Mike Bickle of IHOP Dream 9/30/23 Deana Barnes 

The dream was actually like a pleasant story as it turned out.  But you know it was like the scripture in the Bible where it says that the angel gave him a scroll to eat and he ate it and it was good as honey but when it got into his belly it became bitter as gall. It was because I could feel the hurt and the pain out of the offense of a son of the house and the dilemma that it caused in the Mike Bickle family. When I woke up the deep hurt and bitter event this caused was still with me, and I needed to pray. 

 If you know my ministry, you know that I am a prophetic dreamer. That I have a dream journal website that was launched in 2007 that includes dreams, visions, and prophetic encounters, spanning over 45 years. That has gone to over 194 countries, territories, and provinces, all over the world.  That I have documented dreams of presidential elections and the details of their presidency in world events, that have come to pass.  I can see (from what I saw in this dream) how a perfect storm of circumstances can create a scenario that could lead to the crisis that IHOP is now facing. 

The dream was that a son like the age of a grandson the 18 through 25 age, was living in a home that belonged to the Mike Bickle Family. Because he had a place in the ministry- and remember this is a dream so there are parallels and symbolism in it. So, the house that he was living in could represent a position, department, or a supported affiliate. He was occupying this real estate that was entrusted to him, but he had an attitude or a posture, that I observed in the dream, his heart was distant from the family, he had a grudge, and I began to know the background behind all that he was feeling. 

I knew that he had felt deeply misunderstood and he was greatly hurt by that misunderstanding, but he was too young in the Lord when it happened to process through it. He didn’t have the tools to overcome this offense. It was hurtful to him and so it progressed. That offense became a grudge that took on a life of its own. Causing him to find commonality with others that were loosely related to IHOP but seemed to find fellowship in that common bond. Until a visitor showed up in the home of this young man. Who was a teacher of the ministry of reconciliation, in this place under the siege of an offense. It seemed from the vantage point of the Bickle family they see the disfunction but don’t understand why it’s there and what to do. They are wanting this young son to make a decision or move on, because the situation has become exhausting.

 Proverbs 18:19   A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city, and contentions are like the bars of a castle.

 What does that mean? It means it is impossible to get through to them until they are ready. Sometimes all you can do is pray in situations like this because an offended person will only be approachable when they decide to be. Especially, when you try to resolve a matter and they continue to tell you that everything is fine and that nothing is wrong.  In a situation like that it takes prayer and the intervention of the Holy Spirit to get things moving forward. God will show us what we need to do and what we need to say. 

I had this dream September 30th, 2023, about IHOP and Mike Bickle that I’ve been agonizing over to the point that two Sundays ago I actually called the office to share the dream. I’m not an insider I am not a follower of the ministry, I’ve never been there. I woke up from that dream feeling the offense and deep hurt from the pain I saw in the dream in my gut and groaned over it in prayer.  I realized how big the ministry was by making that call. It was useless to try again. But this dream is a sign and a proverb now for those near and far to look deeper into the undercurrent of heart matters in the Church.

I’ll say right now I saw no guile in this man MB in that dream. However, I did see how in the right circumstances with the influence of the enemy, strongholds can flourish beneath the surface, manipulating the behavior of otherwise good people, while using the wit and craftiness of others who are bent on evil. And the key word here is ‘bent’. 

In the dream I saw a sector, part, affiliate, department, or type of real estate belonging to the Bickle family under siege, held up by a demonic operating system that moved in through a misunderstanding that became an offense. This operating system materialized through a loosely related group- but the door of access to stall a thing that should have been developing, came through a main actor who was this young son of the house not equipped to handle the assault against his mind, when it happened. Who (for a long time) sort of occupied important space, because it seems that there is a place for him, like a son.

Yet offense was spoiling what could have been.  Rather he was exhibiting a spirit of entitlement and was demonstrating a passive aggressive obstinance towards things he should have been doing. It seems that offense entered through a gap in his armor called immaturity. That came through a mindset of how he thought things should be and I’m not entirely sure the original misunderstanding was not about church policy or the like.  He had attracted companions revolving around this grudge.

In the dream one of those “friendships” had a Jeep with no cover on top she took him for rides in it. She was reckless and her utility drive was a Renegade. The word renegade means:

a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another 2 : an individual who rejects lawful or conventional behavior.

I can’t overlook the common joke I’m ever aware of when I see the word  J E E P which is  Just Empty Every Pocket. This is a waster spirit and is the end result of an unresolved grudge, that leads to the back sliding of many when bitter root meets offense.  I believe this woman in a Renegade Jeep was a demonic operative called: Division, Strife, and Every Evil Work. The gateway for a Christian to ally themself with that operating system is unresolved misunderstandings gone undetected and unattended, where others harboring like feelings begin to rally over a grudge. This is the bridge way to creating a split or rift, in a church or ministry.

It has a demonic intelligence that keeps it going spreading like leaven in a lump of dough and can do so subtly for many years, until that SYSTEMIC operative begins a SYSTEMATIC take down, when all the right conditions emerge. Dominating in a body of believers that neglects to practice and teach about being open, honest, and humble, about misunderstandings, and offenses.

While there may have been a robust attempt to dissolve issues like that, the paradigm or model of the ministry may work against familial intimacy that breeds a culture of estrangement’s unspoken-of going unresolved. Obviously, something to that effect has been brewing among the ranks. I believe all this will work for the glory of God, as one tent is taken down and folded up a new version of it is reinstated. Be it the man or ministry.

The body of Christ working out disagreements among one another by the leading of the Holy Spirit, is fundamental and elementary. As soon as one is saved and becomes part of a congregation one should learn how to process through misunderstandings, and every fellowship should have a mechanism in place to normalize discussion over conflict.

For a new Christian conflict is inevitable because their thinking is coming out of the world system, and must be renewed. Teaching children how to express themselves is a part of parenting.  New believers who are given the tools on how not to harbor misunderstanding or offense, will less likely back slide because these things are the number one reason why people fall away.  The importance of forgiveness, and the need to approach one another with honesty, and humility, by first seeking the help of the Holy Spirit in engaging others, is paramount in difficult conversations. To instill in them that outward and open disagreements are far more acceptable than contrived and feigned uniformity wrapped in false humility.

The common thing about family members is, they are so close that they can disagree or protest about something off the cuff and work through it and then forget about it and move on. A Christian family learns to do that without demeaning one another if they are properly taught. Relationship, love, affection, and commitment, creates that kind of ease among the family of God. Not an institution where the body is characterized as a corporation with departments and various platforms that create an observer/performer, audience/stage dynamic. Where there is no ebb for the body of Christ to just be, to interact, to get to know each other, to play, engage, and have fun.

In the dream the counselor who I would say was the gift ministry of the Holy Spirit, the teacher’s mantle, was counseling in the word of reconciliation, she entered into this young son’s space (real estate belonging to the Mike Bickle family) that he was occupying.  Again this could be a department, position, or supported affiliate.

The counselor entered into his home that he was tying up,  she was a teacher of the ministry of reconciliation. She became his companion. She talked to him and taught him for a long time. Laying precept upon precept down, reaching into the layered issues of this young man’s soul. Who could dually represent a hard-to-reach generation, wounded by fatherlessness in this age, as well.

The young son had to choose between the two women, the one who was a product of the spirit of this age a reckless renegade where there is division strife and every evil work. This would just exhaust this young man and his life, if he didn’t choose to embrace the teacher of the ministry of reconciliation. She even taught him how to approach MB to apologize for behaving wrong out of a grudge. She provided teaching tools to approach long standing issues, to humbly go over the misunderstanding.  MB and his wife were sort of worn out by it all and really just wanted to move on.

That lead to a second part in the dream.  Challenging MB and his wife to move forward with forgiveness with a son of the house (or sons) that he would rather they would just move on and vacate the trust because this real estate was handed over with the intent that the arrangement, would produce dividends, fruit, rent, or some kind of return. However, MB gave him another chance to prove his sincerity in this: “You are going to have to show me,” was MB’s response. 

So immediately they began to work together on a project in MB’s back yard, an event that is home based. This project was more personal to the family of IHOP I believe. They were in preparation for more intimate gatherings that ministered to the core family and the young man occupying whatever all of this represents was a part of that. To me this is a conscious decision to cultivate the very thing that restored this son, back to the father’s house. But while they were on that project that renegade J E E P pulled up in front of the house, and the young son was told the girl wanted to take him for a ride. But this time the counselor teacher of the ministry of reconciliation went out with him. He was equipped to overcome. The driver of this vehicle wanted to take him from what he was doing and go for another ride together. He was tempted (to feed into remnants of that operating system) but stood his ground and said no I’m with her. He pointed to the teacher.

The young man then announced he would be married to the teacher of the ministry of reconciliation. This is a covenant with his heart to always embrace her. They went back into the Mike Bickle family home and the young son went back to work with MB and the teacher began to be a constant and friendly companion of Mike Bickle’s wife who spent time with her in the family kitchen and the two spoke together in thoughtful and peaceful affirmations, as MB’s wife lovingly made a meal. It was in the season in late December. While MB and this young son of the house would also spend much time in the study that you could see from the kitchen. That was his library. The Ambassador of the word of reconciliation was now a part of the family by covenant because the son committed to the message that restored him.

The message is for the world to be reconciled to God through His son Jesus Christ, however if we cannot live it out in our own ranks, how will we show the world the love of God for them, with the backdrop of this generation being the spirit of disobedience working in this present age? 

1 Corinthians Chapter 5:16-21

Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.

To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

My voice to text dream record. 9/30/23.

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