"On Earth as it is in Heaven"

Welcome to Ablaze House of Prayer! Ablaze was founded under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit by Fr. Michael Voithofer in 2012 to bring revival into the Earth. ​

In the history of the church, the term revival in its most biblical sense has meant a sovereign work of God in which the whole region of many churches, many Christians, has been lifted out of spiritual indifference and worldliness into conviction of sin, earnest desires for more of Christ and his word, boldness in witness, purity of life, lots of conversions, joyful worship, and renewed commitment to missions. You feel God has moved here. And basically revival, then, is God doing among many Christians at the same time or in the same region, usually, what he is doing all the time in individual Christian’s lives as people experience salvation and are individually renewed around the world. (John Piper)

Revival is not Revival if it stays in the room. It must spill out onto the streets. If it stays in the room it’s renewal. But if it spills out into the streets, it’s Revival!
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We see it in Acts 2, when the Holy Spirit set the believers’ tongues on fire and 3,000 were added to their number that day. We see it in Acts 4:31, when the power of prayer shook the building, the power of the Spirit shook the believers, and then the power of the Gospel shook the city. "In this way the Word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power.” Acts 19:20. I would call that Revival, wouldn’t you? It started when they embraced their supreme calling to hold the name of Jesus “in highest honor," and continued when they inwardly rid themselves of their sins and outwardly spread the Gospel to everyone around them.

We ask God for the nations, but Revival starts with you and I. I love this next quote from Gypsy Smith. 

Find a piece of chalk and find an empty room. Go into that room and shut the door. Draw a circle on the floor with that chalk, kneel down in that circle, and ask God to start Revival right there. (Gypsy Smith

We can’t become instruments of Revival ourselves unless we first unconditionally make ourselves available for God’s presence and power. This is why we are dedicated at Ablaze House of Prayer to worship and learn how to follow the Presence of God. Are you hungry for a move of God? The Holy Spirit has always given the Church what she needs whenever she needs it!  God desires to bring Revival into the Earth and He's calling your name! Will you say, "Yes, Here I am Lord!"   

​Living life in the Holy Spirit is the greatest adventure of a lifetime! How would you like to wake-up each day with an awareness of God's Presence within you? What would life be like to experience hearing the Father's voice more clearly in your day-to-day life? Wouldn't it be great to step more fully into your very own God-given destiny and inheritance? This is the adventure that God calls each of us into! He calls you to step into the assignment He's destined for your life! Now is the time! Join us at Ablaze House of Prayer and learn to explore what Kingdom living is like. The Kingdom of God is here, but unfortunately so few know how to access this reality!    

Life becomes busy weighing you down and we get stuck in a mediocre version of Christianity. We can start to live in a version of Christianity that is less-than. God has more for you and it's time to awaken and step into your God given destiny. He himself said, "I came that you might have life and have it to the full." (John 10:10) 

Ablaze House of Prayer was raised up by God to help His sons and daughters succeed in living out their destiny. We cannot do this without surrounding ourselves with brothers and sisters who live in this way. It is God's desire to awaken His Bride to Kingdom living. He longs to activate you and send you out. So many Christians live as orphans and don't even know what it's like to live as sons and daughters of the King. I believe that God inspired you to visit our website and I believe that He is speaking to your heart now!

So, Welcome to Ablaze House of Prayer. We are a community of believers who are devoted to worship, the Word of God, and bringing Revival into the Earth. At Ablaze, we believe that the whole Christian life is about believers coming together in worship to learn how to receive, carry, and follow the Presence of God. We believe that through worship we become more tender and sensitive to movements of God's Presence and therefore we become more effective co-laborers with God in bringing Revival into the Earth! We believe that when our hearts yield to God in worship we experience His transforming touch and this gives birth to the zeal of Jesus within us to go after 'the One.' God is after 'the One' he places in front of me at the grocery store, 'the One' he places in front of me at work, etc.  

​Ablaze House of Prayer celebrates corporate prophetic worship, intercession and healing. Ablaze is also deeply invested in leading souls into daily frequenting the 'secret place.' We believe that time in the Presence of God through worship opens our eyes to see and hear what the Father is doing in any given situation. Jesus said that we would do what he did and even greater things than these.

Do you want this kind of intimacy with God? Then join us for worship! Press into the greater things through a lifestyle of worship! Day and night, night and day, let incense arise!  

Let us return to our first love and be instruments of revival!  The first sign of true Revival is that there’s an upward fixation on Christ -- when people are captured by His Love! The second is that there’s an inward consecration of self to God. The Holy Spirit sets us apart to bring Revival.

The Ephesian believers who were being set ablaze by Paul’s teaching were gaining an upward fixation on Christ and responding with an inward consecration to God, resulting in an outward activation for the Gospel. 

​Revival is not Revival if it stays in the room. It must spill out onto the streets. If it stays in the room it’s renewal. But if it spills out into the streets, it’s Revival! It starts in the hearts of a group of believers, transforms their lives, and then spills over into Gospel demonstration and activation. It’s when a group of believers remembers their first love, repents of their wrongdoings, and goes after 'the One.' This is what the Acts of the Apostles calls 'the Way." Let us all long and hunger to be a part of 'the Way.'

​Revival is needed now in our families, communities, churches, cities, states, nations and the world more than ever. It begins with you! Embrace the call! 

Fr. Michael
President of Ablaze House of Prayer.