About the London-Justice House of Prayer
The London Justice House of Prayer is a vibrant expression of prayer, worship, and justice located in London, Kentucky. We seek to honor God by worshiping Him (cultivating intimacy), and through acts of justice on the earth. Below are key principles that will help you gain a better understanding of who we are.
About Us
The London Justice House of Prayer is a vibrant expression of prayer, worship, and justice located in London, Kentucky. We seek to honor God by worshiping Him (cultivating intimacy), and through acts of justice on the earth. Below are key principles that will help you gain a better understanding of who we are.
HARP AND BOWL PRAYER + WORSHIP
When Jesus had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.(Revelation 5:8 NASB)
Revelation chapters 4 and 5 vividly describe the Throne Room of God, His Divine Beauty, His Flaming Spirit, and His Glorious Son. It also provides truth concerning both prayer and worship that ascends before Him “day and night. (Revelation 4:8)” The Throne Room is, among other things, a Prayer Room. It is here prayer and worship are part of the heavenly symphony that continues perpetually, unceasingly in God’s presence.
The 24 Elders before His Throne fall before the Lamb and worship Him. Each has a harp, a musical instrument, and golden bowls of incense, which John says “are the prayers of the saints.” We see here in the presence of God the model of worship before Him – Harps and Bowls. It is both prayer and worship that combine to form the vehicle by which believers enter into the experience of God’s Throne, His beauty, His power, and His glory.
Believers can pray and enter God’s presence. They can also worship with music and song and do the same. However, God has shown us these two elements are not, and should not be, mutually exclusive. They both work together to lead the believer into the highest place of experience in and with God on the Throne. It is this pattern or model King David used in the Tabernacle he built for the Ark of God’s presence. It is the model we seek to use at London House of Prayer to both engage with the heart of God and to lead others into this glorious experience.
GOD’S JUSTICE
Great and marvelous are Your works, O LORD God, the Almighty; Just and True are Your ways, King of the Nations! Who will not fear, O LORD, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy; For all the nations will come and worship before you, for Your righteous acts have been revealed. (Revelation 15:3 NASB)
There is a movement spreading across the earth that seeks to address the needs of the poor, hungry, disadvantaged, and exploited. This “social justice” move looks very good and noble. However, when sought to be addressed through governments and non-government organizations rather than the Church administering the truth of the Gospel of the Kingdom, these efforts lead people away from God’s truth and Biblical Justice.
We view these needs from a Biblical, Christ-Centered mandate as areas where the Church is commanded to take the Gospel and demonstrate it. We are commanded to care for the widows and orphans (James 1:27), to clothe the naked and feed the hungry, help the sick, and visit those in prison (Matthew 25:34-40). The difference is these acts of justice are realities of the Gospel of the Kingdom in action. They are not a humanist approach to solving the problems of man. They are the demonstration of the power of God, only made possible by Christ Jesus, the King.
God’s justice, being an attribute, is simply God acting like God. For humans, the highest demonstration of His justice is found in Jesus and His substitutionary sacrifice for man’s sin. Justice first recognizes man’s sin, and apart from Jesus, there is no reconciliation, no mercy. (Romans 5) All other acts of justice flow from this truth. It is through God’s government and kingdom that the needs are met in the overflow of God’s love, truth, and light.
INTIMACY WITH JESUS AND THE BURNING HEART
Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, Jesus explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures…Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him, and He vanished from their sight. They said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?” (Luke 24:27-32 NASB)
One of the key motivators to living a life of holiness and obedience unto the LORD is a heart that has been awakened in love for Him. The burning heart of desire is ignited in passion for Him when the Holy Spirit takes the truth of Jesus and reveals it to our hearts. (John 16:13-15)
This is especially true concerning God’s love for us, His beauty and majesty, and the glory of His Son, Jesus Christ. Just like the two disciples on the Emmaus Road, when God reveals God to the heart through His word our hearts will become a living flame, burning with love and desire for Him. When we behold His beauty He will transform us (2 Corinthians 3:18)
We love Him because He first loved us (1 John 4:19). As we experience the love of God, the same love the Father has for His Son (John 17:26), our hearts will become alive in love for Him. We can love God with the same love that the Father has for the Son. It is the Living Flame of Love, the Holy Spirit, who will make this to become a reality in the hearts of believers. The First and Second Commandments then become an expression of love for God and obedience to Him, and love for others in the overflow of the experience of that love.
THE KINGDOM OF GOD
For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us, And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will accomplish this. (Isaiah 9:6-7 NASB)
The Kingdom of God, simply defined, is God’s rule and reign over His realm. It is God’s power and authority in a demonstration in both His people and over His enemies. God rules over His domain of heaven and earth through His Son, of which the Church is His body.
The Kingdom of God is both a spiritual reality and one that impacts the world around believers. There is no disconnect from the rule and reign of God, through Christ Jesus, over both the spiritual and natural realms of life. The Kingdom of God is a spiritual, inward experience (Romans 14:17); it is also a demonstration of God’s power over His enemies (Matthew 10:7-8). Jesus will continue to reign over all of His enemies until they have been made to be His footstool (Psalm 110:1-2)
As believers cooperate with God and live in agreement with Him, His will, and His commandments, His Kingdom will manifest in and through them. This holy partnership begins the breakthrough of God’s Kingdom on the earth that will ultimately be revealed at the Second Coming of Christ. It is the reality of Jesus’ prayer, “Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:10)” The Kingdom of God then is God’s rule and reign manifesting on the earth through Christ Jesus and the two realms becoming one. (Ephesians 1:9-10)
