John Burton
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How Good Christian People Can Avoid Being Spewed from Jesus’ Mouth
My heart is grieved beyond description. There is stunning unconcern over the state of most Christian’s lives. While it’s rare to find those who are burning with a never ending, raging furnace of passion for Jesus, it’s common to find pastors and others who appreciate those who are casually devoted as “good Christian people” who …
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Good Christian People: Affirming a Lukewarm Culture
Possibly the most unbelievable (but common) reaction to the urgent (but rare) call for Christians to burn with great passion for Jesus is the accusation of legalism. To be actively involved with zeal and to call others into a deeper devotion to Jesus and the mission of Kingdom advance smells of unrighteous works to many. …
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Try This: Revelation-Driven Prayer
Continued from part 2 from Tuesday. Step 3: Revelation With this team from Michigan, I encouraged people, most of whom have never prophesied, to listen to the voice of God and share it with us. One by one people would share pictures, impressions, Scriptures and other words from heaven. I explained that God desires to speak clearly …
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How Can You Make Sure Your Prayers Are Effective?
We had a team of college-aged young men and women come to Revolution Church for Mission Manitou, a spiritual warfare missions experience. It was an amazing week. The highlight of the week was ‘prayer in a cave.’ From time to time we’ll have prayer teams join us for four hours of non-stop worship, prayer, prophecy, intercession and passion. …
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Discover a 100 Percent Effective Prayer Strategy
Stop, you’re praying wrong! That’s what God told me one day as I was in some deep prayer. I was currently working part-time at a call center. I had been fairly frustrated that I wasn’t able to leave that job so I could work full-time in the church. That day, I was praying from a …
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Part 3: A Pharaoh in the Church
So much of this story surrounds what seems to be a trivial object—a brick. As I shared previously, Pharaoh’s identity was in the expansion of his kingdom, a kingdom built with bricks. Further, the Israelite’s identities were based on the bricks themselves. That’s what they did. If they made a good brick, life was good, …
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Part 2: Pharaoh in the Church
You may be wondering just exactly what the Pharaoh in the church is. The spirit of Pharaoh that must be uprooted is revealed in a powerful line from a worship song by Brian Ming: “Forgive us for building man’s kingdoms on doctrines of demons in Your name.” There it is. Due to a great lack …
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Pharaoh in the Church: Pastors Must Stop Using People to Build Kingdoms of Man
God is looking for leaders who are humble, broken and driven by the fear of the Lord not the fear of looking like failures to their peers. We must be a people who trust God fully. It’s sad how much competition between churches there is today—as each pastor is working hard to keep “their people” …
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5 Reasons You Should Not Leave a Church
Unity around the mission of the church is something Satan cannot risk. The moment people lock arms, take their positions and unify with the Great Commission in front of them, it’s over. He’s done. Unity is so powerful that Satan used it as his primary weapon to build his kingdom on the earth. Genesis 11:4-8 …
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When We Lead Like Christ, We Should Expect Spiritual Pushback
It’s very important to understand that betrayal and resistance are guaranteed to come if we are truly advancing as prophetic and apostolic leaders. Also, to despiritualize it just a bit, betrayal and resistance are guaranteed to come simply because we are weak, fallible humans. We will experience push back when we lead rightly and also …
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Spiritual Warfare: Beating Down the Spirit of Absalom
The moment you advance with prophetic and apostolic focus is the moment the spirit of Absalom is awakened. That cunning wicked spirit specializes on feeding into the deeply felt frustrations of people whose desires go unmet in the church. Satan is a master at accusation due to the never-ending practice of his craft. “… for …
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7 Excuses That Legitimately Threaten Revival
Detroit is marked for revival, yet revival is not here. It’s delayed. We have a problem. This is an issue not only for Detroit, but for the nations of the earth. God has planned revival, but we have not. First, I have to qualify the comments you are reading in this article. The driving force of …
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Is There a Spirit of Abortion in the Church?
As is necessary when addressing an ultra-sensitive issue, I will make some qualifications on the front end: God is, without question, and I will declare without apology, passionately interested in blessing His children. It is fully appropriate to give a measure of attention to the wondrous process of discovery of God’s abundant life, overwhelming benefits …
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What’s Coming And What’s Going in the Future Church
We need to respond to the challenge to begin moving away from the elements in the current church that will be either minimized or fully eradicated in the future church. We can’t have a perfect understanding of what’s coming and what’s going, but for the sake of discussion, let’s consider the following. The sense is …
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Will the Future Church Resemble Our Vision of the Ideal Church?
The future church will be established for God, a highway ready for His arrival. The church will shift uncomfortably from preparing a place for people to show up on Sundays to preparing a place for God to occupy night and day. God is releasing prophetic forerunners who are sounding alarms about the future church. What …
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