Join us for our 3rd Anniversary Burn this weekend

3pm This Friday, July 23, 2010 until 3pm Saturday, July24, 2010

at New Life Christian Center in Novato, CA

Email me at michellek@theburn247.com for more info!

July Burn: Aligning Our Hearts with Love

Friday, July 23, 2010

10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.

IHOP-LI at The King’s Corner 69 Railroad Ave. Ronkonkoma, NY 11779

631-662-9705

It is meant to create a place of refreshing where the entire Body of Christ, with all of its beautiful diversity of expressions, can come together to minister to the Lord with one heart; where worshipers, artists, intercessors, and minstrels can minister to the Lord with confidence in the love of God and as the priesthood of all believers.

It is minimally formatted to create breathing room for us to grow in sensitivity to the movements of God’s heart, love on Him and prefer one another. It is a place of rest.

Bring your instrument of worship and jump in. If you would like to lead a slot of worship – we’d love that. My email is Gworship9@yahoo.com

Friday, July 23, 2010

10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.

IHOP-LI at The King’s Corner 69 Railroad Ave. Ronkonkoma, NY 11779

631-662-9705

“A progression and a procession into the deepest chambers of the King – the place where intimacy is cultivated and released. . . . We progress from striving and playing our instrument to the instrument that is being played.” That is when our heart beats in sync with the heart of the Father. ”” Sean Feucht

Smack dab in the middle of a typically busy summer itinerary (which has landed us on the West Coast six separate times thus far!) came a weekend that will forever become a monumental marker in my life. The most recent adventures across our destiny charged nation of America through OR, ME, CA, SD, OH, AK, OK, AZ and NC yielded extremely powerful and heavenly testimonies of transformation, miracles, salvations and enjoyment of the goodness and radiance of His face. Divine relational connections coupled with raw corporate encounters in the Presence of God has resulted in a dramatic extension of the “tent pegs” to the vision God entrusted us with more than four years ago.

But what was infused in my spirit last weekend was even more noteworthy, cataclysmic yet profoundly rich. Bittersweet sounds trite at best and is not a word that even touches the emotional collision of anguish and joy that continually flooded my heart the last few days. My entire family (mom and three sisters plus spouses) traveled to our hometown (and my birthplace) of Missoula, MT. Our purpose in going was twofold: firstly, to gather the long-time family friends for a memorial celebration service thanking God for the life of my dad and, second, to visit my dad’s favorite place on earth: Glacier National Park.

HOMETOWN HEALING

Nestled in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, the colorful hippie college town of Missoula was my family’s home for more than 18 years. It was also the best “playground” a young adventurous boy could grow up in! The community that made up our little Assemblies of God church accurately displayed what ‘Ecclesia’ really means (for more on my childhood town, including some crazy stories, an entire chapter covers this in my new book “Fire and Fragrance” out Sept 1st). So a few nights ago, in the little chapel behind the church, they all came out. Faces I have not seen since I was seven years old appeared for the most beautiful, honest and pure memorial service I have ever been apart of. I could have stayed there for hours on end. I did not want the endless stream of stories, testimonies, reflections, tears and laughter and to ever stop. Waves of healing, gratefulness and awe crashed over my heart and brought joy to my family.

****Side Note – [Many peoples reaction in wake of such a tragedy defaults to reluctance to remember a person or story in order to shield each other from the pain of loss. So, quite often in our culture we simply try to act as if nothing ever happened. Most of the time, this social pattern is a cover-up for the shallow dimension of our relationships and reveals our refusal to cope with the authentic emotions of each other’s heart. Simply put: we prefer our convenience of conversation (i.e. – How are you doing today? Good. And you? Good).]

But despite what most people think in the wake of such a loss, I could listen to these stories, words and testimonies endlessly! Sometimes all I truly long to do in conversation (especially with people that knew him well) is remember my father in this way.

Having to lead worship and share at this small town memorial was clearly one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do in my life. Even leading for 35,000 worshippers packed in a massive stadium never seemed so daunting. From the first chord that night, there was such a beautiful flood of His presence as this congregational choir made up of his old friends belted out my dads favorite songs (“I exalt thee” sure made the list as his AG favorite!). Friends, family, colleagues, doctors and pastors shared reflections, inspiration and hope while bearing their heart through weeping and laughter, sorrow and joy. There was a nearness and sweetness of God that never lifted from the gathering. We experienced the truth of these words in psalms:

“Precious in the site of the Lord is the death of His saints.” – Psalm 116:15

THE TRANSITION AND DICHOTEMY

Similar to many prophets, leaders and believers across the world in this season, I have been seeing the numbers “1111” just about everywhere. It started last fall as we were “transitioning” our home base from Dallas, TX to Harrisburg, PA and has not stopped yet. From license plates to billboards to clocks and even hotel room numbers, these four digits seem to haunt me! It is not hard to prove numbers are very important to God and can carry many different biblical meanings. Some of the strongest biblical interpretations for the numbers “1111” are definitely transition (11 signifies this), awakening (John 11:11), reclamation (Isaiah 11:11) and faith (Heb. 11:11).

My heart has been frayed with the most dramatic and vast dichotomy of last three months. I feel even that feels like an understatement. Just as the pain of losing my greatest encourager, mentor, friend and earthly father becomes too much to bear, I glance over at my wife’s ever-expanding pregnant belly and am instantly filled with an unspeakable hope of what is to come. This is the best of times and the worst of times. The most drastic transition of my life at hand: from losing a father to becoming a father.

THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION

I have been crying out ever since my father went home for an endless supply of wisdom, revelation and strength in this trying hour for my beautiful daughter on the way. I do not think it was a coincidence that the first three messages I heard spoken from three different cities on my first trip out since my dads graduation carried the message “The Spirit of Adoption.” Rather than shy away from a message and topic that would arouse much pain, there has been a special grace for my heart to press into the kingdom realities of “sonship” and “identity” lately. In fact, it is the only topic I can speak on as it is what is authentic to my spirit.

God has been illuminating many astounding facets of this surreal life as kings, priest, sons and heirs we are now born again into. We are surely living in a “fatherless” generation where a catastrophic “identity crisis” is the primary cause of our dysfunction between each other and with God. I have personally come to grasp the truth that He indeed is “the father to the fatherless, a defender of widows” (Psalm 68:5).

TWO ENCOUNTERS

Facing my own insecurity of becoming a father in a mere three weeks (hopefully not any sooner : ), I doubt that I’ve prayed out this four letter word to God more frequently in my life: HELP. There were two encounters this past weekend that marked me and therefore thoroughly messed me up (in a good way) during this fervent plea.

The first took place just a few days ago as I was jogging alongside the swift mountain river that cuts through the heart of my hometown. As I was wrestling with the sober reality of not having an earthly father to look to as my own time of “fathering” quickly approached, I was caught up a sort of crazy trance. Snapshots flooded my mind of unique and special moments growing up. Flashing before my eyes was the very moment I first rode my bike, my very first soccer game, a hunting trip, sledding in the sub-zero temperatures, the Royal Rangers award ceremony (you AG kids know what I mean!) and many more. In every single memory, my dad was there, was engaged and cheering me on. I began to weep uncontrollable during this as the Lord spoke to me in a strong but gentle voice, “You have been given the example to live by.”

The next encounter took place in my father’s favorite place on planet earth: Glacier National Park. We spent at least an extended weekend or week each summer I grew up exploring this Northwestern Montana treasure. Camping, hiking, fishing and taking thousands of pictures of the grandiose and breathtaking scenery along the “Going to the Sun Highway” marked these special trips. It was like heaven on earth in this “off the beaten path” glorious getaway.

There is a lodge on a lake near the entrance of the park with handmade ice cream and a massive gift shop. While my sisters and mom shopped (frequently for hours!), my dad and I enjoyed the taste of hackberry ice cream while having a rock-skipping contest on the placid glacier lake. I am thoroughly convinced that this is the lone perfect spot on earth where skipping rocks was invented. I had a goal for the rock to skip on the water at least 15 times as they flung out of my hand. He cheered me on with every throw.

As I revisited the bank of this lake, the words of conversations past with my dad flooded my memory. On those afternoons far away from everyone else, we talked about anything and everything that was on the mind of a 6 to 11 year old. He made sure that we didn’t retreat from that place without me hearing how much he loved me and was proud of me as his son. As this was the first visit of my life to this spot without my earthly father, my heavenly released this same confirmation over my heart in an almost audible voice: “I love you with an endless love and I am so proud of you, son.” The sound of this authoritative voice pierced my heart.

THE EAGER EXPECTATION

In light of all that my family and I have gone through and the fresh perspective of identity that has graced my broken heart, I believe that there is an authority coming on my personal message as well as our entire Burn 24-7 tribe scattered across the nations of the world to trumpet the reality of “sonship” and “adoption” in Christ. This is a message that could not be timelier for this season of transition God is calling our generation into.

The hopeless, rejects and dying of the world are not looking for a polished, relevant “professional” itinerant showcasing a plastic and palatable Christianity to reveal to them the meaning of all life. But as a desperate and exhausted flight attendant uttered to me just yesterday as our Boeing 757 was soaring off the runway, “We all just want to find out who we are and why we are here, right?”

The world is searching for an identity that we have been mandated to display. For unlike the rest of humanity, we believers are not “enslaved by fear” but possess the “Spirit of sonship” by which we cry out “Abba Father” (Romans 8:15). And creation is longing, waiting, hoping, looking for this very reality and sense of belonging! Coming out of this trial of heavy loss in my own life, this simple truth is my reward, recompense and renewed vision.

“All creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.”

Romans 8:19

Let us all transition now into a new season of “Sonship” across the globe!

Bradford has a reputation in the UK of being a very ethnically diverse and socially fragmented city, and it’s recognised by most people that there is a lot of need here. We’ve been burning here since May ‘09, and every month for 6 hours since January this year. We’ve a relatively small crew but God’s Spirit is moving, and presenting us with some great opportunities, some of which have been both surprising and humbling.

We were recently invited by a local ministry to worship and intercede for them as they journey through a tough season for them. They work to bring the freedom of Christ to drug users that want to be freed. The time we spent together, standing with them, worshipping with them and seeking God’s heart together was a real source of encouragement for the leaders of the ministry. His Presence changes things!

This weekend we were out on the streets of Bradford city centre with a prayer and healing ministry called Healing on the Streets (HoTS). The HoTS crew asked us to come and worship whilst they prayed for people for any that asked for it. We’d never done this before, but were more than grateful for the invite. The team leaders told us after that, although they were over-staffed, they were constantly praying for people as they came off the street throughout the two hours, and that two people were also led to the Lord that afternoon! Praise God!

We’re also building relationship with the Asian church here in the city, who have worship services completely in Hindi and Urdu. Through this connection we’ve made, we’ve been invited to take a slot of worship at a large Evangelical Alliance event in September, worshipping alongside Asian and Congolese worshippers that live here in the city. In addition to that, we’re really looking forward to hearing worship at an upcoming Burn on traditional Indian instruments, being sung in Hindi and Urdu!

Never in my life have I heard the kind of radical, faith-filled language that I am now hearing everywhere I go. People are finally thinking beyond their local congregations and personal ministries and are talking about taking entire cities for Christ, and reaching entire unreached nations with the gospel in our life-time. I believe this explosive, language of faith has been ignited in the furnace of vertical worship and prayer over the last five years and will continue to grow as our view of Him grows. This “city taking” paradigm has been one of the first and necessary shifts that has taken place in the body of Christ to prepare us for the greatest days of harvest that we have ever seen. As our hearts have been stretched to think and dream God-sized dreams he is now releasing revelation, principles and strategies from heaven to get the job done. God has released certain “keys” that will unlock this end-time destiny and we are using those keys to a certain degree. However, there is more that God is saying and doing that we must enter into before the foundation is laid to release the kind of power that can take cities.

Convergence and covenant are two words that we are hearing a lot today and I believe these two words are containers of much revelation that God wants to release.  From the very inception of the Burn the idea of 24-7 worship and missions has been a vital part of our DNA. It is so amazing to hear so many talk about the divine merger of missions and worship in the last couple of years!

I recently heard Mike Bickle preach the same message on the Convergence of Night & Day Worship and Missions from the pulpits of both Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship and the YWAM base in Kona. He mentioned that last year at the Call 2 All in Orlando that over 400 key Missions and Prayer movement leaders gathered to discuss role of 24-7 prayer in completing the Great-Commission.  It is staggering to think about the explosion that is getting ready to happen in the earth as result of this union.

I am amazed at the kind of humility that is being displayed as we are realizing that we cannot finish the task the Lord has delegated to us without the rest of the body of Christ.

Recently, the Lord has been speaking to me about how Honor builds bridges to the rest of the body of Christ.

The Lord showed me that in every city there are churches that have unique and powerful gifts that usually reflect one of the 5-fold ministry gifts. For example, some of our churches are more prophetically gifted or evangelistically gifted. As a result of this unique call God has released a measure of revelation and favor for that local fellowship to move in that gift. Unfortunately the tendency has been to slip into spiritual elitism and judge other churches and ministries that aren’t moving in our particular gift and revelation.

The sad reality is that when we judge one another we close the door from receiving the powerful gifts that God is pouring out to them and as a result we stifle our groth and our ability to impact the city on the scale God desires.

However, honor builds a bridge. Honor says that you don’t have to be like me and know what I know for me to esteem you and need you.  Jesus wasn’t able to do very many miracles in his hometown because they were offended by his humanity. They couldn’t honor him as the supernatural son of God because of their familiarity with Him as a man.  Like-wise we can be so focused on the humanity of other’s in the body that we miss the glorious hidden treasures of the Spirit that are housed in earthen vessels.

On a practical level honor means focusing on the gift, and strengths of others in the body first and not letting their shortcomings, faults or differences keep us separated. This is why the Burn is so important! It is a worship movement but it is also a unity movement.  In worship we prepare the way in the heavenlies but without unity we will never walk out the prophetic promises that have been released. We cannot do it alone! That’s the point! We need the rest of the body!

We will not fulfill our mission as the Burn unless we contend for a divine convergence of the multiplicity of gifts and anointings that God has delegated to men and women to reach our cities. The Burn is a movement that builds bridges and we cannot build those connections without honor. I believe this year we will see a supernatural wave of unity in our cities that goes beyond lip service to true and genuine covenant relationships. Out of these relationships we will emerge with one heart and mind to see our cities shaken with the glory of God!

Nehemiah walked this road and has much to teach us! He found a supernatural surge of faith to rebuild the ruins of beloved Jerusalem and then he unified a hopeless, hurting, scattered band of rebels to rebuild those ruins and revive a nation in 52 days! If we stop at big dreams and faith for cities we will miss it! If we stop at contending for breakthrough just in our own churches and ministries then we will miss it! We must unify, converge and covenant with one another and then nothing will be able to stop this force of the Body of Christ moving together as one man! Get Ready!

This really smacked me between the eyes, and I started to realize that God is talking to us about a Nazarite trail. A forerunning path. We’re making straight the paths, marking these trails in the spirit for others to follow. After a trail is marked in the woods, then it’s cleared for walking:

“Prepare God’s arrival!
Make the road smooth and straight!
Every ditch will be filled in,
Every bump smoothed out,
The detours straightened out,
All the ruts paved over.
Everyone will be there to see
The parade of God’s salvation.”
(Luke 3:4-6, The Message)

This is what’s going on with these furnaces; they’re paving the way for His glory. Think of it as laying out a highway…you mark the path, then clear the land, then pave the way. These 24/7 Burn furnaces are marking the path and clearing the land right now. We’re painting marks on the “trees” of our cities, saying: “This place is for Jesus – and here comes His army”. Then we clear out the sticks and stones, and level the ground. Then the 3rd stage is the paving…laying a structure and a foundational road for His glory to travel on…for the King to ride in on.

As these Burns continue, we’re going to see a transition from “tagging” what’s rightfully God’s to clearing out the debris in the heavenlies. People are going to get free and delivered en masse at furnaces and citywide prayer watches. There’s a spring cleaning that’s about to happen in cities. After God has completed that, the concrete will go in the ground…the rock solid Church that is unwavering will be poured out. The warrior Bride with oil in her lamp will walk out of her chamber. And the nations will have a road to travel on, a pathway to the Lord.

8 And a highway will be there;
it will be called the Way of Holiness.
The unclean will not journey on it;
it will be for those who walk in that Way;
wicked fools will not go about on it.

10 and the ransomed of the LORD will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
(Isaiah 35:8-10)

By Dave Hightower
Burn Spring Hill Director

NEW ALBUM ON ITUNES AND IN OUR ONLINE STORE TODAY!!
Listen to the new track “Hallelujah” uploaded at www.myspace.com/seanfeucht to get the live and raw feel of this album!
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If you do not have itunes in your nation, you can still download today at our www.seanfeucht.com store! We are so pumped about this release and would appreciate any help in getting the word out!! Here is the description below! We feel this is the best live project to date!
Your Presence Is Enough

This album is a beautiful and intrinsic collection of Holy Spirit inspired songs coming forth from atmospheres of energetic, creative and prophetic flow. It is raw, organic and captured live in communities across the world that are experiencing genuine moves of God’s presence and power. From MorningStar Ministries in Fort Mill, SC, to Bethel Church in Redding, CA, and the Soul Survivor youth festival in Holland, there is a simple and unified cry of hunger reverberating from an awakening bride that wants the fullness of God’s Presence dwelling in our midst. Just as this divine realm is so apparent during these recordings, we pray God uses these songs and experiences as a vehicle to usher in healing, refreshing and breakthrough to your life. Echoing the words of King David “Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere.” His Presence is truly Enough!

God bless you all!!

sean

This is all i know how to think of right now.

That and the fact that there is a solution…  

i’m in an in-between place, these last few days, of seeing my Cambodia change phnomenally in the MONTH that i was out-of-country (seriously… it’s tangible, noticeable.) … but also realising that just because there is less trash on the streets and more Lexus SUV’s… doesn’t mean that more people are drinking clean water from the tap or are able to write their names or feel confident that their houses will survive this rainy season.

Hmm… learning and praying into what it means for poverty to be eliminated. There’s nothing wrong with driving lovely cars and having nice clothes and going out for a meal; these things make life lovely and exciting and are ways that we connect and do community! These things in and of themselves are fine and are not my complaint, my confusion, my…??

… what i’m just musing is this: what does the elimination of poverty actually look like? (at least here in my context in Cambodia?)

When will I not have to brush my teeth with bottled water so I don’t get cholera? When will fathers stop selling their daughters into brothels to pay for a new tv set? (for real.) When will US$90 a month not be a decent salary anymore? When will every single mama go to sleep with a full belly and a full heart, knowing that their children will get fed three times tomorrow? When will every road victim with their femur bone smashed through their skin, bleeding to death, be treated – without question – by qualified doctors? When will every kid have the guts to dream that they can be a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, an accountant, a social worker, a counsellor, a… whatever… and that not be laughable… but what we dream for them too?

Just musing… dreaming… getting excited