Daril Bradley's Blog

Who is Daril Bradley?

I am 23 years old as of October 14. As David Livingstone would say, “I am a missionary heart and soul”. I’m currently at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, MO. serving on the NightWatch in prayer, fasting, and study of the word. In addition to being on the NightWatch, I am also a student in IHOPU.  

 My Testimony.

 When I was born, my birth father did not want me, and my birth mother did not care for me either. My birth parents had three abortions before me, and because of that I grew up with my grandparents raising me.  Both my birth mother and father had mental disorders. When I was born, my parent’s mental disorders were so bad that they wern’t allowed to see me except for under supervision. One day my father went to see me while I was still in the hospital he had a broken pair of scissors in his back pocket, but security tackled him to the ground before anything could happen.

At age 14, the day I graduated from middleschool about 20 minutes after I graduated, my grandmother takes me aside, sits me down and tells me about my parents. This sent me into a downward spiriral the entire summer where I didnt do anything or come out of my room for anything.

During this time, my grandmother gave me a bible, which at first when I recieved it thought that, “If God is real he wouldnt love me and wouldn’t care about me like everyone else doesn’t care about me”. But I began to read the bible starting in the New Testament from Matthew to Romans. When I read Romans 8 I was convinced that God absolutley cared about me and wanted to be my father. No one lead me through a prayer, but I prayed right there on my bed and asked God to be my father.

Church Involvement.

I had gone to church on and off as a child but was never very serious about it. When I was first saved at age 14, I joined the Brighton-McClure Presbyterian Church and attended sunday school and regular worship service. From 2005 to 06′, I went to Teen Mania’s Honor Academy and was trained under the leadership of David Hasz and Ron Luce and many others. In 2006, I got back to Pittsburgh and joined the Forest Ave. Presbyterian Church. I was at the Forest Ave. Presbyterian Church until I left for the International House of Prayer in 2008 and have been there till this day. I still am connected with the Forest Ave. Presbyterian Church.

International Missionary Status.

• I went on my first mission trip in 2003 with Teen Mania’s Global Expeditions to South Africa.
• My second trip was again with Global Expeditions to Botswana in the summer of 2004.
• Third trip was to Panama during New Years  of 04′-05′ with Global Expeditions.
• First time in Thailand and fourth trip with Global Expeditions was in summer of 06′, during which we journeyed into Burma, and Laos as well.
• During November of 2006, a friend of my pastor’s was very involved in missions in Cameroon, Africa. During the Month of November I traveled with him and two others into Cameroon to view and take part in translating the bible into Akossi, a native language.
• During the summer of 07, I journeyed into Thailand by myself, that has been my last trip as of this day.

 From Thailand to IHOP-KC

I had gone to Thailand in the summer of 07′. This was a trip I had been planning to take for more than a year and was a burden on my heart. I was planning on being in Thailand or somewhere in South East Asia for at least six months. The Lord at the end of one month began to speak to me about coming back to the U.S.

After that one month, I ended up coming back to the states, not sure why, hurting and confused, I boarded the plane in Bangkok, to head for Chicago. While in Chicago, I missed my connecting flight to come back to Pittsburgh and spent the night in Chicago. That night in Chicago would’ve been my first day in Rangoon, Burma if I would’ve continued in South East Asia. I didn’t know until I got home to Pittsburgh, but that night in Chicago, while it was day in Rangoon and in Rangoon, monks started protesting, and the government of Burma had no mercy on them. They killed some and set the bodies of some on fire in the streets. I would’ve been right in the middle of all of that if I hadn’t listened to the Lord.

So, I’m in Pittsburgh, and I have no plans, all of my plans have been soverignly destroyed by the Lord at this point. I begin to pray and ask the Lord for his plans of what he would have me do at this point. I have thought about doing a YWAM Discipleship trianing school before and what better opperutnity do I have than now? So, I send off an application to do a YWAM DTS in Thailand in January of 08′, but about 2 months before the DTS, I hear through email, that they had never recieved my application or application fee. I continued to wonder what I should do.

All through this time I have had on my heart that I should take a trip out to IHOP-KC. During my time at Teen Mania, I had heard about IHOP but had always said, “That whole worship and prayer thing is good, but I’m more of a missions guy”. I ended up taking a trip out to IHOP-KC around the beginning of December of 2007, and while on the trip, I remember going into the prayer room and weeping over Luke 24:49, “Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high”, and Acts 1:8, “⁸ But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth”.

During that three day visit to IHOP-KC at the beginning of December, I didn’t understand everything the Lord had said to me but I trusted him in faith. I heard him say to me, “This is your Jerusalem, you are to wait here and tarry for the power that I will give you. This is the place you are to be trained. You are to not leave this place until you recieve power from on high”.

So I am here, at IHOP-KC, and I continue to wait for the promised Holy Spirit.