There’s a generation rising that is relentless in their pursuit of the King.  We are meeting these “Burning Ones” everywhere we go, usually during the “night shift” of the Burn. They have been ruined for the ordinary life and feel out of place in the “American dream driven”, materialistic, nine-to-five world they find themselves in. They feel compelled and called to minister to the heart of God and will find any place that has opened the doors for this…this is why they have found the Burn!  Yet these Burning Ones don’t want to just sit in the prayer room, they want to be on the front lines.  I’ve heard many of them say that they have felt called to this life of worship and intercession but to missions also and as a result they don’t see where they fit in the current order of things. However we are beginning to see with greater clarity that God is merging these two movements together and now we see a generation that was born for this moment in time!  The “Burning Ones” are rising and they have set their sights on nothing less than global awakening.

A new breed of ministrel/missionaries are crying out to be poured into by spiritual Father’s and Mother’s and we will not and cannot ignore their cry. They are desperate to have relationship and to be sent!  As a result, we have received a mandate from the Father to equip and release this burning tribe to take their place as intercessors, prophets, minstrels and artist in the great unfolding drama of the Great End-time harvest!    The Burn will be launching a 6 mo- 1 year internship, called the Burning Ones,  in order to prepare and launch these fire brands into the darkest parts of the earth!   We believe that God will hear the cries of these Burning One’s and bring a massive harvest of souls among the nations of the earth. The Burning Ones Launches January of 09! E-mail David at  burningones@gmail.com for more information! 

There’s a generation rising that
is relentless in their pursuit of the King.  We are meeting these
“Burning Ones” everywhere we go, usually during the “night shift” of
the Burn. They have been ruined for the ordinary life and feel out of
place in the “American dream driven”, materialistic, nine-to-five world
they find themselves in. They feel compelled and called to minister to
the heart of God and will find any place that has opened the doors for
this…this is why they have found the Burn!  Yet these Burning Ones
don’t want to just sit in the prayer room, they want to be on the front
lines.  I’ve heard many of them say that they have felt called to this
life of worship and intercession but to missions also and as a result
they don’t see where they fit in the current order of things. However
we are beginning to see with greater clarity that God is merging these
two movements together and now we see a generation that was born for
this moment in time!  The “Burning Ones” are rising and they have set
their sights on nothing less than global awakening.

A new breed of
ministrel/missionaries are crying out to be poured into by spiritual
Father’s and Mother’s and we will not and cannot ignore their cry. They
are desperate to have relationship and to be sent!  As a result, we
have received a mandate from the Father to equip and release this
burning tribe to take their place as intercessors, prophets, minstrels
and artist in the great unfolding drama of the Great End-time harvest!    The
Burn will be launching a 6 mo- 1 year internship, called the Burning
Ones,  in order to prepare and launch these fire brands into the
darkest parts of the earth!   We believe that God will hear the cries of
these Burning One’s and bring a massive harvest of souls among the nations of
the earth. The Burning Ones Launches January of 09! E-mail David at  burningones@gmail.com for more information! 

I’m sitting at the Burn while a team from Korea are pouring out their worship to the Lord and crying out to the Lord for Turkey. Their passion is intense and their is such an authority on their prayers. I feel like God has sent in the Korean’s as front line soldiers! They have such an incredible anointing for spiritual warfare…its like I can see them in the spirit moving huge boulders out of the way and clearing the way in the heavenlies so the gospel can go forth!

The Burn launched yesterday with such an incredible sense of the presence of the Lord.  We discovered that their are eight houses of prayer being launched in Turkey and many of them were ignited after the first Burn launch last October.  God is raising up an incredible prayer movement and is preparing the way for a massive harvest. There is such an expectation in the atmosphere and the prayer room is crowded almost all the time with people singing, pacing, dancing, waving flags, and praying!

We are definitely in the middle of a history making shift in this nation. We will look back on these days of God-ordained prayer and see them as the forerunner to the great harvest in Turkey!

The team is doing well. We had a couple of people struggling with sickness but they are all doing better…I think they were mainly worn out because we hit the ground running and didn’t have time to recover from our jett lag.

The Burning Ones Internship Launches January of 2009

There’s a generation rising that is relentless in their pursuit of the King. We are meeting these “Burning Ones” everywhere we go, usually during the “night shift” of the Burn. They have been ruined for the ordinary life and feel out of place in the “American dream driven”, materialistic, nine-to-five world they find themselves in. They feel compelled and called to minister to the heart of God and will find any place that has opened the doors for this…this is why they have found the Burn! Yet these Burning Ones don’t want to just sit in the prayer room, they want to be on the front lines. I’ve heard many of them say that they have felt called to this life of worship and intercession but to missions also and as a result they don’t see where they fit in the current order of things. However we are beginning to see with greater clarity that God is merging these two movements together and now we see a generation that was born for this moment in time! The “Burning Ones” are rising and they have set their sights on nothing less than global awakening.

A new breed of ministrel/missionaries are crying out to be poured into by spiritual Father’s and Mother’s and we will not and cannot ignore their cry. They are desperate to have relationship and to be sent! As a result, we have received a mandate from the Father to equip and release this burning tribe to take their place as intercessors, prophets, minstrels and artist in the great unfolding drama of the Great End-time harvest! The Burn will be launching a 6 mo- 1 year internship, called the Burning Ones, in order to prepare and launch these fire brands into the darkest parts of the earth! We believe that God will hear the cries of these Burning One’s and bring a massive harvest of souls among the nations of the earth. The Burning Ones Launches January of 09! E-mail David at burningones@gmail.com for more information!

The New Sound

There have been several prophetic words and a whole lot of Charismatic jargon lately about God releasing a “new sound” in the earth that will help to usher in (or be a part of) the next great move of God. To be honest, every time I heard this stuff I just didn’t get it! I passed it off as more hype than anything. Most of what I have heard led me to believe that people think that God is going to release a new style of music that is somehow going to draw in the masses to Him. I’ve heard different bands that have been dubbed as those carrying the “new sound.” It’s funny that the “new sound” people refer to almost always seems to be a style with a lot of delay on the guitar and ethereal keyboard pads! I really think most people have thought of the “new sound” as an actual style, a style that unfortunately only appeals to 18 year-old white kids who like screaming guitars. I do believe that all the talk about a “new sound” has some merit to it, but I’m almost sure it has nothing to do with style!

I believe that in every generation there has been a new sound released. It is the sound of hearts being awakened to the Father once again! It is the sound of lives beginning to resonate and harmonize with the heart and will of God! It is the sound of revival! Yes, with this new sound comes fresh artistic expressions but it is not limited to or defined by style. It is defined by a cry of the heart!

Recently at a Burn we heard this “new sound” being released among us. It was released through a group of Baptist ladies singing hymns and Paul Wilbur songs and crying out to God in desperation for a breaking in of His Presence. It was released through a group of singers that could not define what prophetic worship was, but a cry was released in their music that was not ordinary. It was released again through a group of 19 year-old college kids who let the guitars scream and never sang an actual written song! The sound shook us to the core as people cried out in repentance and desperation for a move of God. I believe this sound touched the throne of heaven and shook things on earth!

The New Sound: A Pre-Cursor To Revival
On the day of Pentecost the “new sound” was released that was a pre-cursor to a massive outpouring! They were in the upper room when they heard, “a sound like the blowing of a violent wind…and they began to speak in tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance” (Acts 2:3-4). This wind was not just an ordinary physical wind. This was a sound from heaven that was never heard in the earth until that point! This was the very fulfillment of Joel 2:28, the promise of the Spirit of God resting upon all believers and empowering them to be a prophetic voice to their generation. It was the very entrance of God himself in the form of the Holy Spirit being released into the earth to turn the hearts of rebellious man to Him! It was a violent wind, letting us know that it will take a violent power to rip humanity from the clutches of the evil one!

A Heavenly Pattern
It is interesting that when they first heard a new sound, initially manifested as wind, and then they released a new sound, which manifested in speaking tongues and preaching with power-producing, staggering results - 3,000 saved in a day! I believe this is a pattern that God wants us to get a hold of. We first hear the sound He is releasing from heaven and then we release that sound on earth. The released sound in turn impacts the destinies of cities and nations! The sound is being revealed to prophetic minstrels, intercessors and any believers that have chosen the radical path of shutting out the sounds of the world to hear what God is saying.

A New Sound Coming out of the Desert!
There was a voice that was released just before the revealing of Jesus to the earth that broke 400 years of prophetic silence. This was the “voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord” (Matt. 3:3). Between the old and new testaments we have no written record of the prophetic word of the Lord being released to Israel. During the 400 years of revelatory silence Israel backslid into a community of dry, barren, legalistic, religious people that had no living relationship with their Creator. I believe God was strategically silent so that when He did speak again through a prophet, the sound would pierce hearts to the core and awaken a generation back to Him! In other words, the silence made the sound more prominent when it came!

One lone voice, John the Baptist, released at the “fullness of time”, shook a generation out of their slumber and stirred expectancy for the coming One! We are again standing at a transitional time in history, only this time we are not the generation of the first coming but the generation just before the second coming. Once again it seems that there is a barrenness of the true Word of the Lord, a “prophetic silence” if you will. If this were not so then the church would be impacting and transforming our culture much more than it currently is. Instead, we have conformed to the ways of the world and have lost our voice and a sound that can change a nation in a day!

From pulpits all across the western world we are hearing the sound of mind-numbing, self-help, media-driven hype, which is spectacular and entertaining but lacks the power to transform the soul or to change cities. Some of the largest churches in the nation reflect this trend and the sad part is that we have bought into the “bigger is better” philosophy. In doing so we have gulped down the empty and vain philosophies of these churches only to find ourselves empty of any power to change lives!

A Call to the Wilderness
But in the “underground”, in the “wildernesses”, even now there are voices that are being raised up! All across the world (and the Burn is but one example of many), a generation is starting to “hear the sound” as they are drawn to the secret places of fasting and prayer, and as they are being compelled to pour out their soul to the Lord even through the watches of the night! There is a generation that has heard the “alarm being sounded in Zion” (Joel 2:1) and are gathering together across denominational walls for hours at a time to worship, weep, fast, prophesy and pray—to release the “new sound”!

There are a people, young and old, that have heard the call to the desert, away from the lifestyle of over-indulgence and ease to hear “the sound” and to get a voice that can shake nations. They are a people that have taken off the garments of comfort and pleasure and have put on the chaffing camel skin garment of John the Baptist! They’ve chosen to go against the grain of our culture so that they might actually have something to say to them!

Yes, there is a new sound being birthed in our generation. It is the sound of awakening! It is the sound of a people rising out of the ashes of complacency, and dead religion. It is the sound of dry bones rattling, an army arising, realizing that our generation doesn’t have to live under the tyranny of the spirit of death anymore!

The New Sound Isn’t Always Pleasant!

During a Burn recently I had the revelation that the sound of “Awakening” is not pleasant! When is the last time you remember being woken up by an alarm clock, or by a person when you weren’t ready to get up? I remember as a kid being so angry and irritated by the sound of my Mom’s voice when she tried to rouse me from my sleep.

Be prepared! The new sound will not be popular or pleasant to the religious status quo. It will irritate and anger them! However, it is a sound that must be released if we are to see the earth prepared for His return! John the Baptist encountered this opposition from the Pharisees. Jesus spoke of His generation when He said, “we played the flute for you and you did not dance, we sang a dirge and you did not mourn” (John 11:17). In other words the response of the people was not appropriate to the “sound” or song they were hearing! They didn’t get it! They resisted the voice of the Lord that was being released to them to come into agreement with the King of Kings. However, I believe there is a remnant that is hearing the song the Lord is playing!

The “new sound” is being released and those that have been hungering for it will hear it and respond appropriately to its invitation. When the funeral dirge is being played they will mourn for their sins and when the flute or the wedding song is played they will draw near to the Lord in intimacy!

This voice crying from the desert will manifest in many different ways. It will come through the arts, music, painting, poetry, writing, and preaching. The styles will vary but there will be one common theme. It will sound like awakening! It will sound like desperation! It will sound violent! It will be a sound that disturbs the status quo and chaffs at those that are comfortable in dead religion. It will be a sound that moves the Father’s heart and calls home the sinner!

It’s time to break the prophetic silence! It’s time for us to radically abandon the world to hear this sound! This is not another church growth method, this isn’t just a good idea…this is our only option! A generation stands in the balance. We must release the “new sound” into the heavenlies through both our worship and intercession and into the earth through our bold prophetic proclamation! Let’s position ourselves to hear and release this sound! Let’s go the way of the desert, of sacrificial living. Let’s leave the noise of the world so that we may hear His heart and release His sound in the earth! What could happen if we did?

God drew us, 110 of us, at just the invitation of an e-mail, with a one day notice. We presented ourselves before the Lord for 12 hours Friday night at 10 p.m. in Shawnee, Ok.

Ryan and I had felt a deep burden of intercession all week for our city, and our pastors.  We spent several hours in gut wrenching repentance and groaning!  We new that the urgency we felt meant that we needed to call the troops in to pray.

When we walked into Living Word last night we didn’t know who, if any, would respond to the urgent call to pray. We were surprised to see so many that had heard the call of the spirit and dropped everything to contend for our city.  We felt that this weekend was so important for the history of Shawnee and that a lot was at stake.  I’m not being dramatic when I say that what we did last night and will continue to do could potentially alter the course of history in this city and usher in an unprecedented move of God!

All night there was a heavy spirit of intercession and warfare. One moment we were dancing, another we were repenting and another we screaming with groans that can’t be uttered.  When we got tired, Angie Phillips or John Hudson would rally the troops to rouse themselves to press in and to PUSH!

After 13 hours of groaning, dancing, weeping and repenting I was expecting a breakthrough but the burden of intercession never lifted. I felt wounded by the Lord in the sense that he let me see His heart and how He is mourning over our city and nation! Great dread came upon me with weeping and trembling that I could not control as I realized that a storm is coming, called the wrath of God, and so few are prepared for the day of reckoning!  He wounded us with a burden of intercession and we cannot relent until the wound is healed!

He is so gracious! He is calling for watchmen to stand in the gap that His full purposes for our city and nation might come to pass! If we, as the church, were held accountable for our trespass against the Lord in this hour, the judgment would indeed be merited and great!  Do we really understand how our judgment against others in the body, our gossip, our fear, our territorialism, our pride, has offended the Lord!  God’s deepest desire is to send Revival to Shawnee, to restore, deliver, set free, and save thousands yet His church stands before Him with this sin of offense against our own brothers in Christ!

We have divided to the point that we are afraid of someone stealing “our sheep.” They were never “our sheep” to begin with, they are His!  If we are “one body” then where someone goes to church should never matter! Bottom line: we have prostituted ourselves to keep our budgets flowing and the programs in place that have obviously not got us to where He wants us!

The Lord convicted our hearts that we have used His anointing and His gifts to build our own kingdoms!  Brothers and sisters, I say this with the fear of the Lord and trembling! We must repent because everything built upon the pride of men will be swept away with one breath of His mouth! He will not share His glory with another! Never!

The Burn became something different this weekend! It became more than being on “the cutting edge” of what God is doing.  It became more than cool music around the clock! It became about standing for a generation in crisis! It became about breaking the silence and crying out for the only solution to our situation: The Glory of God!!!!!

What will happen if we don’t hear the trumpet blast to our city calling us to repentance?  What if we choose to stay in our dead religion, to play church games, to spend our time, energy and money on bigger buildings and better light shows?  What is at stake if we don’t fall on our knees and cry out to the great deliverer for an awakening?  Our kids, the generation coming up is at stake!  We must have revival for their sake! Evil is escalating out control in our generation….we have no other solutions!  Another church growth conference won’t do it! A better media projector, lights, or quality of music won’t do it!  These can never produce life transforming converts! We need the Power of God sent from heaven as on the day of Pentecost to sweep our foul sin away and bring power that can save 3,000 in a day!

I don’t know about you but I am tired of laboring for so little results! How many people got saved in your church last year?  Divide that number into your annual church budget for a shocking figure at how much expense that we put out for one soul! Are those people even still in our churches being discipled?

We must have the power of God!  It is not about the Burn! If you can’t handle the Burn then call your own prayer meetings! Let’s just do it!  No more excuses, no more fear, no more insecurity about sheep stealing! Let’s prepare the way of the King and build His kingdom!

Stay tuned for more “nights of prayer” in May.  We are feeling that our assignment after this weekend is not over! It is not easy, or pretty! This type of praying offends the mind! But it is the prayers of desperate people!  It’s time fast! It’s time to cut off the TV! We could be at the door of another Great Awakening and I don’t want to sacrifice that on the altar of my self-indulgence!!!!!!!!