“The Power of Your Presence”

09.10.08 l Sydney, Australia

My time in Borneo, Indonesia was incredibly fruitful, powerful and life impacting. It was a joy and honor to spend time contending for the soul of the largest Muslim nation in the world with our first long term team (Burn Team Asia) and a few other radicals that jumped over for a month from the States to pour gas on the fire. The ministry was pretty nonstop most days, but it’s definitely the place where you want to be poured out “like a drink offering” on a nation that is home to 23 unreached people groups representing millions upon millions who have still never heard the name of Jesus.

I was looking forward to coming back to Sydney for an extended weekend with hot showers, beautiful mixture of old and new friends, and tons of hungry hearts. I arrived back into the city this morning (on another red eye flight) and after I took a quick nap, ventured out to get some fresh air. I had no clue that God was going to bomb me with one of the most amazing encounters of my life.

This afternoon I hiked around the glorious trail from Bronte Bay to Bondi Beach to get out in the beauty of this land and adjust to another time zone. Something about God’s creation revitalizes and refreshes me. The weather here is breezy cool and dry as they are coming out of winter to welcome the springs warmth. It was an incredibly magnificent journey with stunning views from the seaside cliffs all along the south coast of Sydney.  As I continued walking, my fascination with the ocean grew incredibly strong. I was mesmerized and drawn to it. The Lord began to speak so clearly to me. He said, “Look at the ocean.” As I was looking out, I was overwhelmed with the raw powerful energy of the ocean as the waves pounded against the rock cliffs jutting out into the sea. The wind raging, the current swirling and the waves mounting up created this psychotic pulsating rhythm of its own that was uncontrollable and untamable. It was an absolutely staggering moment. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen the ocean act like it was today – with all the whitewash it was even hard to see the turquoise blue color underneath. Even at Australia’s premier surfing hot spots, no one dared to get out in this swell! People all over were gawking in amazement with frightened looks.

The Lord spoke again: “This is a picture of what the great end time move of my Presence will look like.”

I was baffled as I realized this was the answer to my question I had asked the day before on top of the Menara Tower overlooking the vast Asian metropolis of Kuala Lumpur. As I viewed mosques littering the city as far as the eye could see, I was overcome with a longing more than ever to see the King return in all of His majesty to the billions of souls in the surrounding 10/40 window nations. In that moment my soul was filled with a passion I did not even know existed and I shouted out “When is this next move of your Spirit going to come and what will it look like?” I heard no response except a few strange looks from those Asians looking out around me. The lack of answers didn’t really bother me that much because it is one of those questions you just don’t think you will hear back on anytime soon. My weak faith told me it was just another thing I would “figure out” or it would unfold before me as I lived life.

That all changed today.

As I took in the panoramic of this raging ocean, the Spirit was downloading to me the revelation of what was being spoken. I began to understand this would be a fierce, violent, and offensive move and not really at all what I expected. He spoke again “It’s a move of the overwhelming POWER of my Presence.” I began to watch the raw surging power of the ocean grip my heart and I felt the glory of God come over me. I started to weep right there on the cliffs watching this all unfold. He continued: “It’s a move that will stun and shock humanity as I pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Nothing will stop the deep waters of my Presence as they wash over the nations.”

I then began to shake as images from the last week with the faces of those villagers living in the deep jungles of Borneo flashed before my eyes. I understood that this next move is something beyond what we could imagine…above styles, hype, and even anointings,…It is His Presence taking over complete control.

As my gaze was fixated on the swirling sea, something about it beckoned me to jump in and get pounded by the waves. I said, “But God I want to be apart of that move! This is what I’m living for! I’ve given all to it!”

The Spirit spoke to me saying, “You must first lose everything - your titles, rights, accomplishments, reputations, safety, security, religion, and anything else that could get in the way. They will not help you in these waters – they are too deep and too dangerous. I am in control and the glory is in the power of my presence.”

WOW.

After a long pause, I just whispered out “I’ve given up a lot Lord and I’ll give up more.”

Then I heard, “You are still too safe, Sean. You are too safe. You are too safe. You are too safe. My church is too safe. She must risk it all. She must risk it all and come into the treacherous waters of my Presence. She must lose herself in my waves as I usher her into something greater.”

The Spirit then began to reveal to me the safety of my own heart and everything I’m still clinging too for security in my life. As a prerequisite for this coming move, God will only allow a nameless and faceless people who will risk their entire lives, family, finances, reputations, and fame to jump in the deep ocean waters of His Presence and be carried on the wave of His Spirit that will wash over every nation, tribe, and tongue in the world in the coming days! This is a people that understand in doing so…they could lose their lives…but it’s a risk they are all willing to take. These are not ankle-deep wading waters, but ferocious waters to swim in that “cannot be crossed” by our own abilities and performance (Ezekial 47:5).

Then came the sound, the sound, the sound of the waters roaring began to move me.

The ocean was raging so loud that it made it hard to think at times. I remembered a book I once read on sound waves and frequencies. The ocean noise and waterfalls are some of the only “sounds” on the earth fulfilling the entire sound spectrum. The sound frequencies that are audible to the human ear are between 20 and 20,000 hertz. Those sounds below 20 hertz are felt more than they are heard while those above 20,000 could cause major hearing damage with prolonged exposure. The noise of this ferocious riptide was covering the entire grid of sound. It is like that sound from Heaven mentioned in Revelation 14:2:

“And I heard a sound from Heaven like he roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder.”

The Spirit spoke to me again, “The nations will know my Presence is coming at the Sound that comes forth from the waters.”

I was standing in shock as the ear-splitting ocean noise grew louder and louder in my head.

With all this madness that was happening around me and the deep emotion being released from the inner core of my being, I opened up my Bible to see if I could possibly find anything to bring confirmation to all this. As thumbed open the page, this was the very first line I read:

“You have overwhelmed me with all your waves.” – Psalm 88:7

There is a generation and people that God is looking to overwhelm with His great end-time move. It will come and come swiftly. Those wanting to be in middle of this move must jump in the treacherous deep ocean waters. They must RISK RISK RISK all safety and security.

It’s the move of the Power of His Presence.  A move where His glory would be known throughout the entire world and all fame, accolades, and attention would be on HIM!!

We’ve waiting our whole life for this Lord! Creation has groaned for this. We jump in with all we are, We jump into your mighty surging waves and breakers! We risk EVERYTHING knowing one second in the middle of this move of the Power of your Presence is worth it all!!

stay in the heat…

_sean

DEFIANCE RAGES IN THE RING OF FIRE
Tonight, the incense of beautiful and fragrant midnight worship is rising from this blazing furnace on the west coast of the island of Borneo in the largest Muslim nation in the world. The sounds coming forth are pounding truth and hope into the dark core of Indonesia while unveiling the staggering lamp of His Presence that shames all other fake lights.
This week has been an incredible journey into the heart of the largest island in Indonesia. We’ve burned and released praise on the highest mountain places in the land and visited the villages hidden deep in the jungle (I mean deep!!) to stir up fresh hunger for His Presence. On just my fourth time visiting this gorgeous string of more than 10,000 islands littered over the South Pacific “Ring of Fire,” I feel I’ve fallen in love with this nation of destiny all over again. On the heels of The Call gathering two weeks ago, in which over 1 million youth gathered in 5 stadiums around the nation, there is electricity in the air that I have not felt in prior visits.
Today we held a lunch to meet and share our hearts with the top 50 apostolic leaders and pastors from all over the region. The current surge of true unity and humility among the leaders in this nation has never been stronger. They are giving up trying to build their church and God is beginning to build his church centered around His Presence across the nation. We had the most amazing time together as the long-term BURN ASIA team, short-term Indonesia team, and I imparted and released this Davidic mandate with these beautiful warriors of God. They were blown away by our sacrifice, passion, and dedication for God’s Presence to invade their nation, asked us many questions, pledged their wholehearted support, and we ate some good fried chicken and rice together (they love the stuff!). It was a time I’ll never forget.
Yesterday the Lord put me in a hilarious situation and bombed me with a heavy revelation while I was speaking to a few hundred youth at a local church in town. They came streaming in from many churches all over the city wanting to hear the white man speak and hear what this BURN stuff was all about. I prepared some typical missions encouragement teaching for the night but scrapped it at the last minute because I thought it was too common, easy, and lame (I often do that). So I just started going off about the Davidic anointing on this generation and how God is on the search for those hearts. I said that He wasn’t interested in “good youth church kids” but the wild worshipping, crazy, feisty crew that would fight for His Presence at all costs.
The revelation came when I realized how DEFIANT David was against the systems, cultures, and enemies of God in his day. In 1 Samuel 17, He came out against his brother’s wishes to see what this talk of Goliath was all about. He fought just to get to the fight – imagine that! When he finally arrived, this little ruddy and handsome boy asked this question revealing his contempt: “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that He should defy the armies of the living God?” (Verse 26). Little David’s heart was bigger than any soldier in Saul’s army and was overcome with holy anger towards this enemy blaspheming His one true God. He did not resort to fear and toleration (like many teachings in our day). He did not bow out due to “respect” or “courtesy.”  He loved God way too much to do something foolish like that. He blatantly and ferociously attacked this principality that stood in between his nation of destiny and God’s perfect plan of freedom. I began to compare this simple Bible story to the current crisis in Indonesia. There is a massive Goliath in the land wreaking havoc all over this nation of destiny. So where are the David’s willing to stand up and slay the giant of Islam? Who will stare it in the face and beg the question “who is this uncircumcised Philistine that He should defy the armies of the living God?” I realized that I was practically yelling at this point in my delivery and the youth were totally stunned and stirred…but mostly stunned. I shared that God is raising up warriors with the sound of raw Davidic worship louder than the ugly chant of the many mosque’s flooding the atmosphere over the island with darkness and fear. Again, they were stunned. This didn’t stop me and I kept it rolling. I then invited those longing to be filled with a fiery jealousy to come forth and receive. They came running down and we began to lay on hands and pray for them. The Holy Spirit blasted through the room like something mighty fierce. Demons manifested and were cast out of those shaking on the floor, youth everywhere were weeping and falling out under the power, and encouragement, faith, and true defiance was released on a David generation. It was one wild night!
I didn’t find out until after the service was over that the church was strategically surrounded by three of the largest mosques in town. The pastor said they could most definitely hear what going on from the church (they turn their speakers up so insanely loud in these nations and we had a translator!) and that is why everyone was stunned I would say such things. He thought it was kind of funny and agreed the Church needs to rise up with the power and presence of the Lord that defies the lies and bondage of Islam holding the promises of God for the people at bay.
The Lord spoke clearly to us last year as we were praying about where to launch our first furnace in the nations (outside of the USA). We were in a season of intercession for the wall of Islam to fall over every nation and the billions of souls around the world its hideous grip are strangling out. The Holy Spirit spoke to me in a dream that if Islam is to crumble across the world…Indonesia would have to come down first. We sent our first BURN 24-7 short term team of 24 last year as a result and followed that up with a long term BURN ASIA team committed to one year of planting sustainable and enjoyable furnaces of night and day worship and prayer in the largest Muslim nation of the world. They have been doing an incredibly amazing job and are my new heroes in life.
So here we stand. Together with Indonesians from all over the Island at nearly 1am on Friday night, we are raising our voices in DEFIANCE at the Giants in the land and lifting a shout of Praise to the ONE TRUE BEAUTIFUL POWERFUL MAJESTIC INCREDIBLE GORGEOUS PERFECT HOLY WORTHY AND ONLY GOD OF INDONESIA!!
Sydney, Australia is next on the hit list…stay tuned!!

Keep blazing..
sean

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Here I sit watching the rays of the emerging dawn rising and reflecting off the tarmac at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Its that time of morning where a gentle stillness looms as the earth braces herself for another day full of humanities chaotic movements forced upon her.  I’m now in the heart of Southeast Asia and I’m totally wasted. My short weekend in Byron Bay, Australia was rich and full of incredible fire, love, and authentic beautiful relationship. That’s what I refer to as a “life-giving” experience instead the “life-draining” ones that are often encountered in these trips across the globe. This does not mean the latter trips are bad or not loads of fun…it just means you pour out a lot more than you get poured into.  I feel so at home with my friends in the Southern Hemisphere and that makes it hard to leave. They are most certainly my tribe.

Somewhere along the way in the church, people got the idea that a lifestyle of intense traveling with a rigorous schedule bringing the truth of the Gospel to many nations, cultures, and LONG LONG plane flights was a glamorous act and something to be envied. I have gotten that feeling from friends and strangers quite a bit the past two years.  But today as I’m sitting alone (without my beautiful wife : ) listening to Norah Jones in a massively empty terminal deep in the heart of this Muslim Malaysian capital after concluding my 5th red-eye international plane flight in the last month…its not so dreamy anymore. This is where it becomes a true labor of love. Many times this morning have I asked the Lord why I do this. I’m asking God the same questions even my closest friends have asked me over the past two years like: Why do you want to leave your wife so much? Don’t you think your priorities should be family-first? Isn’t that the scenario that has got people in trouble in the body of Christ right now? Are you truly following God’s will or your own driven-ness? And the most frequented – Don’t you all need to get time away on a vacation for crying out loud? Those are ALL valid questions from really good friends and I’ve been really giving them more thought and prayer lately. So I finally asked God again today. [Side note: I’m reading “the shack” right now and its completely rearranging my view of who God is and how He interacts with us…its been incredible - plug: you need to read it if you haven’t!].

So I asked the Lord in the midst of all the open doors, increased favor, rigorous schedule, and the many nations, nations, nations that are burning a hole deep in my heart…….God, are you IN all this craziness? We all should ask Him that from time to time to check our hearts and motives. Am I just becoming the hamster on the wheel with ministry? The word overextended brings a whole new meaning to Kate and my life right now. We are so thankful for all the amazing people God gathered in Dallas to add their flame to this blazing inferno family (Dave, Melissa, Tracey, Smiths, Mauldin’s, and many more!!! We love you and thank God for you and your dreams for global revival!) Its not that I’m burned out and spent spiritually or even emotionally…I actually fill fuller and deeper than ever before…but my mortal body is just struggling to keep up with the fire inside me. The constant word spoken over and over again to Kate and I from prophets, pastors, friends, leaders, and even little kids remains the same. Things are going to keep increasing! The verse from Isaiah “enlarge the place of your tent” has been spoken over us at least 50 times in the last year….no joke!!! Just a few days ago in the Burn Byron Bay this 5-year-old girl walks up and hands me this little cute crumbled note on a scrap of loose paper. On the outside she scribbled “Dear Sean” and on the inside there was a picture of a fire drawn with metallic purple and pink markers. Below her drawing of the fire it read: “the fire will get bigger.”

If that is not prophetic I don’t know what is. And it came at a time I am possibly thinking about cutting some things out of this insane fall schedule with many international trips and Burn launches around the globe still to come. I began to ask God for a confirmation to the little girl’s note along with the other words. We need it for Kate and my peace of mind as well those people and friends that keep asking (side note: We’re so happy we have friends that truly care about us!!).

The Lord clearly said to me “Do not become weary, Sean.”

So I responded back to him..”Too late God…I’m already weary, tired, and MISS MY WIFE!!”

I was then immediately brought to the verse below that states:

“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” - Galations 6:9

The instant I said that memories and flashbacks flooded my mind from the past year that are forever burned in my memory. The fullness and joy in the song the Turks released during their midnight set as if something had been unlocked that was shut out for ages, the Africans passionately beating the drums into the night as orphans galore, sporting the widest smiles you’ve ever seen, were running and jumping in endless circles around the Burn in Uganda, the Chinese underground church as “dry kindling” with their tears, groans, and zeal truly catching the DNA of the BURN with urgency to bring it to every city in their nation.

Then came the lifeless faces of those caught in a veil of darkness and the depravity of Gods Presence on the Red Light District in Amsterdam, the massive rift between two brothers (Jews and Arabs) in Israel as they are consumed in hatred toward one another rejecting God’s forgiveness and perfect plan for them to coexist, the spirit of genocide raging in East Africa that has claimed over 9 million lives in the past decade, the church in the largest Muslim nation in the world (Indonesia) crying out for a release of the manifest Presence of God to break the thick veil of deception and terror on the nation..

That was enough explanation to last a lifetime. I was broken and consumed with the fear of God more than ever before in my life.

I want to encourage you all as we’re all on this journey together of having ourselves stretched beyond measure in a beautiful ministry of inconvenience…it’s a little uncomfortable now…but the reward at the end will be brilliant! Like it promises in Galatians…

…WE WILL REAP A HARVEST IF WE DO NOT GIVE UP.

stay in the heat…

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Friends around the world and fellow countrymen,

I just wanted to shoot you a little video of all God is doing in Byron Bay, Australia and give you a peek inside the fiery hot BURN furnace we had this weekend!! It feels like home again with my friends here and its been an incredible time in the Presence of God. He has come and stoked our passion, love, and zeal for His face while we let the furnace of His love consume us down to the core of our character, integrity, and person. Bottom line - He is CHANGING AUSTRALIA and the nations of world will see His faithfulness!! There is a shift happening over this great south land as we gathered the tribe from all over the region and contended on the most Easterly point of the continent this weekend and proclaimed - THAT THE KING OF GLORY WOULD COME IN (Psalm 24)!!

Instead of my usual blogs blazing in all caps, tons of bold type,  and exclamation points striving to impress the reality of all God did on your computer screen….I wanna leave you with this vision a burner had while she was caught up during a powerful session of tribal drums as we pounded into the soul of the nation last night!! Please take a minute to read the amazing vision below and watch these quick videos to absorb all God is doing and let it build your faith!!

You can also view the latest videos on the links below to experience what God has done. If youtube doesnt work for you…you can also check them out myspace.com/seanfeucht halfway down the page.

Tribal Drum Session - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCuW-HtgAz4

Burned to core during hour #24 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv3lOQ6RVDo

Welcome to the Beach in Byron - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsDTlmj8w_M

I’m leaving tonight for BORNEO, INDONESIA to join our long rerm Burners lighting up the nation for the past 6 months!  I’m back in Sydney again next week for another BURN with some firebrands down south from here! PLEASE KEEP PRAYING!!! Read the amazing vision below!

Sean

08.28.08 l BURN BYRON BAY, AUSTRALIA l VISION DURING POUNDING TRIBE WARFARE SESSION

FLAMING ARROWS OF LOVE

As the drums were beating loudly and powerfully I sensed a great army approaching from the heavens. I looked towards the sky and saw a big, solid stone, as from the tomb of Jesus, being rolled away, opening up heaven’s door.

Out marched hundreds of the Angel Armies of heaven – huge warrior angels with massive bows and arrows in hand.

The end of the arrows were not made of spears but were wrapped in the very cloth soaked in the embalming oil of Jesus from when he was buried.

Walking in front of the angel army was the Risen Lord, as a flaming fire like the BURNING BUSH, the great I AM, BURNING LOVE.

The angels placed the oiled cloth ends of their arrows into LOVE HIMSELF to ignite them with the BURNING FIRE OF LOVE.

As they marched carrying their flaming ARROWS OF LOVE they looked down to the earth to seek out their targets.

On the east coastline of Australia the Byron lighthouse shone brightly. But what shone more brightly were the even stronger lights of the burning, dancing worshippers around the lighthouse.

The angel’s attention was captured by these little BURNING BUSHES.

They lifted up their bows and started to shoot these FLAMING ARROWS OF GOD’S LOVE into the hearts of the people around this region.

As people’s lives were ignited with the FIRE OF GOD’S LOVE the fires started to spread across the nation from east to west.

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“A Call to Persevere and Shine”

08.27.08 l Over the Pacific Somewhere

Shining Stars

Gazing out the window of the B747 fleeing LA and jumping the world’s largest pond (Pacific Ocean) bound for Sydney, I’m captivated and consumed by the stars blazing brightly in the midnight sky. They demand my attention. As an escape from the mayhem, chaos, and emotions of high school life, I would spend hours on sticky summer nights lying on the cool concrete slab in my Virginia backyard and just gaze and gaze. For some strange reason it would bring me face to face with God and renew my destiny for eternity. I would return from these moments in time refreshed and with a new sense of faith, hope, and vigor for my purpose on this spinning ball of dirt and air in the middle of a expansive galaxy. Absorbing in the energy of a giant cluster of gas billions of miles away awakens you to the feeling that you are a small thing in a big world. It’s a sobering but comforting thought as long as you are in good with the Creator of it all.

So this is the verse coming to mind I want to unpack:

“Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe. ”

Philippians 2:14-15

Longing for Legacy

Lets face it - we live in a jacked up, crooked, lukewarm, godless generation marked by debauchery, cynicism, complaining and a whole lot more. The only comforting thing is that it seems to be no different than during the time Paul wrote this letter thousands of years ago and God wants us more than ever to experience His fullness. What strikes me about this age though is how God is “pouring out His Spirit on all flesh” in the midst of all our issues! We are nearing the end of the story and He is longing to add more to Heaven’s squad before the games last trumpet sound. The sobering reality is that our character today is so increasingly horrible that we cannot contain and sustain what He is pouring out for any time before we implode and retreat back to the status quo. As my good friend Andy and I have been meditating on (Plug: We’re leading the Fire and Fragrance School launching in Kona, HI on Jan 09 – fireandfragrance.com), urgency is an easy find today among young leaders in the body but it’s the legacy part that is sorely missing. We must possess both if we are going to fulfill the mandate God has for this Davidic generation. The urgency to throw our life into His move around the globe at all costs and the legacy to stick with it to see it far outlast our children’s children. An older leader in the church came up to me three years ago with something I’ll never forget as Kate and I began this journey I refer to as “the pursuit of the Presence.” He said “Sean, I’m glad you are burning hot right now but I’m committed and contending to see you burning hot for the next 60 years – along with your children and their children.” I was marked and challenged by his words and they have not escaped me yet.

The Present Reality

I have been grieving this week while peering into the state of many my good friends, leaders in the body, my own heart, and the church culture that now “tolerates” a whole lot more in the name of grace. For some reason, it seems as if I’ve heard more bad news in the last two weeks about moral failure, marriage issues, and beyond than any other time of my life. Don’t get me wrong, we would all be goners if it wasn’t for grace and I want to live a life operating in greater capacity and understanding of this. But in our quest and zeal to become “non-religious,” “free,” and “practice grace” we have lost all sense of discipline, integrity, purity, and accountability. I have been just as guilty and God has heavily convicted my heart this night. There are many people who are preaching, teaching, and living a “soft” gospel that requires no sacrifice, repentance or suffering. They ask more questions than they have answers for, preach and write as polished politicians (with no absolutes) rather than honest God-fearing disciples, and want people to hear them talk more than experience a real demonstration of God’s power (1 Cor. 4:20). This coupled with an attempt to make the Gospel of Jesus Christ “convenient” to the microwave and instant generation is breeding a character-less, power-less, and foundation-less people that cannot possibly sustain or maintain the anointing and glory when it rolls in on us like a blazing furnace.

We need immediate repentance and divine restoration to see this trend reversed. We need adequate discipleship, authentic accountability, meaningful discipline, and a righteous man to strike us once in awhile (Ps. 141:5). We CANNOT miss our destiny as a generation to “shine like the stars” as we were created to be. The world is watching, waiting, and longing for it.

Time to Persevere

My purpose in writing this wasn’t to bring a depressive “we’re so messed up – there’s no solution – so deal with it” approach to our situation, but to offer hope that God is beckoning us to something greater than we know. A greater level of character, deeper insight, wisdom, and knowledge of the Word and the beautiful absolute truths it releases are necessary to help us carry what He’s pouring out. In the midst of the apathetic western lifestyle that demands low integrity and little commitment on our promises, refusal to risk out of self-preservation, and the gammit of “prophetic excuses” to back any of our selfish desires, WE MUST PERSEVERE AND BRING OTHERS INTO THIS CALL!!

“Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.”

Hebrews 10:22-24

We cannot join in with others and water down our beliefs and stances on everything from abortion to sanctity of marriage to pornography to our own personal verbal commitments. We must strive, contend, push, and move forward with “pure hearts” longing to “see God” (Matthew 5:8) by becoming a people of character that who value God, family, and authentic relationship above all else. We must passionately pursue becoming families and friends that are committed to one another in brotherly love and embody the gifts of the spirit (husbands and wife’s, fathers and mothers to sons and daughters). This is dangerous and risky living that will turn the world and MTV culture upside down! It is our destiny, calling, and the fullness of the Kingdom!! We must PERSEVERE!!

I’ll leave with it then with this last verse:

“He who’s coming will come and NOT delay, but my righteous one will live by faith and if he shrinks back, I WILL NOT BE PLEASED WITH HIM.

BUT WE ARE NOT OF THOSE WHO SHRINK BACK AND ARE DESTROYED, BUT OF THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND ARE SAVED!!!”

Hebrews 10:37-39

LET US NOT SHRINK BACK BURN CREW AROUND THE GLOBE!!! LETS ADVANCE, RUN, BURN AND LIVE LIVES WITH BOTH URGENCY AND LEGACY IN MIND!! LETS BECOME THE BRIGHT AND BLAZING STARS IN A CROOKED AND DEPRAVED GENERATION!! LETS BE BURNING TOGETHER WHEN WE’RE 70 YEARS OLD AND PASS IT DOWN TO OUR CHILDRENS AND THEIR CHILDREN!!!

THIS IS OUR CALL, DESTINY AND MANDATE!!! WE MUST PERSEVERE!!

WHO’S WITH ME???

sean

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!

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!

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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!