Strange, weird, wonderful

Burton Family Life Here’s a post on little more than my current feelings about life, ministry and everything else.

Man, we have been through some crazy tough times lately, and to top it off, Jet’s been in the ER twice in the last few days.

I think it’s in the raw times that we find ourselves a little more vulnerable and free to vent. Ya know?

Honestly, I’m fed up with the continual loss in our family. Five babies gone to Heaven. My wife and kids are strong, but are emotionally shaken at least to a degree. That maddens me.

We know without any doubt that our very personal friend and Master, the Lord Jesus, is preparing us for some important ministry in the years to come.

We’re pressing on toward the mark. My heart is both troubled and very much alive at the same time. It’s truly a strange, weird and wonderful season. Amy and I were transformed in ways beyond description during our three days in Lakeland. God is moving there in power.

I find myself burning and breathing fire as I’m on the road, serving others in teaching and ministry and casting the vision for revival and the house of prayer movement.

There is so much challenge and so much MASSIVE blessing right now for the Burtons. We have never in our lives (and we’ve been in the ministry mix for years) experienced such powerful, real, tender and continual love as we have here at IHOP over the last few weeks. We are undone.

My heart burns for revival. For God to manifest as He is in our churches. I’m desperate for a move of God in the churches of this and other nations. I’m crying out for deep reform. Another thesis must be nailed to the door. God must change the expression and understanding of Christianity in our generation! Not because biblical Christianity is insufficient, but because we have strayed so far from it!

It’s a reintroduction of scriptural church life.

I’m heartbroken that the entertainment industry has such power in this nation. Holiness is rarely preached anymore. It’s time to turn!

I will be writing a book soon (months later than I thought I would!). It’s titled Pharaoh in the Church. The simple idea is that the church body must be released from their jobs of making bricks and building the kingdom of man. When we drop our bricks, and release our man made dreams, we will be able to pick up the gold and treasure! It’s at the point where we move into the desert to minister to God, and when we release our dreams, where the riches of the world will be transferred to the church!

We must do it! We must embrace holiness! We must stop being entertained by anything that God hates! It’s time to really do this thing… together.

So, there’s my 11:30pm, in the midst of sleeplessness, rant. I’m craving God. Corporately. Personally. When God shows up we won’t be able to function as usual. This is so important.

Are you a pastor, I’d love to connect. I’m traveling and serving churches by speaking on revival, prophecy and other important end-time topics.

You can email me at john@praytherevolution.com.

Thanks so much for loving and supporting us! We are also continuing to raise monthly funds so we can continue ministering. Please consider becoming a monthly partner at www.praytherevolution.com/donate.htm.

Amy and I love you all very much!

Get ready for revival!

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This entry was posted on Sunday, July 27th, 2008 at 10:34 pm.
Categories: Revival and Prayer, The Burton Family.

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Recompense
From Letters From God and His Christ
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11/25/07 - A dream of a coming storm, which the Lord gave to a brother in Christ

I saw a storm coming. The area, where the storm was approaching from, was just the open sky, but there was the sense that it was coming from out over the ocean. I could not tell which coast I was looking out from, but I knew I was looking from America. The storm clouds were approaching and getting darker and thicker. Then three tornadoes, or waterspouts, broke down out of the storm, all at once, and headed for the shore.

After a small lapse of time, I saw myself climbing up some stairs in a house, to my bed in an upper room. I laid down in this bed, and realized that my resting place had changed. The head of the bed had shifted from facing the West, and it was now facing the East.

11/28/07 - From God the Father, the Interpretation of the Dream - Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear

Recompense

The Day has come and it is here. It has come, says the Lord God... I shall repay. Your nation is given up, and will be left in ruins, for all their forsaking of Me. The roof is heavily weighted, all its pillars are cracked and no longer can bear the weight of their burden. The wind shall blow, the fire shall burn, and all these riches shall be consumed. A swift storm shall come upon you, and you shall not know from where it shall come, for it is already upon you. It shall reach across the oceans, it shall be swift and catch you unawares. It is building and grows in its fury... it builds and has come.

And this shall be its consequence upon you, thus shall it bring forth against you: Confusion, a swirling wind... water, a flood of fear... destruction, collapse of all your foundations. Even the earth shall rise up against you, and nature shall fight against you, oh perverse and mighty nation. When three times pass, it shall be accomplished... it shall surely come to pass. And the elect shall be gathered, even all those I see of Myself in them, My own reflection shown within the eyes of the first redeemed from the earth. For in a moment, a twinkling of an eye, they shall climb the Ladder, and lie down and rest for a short season, even in the place I have prepared for them. They shall rest, until the Day is done and it is finished. Then they shall arise and descend with the King... And as the lightning flashes out of the east, and shines, filling the sky even unto the west, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be.

For your leaders have cast their lot with the Ishmaelites in the dividing of My land... even of the children's inheritance I had given to their forefathers forever. And so, I shall divide them with calamity, with famine, and with destitution...

Yet they will turn. And anger shall swell in their faces over much betrayal, causing them to repent of that which they had promised, and they will again stand with the children of Abraham, until three days pass over. Then shall they be given into the hand of him, called the horn of satan... their name dissolved, becoming one of the ten for one hour, then plucked up and broken, during which time the Lord shall bring forth of them a great harvest, a great and mighty harvest, a great multitude, a refined and strong people for My name...

Then the end will come.

The King shall reign.

And that accomplished shall be finished...
it shall be completed.

Peace... one thousand years.

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