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A Time to Watch Again! Begin this 40 Days of
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August 27, 2009
Dear Devoted Seekers:
This past weekend was revelatory and powerful. The Lord met us to produce a 40 Day Plan of gaining new strength so we can finish strong. Angels came to assist Elijah again! Several key words were given that are already manifesting (see below).
Don’t forget the webcasts that you can watch “on demand” this week. Our Firstfruits Gathering with special guest Eitan Shishkoff will be available through Saturday night. The Tuesday morning Issachar School class on “Emotional Models and Timing Expressions” was a great opportunity to review various Biblical leaders and how they correctly or incorrectly displayed their emotions. This teaching also reveals the model of how Prayer and Action go together as we respond with healthy emotions to the Lord. You can go to our webstore to purchase your “on demand” e-ticket and watch that class through Monday night.
If you have not been able to watch this month's Zebulun School class, "Positioned for Growth," you can still register to watch that "on demand" through Sunday night. Go to our webstore to purchase that e-ticket. Our next Zebulun School Class will be on Monday, August 31, when we focus on Trading: Origins, Blessings, and Iniquities! We have invited Peter Roselle, a minister leader in New Jersey, and a market leader with Morgan Stanley, to join us. We will look at God's concept of trade systems and dethroning iniquitous structures in industries. For more information or to register, please go to our website and select “The Zebulun School” tab.
Upcoming Corporate Prayer Gatherings
At the beginning of the month, the Lord told me this would be a time for us
to end strong and retool, refuel, and refill so that we can begin strong again.
So throughout this month we have been selecting key prophetic prayer gatherings
to re-webcast that will help us finish strong. (Go to our website to see all the webcasts
we are presently offering.) The good thing about the prophetic is that
even though it may have been spoken earlier, the Word is still active today!
Our first time to meet together again for corporate prophetic intercession
will be this Saturday morning at 6 AM on the land! Those of
you in the area may want to join us as we begin to intercede and travail for
the Lord’s plans and purposes for that land to be birthed. We will also
webcast that gathering.
Next week we will resume the Tuesday Morning Corporate Prophetic Intercession at 6:00 AM. Wednesday Corporate Prophetic Worship and Intercession will be at Noon. We look forward to you joining us onsite or by webcast (“live” or “on demand”).
The Thailand Team and a Word about “Sex Trade coming down in America”
Linda Heidler just wrote and shared how the team is moving powerfully
with an overflow crowd in Thailand. Here is a portion of the prophetic word
that was spoken over that team before they left: “There will be a new release
in Thailand for the mother’s heart to be brought forth. Where children
have been rejected at the breast, He will restore the milk line.” Thailand
is where the largest sex trade of the world is located. I
hear the Lord say, “There will be a breaking of that structure worldwide.
There will be a shifting in that sex trade that is going on.” We
decreed from this house that the sex trade will no longer operate the way
it is operating now. Barbara Wentroble then shared, “What I saw
was the knot on the end of a string that was in Thailand. As that knot
is removed, it was going to unravel that sex trade garment throughout all
of Southeast Asia. You’re going to pull the knot loose there, and then
the thread is going to begin to unravel in nation after nation after nation.”
I then prophesied, “I put you on notice America, your sex trading is
going to be found out starting now!” This was reported in the news yesterday….
Sex Trade Ring Busted in Houston, Ex-Police Officer and 5 Others Charged
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
A sex trade ring in which young girls were allegedly pistol-whipped and forced
from their homes into sexual slavery was broken up in Houston this week and
several suspects are in custody.
Don’t Forget to BLOW YOUR HORN this MONTH!
Remember, this is a month to blow to the Shofar! I just received this report
from Allen Faubion. He has two of the best CD’s available on the sound of
the shofar and the sounds of the feasts! He writes: “We are doing well in
Thailand after that mammoth plane flight. Just wanted to update you on the
shofar participants. We now have over 100 people joining us. That includes
all continents (except Antarctica), twelve countries outside the USA and 28
states in the US. It is wonderful. I am responding to them and will begin
to glean through the testimonies.”
Here are two of those reports:
Dear Allen:
First, congratulations to you and your wife as you enter the new category
of Grandparents. Shalom. Thank you for making the Shofar CD which I am playing
every morning through the month of ELUL except Saturday. Please pass on my
extreme gratitude to all at Glory of Zion for such an amazingly wonderful
weekend, even if it did “muck up my biological clock” (laughter here). Although
I could joined ‘on demand’, I chose to log in throughout the night rather
than wait. It was worth it 100 times over! Thank you all abundantly.
Eunice A., Queenlsand, AUSTRALIA
From Alaska: I know you are in Thailand now….but you should know that
Interior Alaska is blowing (via CD) the shofar every morning for all of Elul. The
CD blesses my home as I do this each day and continues to bless our Monday
night intercessors as Holy Spirit directs its use.
Tana W., Delta Junction, Alaska
THE FIRST THREE DAYS OF DEVOTIONS!
In our Judah School this past weekend the Spirit of God came down
and spoke to me clearly where His Body is at this time. Because of that, I
am developing a 40 Day Devotional to help us “Revamp,
Receive a New Vitality, and Move Forward Toward the Promises of the Next Season.”
I want to encourage you to read the devotional from your gift mix. For example,
I am a seer prophet. I see the Word in operation based upon how I am interceding
as a watchman. Therefore, every time I read a passage of the Word, it comes
alive based on my intercessory assignment. If your gift is one of service,
you will see and hear the word over how you can move forward in your role
to serve the Body of Christ. If you do not know your gift mix, we have a wonderful
book with spiritual gifts inventory, Discover
Your Spiritual Gifts, by Dr. Peter Wagner, that you can order from our
webstore.
Many people never understand the Word because they don’t allow their gift
to motivate them in the Word. I feel you must not only read the Word from
your gift mix, but you need to see and hear the Word in your spirit. If you
do this, you will gain a new reality of spiritual life. I look forward to
these 40 days. I thank God for what He will be doing with us. Let’s devote
these 40 days to be reformed as a new, sharp threshing instrument. This
Devotional Thrust will take us into the Feast of Tabernacles for 5770! Move
from the season of 5760-69 into 5770 with a revived mentality and spirit.
Below are the first three days of the devotional which began on Tuesday. Each day we will post the next day’s devotional on Facebook as well as the Glory of Zion website. If you are using Facebook, go to the “Notes” tab on my Fan Page to find the devotional. If you choose to go to www.gloryofzion.org, just click on the “Devotion by Chuck” bullet. At the end of the 40 days, if you would like to print out the full devotional, there will be an option to do so on our website.
DAY 1
What initiated this 40 Day Devotional is the story of Elijah in 1 Kings 18-19.
God sustained him by feeding and nurturing him for 40 Days after Jezebel pushed
him from his gate of triumph. The Lord revived him, spoke to him again,
and then renewed his mission. I believe the Body of Christ is entering
a 40 day window to get back on track in areas where the enemy has waylaid
or caused us to be knocked back after we have gained ground. This is a time
to get repositioned to enter the season ahead so we can overcome the enemy
and advance. This is a time to sing forth in the midst of the enemy's strategy
to take your inheritance and watch our Lord and His hosts rise up for battle.
RIDING THE WIND of REVELATION! Robert Heidler and I have been teaching on the winds of God. After this week, you can purchase the complete series. We have been in a “Whirlwind Season.” Many of you have felt the effects of the winds of change all around you. Some of you have remained spiritual and strong. Others have experienced these whirlwinds in a tangible, physical way, and they have tossed you to and fro. These 40 days are to help get our emotions stable, our hearing accurate again, and our focus established for the next season ahead. Remember, whatever wind you have experienced, whether adverse or calm, the Lord wants to use that wind to get you to a new place!
Let's begin this 40 Days with a heart of blessing. Bless God for all you have experienced in this season. Since you are still here, He wants to use every experience to define you. Now is the time that we must CATCH ANOTHER WIND! Do not fear the wind and the waves during this time. You are already beyond a halfway point - do not go back, but press on to the other side! You will reach the other side.
However, look for the Lord to come to you in some unusual ways. Learn the word: “COME!” Jesus is going to teach us how to move forward on the waves of change around us. When He told Peter to get out of the boat and “Come,” Peter’s faith became buoyant. He was fine until he looked at his circumstances. This year when you hear the word “come,” remember to keep moving and do not look at everything around you. Expect the Lord to move on your behalf.
A Day to Bless the Lord
So many times we want to enter a new season without blessing God for the last season - the good, the bad and the ugly. To bless is to salute, congratulate, thank, praise, or kneel down. To bless someone, you would kneel, and then speak forth and release an adoration or eulogy. Before you enter into this next season, spend a day doing that to the Lord. This will cause the Lord to bless you and grant you favor for the next season. Make a list of defining situations of the past season, and then bless the Lord that He has sustained you in the midst of these situations. Watch Him as He completes one season and opens up another. Sing a song to Him, wave your hands before Him, and let Him know that you love and trust Him with your future.
Meditate on Psalm 34:1, Psalm 103:1-3, Psalm 115:13, James 3:9, and Psalm 145:1-2.
Read 1 Kings 17-19, and Matthew 14.
Memorize Philippians 4:12-14. (Memorization is not simply recalling a scripture word for word, but the ability to speak forth the concept of what you have processed in your mind.)
DAY 2
Look carefully at the emotional shaking in the life of Elijah as a model for you today! You will gain a good perspective at this time if you will look and meditate on the scriptures at the end of 1 Kings 18 and the beginning of 1 Kings 19. Elijah had gained a great victory after 3 1/2 years of battling the demonic structure holding Israel from its future. He had exercised the spiritual authority that God had granted him to block any rain from coming on the land of Israel. This would cause those operating under the influence of the Baal structure of worship to take notice that God was the God of Israel and greater than any demonic force. He then confronted the prophets of this system and triumphed.
Elijah recognized the timing for “the word of the Lord” to come into Israel's atmosphere. Similarly, we must recognize our time of change. This can lead us into intense intercession. Some of you know that change is "NOW" for your family, vocation and business, city and nation. In this passage we see that Elijah interceded and brought the word of the Lord from the heavenlies into earth’s atmosphere. He had run faster than the present ruling force and gained his authority at the gates of the city. He had overthrown the supporting structure of the ruling force of influence in the nation.
However, there came a time that he needed to face the strongman that was holding the spoils of Israel captive. There also comes a time when you must face the structure that is holding back your blessings. In Elijah's case, this happened to be Jezebel.
He had even gained the position of being "At the Gate". But instead of standing and waiting for the Lord to back him at the gates of the city (representing who will rule in the future), he lost his footing and got knocked out of his abiding place! Jezebel threatened his life and devoted herself to the demonic forces to overtake him. He "SAW" the battle ahead and the spiritual forces that were backing Jezebel, and chose to run!
The next few days, we will deal with words and emotions that cause us to move from our next place of victory. I am declaring that you will stand fast and triumph in the assignments you have been given. You are on the verge of victory. Stand and watch the Spirit of God give you new strength. Do not lose ground now and do not let the waves and winds of your circumstances knock you out of your abiding place!
This is a time to receive a new anointing. The anointing will break the yoke! Forget your past times of abandonment. Do not think that you have been forsaken. This is a time to deal with hardships, trials, and tribulations by receiving the anointing. Let the pain from your past subside and be used to bring a metamorphosis, or transformation, so you are reflecting fully God’s plan for your life. Let your soul be purged of past trauma. Begin to use your word and prophecies to war against the enemy’s plan to stop or block your way. Do not hesitate to yell at the enemy and proclaim that the Lord will satisfy you with benefits (Ps. 103).
Meditate on Psalm 46
Read 1 Kings 19 (again)
Memorize Matthew 12:29: “Or how can a person go into a strong man's house and carry off his goods (the entire equipment of his house) without first binding the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house." (AMP)
DAY 3
I have been asked, "Why 40 Days?" The first pattern in the Word we find for the concept of "40" is with the Great Flood when the Lord released rain for 40 days and nights. After Elijah legislated the heavens and declared that there would be no rain, you find him at the Brook Cherith for 40 days being fed by ravens. This was a supply issue as well as God's way to reveal the timing of change. When the brook dried up, Elijah had to shift. He was instructed to find a widow who would sustain him for the remainder of his intercessory call.
As I discussed yesterday, when Elijah ran, he was emotionally and physically exhausted. 1 Kings 19:5-9 says, "As he lay asleep under the broom or juniper tree, behold, an angel touched him and said to him, ‘Arise and eat.’ He looked, and behold, there was a cake baked on the coals, and a bottle of water at his head. And he ate and drank and lay down again. The angel of the Lord came the second time and touched him and said, ‘Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.’ So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and nights to Horeb, the mount of God. There he came to a cave and lodged in it; and behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and He said to him, 'What are you doing here, Elijah?’” (AMP)
So the angel visited him a second time and brought new food to him because he had a 40 day journey ahead until he could hear clearly again. That is what these devotions are about: getting you revamped and positioned in the next 40 days so you can hear clearly for the 10 year season ahead. May you gain a new strength today so you can make the journey ahead of you. Forty (40) is linked with developing a new overcoming testimony in the earth realm. We will look at Jesus' 40 day assignment tomorrow.
Allow new strength to arise today! Be STRONG! Strength means the ability to withstand your next attack. Let the Lord complete and fulfill various issues in your life where you have been waiting for a manifestation. May you lack nothing. End or conclude this season and your projects with victory! Ask for all the supply that you need to finish strong! Declare that God’s healing grace will bathe all of your wounds and you will be healed so you can make the journey ahead. Let Him revive you! Break every death wish you have made against yourself because you felt you failed. Stop and allow your spiritual exhaustion to be turned back to life. Break the power of casualty covenants you have made with the enemy. Just as the enemy spoke to Elijah and he agreed with Jezebel’s words and ran, reverse the power of words that knocked you out of your place of joy and victory. Stand up, raise your hands, and receive a new wind of strength. Let the wind blow! Expect the Spirit of God to speak to you in a new way. Declare that you will prosper. RECEIVE a new measure of strength and authority. Let His love overtake you. Allow faith to increase. Let a new wind blow upon you. Do not fear your next attack, for the Lord is releasing strength NOW!
Read Genesis 6-7, Ephesians 6, and 2 Peter 2.
Meditate on Isaiah 40:25-31.
Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce
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Because angelic interaction is necessary to sustain us in these next 40 days, here are some key materials that could help you…
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Angels
That Gather: Empowerment for the End-of-the-Age Harvest by
Paul Keith Davis Working
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Releasing Angels by Meredith Mauldin
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The Angel Wing Necklace and Earrings
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The "Wing of God" pendant symbolizes the place of provision and protection God has for us under His wing. In this season of conflict and contention, we must learn to abide under the shadow of His wing. Allow this necklace or earrings to remind you of the Lord’s protection and covering. ($25 for necklace or earrings; sterling silver with non-tarnishing rhodium coating) |
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Sound
the Shofar - by Allen Faubion
Now with Updated and Expanded Teaching!
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From the earliest of times God chose the ram’s horn or “shofar” as one of His instruments to release this sound. Awesome things take place when the shofar sounds according to the command of the Lord God Almighty. Walls fall down (Jericho), enemies are destroyed (Gideon), the presence of God manifests (Sinai), and God’s people enter into the covenant cycle of blessing God has prepared for us (Feasts). On this CD, Allen Faubion both shares on and demonstrates the power and anointing of sounding the shofar according to the command of the Lord. Sound the Shofar! ($10) |
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God has appointed His feasts as a time for us to meet with Him so that we move into an ever increasing cycle of freedom and fruitfulness. He has also designed the instruments so that they release the anointing of each feast through their sound. Sound the Feasts is an interactive CD that will help you flow in the anointing of the feasts throughout the year. Each part of the feast cycle is explained before the sound of the feast is released. Each explanation includes a series of decrees for the listener to release during the musical portion. As you interact with Sound the Feasts you will experience the blood of Jesus (Passover), the Spirit (Pentecost), and the presence of God (the Fall Feasts) like never before. Sound creates movement. Each Feast is linked with prosperity. May this CD lead you into the sound that will unlock your harvest! Special: $10 (regularly $14) |
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These and many other resources can be ordered by going to www.gloryofzion.org or by calling (888) 965-1099 or (940) 382-7231. Specials expire on September 15, 2009.