About
Hi, my name is Doug Lipe. I was born in 1982 in Northern Colorado under the shadows of the Rocky Mountains. My parents Michael and Sharon divorced right before I was born but have been right by my side all my life. I couldn’t have asked for better parents. They have been right by my side my whole life fighting for me, showing me love even in times when they had no reason to. As I look back, truly, I wouldn’t be who I am without them.
I grew up in the Church. At a young age I asked Jesus into my heart and always expected something to happen when I asked Him into my heart but nothing ever happened. The cool part about this is I can see He was always there though. My Mom sometimes tells me about how when I was still inside her she gave me to the Lord. I think she said that she was inside of a hallway and was alone(after the separation of my parents) and was just totally broken inside and said that if the Lord helped her through this time in her life she would give this child to Him.(Psalm 22:9-10) He took her up on it and I am one of the few who can say that they actually know Jesus and not just about Him. In 3rd grade I picked up swearing even when no one else I knew swore. Kids in 3rd grade don’t cuss but I did!…bad!!!! I didn’t like it and tried for like a month to stop but couldn’t. One night I decided to ask Jesus to help me stop. And within 2 weeks of continuing to ask I had totally stopped.(Psalm 72:12) But then I stopped praying and I began to swear again. Not long after that I was sitting in my bead with my mom(she always spent time with me in my room before I went to bed, and I think we were reading Bible stories and all of the sudden I felt an angel or something. Thats how I described it to her, as an angel. Looking back at it I know it was the Holy Spirit touching me. I have and will never forget that night. I cannot begin to describe the life that I felt. I didn’t feel that touch again until almost 10 years later when I finally received the “deposit of what is to come”. I wouldn’t be walking with the Lord today if it wasn’t for my mom constantly showing me the way in reading the Word and prayer. Those are some of my greatest memories. Remembering her spending time with me before bed time.
Junior High marked the years of my “decline”. I began to think very poorly of myself. I started doing a lot of things to get attention leading to a long series of suspensions. By high school was drinking multiple times a week and doing drugs. I wasn’t doing these things just because. Unknown to my mom I was being abused by my step-dad all through my early years of life and then between 5th and I think 7th grade my parents went through a custody battle that was vary difficult for me. These two things marked my life in a way that is hard for me to discern to this day.(Proverbs 13:12a) I’ll be honest, and some may say that I’m crazy, but it was these things that when I look back make my testimony such a beautiful story. In High School my dad became a pillar in my life. I really even in Junior High. He always fought for me. I, for the most part had given up in life. But he never gave up on me. I’m pretty sure I remember him telling me that to. And it was totally true. He would personally drag me to school and sometimes he would sit me down and try to draw answers out of me and even though sometimes it didn’t go smooth it was a fathers love truly displayed. People say that we see our Heavenly Father like we see our earthly father. I’m so glad I have the relationship that I do with my dad.
I left for college but dropped out after my 1st semester. There isn’t much to do in the middle of Wyoming except get in trouble and thats exactly what I did. So bad so, that by the end of my 1st semester I was really depressed and couldn’t take it anymore. So I came home. The moment I got home the Lord started working in me leading me to His heart. The Church I was going to was kind of in the middle of a revival and I remember walking out of every service totally balling for like 6 months. And then in August of 2002, He just showed up(He was always there, I just never felt Him…except for that 1 time earlier explained).(Job 33:26-30) As I sat in my truck on my lunch break I sat in my truck and just began to cry. I felt His love rolling over me. Like an oil poured out over my head covering my whole body. I was TOTALLY changed from that day on.
I always looked at the secret life of prayer as my most treasured desire. I have never seen anything more beautiful to me than a man on his knees before the Triun-God asking to see more of Him and touch His heart. So 6 years later I have begun my persuit of this life. Granted I always persued it, just not like I am now. In March 2008 I left home for the International House of Prayer(affectionatly called IHOP) and spent 6 months from midnight to 6am in the place of prayer.
I have decided that this is to be the direction of my life. I am to be a man on his knees before His God.(Psalm 27:4) As an intercessory missionary at IHOP I will give the next 5-10 or more years in the place of prayer before God. I will pour my life into the Word as a singer on the worship teams at IHOP and in prayer. At this point I want you to know that this is a lifestyle without an income and I am dependent upon the support of others who see this vision just as important in our day as I do and ask that if you feel drawn in your heart to support me…know that I need your support financially and specially in prayer. I would love to walk out this life before the Lord with you! Click on the contact info link above to be a part of this journey with me.
Thank you for reading my testimony! May Jesus bless you and keep you and cause His face to shine upon you!
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