Blog from Melissa
Check out this prophetic blog from Melissa during the 60 hour Burn…
It is a new day and a new morning here in Turkey. Sleepy and “blazed out” from a night on my face before the Lord…I sit here and reflect as two Turks passionately cry out to the Lord on behalf of their nation. Beautiful, unique, lovely….there is no other sound like it in the entire world! God is lavishing His love on his Turkish bride and He is so pleased at this pure fragrance of praise that is arising from this tiny room. We have out grown this room, not an inch of the room was free last night and over 330 joined us online from all over the world on our live web sync!
I sit this time not as one who is here to impart, to model, or to even lead a set. I myself have only led one set in these 60 hrs! I sit here as a sister from the United States in Burn Turkey, this belongs to this nation. It no longer feels like OUR thing or something that WE introduced….I am hearing this sound and seeing the synergy that this 60 hrs is creating. Burn Turkey is different this year. It belongs to this nation, it is their song that is shifting the foundations of this nation…not the Burn team’s sound alone. YES, God’s plan is for us to come along side and encourage and support, but we are here only to support. It is so exciting to see the indigenous sound arise and to see this movement take root in this nation! No doubt, they will contend until Jesus returns, whether we are here or not! THAT IS SO EXCITING!
We are the fire starters, those who carry the flame of his love and passion from nation to nation starting wild fires! We encourage, we fan the flame, but when we leave, the fire burns on and it doesn’t leave with us. It consumes, in BURNS in the hearts of those who are hungry for His Presence! The streets of this old city are FILLED with His praise and the atmosphere is saturated with the sweetness of His Spirit! He is drawing, He is wooing, He is singing over this nation THROUGH the TURKS!!! THIS is true transformation!
Last year, the flame ignited here and spread to over 5 other cities and worship and prayer is taking root in this nation like I’ve never seen!!! What else is there? There is nothing else that can be done! They’ve tried everything else and in the end they are coming back to the one thing and the ONLY thing that will draw all men to HIm….HIS PRESENCE, we lift up the name of Jesus above every name! That is the only strategy for the salvation of over 70,000,000 souls!
This is the underground sound that will shift the systems in this land, this is the sound that will cause Turkish lovers to arise, they cannot and will not be denied! We are believing for such a movement that catalyses TRANSFORMATION!! That is the only strategy for church growth! GET ON YOUR FACE! We are believing for a nation to be changed in a single day!
TURKEY, you belong to Jesus!
