a nation full of destiny…a people with an inheritance..

Sydney, Australia l Recap of Feb 21-24

So I finally made it home…although I’ve only been away for 2 weeks…it feels like a years worth of things happened while I was gone. The whole trip was a progression and a procession for me. As every day passed…my heart was more captivated by His love for Australia and New Zealand. That was the shift for me…it wasn’t just a nice little trip with conferences, burns, and glory moments (although we had plenty of them!!) in beautiful places in the world (which they very much were!)…it was a deep deep inner working where I experienced the pain, agony and rejection of the entire nation (at least a tiny bit of it) but was completely consumed by the destiny, plans, purposes as well. From the moment I landed in Sydney and I was out “on the rocks” (near the opera house and harbor bridge) for a layover…I couldnt stop singing His songs over the nation. They would seriously come all day long…even in the middle of the night i would wake up…grab my guitar and release something new. I think its just a massive creative mantle all over that nation that has at times been stifled by an exported western church performance thing…. and God is longing for HIS SOUND to be released again in its freshness and newness to awaken a generation back to their LOVE.

The verse that God gave me over and over again to share…and was a mantra for the trip…was out of Isaiah 56:7:

“these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer.”

From start to finish this is what God did everywhere we went. This was especially apparent during out last days in Sydney at Dayspring Church. It was an intense four days full of youth meetings, worship team meetings, conference sessions, weekend services, and BURN sessions. My fingers are raw from wailing on my guitar so hard…my voice was gone…but my spirit is so full of a new LOVE. This church is slammed with some of the most creative, unique, gifted people I’ve ever met. They are tender towards the things of God…and He has placed them in the middle of Sydney to be “watchmen” on the walls on behalf of a nation. Thats a heavy calling for sure…you could feel the weight of it in the meetings.

God took us to deep chambers of love, worship, intercession, warfare and joy like never before. Its almost like the more tired, worn out, and exhausted I got…the thicker the anointing was!! There was a point on saturday night when I launched out with BURN 101 mandate stuff mingled with testimonies from all over the world this year (Amsterdam, Africa, Indo, the States)…and people were so consumed with the Davidic calling in this hour that they crumbled to the ground and began to weep…now this hasn’t been an abnormal thing this year in places where the mandate has been shared. People are letting go of their dreams for their lives and ministry and God is filling us with HIS dream for a generation. Its a massive shift that can only come through deep travail of the Spirit. But that night was different for me…we began to pray over the nation and I was completely riveted inside and out. I began to weep and weep and weep in the meeting as God showed me an a little peek of the love and affection He has for the nation and those running from Him. There was no way for me to “conjure” up that kind of emotion…it was 100% God bombing me with His heart. Every time I go to a new city, nation, people group…I’ve been asking the Lord for a download or His heart for that place. Well…on saturday night…He really answered and it came strong all over me. There was no stopping it…and I didnt want it stopped…even though it was in front of massive people…we were all getting slammed at once.

Then came Sunday night…our first official 2 hour set of BURN SYDNEY. It was just a taste of what is to come I believe this year from burning that will be ignited in that city. It was completely unlike a normal sunday night church service and I’m sure it alarmed many…but it was rich, pure, real, and GOD. We had the stage packed full of musicians, intercessors, and psalmists. We were burning…His songs and sounds were being released….we waiting, danced, soaked, prayed, laughed, and got blazed together with His LOVE. It was full of freshness. We even brought the didgeridoo (Australia indigenous instrument) up and wailed the sound of Heaven out of it! It was unreal! The singers and musicians were launched off into something they’ve never experienced before….God released a transfer from song leading other peoples songs to singing HIS SONG. As I say all the time…that sort of thing can only be “caught” and not taught. I am believing that church and those beautiful people will never be the same after that night of BURNING. I know that I will never be the same…I learned to LOVE deeper and truer…to wait longer…and to fly higher in worship.

That is just a small bit on the last weekend as i’m still in process mode. But it was beautiful and I have made some of the best friends of my life in that short time together. Its so great that BURNING together can unite hearts faster, closer, and truer than any amount of time and history. In these last days God is bringing us all into one accord with each other and all our petty differences by calling us to BURN together. Let His presence be our ONE THING and our common ground. Forget hobbies, personalities, quirks, and moods….lets just rally around the PRESENCE again…thats all we need to bring us together!

I LOVE IT!! My heart aches for Australia the beautiful people I became best friends with…I’ll be back soon…and this time with my gorgeous bride. They will BURN there until Jesus returns and its already begun. I’m going to go there as much as they’ll have me because I believe God is going to use that nation and those people as a “hub” to bring a revolution of LOVE to the world! I’ve had dreams of this massive flame rising in the “great southland of the Holy Spirit” that is so hot and bright it attracts the attention of the world! People are drawn there to catch the fire and take it to the darkest nations on earth.

I will repeat the song in my heart I’ve been singing since I got home…its my prayer and cry..

A NATION FULL OF DESTINY…A PEOPLE WITH AN INHERITANCE….TURN YOUR GAZE BACK OH LORD….

all for His gaze..

_sean