Gulf Coast Update

Burn Wagon Gulf Coast

To say the Lord moved in a mighty way this summer would be an understatement. We are truly seeing with our own eyes a whole nation be awakened to the call of the King, and the best part – He’s doing most of the work. Our entire trip to Mexico seemed to be administratively sabotaged purely that the Lord might display the wonders of His glory. Many times we get all too frustrated when things don’t go the way we planned it, but our team began to embrace the beauty of this divine intervention in every city we set foot in.

This was Burn Wagon’s first international destination, and I can assure you that we see the application of this vision spreading like a wildfire. K.P. Yohannon wrote a book several years ago called Revolution of World Missions discussing the importance of raising an army of native missionaries to bring the Gospel to their own nations. We had the amazing opportunity to have 3 Mexicans from the Burn in Matamoros on our team! They travelled with us for 2 weeks across their nation, and everywhere we went there was an incredible amount of authority on their words and their worship. There is a sound rising in Mexico and the Latino community that cannot be silenced.

Our whole trip was motivated by a vision the Lord gave me over two years ago about the Latino community. In this vision the Lord took me up to look at the globe and began to ask me to point out all the areas of the earth that have experienced or are experiencing revival and harvest. As I moved my finger around the globe I noticed a great void of marks in Central and South America. The Lord began to smile as he told me His plans for this region of the earth. If any of you have been around or known anyone of Hispanic descent, you should know how passionate these people are about EVERYTHING! Whether its food, dance, or conversation, passion is a pillar in their ethnic design. The Lord showed me that the people of this community contained a song that carried the authority of the Levites that would bring great victory to the Bride and ultimately call Christ for his return to earth. It was so inspiring to see the truth of this revelation as we discovered hungry, passionate people all over Mexico worshipping the King with all their being.

Our team carried an anthem message to almost every city we visited – the principle of the “better thing.” In Luke 10, we find the story of Mary and Martha. All of us are familiar with the story, but the Lord began to highlight an important phrase in the passage. When Martha vents her frustration to Jesus about Mary doing “nothing”, Jesus responds to Martha by saying, “Martha, Martha. Don’t you see that Mary has chosen the better thing. And it will not be taken from her.” Wow! What we can learn from this is that there are two modes in Christianity, sitting and working/preparing. Both are very important (even Jesus recognized this), but the better thing is to sit before Him at his feet. Why? It is in this position that we begin to cultivate a relationship that inspires acts of love rather than acts of obligation. The Gospel has been so poorly portayed in the Hispanic community and has never quite separated itself from Catholicism and slavery. As one of our team members put it, “All the indigenous tribes were given two options: 1) Convert and live the rest of your life as a slave; 2) Die.”

We had the honor and privilege of sharing this great message with the people of Mexico! We saw countless people weeping in the ponderings of new revelation of the love of God for them. A nation was given the opportunity to sit, grow, mature and fall in love with a God who no longer measures them by the callouses on their hands but by the fervency of their hearts for Him. Pray, pray, pray for the Latino community as we continue to take this message back again and again. I promise you that this is the time for the great harvest and many, many souls are ripe for the picking. Pray that God will continue to flood the earth with the knowledge of His glory until we are all overwhelmed by His waves. God Bless!