Music link: https://youtu.be/6zhuu8AlqCs
A number of years ago, I found myself thrust into a “Cult.”
I never imagined that I would have any association with such a ‘deviant church,’ but one day I woke up and found my self as a victim from this church which I had sought out to live my Christian life through.
I had been living in the Dallas area for maybe fifteen years, and my last job was at a Walmart, where I had been promoted to Assistant Manager status. I went through the training and all and then was running a Walmart Auto store within the Walmart store. These Auto stores were completely autonomous from the main stores, yet we were under the umbrella of the Bentonville corporation, nonetheless.
Well, my District Manager was the son of an upper echelon Board Member and high executive of Walmart out of Bentonville, as well.
So, after finishing my training, I was placed in a store and was supposed to receive three days of personal training from my District Manager. It was there where he was supposed to train me on which Paperwork that I would be needing to file and all other protocols, to get me off and running as a knowledgeable and trained manager.
Instead, as I arrived at the store the first day, he introduced himself, introduced myself to the Store Manager, and then just left. Perhaps, he spent a total of ten minutes there and failed to alert me to any protocol.
The man didn’t show me a single thing concerning the protocol’s of running the store. Nonetheless, the store manager was pretty understanding, as he knew of the whole situation. Well, a few weeks later, my manager showed himself and then tells me that he was placing under my care, a Customer Service Manager who had some issues in dealing with customers. Apparently, the guy kept getting into it with customers as he was very argumentative and head strong always claiming to be right.
This was now the third store; I believe that he was transferred too.
Well, I told the district manager that I didn’t like the idea and that I was trained in the manner where I would be making employee decisions, as to who would be hired, I told him that I did not like the idea of placing all of “Customer Service,” on an individual who was not a people person to say the least. it was useless though. Nonetheless, It didn’t matter, because this guy had to place the man somewhere, so why not at my store.
Meanwhile, one of my employees was a little guy maybe four foot something from some country in Africa. He was a very friendly fellow, a student, but not brimming with mounds of common sense.
His job was to receive the cars that would drive up to get their oil changed. Generally, they would drive the car up, tell the man exactly what they wanted and then give him the keys to finish the drive into the garage and to place the cars on the lifts where they would be raised up to change their oil.
So, one day, I finish my day and go home at the end of my shift. Nonetheless, a few hours later I was called and told of an incident where a car was involved in a minor accident which had been driven by my African friend into the garage.
Later, as the story was related to me, a customer drove up to the reception area, ordered the services and then handed his car keys off to the little African guy. Well, apparently when the customer handed off the keys to my employee, he told him, “Oh, and by the way it needs new brakes because the brakes aren’t working properly.”
Well, that was when my friend, having driven it into the garage, found that he couldn’t stop it in time.
I don’t know what happened after that, but insurance was recorded and I assumed that all was done on my part, since everything was reported to my District Manager, as well as the store manager. I figured if I needed to do anything more than that, my District Manager would be informing me.
Well, a week or so after that my “Customer Service manager” who I had never really accepted from having him forced upon me, had gotten into it with a customer who ended up calling “Corporate,” with a complaint concerning the management of my store.
Well, whenever you have a complaint at Walmart that goes up to corporate, it becomes a big deal.
So, sure enough it all rolled back downhill and “Corporate,” needed some answers as to what was going on at this store which recently had an accident and a major complaint from a customer.
Well, I came in one day and there was my district manager who had failed to show me any Protocol for filing the proper paperwork concerning the accident or of any other Paperwork concerning anything. Yes, the same guy who had ordered me to hire HIS choice for my Customer Service Manager, who had just recently got into a major conflict with a CUSTOMER.
And so, when it all exploded up to where “Daddy’” was working in Bentonville, they wanted
Therefore, I was given a choice to either step down as a manager or to be fired.
Well, I told the man that out of principle I was not going to step down because at the same time, I would be declaring that I was negligent and a failure in my duties of manager.
I told the man point blank that the screw ups which had all occurred were on Him, and I wasn’t going to go anywhere, yet if he wished to fire me then that would be completely acceptable to me.
Well, I had been working for years while at the same time following the Lord and working for the Lord in various duties, such as writing on my web sites.
Nevertheless, I had made up my mind that I was going to sell my car and furniture and then place all other personal needs in storage. This would allow me to further investigate several ministries and to decide upon which Church that I was going to settle in, so I could have a “Base,” to work out of, as I was further going to move out into ministry.
I had like four or five churches in mind where I had heard they were more than churches, but instead 24-hour ministries where the people lived in a seven day a week experience with God and community.
You see, what I was hoping to find was a community like the first Charismatic Community in which God had called me to when I had first become a Christian.
I have visited most of these a few times already in my past but decided to visit them again. I had also traveled extensively from a teenager hitchhiking up and down the California coast, to hitchhiking numerous times around the country to visit conferences, speakers, revivals, you name it. For several years, I rode my motorcycle all year round and did much traveling with that from state to state, as well. Then there was the time when I finished a truck driving course and trained to drive a truck through multiple states, as I learned to live on the road with as little hardships as possible.
So, anyway, I left Cedar Hill, Texas with my thumb out and had planned to visit a number of ministries in order to find a devout and Holy Place where I could join together with like minded Christians who loved Jesus and to join them in their journeys where we all could help establish the “Kingdom of God on Earth.”
The main ministries where I had planned to visit once again or to investigate was “Bethel Church” although I had already investigated it on two other occasions for a few weeks at a time. Nonetheless, who know, perhaps God was calling me to visit it again and to walk away with a more perfect perception of it.
He did not, and so after spending a few weeks there I began heading East again.
I stopped in Las Vegas, and visited the “Church of Las Vegas,” but “No,” that bed was too lumpy too.
Well, then I headed to South Carolina, where I had visited a ministry there a few other times and had attended many conferences. Nope the porridge had too much salt in it.
Let’s see, I visited a few other places but the only one that I held out as a possibility was a Fellowship in Kansas City, which had a twenty-four-hour Prayer Room.
This was the one that I was interested in more so, than in most others. You see, I have always excelled in the gifts of Prayer, and I loved “Prayer” more than any other experience which one could have in the Lord.
When I had first left Cedar Hill with my thumb out, I passed through Kansas City and asked all around, If any knew where the International House of Prayer was, yet no one had heard of it.
Nonetheless, I went on toward Redding, California, and had put it out of my mind. So, now I was determined to back track and to visit this one last community. Also, earlier in my life, I had lived in Tulsa on three different occasions but just found most of Tulsa…….well, can you say “Too religious.”
The thing about Tulsa which always amazed me was the fact that they had more Christians per capita, more Christian media Radio and Television shows, more conferences, more churches, more preachers, more ‘Super Preachers,’ more everything Christian or religious.
Nonetheless, from Google:
These are results for why has tulsa had more crimes, more murders more drug problems than so many other cities in the nation in the last forty years?
AI Overview
Tulsa’s persistent challenges with violent crime, murder rates, and drug issues stem from deep-rooted, systemic factors rather than any single cause. The primary drivers include severe economic inequality, historical and ongoing segregation, underfunded social services, and the devastating impacts of the state's opioid and methamphetamine epidemics.
Key factors fueling these issues in Tulsa include:
It is worth noting that while these issues have plagued the city over the last four decades, crime trends have recently begun to improve. According to the Tulsa Police Department, the city has seen a gradual but steady decline in violent crime and homicides over the past several years, aided by real-time crime-mapping technology and community-based intervention initiatives.
Well, I also spent a year living in Nashville where they have a huge, massive problem of “The Religious,” as well.
“God help us from the Religious Nashvillites!”
So, anyway I head back to Kansas City, but this time I did my homework, and I found out that the ministry wasn’t in Kansas City, but in a small little town outside the borders of K.C.
Well, my last ride was with a truck driver and we got along great, as I always share my life or Christianity with the drivers. Many times, they will tell me that they love my stories which always make me feel great.
Anyway, we were getting close to Grandview, and this driver says, “John, I’m not going to do it, I am not going to let you out of this truck until I know that you are “hooked up,” with a trucking company.
You see, I had gone through truck driving school, ridden in trucks since I was a teenager, was more familiar with the many ways that you can use truck facilities to bless you on the road, but had never really done much Over the Road driving.
So, back then before you could be placed behind the wheel of a truck carrying 80,000 pounds of weight behind you, not only were you required to have a CDL which I had been carrying for like five years, but you also had to be recently driving over the road for a number of months.
Today, it is a little different, from my understanding all you have to do is to sign a paper stating that you can’t speak English, nor read road signs, you can’t read a map, but have good GPS skills from some European back country GPS unit that also tracks mules and horses, as well as gophers if they happen to run off with your tracking unit.
Nonetheless, this guy talks on my behalf to a recruiter at a local Trucking company with a main terminal in Kansas City, and the recruiter threw me in a Semi truck as a trainee for eight weeks and then I was released as a permanent driver.
In almost any other situation most companies would have forced the prospective driver to pay a couple thousand dollars to go through a refresher course.
So, I was to meet with the recruiter that Monday, but meanwhile I had the driver drop me off from the 24 hour Prayer room Saturday morning around four or five.
..to be continued….
Part Two:
In this next part of my story I am going to tell you of one of the most shocking incidents in which I experienced in the American Church. When I found out about this incident I was ‘shocked’ to the extent that it is very likely I went into a sort of Medical “shock,” myself.
Following from “Google:”
AI Overview
Yes, it is entirely normal to experience a brief state of psychological or emotional shock upon learning of a violent attack. This reaction—often referred to as an acute stress response—can occur even if you do not know the victim personally, as the brain rapidly processes the perceived threat and cruelty.
How Shock Manifests
When confronted with highly disturbing information, your nervous system can trigger a "fight, flight, or freeze" response. While not as severe as medical shock, the psychological and physical symptoms can include:
Hearing graphic details can overwhelm the brain's natural coping mechanisms. This reaction operates as a temporary psychological defense, allowing the body to manage a sudden influx of negative arousal and distress.
For most people, these "small" symptoms of shock are short-lived and subside as the brain processes the information and the nervous system calms down.
Lastly, I am not a weak individual I have experienced some of the cruelest treatment by individuals who I once considered friends. I have endured many physical painful sufferings. I have been in accidents where I was moments from death, not a whole lot can move me. As I stated in another paper yesterday, I believe that had I not been recording and posting the daily activities around this cult, I would have surely been attacked myself and possibly murdered to keep me silenced.
You see, a lot of times we tend to forget the amounts of money which pours through these huge mega churches or corporations. This is why these people will step down to the lowest level of humanity and to do anything possible to protect or to defend their interests in these glorified kingdoms in which the church so easily becomes enslaved to.
Right before I left this community they came out with an announcement that there was an older couple who were going to leave to IHOP something like eighty or ninety million dollars in Property to this cult.
Well, it was all too obvious to me what was happening. You see, every time this so-called church took a new direction they would always refer to a “Prophecy,” delivered by a Prophet named “Bob Jones.” Not the one who is famous for his Bible School, but another man who had claimed and moved in occasional “Prophetic Gifting.”
You see, it is possible to be gifted with the supernatural gifting of the Holy Spirit, yet also be susceptible to falling or in misusing the gift.
Nonetheless, what the charismatic church has done in the last fifty years, is to recognize a man walking in the “gift,” and then from then on they treat or tell the great stories or false narratives of the man having been infallible during his “walk,” as a Prophet. Nevertheless, they will only do that to those whose “gifting,” they wish to utilize or to use in order to verify the false integrity of their ministries.
For instance among many in the Prophetic there will be story after story of the exploits of the great Prophet Bob Jones and how he “prophesied” this or he prophesied that.
Well, among others IHOP milked the false narratives of the man’s ‘prophecies,’ for all that they could get. When the cult decided to build a record studio and have the artists sign over their personal residuals and rights to the corporation they had claimed that “Years ago, Bob Jones had prophesied Mike Bickle was chosen by God to be the “worship” king or whatever,” they claimed that Mike was as King David and therefore the cult made a whole lot of money enslaving the naïve worshipers who would later write music and such for the benefit of the cult.
When Mike and all of the cronies who surrounded him and served him decided to get involved with Israel, wouldn’t you know that Bob Jones was right there prophesying what was to soon be a self-fulfilled Prophecy.
When after I was publishing a rebuke to the Charismatic Churches for not having any works, Mike has a revelation and responded by starting up a justice platform or something, as he called it. Soon, they were starting a number of ministries where they went into the city and began doing things for the Poor, as well, as all kinds of other works that they had never ever considered.
Nonetheless, Mike was a brilliant man as an administrator and soon the cult through it’s “works ministries,” was taking in hundreds of thousands of dollars. In other words, the man took my preaching of concern for the homeless and the down and out and then turned it into a money-making machine by using his naïve followers who hadn’t a clue about anything. They just all listened and obeyed their leaders. PLUARL!
You see, what ever Mike set his hand too he had tens of a hundred “Yes Men,” who would do whatever he asked. And then after he fell, I was forced to see these “scum” all over the internet pretending as if none had a clue of the depravity of this man’s life.
Well, he could have only played out his depravities for decades unless he had all of those individuals who held up his arms, just as they did with Moses.
Do you understand what I am saying?
Just the other day, I saw a clip where a few of these former “scumbags,” were on a “clip,” talking amongst themselves. So, as they go around each giving his three dollar bill, bull poop, you get to hear every one of them, “Why if he had just sat down and shared with any one of us, why IHOP would be here today.”
These guys knew every single thing that Mike was involved in and were all part of the massive Cover Ups,” which followed.
So, then there were a few other surprise events in which all of the leaders had agreed upon, and just like clock work these many leaders would take the pulpits and explain on how Mike was given a new direction from the Lord, and what always followed was another story of how Bob Jones had just happened to prophesy the exact direction that the cult was now going to move in.
Well, just as I was about to share before I got off on my rabbit’s trail, during the last few months that I was there the leaders came out and told of this elderly Jewish couple who were in their nineties that were living within miles of the cult. They were relatives of former President Truman and were the landholders of said property which was worth millions of dollars.
Well, what had happened according to the testimony of these co-hort leaders which announced the ‘good news,” to the congregation, was that while cleaning an office storeroom or something they had found an old “Prophecy,” spoken by Bob Jones and in the paper it had spelled out what God had told Bob Jones personally.
Well, near as I can remember “God,” you all remember God still, right?
Well, God had told Bob Jones that this elderly couple which were somehow related to the former President Truman and were the owners of his former property were supposed to give to the “cult” or I guess to bequeath to the cult these properties worth millions of dollars’ in order for the cult to erect a twenty four hour Prayer Room solely devoted and strictly for Prayer to the Nation of Israel.
The entire Prayer room would resemble the prayer Room which Mike built his ministry upon, and had been in existence for some ten years or so, where 24-hour prayer went up day and night every day of the year. Prayer going up only for Israel though.
Well, so that day when they announced the good news, of course they took a great offering and then promised to fill them in on the events as they would be progressing. Nonetheless, I soon found myself being carried out of the Prayer Room and thrown out the fire door and ended up landing in the alley on hard cement. Still with my eyes closed and speaking nonstop in tongues as Mike’s henchmen were carrying me out so the entire Prayer Room could witness.
I finally left the cult for good, but as I recall that was when I published an open letter to Mike Bickle.
Nevertheless, I don’t believe that I had ever had anything worse happen to me, as this event in my life. You see, after a few years in the cult there was a vicious attack on a female member of the cult. Nonetheless, as I said, I was literally in “Shock,” when I learned of what had transpired in this event that I am about to talk about.
As I was just thinking about it, I was imagining the many individuals who had family members die in the World Trade Towers. You see, it was as if you were going to lose not one, but a whole slew of family members since what these individuals did was to sacrifice their own lives, as well.
When Satan moved these individuals to commit these acts on behalf of their youth, jealousy, envy or whatever else they were moved by, he took their lives with him as well as those who were the victims.
Do you understand what I am saying?
I despise every one involved in the attack and also in the “Cover Up,” but it has been a long time and I have forgiven each one of them, nonetheless, what should sadden all is the fact that through this one act in which the devil orchestrated through some very mixed up kids and adults, changed the lives of so many people and some are going to spend the rest of eternity in eternal suffering. Therefore, should I be glad, every time that I see one of them reaping the results of what they sowed?
A thousand times “No.”
But you see this is what America needs to hear and to understand. You know, the other week, I just laid into the religious here in America. I attacked the Fox News people; I attacked those new converts who came to accept Jesus because Charlie thought “He was cool.” I attacked the high and the mighty Baptist who believe they are going to heaven because they have been blaspheming the work of the Holy Spirit for decades and have dissuaded millions from receiving the one hope that God has given the church for these last days.
Well, now God has moved me to go after these individuals who have all been pretending that they are the great apostle and prophets of this next generation, you are not!
So anyway, I haven’t even started Part two, as that was just a “lean in” to it. Therefore, Part two is what I just wrote and Part three is now going to be Part ………..I don’t know I’ll figure it out….
In the Bible Jesus told his disciples that “Where two or more of you are gathered, there am I in the midst of you.”
There is another place in the Bible where it says that “One will put a thousand enemies to flight, yet two together will put ten thousand enemies to flight.”
In other words, the Bible teaches that the “Power of God can be exponentially increased when two Christians come together in the same purpose and will to fight injustice.”
This of course, is why when you look down through church history or mankind’s history, you will see time and again where “supernatural forces,” AKA Satan, the devil, Lucifer will ultimately SOW division in any situation where two or more Nations are coming together to fight against Evil.
This is why in the Middle East right at this moment Iran will not let up his attacks on those countries who are hoping to come to a “Peace Agreement.”
This is why the Abraham accords were abruptly stopped midway when October seventh occurred or even going further back when China released COVID on the world, if I have my dates right?
This is why on any day of the week you can tune in to a “You Tube,” cover and see one ministry after another trying to tear down and to destroy many “Spirit Filled Ministries,” though there are many of those who have needed “correction,” for their past actions and for some time.
Nevertheless, this is why Satan is constantly bringing one Nation against another Nation and especially in these “last days.”
Did you know that it is Prophesied that in the Last Days, this will be a sign of the Second Coming of Jesus.
That, Nation will be against Nation and as I have heard preached numerous times, that the word used in it’s original context will have a racial context to it.
From Google:
AI Overview
The phrase "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom" is primarily located in the Olivet Discourse in the Bible, specifically found in Matthew 24:7, Mark 13:8, and Luke 21:10.
The Greek Original
The original Greek text and its literal meaning highlight a contrast between cultural/ethnic groups and geopolitical territories:
In context, this passage is part of Jesus' response to His disciples about the signs of the end of the age and His return. The phrasing suggests a massive, cascading escalation of conflict: Ethnos against Ethnos: This indicates widespread cultural, tribal, or ethnic warfare and civil unrest where distinct groups of people fight each other.
(Author’s note: This is why we hear of so many tribes in Africa and uprisings all over the world of one Nation against another Nation. This is why Satan places a lust for Power and land into the heart of a devil influenced man with an insatiable urge to slaughter millions of innocent people and having destroyed millions of lives is just as filled with an even stronger urge to slaughter another few million.
No, what the world needs to do is to come together and to eliminate this manifested devil filled leader from humanity.” One day there are going to be world Leaders to stand before their “Maker,” and God is going to ask them, “Why did you allow those millions of people to be slaughtered from that worthless devil with no other purpose in his heart but to slaughter millions of my children who were “the crown of my creation”? )
AI Overview
When taken together, these passages mean that spiritual fellowship and unity create an exponential multiplication of divine power and presence. While individual faith is highly effective, combining forces with another believer does not simply double your strength—it multiplies it tenfold because Christ Himself steps into the center of that connection.
Here is a breakdown of how these two ideas connect structurally and culturally:
1. The Principle of Exponential Synergy
The first phrase refers to Deuteronomy 32:30, which observes: "How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight..."
2. The Catalyst for the Multiplication
The second phrase answers why this dramatic jump happens. Taken from Matthew 18:20, Jesus says: "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."
3. A Quick Note on Original Contexts
While these verses are beautifully woven together in modern worship and prayer circles to emphasize the "prayer of agreement," they actually originate from two very different contexts in Scripture:
Summary Meaning
When paired together, the takeaway is clear: Do not isolate yourself. Isolation caps your spiritual impact at a "thousand." Walking in authentic, unified community with even just one other believer invites the presence of Christ, unlocking exponential strength to overcome massive obstacles.
Well, that was a rabbit’s trail, let me get back to the purpose of this Paper.
Part Three:
So, my truck driver friend and I parted after he went out of his way to make sure that I could utilize my CDL, once again which I had been carrying for a few years.
So, as was the case, I had been traveling the country with a couple hundred dollar modified Luggage Cart a medium Duffel bag for my clothes and stuff and firm backpack for my personal items, such as MP 3’s and Netbook had him drop me of near a church right next door to some of the property. Well, it was like four or five in the morning and then began to rain relentlessly. So, I remember standing in a shadow of a wall at the church with just maybe a few feet shelter from a roof overhang. It continued to rain and finally it was daylight and I was able to step out of my somewhat sheltered area and to go exploring the IHOP campus.
Well, I found the Prayer Room and entered it as a resting place where I sort of got everything together again as I sat in a pew. Then I began to observe and to silently pray with much “thankfulness,” to the Lord.
Nonetheless, as I took refuge in this Prayer Room I was enthralled at what I was seeing and began to think that finally I have found another place in which “I could live and move and to have my being.”
I was once again in a place where I knew the “kingdom of God” could be found tangible.
You see, I had been living and visiting churches for the past two decades, but never having found a suitable atmosphere to where I felt as if I was in the presence or kingdom of God, as I did in the first community in which God had called me.
I mean, I walk in the place and there on the stage were talented musicians and singers who would do a two hour set and then be replaced by a completely new group which would come in and do another two hour stint and then be replaced by a completely even newer group of musicians and singers and on and on it went, as clockwork, seven days a week, twenty four hours a day, just nothing but “Anointed and Holy worship,” all day long every day, over and over.
Why, I thought, “Oh my “goodness gracious me,” to have found such a devoted group of people who could loved god, as obviously these young men and women did.
And to think, “they are sacrificing their lives for ME, and for all of those who they are supporting in Prayer who enter this building or tune into the web cast.”
The passage came to mind even, “No greater Love than this, lest a man lay his life down for another.”
“Oh Goodness Gracious Me,” again…
“Thank you Jesus for once again leading me to fellow believers who one day perhaps I can return the favor to all of these devoted Aint’s who are up on stage every day to bring you glory Lord.”
Well, I spent the day and the next day taking part in deep and sincere Prayer praying in tongues in the Prayer Room and then visiting the Sunday meeting which wasn’t bad worship for a Charismatic church.
Nonetheless, I have a unique way of Praying in the “Spirit,” that isn’t always conducive to many other Christians.
I simply go into a Prayer Room, find a seat or place out of the way to where I can have some type of privacy. Then I close my eyes, begin to pray in tongues and after a few minutes the Holy Spirit will anoint my prayer to where my voice will seem to change by taking on a different authority and generally will amplify or increase and then I am off and running into the ‘spirit world,’ hoping to have my ‘spirit man,’ lifted into the supernatural where I can then seek and often find God much closer than in the natural.
Also, when I attend public gatherings, I will always amplify my voice when singing, so it is just a tad higher from the loudness of what is coming from the overall speakers. This way it is just a reminder to myself that I am a part of the presence of God which is generally manifested in the assembly through the Holy Spirit.
You see, in my mind I see the Holy Spirit as that group on stage, and which is producing the Praise and the worship in the congregation, therefore, I always want my voice to be in tune or is connection with that “VOICE,” coming from the center of worship. Then I know that the Holy Spirit is in the room with me. Many times a person will get much resistance from certain traditionalist Christians who have only one concept of tongues.
“Hey, you can’t pray in tongues, or worship using supernatural gifts, why don’t you know that whenever a person speaks in tongues there has to be an interpretation.”
Wow, I did not know that, so do you speak in tongues?
“No, but when I was prayed for to receive the experience I did for maybe ten seconds, why?
I have the gift man, and I have become an expert theologian on the matter.”
Nevertheless, I just mention this because I am warning pastors, if you try to start a Prayer Room or begin Prayer Meetings, you are always going to have much resistance in the beginning.
So, what you need to do is to learn to silence those devils and they may even be coming from those who you have imagined to be your longest and most loyal Pew sitters or Board Members. But you need to make it clear to Satan we are going to have supernatural anointed Prayer in this house and I don’t care what any of you think.
You have to establish a stake in the ground where you have claimed the Land for the kingdom of God, and not for the critics who are always against a “supernatural atmosphere,” in a Prayer Room.
And so this is what I did in the Prayer Room in Kansas City, When I walked in every one knew that the devils were about to be stirred up.
That is another thing, there were many times where after serious Prayer I would have small visions of the aftermath in the Prayer Room. God would show me a vision of a battlefield in which you might find after the battle of Gettysburg or something. They were gross, but it was as if I was looking at a Civil War battlefield after the fact, and in my mind, it was as if I was seeing various limbs scattered about and dead bodies strewn about and the land just dirt, gravel and saddles and horses lying about. Canons overturned, it was just sad, but this is what the Lord would show me and I instinctively knew that it was as is in the “spiritual,” after there had been serious Prayer to God.
Thinking about it, this is why there ought to be a 24 hour Prayer room in the Pentagon where Prayer for the country can go up 24/7.
America could have great victories if they took a position that they are also fighting a “Spiritual Battle,” in the heavenlies and not just a natural Battle on Earth.
We need to acknowledge that we are the righteous ones, and in knowing that it ought to breed great confidence in our Prayers against those Nations which only wish to sow discord and murder toward their brothers.
So, anyway, after the weekend spent within this new community I had gone to meet with the recruiter at a trucking company in Kansas City.
The man overlooked most protocol and placed me into a truck for an eight-week training period. At the end of eight weeks, I was now an employed truck driver out of Kansas City.
Meanwhile, during the time that I was at IHOP investigating it, I had met a brother who had owned a house and had a huge heart. The man would take in individuals who were homeless or on the street and then let them stay in his house which was right in the Prayer Room vicinity.
As I had been asking around for possible options to settle in Grandview, I was told about the man. Well, I visited the guy and told him of my situation and how that I had just come from traveling all over the country in search of a good Christian based church, how that I just landed a job as a trucker out of KC, and how that I would need a situation where I could come and rest during my few days off a month in order to spend much time in the Prayer Room.
The guy had a heart of gold and in fact, he paid a great price for it, as many of those he was helping would screw him left and right. Nonetheless, he was a friend for a few years and his house was a household where I had met a number of other individuals who were loosely associated with the cult.
One day, some two years later the house had a home cooked meal for some reason and as I was able to fellowship with some who I had had very little relationship with I had heard them sharing with one another, as well as with myself.
Well, I couldn’t believe what I had been hearing in this small little get together one night at dinner. Nonetheless, there were one or two who were sharing and neither one was able to discern who Abraham was from Noah. I think they had made comment that Abraham had built an Ark, and Noah was the patriarch who invented the wheel or something?
The ignorance was palpable, but I had found that all over the community. When I first got there and went to a couple of meetings, I learned that Mike Bickle for something like ten years only preached from two books basically. The Book of Revelation and the Song of Songs, nonetheless, it was the Song of Songs which was his forte.
One of the first meetings that I heard from him was a lecture from the S of Songs.
I entered a gathering and as Mike began teaching on the S of Songs, it was as if the women were “swooning.”
Well, this was an issue I soon addressed on my web site and I ask, “How can a church or Stream have only taught from basically two books of the Bible.”
Soon, they changed policy as I had humiliated the whole cult.
Nonetheless, soon I was on the road having left the community to train for my job. After training, I went on the road cross country for like five weeks at a time.
..to be continued in Part Four!
Sunday June 7th, 2026
Alpha Link: https://youtu.be/-ttKyqn3k7U
Thomas Road Baptist Church: https://youtu.be/0SnCJ8l7zw0
The Judgment Seat of Christ: https://youtu.be/E-idR44rwUE
Music link: https://youtu.be/yD_PevVEqGM
Did you know that for over fifty years, I have been urged and counselled from some of the greatest ‘spiritual leaders’ the world has ever known?
Well, I wouldn’t call them some of the ‘greatest spiritual leaders’ but many of you do.
Personally, I have thought that most are just “washed up hacks,” who instead of contributing to this generations “spiritual state,” or contributing for the healthy spiritual state of the individual believer’s seem to only be interested in their own ministries and to hell with everybody else’s, so long as it doesn’t affect me, my ministry, or my family.
In other words, "I don’t give a rat’s behind what any other ministry does or how it affects it’s sheep under them, so long as I do not have to bother myself with preaching “righteousness,” or to be found fighting for the cause of Christ. Even though, doing so, would help grow the “Kingdom of God,” on Earth, bring holiness to the church and to cause society to actually have “pangs,” of consciousness as they were beating the elderly heads into the various brick pavements down in the subways.
Can anybody relate?
Then there are others who just have no “faith,” apparently and our die hard traditionalists who believe that “Brother we never concern our selves with other ministries or what they are teaching the coming generation, no, we just all ‘walk together’ as ignorant sheep blindly following our wonderful ‘anointed’ leaders because these men are especially anointed by God and the Bible very plainly states “Touch not thy anointed ones, but blindly follow them because they all know what is best for you the believer.”
I am serious, I was thinking last night, “For something like fifty years, when ever I have called out “SIN,” in a church, I have been confronted by other “Leaders,” from their Pulpits, “Brother, you need to forgive, brother that is not our custom, we never highlight another Man’s SIN, we just allow those ministries to represent God in however they wish to.”
And then without FAIL, almost every single one of them will then go on and explain to me how that they are only sharing this traditional “godly church wisdom” for my personal benefit.
“Brother, you see, what happens is that you become separated and alone being divided and separated from the devil to the ‘body of Christ.”
Why, when you do that it separates you from the body and you no longer have the “body of Christ,” to support you and to back you up, therefore, never ever point out any “sin,” that you have encountered from other Christians within the Church.”
“No, never, we never air our dirty laundry out that the world may be able to look over the fence and to see that our “Ministries,” are not as Holy as we have been claiming for decades and decades and ad nauseum.”
I ask ‘Google,” what exactly the above sentence meant:
what does this sentence mean? “No, never, we never air our dirty laundry out that the world may be able to look over the fence and to see that our “Ministries,” are not as Holy as we have been claiming for decades and decades and ad nauseum.”
This sentence means that a religious organization or church is intentionally hiding its internal scandals, bad behavior, or flawsfrom the public to protect its long-standing reputation of being perfect and holy.
Breakdown of the Meaning
Overall Tone
The tone is highly sarcastic and critical. The speaker is mocking the church's desperate obsession with secrecy and image control over honesty and accountability.
So, anyway, the other week the Lord began to share with me that finally after years and years, that he would like me to bring about many “truths,” concerning the few years that I spent at IHOP.
You see, a few years ago, when “You Tube,” was just starting to “Buzz” with the news of Mike Bickel's falling, I watched many “You Tube,” so-called “Righteous Defender’s of the Faith,” jump on the band wagon.
Well, it gets old, from my perspective none were really explaining the event s which had led up to his fall, but what was so much worse to me, was that the story which was being told was only about ten per cent of “truths.”
You see, Mike would have never progressed to the depravity in which had been alleged, if it had not been for the multitudes of “depraved supporters” in which he walked with day and night, 24/7 just like his Prayer Room. NONSTOP, a community of depraved individuals who gave him Carte Blanche to do whatever was on his evil heart.
So, as I said, I spent this last weekend, as I usually do visiting church after church, in order to properly hear from the “Holy Spirit,” and then I was told to continue my “story,” in which I began last week concerning those years in which I had first hand knowledge of many things which were going on in that cult, as I like to define it personally.
You see, if a “church,” is walking in complete disobedience to Christ, how am I supposed to keep calling it a “Church?”
So, I was wondering the best way for me to introduce this introductory paper concerning the “church,” in which I had found myself a part of, so many years ago?
Well, the Lord instructed me to refer to some of my former papers in which I had written concerning IHOP, so that’s what I did.
So, let me share this first one, it was written a few years ago, during the first hullabaloo, concerning the news that Mike Bickle was about to be scandalized all over the internet.
I saw the article and thought “Perhaps, I will copy that to file away in case I may need to refer to it for some reason.” As of today, I am not even sure where I copied the link from, but nonetheless, the following is what I copied:
Link: https://www.change.org/p/open-letter-to-the-ihopkc-leadership/c
After opening the link, this is the contents:
(Please understand that I copied this just a few years ago, in ‘Properties,’ I see that the date was Friday, March 15, 2024, 11:29:14 PM.)
STAND WITH US: Open Letter to the IHOPKC Leadership
The formula is always the same. This is not new to the church, nor will it stop with IHOPKC. Personally, I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that I listened to MB's preaching and read his books at conferences and such, but overall I am not shocked by his behavior. IHOPKC is not the only ministry that is a breeding ground for abuse. Hillsong and Bethel Church are no different. Please stop supporting these ministries, no matter how much you loved them. For the sake of all past and future victims. Just stop.
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Allison
I am a teen who lived through the crisis: I am a person who personally knew MB and had an experience with him. MB was a very, let’s just say weird, man. He always would hold my shoulders and smile at me, and I never felt uncomfortable then. Thinking back and watching him now, I have realized that I may have been a victim. My best friend at the time (his granddaughter) didn’t believe me. My parents never knew, and MB had never even apologized to any of the CEC kids he did this to. I’m not the only one. All I want to do is spread that even if he isn’t guilty of sexually assaulting anyone, he harassed us physically and psychologically throughout our childhoods. If anyone else was at the Children’s Equipping Center in the years 2010-2017 I urge you to share your story.
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Shiloh
I like popcorn either way.
Alistair
For the future health of this ministry please allow a legitimate 3rd party investigate these allegations.
Brian
I stand against all the homosexual predators that ihopkc is overflowing with. its like one giant gay parade every time I have walked in there.
sarah
I was apart of IHOPkc from '02-'04, from the trailer days to the current facility. I played on worship teams with the best of them. What has been happening here on a spiritual level is mind boggling to say the least. This is a big piece of the puzzle to the converging apostasy, joining together Mystery Babylon /Occult /new Age to the church. A little leaven, leavens the whole lump, and Bickle's deceptive practices need to be exposed for what they are. I say this humbly, because the ramifications are massive, and in so doing my desire is to continually point to Jesus, He is the only way for people to get through this deception. He is the only one who can divide soul and spirit, joints and marrow. Come out of her my people.
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Gabriel
The converging apostasy
Gabriel
transparency and communication is of utmost importance.! NO HIDING
Ellen
I am appalled and beyond disgusted, beyond disappointed, beyond measure of care of that atrocity of a building being run by monsters I knew my entire life. I am ashamed to have ever been in that building. God have mercy on your souls.
Adam
I was at IHOPKC when it began. I did Fire in the Night, completed the 4 year Bible School and was on staff. GET A REAL INVESTIGATION!
Katie
Transparency before repentance
Jonathan
Former IHOPKC staff member serving the Intro to IHOP Internship. Truth brings freedom, no matter how painful it may be.
Richard
We are all accountable to God. You are accountable to God. Do you have a clear conscience before him? We must do what is right.
Soojin
My husband has left a good career and we moved to Kansas City to serve at IHOP 18 years ago. For over 8 years he has supported the ministry with his skills, for a minimum income which lead us almost to a place of poverty. We have done so with a happy heart, knowing that we serve God and not men. People like us do matter, and the least IHOP can do is handle this crisis with the utmost transparency. It feels laughable at this point to still request that, but since I haven’t spoken up elsewhere, here you go. Remember the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: silence in the face of evil is evil itself. We can do better, guys. Remember too, the audience of ONE, and HE is watching us.
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Kerstin
8 years of service and leadership building the prayer movement at IHOPKC GPR. Voluntary transparency from both sides with a neutral 3rd party is the only way I can see in which the truth is honored, justice and mercy can be dispensed, healing can begin and all of us can get our eyes back on Jesus.
Matt
I want Mike to be free of all this.
Kim
I had been involved with IHOP KC/surrounding ministries for many years without ever taking an ‘oath of staff’ but had been deeply entrenched and psychologically, physically and emotionally stunted thru these ministries. I still battle the heartbreak everyday but find myself ‘getting myself back’ more as the years go on. A lot of bad but also some very awesome moments. Torn
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Katee
I have followed IHOPKC teachings and prayer room for years and I feel like I've been duped. Coupled with my own experience of mistreatment by church leaders, my trust has been severely damaged. I resonate with the hurt caused by both abuse and the refusal to even recognize and acknowledge it. This abuse ripples out into the body of Christ and causes the name of God to be blasphemed among the gentiles.
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Cara
I am deeply grieved at the state of IHOPKC and the bad fruit they produce throughout decades. Spiritual & sexual clergy abuse is unacceptable!
Alina
My son lived just yards from the Red Bridge Center, 2002 to 2006. He saw things that disturbed him but thought his duty to cover another’s sin, { like Noah’s son } was greater than exposing truth. He died 2014. My wife and I saw questionable use of personal prophesies, contrary to what the training said.
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Wayne…..
Authors continued writing.
You see, the posting was simply a petition on behalf of many who were harmed by the cult. Nevertheless, I posted it for one reason. I posted it to highlight “Brian’s Testimony,”
Are you following me?
Do you see where I am going with this?
This is what Brian stated concerning his experiences with IHOP.
Brian
I stand against all the homosexual predators that ihopkc is overflowing with. its like one giant gay parade every time I have walked in there.
I don’t know, I pray that Brian wasn’t a victim of the members who he is referring to, although, I know that there were many others who were between the time when I was first exposing this Cult for it’s open drug abuse and alternative lives being lived out openly in the community. Nonetheless, I was constantly being silenced by almost every other Charismatic church from around the country.
You see, none had the courage to call out the leaders of this Cult into accountability because as I have stated numerous times in the past fifty years, “The American church will allow any ministry to do anything, no matter how bad that it hurts the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ or His body on Earth.”
No, I had never found one minister in the Charismatic/Pentecostal Spirit Filled churches which was ready to take a stand against a ministry which was harming the individual sheep of the “Body of Jesus Christ,” on Earth.
And not only did they remain “Silent,” they shunned me, they cursed me, they threatened me, they did everything they could to eliminate my ministry and to keep me silent.
Nevertheless, that was why God had counsel together in the heavenlies, and they said, “You know what Guys, we need to equip this John fella down there with a medium where his preaching can go forth day and night 24/7, and when they all tell him to be quiet, he can explain to them why he can’t. He needs to be able to tell them that “I am responding from the direction of God Almighty” and if they don’t like it, he can refer them to us.”
But I am as serious right now, as I have ever been; had I not had the entire community of this cult come against me and silence the truths in which I was sharing openly and on the internet, so every other Charismatic, Prophetic, Word/Faith minister from around the country to hear what I was saying. Then I can truly say that this cult would not have progressed to the depravity in which it had attained to.
And lastly what I am saying is that there was ministry after ministry which I knew of and who were all informed of the crimes which were going on in this cult yet purposely refused to acknowledge any of it.
Furthermore, by all of these leaders hiding the events and pretending for years that this IHOP, was some kind of Paradise “Kingdom of Heaven” on the Earth, they allowed this community to grow and to then spread their lifestyles into all other Charismatic Streams as they returned to their home bases around the country.
Are you following me?
Many of these individuals who were raised in this environment where it was considered a very small matter to use drugs to enhance their “artistic abilities,” or to live alternative lives in the midst of a Christian community would ultimately leave at some point and they would carry this new type “theology,” or “chosen lifestyle,” to affect hundreds of other ministries from all over the United States, and in some cases to go forth across the world.
And to take it a little farther without becoming ridiculous, these same individuals having affected the youth also were responsible for changing the perception of society and how “Sin,” was perceived.
And we wonder why, “Gee, I can’t imagine how society became as it is today.”
“Oh, perhaps it became as it is today, because no one dared to challenge Satan when he anointed a number of false teachers to cause a paradigm shift to happen in America.”
Well, how do we turn it around?
We start to bring the gospel back into the workplace, the schools, the Universities wherever Satan has sent his ‘legions of sick demons,” all inspired by a few men called “Bickle -ites.”
I am going to continue with my bio story and to show how a number of ministers all backed this man knowing full well the types of assaults and other crimes which were committed in the midst of this cult.
You see, you can’t just blame a million crimes on “One Man, and say “Oh, it is all resolved now that we have a scape goat.”
No, the church all over America needs to face it’s past, and to not just place all the blame on a few depraved men. There are hundreds who need to repent for what the church has become.
You see, the church likes to point there fingers on a few individuals and then to say, “Oh, everything is resolved, now we can go back to being multi billion dollar corporations where we don’t give a rat’s ass concerning people, but we love to run our billion dollar industries.”
Earlier today, as I was getting ready to write this paper, I was thinking of a huge corporate Mega church, down South.
You see, this is an exclusive club or network of modern day churches. Well, I can tell you if you happen to be one of the chosen then you will be discipled into their way.
Most likely they will set you up in order to create small churches in communities where they can easily expand to ten or twenty Satellite churches. You then are blessed with huge salaries and rewarded with great parson ages, all of the blessings that accompany
A successful modern day Mega church. Then they have set up counseling centers for their Clergy, they reward them with vacation’s, I am not sure of all the benefits. But generally before they set up a church they go to a Market Research agency, to find the most profitable area of the city to build upon, as they are only interested in the financial incoming dollars.
I mean, you can call it whatever you want, but the ultimate goal of these “Corporate Churches,” is to bring back a very profitable package because after all, aren’t we a business?
Well, today, as I was saying, I was thinking about these mega Churches, but I saw something different than I had ever seen before and I believe that it was the Lord enlightening me on just how he perceives things.
You see, God says, “his ways are not our ways, and that He doesn’t perceives things as we perceive things on this Earth.”
In this church which I am talking about another “Perk,” for the Clergy, is that they offer a respite for all of their minister’s. I believe that it is a Conference center where the top leaders can hold restorative meetings for the well being of their Clergy that they may be pampered as such, perhaps at a Spa for a day, or other such delights. You know, these guys work awfully hard trying to figure out next years acceptable models on a new Lincoln or Mercedes.
Then there is all the time renovations on the few million dollar Parsonages, what type of pool, you are going to have installed? Will it be Kidney Shaped, L Shaped or perhaps, my favorite an Infinity Pool?
I mean, these types of things can be very stressful to a Pastor, you know?
Well, then I happened to recall this paper with all the testimonies of these innocent individuals who crossed land and sold their properties to be a part of this “Church.”
I thought of just how many ended up becoming victims of this cult, and then I got to thinking, I wonder How God perceives these various “CHURCHES,” which we have erected in the name of Christ.
Do those individuals who were attacked by a homo sexual and has had personal confidence issues ever since, do they get a Spa treatment?
Do they get to enjoy an Infinity or a Kidney style Pool, do they ever get to drive or to even touch their Pastor’s fine automobiles?
I wonder doesn’t God ever think that any of them are worthy of owning a home completely paid off or are they forever constrained to a church system in which they are only required to give at least ten per cent of their income, so that their resources are strictly used for the CEO’s intent.
You know, there are bills to be paid, the upkeep on the Clergy’s retreat is generally about seventeen thousand a month, give or take a few hundred more offerings from the little people.
You know, the inconsequential!
But can you see what the Holy Spirit is saying?
Are these men more concerned with their billion dollar Corporation or are they more concerned for God's people?
No, I don't mean those in the exclusive corporate and elite club who are the benefactors of most of the resource's which come into the Church.
But I am talking about those who have been loyal to Christ, faithful in their giving, live personal Holy Lives for decades, yet have never received any kind of "Blessings,' from the corporation?
"Oh, and that reminds me allow me to add this here."
As I stated for fifty years, I have been silenced by Preachers speaking from their pulpits, "Oh, John you can't criticize a church, ministry, or minister why you need to forgive them otherwise you will never grow as a Christian John, like us."
Well, as I heard this the other day for the millionth time, the Lord said to me, "John, since they are so concerned with your maturity and spiritual growth, ask them How much have you ever gave to support my ministry?"
You see, I have never ever received a nickel from any one of them yet they have been trying to tell me, as to what I can preach and what I cannot.
Well, the only thing that God gives me to preach are those sermons which aren't conducive to large offerings, yet nonetheless, I receive great satisfaction in knowing how angry it makes those stingy good for nothing worthless, preachers who I am ssustomed to hearing.
Aww C'mon, I was just joking.....maybe!
So, anyway, as I was thinking on all these things this morning I was sort of seeing the familiarity between IHOP and this Super Mega Church, I had in mind.
Well, thank goodness the type of behavior in which we find at IHOP, has never happened at that Mega Church.
……Or wait a minute, how would we know, what kinds of things have been covered up there, as well?
“Oh well, we can be comforted in the fact knowing that one day, they too will stand before the Bema seat of Christ, won’t they?”
AI Overview
This statement means the speaker is finding comfort in the belief that people who have wronged others will eventually face divine judgment and accountability from Jesus Christ.
Here is a breakdown of the specific concepts and context behind this phrase:
The "Bema Seat"
Lastly, let me say that I have forgiven any and every one of the individuals who I encountered in and around IHOP when God called me there to obey him and to be a living witness on his behalf for the sake of the “ones” who are coming right behind us all.
Let us all learn from all of the mistakes of the past, yet no one can learn anything of the past if it is all hidden and glossed over, therefore I am going to continue to tell my story. If you see yourself in it, I would repent, for you do not know the hour or the day when he is coming.
And lastly, one more time, as you listen to my story, I want you to understand that had not these individuals have treated the Prophet as I was treated, had not these leaders administrated the discipline which God was requiring of those leaders, the church would be so much different than it is today, as well, as society, yet they wanted to do it ‘Their way,” without God.
They purposely disobeyed God to glorify certain men.
Geesh, I pray that the church can learn from what I am about to share in the coming weeks and months.
And one more time, let me express that It wouldn’t bother me in the least if any one of those individuals were to win a billion dollar Lottery and to be set for life, just so long as they were not received back into the pulpits of the church.
Yes, this is another reason why I believe God is having me to write my experiences at IHOP.
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