[another testimony]

Looking back from a conversation I had with a lovely lady called Eva, I said I won´t be able to join the tour as much as I´d love to. However, after God told me to step back and cancel the School of Worship this year (supposedly in July), doors of opportunity to move around Finland were opened. Things I´ve never imagined God would do this summer.... First, I just planned to go to Ruurikkala to rest for a few days before seeing my friend in Oulu. So when the base leader of YWAM Ruurikkala called me that there might be a limited space coz they´re having a full house that weekend; also the BURN tour was coming, which I was not aware of. Anyhow, I asked God if I was to join the tour and when I finally talked to Tiffany, who was leading the tour, she mentioned that there´s plenty of space in the cars. Later that day, I really felt at peace and knew that there´s something He wanted to show me in the tour. I also realised that they had the same route as I had in mind - from ruurikkala to Oulu then down South!

 

Someone from the team encouraged me by saying "this is your school of worship, and we are the students". I think I´d rather say, God has put me on my own school of worship where the Holy Spirit is my teacher. I have learned so much from these wonderful, passionate worshipers and lovers of Jesus. I was reminded that to hold back and to not release what God has for His people is stealing the blessings from others. I remember one situation in Oulu, where I felt so strongly that God wanted me to do a joik. I argued with God that I don´t know how. And I heard Him say in my heart,"nevermind child, just open your mouth and I will let the sound out." However that sounds like, I said YES. When the time came for me to do it, I felt something was released. I belive I heard the sound God wants to release in this country. Then one of our team stood up to ask forgiveness on behalf of what happened in the past, where doing a joik was considered unacceptable in the worship service. After this, people were encouraged to bring their praises through joik. It was powerful! We all felt there was a breakthrough. And that´s when healing after healing happened; people were asking for prayers, the Holy Spirit moved among us.

 

Just before the tour was over, it dawned on me the significance of doing the joik - I realised that after this trip, I´d be off with a friend to Lapland for a worship and prayer drive. I felt God prepared me for Lapland.

 

I believe each one of us were changed during the trip. Personally, God deepened and widened my heart for His people in this land. I know that there will be more schools of worship I will be leading or serving with, but this is incomparable. He does makes things beautiful in His time and every single thing He does is unique.

- Mary

[Testimony]

I think that one of my favourite times of prayer on the tour happened at the YWAM base in Ruurikkala, long after the meeting had ended. We'd already seen in the meeting God do some awesome things: first releasing the Finnish men in the room to worship in this strong movement/dance which truly felt strong and warlike to me, and then also bringing the men and women together again in worship in a beautiful prophetic dance. There was more He did in that meeting, and we prayed with a number of people afterwards, listening to God for them and sharing with them what we heard. After all this had happened, the girls on the team went to where they were sleeping, and the boys headed to the kitchen for a snack before bed. It was getting late and we were all pretty wiped after a few hours of travel and a meeting where the Holy Spirit was doing a lot of unexpected and powerful things. There were others from the base in the kitchen hanging out, talking about the Holy Spirit, spiritual warfare and spiritual gifts with a young Catholic girl, which seemed to me to be the kind of conversation I'd really enjoy being a part of. So somehow I managed to find a way of subtly joining in.

The rest of the BURN Tour boys went to bed, but I'd already figured out that God wanted me to pray with her to receive the Holy Spirit, so I stayed behind with the YWAMers in this massive kitchen full of stainless steel worktops until we had an opportunity to offer it. While we were praying, I felt the Spirit was saying He wanted to give her the gift of tongues. This both delighted me and freaked me out all at the same time - what if we shared that with her and she ended up disappointed? But at the same time, I was convinced it was the Holy Spirit and was aware of His genius at work. She had been asking us how could she really know the presence of the Holy Spirit was in her life, and we spent some time encouraging her and explaining how we can know Him. I know speaking in tongues is a sensitive subject for some, and He doesn't give that gift to everyone. However, for those that the Spirit has given that gift to, it can perhaps be a visible way in which we know His presence dwelling within us - we can't operate in any gift from the Holy Spirit without the Holy Spirit living in us. Anyway, I figured I needed to step out and trust what the Holy Spirit was telling me. When I shared it with the others praying, it turned out they heard the same thing from the Spirit too. Well, that clinched it.

We prayed for her to receive that gift, and then I encouraged her to try and copy me speaking in tongues. After a minute I stopped speaking and she carried on, in a completely different tongue to the one I'd been speaking in. She was so surprised and happy! She couldn't believe that God would want to bless her with a gift like that, one that she could be certain meant the Holy Spirit was living inside her, and yet that was exactly what He'd done. I was so glad I'd stuck around in that really functional looking kitchen with complete strangers to pray for this girl. I went to bed very late, but praising God!

Ben

[Looking back]

Looking back at the 9 days of the tour, I'm pretty amazed at what happened. Before getting on to any of the ministry we did, the team itself, which grew to about 22 people during the trip, was such a living representation of God's family. There was such care, love, forgiveness and unity among the group which had a wide range of ages, personalities and giftings, and God seemed to have placed each person in the right role for them. I believe that this atmosphere of joy, love, freedom and family that we carried as a group had an impact on the places we visited.

The meetings that we held in each place were marked by these things as well. There were people who led worship and did teaching, but beyond that in each meeting different members of the team would step forward with what they sensed God wanted to do. There was such an ebb and flow about team - people could freely move from playing music to prayer ministry to releasing prophetic words.

Personally, the chance to travel around Finland, worshiping God and interceding for the nation, with a family of people with the same heart was simply amazing. This stuff is a big part of what I was made to do. Of course there were challenges involved, and it was also a learning experience. I feel like I'm gonna be involved with these sorts of tours more in the future, so this was an invaluable experience, being surrounded by people who I could learn so much from.

It was also such a privilege to see more of what God is doing in Finland, and I really feel there is so much more to come. Throughout the tour we saw that God is releasing joy, freedom and healing to Finland, restoring men to their place and uniting men and women, and restoring families and the Church as His family. We were able to glimpse something of this, and we look forward with expectancy to what is to come.

- John

God has been doing deep things!

God has been doing deep things! Not just in our hearts, but to everyone who we have met along the journey across Finland. It has been a deeply humbling experience...

The reason I have entitled this update 'Breakthroughs and Births' is because these two words have been almost like the theme of the experiences that took place in various towns and cities around Finland. For me, the most incredible time was the first night in the Oulu Mission church! Following on from a dream I had over a month ago and then to see that dream become real during the course of the tour was so surreal! The word 'läpimurto' meaning breakthrough came into my mind while I was praying for one young lady in our group. For her it was a direct word from God, even though I wasn't quite sure what it meant. The first night in Oulu was evidence of that as this same young lady experienced something that she will probably never forget! We also saw, as a group, births, not just in the natural but also in the spiritual! During our time in Tampere, I was staying with a couple and their 2 children. These guys had been friends of mine during my time in Kotka. The mother was expecting any day and after the meeting in their city, she gave birth just a few hours later! The great thing was that we were able to see the new born baby when we were in Renko!

Every night that the Burn group led worship was different. The group of guys from various places and countries were just awesome. There was such a unity among the group due to having prayer partners and group prayers every morning at breakfast and before going to bed. Of course there was opposition, but what I felt we did during those 6 days made a HUGE difference to the spritial condition of the nation of Finland! Words truly fail me at how God had used us, especially in Oulu. So many things happened that I feel it will take me several days to process and ponder at what the Lord had done in and through us. May His name be forever glorified in this nation! Kiitos Herralle!

- Sean

Joy in the Family

After all that God did amongst us and through us in Oulu, and an epic all day car journey the day before, it would have been easy for us to have rested and just coasted along in Renko and the meeting there. But that would have been holding back, and we felt as a team that we needed to remain focused on Jesus and all that He wanted to do. When we gathered together we sensed that the Spirit was leading us to celebrate and declare out over Renko, the church there and Finland His abundant life and fruitfulness. In the context of the tour so far, we had no idea the Spirit would lead us like that, but it made so much sense and was so obvious once He revealed it to us. This week we've seen Jesus restore men and release them into a free and joyful expression of their masculinity in dance, and then we've seen Him restore relationships between men and women, which we've seen is also prophetic of His relationship with His Bride here in Finland. So of course it made sense when He began to show us that He wanted us to celebrate His life and speak it out over Finland, especially when there were so many families in the meeting, with very young children present too. It was also Hannah's 10th birthday while we were there. We couldn't have planned it that way at all. Jesus is so clever!

As we worshipped, joyful sounds of adoption were released, songs that reminded us and everyone present that we are sons and daughters of the Father. This seemed so appropriate after He was restoring men and women and covenant relationships, to then restore family. We may only be going to a few places on this tour, and yet He is doing some big time prophetic things in a such short period of time every place we go to. After we worshipped we had fellowship together with the families and church at Renko before moving into some prayer ministry where God brought more freedom and joy. Later before hitting the road back to Helsinki we stopped at a friend's house to bless them and their family. The joy that was released there during that time together with them was so full and abundant! Yet again we're discovering how determined the Lord is to release people into more and more freedom and joy, and that no situation is too big or too deeply rooted to be transformed for His glory.

- Ben

More from Burn: Oulu

Valmistauduimme Oulun tapaamisiin huolella, sillä tiesimme vierailun tärkeäksi. Meidän otettiin Linnakodilla todella lämpimästi vastaan ja kuulimme miten Jumala on synnyttänyt sen paikan Jes 58 oikeudenmukaisuuden kutsun innoittamana. Ensimmäisenä iltana muutama kymmenen oululaista ja muutama kauempaakin kokoontui Lähetysseurakuntaan ylistämään. Tiffany opetti Daavidin ilmestysmajasta ja miten Jumala haluaa ennalleen asettaa läheisyyden Hänen kanssaan jatkuvan ylistämisen kautta. Opetuksen jälkeen jatkoimme ylistystä - ihana laulu nousi, jossa Kristus kutsui morsiantaan Oulussa nousemaan. Laulun jälkeen Pyhä Henki ohjasi kutsumaan kadonneet miehet, sekä pojat ja tyttäret takaisin kotiin. Seuraavana iltana Tiffany opetti siitä, miten ylistys muuttaa ilmapiirin. Pyhä Henki rohkaisi uskomaan siihen, että missä pimeys on suuri, Jumalan kirkkaus voi tulla suureksi - missä synti on suureksi tullut, siina armo on tullut ylenpalttiseksi (Room 5:20). Loppuillan rukoilimme paikalla olijoiden puolesta laulun ja tanssin jatkuessa myöhään iltaan. Päällimäiseksi jäi ilo ja kiitollisuus siitä, mitä Jumala on Oulussa tekemässä, tapasimme mahtavia ihmisiä ja jano jumalan puoleen oli monilla suuri. Rukouksemme on, että paikalliset uskovat voisivat jatkaa Jumalan läsnäoloon hakeutumista ja Hänen kasvojensa etsimistä.

Healings in Oulu - 28th July

So much happened over the two nights spent in Oulu, so I will just focus on one of the main highlights for me - Mark

On the 2^nd night of meetings in Oulu - I had a real expectation for healings to be released after seeing a guy's leg grow out a couple of days earlier. There was definitely an expectation and a release of faith following that in the team. When the time came for prayer ministry that night, we prayed for a lady who had broken her finger earlier in the summer and it hadn't been reset into place properly and she was unable to bend it. God completely healed it, this definitely released something in the Spirit and we saw more healings after that:

• A women's leg grew out

• Fibromyalgia – pain left

• Glaucoma – restored clarity & brightness in her eyes

• Shoulder pain - totally healed

  God is releasing supernatural power in Finland where there has been so much religion and knowledge to show people His love and that He is real!

25.7. Saavuimme juuri Ruurikkalaan...

Chef Master Meekon mietteitä:
Tampereella yöllä syntyi lapsia (ihana uusi prinsessa ystäväperheeseemme, toim.huom.) ja Ruurikkalassa valvottiin, mistä tietämättöminä matkasimme koko aamupäivän Evijärvelle, jossa sijaitsee yksi YWAM:n Baseista, Ruurikkalan kartano.

Jo toisen päivän aamuna oli selvää, että Jumala on koonnut yhteen perheen hulluistaan, jotka yhdessä tuovat esiin Jumalan viisautta ja suunnitelmaa Suomea varten. On mahtavaa huomata, että on myös monia ulkomaalaisia, joiden sydämet palavat Suomelle.

Ruurikkalassa viivymme kaksi päivää. Tänä iltana on Burn-kokous ja huomenna tiimin lepopäivä.

Jatkuu 26.7 Musings of the Master Chef Meeko continue on the 26th of July:

It was fun.
Jesus did stuff.
Life is good.

There was quite a lot of expectation in the room, and I could feel that some kind of breakthrough coming. After worshiping for a while, God spoke through some people that it was the time for men, Finnish men, to stand up and worship as God created them to worship. As the men danced, shouted and sang, such freedom filled the room. We then worshiped, men and women together, united as one before our Father. Later in the evening God poured out his joy and we danced and sang (along with ukulele reggae). Something big shifted in the atmosphere in the place, and we knew that what was happening was not only for those in the room, but for people across the nation.

It was clearly something God had planned to do this night. It’s amazing what plans he has for our nation and how he wants to redeem the place of man in leadership of the Kingdom. I really felt that we as men need to be more open to our Father and also put aside the fear and lies people and enemy has told us. There is a lot of expectation towards us and we think we need to be something else God has created us to be. It seems Father is releasing our generation to be the ones who bring healing to this nation.

Burn Tampere 24-7

Here some thoughts about an half an hour before we started (Ennen keikan alkamista): 

Lasse:

Tampereella ollaan. Matka on mennyt hyvin ja hyvä fiilis. Jännittää, koska ylistys alkaa kohta. Soittimia kasataan ja ihmiset on työn touhussa.

Sean:

It has given me a certain joy to be alongside the Burn 24 group, and I am excited to see what God will do in and through us as we travel along this journey together.

And just after some thoughts and feelings (Ja heti keikan jälkeen):

Lasse:

Oli aivan MAHTAVAA! Jumala teki työtään ihmisissä ja kosketti. Eka kerta kun soitin djembeä julkisesti kädet punaisena. Kyllä kannatti.

Sean:

The ‘meeting’ allowed a level of freedom where most people felt liberated to dance and sing to the Lord. The presence of God was palpable and I believe many were touched by the presence of God.

Topi:

Taisi olla ensimmäinen kerta kun ylistin selloa soittaen. Hiukan jännitti etukäteen, mutta ihan turhaan. Soitto sujui kuin hunajaa vain väsymyksestä ja jumeista huolimatta. Meinasin välillä väsähtää, mutta Pyhä henki valtasi minut ilolla. Loppu olikin sitten yhtä riemua. Olen todella onnellinen, kun Herra hoiti taas omiaan. :)

So 20 people, a multitude of instruments and a lot of excitement in the air. The team played together for 

the first time ever but did it with great obedience, joy and servant heartedness. We believe that we

are seeing something of David's tabernacle being restored and generations coming together in front of the Lord

in humility and great sense of purpose. 

Keikka päättyi mahtavaan shabba reggae julistus irroitteluun, olemme löytämässä yhteisen saundimme.

Rukoilkaa voimaa ja viisautta ja kärsivällisyyttä ja intoa!  

Three...Two...One...GO!

Early morning wake up, Helsinki is already bathing in sunshine.
Blueberries and banana and espresso for breakfast here with lovely
ladies. None of us has ever done anything exactly like this, but we know
that it is going to be the best thing ever. In about an hour we will
begin to pack the cars and then hit the road towards Tampere,
"Manchester" of Finland. Hallelujah! Praise God Almighty!
Are there going to be people there? Have we forgotten something?
Lord only knows! And we choose to trust our lives and our friends
in to His hands now.

As my brother John said: "I'm really excited about the tour - we have an amazing group of people, and the tour is focused on prophetic worship and intercession, which i'm pretty passionate about. It's such a privilege to be part of this tour and to be part of what God is doing here. 

Your prayers for the tour would be more than welcome, as we will be leading a number of gatherings and the logistics of moving 19 people around Finland, feeding them and giving them a place to stay are not simple!"

Altis on sinun kansasi sinun sotaanlähtösi päivänä: pyhässä asussa sinun nuori väkesi nousee eteesi, niinkuin kaste aamuruskon helmasta. Ps.110:3

Lähtötunnelmissa

Kokoonnuimme eilen illalla BURN tiimin kanssa yhteen
rukoilemaan, sopimaan asioista ja ylistämään. Jumalan armollisuus
ja anteeksiannon väkevyys ja sen tuoma vapaus olivat tärkeitä
esiinnousevia teemoja. Meitä ei ole tarkoitettu tekemään näitä
juttuja yksin, eikä ketään jäämään yksin taakkojen alle.
Kun Jumala rakentaa seurakuntaansa ja tuo perheensä yhteen,
on jokaiselle oma paikka mihin kuulua ja oma tehtävä.

Haluamme myös yhdessä olla janoamassa Jumalan valtakunnan todellisuutta.

Herra, valmistathan sydämemme lähtöön, valmista meidät palvelemaan,
avaa korvamme kuulemaan, suumme laulamaan, jalkamme tanssimaan,
kätemme soittamaan ja anna rohkeutta meille jokaiselle astua näkyväksi
omalle paikallemme.

Te, jotka olette Jumalan valittuja, pyhiä ja hänelle rakkaita, pukeutukaa siis sydämelliseen armahtavaisuuteen, ystävällisyyteen, nöyryyteen, lempeyteen ja kärsivällisyyteen.

Pitäkää huolta, että tulette toimeen keskenänne, antakaa anteeksi toisillenne, vaikka teillä olisikin moittimisen aihetta. Niin kuin Herra on antanut teille anteeksi, niin antakaa tekin.

Mutta kaiken kruunuksi tulkoon rakkaus, sillä se tekee kaiken täydelliseksi.

Vallitkoon teidän sydämissänne Kristuksen rauha, johon teidät on yhden ja saman ruumiin jäseninä kutsuttu. Olkaa myös kiitollisia.

Antakaa Kristuksen sanan asua runsaana keskuudessanne. Opettakaa ja neuvokaa toisianne kaikella viisaudella ja laulakaa kiitollisin mielin Jumalalle psalmeja, ylistysvirsiä ja hengellisiä lauluja.

Mitä teettekin, sanoin tai teoin, tehkää kaikki Herran Jeesuksen nimessä, kiittäen hänen kauttaan Jumalaa, Isäämme. Kol. 3:12-17 Juhlan suurena päätöspäivänä Jeesus nousi puhumaan ja huusi kovalla äänellä: "Jos jonkun on jano, tulkoon minun luokseni ja juokoon! Joka uskoo minuun, 'hänen sisimmästään kumpuavat elävän veden virrat', niin kuin kirjoituksissa sanotaan." Joh. 7:37-38

Kiertue alkaa sunnuntaina 24-7ttä!

Burn24-7- Suomen kiertue 2011 alkaa tänä vuonna Tampereelta sunnuntaina 24.7. klo 14 ja tapahtumapaikkana on Pelipuiston seurakuntakoti Hervannassa.

Kiertuetta vetää Tiffany Buhler, amerikkalainen profeetallinen ylistäjä, joka on muuttanut Englantiin miehensä työn mukana ja johtaa Burn24/7:n työtä UK:ssa. Mukana tiimissä on myös kolme nuorta ylistyksenjohtajaa Englannista sekä suomalaisia nuoria ja nuoria aikuisia.

Nämä muusikot haluavat nähdä syntyvän jatkuvan rukouksen paikkoja, jossa jatkuvasti keskitytään Jumalaan ja jossa Jumala tulee kirkastetuksi. Suomessa he haluavat palvella seurakuntaa, auttaa ylistystiimejä, jakaa omastaan ja avustaa ylistyksen, rukouksen ja opetuksen kautta.
He eivät niinkään halua tuoda esille jonkin tietyn kulttuurin musiikkia, vaan haluavat nostaa kunkin maan alkuperäisen äänen esille. He ajattelevat, että uuden oppimisessa tarvitaan ensin kokemus ylistyksestä ja rukouksesta kaupungin puolesta, sitten voidaan antaa ohjeita miten jatkaa sen jälkeen kun tiimi on lähtenyt.


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Tour Schedule

24th July - Tampere
14.00 - open worship gathering
Pelipuiston srk-koti, osoitteessa Teekkarinkatu 17, 33720 Tampere

25th & 26th - Evijärvi (YWAM Ruurikkala)
25th - evening meeting

27th & 28th - Oulu, Oulun Lähetysseurakunta (http://www.oulunlahetyssrk.net/vierailijat/)
27.7. klo 18.00 - tilaisuus on tarkoitettu ylistäjille ja ylistysmuusikoille / evening focused on worship leaders, musicians, and worshipers

28.7. klo 16.30 tervetuliaiskahvit ja klo 17.00
Ylistys ja profetaalinen esirukous kaupunkimme ja muiden aiheiden puolesta, miten Pyhä Henki johdattaa / Worship and prophetic intercession for the city and other subjects, however the Holy Spirit leads

29th - travel day

30th meeting at at 2pm - Renko klo 14 (http://www.elavavesi.fi/)

31st - Jakomäki, Helsinki

1st August - Yksi Sydän Keskus, Helsinki
1.8. Tilaisuus Helsingissä Herttoniemessä
Yksi Sydän Keskus, Sorvaajankatu 11 aA 42, 00880 Helsinki  www.onedesire.fi
Paikalle mahtuu rajoitettu määrä ihmisiä, joten päästäksesi sisään sinun on rekisteröidyttävä lähettämällä sähköpostia 29.7. mennessä osoitteeseen info@onedesire.fi

Aikataulu:
13.45 ovet avataan ja ovet suljetaan 14.15)
14-16 Esirukous Helsingin puolesta Raamatun sanaa käyttäen / Yksi sydän tiimi
16-18 tauko
17.45 ovet avataan ja suljetaan 18.15)
18- profeetallista esirukousta ja ylistystä ja opetusta aiheesta- luovan ilmaisun kansssa (maalaaminen/tanssi) Burn24-7tour tiimi

Klo 18 tilaisuus on englanninkielinen, tulkkaus suomeksi