We at the International House of Prayer of Louisiana are a community of voluntary, lovesick worshippers of Jesus, dedicated to seek the Lord Jesus through worship, prophetic intercession, and fasting. This is a gathering where a passion for God, a calling for intercession, and a heart for worship meet with one voice.
We provide various teachings and ministry to the sick, broken and disheartened of the world through prophetic soaking prayer, inner healing, and deliverance.
WE BELIEVE that only the sixty-six books of the Bible are the inspired, true Word of God. It is the final authority for all we believe and how we are to live. Matt 5:18; Jn 10:35; 17:17: 2 Tim 3:16-17; 2 Pet 1:20-21.
The term 'Bridal Intimacy' is a scriptural analogy of the Bridegroom God Jesus and the body of Christ as His bride communing together in love and adoration. It is the way the Lord Jesus has chosen to reveal Himself during these last days - as the Bridegroom God returning for His Bride.
In Acts 15:13-18 James declares that God will rebuild the 'Tabernacle of David' quoting Amos chapter 9. Though we are not trying to literally rebuild an Old Testament Tabernacle we do believe that the Lord has some special keys He is giving out to His body through this analogy.
One, the Lord gives us the 'Keys of David' as we learn to worship Him in 24/7 - Night & Day Fasting and Prayer - He reveals Himself to His priests who stand before Him in holiness and dedication. In beholding Him we are transformed into His marvelous light.
This is a style of 'Intercessory Worship' patterned after the worship in heaven revealed in Revelation 5:8, where the harp represents the worship and the bowl represents the prayers of the saints rising up to God. In this marriage of worship and prayer, where love songs continually going up before the throne of God, the presence of the Lord is evident.
As believers who come together in community to seek the Lord's face we must also be holy before Him and a witness to the world of holiness unto the Lord. We have all committed to live lives worthy of our calling in something we call the 'Fasted Lifestyle'.
The Lord has revealed Himself to us as Lord and Head of His own body and that we all have differing callings and functions but that no one person or group of people are to Lord it over other believers as their authority. This being said; we as a community of believers seek to find consensus in the way we serve the Lord and others. This means we will all agree which way the Lord is leading our community and we will all go together, in Christian love, into our glorious future.