I like to have impact. I like to leave an indentation...a mark and an impression. I want to leave a little sign that says "Lisa was here."

No one has to know it but me...but I want to know that I did something. The big question for me is always: did I make a difference?

If I don't feel like I've changed something, I'm not happy. I want to know I have improved, refined, reformed or renovated... or CREATED something.

When I heard about Burn Berlin a few weeks ago, I knew that we should do that in Berlin. People talked about revival here in this city and changing atmospheres...and getting a movement started.  But I wasn't looking at that at all.

I was looking to something more private and personal.

The Burn Service Berlin is a 24 hour worship service that we had all day yesterday...from midnight to midnight. We worshiped God whether there were people there or not at all hours of night...worshiping and praying for the city...mixing our worship and intercession. I was there for the first six hours and came back later to participate and help a friend in some worship later.

But my thought about the Burn, from the beginning, was not "Let's change Berlin" but "This is going to change us."

I knew --if we take part in this... we will beging to rise up. We will make more room for God and God will do something new in each one that participates.

I know how worship leaders and worship times function. We plan for 20 and 30...even 45 minute blocks and we use forms that will fit our churches and audiences.

But honestly...when I'm alone with God and I worship...I rarely use those songs. And if I do...I sing part of the song and spend another 10 or 15 minutes singing my own songs...spontaneous prayers and pouring out my heart before God... 

The great thing about the Burn service is that each worship leader gets a two hour BLOCK of worship. I love that. I also love that it's not required to use a projector or slides... but to just worship with no agenda. I don't have to lead anyone. The people who come are there to worship and I don't have to bother about all those little things.

The way I worshiped at the burn is rarely how I ever worship in public. It was so much more FUN to be able to be free...to not care about the time or the place or the people. Just to lose myself in God... I loved that. I was very aware there were people there...but I wasn't so concerened about whether they came with me in the spirit.  It was just time to fly...

Christoph led the first worship block and when he finished and I came on... he said "that was my best worship time ever..." and I wasn't surprised.

It wasn't my best worship time ever but it was the closest to my own personal style of worship...it was closer to the heart of who I am.

The feedback I've heard is that people were very free to be themselves. I think that in a two hour block...you run out of music and you have to access the spirit of God. Hooking in with who God is and what He is doing releases new levels of creativity.

So what kind of impact will this have on the city? I don't know. I know there are lots of churches who have 24 hours of prayer and worship and set aside time to really seek God.  This is not new.  God is doing something in many places to bring heaven down. We are not alone in this and this is not new.

But I think if God could just get us transformed enough to believe what we say we believe...to walk in new levels of His power and his holiness... what could we do for the kingdom? Jesus took 12 men and used them to turn the world upside down.  Maybe God wants us to concern ourselves with changing ourselves... and in changing ourselves we will change the world.

Have your way, Lord. Have your way in me.