops into their wickedly deceitful hearts as "prophecy." Summer camp allows no outside contact, uses sleep deprivation, extended periods of time in the prayer room, which we now know they viewed punitively and excessive journaling, which we know is mined to falsify prophecies. Quite the detailed con IHOP had going on for decades. You don't feel well? Forget your parents! They can't help you! Don't you have any faith! Sneaking out for McDonalds? Solitary and even more extended prayer room punishment for you! They also spoke about one person that was finally allowed to go home after days of running a high fever. They were hospitalized for dehydration. Keep in mind this is supposed to be a church!
"Leaders are manifesting demons with these children, causing them to jerk, twitch, tremble and shake, foam at the mouth and even vomit. They are teaching the kids that these things are the working of the Holy Spirit and they are experiencing God's movement. All members are taught that the Holy Spirit comes to offend the thinking and offend rational ideas and offend everything they have been previously taught about religion and God. Tactics of manipulation. Deprivation of both food and sleep as well as guilt by association are all strongly used against the members to solidify their need for more. I sent a reported posed to do an interview to promote IHOP. The following were a few of his findings. There is a particular method to worship and praying and meditation and there is no room or allowance for freedom within these practices. Members are not forced to fast but IHOP closes the only organization that offers food at the discretion of the leadership and don't allow the students off campus to purchase food elsewhere. Thereby requiring a mandatory fast without officially saying it. When the reporter questioned this the answer was "God works in mysterious ways and he helps us to be obedient to His word and His word says we are to fast." - IHOP Investigation
