marcum's newsletter - july 2013

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NEW S from the Marcum Family!- July 2013 -

IN THIS ISSUE..

A New Season Begins I nternship at I H OP! H ome At L ast in a log cabin??? F amily News I mpressions from the L ord

OUR INTERNSHIP HAS BEGUN and a new seasonHello Dear Friends & Loved Ones!

We re excited to send you our July newsletter, and we pray that all of you had a great Fourth of July and areenjoying your summer. We have had many developments since our last newsletter! It s quite an adventurethe Lord has us on right now as a family, and we are growing more and more to trust Him and follow Hisleadership day by day.

We want to begin with a report about the internship we (Jim & Melissa) have entered into here at theIHOPKC Missions Base. We truly feel like a new season in the Lord has begun for us, and we are so

blessed! As a little background, when we left Joplin and came to Kansas City last November, we felt it waswisdom to take a 6-month sabbatical as a family. We got some counsel about this, and there was agreementthat to begin an internship right away would put demands and stress upon our family that we were not readyfor. So we entered a season of rest, and during that time we spent many, many hours a week just sitting

before the Lord in the prayer room(s). We also just spent time together seeking the Lord as a family. Itended up being about 7 months, and it was such a special time for all of us.

As Spring approached, we began to feel stirrings from the Lord to become more engaged at the MissionsBase, and to begin serving and ministering. We felt that our season of rest was coming to an end, and thatthe Lord wanted to activate us once again. We talked to some of the leaders about a fast-track that they dosometimes for those already seasoned in ministry who come to IHOPKC and who want to join staff. Thosewho become staff this way are not required to complete the normal internship tracks (they don t do this veryoften for good reasons!). But the more we prayed about it and talked to others, the more we understoodthat the Lord has a purpose in us joining an internship at the Missions Base. He wants to do a work of training and preparation in us so we can fully engage in what He is doing in the global prayer movement andfind the place He has designed for us. So on July 5 th, we began the Simeon Company internship with 12weeks of intensive training on the Missions Base!

The Simeon Company internship is specially targeted to those who are age 50 and older. The vision for thisinternship is printed on the IHOPKC website: All over the earth, the Lord is stirring the hearts of thoselike Simeon in Luke 2:34, who are hearing what the Spirit is saying in this hour and are willing toanswer the call to partner with Him in preparing this generation for the glory of God. The goal of this internship is to see each person filled with passion for Jesus, as well as turning toward theyounger generation as a spiritual father or mother. We believe that unity between generations is anintegral part of entering into the fullness of God s glory and plan for the Church. Would you all

please pray for us (Jim & Melissa) as we are entering into this re-training and re-tooling time for God s purposes in our lives? We are giving 50-60 hours a week to this, and we need strength from the Lord.Thanks everyone we will keep you posted about what the Lord is teaching us!


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Our New Home A Log Cabin!This is an amazing story! As you all know, our housein Joplin sold in May and we have been looking for ahouse to purchase here in Kansas City. It has seemedthat every door we ve knocked on has closed, and wehave spent many hours in the process. Finally a few

weeks ago, we had a special meeting and prayer timeas a family. We were sitting together in the livingroom of the 4 th house we ve stayed at in 7 months. Ihad been reading the life story of Loren Cunningham(founder of YWAM) and in the book he gives several

principles about how to receive direction from theLord. I read these out loud to the family, and I said,We re going to do this tonight. We are going to bequiet before the Lord and listen for His voice, andthen we re going to share what each of us is hearing.

After a time of worship, I led the family in a prayer, placing our trust fully in God, binding the enemy s

thoughts and our own selfish desires, and then inviting the Lord to speak to each one of us. After awhile, weeach began to share what we were hearing. We were all hearing similar things from the Lord. We felt theLord leading us away from attempting to purchase a house right now, and to look for His answer in a longer term lease situation. Melissa saw the letter S and a picture of a basement. For some reason, this made Joythink of Shelley Scheiveler, and of Tisha Jenkins who lives in Shelley s basement. Then she rememberedthat Tisha had moved out of Shelley s house, and had been looking for someone to lease another house withher, but she didn t really know any details. She texted Tisha and asked her to get with us about this.

The next day we found out that Tisha had been taking walks in the rural neighborhood near Shelley s house,and she had been asking the Lord concerning a log home that was just down the road. She felt the Lordleading her to ask Him if she could live there, almost like He was saying to her Tisha, this is your house. Itis very picturesque and Tisha has sort of dreamed of living in a log home. Then all of a sudden, a For

Rent sign appeared in the yard! She called the landlords, who are next-door neighbors, and they began towork out the possibility of leasing the home. There were a couple of Tisha s friends in the IHOP family whoinitially said they would move in with her and share the rent, but they had both had a change of plans. WhenJoy texted Tisha, it reminded her that at one time she had thought about asking the Marcums if they would

be interested in leasing the log house with her, but she wasn t sure it was big enough for all of us.

Well, we all went over to see the house, and we began to pray and talk about it. It is 3 stories, with a mainlevel, a loft, and a basement. We realized the most practical living situation would be for Tisha to have a

bedroom on one side of the loft, and our two girls to share the other side of the loft as their bedroom.Jonathan would take one of the basement bedrooms, and Jim & Melissa would take the other one. The houseis on Scherer Road. So Melissa s picture seemed to be unfolding even more a basement bedroom onScherer Road (begins with an S). It really is a beautiful home, newly remodeled with new appliances, a

large front porch, 2nd

story deck on the back, nice patio, and acre of land with a pond and 3 outbuildings.The shared rent & utilities helps us financially, and Tisha is like we are she loves hospitality and having people over for cookouts, home group meetings, worship times, etc. We already have had two biggatherings a Fourth of July cookout, and a Saturday night drum circle/worship (wow it was awesome!).

This house is such a blessing beyond what we were expecting! A number of people who prayed for us alongthe way would keep saying things like, I just believe the Lord is planning to bless you with a house beyondyour expectations. I (Jim) being the responsible husband/father was thinking financially about this youknow, the Lord is going to give us a great deal on a house. But I know now that He was thinking about the

beauty of the home itself. Melissa has had a little secret dream of living in a log house someday, and Godknew that! I believe He wanted to give her a kiss with this, and bless her in a special way. You know, Goddoesn t forget our hopes and dreams, and He is able to fulfill them in His way at just the right time. Wow!


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Entrance to All Nations Prayer RoomSignage at ANPR multiple languages!Dedication Service at the newAll Nations Prayer Room.

FAMILY NEWS!The Family. Joy and Jessianna just completed the 4 th week of Student Ministries Leadership Program. Theyhave been running hard this summer along with 14 students and 10 staff of the Student Ministries department.They ve been having classes, doing worship sets, spending time in the prayer room, and being part of theministry teams at the various children s & youth camps taking place this summer at IHOPKC. They justreturned late last night (1 a.m.) from a weekend ministry trip to Sioux Falls, SD. They spent the weekendministering to a local church youth group at a weekend retreat, and then they led worship at their Sundayservices. Jonathan just finished roofing his 4 th house with the roofing crew he s working for. He s gotten sotanned! (Mom reminds him to wear sunscreen all the time). He s going with the crew tomorrow for a fun-day atWorlds of Fun. They re a bunch of good Christian guys, so it s really great for him to be working with them.Hes also staying involved in the Sunday & Wednesday youth meetings, and building some good relationships.

Standing for Life. Melissa and I have been getting more involved with Life Initiatives, and even led worship atthe last Townhall Rally. We had a guest speaker who was actually an actor on the Mickey Mouse Club show(the newer one) as a girl, and who later was also a backup singer and toured with Brittany Spears. She has anawesome testimony of the Lord saving her, and then healing her from the effects of a former botched abortion.A short time after her abortion, she started having a lot of physical troubles and during an exploratory surgery,her doctor extracted parts of little hands & feet from her uterus. She now has a ministry where she speaks togroups about the effects of abortion, and she also counsels post-abortive women. There were lots of tears thatnight, and a time of prayer at the end for healing from post-abortion wounds.

Car troubles! We started having car issues shortly after we moved, and we re now down to just the family vanand the big 15-passenger van (which seems to be on loan most of the time!). We sold Joy s Pontiac recently andused the funds to do repairs on the Taurus so it could be a second car shared between her and Jessianna. Then

alas the Taurus overheated on the highway one day, and now needs a new head gasket! The mechanic says itisnt worth the price of repairing, so he suggests replacing the car. Please pray with us about whether to repair or replace the engine in the Taurus ($1,200) or to replace the car. This is an unexpected expense, so please praywith us as well for the Lord s provision. We really need a second car for all that Joy & Jessianna are involvedin, especially once school starts up again in a few weeks.

New Prayer Room opens. Its been over a month ago now, but on June 10 th the new All Nations Prayer Room opened at IHOPU with an awesome dedication service that we attended. This new prayer room is open72 hours a week, doing prayer and worship sets in 8 languages: Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Arabic, Farsi,Portuguese, Russian, and German. I (Jim) have attended a German and an Arabic set, and they were both very

powerful. We won t be able to attend quite as much during the internship, but looking forward to times we can be in there praying with and for the nations!
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IMPRESSIONS FROM THE LORD

(Sorry about the smaller font running out of room!) Before I share a couple impressions I ve had from the Lordrecently, I want to share something personal. I think all of you know that I (Jim) write these newsletters, and so I justwant to say that my family has blessed me SO much lately. They ve always blessed me, but just recently the Lord has

been deepening my love and thankfulness for each one in our family. You know, Sunday June 16 th was Fathers Dayand I can honestly say it was one of the best days I ve ever had! I really missed not getting to go to Joplin to see myown father, and my children & grandchildren there. But each of them called me or texted me (well, I guess I called my

dad) and they sent me their love. It really meant so much. James & Karen even sent me a special plaque they had madewith all the children & grandchildren s pictures on it and it says Dad, We Love You. And then my day was so specialhere in KC! Melissa took me out to a special coffee shop, The Roasterie, for morning coffee, which was great! Thenfor lunch we had a visit from Chris & Wendy Jones, so it was nice to spend time with them, they are such good friends.Then in the evening, Joy took me out for supper to a special Thai food place and we had such a nice date together.Well, to top everything off when I got home, Jonathan & Jessianna had bought me nice gifts & cards and wow thiswas amazing! Jessianna had actually written a song for me for Father s Day!! It s called He Succeeded and it really

blesses and affirms me as a father (you can listen to it on my Facebook page). I think the older I get, the more I mchoosing words of affirmation as my love language! Anyway, I just wanted to share this, and I pray that all youfathers and mothers will receive the kind of love & affirmation I did this past Father s Day. Why don t you who arereading this and who have moms & dads still in your life why don t you just send them a special note or text, or callthem and tell them what a blessing they are? Thanks, family, for blessing me so much!!!

Two impressions from the Lord have come to me recently that I want to share. Corey Russell spoke at FCF on Sundaymorning, June 23, about the power of SINGING. (Listen to the archive if you can). A lot of the message is from twochapters in Isaiah chapters 54 and 42 (esp. 54:1 and 42:10). Corey is such an awesome preacher, but he said in thismessage, The purpose of preaching is to get everybody singing. Wow! He quoted St. Augustine who said, Singingis praying twice. He also quoted a famous statesman (don t remember his name) who said, Forget writing the laws of a generation, just let me write their songs! Songs move the generations of men! He talked about singing during barrenseasons, and he said, Most people wait until their breakthrough comes to start singing. That s a mistake! Sing in themidst of your pain sing, and the breakthrough will come. As many of you know, Corey and his wife recently losttheir little baby son to SIDS, so he was speaking from his personal journey. This message had so many applications tome and touched me in such a deep way but something surprised me. Suddenly, while sitting there listening to Coreyspeak, the Lord reminded me that in the dream I had in 2011 about meeting President Obama I SANG TO HIM. Isang the song America, The Beautiful to him just before I pleaded with him to end abortion in America. (In reality,the musician on stage ended up playing that song just before I spoke to the President!). The Lord impressed upon methat this was not an accident, but that He plans to raise up singers & song-writers who will move presidents and kingswith their songs. I did not write the song I sang to the President in my dream, but there are going to be nation-shakingsongs and nation-changing songs coming forth in this hour! These songs are going to move leaders hearts, and they aregoing to move people en masse to worship the Lord. They are even going to release true destinies and tear downnational idols and strongholds. I know this sounds dramatic, but this is what the Lord spoke to me. So you who SING,and you who WRITE SONGS get ready! The Lord is about to break in and release new songs IN ABUNDANCE!

The other impression the Lord gave me recently came while Corey Stark (another powerful Corey!) was teaching us inthe internship. He quoted from Psalm 132:1-5. Read this:

Psalms 132:1-51 Remember, O LORD, in David's favor, all the hardships he endured , 2 how he swore to the LORD and vowedto the Mighty One of Jacob, 3 "I will not enter my house or get into my bed, 4 I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, 5 until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob."

Oh, gotta be brief but, BE ENCOURAGED! If you are involved in the worship/prayer movement and in building adwelling place for the Lord in your community (prayer room, prayer ministry, praying church, etc.), then realize that theHARDSHIPS YOU ARE ENDURING are normal! Establishing a dwelling place for the Lord will always meetresistance, and it will be costly. (David spent the equivalent of 25 million dollars a year to fund the Tabernacle s 24/7worship). BUT IT S GONNA BE WORTH IT ALL . Keep pressing in! Love you all please keep in touch!

Because He is worthy of it all, Our contact information:The Marcums

Jim & Melissa Marcum & family P.O. Box 1099Grandview, MO 64030Phone & text: 417-483-6723 (Jim) 417-825-0841 (Melissa)Email & paypal: [email protected]

Thank you all SO MUCH for your financial gifts!
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