Who is the Burning Man, Really?

The Burning Man is a yearly event where thousands go out the desert and get wild for a week or so. They do everything imaginable and at the end they burn this giant figure of a man. Hence the title Burning Man. This year I heard there were 35,000 people in attendance.

There is a ministry of Dream Interpretation, Spiritual reading, Spiritual cleansing, Spiritual encounters, Destiny Direction words, and Healing touch. But this ministry is done in the name of Jesus. They don't have to say its Jesus, they know Him and He is in them and they are in Him. Anyway, they went to the Burning Man and had a tent with all kinds of readings. People came and their spirits were touched and their lives were blessed.

I so believe that its important for people to be impacted with the Love and power of God and meet Him. He is a living God who wants to have relationship with us and for us to know how much He loves us. How much more will you know who God is if you meet and encounter him?

This generation only knows of the Bible and not really what it says or means. How great is it to meet the Living Word and have it change your life? I love the story below where the woman jumps up with raised arms and shouts aloud. That is worship and praise to God and she didn't learn that in chruch. It was a natural response to the Power and Love of God.

We must all meet and encounter Him daily, this is true life. Here are some stories from their adventure.

That day, many encounters happened. The anointing in the tent was growing. People were drawn to the tent, avoiding other venues around us. The encounters were overwhelming. We watched the Lord reach into the hearts of His desperate hurting people and love them. We looked past their outward appearance (there were plenty of naked people around) and only chose to see what the Lord saw. God always looks on the heart. He healed their hearts and emotions. He gave us pictures of their lives as He meant them to be. He allowed us to see their broken places and ask for His healing balm to come over that and heal and comfort them. They would break down weeping. As the Holy Spirit came to them and enveloped them, they were radically impacted. Telling their friends to come and get an encounter for themselves. We heard comments like, “we have been coming to burning man for years and have never encountered anything like this before.” It was totally life changing for most of them.

One man who was on drugs came wandering into the tent in the early evening. He was disoriented and confused. He couldn’t find his group. We fed him and he laid down in the tent on the carpet to go to sleep. A group was set up near him and they were having a ministry time with a young woman. They began by asking the “White Spirit” or “White Light” to come in. As they did this, the demons in the man sleeping in the tent cried out, “They’re talking about Jesus”. At that time, Jesus’ name had not been mentioned. It was encouraging to know that the demons knew what Spirit we were coming in, no matter what name we used. God had given us strategy ahead of time and we were careful to use the language He had given us. POWERFUL encounters came on every team.

Every encounter we had on Tuesday was powerful. Many times, people would sit in the chair and just begin to weep before they even told us what they wanted. The Holy Spirit was so strong on every team. Leading us and guiding us every step of the way.

A bare breasted woman came in with a friend. When she sat down in the chair, I instantly got a word of knowledge about her being a nurse or something to do with the medical field. She had embraced a very vulgar Playa name for herself, but God wasn’t moved by that. We just started to minister to her in words of knowledge. She instantly began to cry, but told us that the playa dust made her allergies act up. She ended up coming back several times, bringing her friends and her allergies never “acted up” any other time except when she was receiving ministry. God just reached into her heart and touched some very deeply wounded places. She brought her husband back then next day and a friend. Totally impacted by the love of God.

Two girls came in for an encounter. One of them was deeply wounded by her mother and as a result, she was closed off to any kind of spiritual anything. But as the word of knowledge flowed during a spiritual reading, she teared up. I did some identificational repentance. I asked her to forgive me (as her mother) for the wrong she had suffered. Then I asked her if I could give her a mothers hug. When I did, she broke and just sobbed. She asked if she could lay on the floor and just “soak” for a while. She was there for about 3 hours. Her friends kept coming back to get her, but God wasn’t thru with her. It was very powerful.

A young woman came in and when she sat down in the chair, she began to weep. She was so ready for an encounter with God. As we took her hands, she felt the heat of the healing anointing and received the Lord at the end of the encounter. She felt the Holy Spirit so strong that when she asked Jesus in her heart, she stood up and screamed a cry of freedom and joy. Her hands shot straight up in the air and she jumped.

By now, the anointing level was rising almost hourly. Every encounter was getting to be more powerful that the previous one. It was hard to keep up with all the things the Holy Spirit was doing.

In all, we figured about 50 people or so asked God in their hearts. Collectively, the teams were unbelievably synergizing and flowing in unison. God was able to do what He had sent us out there to do.

When it came time for the tent to come down, people who had come and been ministered to, almost begged us not to leave. They had gone around telling their friends about this tent. The reputation of what God was doing was growing and people were amazed at their God touches.

In all of the outreaches we have done, I have never been so impacted and encouraged and seen so many people touched and converted.

The true Burning Man is spoken of in Daniel 3, when King Nebuchadnezzar tied up and threw three of his administrators into the furnace because they would not bow down to his 90 foot tall idol. But when he looked in he saw four men instead of only three.

He said, "Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods."

He then called them by name and the three men came out of the furnace. The fourth man, in the fire ... surely is who Nebuchadnezzar says he is - Jesus, the son of God.

Interestingly, this event has a giant statue that is the center of the whole event. Instead of bowing down they burn it. The event mockery of this story.