Let me be perfectly honest with you. Denver is a mess. Denver is divided. Denver doesn’t know Jesus. Righteousness is not flourishing and Justice certainly isn’t rolling down the great Rocky Mountains. Not to be a cynic, but the proof is in the pudding. In the early 90s Billy Graham refused to come because there was such division among the churches. Colorado was the first state to legalize abortion; it has the highest rate of teen suicide, depression and cocaine and marijuana use in the country. Colorado has more adult entertainment venues per capita, more condom purchases then any other city-even Vegas. More occult activity then other state. I could go on, but I will spare you more of the gritty dirty details of this Mile High State only because there really isn’t room.

My God is a God of redemption. And over and over and over He uses the darkest places on earth to shine his glory in ways that are completely unimaginable. I think that it’s the part of his character that loves using the foolishly crazy, abundantly absurd things to shame the works of the wise, the slick plans of those who think that they can formulate the mystery of Him who always has been. My God is the one who in an ancient time and on a hill far away, on a deeply scandalous night, brought us out of darkness into light. And he is still working. He is still calling, He is still overcoming, He is still bringing light.

My heart is beating quite fast and it had been for a while now. I can’t get enough of Jesus. I can’t see gaze on Him enough. I am exploding because He has allowed me to see the end game, at least in part. I feel like I am stuck in a parallel universe, because Jesus is coming and Jesus is here, I can see his coming to Denver in a quiet earthquake, in a mountainous roar of the yearly blizzards; creation is groaning, I am groaning. Yet, He waits. And so I Burn.

And I call people to join me, and in the dark hours of the midnight hour, in the weird moments of half-light just before the dawn breaks; we call out to the one who brings redemption, to the one who saves. We cry out “JESUS, JESUS, JESUS!! YOUR NAME IS ABOVE EVERY OTHER NAME. COME TO THIS DESERT, REMEMBER YOUR PROMISES, REMEMBER THE ANCIENT SEEDS THAT WERE PLANTED, COME AND DO WHAT YOU LOVE TO DO.” Let me be clear, we are not pleading for revival, we are not pleading for a visitation. Honestly, Jesus has shown himself in revivals, he has visited cities the world over many times over the last two thousand years, yet our world is still a mess. No, we are pleading for him to come and inhabit. We are calling for him to dwell in the temple of our hearts, to mess up our neat little lives so thoroughly that our lives, our city, our world will never be the same.

Don’t get me wrong; this isn’t easy. Its not easy being a forerunner, its not easy being the one awake at three in the morning, the lone person on the stage of heaven, taking my rightful place in front of the King pleading over and over and over that He would come in a NEW way. My heart aches, my soul is lonely, my eyes want other lovers. But then I gaze, my heart beats faster as he shows me his heart and I step into that parallel universe of eternity. Though I am blind I am able to see.

Denver is a mess, but my God already paid the price, death has lost its sting and this Mile High City will be and already is a City on a Hill. Denver is uniting; passionate lovers of Jesus are coming and crying out like never before. Righteousness is being formed and Justice is being built. This state will be a beacon of the Glory, a beacon on the Presence, a beacon of Jesus. Light has come, Darkness has fled, and the end game has been declared.

Everyone: Please read this carefully and methodically. What I am writing I honestly believe is of upmost importance to the heart of the Father. We can be used by Him, partner with him with our prayers and worship to change this situation…… So to get right to it…….I am currently in school getting a degree in political science, and one of my classes this semester is “Human Traffiking and Contempory Slavery”. A sobering subject and quite a party killer! But seriously this thing is so on the heart of God guys, many times in the middle of class I am crazy close to weeping because the Presence and absolute love of God falls on me for his people that are literally(and spiritually) in slavery! We have to be a part of what God is doing in this, I believe so desperately that us crying out to the Father in the midnight hours we can put a stop to this!!!!Some numbers for you……- 27 million people around the world exist has slaves (sex slaves & labor slaves)- 800,000-900,00 NEW people(children of Jesus) are enslaved every year. 80% are women and 50% are children.- selling people is the 3^rd largest criminal activity in the world, behind selling illegal drugs and arms. The Int’l Labour Office estimates this generates $32 billion per year .- Every year 1 million children forcibly take part in the commercial sex industry. So something that is crazy, and I think just another showing how God has stratigicly placed the Burn. The other day in class my professor put up a slide showing the “routes” that sex traffikers take victims across the US. The first thing that I noticed was how many of them are where Burns are located or are close too!!!! Here is a short list of some of the cities…..(I have also attached the slide that shows the routes in the US, take a look)Seattle, Sacramento, Denver, Dallas, OKC, Mineapolis/St.Paul, Houston, Detroit, Boston, NYC, Richmond.These are just the major cities! Most likely, by their proximity to bigger cities, I would guess that every single Burn city has human trafficking go through its limits. And mind you this is only the routes for Sex Trafficking in the US, this doesn’t even include those that are forced into labor. Human Trafficking is something that is happening in our communities, not just overseas!! We need to be lifting this up before the Father!! His children(literally those under 18) are being sold for Sex. His children are being sold to be nannies, and maids, and to pick crops. They are constantly physically, verbally, and sexually abused. We must open our eyes to this, bring this before the Father and plead and interceed for those who can not!! We need to pray that the routes that are taken in and between our cities would be abolished and that the Love of the Father would overtake the traffickers and pimps and that instead routes of the His Presence and His Love would be established!I know that is hardcore guys,, but we need to be hardcore and we need to listen to the heart of the Father for his children. We can be a part of downfall of Trafficking just by Burning!!! Let God Arise and his Enemies be scattered!!!!

So yesterday I was reading the well-read Isaiah 58 “this is what true fasting is” passage.  I kinda end up there on accident and since we were all fasting I figured it couldn’t hurt to read through it!  Really friends its incrediable and the father showed me a couple things that I want to share with you.  Just a quick overview…..

            The father at first chides them (his people) for fasting while at the same time asking for strife and discontent and having general wickedness in their lives.  And then He goes on to say that the fast that he has chosen will “loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens to let the oppressed go free”, that we will break every yoke, we will share all that we have with the poor.  Then after this our light will break forth.  The Glory of the Lord will surround us, he will be our rear guard, and when we call to Him He will answer!   This Light that He has given us will shine in the darkest places of the earth.  He will satisfy us, always guide us, always strengthen us. And what comes from this?  What does God call us to do from this place?  Well what happens is that we restore the foundations, we restore the wall!! (which is what Nehemiah did, its what had to happen in order to protect  the temple, the place where God dwells. The wall must be rebuilt before the temple can be restored.) And then He says that we will restore the streets for Him to dwell in.  Then after this fast, if we continue to pleasure ourselves in the Lord, if we delight ourselves in Him HE WILL FEED US WITH THE HERITAGE OF JACOB.

Ok, so this is where I got excited.  Vs 14 really really got me.  HE WILL FEED US WITH THE HERITAGE OF JACOB.  So I camped there for a while.  Just started thinking and meditating on what this meant. And I got excited because I began to think that the heritage of Jacob was Jesus.  So we get to feed on Jesus, which is just absolutely wonderful.  But then, my spirit give me a resounding no, there is something else.  Here is what it is, what all of this leads to, what fasting leads to, what we get to feed on……Jesus was not the heritage of Jacob, he was the inheritance of Jacob.  The Heritage of Jacob was an OPEN HEAVEN.(Gen 28;32)

WE GET AN OPEN HEAVEN!!!!!  And not only do we get to receive an open heaven we get to feast on an open heaven! 

That’s all I am going say.  I really could go off and spout off what an open heaven really means what the implications of that are.  But I am not going to.  I think that I am going to leave this one up to God and your pursuit of Him  I guess that I would just encourage you today to seek what this means for your city, for your family, for youself.

He has given us an open Heaven guys lets feast on it!

Fellow followers after the heart of God……I believe that Jesus just dropped this word in my mouth, for such a time a this.   Listen, Pray, Pay heed…                                                                                                                                                             “This can not be our pet project. It has for some people, and it pretty much has to stop. It can not just be another good idea that we have, it can’t just be something that we pursue with a part of our life and heart. The Father is calling us to something so much higher (not just burn people,not just ihop, the call, 24-7, whatever. This is something that is for everyone). If we don’t do what he has called us to as  lover of Him, as followers of Him then he will find someone else. Its just that simple. He goes across the earth seeking hearts that are completely his, and if we are not living completly abandoned to Him  then he will glaze over us. We must do this wholeheartedly and to the  death. If we pursue Him in the earth and follow the call to come before the father and minister to him and to intercede on behalf of nations then he will give us the keys to His Kingdom. He will give us an authority like no one on earth has seen yet. The battle that we are fighting is not against flesh and blood, this is a basic thing that is very important to remember. Everyplace that has a burn, has an ihop, has 24-7, has the call, ect….I have given this power and authority to trample the legions of the Dark. In everyone one of these places an atomic bomb is being set off. It will consume all and will create an area of rest for the Presence of the Holy Spirit. It is here that God will dwell. The keys to the Kingdom will be given to you(leaders of each city) when the dust from the atomic bomb has settled.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           This is urgent.  What God is saying has to deal with issues of massive urgency.  I don’t really even know what to tell you guys.  I can’t say enough to convince you of what Jesus is saying.  We need to get on our faces even more then what we are doing now.  We need to seriously seek the heart of the Father and act.  We have a mandate from his throne and we must be obedient to the call that we have received.  This is no time to play games.   We must act.

There is nothing like fasting to really bring into focus the things that you want the most.  It makes my heart readily examine all that I desire, what i really want, what I am really willing to sacrifice.  It’s where the rubber meets the road, when I really discover if what I tell Jesus in the middle of the night with a full belly is really true.  In his sermon, “The Weight of Glory”, C.S. Lewis says: ” If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.  We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because we cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.  We are far too easily pleased”.The Father has really been speaking to me about desire.  About what I want.  What I strive for, what i work for.  What I put above all else.  He, to just be honest, has been chiding me, disiplineing me in the ways of  his heart.  He is saying that my desire will never be enough, that there is always more to Him, more to know, more to desire.  But I must come in my weak desire and give Him all of it, all I have.  He is bringing up all the things that I desire above Him, all the ways that I don’t follow the first commandment.  The fact is that I fit what C.S. Lewis said all too well.  I am fair too easily pleased by whatever is in front of me at the moment, whatever takes my fancy.  I know, I see that I have been offered an eternal holiday at sea, a chance to partner with the creator of the universe.  A chance to know his heart in intimate ways.  Yet I like mud.  Mud is easy, its safe, it feels nice on my skin.  I truly am a rebellious human who is too easily pleased.Yet the Father is calling me.  You were made to see my face.  You were made to desire me.  So come daughter.  Come and desire me.  Desire my heart.  Give me your heart and I will give you my heart.  Desire me.  Desire me, it is the only  way that your heart will by fully alive, fully satisfied.   So I must lay down my heart, I am mandated to lay down my heart.  And I do because I have been down the other road.  I have seen the despair of hell and I instead choose the mercy of his throne, where I am seated at his right hand.I give Him all my desire.  I choose to live in Him and through Him.  That is the call, and we all must make the choice.