8 years later and He is faithful

Dallas, TX  l  08.21.08

This weekend was a marker in the history of my life.

Not just because 70,000 lovers of God filled the Mall in Washington DC for 12 hours of fasting, prayer, and worship contending for revival in America during The Call DC and I was honored to be apart in rumbling some prayers off during the day. Not just because I celebrated my 25th Birthday with all my best friends and family at the Global Burn Summit (which was epic!!). Not just because I have the most gorgeous wife in the world who has loved me for over 8 years now (high school sweethearts).

It symbolizes an 8 year season of divine faithfulness, growth, and favor in God that I cannot and will never forget.

Living in Chesapeake, VA eight years ago, I was about to turn 17 years old and heading into my junior year of high school and football camp. I loved God and grew up in the church where my dad was a pastor. I had just learned to play guitar that summer (mom bought me a guitar) and wail my heart out during our youth group meetings held in the primary public school building we rented down the street from my house. No plasma screens or smoke machines, no great sound system, and no gimmicks in those days…it was just a messy gathering of 300-400 self-absorbed American suburban high school friends that were hungry for the reality of Jesus and His Presence. And we got it.  He showed up time and time again in spite of the poor musical ability and fickle hearts.

It was the aroma of our unbridled passion that drew Him near and our recognition of desperation and brokenness that kept Him near.

In the summer of 2000 we all headed up to something called “The Call” in Washington DC. We didn’t really know what we were getting ourselves into or what is was about…but of course we weren’t going to pass up a last “horrah” trip to DC before school kicked in on monday. When I stepped onto the grass of the National Mall that day with over 400,000 Americans (mostly from my generation) praying, worshipping and genuinely crying out to God for the sake of the nation - something shifted in the deepest parts of my being.

I still cannot really articulate the depth of what happened in that moment. All the lies, constraints, and bondages of culture, religion, and the “American Dream” were severed off my life and I breathed the air of freedom in. Courage, faith, and hope rushed like fountain through the pores of my skin seeping into the depth of my heart and compelled me to believe the wildest things I’ve ever thought and dreamed before. A surge of His Presence and favor washed over my life as I spent the next 12 hours praying, fasting, repenting and worshipping. He marked me that day. He sealed my heart (Song of Solomon 8:6) for good and I would never be the same again.

The journey began and I was “commissioned” to follow the dreams of my heart and wind of the Spirit.

The nostalgia experienced was overwhelming to me as I walked back onto the Mall this past Saturday with our whole BURN crew from around the world (I love you all like family!!). Memories of 2000 couldn’t help but come rushing forth. God birthed a life vision and mandate in my heart that day that haunts me every waking moment of my life. I beheld a vision of a growing army made up of nameless and faceless “burning ones” scattered all over the globe. They were positioned in every nation, tribe and tongue and releasing a burning and fragrant incense that rose in fires all over the earth. As God was sitting high above the earth in the heavens, He began to breath this smoke and incense of vertical worship into His nostrils. This so pleased the Lord that He poured down the rain of revival, blessing, and salvations (end time harvest!) all over the earth.

Revelation dawned on me that He would not come back to Bride or people that did not want Him or were not ready. He was looking for those who would stir up zeal and worship until every tribe, tongue and nation agreed “Let the Spirit and the Bride say COME” (Rev. 22:17).

Its been 8 years, a beautiful wife, a wonderful family, the best friends of my life, a college degree, over 15 countries, lots of battle wounds through sacrifice and pain, 50 burning cities, and a growing global army of worshipping burning warriors later and here I stand.

He is faithful and true. Always and forever. Don’t ever doubt or question it. We still have a long way to go, but that is a lesson of a lifetime.

“I will sing of the Lords great love forever, with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations.”

Psalm 89:1

stay in the heat…

sean

So I am sitting here in an overcrowded townhouse bedroom. I am upstairs and set up between two other guys on the floor, and two other guys on the other side of the room. The fan is blowing hard, and trying to keep us cool, as the humidity and body heat cause quite a warm environment.

On my left, Andy Bird. He is an amazing firebrand from the main YWAM mission base. He has been there 10 years and is full of zeal for the presence of God an the nations. On my immediate right, Lucas Skrobot, director of the Burn Denver. He is locked and loaded, watch out - fire breather.

Other side of the room - Jim Errod - He gets the bed, as he is the elder of all of us. He is on the senior leadership team for YWAM in Kona, Hawaii. He is an amazing father, as he has labored 35 years launching ministries, and missionaries (all the same as living sacrifices) into the farthest darkest corners of the earth. He is pouring out blessing and approval on the movement that we are so embracing.

Last, but certainly not least, Nathan Fray. He is an individual living in a community house/recording studio/24-7 house of prayer in Knoxville, TN. Amazing testimony about how determined kids can too be a part of what is going on to influence film and music with a $0 budget. Yeah, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg.

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As I sit here sweating, neck kinked from being in an awkward position between two random guys and trying to be quiet and comfortable, I realize that I have been born for two things. I have been born to worship, and I have been born to birth a wide spread knowledge and understanding of a kingdom principles.

I can’t sit back any longer and say, I know how to network, and I know so and so, and I can get this for you know who. I have to use the tools - people and resource and money - that God has given me to pursue the cause of the greater good - the Glory of God in the earth, which is the spreading of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all those that are deemed worthy enough to accept the responsibly of losing our lives, so that we might gain it. (That is every human by the way.)

I am inspired and I feel dwarfed by such accomplished individuals, who have 50+ stamps in their passports, and commissioned thousands of missionaries and have even more testimonies to the things God has done miraculously in the recent past. However, I feel as though all of us have the one thing that matters, and that is why the network is formed, and why things are accelerated, and why prayers are answered - We love Jesus, and we are dedicated to the Kingdom being advanced in our hearts, in our families, and in our local communities. It is just icing on the cake when our visions go international.

I was reminded by one of my best friends the other day, as he mentioned the things he would tell someone if he only had a moment left in his life. He said the following:

1) I would say, “Seek God.”
2) Look for Jesus. He’s the only way.

We are all tied together as the priests, whores, saints, moms, prophetic glory stir swirlers, and fathers, all of which are called into order as the HEIRS OF GOD. We are to pursue the things in our hearts, which God planted in our souls in the realm of free will, well before the foundations of the earth were established, to accomplish with blazing speed and zeal the will of God in the earth - which is to exalt God in our praise, establishing His Kingdom in our hearts so the world might know of our love. There is no higher calling. There is NOTHING ELSE.

So, I could write on and on and on and on about the revelation of the Gospel in my heart right now, and tell you of testimony after testimony of what God has done, is doing, and what He promises to do. I won’t because the answer is simple. He has placed something so big in my heart, that I could only complete it with Him, for Him, and with Him in mind. He is the one I long to please. And yes, I could never really please Him, but I choose to be ignorant enough to know that I can seek after His heart to see His purposes built, established, and accomplished in the earth, just as they are in heaven.

So in that, I pray that Lord, you would train us up to think of the future generations, to think outside of our box, and to think of your will, pre- the through the wringer of our own minds, and allow You to soak us with Your anointing - raw - powerful - purposeful in it’s distribution, that You might pour out your love, and allow our sons and daughters and grandchildren to see Your return because the great commission was accomplished in the earth out of the earnest prayer, intercession, worship, and love and care that You instructed us to operation in and around.

Blessings be to our God, the Lord of hosts, and the lifter of our heads. May You never cease to show us how big You are, how loving You are, and how worthy You are.

Blessed be the name of the Lord, and may fire come in the Spirit of the Holy One of Israel, revealing the only burning man, Jesus Christ our Lord, who is the way the truth and the life - leading us to eternal life of submission and service to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

8.8.8 l Beijing, China
Burners, Contenders, and Fellow Countrymen..
Here I go…trying to wrap up the last 24 hours isn’t gonna be easy (much less summarizing the entire journey)…forgive me in advance for all the details I’m going to leave out. For the sake of those that get easily overwhelmed with too many words on my blogs (wimps..haha : )…

Here is the MEGA HIGHLIGHTS LIST SUMMARIZED BELOW:

- Burning outside in Tian’anmen Square / Downtown Beijing with thousands of bystander Chinese soaking in the PRESENCE

- Confrontation with staunch Chinese Police in Tian’anmen Square 

- Interview with Al-Jezeera News Agency on God and the Olympics while praying for the Iraqi Reporter

- Igniting the last of 4 consecutive China Burn launches in Beijing during the Olympic opening ceremony with the underground church

- Its 8.8.8 with a load of new beginnings

THE MAKING OF MODERN HISTORY

Right now I’m watching the finale of the Olympic opening ceremony in my hotel room less than 5 miles away from where it is taking place live in Beijing. This is a historic event not only for the Communist China but for the entire history of humanity. The date is 8.8.8. While we are getting some shuteye to catch an early flight out in the morning, the rest of the western world is just waking up.

Thousands of people from 204 nations are gathered together in the stadium eagerly awaiting the lighting of the Olympic torch. They are boisterously cheering and aggressively waving their respective flags as millions of people from around the world look on. It is quite possibly one of the most incredible things I’ve ever witnessed in my life. Presidents, Kings, stars, athletes…they are all there. The city is completely on lock down. And I thought Washington DC was bad! There is no way to explain the presence of police and military on the streets here. We just drove across the six rings of the city and there was not a sidewalk, street, and corner not completely covered with them. There vast power and authority is on display to the world tonight.

All the while something is raging behind a dark alleyway off a dirt road in an undisclosed location in the city that is shaking the earth and releasing a fragrance to heaven.

NEW BEGINNINGS UNVEILED

There is an electricity in the air that is impossible to articulate and its far more than Olympic hype. Something is shifting across the nations of the world TODAY. NOW. HERE. Simply put…as the world gathers here…God will not let ANYONE steal the spotlight. He always gets the last word.

As we gathered with the Beijing army (some even coming from inner Mongolia!!) to release the DNA of the BURN and vertical worship (with 3 cities of prep behind us)…we spilled our guts with all the revelation, teaching, and impartation we could muster on our final day to this hungry underground crew. I have NEVER felt a more urgent call to worship and pray. Pregnant with the most gut wrenching unction I’ve ever felt before…we collapsed on our face during the opening set and proclaimed this prophetic decree of our day:

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.

The people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise.”

ISAIAH 43:18-19. 21

That single moment of raw deep groaning together..Chinese and American…spirit to Spirit..was the reason we came. Something was transfered, shifted, and absorbed that I will never forget. An era of new beginnings was ushered on 8.8.8. We were thrown onto the stage of history with the company of the those whom the world isn’t worthy ( Heb. 11:38) and became the watchmen of not only China…but every tribe and tongue on earth.

I just heard the Olympic announcer of this ceremony become a voice of truth to city and nation as he declared this right now:

“Beijing: You are a host to the present [or THE PRESENCE] and a gateway to the future”

TIAN’ANMEN MADNESS GOES DOWN

The night before the BURN was to launch in Beijing…we arrived and had some stupid, crazy idea to go down in the middle of the communist chaos and stir it up even more. Throwing out all conventional wisdom but zeroing in on the voice of the Lord, we entered the square to join over 10,000 mainly chinese olympic-goers. We burned in front of the Mormon Temple open-air-style earlier this year in 5 degree weather (check out the youtube video) and with a healthy Biblical example (Gideon, Jericho, etc).. we put our 1 year multiple entry visas on the line while our underground friends prayed for us.

We blazed on the same stones that witnessed thousands of Chinese students cry for freedom and become brutally murdered for their demand in 1989. We became the voice of true freedom as we opened our guitars and djembes and let the sound rush forth. And they gathered. Hundreds circled around us within 2 minutes of the first chord strummed and that is NO exaggeration. Only God knows how many people were there before the police came through 20 minutes later. ALOT of sound came out in that time though and I doubt that worship has ever been heard there before.

Reporters, newspaper editors, TV anchors, university students..they all happened to be there at that time and HIS PRESENCE took center stage. After the first police car broke right through our holy huddle (not stopping for anyone…sound familiar??)…the people would not leave. They came back and requested more! So we went for round two and the numbers grew. This outraged the police and they brought two bigger vehicles through the second time. After the fourth interruption…we got the hint and ended with ecstatic prophetic declaration and people cheering. WILD!!

My favorite line was the last policeman driving through rolled down his window and said quietly to me (almost under his breath)…“please come back tomorrow.”

This doesn’t even begin to capture all that went down during this episode. Watch the video that will post on our youtube account in a few days.

INTERVIEW WITH AL JAZEERA NEWS

Lucas, Caleb and I ventured in front of the massive Olympic Stadium (nicknamed the “Birds Nest”) to check it out and pray. Lucas was sharing this powerful dream he had on the plane flying to Beijing of the stadium as we were in front of it. In the dream, the powers of darkness were working to strangle out the glory of God and keep it bound over the nation..but the glory and Presence of God grew so strong that it burst forth and  broke every ancient yoke and bondage once keeping it back. As I was capturing this vision (to post it on youtube)..tons of people began to crowd around us. Up to the at point, we had been interviewed several times by China Daily and ESPN about the Olympics and the excitement in the air. None of us expected what was to come.

An Arab reporter named Kareem walks up to me and asks if he can interview me. I asked him what it was for and he responded with “Al Jazeera News.” He had no badges or press pass because he said the committee refused to grant them…but explained how he flew in from Qatar to cover the games. He asked me questions and I began to talk about how I feel God has a bigger plan for Beijing than even the Olympics and He was gathering the nations together for something even greater - A display of His glory!! He was a little baffled…but kept talking. He shared his story about his family back home in Iraq and the hardships they are enduring. We then began to pray for him while his recorder was still on!! I felt the Presence of God in that place and we all just stood there for a minute after the prayer feeling real good. He then invited us to come to Bagdad next summer..total confirmation for BURN BAGDAD 09 baby!!

I mean…what are the chances that God would bring a radical muslim from Al Jazeera news to come FIND US and then open the door for us to pray fire over him!! That is sure new beginnings for me!

A FRESH ERA

China has entered into something fresh and alive. The Tian’anmen Square episode represents an openness to this new sound God is ushering in on a mass level. The ravenous fire of the BURN now blowing wildly depicts the dry kindling [underground church] ready for something all consuming and new. Almost every Chinese pastor, apostolic leader, evangelist and worshipper we talked with across the nation repeated this phrase: CHINA IS READY FOR A NEW THING - WE NEED IT NOW MORE THAN EVER. A revelation coming to me was that persecution doesn’t blot out politics and religion in the underground church [trust me], they are alive and active due to our stinking flesh. But the church is unified in its plea for something fresh. They all want it and will give anything up for it. This desperate hunger to “forsake all” is what makes me weep and join together in their plea.

A fresh era is at hand in China and God is “raining down righteousness” and the “earth is opening wide” to receive it [Isaiah 45:8].

Let every nation, tribe, and tongue join together in this pursuit.

Check back later to see all the videos posted on our youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/burn247.

Greetings!

Here are several events coming up in August!

- Pre-Burn Meeting 7pm, August 21st - Believer’s Church

- Burn Preview Night 7pm, August 22nd - Believer’s Church

- 24 Hours of Burn midnight, August 22nd - Believer’s Church

Be sure to mark your calendars!

Come and experience the fire, passion, and heart of the Burn 24/7 with Sean Feucht and the Burn Tulsa Team at the Burn Preview. This is not a night to miss!

Crying out for His Presence. . . . .
Creating for the Creator. . . . .
Awakening a Generation. . . . .
Transforming a city with non-stop vertical worship and prayer. . . . .

This is our DNA. It is bringing unity. It is creating a platform for him. He is bringing forth a greater revelation of Love in Christ Jesus!

Make sure to bring everyone you know with you on Friday, August 22nd to the BURN PREVIEW.

Everyone needs to know about the Burn, and how it is changing the City of Tulsa. . . . .
One note at a time. . . . .
One phrase at a time. . . . .
One heart at a time. . . . .
REDEEMING THE TIME.

Please forward this on to everyone you know so that we can watch the city BURN!

Please make sure to visit www.burntulsa.com to hear some of the music that has been captured recently. Also, if you are not normally on our email list, and would like to be, please email tulsa@theburn247.com.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact brandons@theburn247.com - especially if you want to get involved in future events in town!

08.06.08 l Somewhere on Hainan Island, China

From a Bar to Beijing 
The supernatural ways of God have infected every day of our journey thus far. Divine encounters, powerful salvations, incredible healings, and the manifest Presence of God have marked us. We are out in the village on this beautiful mountainous island standing in the South China Sea off mainland China. There’s definitely a different feel out here from our first Burn launch in the fastest growing city in the nation (Shenzhen) and even from our second in the capital city of this province (Haikou). We are in a place where time somewhat stands still. Deemed the “Hawaii” of China, the island of Hainan is a popular vacation spot for the growing population of Chinese who can afford to travel. But the village we are in now is off the beaten path of vacationers.

Although you would think the government is somewhat relaxed and laid back in a place like this…think again. Please remember this is still China and NOT Hawaii. The week before we were coming out here…the host pastor of the first ever Burn in this region was arrested and brought in by the police on charges of suspicion. The government is anxious, worried, and fearful as the Olympics kick-off this friday and cracking down on anything they see as out of the norm. I guess a room crammed full of boisterous Chinese going for 24 hours of nation-shaking heart-pounding worship would raise a bit of an alarm!! Nevertheless…we could not deny the hunger of the people and so we moved locations to a place less common for a gathering like this - a sweet bar/nightclub. PERFECT!!!

Fire ripped through the place as the concept of vertical and Davidic worship was “caught” during the first set. We experienced something that has never happened during 24 hours of burning before - A WEDDING!! That’s right!! A couple that was denied a wedding by their family because of their love for Jesus desired be unified in the BURNING presence of God with all their radical worshipping friends!!! How amazing and prophetic is that?! This is definitely a prophetic picture of what God is doing in the nation today. He is longing for the true marriage of the lamb to take place across CHINA!! It was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen happen in a BURN before and we were so honored to be apart of this event with the couple and their loving community.

There is much more to write but time is short and wifi is scarce. Tonight we depart for the final leg of our journey. We know God always saves the best wine for last and so we are expecting something to happen beyond our wildest dreams during our final Burn launch in Beijing. The entire world is gathering in that city this week…and God will ALWAYS get the glory when the attention of the world is at stake. We are contending for a mighty wave of God’s Presence to pour out of this burning furnace and wash over every tribe and tongue gathered there. We know God will manifest this through healings, salvations, miracles, and we’re elated at how this might all unfold.

Please pray for safety as we pass through the rigorous security process on our way into the city late tonight…we want to protect the precious lives of those leaders and pastors we’ll spent the last week with. They are forever in our hearts and they are BURNING like never before!

We’re gonna finish this off strong…but we covet, value and MUST have your prayers in this crucial hour!! We are confident in the truth of John 1:5 as we wrap up this assignment:

The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness; the darkness couldn’t put it out! (MSG)

Feel free to pass this on!!

stay in the heat…
sean and the burn china team

RALLY THE ARMY TO PRAY!!!

****PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT UPDATE…WE NEED YOUR PRAYERS AND MUST ROUSE THE GLOBAL ARMY TO PRAY!!****

BURN DIRECTORS AND PASTORS - PLEASE FORWARD THIS ONTO YOUR CITY LISTS TODAY TO RALLY PRAYER!!

Beloved Burn Crew…

Writing you from an undisclosed location in China and can’t be too specific with info because of the massive scrutiny right now over all our emails and communication. Trust me…they are reading this :  ). We just launched our second BURN furnace in the midst of the intensity in the atmosphere leading up to the Olympics next week. It was an absolutely gorgeous time as we taught for 2 hours leading up to it on vertical worship, the tabernacle of David, and this global movement of worship raging across the world. THEY HAVE NEVER HEARD THIS STUFF BEFORE!!! They are eating up every word and soaking in the revelation that these BURNS can change the atmosphere over their cities and nations. They are a people so sensitive to God’s Presence…they crumble when He enters the room and just began to weep, cry, dance, laugh, and worship with passion and devotion. During the past few BURN launches I’ve become completely overwhelmed by this movement God is releasing all over the world and not only that we get to be apart but are RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT!!!

THE FIRE IS RAGING IN CHINA AND THE UNDERGROUND CHURCH IS GRABBING HOLD OF IT!!! The places we are burning are tucked away and hidden in back alleys and behind curtains over doors. The pastors keep saying that this will revolutionize the entire nation and many have plans to travel and bring this to every province of the nation!! They some of the boldest people I’ve ever met.

PLEASE KEEP PRAYING!!! PRAY PRAY PRAY!!! WE NEED INTERCESSORS TO RISE UP!! PLEASE MEET IN YOUR CITIES, CHURCHES, AND FURNACES AND CONTEND FOR OUR TEAM AND FOR THE NATION OF CHINA!!  The town we are traveling to tomorrow has faced some fierce persecution leading up the our BURN there in a few days. A few pastors have been thrown into prison and taken from their families. The apostolic leaders in China say this is worst and most intense persecution they have faced since the 1970’s!!! The government is laying down the hammer leading up to the Olympics in Beijing next week when they will open their borders to the world.

I cant wait to show you all the videos, footage, and pictures I am capturing…its like out of a movie or something…absolutely unreal stuff!! Every time I try to post something little on youtube the government pulls it down…so I’m gonna stop trying!! Just know that things are blazing!! I just talked with our BURN INDO team and realized we BURNED together in conjunction with them in Borneo last night and we are both ending today!! We didnt even plan that!! God is igniting all of Asia with this stuff!!!

WE ARE LIVING IN THE MOST AMAZING HOUR IN HISTORY!!! RISE UP AND PRAY AND USHER IN GODS GLORY WITH US OVER THE EARTH!!

much love, grace, and fire on you from the Far East!!

sean and the china crew

08.31.08 l Downtown Shenzhen l Southern China

I am in love with this country - period.

We haven’t even been on the ground in mainland China 48 hours yet…and we have already imparted our heart for BURN 24-7 with the apostolic pastors, worship leaders, and musicians (in a “short” 6 hour service yesterday), hung out and loved on precious children at a local orphanage, and are now 9 hours into our first of four BURN launches across the nation!! We dont play games on these trips people!! Time is short and the kingdom is at hand here!! We launched 24 hours of nonstop, passionate, vertical worship and prayer with the thriving underground church here in a small room tucked away on the 5th floor (grace!!) of a massive business skyscraper in the downtown of the fastest growing city in all of China!! There couldnt be a more strategic city to ignite this blaze in and I’ve never met a people more ready and hungry for it.

Shenzen is the “southern gate” of China and the largest port in the nation (3rd largest in the world!). Anything received and welcomed here quickly spreads throughout the entire country. So shall it be with this fire God is releasing as I’m typing now! The average age of the city population is under 30 years old and they are yearning for truth and life in the midst of the “economic boom” that has radically shifted the lives of evert Chinese citizen. I heard the prophetic declaration spoken from Hanna when we arrived two days ago: “these people are dry kindling…they are so ready for this!” She was so right and that statement has never been more true. I’ve never met people so tender towards the Presence of God. They just melt when He enters the room. They know their Jesus and He is keen to come visit them whenever they ask. They are a weeping, warring, waiting, hungry people and what I’ve learned from them in this short time has already changed my life!

This entire idea of Davidic night and day worship is a brand new concept in this nation. As we shared and taught on this yesterday with pastors and leaders around the city, they ate up every word we spoke and every prayer we prayed. They asked many questions and agreed that God’s Presence is the only hope to reach over 1 billion lost souls across the nation. Three things about what we’ve experienced have blasted me already.

1) As we strategized on how to plan this first of many BURNS…they suggested that we take 3 hour sets each because the typical 2 hours is just too short!! This is the first time in all my travels in planting the BURN furnaces across the world that I’ve ever heard this. We just couldnt deny them…so 3 hours it was!

2) I quickly realized that you don’t “lead” worship with the Chinese…there is no such thing. They blaze with all their heart towards Jesus and you just try to keep up with them!! They could easily do without you..that is a powerful revelation for the nations.

3) The pure simplicity of worship has hit me so hard tonight. I really struggled going into this BURN because they insisted that our team take the first  shifts while hundreds of eager NON-ENGLISH speaking Chinese were ready to worship with us. I tried to explain that it would be hard for them to understand and engage because I dont know any Mandarin or any of their songs. They taught me how to say “Jesus Come” and I knew that Hallelujah was pronounced the same (as in all languages). So that was enough to fill 3 hours of worship. THEY NEVER GOT TIRED OF SAYING THOSE SIMPLE WORDS…AND I REALIZED THAT I NEVER GOT TIRED EITHER!!

Maybe we make things too complicated in the West with our many crafty words. Maybe “Come Jesus” and “Hallelujah” is enough. It sure works over here in the fastest growing church in all of recording history.

Just some thoughts and revelations…We’re all getting blasted over here!! I’ve found myself just laying prostrate asking God for the same passion, zeal and fervor that drives them to weep, wail, groan, dance, and sing at the top of their lungs to their Father!!

Its beautiful, moving, and BURNING hot right now! Thanks for praying!

More to come!! We fly out tomorrow for destination #2…be praying for us as we go!!

stay in the heat….

sean

****PLEASE PASS THIS ON AS YOU FEEL LED TO STIR UP PRAYER*****

san francisco, ca l 07.27.08

all eyes on china

1.4 billion souls and over 20% of the total world population is at stake.

Its been one wild insane beautiful week leading up to our BURN CHINA team departure today from SFO. My week actually started out in the Bay Area pouring into the move stirring in hungry hearts off Market Street in downtown San Francisco. What is so great about this season we are living in marked by favor and unusual “nearness” to the Presence of God is that He is no respecter of persons, cities, or nations!! God doesn’t love China more than He loves America or Lakeland more than San Francisco!!!! Isn’t that beautiful! His ways are not our ways nor His thoughts our thoughts (Is. 55:8)! God is simply showing up wherever people are getting on their face, getting over themselves, and realizing life is worthless and the world is hopeless without a real demonstration of His power and Kingdom manifested on earth. So last Sunday night we went for it and God showed up like He’s been doing every night for well over a month with this tribe of passionate pursuers in Northern CA! We felt the wave of the Lord come with true repentance, authentic joy, and divine healings!

His power became stronger and stronger as the days of the week moved forward. We journeyed to Tyler on Wednesday for a night of consecration and worship with tons of ravenous youth kids contending for fire to be released all over East Texas.  It was by far the most passionate crew I’ve ever been with out there…an army is coming forth that will break off religion in that region! We followed this up the next night with powerful Burn Preview meeting in DFW and an open air tent “revival style” gathering in the Texas countryside the night after that!   I’m beginning to witness people flocking to any place where they feel God might show up…they are coming out of the woodwork…and He is meeting us!

In preparation for China…I’ve been watching some footage from the underground church and its completely wrecking me forever!  Witnessing hundreds of Chinese believers packed together in an underground cave for their daily routine prayer meeting at 430am and they are weeping, laying prostrate, groaning and crying out in sincere devotion and desperation will mess you up! And this is NORMAL for them!!  The passion far eclipses anything I’ve ever experienced before…it moves me to tears and leaves me aching for more.  Not that anything could prepare me for what we are about to encounter…but I have new levels of desire stirring my heart for His Kingdom to be revealed to mankind. I know its all been building for what we are about to be apart of.

Let me quickly clarify a few things. We are NOT going to China as pompous and arrogant westerners feeling they “need” anything we have to give. We are broken and spilled out vessels going to serve, learn, grow, worship, and pray. We all realize we just need MORE of Gods Presence poured out on the nation and that is what binds us together.  Some of the most incredible doors imaginable have flung wide open for us on this trip! I cant go into too much detail, but we’ll be working solely with the thriving underground church as we journey from Hong Kong to Beijing and everywhere in between teaching, releasing, imparting, and burning night and day with the most passionate lovers on the planet. I’m personally praying to receive the mighty and real impartation of HUNGER on levels I know not of. I’m sooo ready for it and I know I need it more now than ever before!!

The eyes of the world are on China in this hour as they host the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and welcome the nations of the world within the communist borders. China is taking center stage and demanding the attention of the world. We believe with the underground church that “her light has come!” (Is. 60:1) God has positioned this whole deal from the beginning of the foundations of the earth and has set it all up. HE OWNS THE STAGE OF HISTORY IN THIS HOUR AND NO ONE (government, leader, principality) WILL TAKE IT FROM HIM! To the outside world, China is marked by a booming economy and quickly emerging as the new world super power crushing anyone that stands in her way. To the Chinese believers, the nation is corrupt, godless, plagued by famine, tribal wars, earthquakes, drought, and in desperate need of another sovereign move of God.

So here we are again…at a true moment of desperation on behalf of a nation in crisis. If He doesnt show up, reveal himself, and pour out His presence - the Nation and its 1.4 billion souls have no hope. The show is set and the OVER 20% OF THE WORLDS POPULATION LIVING IN HER BORDERS IS WHAT IS AT STAKE!! Pray for us as we journey on the next two weeks following the voice of the Spirit and planting sustainable furnaces of vertical worship and prayer among the largest nation in the world. WE NEED YOU TO RISE UP AND ENGAGE HEAVEN WITH US!!

Please pray our team verse with us:

” I will go before you and level the mountains, I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron. I will give you the treasures [souls] of darkness [communist China], riches [souls] stored in secret places [underground church], so that you may know that I am the Lord..”

Isaiah 45:1-3

….stay in the heat

sean

www.theburn247.com

07.17.08 l Morningstar Ministries l Fort Mill, SC

What began as a “normal” worship conference ended with the commissioning of an army of rabid young psalmists, musicians, and worshippers to cultivate and raise up places for Jesus to lay His head in their cities, nations, and lives. This great exchange shows the season and the times we are in. Who wants a “typical” or even just a “good” charismatic conference anymore anyway?? One word = LAME.

My expectations are so high now every time we gather together to seek His face that I’m really disappointed if I leave not seeing a different side of HIm than I’ve seen before!! Like Moses, my dream is to talk to God “face to face” (Ex. 33:11) as a man would his friend. In order to not literally die while this happens and ascend the “hill of the Lord” David warns that we must have “clean hands and a pure heart” (Ps. 24:4). While I believe God is granting a generation accessibility to Him on levels we’ve never thought were possible on earth, this always comes with a price. While most of us (me included) have no clue how much we have to sacrifice or our flesh must sizzle to get there…we are all saying the same thing -  “WE WANT YOU NO MATTER THE COST….NO MATTER THE PRICE!!”  LIFE IS JUST LAME WITHOUT YOU AND YOUR PRESENCE!! SO TAKE US THERE THAT WE MAY TRULY LIVE, EXPERIENCE TRUTH, AND DWELL WITH YOU!!

This was the very thing we taught, trained, and imparted to this massive crew of worshippers last weekend in Fort Mill, SC. Its a deeper and truer desire than just honing your skills (which is very important), learning your theory, and getting in the flow as a worship leader…but its the passion, zeal, and hunger for HIS FACE. This is where it all starts. Hunger drove this crew from California, Canada, Honduras, Austria, and even South Korea to this conference!! Talk about desperation! They were the face of a new wave of broken, random, beautiful, and hungry tribe longing for more.

Well, more is exactly what they got!! The last night of the conference, we honored Leonard Jones as a father of this massive global worship movement spreading like fire around the globe. As a cynical, arrogant and prideful generation…we must learn to HONOR those who have come before and labored among us!! The words of Bill Johnson are wise and timely in this season: “You cannot receive from what you don’t honor.” This simple act released something electric in the atmosphere and as John Mark and I released this Davidic worshipping mandate to BURN BRIGHT until the return of Jesus…the fire began to blaze in that room! SInce the conference was called “THE FURNACE” - I guess we got what we asked for! Arrows of passion and zeal were shot into the hearts of those in the room and people were so overcome with the fire of God that they could no longer stand. We thought we would end with releasing our sound of love and affection to the Father…so we lifted our voices together as one united instrument of praise. From that point forward, the sound didn’t stop until 7am the next morning!! They took the words to rebuild the tabernacle of David literal and they burned all night long!!  I could only make it until 2am before I was wiped…but they kept going and going and burning and burning!!

I’m beginning to realize that once this dream is caught…people don’t want to stop. Why should we stop them?! I say BURN ON BABY!! The widespread revelation God is sharing with His bride is the same thing He spoke to Mike Bickle in Cairo, Egypt many years ago: I’m going to change the face of the church in one generation.” I got news for you…HE IS GOING TO USE US TO DO IT!

EVERYONE OUT THERE - DON’T STOP BURNING UNTIL HE RETURNS…IN YOUR CAR, YOUR HOME, YOUR CHURCH, AND IN THE FURACE!! NEVER LET THE FIRE DIE!!

Check out a sweet video from this weekend at the link below! Its good stuff you’ll wanna see!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mJG4WO2ng0 - you can also see it on www.myspace.com/seanfeucht

We are headed to the West Coast this weekend and going to join theexplosion of God’s Presence being released heart of downtown San Francisco every night for the past month!! More come…stay tuned!!

stay in the heat…

sean

These are thoughts from a recent response to some questions that were posed about the Burn and its purpose, and some good points to remember why we do what we do, and why it looks the way that it does.

“I think if I had to narrow the mission and vision down to simple statements they would look like this:

Mission: “To connect, inform, and train people dedicated to worship and prayer for ministry until the return of the Lord.”

Vision: “The vision is a unified body seeking the Presence of God - through worship.”

I feel like we see an example of this described in Luke 2, when the angels proclaim the will of God in the earth, that Christ has come to/for all men, and through Christ peace and goodwill to all men. I feel like UNITY is what my life and personality were engineered for, and I have been working and praying very hard for opportunities to do more things in this arena.

I feel like the Burn is something that will continue to develop into something that is more corporate, but the goal in it’s present stage is not to create a corporate worship environment, but to allow people room to worship and pray out of their heart without time constraints, or limitations that can be placed by working to guide an audience or congregation into that secret place with the Lord. This doesn’t mean that there is no room for corporate prayer or worship or prayer.

In my opinion, it feels as though the corporate elements of unity also form around the perimeter of the Burn, in relationships that are being developed by business leaders, pastors, intercessors, ministry leaders and many other forms of influence in this city in particular. I have watched a network begin to form and see relationships develop, house church networks link up with traditional church, business link up with ministry etc. It is my heart that these sorts of endeavors will form themselves around a vertical channel that is dedicated to worship of JESUS, the King, and the Father, for the good things they have done. We work hard to be His hands and feet, and we find ourselves gaining a new revelation of love, grace, mercy, faith, self-control, kindness, and sort of good fruit, and subsequently our hearts respond to this revelation and we have to worship. We cannot worship without this revelation, and that is why we come to an environment where there are no guidelines for what we do, but parameters, rather, that I feel can provoke us to make our sound and dance our dance that is unique to our person, taking our hearts and minds and souls out of the box so that he can see the real us, and he can see our heart for worship - which goes beyond songs so many times.

The Burn is such an interesting thing. For as much time and energy that I have put into this for the past four years, I want to hope that it is turning into something that I can wrap my mind around, unfortunately, I don’t think that is going to happen! We have expanded to over 75 cities nationwide with this in the last two years. The Burn’s purpose is to allow/provoke us to seek His presence on His terms. There are actually times at the Burn when it does veer towards a corporate worship set, or corporate prayer set. I have seen this happen many times. However, we want to honor the Lord, as this is our 100% vertical channel, worship.