✡ Ministry Partnership ✡
Consider becoming a Ministry Partner
Every missionary at IHOP-Atlanta raises support so that we can be free to do the work YHWH has called us to. If you see the value and God's heart for the prayer movement, consider becoming a Ministry Partner with us. Let us know. Even if you're just curious at this point, We'd like to meet with you face to face, so that we can really share what it is we do and how valuable your support can be.
We currently have a serious need to increase our monthly support by $1,000.
You can help in two ways:
We will serve you:
We currently have a serious need to increase our monthly support by $1,000.
You can help in two ways:
- Monthly, quarterly, or yearly financial support that provides for our family's financial needs and frees us to do the service of faithful Levites. As it is written, “To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance," (Num 18:21)
- Daily, Weekly, Monthly prayer support-- we are on the 'frontline' in spiritual warfare everyday, and need the strength that YHWH provides in response to your prayers.
We will serve you:
- In giving ourselves fully to the work.
- Keeping you updated via this website and the blog (I recommend subscribing to the blog), and occasional mailings or phonecalls.
- Praying for you. We pray for all our ministry partners and welcome emails and phone calls with prayer requests from our partners.
- Giving liberally (we give liberally to the poor, to outreach, and to the prayer movement as we see need). While we will openly share our budget with our partners, a few actually help us to plan that budget and keep us accountable. We live a fasted lifestyle and do not seek wealth in this life, only provision.
- We remain open to you for ministry should you need specific prayer or counsel. (Several of our supporters regularly call me with questions as they study the Scriptures, and I'm always happy to share).
Send Support Online
The Swift family serves as intercessory missionaries at IHOP-Atlanta, which is a support based ministry. We rely on ministry partners and one time gifts to provide for our family's needs.
By Mail or Autopay
To receive a Tax Deductible Receipt for your gift, or to use your own bank's online and automated billpay features, mail your check to the address below, made out to 'IHOP Atlanta'. There is no need to indicate the Swift family on your check, this P.O. Box assures that it will go 100% to us.
IHOP-Atlanta
P.O. Box 491294
Lawrenceville, GA 30049
*It's prefered for our Ministry Partners to set up automated payments via your bank's billpay services. It's both helpful to you and your budget, and helps us plan accordingly with our budget if we can depend on your support around the same time each month. Thank you.
Biblical Foundation
The tithe is very misunderstood in western Christianity. Most do not realize that it's purpose is to provide for the levites and the poor. And that's IT. It wasn't for the Temple- the Temple tax and freewill offerings above the tithe paid for that. It wasn't for church buildings and programs- the modern 'church' was born from the Jewish synagogue, which is primarily a house of learning. Freewill offerings paid for synagogues and early churches. You see, freewill offerings were rightly given to those who minister to the people, but the Tithe was for those who ministered before YHWH in His House of Prayer. It is to this 'storehouse' the Tithe is meant to go. We are modern day levites, and knowing the Scriptures concerning this issue, I can boldly, and in humility, accept the tithe as our portion of finance in this life.
For us, it is very humbling and precious to depend on the Body of Christ for our provision. It's honestly easier to muster up the strength in my own flesh and work for wages, than to give myself away freely, and receive just as freely. But in this I am blessed to find myself working not because I need to put in 'x' hours for 'x' amount of money. Instead, I can freely go hard in service because of the overflow of love in my Heart towards God. And for you as well, this is an opportunity to walk in obedience to God, and receive the blessing of that obedience.
Numbers 18:21,24
"To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting... For the tithe of the people of Israel, which they present as a contribution to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance."
1 Chronicles 9:33
"Now these, the singers, the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, were in the chambers of the temple free from other service, for they were on duty day and night"
Nehemiah 13:10-14
“I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each to his field. So I confronted the officials and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together and set them in their stations. Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, wine, and oil into the storehouses. And I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, and as their assistant Hanan the son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for they were considered reliable, and their duty was to distribute to their brothers. Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service.”
Malachi 3:8-12
"Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, How have we robbed you? In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. Bring the full tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts. Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the LORD of hosts."
For us, it is very humbling and precious to depend on the Body of Christ for our provision. It's honestly easier to muster up the strength in my own flesh and work for wages, than to give myself away freely, and receive just as freely. But in this I am blessed to find myself working not because I need to put in 'x' hours for 'x' amount of money. Instead, I can freely go hard in service because of the overflow of love in my Heart towards God. And for you as well, this is an opportunity to walk in obedience to God, and receive the blessing of that obedience.
Numbers 18:21,24
"To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting... For the tithe of the people of Israel, which they present as a contribution to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance."
1 Chronicles 9:33
"Now these, the singers, the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, were in the chambers of the temple free from other service, for they were on duty day and night"
Nehemiah 13:10-14
“I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each to his field. So I confronted the officials and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together and set them in their stations. Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, wine, and oil into the storehouses. And I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, and as their assistant Hanan the son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for they were considered reliable, and their duty was to distribute to their brothers. Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service.”
Malachi 3:8-12
"Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, How have we robbed you? In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. Bring the full tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts. Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the LORD of hosts."
