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NI HAO from the great land of China!!!
I’m writing this from an undisclosed location in the most populous nation on the planet! The eyes of the world are on this land, boasting over 20% of the world’s total population (1.3 billion) and the fastest growing economy as the 2008 Olympics ignite this Friday and the nations flock to the capital city of Beijing. Our team has been here for the past week planting BURN furnaces among the thriving, hungry, and persecuted underground church. We have been on a wild, glorious, fruitful journey together witnessing this flame of vertical and Davidic worship take root and become indigenous among the Chinese in several provinces. The culmination will take place in Beijing. As the world watches the Olympic torch lit during the opening ceremony, we will be tucked away with the tribe igniting the flame of BURNING worship and prayer on behalf of China and its 1.1 billion lost souls. Please continue to pray and contend for us..We need it now more than ever!!
This newsletter is packed full of incredible updates, testimonies and opportunities from our burning tribe around the globe! We are so excited to announce our first annual GLOBAL BURN SUMMIT taking place in Washington DC on August 14-16th in conjunction with THE CALL! We will welcome Burn directors and leaders from around the globe to pray, strategize, and hang together as one big family together for our first time ever!! Look forward to hearing an amazing report of all God reveals and releases to us during this time.
Stay in the Heat of His Presence!!
Sean Feucht
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teaching of the month“Nothing Better To Do” - by Caleb Klinge - Director, BURN BAY AREA As we sit in the 5th floor of a Shenzhen skyscraper, the beautiful fragrance of worship rises from a Chinese church who really knows what it means to have Jesus Christ be her first love. We are in the 23rd hour of the first Burn in China, the beginning of non-stop worship and prayer in this city. The room is still packed full. They just asked us to stay after the 24 hours is completed and move into a teaching and impartation time. There is so much joy and passion in the family of God here. In this sweet atmosphere of God’s presence, I am painfully aware of my lack of passion. Like arteries that harden over time from an unhealthy diet, my heart has grown hard. Though painful, it’s a precious gift to even be aware of my condition. The Spirit of the Lord is inviting me out of my cool, passionless posture to a fresh place of brokenness. When we westerners hear about extended gatherings in poor, third-world countries, we often remark that the people have “nothing else to do”. “If they lived here in the states, it would be different; you can’t compare the two”. We say this and other things like it to ease our consciences from the dealing with the real reasons we react against spending too much time in worship, church meetings, serving, or simply living for Jesus. Shrouding our actions in words such as “balance”, we drown out the still small voice of the Holy Spirit, who beckons us to return to our first love. The people aren’t here today because they have nothing else or “nothing better to do” (as if there was something better to do than worship Jesus!). They are busy. And they’re normal people with normal problems. Businessmen and businesswomen have come in, spent hours, and gone back to work (it’s the middle of the week). Families with young children have spent time here. This city rivals any western city for its size and technology. iPods are MacBooks are made here. 20 percent of China’s PHDs live in this city. There are malls everywhere. The people have a lot they could be doing. They just have their priorities right. Young and old, women and men, they are here because they want to be. No doubt, time is precious. But Jesus is worthy of our time being lavished on Him. It’s time to break the alabaster box of our schedules. I’m not talking about being irresponsible. Obviously we all have responsibilities in our careers, school, and family. But just consider free time. Are you willing to sit in a 2-hour movie without complaint, but then get upset when church goes over the allotted time? Do I spend more time on a weekly basis in Starbucks than in prayer? If we are generous with our entertainment-time and stingy with our Jesus-time, there is only one reason, and it’s not pretty. Our priorities are wrong and our hearts are hard. So come, and let us return to the Lord! |
blog of the month…“Burning Denver” -by Lucas and Anna, BURN DENVER On July 26th the city of Denver gathered for a massive Christian music festival called HeavenFest which pulled together over 70 Christian music bands over a 12 hour period—over 10,000 people gathered for this one event. But the focus of this event wasn’t good music. The heart behind HeavenFest was not to bring well known musician and have a good concert but to bring Jesus and see revival. So we contented for Jesus. People started having worship and intercession meetings once a week months out specifically focused on HeavenFest, 40 days out worship and prayer started nightly, and then the BURN ignited for 77 hours leading up to and through the festival. Two thousand years ago God in the flesh poured himself out as a sacrifice unto death and in three days the curse was broken. And now Two thousand years later, in a tent placed in the middle of a field with a generator and some Christmas lights, the sons of Adam and the daughters of Eve gathered together for three days of purely vertical prophetic radical worship. We shouted, wept, laid prostrate, and cried out saying “Jesus you have to come because we don’t have any other option. COME CHANGE DENVER IN A MOMENT”. Is that really possible? Can the city of my heart, the city of my youth change with one word from the King? Yes!! Because I serve the God that created the universe in an eternal moment, the said to the waves, and the sun, and the stars, and the sky go here, but no further. He is the God that saved my broken soul, healed my wounded heart, and loosened the chains that wrapped me so tightly. All we can do is cry out we make intercession with our piano and guitar on a hill just outside of the city and contend for his presence like David did with his harp in the hills as a Shepard. It is too simple; if we think anything else can change our cities we are fools blinded by darkness and lead by a lesser light. The Presence. The Presence. His Presence. He comes and everything changes. |
Burning in the Nations…
Learn how you can go with Burn 24-7 to the Nations and Ignite the Fire of Vertical Worship around the world.
BURN INDONESIA - September 1 - September 15
BURN CHINA - July 25 - August 11
BURN TURKEY - September 22 - October 6
BURN UGANDA - November 7-24
Burn China Update:
…we have ignition! The two Burns launched so far have had thick glory, and we have not had a dull moment in between!
Our trip so far has been full of supernatural meetings & Divine appointments. Even now as our team is traveling, a house church pastor with over 70 churches got on our bus. Even though the driver told him it was full, he insisted in getting on. As he walked passed us, he felt incredible peace. When he saw our translator reading her Bible, he came up and said, “I am a brother”. It gets better - He has been leading worship for 20 years and has a team of musicians that play indigenous Chinese instruments. We could see fire in his eyes as we spoke to him about the Burn, and he got on the phone and beginning making phone calls from the bus to get his team to the 3rd city where we will launch a 24-hour Burn on this trip. We are seeing this kind of thing repeated again and again.
In the midst of launching the burns, a lot of ministry is taking place. We’ve been with brothers and sisters that have suffered imprisonment and severe persecution. We’ve had dinner with homeless men that were brought off the street and to the Lord (they burned with us too!). Healings, Words of knowledge, prophecy – the Lord has used our small team to speak deep, prophetic encouragement to the family here including some influential leaders.
Our trip is halfway done. One of our team members said that there has been more ministry and outpouring in one evening on this trip than an entire week of when they were here last year. The atmosphere is charged, and the time is ripe!
We know that the favor, blessings, and guidance we are receiving so far on this trip is the result of prayer, so thank you for praying! The second half of the trip is the most risky. We’re ending the trip in Beijing, where the 4th furnace will be ignited. “Burn Beijing” – don’t you like the sound of that? New beginnings will ignite in Beijing on 08.08.08!! Please continue to lift us up in prayer – we seriously need you to partner with us and have a stake in this with us. 1.3 billion souls are hungry to know the One Who created them, and the Burn is a part of the strategy God has chosen to reach them.
Burn Wagon Update:
For over a year a group of young radicals have contended for Revival in the night hours of the Burn, releasing a new sound, and prophesying over their city and nation! Out of the flames of these prayer meetings God has wounded these “burning ones” with His heart for America. The dream to take the Burn mobile, to plant furnaces across the nation, and to light fires of revival are now a reality has this team is now well into their first week of Burning in four southern states and soon to ascend up the east coast releasing fire and then joining with thousands of their tribe for the Call D.C. This team is affectionately known as the “Burn Wagon”
Every place that the Burn Wagon has gone God has released a spirit of repentance during the times of worship! We have felt the ache in our Father’s heart over a nation that is destined for the fires of judgment if the church does not rise up! Night after night the Spirit of grace has urged people to their knees with groaning and weeping! I have never seen such an intensity in the hearts of people…a desperation for God to send His glory and for the church to rise up out of the ashes of religion.
Even in churches that seemingly are on the cutting edge of what God is doing we still have felt the sting of religion, works oriented Christianity, putrid pride, dulled hearts, and apathy that seems to be the veil over our nation! We realize the solution is not to hype these meetings and command people to press in but to simply worship the King and lean in to His presence to open our eyes to see our true condition! Seeing our true condition has left an ache in our hearts! It hurts to see the reality of who we have become as the church. However, we must face this reality, let it lead to godly sorrow and then to true repentance!
The hope that we have found are the hundreds of hidden away, hungry tribe of worshipers and intercessors who have been contending for this common purpose—Awakening!
God has a people that have not yielded to the spirit of the age and have sacrificed night after night of prayer to see this hope become a reality!
One of the major lessons God has taught us so far is to let go of our agenda, our strength, our know-how, our talent and to lean in to Him. Much of these lessons have come through our 1970 Greyhound bus that seems to be falling apart at the seams! Everything from the air-conditioning quitting, to the steering wheeling falling off, to the generator breaking down, and the air-breaks not working right have tested our reliance and trust in Him–and its working! We’ve let go of control and have let God lead us each place that we’ve gone. God gave us grace to lead four people to the Lord on the streets of Shreveport and New Orleans so far! God has given us the ability to let go of our talent and hype and let him lead in each night of worship!
As a result we are stepping out of our strength and into the supernatural! This group of young radicals has given me great hope! This is the generation he has chosen to carry this thing through to His return! They have fire, anointing and persistence that I have never seen before! Continue to pray for us as we endeavor to be vessels of His heart in each city that we will go to. Stay tuned for some video blogs and more pictures!
Burn Indonesia Update:
Sitting in our first Burn here in Pontianak, and it feels surreal. We could have never made this happen on our own, God has been opening door after door, and now tonight it is actually happening! Twenty different churches from all over the city are apart of this 24 hours of worship and intercession! The first time in this city anything like this has happened! It has been going on for only 5 hours so far, and already I am exhausted. Indonesians are crazy intense and just keep going! HaHaHa I love it so much.
We need your prayers today….
Pray that God will reveal Himself in new and creative ways.
We are believing for REVIVAL in this land, and bigger than in the 1960’s!
FIRE FIRE FIRE
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The Burn Tulsa - August Events
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!
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BURN WAGON
Have we forgotten about America? Have we thrown in the towel and decided that it’s too late for our nation to turn back to the King? It’s not too late for America! Everything can be changed through worship, intercession and repentance. The King won’t relent until He has it all and so why should we? The fire of God will spread from coast to coast in this country. We must seek His Presence!!! In a few short days, a relentless group of faithful followers are rising up to answer the cry of a nation with a dream in their heart. The dream is to see the greatest nation on earth turn back to God with complete reckless abandonment.
BURN CHINA
Igniting 4 cities in 14 Days to Change a Nation!
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1.32 billion souls. One government party desperate for control. One God desperate for His Bride. In a nation yielded to the spiritual forces of darkness, the body of Christ suffers greatly and She is asking for our help.
On 08.08.08, the Olympic games begin in Beijing. But during this season, the Father has purposed to release His own New Beginning in China. There are seven notes in an octave. The eight begins a new octave, and we know that there is a new sound that God is releasing in China from within His people, a new song for a new season of harvest!
Although Chinese law states it supports freedom of religion, Christians there know this is far from reality. Those refusing to register with the government church are forced to meet “underground” in people’s homes or small facilities.
There is as cry coming from the church in China – teach us about worship! We are going with this purpose. We will be gathering house churches to train, equip, encourage, serve, support and WORSHIP. We are going as sons and daughters of encouragement. We are going to impart the heart of the Burn so that the DNA of the Burn can further launch the Chinese church into their Kingdom purpose.
Please pray for us during the next 3 weeks. Pray for us to walk in supernatural wisdom, protection, anointing, and guidance. Prayer that great and effective doors would be opened to us!
An estimated 150 million have come to Christ in the last several decades! However, more than a billion souls in China alone have yet to hear the gospel. Our partnering with them is ultimately a part of fulfilling the Matthew 24:14 prophecy of Jesus: “This gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in every nation (ethnos) as a witness, and then the end shall
come”.
God will give us the treasures [souls] of darkness [communist China] and riches [souls] from secret places [underground church]. (Is 45:1-3)
There is a strong sense that as the Lord sends us into this nation, He is allowing us to leave an impact that will have multiplying, eternal effects, just as a rock thrown into still water sends ripples far and wide. God said to Abraham, “In blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply you”. We are being sent in the power of that promise, that what happens on this journey will go far beyond us!
“SEATTLE SESSIONS” BY SEAN FEUCHT RELEASING AUGUST 1ST
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From a city that has shifted culture around the world through sound, we gathered in Seattle as priestly minstrels to release a sound of our own. Former sounds of depression, hopelessness, and lust have flooded the airwaves and covered the city streets in darkness and gloom. As the sun’s rays break through the cloudy skies,
a new sound is now being heard.
It is a redeemed sound of desperate hunger, blazing passion, and beautiful truth. He has become the melody and rhythm reverberating in the inner depths of our soul. This is what was captured. The sound is not overdubbed or manipulated, but released in the raw and pure form of vertical worship. Revel in the awe of His Presence and bathe in the ransomed sound of the city as you experience “Seattle Sessions”.
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Welcome to the BURN 24-7 July Newsletter!!
We are living in the most exciting, powerful and strategic time in history! Never before has the world experienced so much hunger for the face of God!! Entire nations, tribes, and tongues are longing for just one gaze of Him; one taste of His sweet presence. Everything in the body of Christ is shifting in one generation and we are stuck right in the middle of it!! We need to remind ourselves of this to beak lethargy and have faith to believe for what God longs to do in our nations, cities, and homes! That’s why we BURN night and day before the Lord and why YOU need to come get toasted with us!! This reminds us of who we are and who HE is!
Many leaders across the body of Christ have asked me in the past few months what I think God is doing with the outpourings in Lakeland, Morningstar and even in Burn cities around the world. Is this real? Is it God? Will it last? My answer has always been the same since I’ve experienced this and my life is now marked. God is stirring up zeal for His name and His face. He is awakening people to their sad state of godlessness and apathy and exposing the deep hunger in their heart for MORE.
Just this last weekend, Kate and I were at packed out prophetic conference in Knoxville, TN and I was leading worship with Bob Jones, Ryan Wyatt, Shawn Bolz and many others. As we worshiped the last night, I began to cry out and sing “The signs and wonders are great, but we just want your face…WE JUST WANT YOUR FACE!!” The entire place erupted and there was a level of Gods glory ushered in that I’ve seldom experienced before. Heaven was meeting hunger and people were getting delivered, healed, refreshed, and ignited with fresh zeal!! It all came out of seeking HIM and nothing else!
I want to encourage every person reading this update to seek the face of God like never before in this season that “you may never be lacking in zeal” (Rom 12:11). He is VERY NEAR right now and is meeting hungry souls all over the world! Come BURN with us in your cities!! Please take time to read all God doing with the BURN MOVEMENT across the globe! We invite you all to join us in Fort Mill, SC next weekend for the Furnace Conference and in Washington DC for the event of our lifetime as we partner with the Call to see revival break out across America!!
Dont be caught sleeping in this hour…wake up to the hunger deep in your soul…Lets BURN and see His Presence unleashed!
Sean Feucht
Founder and International Director, Burn 24-7
www.theburn247.com
www.seanfeucht.com
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blog of the month…“Burning in Corpus” -by David Bendett (Burn Corpus Christi) Corpus Christi (aka - The Body of Christ), Texas., has begun to Burn with incredible zeal, passion, fire and unity in the true spirit of revival. What we are experiencing is not hyped up emotion laced with good verbiage designed to get people excited, but rather, a genuine manifestation of God’s presence that is changing our city. This is what makes Burn Corpus Christi so unique! From healing and salvation, to a total and complete shift in the economy. Churches are uniting through prayer, increased communication, unity, and the smashing of religious walls that once brought division. No denominational wall is separating us, and through worship and intercession, we are using our differences to make us one. In just three short months, Burn CC has united over a dozen churches in the Spirit of Burning. Each Burn CC event has hosted an average of 60 worshipping intercessors through its entirety, with several nights running 150+ people. Churches are lining up to host our next Burn event, and we envision more monthly Burn events being added in the near future. Ultimately, we will see a night and day 24-7 continuous Burn in “The Body of Christ, Texas.” Now get fired up and stop playing games! teaching of the month“Burned to the Roots” -by Michael Mauldin (Burn Israel) Burn Israel: I truly don’t know where to begin… yes we saw all the historical biblical sites, I could go on and on and on and share all of the wonderful things we did, what we saw, and how effective our worship and intercession was, however God did something so special with our team that I think reflects what the Burn is truly about. |
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Burning in the Nations…
Learn how you can go with Burn 24-7 to the Nations and Ignite the Fire of Vertical Worship around the world.
BURN INDONESIA - September 1 - September 15
BURN CHINA - July 25 - August 11
BURN TURKEY - September 22 - October 6
BURN UGANDA - November 7-24
BURN ISRAEL VIDEOS
On the Temple Mount - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz8BwPou0jI
Abraham’s Spring in Palestine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX7CpJv4OGk
Sweet Home Jerusalem (from Mount of Olives) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2LWrDbpWqA
Abraham’s Spring in Hebron - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX7CpJv4OGk
Arrob Refugee Camp (West Bank) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zr7b7tGQxg
Burn Turkey Update:
As God’s Bride has gathered herself together to fast, pray, and contend for The Presence in Turkey, He is shining His face upon this land and His kingdom is being advanced tremendously. Currently, four of the five largest cities in Turkey are coming together for BURN gatherings monthly. In each city, these BURNs have gathered the various churches in city-wide unity, creating a sweet smelling aroma to God.
Burn Uganda Update:
We are so excited to be back in Uganda. God is moving and we are seeing a hunger for a move of God in our area like never before. In two weeks we will be holding our first Burn since we have been back. The pastors are excited and have been asking when, where and how. One Pastor reported to us, that his hunger to burn recently caused him to climb the Rock (we have a huge Devil’s Mountain type rock in the middle of town) and burn for a whole day. He said and I quote “ I just had to burn for Jesus. So I cried out to Him and He came.” So in two weeks, we are meeting in the Hindu temple fellowship hall again and seeking Heaven for 24 hours straight.
Burn Indonesia Update:
For the past month I have been watching God take this team to another level. We have been through some rough stuff, but I can see His hand leading us with each day. These past couple of weeks have truly been some of the best times we have had yet. I have been pleasantly surprised with the passion that has been coming out of each of us. Living with these beautiful Indonesians has already been such a positive and educational experience.
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Burned to the Roots
Burn Israel:Sean has left me with the most difficult task of this trip…to write a report within a few paragraphs and not a novel. How does one squeeze 15 days of one of the most revelatory, historical, monumental, life changing trips to Israel into a short “blaze” recap? Allow me to try…
I truly don’t know where to begin…
yes we saw all the historical biblical sites,
yes we Burned in Jerusalem flipping the spirit realm upside down,
yes we went into the West Bank city of Hebron, where the Father’s of the Faith are buried and by the Spirit of God we were there on Father’s day,
yes we went into refugee camps to cry out and bring the presence,
yes we went into Jericho, the oldest city in the world,
yes our prayers broke through for a particular ministry to get new buildings (one in Jericho, and 2 in Jerusalem,)
yes we worshipped where the original tabernacle of David stood, in the middle of a Muslim neighborhood…
yes we ate more falafel, schwarma, and hummus that we thought possible,
I could go on and on and on and share all of the wonderful things we did, what we saw, and how effective our worship and intercession was, however God did something so special with our team that I think reflects what the Burn is truly about.
The Love of Christ:
Of course the Burn is vertical worship for hours on end ushering in the presence God to change territories and nations, but I want to share another aspect that I think sometimes gets overlooked. The Burn is about relationships, love, and family. The Burn is about, tearing down the walls of religion, denominations, agendas, and the self centered culture we live in. As we begin to minister vertically to the Father, He begins to do something horizontally in the earth, but specifically within the hearts of His people. Ravenous radical worship not only affects the Heart of the Father, but it tears down all of the facades and fills all of the wounds within the hearts of His people. There is no greater bond than to have His presence in our midst. One of our team members, Paul Mozley, released the anthem for the trip during our first Burn session overlooking Mt. Zion that truly expresses this reality, “Now is the time to break down the walls that divide”. Only the Love of Christ can do this, and this He did to our team.
This bond of unity and love was personified not only within our team, but at the culmination of the Burn on Mt. Carmel. The presence of God drew ministries throughout Israel together that had never met before! You would think that all the Christians would know one another and work together in a country the size of New Jersey, but this has not been the case in a county where literal walls streak across the horizon and walls of religion, denominations, and fear permeate the spiritual realms. The Burn lifts up Christ so that all men are drawn unto Him and His presence tears down the walls. We had Messianic Jews, Christian Arabs, Americans, Canadians, Russians, Norwegians, just to name a few all worshipping together in spirit and truth!
“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.(John 17:22-23)
“By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35).
Jesus is the perfect bond of unity!
Issachar Anointing:
Another key blessing from coming to Israel is connecting to our roots and gaining a prophetic perspective of the times that we live in so that we are not ignorant.
As most of you know, (I Chron 12:32) “Of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do”. This is a vital part of Burn Israel, to understand the times in which we live and gain revelation of what to do. We must not forget that the single greatest prophetic fulfillment of this generation is the return of the Jewish people to Israel. (See Isaiah 11:11, Ezekiel 36:24) This in itself should stir your faith to know that first of all, the Lord is faithful and also that the end of time is near. This is all the more reason to go to Israel and see for your self what the Lord has done in a generation. I truly believe that it is vitally important for every Christian to visit the Holy Land at least once in their lives. It will open the Word to you in a new way, wreck your heart for the Jews and Arabs, and give you a real sense of the urgency of this hour in which we live. The time is short…seek the Lord and go forth into your destinies! Ps 115:16, “The heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth He has given to the sons of men.” Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t make a difference because the Lord says you can!
Isa 62:1
For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,
And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep quiet,
Until her righteousness goes forth like brightness,
And her salvation like a torch that is burning.
Isa 62:6
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen;
All day and all night they will never keep silent.
You who remind the Lord, take no rest for yourselves;
June Newsletter
Welcome to the BURN 24-7 June Newsletter!!
As the heat intensifies across the northern hemisphere during this summer season so do the heat and rays of His Presence and Glory. We are experiencing the spirit of BURNING being released across the nations in such a fresh and tangible way. I just returned last week from a journey around the world through Nepal, India, Turkey, Indonesia, Israel and my heart is full of countless stories of every tribe and tongue being renewed by this wave of worship spanning the globe. BURN 24-7 furnaces of night and day worship and prayer have been launched in the past weeks from Santa Cruz, CA to Gastonia, NC to Nepal to Mexico and beyond! The level of hunger for more of Him is increasing with each day and expectations are rising! Here on the very birthday of King David (the architect of 24-7 worship and prayer) and the anniversary of the Holy Spirit falling on the 120 in the upper room, I am on a plane full of 17 ravenous worshippers, psalmists, intercessors, and musicians from across the globe longing to release fresh songs of deliverance, hope, love, and fire on the Holy Land. We will be contending, releasing, and burning all over Israel for the next two weeks during the celebration of 60 years of statehood where a nation was literally “born in a day.” Our commissioning verse is Isaiah 62:1:
“For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch”
Take a minute and peak into how God is moving across the world with BURN 24-7. Let the testimonies, videos, teachings, and reports encourage and edify you as you passionately pursue Him. Find a nearby BURN city, mission trip, conference, or upcoming school where you can plug in and be released to BURN bright with us!! Sow a need into what God is doing and fuel furnaces of night and day prayer all over the world - we are going to change history together and can’t do it without you!
Bless you as you enjoy the heat of His Presence this summer!
blessings…
Sean Feucht
Founder, BURN 24-7
blog of the month…“He wants this more than we do.” -by Paul Anleitner (Burn Twin Cities) Its true. It is one of the great themes of scripture- God desiring to be with a people that don’t desire Him nearly as much. Just read the Prophets. A Dad wanting to be with His kids, a wild lover desiring the committed affection of His beloved (whichever paradigm you can dial into easier), He wants US! We must keep this ever present in our minds that this “thing” that we are all apart of is not an end unto itself. King David’s desire wasn’t to create a new religious ritual when he built his tabernacle. In an almost “childlike” way, like when a poor kid finally makes it big as professional athlete and then wants to build a big old house for his parents, David saw himself living in a palace and wanted to build a place for his Father to live. Israel already had a good “prayer and worship model” set up by Moses; they didn’t need a “new model”. They needed the simple heart of David. They needed to desire the Lord with all their hearts, soul, mind, and strength. teaching of the month“Urgency and Legacy” -by Andy Byrd (YWAM) So I began to ask myself what the Lord might be saying to our little team here at the University of the Nations in Kona, HI as we wrestle with the visions and dreams God has given us to see a wave of missionaries sent into every dark corner and across every closed border, burning with an unquenchable zeal for the presence of God and redemption of humanity. As this question left my mind I waited with the confidence that I speak to a prayer hearing God who loves to respond with affectionate wisdom and life giving insight.
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In the midst of the heat, in the dirty slums of a border town, in the place of quenched ambition, the very dream of God began to arise. God lovingly called his people to intimacy and for them to turn over the place on the thrones of their hearts! Jesus took His place as King over a broken city! Death no longer grips this city! The fragrance of life began to fill the air as the praise began to arise over the cinder block shacks, junk yards, and half finished buildings.
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The time has come for us to tear down the former structures of ministry and impartation. The zealous heart is being met by our zealous savior whose adjectives of adoration are beyond words. We have recently returned to the U.S. from a land enthroned by severe demonic entrapment.
Nepal is a nation painted with the colors of hinduism, poverty, and violence. The people are conscious of the plague that saturates their land, but ignorant to the nucleus of their disease. You can feel the spiritual bacteria of the air, yet they continue to worship the demons of their fathers, while the Nepali systematic outcry seems to stem from an ambiguous source.
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Urgency and Legacy
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As I write this two of my team members and their wives are on the verge of becoming parents. One is in labor as I type; the other has the weekend to go into natural labor before the doctors induce on Monday. Everyone was positive these babies would be born weeks ago due to one couple being pregnant with twins, which typically come early, and the other has been showing signs of labor for as long as three weeks now. I have found for my own children as well as many others I know that these seasons of conception, pregnancy, and delivery in the physical often coincide with conception, carrying, and releasing of future vision and seasons in the spiritual.
So I began to ask myself what the Lord might be saying to our little team here at the University of the Nations in Kona, HI as we wrestle with the visions and dreams God has given us to see a wave of missionaries sent into every dark corner and across every closed border, burning with an unquenchable zeal for the presence of God and redemption of humanity. As this question left my mind I waited with the confidence that I speak to a prayer hearing God who loves to respond with affectionate wisdom and life giving insight.
“You must carry the dreams and visions that I am giving you from MY heart full term.” I continued to listen and he continued to speak. “In this year of new beginnings many are excited about what is being released on the earth, but conception is only the beginning. Development, health, and wholeness require my dreams and vision to be carried full term. Don’t rush my times and seasons. Healthy delivery requires a predetermined gestational period.”
For many, this year started off with an explosion of favor and moves of the Holy Spirit that quickly confirmed the numerous words from trusted voices that 2008 was to be a year of new beginnings. And few things in life can compare with the joy of new beginnings. Few things except the joy of timely, healthy delivery and the new life that especially if carried “full term” has the highest potential for long life. You see beginnings are wonderful but we must not mistake them for endings, maturity, or fullness. They are just what we call them… beginnings.
The answer given to me by the Lord challenges my microwave culture mentality which wants to associate beginnings with fulfillments without realizing that there is a wonderful, sometimes difficult, and certainly patience requiring season that is still ahead to really see the moves of God carry over from beginnings to history changing transformational movements that impact generations to come. The challenge for most of us is not the conception of a vision or dream from God but the carrying, birthing, raising, and releasing of a true God dream. I would call this process of thinking a legacy mindset.
You see, historically, and even denominationally, most of the body of Christ has been strong in one of two areas, urgency or legacy. More Charismatic movements that carry a strong emphasis on evangelism and even the end times tend to also carry a very valid piece of the heart of God called urgency. Without urgency the church would have slipped into unshakable apathy centuries ago. It was a sense of urgency that led the early disciples to quickly take the gospel as far as their lifetimes would allow. It was urgency that led the St. Patrick to Ireland as a missionary to Celts believing God wanted to ransom the heart of a nation. It was urgency that led William Carey to lay down his life for the people of India to see a people trapped in darkness see a great Light. Urgency is a excellent motivator and a very real expression of God’s heart that acts as an injection of faith, boldness, and zeal to the body of Christ.
Other streams of the body of Christ have had a strong understanding of God’s heart for legacy. This is the heart to see a release of blessing in future generations and the willingness to not see the fulfillment in our own lifetimes of the visions we carry. Those with a legacy mindset have tended to devote more time to education, building up the family, and financial stability.
Both are valid, but both are lacking without the other. Sometimes an overemphasis of urgency can lead to losing sight of also living with the long term in mind and actually short circuit the very effort produced by urgency and threaten the longevity of that what God is pouring out. On the other hand many with a legacy driven perspective can easily slip into apathy in the moment and lose the daily zeal that keeps life hot and on the side of risk. A misunderstanding of the need for daily urgency can often times allow a legacy heavy perspective to also short circuit the vision to see something sustained and passed on because it grows cold from lack of daily passion. So, in actuality, for urgency to actually bear fruit it must be lived out in the context of legacy and for a legacy to actually be passed on, urgency will be required. They are mutually inclusive and equally necessary. The coming move of God will be marked by a people that are walking in the fullness of urgency and legacy. Daily urgency for a long-term legacy! The marriage of urgency and legacy will be lived out in daily zeal leading to a life of impact that will keep impacting well beyond our own dreams and visions being carried out. This is what it means to both conceive a vision and carry it until its birth and then actually begin to raise it into maturity.
New beginnings are marked by a sense of urgency! And praise God for the urgency that is being lived out by many in the body of Christ in these days. However, I believe the question more lies on the side of our perspective of legacy. Are we willing to carry this urgency for the long haul, “full term”, until we see the fullness of what God is releasing and maturity of the visions and dreams that are currently being birthed? Are we willing to spend ourselves for something we may never see the full release of in our lifetimes? Are we building something that will still be weathering the storms of life after a hundred years, a thousand criticisms, and a handful of set backs. Are we building a Kingdom that will actually carry into eternity? Even a last days generation must think with a legacy mindset. Legacy goes far beyond just storing something up for future generations it is a kingdom way of living and thinking. It is the life that will carry the Kingdom between mustard seed and mustard tree and a little yeast in the dough to yeast permeating the dough (Mt. 13:31-33). It is an eternal perspective that sees the big picture and both the daily passion and the perseverance and selfless determination that will be required to see any true and lasting move birthed on the earth.
Are we ready to go the distance? Are we ready for the long, boring, and possibly hard periods of time that may come? Will we carry the fire breathed dreams that lie before to their “full term”? Last year I walked through a community in NE Washington that truly understands the importance of urgency and legacy. The community is after a culture of zeal for the presence of God all the while allowing their zeal for the heart of God to be released on the earth to be translated into decisions that are always made in light of the next three generations. As I walked through the homes I asked one man about his huge, timber framed house that resembled what I would have imagined Noah’s ark to look like. He informed me that he had built every part of the house with materials and construction that would allow his home to still be standing in 300 years. My laugh met his serious face as I realized he was not joking. At that moment I had an epiphany that I had never thought in a 300 year term in my life. How will we see successive moves of God that outlast and overpower the previous ones unless we begin to think beyond our five year visions!
Friedrich Nietzsche, famous for coining the phrase, “god is dead”, did have one good thing to say when he talked about the essential thing to a life worth living is a “long obedience in one direction”. Let the weightiness of this statement carry us far beyond the dings of our microwave thinking, pleasure addictions, and commitment phobic tendencies. Oh, to see and be and like Daniel who postured himself in the place of the urgency of daily prayer and at the same time in the legacy driven perseverance to do it for sixty years. Oh to be like David, building the blueprint of revival knowing it was for a future generation. Oh to be like Paul who spoke with his zeal saturated heart, “I press on toward to goal to win the prize”.
Therefore, let us rise up as burning ones, fully consumed with daily passion for the beautiful one and yet filled with a determination to carry this passion “full term”. Let us permeate every decision and thought with the fullness of urgency and legacy. Let us spend our lives in a long obedience in one direction. There is a generation emerging that the world has never seen. And the world will only see them long enough for them to change the world if we are a people of urgency and legacy!
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Download “He wants this more than we do” as a PDF file.
Its true. It is one of the great themes of scripture- God desiring to be with a people that don’t desire Him nearly as much. Just read the Prophets. A Dad wanting to be with His kids, a wild lover desiring the committed affection of His beloved (whichever paradigm you can dial into easier), He wants US!
We must keep this ever present in our minds that this “thing” that we are all apart of is not an end unto itself. King David’s desire wasn’t to create a new religious ritual when he built his tabernacle. In an almost “childlike” way, like when a poor kid finally makes it big as professional athlete and then wants to build a big old house for his parents, David saw himself living in a palace and wanted to build a place for his Father to live. Israel already had a good “prayer and worship model” set up by Moses; they didn’t need a “new model”. They needed the simple heart of David. They needed to desire the Lord with all their hearts, soul, mind, and strength.
Here in the West, we have a real hard time with this. We just can’t seem to think beyond the world’s systems of thinking; and I take personal responsibility for that because I have fell victim to it as well. The world’s way of thinking is to see a goal and then copy the process in order to achieve the same goal. The Church in the West has been stuck in this mindset for too long. There are no doubt Pastors around the country getting back from Lakeland, Florida and heading to the tattoo shop to get some sweet ink like Todd Bentley, or setting up their stage in the exact manner, thinking that by copying a pattern that they will get the same result.
The Lord is raising up a “living body”, an organism, and not an organization. Our tendency to default to creating organizations stems from our fear of losing control. “Organizations” are organized, neat, and are designed perfectly for man to receive honor at their success. “Organisms”, on the other hand, are defined as “a living structure capable of growth and reproduction”, and sometimes their growth and reproduction is a little bit out of control!
1 Peter 2:4-6 says, “As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him— you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”
“Tabernacle of David” worship, “24-7 Prayer”, “harp and bowl, and “revival meetings” cannot be our “end all” motivation in our cities. If we build a movement around these things, we will have successfully built an organization, maybe even a good one, but not a house built of “living stones” upon the “Living Stone”.
Here in the Twin Cities, I’m seeing people dial into the reality that they are the “tabernacle”. About 6 months ago, I got together with several of the 13, 24-7 prayer/worship ministries in our state and asked the question, “Why don’t we all just get together, worship and pray regularly?” They agreed that it was good, and we did it. We do “it” every week at the same place with the entire city invited for 4-6 hours (going twice a week this month). Of the 50-80 “living stones” that come together every week for this, a good percentage of us get together in a living room at a big house with 100 other college students and young adults every Tuesday night and do “it” . Some of those get together on their college campuses and do “it”, or go to the mall or hospitals, or just on the streets and do “it”. Is “it” the Burn? Yes, it is. But it’s also your home, your job, your campus, your marriage, your local church. It’s you- the living tabernacle made up of flesh and bones and designed in the likeness of our Father and being indwelled with His Spirit. It’s wild, it’s out of control, and it reproduces.
It is the body of Christ in action.
It is the Creator inhabiting His creation.
That is the end all. (Revelation 21) That is what you must pursue with absolute abandonment. That is what must fuel your set a 3 am! That is your fuel for staying up for 36 hours straight: to get a glimpse into the eternal throne room of the Omnipotent, Uncreated, King of the Universe and to be overwhelmed by His inhabitation of you!
The time is short, and His final inhabitation is coming! So “burn” like you’ve never “burned” before. Offer yourself to him as a living sacrifice (Romans 12:1), not confined to any setting, but “burning” everywhere. From late night shift at the Burn, to the late night shift on the assembly line, let Him inhabit you. He is no more pleased with one than the other! From traveling the world to minister to poor, to traveling down the street to bring a meal to a neighbor, let Him inhabit you. He is no more pleased with one than the other, for it is only living sacrifices that please Him! God was just a pleased with David’s worship in the field as He was with David’s worship in the palace.
I believe that within this year, many of our Burn cities will get buildings donated to them. Some may even go 24-7-365! I know its possible here in the Twin Cities. But let us remember, that when we say “He wants this more than we do,” that what He wants isn’t a building of stone or brick, but a people that He can have companionship with.
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Welcome to the BURN 24-7 May Newsletter!!
We are in a season of an open heaven where God is truly “pouring out His spirit on all flesh” all over the world!! Many of you have heard the reports of the incredible healings, salvations, signs and wonders and a heavy Presence of God being experienced. I had the opportunity to go last week and experience firsthand the outpouring in Lakeland, Florida and I can vouch what God is doing is simply amazing. The Lord called me during the meeting to go the very back row of the stadium and watch the hunger and intense desperation of the people. He spoke to me and said “I am here because my people are hungry.” I began to weep as I witnessed this hunger well up that place as people were laying prostrate and crying out to God until 2am!! We are truly in a new day and God is doing a fresh thing across the earth! Its happening in Lakeland, Fort Mill, SC at Morningstar and even in Israel, Turkey, India and to our next destination of Nepal.
My wife and I just celebrated the 60th anniversary of the “War for Independence ” and birthing of Israel as a nation again. There was electricity in the air as God lavished His Presence on us and we felt the weight of His glory during the The Call 12 hour solemn assembly of fasting and prayer in Jerusalem. It was absolutely overwhelming to join with hundreds of millions around the world during the global day of prayer in a desperate and unified cry for revival and restoration to fall on the nations of the earth!
Stay current on how God is moving through BURN 24-7 all over the globe! Be encouraged and revived as you hear testimonies, watch video updates, and witness the hand of God moving in furnaces and with our BURNERS across the world! There is a fresh grace to contend and see the outpouring of God! Join us in this quest together with your
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thoughts on a city, on darkness to light
Let me be perfectly honest with you. Denver is a mess. Denver is divided. Denver doesn’t know Jesus. Righteousness is not flourishing and Justice certainly isn’t rolling down the great Rocky Mountains. Not to be a cynic, but the proof is in the pudding. In the early 90s Billy Graham refused to come because there was such division among the churches. Colorado was the first state to legalize abortion; it has the highest rate of teen suicide, depression and cocaine and marijuana use in the country. Colorado has more adult entertainment venues per capita, more condom purchases then any other city-even Vegas. More occult activity then other state. I could go on, but I will spare you more of the gritty dirty details of this Mile High State only because there really isn’t room.
My God is a God of redemption. And over and over and over He uses the darkest places on earth to shine his glory in ways that are completely unimaginable. I think that it’s the part of his character that loves using the foolishly crazy, abundantly absurd things to shame the works of the wise, the slick plans of those who think that they can formulate the mystery of Him who always has been. My God is the one who in an ancient time and on a hill far away, on a deeply scandalous night, brought us out of darkness into light. And he is still working. He is still calling, He is still overcoming, He is still bringing light.
My heart is beating quite fast and it had been for a while now. I can’t get enough of Jesus. I can’t see gaze on Him enough. I am exploding because He has allowed me to see the end game, at least in part. I feel like I am stuck in a parallel universe, because Jesus is coming and Jesus is here, I can see his coming to Denver in a quiet earthquake, in a mountainous roar of the yearly blizzards; creation is groaning, I am groaning. Yet, He waits. And so I Burn.
And I call people to join me, and in the dark hours of the midnight hour, in the weird moments of half-light just before the dawn breaks; we call out to the one who brings redemption, to the one who saves. We cry out “JESUS, JESUS, JESUS!! YOUR NAME IS ABOVE EVERY OTHER NAME. COME TO THIS DESERT, REMEMBER YOUR PROMISES, REMEMBER THE ANCIENT SEEDS THAT WERE PLANTED, COME AND DO WHAT YOU LOVE TO DO.” Let me be clear, we are not pleading for revival, we are not pleading for a visitation. Honestly, Jesus has shown himself in revivals, he has visited cities the world over many times over the last two thousand years, yet our world is still a mess. No, we are pleading for him to come and inhabit. We are calling for him to dwell in the temple of our hearts, to mess up our neat little lives so thoroughly that our lives, our city, our world will never be the same.
Don’t get me wrong; this isn’t easy. Its not easy being a forerunner, its not easy being the one awake at three in the morning, the lone person on the stage of heaven, taking my rightful place in front of the King pleading over and over and over that He would come in a NEW way. My heart aches, my soul is lonely, my eyes want other lovers. But then I gaze, my heart beats faster as he shows me his heart and I step into that parallel universe of eternity. Though I am blind I am able to see.
Denver is a mess, but my God already paid the price, death has lost its sting and this Mile High City will be and already is a City on a Hill. Denver is uniting; passionate lovers of Jesus are coming and crying out like never before. Righteousness is being formed and Justice is being built. This state will be a beacon of the Glory, a beacon on the Presence, a beacon of Jesus. Light has come, Darkness has fled, and the end game has been declared.
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