So yesterday I was reading the well-read Isaiah 58 “this is what true fasting is” passage.  I kinda end up there on accident and since we were all fasting I figured it couldn’t hurt to read through it!  Really friends its incrediable and the father showed me a couple things that I want to share with you.  Just a quick overview…..

            The father at first chides them (his people) for fasting while at the same time asking for strife and discontent and having general wickedness in their lives.  And then He goes on to say that the fast that he has chosen will “loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens to let the oppressed go free”, that we will break every yoke, we will share all that we have with the poor.  Then after this our light will break forth.  The Glory of the Lord will surround us, he will be our rear guard, and when we call to Him He will answer!   This Light that He has given us will shine in the darkest places of the earth.  He will satisfy us, always guide us, always strengthen us. And what comes from this?  What does God call us to do from this place?  Well what happens is that we restore the foundations, we restore the wall!! (which is what Nehemiah did, its what had to happen in order to protect  the temple, the place where God dwells. The wall must be rebuilt before the temple can be restored.) And then He says that we will restore the streets for Him to dwell in.  Then after this fast, if we continue to pleasure ourselves in the Lord, if we delight ourselves in Him HE WILL FEED US WITH THE HERITAGE OF JACOB.

Ok, so this is where I got excited.  Vs 14 really really got me.  HE WILL FEED US WITH THE HERITAGE OF JACOB.  So I camped there for a while.  Just started thinking and meditating on what this meant. And I got excited because I began to think that the heritage of Jacob was Jesus.  So we get to feed on Jesus, which is just absolutely wonderful.  But then, my spirit give me a resounding no, there is something else.  Here is what it is, what all of this leads to, what fasting leads to, what we get to feed on……Jesus was not the heritage of Jacob, he was the inheritance of Jacob.  The Heritage of Jacob was an OPEN HEAVEN.(Gen 28;32)

WE GET AN OPEN HEAVEN!!!!!  And not only do we get to receive an open heaven we get to feast on an open heaven! 

That’s all I am going say.  I really could go off and spout off what an open heaven really means what the implications of that are.  But I am not going to.  I think that I am going to leave this one up to God and your pursuit of Him  I guess that I would just encourage you today to seek what this means for your city, for your family, for youself.

He has given us an open Heaven guys lets feast on it!

The words, “Obedience is better than sacrifice,” just dropped into me. I never realized how often I think sacrificing things will tide God over more than simply obeying Him. Going on this fast was definitely an act of obedience for me. This is not something that my physical body was longing to do. This wasn’t something that my mind was telling me to do. This was purely from God’s Spirit to mine.

Over the past 7 days, I haven’t had any incredibly prophetic dreams or visions. Which honestly surprised me a bit. I guess I was assuming that if I did “such and such” that God would do “this and that.” Don’t you just love how we try to formulate everything? Lord, forgive me of always speculating or trying to figure out exactly how You’re going to move! Even though I haven’t had anything happen the way I thought they would happen this week, I know the spiritual atmosphere is charged!! Yesterday, after fasting for 6 days, my body was weak. I found myself to be somewhat grouchy with an extremely growly stomach. At first I thought, “I’m just hungry. No big deal.” That was until we arrived at church and began warming up for worship. It seems that each of us were “under the gun” so to speak. We each were really in a battle… and we honestly didn’t even realize it until we finally gathered in a circle to pray. That’s when the scales came off and we realized that we were in a war zone. The worship was under attack. Now I’m not one to look for demons around every corner… but I can say without hesitation, this was straight from the pit of hell! At that moment we realized that God was requiring us to lay down our skills, our talents and listen to Him and completely trust Him to do what only He can do; change hearts and literally do surgery on people as they entered into His presence. We were being called to carry the weight of the Presence of God like the Levites of old and not try to push it along. Out of that time of worship came a flood of people who needed God desperately to move in their lives. I’m talking some deep junk that only God can fix.

Yeah. I’ve made my flesh uncomfortable over the past few days, but it has fine-tuned my spirit so that I can hear the Spirit of God more clearly. My spiritual ears were kind of like a radio that had been tuned in between two stations. I was hearing both stations clashing with one another and lots of static until I was “tuned into” one specific station. Now it’s coming in loud and clear. Now, I can hear what God is saying to me specifically and what God is saying to others who come and need me to minister and pray with them. I can sacrifice my time, energy, money, etc. until I have nothing left to give. But if I’m not obeying God, what good is my sacrifice?

Fellow followers after the heart of God……I believe that Jesus just dropped this word in my mouth, for such a time a this.   Listen, Pray, Pay heed…                                                                                                                                                             “This can not be our pet project. It has for some people, and it pretty much has to stop. It can not just be another good idea that we have, it can’t just be something that we pursue with a part of our life and heart. The Father is calling us to something so much higher (not just burn people,not just ihop, the call, 24-7, whatever. This is something that is for everyone). If we don’t do what he has called us to as  lover of Him, as followers of Him then he will find someone else. Its just that simple. He goes across the earth seeking hearts that are completely his, and if we are not living completly abandoned to Him  then he will glaze over us. We must do this wholeheartedly and to the  death. If we pursue Him in the earth and follow the call to come before the father and minister to him and to intercede on behalf of nations then he will give us the keys to His Kingdom. He will give us an authority like no one on earth has seen yet. The battle that we are fighting is not against flesh and blood, this is a basic thing that is very important to remember. Everyplace that has a burn, has an ihop, has 24-7, has the call, ect….I have given this power and authority to trample the legions of the Dark. In everyone one of these places an atomic bomb is being set off. It will consume all and will create an area of rest for the Presence of the Holy Spirit. It is here that God will dwell. The keys to the Kingdom will be given to you(leaders of each city) when the dust from the atomic bomb has settled.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           This is urgent.  What God is saying has to deal with issues of massive urgency.  I don’t really even know what to tell you guys.  I can’t say enough to convince you of what Jesus is saying.  We need to get on our faces even more then what we are doing now.  We need to seriously seek the heart of the Father and act.  We have a mandate from his throne and we must be obedient to the call that we have received.  This is no time to play games.   We must act.

This has by far been the most important and timely fast I’ve ever been on. The past few days out in KC have proven that going on this fast as a BURN family was not just a good idea…but a GOD idea.

SO many things have broken forth…new direction…purpose…reason….connections…and I have an entire new energy and heart for what God has called us too. Its funny how 6 days without the bread of men will fill you up with the bread of the Father (which is to do the WILL of the Father).

When we begin to slow down and focus on HIM…HIS HEART…HIS AGENDA…and HIS PLANS…what we do suddenly gets so radically saturated with favor, wisdom, glory, and GOD that catapults us into entire new levels!

This has happened this weekend and there will be more to come…please stay tuned…some radical stuff is about to be revealed…

2 MORE DAYS!!! DONT GIVE UP!!!! CONTEND!! PRESS IN!!! GRAB AHOLD OF WHAT HE HAS FOR US IN THIS TIME OF CONSECRATION!!!

We just received this incredibly amazing GOD testimony from the effects of our fasting and prayer over the past 6 days! A breakthough of a lifetime happened!! PLEASE READ BELOW!!!!

I just wanted to share some totally HOTT blazin news!

I had mentioned to the tribe on the conference call briefly that I was blessed with the opportunity to go to a local television station and share about 24-7 last month. The Lord hooked me up with this blazer from Philly from A church called The Rock. They have been doing 24-7 for some time and apparently this cat came to Honduras to share this vision. What he did not know was that there are others here ( like me) who have already been ruined for some time with Vertical worship!
So Jamie and I end up on this TV program just pouring out our hearts to Hundreds of thousand of people in the Latin Community. Dude, it ;literally marked the hair stand up on the back of my neck when I think about who and where those airwaves assaulted and what will become from that in the future. (God did not have us on there in vain) ok, let me get off the rabbit trail.

The next night Jamie and I had dinner and we talked more and he shared with me that he had ignited a fire a few years ago at the Church they planted but it got quenched for many different reasons. I assured him that I would do everything in Gods power to fan that freagin flame into an inferno!
So a few weeks went by and I have been going 90 to nothing and have not really been able to get with the local Pastor to do a (burn preview the best way I can)
So check this out. The Pastor, who invited Jamie and I to the TV is a good friend of mine and he is also the director at JBN, (Jesus Broadcasting Network) It is like the equivalent of TBN in the States, He and I had done lots of Harp and Bowl together and I told him what we were doing now wityh Burn and I said lets get some Pastors together at your Church and let me share and impart this to them and see what happens.

Well tonight “HAPPENED”! Dude, about 100 people got together tonight. Get this, from four different Churches!!! Four Pastors with a hand full of their Presence Junkies.
I shared the vision (which was unknown to about 97.3% of the people present and they just swallowed it hook, line, sinker, reel, pole, baitstand, pier, I mean everything!
One of the Pastors btought this young keyboard player who tore it up. I did not even have to play. For the next 4 hours we just were plain undignified!
The sweet presence of God engulfed the room and wave after wave just melted us in HIS PRESENCE.

I have been laboring for almost ten years for this to happen and in an instant God just weaved this thing together, like nothing. Its one thing to have one Church but to have four different Churches participating has totally turned me inside out!!

At the end I I grabbed the mic and asked for those that wanted to recieve impartation to just acknowledge and its on like Donkey Kong!!!
One of the Pastors spoke after me and made a pact to run with this as hard as he could and amazingly enough it was the Pastor at the Church that Jamie ( The Rock from Philly) planted!! Whoa!!!!!!!!!! All of the Pastors agreed that this is totally hOTT and totally from God and want to BURN like mad together as oftn as we can. I am going to go to the different locations and just pour gas on these people and light a match/ I mean it bro that is all that most of thses people are waiting for.

One of the ladies comes up to me with this fire in her eyes and says “Can I tell you something”? and I said sure. So she says “I saw you in a vision two years ago with your guitar and you were worshiping and I was lost in the presence of the Lord. I saw you on Television RECENTLY but it was not until tonight when I saw you standing there with your guitar that the Lord reminded me that it was you who I saw in the vision”. All I can do is weep bro because God had all of this already planned out. He knew that I was toiling for this and looking for every opportunity to tell others about 24-7 and somehow I was actually dumb enough to believe that somehow it would happen, in the midst of always ending up in a place feeling so alone and that no one really understood this???

I know I am rambling on but I could not wait to get this out to you and the tribe.I don’t know how to post it on the site so that is why I am sending it to you. You can post whatever you like from this or just keep it to yourself ( I dare you…lol \o/ ).

The last thing I wan to share is a verse that the Lord gave the first morning if the fast.

“BY WISDOM A HOUSE IS BUILT AND THROUGH UNDERSTANDING IT’S ESTABLISHED.
THROUGH KNOWLEDGE IT’S ROOMS ARE FILLED WITH RARE ND BEAUTIFUL TREASURES.”
PROVERBS 24:3

There is way too much in that verse to share. I felt like the Lord wanted me to put that verse out and He would bring tons of individual revelation to the eyes that read it.
I leave it in His hands

Ok my fiery friend, It has been along day and I am beat. Once again I am in absolute awe……….I know nothing else to say in a known tongue and I cant spell in tongues so with that in mind I say enjoy the fire.

I love you and bless you today and pray for Gods grace to be with you throughout the rest of this fast and beyond!!!!!!!

Souls Count \o/
Robert & Amy Coello
Inner Fire Ministries
www.webmissions.com/coello

There is nothing like fasting to really bring into focus the things that you want the most.  It makes my heart readily examine all that I desire, what i really want, what I am really willing to sacrifice.  It’s where the rubber meets the road, when I really discover if what I tell Jesus in the middle of the night with a full belly is really true.  In his sermon, “The Weight of Glory”, C.S. Lewis says: ” If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.  We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because we cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.  We are far too easily pleased”.The Father has really been speaking to me about desire.  About what I want.  What I strive for, what i work for.  What I put above all else.  He, to just be honest, has been chiding me, disiplineing me in the ways of  his heart.  He is saying that my desire will never be enough, that there is always more to Him, more to know, more to desire.  But I must come in my weak desire and give Him all of it, all I have.  He is bringing up all the things that I desire above Him, all the ways that I don’t follow the first commandment.  The fact is that I fit what C.S. Lewis said all too well.  I am fair too easily pleased by whatever is in front of me at the moment, whatever takes my fancy.  I know, I see that I have been offered an eternal holiday at sea, a chance to partner with the creator of the universe.  A chance to know his heart in intimate ways.  Yet I like mud.  Mud is easy, its safe, it feels nice on my skin.  I truly am a rebellious human who is too easily pleased.Yet the Father is calling me.  You were made to see my face.  You were made to desire me.  So come daughter.  Come and desire me.  Desire my heart.  Give me your heart and I will give you my heart.  Desire me.  Desire me, it is the only  way that your heart will by fully alive, fully satisfied.   So I must lay down my heart, I am mandated to lay down my heart.  And I do because I have been down the other road.  I have seen the despair of hell and I instead choose the mercy of his throne, where I am seated at his right hand.I give Him all my desire.  I choose to live in Him and through Him.  That is the call, and we all must make the choice.   

Yesterday, January 3rd, I woke up quite nauseas and I was soon vomiting up all that was left in my empty stomach-water. After the first round of vomiting into my sink, I knew that something wasn’t quite right. I’ve fasted before and have never felt sick in the morning and it has never gotten to the point of vomiting. The quite little voice in my head kept saying “you need to eat, you need to eat, you need to eat . . .” Now whether it was the Holy Spirit or the demon on my shoulder trying to make me stumble I’m not sure. But I know that all wisdom said, and everything I have read and heard about fasting said, “If you start vomiting then eat.” Well my strong and prideful flesh and soul said, “No. No. NO. I’m not going to eat.” As this battle of voices in my head went on for a while I decided some banana would probably be a good idea. It wasn’t. After a bite, the banana and a few sips of water I had just downed up-ed itself again. Back to square one with my spirit saying eat and my pride saying no. My common sense won and I had some toast, which immediately settled my stomach.

I walked out of my house scratching my head, and cradling my broken soulish pride when I saw a crow (or raven) that stood about 2 feet tall picking apart what appeared to be some carcass. I shivered at the sight and I heard God saying “If you don’t turn to me with a whole heart you too will be eaten by darkness.” More shivers, much concern, and many doubts about how well I was hearing God that day. Throughout my drive to work, work, and my drive home I was concerned and wondering what the Spirit was saying (besides the obvious right?). Once home I quieted myself and I came across Psalms 118:5: “Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free.” David cried out to God out of his distress! Not out of his strength or pride or surplus, and it was when David cried out of distress that God broke in and answered. Yet here I was fasting not out of distress and despair with the situation at hand but because I wanted God’s favor and power and revelation behind what I wanted-not what he desired. I was fasting because I had the luxury to fast-despair did not drive me to fast. I was not looking at the current state of my life, my friends, my city, my nation, our world in distress, but I was saying, “hey cool we are gonna do this 24-7 thing and God’s gonna come break in with all of his might and glory and . . . it is gonna be great!” I was not coming before God broken and overwhelmed crying out to him because of my complete lack and need for him. I was not coming with realization of the total depravity of my humanity. Yet, it is only because of Christ that I literally wake each morning and continue to live to see each hour, and it is the Almighty God who “gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding” (Dan 2:21). How foolish I am.

I started to pray, and as I prayed, I fell asleep. As I slept I started having dreams-none of which I remember-but I remember coming in and out of sleep praying that the we (the entirety of mankind) would have a revelation of our complete depravity so that we would be able to turn to the Father with a whole heart so that we would not be consumed. Over and over again I cried out to heaven that He would give us the realization of our extreme need and dependency on Him. I cried out that he would open the eyes to the dust that we truly are. As I dreamt and prayed I came to the realization that it is not until we learn of our depravity can we learn of the heart of the Father. We cannot fully grasp onto or be given the heart of the Father until we come before him is desperation and humility.

If I go out and build 24-7 prayer in Denver without the heart of the Father it will be nothing but a bunch of busy noise in the atmosphere that will do nothing but take up space. 24-7 worship and prayer will bear no fruit unless it is 100% birthed from the desires of the Fathers heart. And the heart of the Father is that his people would have His heart and walk in communion with him. That is what the Burn is about. It is about coming before him out of our weakness and need for him-crying out day and night because we don’t know what else to do . . . in this state we inherit the King’s heart, or at least a deeper revelation of it. Once we have his heart we can do nothing else but come before him in humility and despair because of the brokenness of the people we walk by each and everyday. We will only see a shifting and a change when we realize that the luxury that we live in nothing but rust! If we want to see a turning that we must truly realize the need for change, which means we have to see the darkness in the land! Our eyes must be open to our complete depravity! What would compel a man to come broken and humble before the Father with prayer and fasting if there is no realization of need?

The Father is looking for humble and contrite hearts-that is what he wants. He could careless if I found ten trillion dollars on a tree and hired 4000 people to pray and worship 24-7 for the next millennium if we were only rending our time, and money, and not our heart. In fact I bet he would say. “If I were hungry, would I not tell you for the world and its fullness are mine” (Psalms 50:12).

Folks . . . maybe I’m just talking about my own pride on this one, but if we do not turn from self-idolatry and praise of man with despair and the knowledge of our depravity with a whole heart-our flesh will become food for the ravens.

Brittany Ecklind here - Director of BURN TEAM ASIA!

First of all, I just want to tell you all to be encouraged during this fast.
About two weeks ago, I ended a very intense 21 day fast. I have never felt that sort of NEED for the word and for prayer. This is what we were created for, to deny our flest and to take up our cross and go even stronger. Being that dependant on the Lord will teach you some intense lessons, most of them are not too much fun! But in the end….. you become so much stronger than you were before.

TOTAL PRAISE REPORT……

Sean and Katie are here in Charleston, SC, with me and the rest of the fam. Yesterday they had a meeting with a pastor and his wife who have a heart to see a Burn started here.
I honestly do not know how I ended up in this meeting…. God is so good to me.
Sean mentioned a little about what the team and I will be doing throughout the year.
The Pastor told us that he and his wife have had hearts for Indonesia for over 6 years, and they were intrigued with what we are going over to do. For the rest of the meeting they kept asking me questions of what the team will be needing. They are the sweetest couple.

When the meeting was coming to a close, Katherine, the pastors wife, came up to me and handed me a $13,000 check!!

CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT!!! WHOOOOAAAA!!!

God had promised with His mouth, and with His hand he has fulfilled it.

Everyone has been saying that this year, 2008, is going to be the year of new beginnings. And I have already experienced this to the fullest. January 2nd of 2008 is a day I will NEVER forget.

KEEP GOING STRONG…God is meeting our needs during this fast!!
I love you all

So I dont like fasting…at all. But God has been doing so much in my heart that I can feel during the past two days…its been life changing already. Not that I’ve received any powerful dreams or met any angels yet (still praying..haha)…but every meal that I’ve been missing (and usually walking off to pray or read) God has been emptying me a little more of my own selfish desires and ambitions for 2008. All of the stuff “I wanna do” or “I wanna see happen”. I seriously feel it draining out of me at least three times a day…and I’m totally primed and ready to receive God’s heart and plan for the new year. We are leaving for Kansas City tomorrow after a powerful meeting today to launch BURN CHARLESTON this year (our second burn in South Carolina - Its blazin here!!). We were invited to an apostolic summit with prayer and worship movement people from all over the earth….among them are Mike Bickle, Lou Engle, Stacey and Wesley Campbell and many more.  They have asked me to share tomorrow in a session with all these leaders about what God has been doing with the BURN around the world and where we are headed in 2008.

Please pray…I feel this is an incredible strategic time and open door and I have no clue what I’m going to say…except for it HAS to be God’s stuff coming out…cause I am EMPTY!!

It actually feels good.

KEEP CHARGING AND BLOGGING…God has some stuff He wants to say to us through these 8 days!!

ONLY 6 MORE DAYS LEFT!!

This morning during my prayer the Lord showed me sets of waves.  I wasn’t sure who it was for until I logged in to the burn 24-7 website. God showed me in each set of waves there were 3 waves to a set, and each set of waves was bigger than the previous set. I watched these waves until the last set which became one big tsunami. The tsunami then hit and broke this big sea wall, totally destroyed it.

God is going to use us this year in a mighty way. He will unify his bride. I believe God is going to bring righteousness back to the church. I believe a line is being drawn in the sand and for those who are ready and willing to hop on board and be truly obedient to His will.

That’s all I got so far.