Honestly with all the different happenings in the world, I need(ed) a safe, gentle place to experience and get to know Jesus more. I listen and relisten...healing my "hope." Longing to be that trusting child and devoted daughter--and touching those places I've forgotten. Thank you for the rich teaching, historical, the Word, the Word, relying on the Holy Spirit. Grateful for you all, and your wonderful hearts for this community. Thank you -Allen, Josh, Samuel, family and others who make this possible.

It was no accident that I stumbled across you guys at this time. I was at a very low ebb and needed this fellowship with you. Coming to the cross anew was truely inspiring. I look forward to joining you on other courses

I truly enjoyed studying the Psalm and the insight Allen and his team shared. The breakdown of the Psalm and praying through it. It caused me to pause as I'm reading to allow God to speak.

As I did this course, my intent was to gain understanding of what Jesus Christ endured due this final week. God used the material to help me walk in deeper intimacy with Jesus. I have a greater appreciation for His Word and am learning to truly meditate during my study time. I also Lisa’s where I have taken Jesus and His crucifixion for granted at times. I’ve repented and am so grateful He is lovingly walking me through emotional healing and letting go of bad theology. Many thanks to the Allen Hood team for opening this course. You have helped me see and know both His suffering and His fellowship in a new way.

I’ve enjoyed the teachings of Allen Hood since the early 2000’s, when GodTV was brought to the US and I was introduced for the first time to IHOP Kansas City. When he teaches the Word of God, I leave not only with a deeper understanding, but most importantly a greater yearning to deeply know Jesus for myself. The one thing I’d like to share about the impact Known By God had on me is the way God used Allen’s story of his response to his son’s first fast. I had a similar story, but with very different results. I was about 14 or 15 years old, just having been filled with the Spirit at 15. When I heard that our church was doing a corporate fast, I was so excited that I ran to the front and signed right up after church; I committed to a whole week. I remember the associate pastor saying, are you sure, seven days? He saw my age and had known me for years. I got home and was so excited that I was going to fast and pray for seven days. My spiritual dad was an evangelist and I heard all his stories of glorious encounters with God when he fasted; I just wanted to have the same encounter with God. I told my (natural) father and he was very vocal about his not being convinced I would be able to do it. My dad was not saved and we did not have a peaceful home. That Sunday afternoon, I stayed in my room to read my Bible and pray and commune with God all that afternoon. Then I smelled dinner. Then the dinner was ready and I did not know how to handle the smell of my mom’s cooking on a Sunday evening and resist it. (LOL) I left my room, broke my fast, and when I sat down at the table to eat, my dad humiliated me for not having done even one day. That was such a painful experience and yet I didn’t know how much it affected me until I heard Allen tell his son’s story and how he responded to his son, telling him how God felt about his brief time of giving up food to be with God. I cried my eyes out as he shared this, even though that was 30 years ago. I didn’t know all this time that God valued my small sacrifice and my going away with him for those few short hours. It counted, even though it was nowhere near what I had committed to. Since then, I’ve completed many times of consecration and done extended fasts beyond the 7 days. I have no question in my mind that I will feel much different on the inside from now on, having been given a clear picture of what God sees in our small but sincere movements toward His heart. Thank you, Allen, for giving your son that example of God in His fatherly nature and allowing his very unique story to heal many, many hearts, mine included.

Dear Allen, Samuel and Jonathan, I wanted to thank you all so very much for offering these courses. My life is continually changed as I learn and grow and especially as God opens my closed off heart. This is not a big story but so very significant to me in my personal journey. I was re-listening to session 10 of Intimacy with the Holy Spirit and crying through most of it, being reminded that God wants to make His home in me. He wants to live in this human vessel which has very little to offer, but surrendering little by little I can offer all that I am. This lesson reminded me that the Father affirmed Jesus when He said, “This is My Beloved Son with whom I am well pleased” even before Jesus started His earthly ministry. And the amazing teaching of how He designed our bodies to somehow house the God of the universe, is so special to me because I’m one of the humans He wants to reside in! Isaiah 57:15 "For thus says the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite heart and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.” So now getting to, “Known by God” webinar 2. (Webinar 1 blew also me away and I shared the Prodigal Son teaching with my husband. Sooooo good!) In Webinar 2 when you were saying that depending on what we believe about Who He is and who we are, we either preform, hoping to appease Him or we hide in shame, afraid to come to Him. I’ve had some major healing in the past in how I saw the Father. He very timely, precisely and specifically revealed His love for me deep inside, not just head knowledge. Because of what He did I am able to come to Him as my loving heavenly Father in prayer, but I found I was holding back parts of my heart. (and still have a ways to go). I’ve noticed lately that my comparing myself to others and my extreme inadequacies are blaring and even tormenting me. The enemy has been working hard and I’ve been searching, praying….. From this course I’m learning that I don’t see Father as mostly mad or mostly sad when He looks at me, I see Him as ‘indifferent’ and that hurts me even to say it because I know it’s a lie. The feeling of indifference causes me to hold back, it hinders my surrender, especially where my husband, children and family are concerned. He is trustworthy and His plan is always best. Knowing that He personally loves me enough to search me, shows me that He loves me for being me, the one He designed. I cannot be someone else and I don’t want to be anyone else. I want to be the one He made and the one that He wants to live in, as He does with my dear brothers and sisters in Christ. He’s God after all :) I love how you have broken down Psalm 139 and how He uses what He knows about us (the 4 ways He knows us), to surround us with His Presence, liberate our hearts and secure us in Him. He lays His hand upon us to help us, to love us and to secure us. Since the revelation of how I think Father sees me (indifferent) I’ve been able to at least say I surrender my family to Him. Before this was revealed to me I could not do it, even though I know Him and His great love for us. Satan used this lie against me and now I have the weapon of specific truth in this battle. No matter how old we are there is always a new lesson, a new battle, but God’s got it! Being not only love but ‘enjoyed’ by Him is another challenge for me but your example of parents and children enjoying each other really helps me. I no longer just want to be a servant, I want Him to call me friend and to know His delight in me. As this journey of life unfolds, I am so very grateful for your on line classes. Words don’t capture the difference you have made in my life and I am so very grateful for the way the Lord has gifted you and uses you to bless the multitudes. May He heal us and embolden us to be about the great commission in our every day lives! In Christ, Audrey Kell

i am a former ihopu student and took classes with allen hood but had to stop school when my health declined. Its been a battle of surgeries and difficulty. Without going into to much detail I got several forms of cancer, lost my eye site in one eye, and also had ovarian cancer when through chemo therapy last year. Its been hard to stay focused on God and these classes in the past have helped keep me centered. God has never felt further away than through all this and its confusing because usually I hear its the opposite. However, throughout the trials there has been help in the classes and they have helped me to stay focused and not lose help. Thank you

Thank you so much for the courses and ministry online. I've had the honor to hear you in person at different conferences and meet you briefly. I started watching The Reach on Youtube Friday night. The last year oppression fear anxiety, trouble sleeping and feeling insecure and loss were a few things i struggled with. Several times, while watching God begin to deliver me, I would weep, and I could feel God presence bringing peace. GOD HAS BEEN AWAKENING MY HEART and using that to bring freedom. I just want to take this time to say thank you . The Psalm 139 course is changing my life, setting me free from the inside out, and it's all confirming the Father God voice of truth over my life. He is giving me a deep love for Jesus and a revelation of God love through it like never before. My biggest takeaway has been His love and acceptance of me just because He loves me and knows me and not on my performance alone. I can see the truth going in and uprooting the lies. I've been walking with the Lord for years but I feel now that I'm receiving and walking in the truth as a daughter of God Keep going strong .... and thank you.

Hello, my name is Ana and I am from Argentina. This course has been a direct response from my Heavenly Father to questions and prayer requests. I felt extremely comfortable and respected in the way the course was carried and God spoke to me and took a lot of the burden off of how He sees me. I knew that God knew me in all aspects, but I was more inspired by fear than joy, because I felt that I was never going to be enough. But knowing that God loves me at every stage of my life and even loves me without being formed changed my perspective one hundred percent and even changed the way I live my days knowing that He is always with me and that I will always to be with him. Thank you to everyone that make this course possible. Blessings! (Sorry If something is bad written I speak in Spanish, that's why ☺️). 

Honestly with all the different happenings in the world, I need(ed) a safe, gentle place to experience and get to know Jesus more. I listen and relisten...healing my "hope." Longing to be that trusting child and devoted daughter--and touching those places I've forgotten. Thank you for the rich teaching, historical, the Word, the Word, relying on the Holy Spirit. Grateful for you all, and your wonderful hearts for this community. Thank you -Allen, Josh, Samuel, family and others who make this possible.

It was no accident that I stumbled across you guys at this time. I was at a very low ebb and needed this fellowship with you. Coming to the cross anew was truely inspiring. I look forward to joining you on other courses