God Loves Uganda

I love Uganda.

It's a very loving country, caring country.

But something frightening is happening

that has potential to destroy Uganda.

Reject all your sin!

Turn from your sin!

And it is coming from the outside.

If we don't move fast, I foresee a lot of deaths happening.

The fire has already been set.

And I think it is important to trace it back

to where it is coming from.

Thank you Lord

Thank you Lord

Thank you Lord

Thank you Lord

I'm part of a leadership team here

at the International House of Prayer.

We are called to be a missionary people.

I believe the Lord is calling me to, to pray for a great missionary force, again,

that America's not yet done sending her sons and daughters

to bring the Gospel to the nations.

He is coming.

Are you ready?

Since the birth of the church God has raised up cities set on a hill,

flaming torches in a dark world, prayer warriors crying out day and night.

The International House of Prayer began in 1999

with a handful of people and it's grown since then

and so we have about 1,000 full time staff.

There's 84 different departments and so prayer is, like, center,

and so we have, like, the prayer division

and all of the different things that kind of come off that,

the different prayer rooms and the different prayer initiatives.

And the marketing and the global communications and technology.

Bible school, the music school, the media school, the e-school, the internships.

So, yeah, so it's, the prayer's the center but there's a whole lot that goes on.

Jesus is saying, "Guys, we're not gonna put guns in your hand,

you're not gonna take over the world with guns and knives and swords.

You're gonna take over the world by the power of the Holy Spirit.

You're gonna take over the world by preaching words

that slay the hardest of hearts."

We also broadcast out to TV networks

as well as over the internet and we,

we broadcast about a million video hours a month.

It does reach 160, 170 nations on a regular basis.

It's part of the great commission that Jesus says, "Go and disciple the nations" so,

so that would be something which we hold dearly.

The west has been in a decline.

But right now I think Africa is,

it's the fire pot of spiritual renewal and revival. It's very exciting to me.

Okay.

Who wants some?

Me.

Me.

You could taste it.

Let us pray, guys.

Father, we ask You to bless this food for us,

With a smile for those without, in Jesus' name we pray.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

All right.

My kids don't know anything on history about Uganda.

It's a sad thing.

We try by all means to make our home more African.

But the only country they know is America.

This one.

This is yours.

We always think about the possibility of going back there.

But I can't go back.

It's no longer safe for me.

So then we'll go over the Uganda team's outreach, can I see it real quick?

So your mission statement is to serve local believers, strengthen a culture of prayer,

and preach the gospel to non-believers.

And so part of that is building the community there,

but then how do you guys see that happening?

What defines success for me, specifically related to orphans

is walking away and seeing the orphans

have a desire and a knowledge of how to pray.

You know, the Lord says "Tell the children to come unto me"

and I wanna actually point them to Jesus.

Cool.

Lord help us with Uganda.

Amen.

We come together to cry out for the nation of Uganda

that we believe that the name "the pearl of Africa" is not just a name,

but it is a prophetic declaration over that nation,

that it is a pearl in Your eyes

in which Your Son gave everything He had

to see this pearl harvested.

Abba we cry out

For Uganda

Abba we cry out

Send Your Spirit

Send Your power

Oh, God

We have a time of rapid-fire prayer for the nation of Uganda,

five to ten second prayers, if you wanna come and line up.

Father, we know that You move at the sound of our voice.

So we ask that you would send forth

the love of Christ in Uganda.

Father in Heaven,

I pray that, Lord, Your love may abound in the body of Christ in Uganda.

That, Father, Your Kingdom would come

in Jesus' Name.

Send revival

To Uganda

Raise up the youth to prophesize

Send revival

To Uganda

Raise up the youth to prophesize

Send revival

To Uganda

Raise up the youth

I remember at six years old I knew that

I wanted to be a missionary.

One of my greatest hopes is to deposit

what I've kind of received at IHOP, that DNA of prayer and worship.

DNA replicates itself and so I think

that everybody wants to replicate their,

you know, their values and um,

the core parts of who they are.

The fastest growing portion of the church globally

is evangelical people that will look at the Bible

and say, "I want to obey the commands of the Bible."

And evangelical believers that hold the Bible

as their source of authority will say,

"Okay, all sex outside of marriage is wrong.

So adultery is wrong, fornication is wrong, acts of homosexuality are wrong.

It's sin."

If you throw God out of the picture then everybody has rights to do anything

and you get moral chaos and that's really

what's going on, I think, in our nation.

During the 2008 Prop 8 campaign

for upholding marriage between a man and a woman,

which I believe is the best for society, and, also, I believe, is the Biblical truth

and Biblical foundation, so I wasn't a part of that,

but I received a phone call from those uh,

from the leaders in California

and they said, "We realize, Lou,

that this is a, that what we're doing

is actually a political dimension,

but what you bring is prayer."

And so I came in and we had a solemn assembly

in San Diego, 33,000 cried out to God.

Help the whole world pray for this

which is going on today in California because what happens in California

will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam.

A spirit of lawlessness and anarchy

and a sexual insanity will be unleashed into the earth.

We beg you, pray for California elections.

Pray that God would break in with yes on 8.

Opponents of California's ballot measure

banning same sex marriages state the reason

the measure passed by a slim margin

was because of conservative churches

from out of state's campaign

to intrude on the lives of gay couples.

There's a hill above Capitol Hill.

There is a government above the governments of men.

I don't believe we should have a theocracy

where the church rules a nation.

I do believe that God has foundational laws

by which He set, He set into the universe

and expects governmental leaders to uphold natural and spiritual law.

So we do believe that God wants the righteous to rule.

The International House of Prayer is part

of this global phenomenon with thousands of churches across the United States.

But this movement also has churches

across the world, mostly in Africa.

Jesus is the way for God's kingdom!

If you are to enter into God's kingdom, accept Jesus.

If you are to enter into God's kingdom, accept Jesus.

Don't expect tomorrow.

Tomorrow might be too late for salvation.

coming to Jesus Christ...

It is real life in the word of God.

You're part of God.

Change those who are committing sin.

That is it.

Thank you Jesus for the Gospel.

Thank you, Lord!

First of all I want to thank

the American people

for their unwavering love for the world, especially Africa.

For their giving over the years.

For their donations,

their sacrifices.

American money helped us build this church.

Whatever you see here is the fruit of American labor.

So let's be blessed of the Lord as we give, as we praise

because the almighty is powerful.

Father, in the name of Jesus we give You praise, we glorify Your name,

Thank You Lord, that You do things

and You do incredible stuff today

and now please lord do You bless us.

By the power, by Your grace, and by Your spirit,

in Jesus' holy name.

In order to reap the maximum harvest

out of Africa.

You're free, you're free,