Precious Burnites,

First, I would like to apologize for not getting an update on the Burn @ YWAM Ozarks sooner.. but I have been soooo sick this week!! So… here’s the update:

The Burn @ YWAM Ozarks was one of the most incredible Burns that I think that we have had. When I was greeted by Josh Levin, one of the YWAM staff, he immediately began to tell me the history of the grounds. This mountain that used to be deemed a spiritual “high grounds” for Native Americans it became known as Manatou Mountain or “Great Spirit Mountain.” The location definitely held true to its name. During that short 10hrs overlooking all of the River Valley and its cascading hills, we experienced such a freedom in the spirit. Majestic birds (which I later found out were buzzards… huh ) skimmed the skys declaring the freedom of the Lord. Our praises went up and as evening approached the Lord began pouring out a deep spirit of intercession upon us. The word of the Lord came from Becky as she violently declared that we are in the time just as the days of Noah! IT IS TIME FOR THE BRIDE OF THE RIVER VALLEY AWAKEN… BECOME UNCOMFORTABLE… BEGIN TO SHIFT AND CHANGE OUR WAY OF LIFE TO MAKE WAY THE KINGDOM OF THE LORD!! It was a beautiful time of acoustic worship and unified intercession. So much has shifted in our pursuit of the Father, if you have not participated in a Burn recently I would like to urge you to join us. The Lord has completely shifted our focus into a war-like corporate intercession and urgency in this hour!

I want to share some things that are in my heart about holiness and encountering the beauty in life. Yesterday, as I was laid up on my couch only able to watch TV and cough ;( I stumbled upon an interview with Sarah McLachlin, who I believe is a misplaced psalmist in our wordly expression of music and celebrity worship. I was so struck with this woman’s grasp on finding every ounce of beauty and significance in life, even in tragedy, and her ability to reflect that beauty into music and lyrics. I began thinking about my own life. I spend majority of my life surviving, striving, and staying busy with useless chores. It’s very seldom that I find the time to pleasure in the beauty of the treasure the Lord has given me in my life. Recently, I have been so overwhelmed with stress that the Lord has had to knock me on my butt and has begun to teach me about rest and breathing. WHY DO I REFUSE TO STOP? WHY DO I EQUATE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MY LIFE WITH HOW BUSY I AM? WHAT BEAUTY AM I MISSING BY NOT TAKING THE TIME TO REFLECT?
As I continued to watch the Lord began to speak to me about righteousness. As we set things into alignment in our lives… not grappling for titles or recognition… but truly finding a settling in who the Lord has created us to be, we begin to find rest. Righteousness is more than just not sinning… righteousness is a whole way of functioning in every aspect of our life. Righteousness is an adjustment into our rightful place in the Lord… FREE FROM STRIVING… FREE FROM GRAPPLING FOR SOMETHING WHEN WE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT WE ARE GRAPPLING FOR… FREE TO EXPLORE THE BEAUTY IN LIFE.

Precious Burnites… I urge you to STOP STRIVING!! Enjoy your life that is given to you… free your heart from man-pleasing and success driven dreams! Focus on the one, most beautiful man, Jesus, who is seeking your heart and your thoughts and you will find a TRUE PLACE OF SUCCESS!! “Father break us free from these man-pleasing mindsets and success oriented striving!” I am honestly grateful for the financial crisis in our nation, as I see that it is causing Americans to once again seek out the foundations of who they are, and REST in what is really important! There is such beauty to be experienced in our lives, yet we seldom take the time to see it. Our next Burn will not be until November 22nd, honestly because I need to rest and take time to see beauty in my own life. So.. I urge you to do the same! Here are the details of the next Burn:

When: NOVEMBER 22ND 12pm-12am (12hrs)

Where: HERITAGE METHODIST CHURCH
1604 Pointer Trail
Van Buren, AR 72956

Why: To contend for an awaken of true identity to come upon the Bride of the River Valley.. to awaken her soul to the beauty of her existence!

COME LORD JESUS!! COME TO THE RIVER VALLEY!! COME WITH BEAUTY AND HONOR! COME WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE!!

-Robin-

I am ruined.. my heart… my life… my relationships. Every part of my life has been invaded by this beautiful one that has captivated my gaze. I have felt the emotions of God for my generation, my region, my county, and for the first time in my life I am without persuasion motivated to know those emotions once again. Everything in my life comes down to this… that the sovereign God of all the universe has come down to me and allowed me to feel a microscopic portion of what He feels for mankind. I am ruined…

Sunday morning I was listening to Corey Russell speak on eternity and he said something that has continued to consume my thoughts. He said that a lack of vision equals laziness. I realized that my desire to just sit and allow life to happen to me is stemed from a lack of vision for my life. He spoke on not wasting any time in our days… not having any regret for the time spent on Earth. I do not want stand before the God of all eternity and realize that the time I spent on Earth was wasted performing medial tasks and that the only feeling I have left is regret… Regret is a frightening thing… I do not want to have any regret in my heart. Yet.. I look back at the past 24 years of my life and realize that I do regret. BUT… today is a new day! I am choosing to recognize who I am today! I AM MADE FOR WAR!!!

The Lord gave me a vision of myself a while back and I was fully clothed in armor standing prepared for war, and yet I seemed to be confused … like I didn’t quite know what to do with my feet. Like I was stuck! I was prepared for war… yet my whole body was paralyzed. The Lord since has been speaking to me telling me that I need to have purpose in everyday that I spend on this Earth, this is what will bring the needed momentum to move forward. My life was not given to me to be wasted by the mind-sucking entertainment industry or distracted by the emotional wounds of my life. I was made to be girded up with the truth of the Lord and then sent into battle!! I believe that many of you may feel like you are in the same situation. It’s so easy to get consumed with the paralyzing pain that life can hand us or even to be distracted by the mundane activities of day to day life. But.. beloved YOU WERE MADE FOR WAR! Your heart cries to stand and fight for truth. The enemy wants so much to have you believe the lies that being alive means surviving. You were made to know the very heart of God!! You were made to be sent as a messanger of His heartbeats… you were sent to be changed into His image fully everyday… you were made to be struck with suck an awesome realization!

When I was in DC the Lord began to show me His emotions toward a generation and handed me a new weapon… intercession. I believe that intercession is the identity of the body of christ. Our battle cry is for the Lord’s heart, and as He releases it we are moved to intercession for our own souls and the souls of our communities, regions, nations, and all of mankind. THIS IS WHAT WE WERE MADE FOR… TO MOVE IN THE SWELLS OF THE FATHER’S HEART… TO STAND AS WARRIORS ON THE WALL OF OUR CITY FEELING THE FATHER’S HEART AND CONTENDING FOR THAT WHICH HAS BEEN LOST!!

Precious Burnites… I may not have understood until now… but this is what the Burn is all about… this is the singular focus of our lives. Worship is our battle cry! We stand on the wall of the River Valley for hours on end contending for the Father’s heart… simple… we just want to feel His emotions and be moved in intercession for Jesus to be shown strong to our generation. EVERYTHING ELSE IS SECONDARY…

We have a Burn in a couple of weeks, and I ask that if you want to know the Lord’s emotions towards you, your family, your region. Come and “waste” a few hours getting to know the greatest lover of your heart.

I am so overcome today with the beauty of the Lord. I had an experience in worship about a week ago where I was reaching my hands toward heaven trying with all of my might to express the love that I have for Him. Trying to reach Him… hear from Him… give Him my requests… find His heart… everything that I’ve always done in worship. Suddenly, I felt this blanket of oil and rest fall on me, I dropped my hands, and I saw Him… I felt as if finally the Lord came down from His throne and was standing right in front of me, loving me, and telling me that I could have anything in His entire kingdom that I wanted. It was one of the most incredible experiences I have ever had with the Lord. I was so awestruck with the eyes of this diety that came from His heavenly place to stand before me… His eyes were deep pools full of love, wisdom, holiness, grief, peace, and infinite grace. I felt as if all I had to do was reach out and touch Him and my life would be complete. All the hardships I have faced, all the sadness in my life, all the sins of my nation would be healed with a simple touch of His garment. I felt like the woman with the issue of blood… so small, insignificant, but with such an understanding that His grace is so massive that I only have to touch a minute piece of Him to recieve something so much greater than anything I’ve ever seen before. But.. the beautiful thing is that in that in that moment of serenity with the one I love I knew that He would’ve given me His entire kingdom. It was the most exhilirating experience… such beauty standing before me!

That’s the beautiful thing about the Lord… His grace and love is so indescribable! I could do nothing to deserve the intimate desires of the God of the universe, yet He desires to give me all the beauty in life! I once read that unconditional love is so difficult for us to fathom because it does not require anything of you to earn it, and it can never be lost. We don’t understand not having to work for something so beautiful! BUT THAT’S OUR LORD!! There is nothing that we can ever do to gain or loose His love… it’s there always and forever! The difficulty simply lies then to let go of ourselves enough to allow the fullness of His love to overtake us. I had a brief glimpse of that love and it has ruined me forever! I’M IN PURSUIT OF THAT LOVE… ALWAYS AND FOREVER… MY BEAUTIFUL JESUS BEFORE ME WITH LOVE AND WAR IN HIS EYES!! I AM KNIT TO HIM FOREVER!

Precious Burnites,
 
I just got home from the Burn Summitt and The Call in Washington DC, and the Lord has lit me up with a renewed vision and fervor to intercede for this land!  I AM REFRESHED AND READY TO TAKE THE LAND AGAIN!  WE ARE GOING TO BE RELEASING THE SWEET FRAGRANCE OF WORSHIP AND ABANDONMENT IN THE RIVER VALLEY TO SEE A TRANSFORMATION OF OUR LAND!
 
 
The Lord spoke to me the morning before The Call and said that I was going to a “governmental summitt”, and that I would be bringing back a strategy for dominion in the River Valley!  I was unsure of what that meant exactly until a group of us went to pray on the steps of the Capitol (where the Senate and House of Representatives resides and all of our national laws are made).  At the base of the Capitol, I was overcome with the spirit of confusion that resided there.  I literally felt like I had stepped onto foreign soil, because of the demonic strongholds that are circling our law-makers.  Our country was based on the sure foundations of righteousness, but that foundation has been given away to the strongholds of tolerance and greed! It is right and good for all men to have equal liberties, but at what cost have we allowed those equal liberties?  We have allowed mothers to kill their unborn children… we have allowed the government to take our civil liberty of prayer out of our schools… HOW LONG WILL WE ALLOW A BABYLONIAN RULE TO RESIDE IN OUR NATION!?!?
 
On the steps of the capitol, as four of us were interceding boisterously in the midst of at least 300 people… I felt a war-cry stirring in my spirit! IT’S TIME TO TAKE OUR LAND BACK FROM THE ENEMY!! IT’S TIME TO LIFT UP THE NAME OF THE LORD IN OUR NATION! IT’S TIME TO FORSAKE FEAR AND RISE UP TO A HOLY MANDATE IN OUR LIVES!
 
Under me… I could feel the ground trembling!! THE EARTH IS READY FOR THE RETURN OF THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE!  The Lord is coming back into the land! He is establishing justice again! Judgement is ringing in the ears of all who hear! I was so struck with the urgency of the hour this week!!
 
RIVER VALLEY!! IT IS TIME TO FALL ON YOUR FACE!! IT IS TIME TO CONTEND FOR THE LAND! NO MORE TIME FOR GAMES! NO MORE TIME FOR OFFENSES! DO NOT LET THE ENEMY WOUND YOU ANY LONGER! LET A WAR-CRY ARISE IN YOUR SPIRITS FOR YOUR FAMILIES… FOR YOUR FRIENDS… FOR THIS CITY… FOR YOUR NATION!! IT’S TIME TO TAKE THE LAND BY FORCE!! WE ARE AT WAR IN OUR NATION, AND IT IS TIME TO RECOGNIZE IT! WE HAVE THE KEYS TO UNLOCKING OUR CITY… THOSE KEYS ARE WORSHIP & INTERCESSION!!!!
 
 
 
So… Please come to the Burn August 30th!! We will be contending for the land with repentance and abandonment!
 
What:  BURN FT. SMITH
When: AUGUST 30TH  12pm-12am (12hrs)
Where:  Crossroads Church  200 Rudy Rd. Alma, AR
Why:  TO SEE THE LORD’S RIGHTEOUS THRONE RISE IN OUR LAND!