CHUCK PIERCE
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"EVALUATE NOW! You Are HALFWAY THERE in the Season of NEW BEGINNING"
April 30, 2008
Keep going ON and ON and ON!
One of my favorite verses is: "The rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth. The time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land" (Song of Songs 2:11-12). This is read when the land of Israel is experiencing the warmth and beauty of springtime.
We are right in the middle of the season of the New Beginning. Six months has elapsed from Yom Kippur when we began the year 5768, and now there is approximately six months before the next Yom Kippur. This suggests that the new, along with redemptive freedom, is celebrated at Passover. Therefore, this is the perfect time for self-reflection. I usually do not tell people to be introspective, but this is the perfect time to do a "spring-cleaning" of your emotions and mind.
This is the perfect middle of the season. Do not let the winds and storms of your circumstances keep you from coming up to and moving through the gate the Lord has prepared for you. Mark 5 is a great chapter to read. Below is an article from a dear friend that presents the proper way to evaluate where you are, while still moving forward.
God says, "I am going back to reshow, reveal and recreate portions in your history"
As we were worshipping recently, my daughter, Rebekah, had a revelation of how the Lord was protecting her from being destroyed while yet in her mother's womb. A testimony creates the spirit of prophecy! When she was sharing this, the Lord said the following:
"I am going back to reshow, reveal and recreate portions in your history. I want you to know that I was there in your midst. You are allowing little things to keep you from seeing the magnanimous power that I am displaying around you and what I am doing to reorder your life into the future. Even during those severe trials that you have gone through and the losses that you have encountered, I have been right there all along, protecting you from a greater and harder experience. There are times when I have protected you so I could propel you forward at My perfect time. There are times when I've allowed you to be touched by adversity to grow you, so that others can be touched and grow from your testimony. Allow Me to form the testimony in you that I am attempting to form at this time.
See Me in your midst. Ask Me to reveal Myself, and I can go back to when you were in the womb, being knit together, and show you My protective hand and the purpose of My heart. I can show you the enemy's divisive strategies against you, so that you can overcome him fully in the next season and gain the spoils that he has hoarded that belong to you.
Rebekah then prophesied, "You have a hidden testimony that I am revealing to you in this season. It is the hidden testimony." Violet Dickson then came forward and sang the following:
No eye has seen, nor ear has heard
All that I have purposed for you.
No eye has seen, nor ear has heard
All that I have purposed and destined and planned for you.
Is there anything impossible for Me?
Is My eye too dim that it cannot see?
Is My arm too short that it cannot save?
Is there anything impossible for Me?
So rise up...Go a little higher...Don't back down
I'm not through with you
So rise up...Go a little higher...
For there's nothing, absolutely nothing, that I won't do!
LeAnn Squier then began to sing a new song, On and On. This is where most of us are in our journey! This is the month of Judah. Let your praises rise!
A Proper Self-Evaluation at the Middle of this SEASON!
As I said earlier, this is the time for self-evaluation! A good friend of mine from Houston, Texas, sent the following letter to me this week. Here is a perfect example of "A Proper Self-Evaluation at the Middle of this SEASON!" by Penny Jackson:
"I have found myself wondering during this very interesting season of our lives. We keep hearing change, and it's clear that change is happening. I can just feel it in the atmosphere, in the undercurrents of life, within my own soul. And yet, in some areas, it is so life as usual, that it's hard to deal with the dichotomy of it.
It's so perfect for the arrival of the new to correlate with spring, not just for the obvious connections between new growth and life in the natural world, but also because of the similarity of this feeling I have to spring fever, the same restlessness, the same yearning for something--but what?
And truthfully, I am not always as spiritually on fire during this time as I wish I could be. I feel that I will scream if I have to go through one more routine day, waiting for things to change. On the one hand, I hear that Heaven is touching earth and that angels are ministering with us on earth; on the other hand, I am sitting in five o'clock traffic surrounded by honking cars with impatient drivers and not an angel in sight--or at least that I am able to see...yet. And so I feel frustration stirring within me.
I can't even determine the origin of the resultant discontent I feel too often. Is it my flesh because the intensity of things is cramping the lifestyle I have lived for years? Cutting into my time as well it should, but still, is that what's bothering me? I know that is part of it. I'm not proud of that, but I know that's the truth. And parts of me are still kicking and screaming over it--not like they used to be, but I'm not 100% yet.
Is it the Spirit causing this discontent, leading me to a higher place by causing me to lose interest in those things that have held me earth-bound? While that may be the ultimate result, at this point there is just the boredom finding that things which used to satisfy don't anymore, but what is to replace them isn't quite there. It's surely hovering but just isn't quite in place now.
Of course spiritual warfare has a role in my struggles, I am sure. It is said by many that we are to be in the age of the Laodicean Church mentioned in Revelation 3. They were the ones guilty of lukewarmness and about to be spewed out of the Lord's mouth for being neither hot nor cold. Their reward for overcoming? The right to sit with Jesus on His throne. How awesome would that be?
But the Lord showed me something the other day that you probably had already figured out. There was for them (and is for us) a powerful assignment sent from the pit of hell to draw us toward lukewarmness. Passivity has a major role in this. And because we are rich and have need of nothing in a society where anything we want is at our fingertips, in season or out, and the gods of entertainment and information lull us into a stupor through devices that get bigger and better all the time, we easily settle into numbing ourselves when life gets challenging. It's just so easy to fall into, and all of hell is hoping we will.
I dreamed the other night that I was with a friend at some meeting at which there was writing on an overhead projector screen. The words were at an angle, and I found that I couldn't read them. My friend was able to read them perfectly well, as she stood next to me and kept saying, 'Can't you read that?!', as if there was clearly something wrong with me. But I couldn't read it. And I found I couldn't hear well either, something I wrestle with in the natural anyway. I haven't put it all together yet, but the Laodiceans were offered eye salve so they could see and told that, 'He knocks, and if anyone hears His voice and opens the door, He will come in and eat with him.' So clearly seeing and hearing are important, and in my dream, I was deficient in both. Again, I'm not quite sure what it was saying, but it made me quite uncomfortable.
I don't doubt that amazing things are ahead of us. I don't. My spirit knows it. I even think that nature knows it, just a feeling I have this spring. There's just an excitement.
This reminds me of an image that the Lord gave me several weeks ago. I was saying to the Lord that I wanted to taste and see that He is good. I just felt myself drawn to this verse. He showed me that it was like two trapezes swinging toward one another. I was on one trapeze, my old life, holding onto the familiar; but in order to taste and see that the Lord is good, I would have to let go of the old trapeze completely and grab hold of the other one. I couldn't experience what I wanted until I let go completely of the first trapeze.
There was no holding one trapeze while I reached for the other. In fact, there would be a time in there where I was in mid-air, not holding onto anything. I think it's where we are now in this transition to the new. We have to let go of the old, yet we are not quite seeing the new trapeze yet. We don't doubt that it's coming and that it will be wonderful, but right now we are in mid-air...just waiting, and it's uncomfortable and frustrating at times. But with a leap of faith, we will grab the new as it comes, with our hands planted firmly, as we soar into the heavenlies with our God."
March 29, 2008
Dear Friend and Watchman:
Following my trip to Strang Communications in Florida last month, Stephen Strang asked me to do a teleconference call with him. It was an amazing call. He asked very pointed questions about what I saw happening these next few weeks in the political, financial and spiritual arenas.
I have felt the Lord telling us to pray in a different way to produce an atmosphere of change. Change is:
To be altered or pass from one state, form, quality or essence to a different state, form, quality or essence, or to undergo variation
A succession of one thing in the place of another
The removal and alteration of one order to produce another order
A business transaction
A revolution or a season produced by a revolution
With all of the questions I was asked by Steve, I can narrow down the answers into one sentence concerning our nation at this point in history: THERE IS NO MANTLE IN PLACE FOR US TO HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DIRECT THE FUTURE OF A NATION INTO COVENANT PROSPERITY! We are being called to war these next few days. All the political candidates have pluses and minuses. All have wonderful qualities that could cause our nation to benefit in some areas. However, NONE are wearing God's mantle for our future yet!
I believe there will have to be a 21-day push in the Spirit, culminating on April 20, for us to see the atmosphere in our nation change. There is a spirit of deception that needs to lift so that voters are not deceived by all the political rhetoric from the candidates and media that is occupying the air of this land. We must hear God's voice penetrate this nation so we make the shift in our future.
The Power of God in Finland
Finland! This whirlwind trip was an incredible moment in time. The leader of the greatest renewal movement in Finland, Markku Koivisto, coordinated a large, national gathering hosted by Nokia Mission. This trip consisted mainly of flying. We arrived Saturday morning in Helsinki, then drove two hours to Tampere, where nearly 4,000 had gathered. The time of ministry from 2 PM to 8 PM was power-packed and historical. We drove back that same night and flew back to the United States early Sunday morning. The conference's focus was on Finland's relationship to Israel. I helped write a small booklet for this gathering to assist the people of Finland as they awaken to their role in supporting God's covenant plan for Israel. This book (in Finnish) included the prophecies that will help them war for their future and become a "Rahab" for the Jews in days ahead.
The power of God was so evident. The worship was incredible. The gathering was called "Momentum"--my word for the year! A historical shift occurred with the announcement of the 17 year movement (which has been Lutheran based) becoming a new wineskin for the future. Paul Wilbur was also present and continued ministering when we departed. Markku had been at a crossroads on whether to pursue the role as a Bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland or let the Lord raise up something new that would create more movement and momentum in the land. This was truly the place to be in a Lutheran nation to decree the end of the first Reformation (begun by Martin Luther) with Lutherans who had embraced renewal. Boldly, we then declared that the next wave of Reformation was now in the midst of Finland!
The following 8-Day Prayer Focus will assist you in understanding:
The desperateness of the time that we are living in.
The intensity of the time to produce change in our lives and the atmospheres that surround us.
The economical shift that needs to occur in this season.
The disciplined, unwavering, single-minded need for God's children to stand in this hour.
This focus integrates Purim, Passover and Jesus' unwavering determination to release redemption in this hour. All three of these events were and are taking place during this time frame. We are in a key season like we have not known in the history of the generations that are presently on the earth. The nations are at a divine crisis point.
8-Day Prayer Focus: A Desperate Time to Awaken to the Reality of Change!
For the next several weeks this prayer focus is key for us. Even though it is an 8-Day Prayer Focus, there is enough revelation here for you to use repeatedly. Since we just finished Purim, let's begin by understanding its significance.
Overall, this 8-day focus is more devotional than most, including study suggestions to help you develop for such a time as this. This prayer focus is also more confrontational than usual because of this time frame. I would suggest you read through each day's focus in the morning and then go back and seek the Lord with the Scriptures at noon and at night.
Day 1: A Time to Embrace Change but not to be Tossed to and fro by the Wind!
The clear message of Purim is that anyone who plots to destroy the Jewish people will always fail. History is full of examples of this truth. Pharaoh plotted the destruction of the Jewish people in Egypt, but the Egyptian army was drown in the Red Sea. This is celebrated during the Feast of Passover. Haman's attempt to kill all Jews failed, which is celebrated at Purim. Antiochus Epiphanes tried to wipe out the Jewish people. His failure is celebrated every year during Hanukah. Hitler tried to blot out the Jewish race. Both he and his "Third Reich" were destroyed. Instead of annihilation, the state of Israel was born!
We must understand that God's covenant land will never be destroyed. By closely watching the world events that are centered around Israel, we can better understand God's sovereign plan.
Read Psalm 121; Read Exodus 2-6; Read Esther 1-4; Memorize Ephesians 4:2-16 (Review your positions and connections in the Body)
Day 2: 2008--A Year to Passover, Overcome, and Go Through into Freedom!
Purim fell approximately one month before the beginning of Passover. The Biblical Feast of Purim (Esther 9:18-28) is celebrated in the final month of the Hebrew calendar. I believe this is a significant timing so that we end a season in victory and are freed to cross over into our future.
Nisan, the first of months, begins at sunset on April 5. This leads us into our Passover season (Leviticus 23:4-8). Passover was the time of crossing out and over into freedom! The dates of this feast are very significant. Passover commemorates the final plague on Egypt when the firstborn of the Egyptians died and the Israelites were spared. Passover is linked with the power of the blood smeared on their doorposts (Exodus 12:11, 21, 27, 43, 48). Passover was also called the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Exodus 23:15; Deuteronomy 16:16) because only unleavened bread was eaten during the seven days immediately following Passover (Exodus 12:15-20; 13:6-8; Deuteronomy 16:3-8).
Unleavened bread reflected the fact that the people had no time to put leaven in their bread before their hasty departure from Egypt. The observances of Passover are found in Joshua 5:10-12 (the plains of Jericho near Gilgal); 2 Chronicles 30:1, 3, 13, 15 (during the reign of Hezekiah); and 2 Kings 23:21-23 (Josiah's unique Passover).
During New Testament times, large crowds gathered in Jerusalem to observe this annual celebration. Jesus was crucified during the Passover event. He and His disciples ate a Passover meal together on the eve of His death. During this meal, Jesus said, "This is my body, and this cup is the new testament in my blood" (Luke 22:7, 19-20). The New Testament identifies Christ with the Passover sacrifice: "For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us." The word denotes the lamb that was slain at the feast (Mark 14:12-14; 1 Corinthians 5:7). The use of wine (Luke 22:17, 20), of sauce with the bitter herbs (John 13:26) and the service of praise were introduced. Passover was a type of the great deliverance wrought by the Messiah for all of His people from the doom of death on account of sin and from the bondage of sin itself (1 Corinthians 5:7; John 1:29; 19:32-36; 1 Peter 1:19; Galatians 4:4, 5).
Get Ready to Crossover! I would encourage you to read the chapter on "The Blood War" in God's Unfolding Battle Plan. (SEE God’s Unfolding Battle Plan book at the bottom of this email.)
Day 3: 2008-- A Time for Leadership to Awaken and Overcome at the Gate!
The day related to Purim was the date set by Haman by casting lots (pur) to murder all the Jews in the kingdom. Because of the alertness of Mordecai at the gates of the city, and the fasting and intercession of Queen Esther of Persia and the Jewish people, this day became a day of battle with great victory for the Jews, as their enemies were destroyed. In the time of Esther, we find that the enemy had entered the gates and was planning to overthrow the covenant blessings God had for His people. In the book of Esther, Mordecai had exposed the enemy's plan and taken his authority at the gate. The Lord says in Matthew 16:18, "And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it." This is not a time for hell to prevail at your gate. Esther and Mordecai worked together for deliverance! Haman, who used astrology and the casting of lots, was overthrown by God's ordered timing.
I am praying for you to have favor at the gates and be raised up for a time such as this. Biblically, a "gate" is a place for contending, watching, making sacrifices in worship, doing business transactions, administering justice and giving public addresses. The gate is the object of a foe's attack, and therefore it must be strengthened (Judges 5:8).
Now, review your call to leadership and contending in days ahead. Read Isaiah 1. Also, read Matthew 16 to see Peter's revelation and then his emotional resistance to change.
God is raising up new Mordecais and Esthers to influence the world in days ahead. These individuals will do radical exploits in His name. Esther is a book where the destiny of God's covenant manifests, where legislating authority at the gates can be seen--the gate of a city was where all business transactions and legal matters occurred. The city gate was also the place where entrance into the city was either permitted or forbidden. A Biblical gatekeeper was one who guarded access to a place. Mordecai was a good gatekeeper. He knew the enemy had a plot and a plan.
The enemy will attempt to set a decree against you. Mordecai overheard the plan linked with Haman to annihilate God's covenant people in the land where Haman had prepared a noose for God's covenant people. Mordecai also knew he needed a connection to prevent the enemy's plan from prevailing. Esther was his connection; she had been positioned by God for such a time as this. Many of you are being positioned to see the plan of the enemy. Others of you are being positioned to be the connecting point to overthrow the enemy. I am praying that any plot of the enemy to try and stop the covenant blessings of your inheritance from coming forth in your life would be revealed. Find your divine connections and overthrow the enemy's plan!
Trusting in God is one of the ways that you overthrow a curse. With Passover beginning at sunset on April 19, we think of Moses! One of the keys to Moses' life was that he was ordained as a prophet from birth. Even though his insecurity would tell him he could not speak, God had ordained him as a prophet. His mother and father's faith would eventually result in delivering all of Israel. This would also give Moses authority to split the sea for the escape of God's people. He also would receive the law that would set the commandments and boundaries for mankind. There are new boundaries for you to obtain this month. Let the prophetic gift arise in you. Let a new level of deliverance begin. He waited 40 years to be found and put in service. Do not be discouraged. The Lord knows where you are.
Day 4: A Time of Spiritual Discipline and Preparation!
In our day, we are still in a time of battle and victory, a time of voluntary fasting. The Fast of Esther (Esther 4:14-17) is still relative for us today to enter into a new place of authority and gain favor. Men and women must work together this hour to defeat the enemy's plan. The key to Mordecai's life was his watchful eye at the gate on behalf of the King and God's covenant people.
The key to Esther was her positioning and preparation. The word "prepare" means "to make or get ready, to put together, to produce a frame for a future building, to gird oneself for action." This is a time to remember that in the midst of hostility, we can be prepared for "such a time as this." Through preparation and discipline the favor of God can rest upon us. Esther went to the king, gained favor and grace in his sight and was exalted into the royal position of queen.
What does this say to us? If we allow the anointing of God to rest upon us, and allow the beauty of holiness to surround and transform us, we can gain great favor. If we remove the leaven from our lives, we will be ready to depart into a new place, as the Lord leads.
Read Psalm 92; Read 1 John 1 and 2
Day 5: A Time to See Your Hidden Blessings Manifest!
Esther is a non-Jewish name. Her original Jewish name was Hadassah, but her Jewish identity was a secret. Esther became the bride of the king. The prophetic reference to the Church as the Bride of the King (with Jewish roots despite a Gentile appearance) is very interesting. Esther would not escape the fate of the Jews, just as the destiny of the Church is directly linked to the Jewish people (Israel). "Hadassah" (means Myrtle) is an evergreen tree with glossy leaves and white flowers. They were used for perfume and as seasoning for food. The myrtle tree had a religious significance for the Hebrews (Zechariah 1:8-11) and was a symbol of peace and joy. Ask the Lord to show you what is hidden that belongs to you. Ask Him to let you hear the blowing of the wind in the trees in a new way.
Read Isaiah 52; Read John 3; Read Matthew 13 about uncovering the hidden treasure.
Day 6: A Time of Confrontation and Overthrow of the Enemy's Stranglehold!
This is time to overthrow decrees that have been set against God's covenant people that would stop us from corporately advancing. Those anti-Semitic decrees hate God's sovereign plan for the Jews, as well as Christians that have been grafted into that plan. Nations that profess Christianity must rise up now.
Esther prayed and fasted three days prior to setting the wheels in motion to overthrow the enemy's plan. She had faith to go into the king's court because she was fully prepared at the end of those three days of fasting. Fasting helps prepare you for what you must face for your victory ahead. Esther was at the right place, at the right time and did the right thing. Therefore, she had victory over the enemy. Your faith can overthrow any decree the enemy has established against you. The enemy prepares a noose to tighten around God's promised plan for your life. Faith breaks the power of that noose. Declare your Haman's noose will be broken.
The Lord is releasing new revelation on strategies to overthrow the enemy's plan. There are times when we cannot win by pressing to overturn/reverse an unrighteous decree. Esther gives one example where a bad, evil law was irrevocable (according to the laws of the Medes and Persians). So the strategy the Lord gave to her (through the pagan king) was to make another law which would stand against the first law, enabling deliverance and life to come to the Jews. In this Purim Month, the Lord may be releasing similar strategies whereby we can counteract and overcome evil edicts and laws in our society and nation.
Securing victory and overthrowing our enemies can often involve several stages of war. Whereas, Esther and Mordecai successfully warred to secure a decree that would allow the Jews to protect themselves; this was only another step in their deliverance. It's quite possible the Jews could have survived the day that their enemies hoped to overpower them, solely based on the new level of fear their enemies had for the Jewish people. However, if they had not gone on the offensive and destroyed their enemies as their decree allowed them to, they would not have secured lasting protection. In that case, in due time, under new leadership (like the Hebrews in Egypt with a new pharaoh), the Jews could have been oppressed and targeted for destruction once again.
At the close of this Seven Year War Season, we must not be content to settle for preserving victories and the issuing of righteous decrees. Rather, we must fully war to the end of our battles to see complete deliverance and victory enforced, and the opposite of the enemy's plans occur.
This is a season to speak faith and ask for new revelation! Ask the Lord to anoint your speech and open your eyes to the revelation He is releasing at this time.
Day 7: Face Your Amalekite and Break the Power of His Noose!
In Esther 3:1, the evil Haman is described as being a descendant of the Amalekite king, Agag (1 Samuel 15:8). Therefore, besides the Book of Esther, another passage from the Tanach (Hebrew Bible) is read at Purim: Exodus 17:8-16. This is the account of Joshua's defeat of the Amalekites at Rephidim, as Hur and Aaron held up the exhausted arms of Moses. When Moses' hands, gripping the "Rod of God," became heavy, the warriors in the field began to lose the battle. Verse 12 says that with Aaron and Hur's support, Moses' hands remained steady until the coming down of the sun. In the Hebrew, the word "steady" is "emuna".
After the battle, Moses built an altar and named it, "YHVH-Nissi: the Lord is my Banner." The word "banner" can also be translated as "miracle." Study this and decree miracles are beginning to come into your atmosphere.
The spirit empowering Amalek is at the back of all anti-Semitism. Exodus 17:16 states that "The Lord has sworn, the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation." Deuteronomy 25:19 commands that His people are to join in with Him in the battle until the memory of Amalek is blotted out--Israel must not forget that!
Deuteronomy 25:17-18 further describes the tactics of the Amalekites: "They met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary" (emphases ours). So Amalek does not only seek to take occasion from the tiredness and exhaustion of leaders, he also lurks behind to pick off those inexperienced foot soldiers who are "faint and weary" and lagging behind. To remedy this, Israel developed a "rear guard" (see Numbers 10:25 and other places). The Hebrew for "rear guard" is "me'aseph"--its root is the same as for the verb "to gather." In ancient armies, old, experienced soldiers would be placed at the rear, not only to guard from enemies attacking from behind, but also to "gather" the loose ends--the stragglers--and to keep them pressing forward.
The word "Amalekite" means to toil or work under hard labor. This is a time for you to break out of legalistic, hard labor. The Amalekites were a nomadic tribe of formidable people that first attacked the Israelites after the Exodus at Rephidim. Amalek, the grandson of Esau (Genesis 36:12), inhabited the desolate wasteland of the northeast Sinai Peninsula and the Negev. They were the first to attack Israel after the Exodus (Numbers 24:20). This is where the Lord revealed Himself as Jehovah Nissi. He declared that we would war with Amalek from generation to generation.
The antichrist spirit today is linked into this Amalekite spirit. Israel won the initial battle (Exodus 17:8-16), and because of their atrocities, God commanded Saul to exterminate the Amalekites (1 Samuel 15:2-3). Saul disobeyed, and the Amalekites were not defeated completely until late in the eighth century B.C. (1 Chronicles 4:43). Haman the Agagite (Esther 3:1-10; 8:3-5) was thought by the Jews to be Amalek's descendant, from whence sprung Haman's hatred toward their race.
Prepare yourself and watch your Haman hang on his own gallows. Break all compromise. Watch your enemy overplay his hand, and you will end up victorious! Cross over and watch your new doors open!
Memorize Isaiah 26:4, Isaiah 28:6. Declare over your nation that the Amalekite structure will be revealed and overthrown.
Day 8: Pray the Prayer of Confrontation!
To confront someone or something means to face them in hostility or defiance, or to come with opposition. Unlike the prayer of travail, which brings forth new birth, the prayer of confrontation directly addresses a structure that has been set in place in opposition to God's will. This type of prayer not only outwits the devil, but it also humiliates him and his forces in the process. God allows us to enter into this type of encounter to show His power over the territorial spirit(s) to which a particular group of people has been in bondage. As the Lord displays that His power is greater than that of a given demonic structure, that structure begins to crumble, and those who were held captive are then free to follow Christ.
A wonderful Biblical model for this type of prayer was Moses' confrontation with Pharaoh. As Moses declared God's will to Pharaoh in the earthly realm, he was also confronting in the spiritual realm the gods of Egypt--false deities (territorial spirits)--linked with the oppression and captivity of God's covenant people. Through the plagues and destruction unleashed upon the nation of Egypt as a result of Moses' confrontation, God's plan was fulfilled, the power of oppression was broken and His people were released.
The Rod Becomes a Serpent (Exodus 7:8-12):
Confrontation with serpent gods
The Nile Turns to Blood (Exodus 7:14-25):
Confrontation with the Nile gods
The Plague of Frogs (Exodus 8:1-15):
Confrontation with the frog god
The Plague of Lice (Exodus 8:16-19):
Confrontation with the earth god
The Plague of Flies (Exodus 8:20-24):
Confrontation with the god of toiletry
The Cattle Die (Exodus 9:1-7):
Confrontation with the Egyptian cow goddess
The Plague of Boils (Exodus 9:8-12):
Confrontation with the god of learning and medicine
The Plague of Hail and Fire (Exodus 9:12-35):
Confrontation with the original sky god
The Plague of Locusts (Exodus 10:12-15):
Confrontation with the god of the air, atmosphere and dry winds
The Plague of Darkness (Exodus 10:21-23):
Confrontation with the sun god
The Slaying of the First Born (Exodus 12:29-33)
The tenth and most devastating plague was directed against a family of three deities. The first was Isis, the most important of all Egyptian goddesses, who assumed all the attributes and functions of virtually every other important goddess at some point in Egyptian history. Her primary functions were motherhood, marital devotion, healing the sick and the working of magic spells and charms. The second deity was Osiris, the god of the dead and the ruler, protector and judge of the deceased. The third deity was the son of Isis and Osiris, Horus the Child, a suckling child represented as a young boy sucking his finger. This final plague so overwhelmed the Pharaoh, and so thoroughly defeated the gods of Egypt, that the Israelites were finally set free. (Excerpted from the revised Future War of the Church.)
God's power has not diminished in the years since Moses! Power-encounters through the prayer of confrontation that see people released from demonic structures are going to become more and more common as we enter the future war of the Church. We need to enter into an expectant mind-set that believes God will display His power greatly over the earth and over demonic structures in order to see great throngs loosed from satan's grip. And from that mind-set, we must pray with unwavering faith prayers of confrontation, according to His will.
This is a season to move into power confrontations! Allow Holy Spirit to direct your prayers in a new way.
Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce
Glory of Zion Ministries
"I Am Forming You FOR AND IN Your STORM: RECEIVE MY SOUND!"
March 15, 2008
"Many have cried out: 'Lord, I long for the new, I long to go through. However, I don't have the strength to advance because the season has pulled the plug on my strength, and I feel I cannot stand and advance.' But hear Me! I will energize your blood and cause My Spirit to touch you and go into places in your heart that have not been touched. I will cause the joints in your body to begin to have new energy and cause them to move in ways they have not moved. Do not despair because by My Spirit and new energy will come upon you.
The warfare that you've been contending in, the conflict that you've been standing in, will not overtake you. Stand still! In the midst of your stillness, I am beginning to release new mantles; you will stand face to face with Me, and then your enemy will see My reflection in your face. I AM rising up within you a sound that will come through you and cause the enemy to shake. Where the enemy has held your gate closed--the gate will come open. You will say, 'A new day has broken.'
Some of you are saying, 'I hate this storm that I am in the midst of riding out.' But hear Me again! Because you won't spread your wings and catch the wind of this storm, you are having trouble coming above its fury. Catch the wind! Catch the wind! My Spirit is blowing. Do not fear this economic strategy and structure that the enemy is voicing in the nations. Catch My wind in this economic storm! The dips and the lows will cause you to soar high. Throw your chest into the adverse winds and allow the wind to catapult you to a high place.
There are things that have been chasing you. Turn now and face that adverse wind. I will come with grace in the adversity and catapult you to a new level. You will see every movement in the field--the snakes, the rodents, and the treasures. Soar, see, and be catapulted into an enlarged place.
The Potter's wheel that you have been on has been a necessary season for you. I AM doing a chiseling work to give you a new identity. Receive what I am creating. I AM placing My mark, My design, on your next season. One smooth blow will release the diamond that has been hidden in the rough. Look at the design that I have laid for your future. Look at the Craftsman's hand because as I come down upon the chisel, you will see the breaking away, and what's been hidden will be seen. Do not be afraid of that blow to come! I AM sending forth a sound into your inner being that will break up the dams that have held back your waters of Life. These waters will aid Me in your forming.
I am causing new languages to arise in My people. This will thwart the enemy's plan to defile My purposes in you. If you will trust Me to do this one thing in you that has stopped you from being transformed into a mind of prosperity, you will succeed and failure will leave you. One small hit will change the course of your life and your direction. Your compassions have grown hardened. I must release this blow. I must cause the very depths of you to roar and to roar again. I AM creating a movement within you so you can digest what I will be doing in the four months ahead. Let the depths of your being roar with My sound. This sound will create the ability for you to absorb what occurs in the next four months.
Your inward being must embrace My THUNDER! This is a season that you shall hear thunder in the Heavens. As I thunder from the Heavens, know it is the voice of the Lord that is coming to you. For the thunder would create fear in the hearts of many. But for those of who fear the Lord, you will hear this thunder as a new sound from Heaven. This sound will cause you to come into the new place! My voice is coming to break you from all that would hold you in an old place. The thunder of the Lord is My manifest sound in the Heavens!
Do not fear what the enemy would do. For I Am thundering a new place for you and a new protection for you! Many would even run and hide in the day of storm. But you shall run into the storm and have victory over the storm! Let My thunder roll and break every place of fear from you. This will cause you to come into the new season where My light and My sun shall break forth out of the storm, out of the thunder. A new day is arising and the sun shall come and rest upon you. Do not fear this season of storm. This is your season to break through. Overcome the storm and rise up in a whole new place."
March 9, 2008
The Voice of Change is Stirring Us to Come UP from the Wilderness!
Dear Friends and Intercessors:
We are heading into two of the most rearranging, realigning months that we have ever known in the history of this generation. What occurs during these days will set a course for our lives and this nation. The Lord woke me at 1 o'clock on Tuesday morning, March 4th, 2008. As I walked into the bathroom I noticed a calligraphy verse: "Lean not on your own understanding." This verse lit up even though the light was not on in the bathroom. The verse became red and yellow like fire. When I went back in at 5 AM, I noticed that the verse was actually in navy blue!
I heard the Lord begin to say: "Lean not on your own understanding today. I am calling you to watch the way that begins to form! For I am forming and reforming the way for My people! Abrasive circumstances will increase over these next 40 days. Lean not on your own understanding. I will show you things that you do not know during this time. I will cause you to see the pattern that I am forming. Do not fall into an understanding of the past, even the past 40 years, for in the next 40 days I am producing a new time of understanding in My people. For My wisdom is not your wisdom. I am creating a fear and an awe of Me!
I will show you how evil is working. I will let you hear the voice of evil-- that voice that has been distracting, confronting, and taunting you. My cause will rise up in you. My words will form in your mouth. You will speak it to the atmosphere and the atmosphere around you will change.
I am forming a highway in your wilderness. It will not be made of shifting sand. The foundation for your future is being laid. I will cause you to see the land that will be made sure for you. Lean not on your own understanding. Allow these next 40 days to be that which will change the atmosphere from one of a mesmerizing force to the power of God in your midst.
Honor ME with a shout! Bless My Name. For My name is replacing the name of the enemy on the gates of entry into your future. Where the enemy had your gate blocked, I am now rising up to give you authority and entry into your new place!
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Me and I will direct your path. Do not just look at your circumstances--do not lean on your own understanding! Keep your mind stayed upon Me. Do NOT allow your abilities to be your trust.
I will create a strong people that will rule in every sphere of authority. Spheres of authority will be rearranged in these next 40 days. The power of My words in your mouth will cause a breakthrough. Don't miss your window of opportunity or fail to recognize the catalyst I am creating for rearranged momentum. Receive an anointing to leap over the mountain that has been deceiving and intimidating you.
Don't be afraid of your storm this week, for I will reorder your way and will cause your times to be changed. I'll set you ahead of that which would overtake you and cause you to be overwhelmed. So don't fear the storm. Watch the rain and wind work to your benefit! Hear the keys shaking, for I am rattling the gates of hell. Decree the blockade that wouldn't open up and let you move forward, even in your emotions--is being unlocked and that you are now able to move forward.
Your path will become straight so that I might enter a new way. What is too high will come down and that which is too low will come up. I can bring the prideful into right order and bring the humble into a new place of seeking. I am creating a straight path for us to walk into the future. May you see the path on which I will lead you into the future. Allow Me to come into your midst and prepare a way through this wilderness and into your next place.
I control the end from the beginning. There is nothing that happens in the earth realm that is outside of MY dominion. Agree that My will will be done on earth as it is in Heaven this day. Look up and see Me as the King who reigns. See Heaven's highway forming in the earth realm around you. I am not asking you to go under, but to come up! Find the high way into the place that I have for you.
Hear My voice in the wilderness. Though you have been unsure of the way you are to go, today I am beginning to call you new and fresh. This is a time when you must not miss that window of momentum. Do not be content to only sit and be taught every day because teaching alone will not get you to your next place. You must have the anointing to leap over that mountain. My call is being extended from the heavenly realm.
War for the next 21 days to see My call come forth. Those that will hear the call that I have for them this hour know how to follow after the call that I am extending. This is not about a person you are following--but a call that I am placing to set a course for you out of one place and into another. Hear the call! My voice is entering into your valley and your wilderness and saying, 'Come up with Me!'
Now is the time of restructured vision. Now is the time of finding your place to stand on the land, a place that will not sink when you stand, a land that will not confuse or entrap you. Hear My voice in your wilderness. For in 40 days, I will begin to qualify those that have received and embraced My call!
Do not allow the enemy's voice to confuse you in the next few days. You will be accosted by the enemy three times to keep you from finding and standing firm on the highway that I am forming to bring you through and into your new! Watch carefully and know the different voices this hour. Voices will bring confusion into your atmosphere. In the midst of this time, you must know what you are to follow. This is a time when confusing voices over your financial state and the state of the world would create a disheartening emotion that would lead to fear.
I am the God of the gold and silver. I am the one who can shake loose new finances. I am the one who can cause things to be let go so you can move in and go through the gates I have for you. Do not let a narrow, high path in front of you seem to be too steep for you to climb. I am making a straight path and causing you to be directed in a new way these next 40 days.
You have never been this way before. Nations are hanging in the balance! My Kingdom government will now begin to rise up and form to influence the government of the earth. I am a God who creates a Highway that can only be seen by eyes who know My glory. You will know me as King and ruler. I confounded the gods of Egypt. I confounded the Roman Empire.
Let Me form the words in your mouth to confront those things that would keep you from finding the highway I have prepared in the wilderness. Only My voice can guide you through and to this narrow road! In the midst of these three confrontations, NOW I am forming the words for you to use to stop your enemy from overtaking you. This is a corporate call for My people to rise up. In this corporate call you must be a people who know how to confront the atmospheric war around you.
I am raising up an abrasive time that will provoke you and produce My jealousy in you so you rise up with a new war mantle against the forces of hell in your midst. I will raise the abrasion! I will provoke MY people to action. Wake from your slumber and stupor and hear Me now to come forth! Do not lean on your own understanding. Go with My flow and watch Me make a direct path. Watch Me cause a path to come into order.
Renew the foundation. I am ready to build again. I will begin to build your future. Activate that way that I am calling you. Do not fear going into the brush and the brambles to find the hidden treasure that you will use to build My altar this hour. Today I am activating you. The intensity of the time is now upon you. I am activating you and calling you to hear what is coming into your atmosphere. Be delivered from a deaf and dumb spirit that would keep you from speaking and hearing at the right time.
Rise up and create a path. Change an atmosphere and you will be able to take a stand in that land. Let Zion call forth. I am calling forth to Zion within you to rise up. Prepare for a quick change. Prepare for a quick change. Write the vision. Make it plain. Prepare for a quick change. I am calling for a new release of power over these 40 days. Do not lean on your own understanding. Go in My direction to create a power shift!"
Faith Tabernacle of Kremmling
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