Articles
August 10, 2006
Dear Flourishing Saints:
The plots of the Desert are being uncovered! This is a very interesting season! Wars and more wars! Floods and more floods! However, the Lord is aware of everything that is happening. Because of the TIME CAPSULE I saw in the heavens in June and the word the Lord had me give at Jubilee Church in Camarillo on January 29, 2006 concerning Lebanon, I have just finished taping a segment on TBN in Florida with Mark Chironna and two “This is Your Day” programs with Benny Hinn in California. The Praise the Lord taping will air next Monday evening at 10 PM (Eastern Time) and This is Your Day will air next Monday, Tuesday and Friday (check local listings for times and availability).
I had planned to be home this week, but the Lord had other plans. I am amazed at the Lord’s faithfulness and your faithful prayers. By today (August 10) was the time frame that “the desert’s plot to strike back” would occur. If you have watched the news, a major terrorist plot was uncovered today. I will explain this in detail below. This plot started unraveling at 2 AM (August 10). That is why we must allow the Lord to reorder our day and understand how to operate in the night watches.
Also, I am so glad I obeyed the Lord in January when He said stop and decree: “Watch Lebanon, for it will be where the Middle East crisis intersects this year.” The warfare and the faith released from this prophecy are amazing. The Lord wanted us to be sure to know that the situation in the Middle East this summer is part of His plan. You can go to www.glory-of-zion.org to read this word in its fullness. The warfare over the Body understanding the times and season we are living in is tremendous. While preparing to broadcast the “Praise the Lord” show with Mark Chironna, Kim Daniels, Bishop David Evans, Vicki Yohi and others, the audio was completely knocked out. They have now informed us that taping will air next Monday evening at 10 PM (Eastern Time). I was asked to share about the times we are living in and the new book, “Reordering Your Day: Understanding and Embracing the Four Prayer Watches!” If you do not have this book, it is invaluable as we move forward into our next season of prayer.
We so appreciate you being a part of this ministry and allowing me to represent you around the world foretelling and forthtelling the mind and heart of the Lord! I have recently been in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan and Las Vegas. I am ministering in Mississippi, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee this month. Peter and Doris have a Global Harvest Ministries congress at the Gaylord Texan in Dallas at the end of the month. I am preparing to take a team to Israel the second week of September. Please be in prayer as our team of 12 goes into this area of conflict. My family is great, but please keep them covered. These are intense times.
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PROSPERING as the SEVEN YEAR WAR SEASON CONTINUES! Many are beginning to understand and embrace the 7 Year War Season that we are living through. This began in September, 2001. We are almost at the end of the 5th year of this season. The warfare is intense and will continue to escalate the next couple of years. We are in a major preparation phase for our future. We received this from Israel about those in the war: “The soldiers only have 15 seconds that their heads can be out of their tanks in Lebanon. That is how long it takes the enemy to ‘spot’ them. In the Northern part of Israel, people have one minute to get to their shelter from the time the warning siren is heard. We have to think quick, be alert, act quickly…in the spiritual war as well as the physical. Seconds matter! Seconds!” This statement is a key for us to understand how the Lord is training us at this time. Rick Ridings son-in-law, Adam, writes the following: “On the frontline in Lebanon it was like living out Psalm 91.” He stated that it felt like there was a shield around him. Many times shots were fired directly at him, but they didn’t succeed in hitting him. Read Psalm 91 and ask the Lord to reveal to you your abiding place for this season of your life. Here are some key prayer points for Israel:
1. Pray for Israel’s defense strategies. Israel may occupy Tyre. Read Ez. 28 regarding the King of Tyre who says ‘I am a god’… Certain leaders reflect the same attitude as the king of Tyre.
2. Pray for Israel’s defense ministry.
3. Pray for Israel’s economy. Fruits and vegetables are just rotting on the ground. Houses and buildings are destroyed and businesses are shut down. Some say it will take 10 years for all the burned forests and vegetation to recover and that the economy will need a miracle at this point. The good news is that cities are open to the Messianic Body helping. Our friend in northern Israel, Eitan Shishkoff, has a wide open door to help communities. We have an account called Israel Refuge if you wish to give.
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Let A Harvest Mentality Develop!
The Lord is developing a harvest mentality in us as we move into the next two years of this war season. I have been meditating on Isaiah 60, especially verses 18-22, for everyone that is connected to this ministry. Those verses say: “Violence shall no more be heard in your land, nor devastation or destruction within your borders, but you shall call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise… The Lord shall be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory and your beauty… the days of your mourning shall be ended. Your people also shall all be [uncompromisingly and consistently] righteous; they shall possess the land forever, the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, that I may be glorified. The least one shall become a thousand [a clan], and the small one a strong nation. I, the Lord, will hasten it in its [appointed] time.” (AMP) What spoke to me for you was: A little one shall become a thousand! This means that there shall be a great increase, as if ONE or the SMALLEST of something given or begun shall be multiplied to a thousand. Do not despise any small beginnings in your life this month.
THE BLESSING OF THE MONTH OF AV
I want to especially bless you this month and declare that no weapon formed against you will prosper! In history, this has been the most violent month against God’s covenant plan and people. Every month has a blessing from the Lord. His will is for us to move from blessing to blessing until blessings overtake us! We are in the fifth month of the Hebrew year - the month of Av. This is the month to Hear and Be Concerned. This month has been ordained to provoke you to make decisions on what you have heard. This is the month the Lion roars (Amos 3:8). Allow the Roar of the Lion of Judah to form within your spirit. The Roar of the Lord in you causes you to transform and metamorphosize into your identity for the future. This roar will disintegrate the things that would resist your best. This has always been the most destructive month for God’s covenant people. I am praying that you are shielded and protected. Since “hearing” is so key this month, we are praying that you have a new prophetic anointing and that the spirit of wisdom and revelation rests upon you. This is a month of predestined connections. May the Lord position key people in your path.
THE TIME CAPSULE
The last time I communicated with you I sent the TIME CAPSULE the Lord showed me while in June when I was with Dutch Sheets, and Cindy and Mike Jacobs in Washington DC. While we were there the Lord said for me to declare that DC would flood as a sign to the nation and as an affirmation to the Word and time table. Within the next three days the FLOOD came in the DC area. This was a sign of cleansing and timing of what He is doing. If the sign is that powerful, the word is more powerful!
Timing is important. How we seek the Lord in Heaven affects the outcome of the Earth in our generation. Remember we must “Eat the Word”. Let me REVIEW! Here is what I saw in the Time Capsule the Lord showed me:
Now - August 10: “The desert will strike back”…We must learn to resist the strikes of the enemy during this time. You are making headway against the enemy. Do not let wilderness, desert spirits overtake you! Uncover the plots of the enemy and stand firm.
August 9 – September 5: “The breakthrough window will appear for God’s covenant plan”…We must decree an alignment of this plan into our lives, churches, cities, and nations. Covenant is so important to understand. Bring God’s will from Heaven into the Earth. Read Luke 11. Pray the Lord’s Prayer. Ask for the gift in you to be activated in a new way. Decree that the Lord will make room for your gift. Declare that your conscience become clear. Leave behind anything that has cluttered vision in the past.
September 5 – October 12: “Leaders for the future will be divinely positioned”…I saw the Body of Christ moving like a game of musical chairs. Some leaders will retire, others will resign, some will be removed because they are resisting Holy Spirit’s plan. The Lord will make room for the gifts needed to advance His Kingdom. The leaders for the future must be positioned!
October 12 – Into the Future: “We become a new threshing instrument; a sharpened sword in the hand of the Lord”… The circumstance you are going through is sharpening you and bringing forth your identity for the future. We will look totally different.
Future – Forward: “The clash of the swords begins”… Get sharpened! The swords of the earth, representing the spiritual realms of the heavens, begin to clash. This determines the future of the generations! (Rev. 12)
The portion of the WORD relative to this time was: “The DESERT will strike Back.” This was a period that would go from July 8-August 10. I knew I needed to write you and decree that “THE DESERT WILL NOT STRIKE BACK AND DEFEAT YOU”! The terror plots uncovered last night are an indicator of the Lord’s faithfulness. Cindy Jacobs also sent a word about how the roots of these plots would reach London.
THIS MONTH ALSO MEANS THAT YOU ARE AT THE END OF ONE HIGHWAY AND THE BEGINNING OF THE NEXT!
Let me explain “Desert” so we see how to walk in victory and not fall captive to the enemy’s plan. This is a time where many roads in our lives are coming to an end and new roads are forming. When we think of desert, our perception is usually that of a barren, burning, sandy, waste place. Arabah (now the Ghor) is the sunken valley North and South of the Dead Sea. This is the deepest and hottest depression on the earth. There are no palms growing there now, yet black trunks of palm are still found drifted onto the shores of the Dead Sea (Ez 47:8). The Arabah will bloom! Your desert can bloom!
We can view the desert a solitary, lonely, dry, desolate or barren place where we are wandering in the wilderness and being held captive OR we can see the desert from a different perspective! Isaiah 35:1-8 says: “THE WILDERNESS and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the rose and the autumn crocus. It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellency of [Mount] Carmel and [the plain] of Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord, the majesty and splendor and excellency of our God. Strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble and tottering knees. [Heb 12:12.] Say to those who are of a fearful and hasty heart, ‘Be strong, fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance; with the recompense of God He will come and save you.’ Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap like a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing for joy. For waters shall break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert. [Matt 11:5] And the burning sand and the mirage shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the haunt of jackals, where they lay resting, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. And a HIGHWAY shall be there, and a way; and it shall be called the Holy Way…” (AMP) This passage reveals that God is able to make the desert a place capable of providing food and of giving life. The power of this transformation is ample witness to the importance of desert and all it symbolizes in ancient Israel and the early church. Your desert lands will be transformed into fertile and productive fields. God will put rivers in the desert (Is. 43:19-20). Your desert can bloom and rejoice! (Is. 35:1, 6-7) The fir trees will grow, and the deserts will look as lush as the Garden of Eden (Is. 51:3). Glory will come out of Lebanon. In the midst of your present war, you can blossom and the GLORY of the Lord can be revealed.
FOCUS: WE MUST CHOOSE TO SEE OUR WILDERNESS OR DESERT PLACE AS THE BEGINNING OF OUR HIGHWAY INTO OUR FUTURE!
The desert is used, often in metaphors or similes, to demonstrate God's power to transform. The Lord has the ability to demonstrate His power to us in the desert place. The desert can be the beginning of your new thing! I am declaring that every crooked road becomes straight and that you see the road ahead into your future!
A vivid example of this latter ability to transform the desert and all it symbolizes is found in the feeding of the four thousand (Mt. 15:32-39, Mk. 8:1-10). In this Biblical incident, the desert represents a place incapable of providing food (life!) for great numbers of people. Jesus taught His disciples in this situation that there are resources in the desert that can multiply and produce the necessary sustenance for the future. May you multiply in your desert place!
When Jesus needed to find solitude, He withdrew from the large crowds (Lk. 4:42; 9:10-12) to the desert (solitary places) for privacy and a time of prayer with His Father. This is where He could hear what Father was saying. Your desert can be a place of hearing!
Read Luke 4 and Matthew 4. Jesus was led into the wilderness by the Spirit. You could have been directed into your wilderness by Holy Spirit. He then resisted temptation. He was led out of the wilderness with POWER! See how Jesus overcame temptation in the wilderness. Do not let the enemy’s voice reign in your life. Let a new Power of the Holy Spirit develop in this season of your life.
Expect Changes and Suddenlies in Your Life
Things are happening suddenly! Your atmosphere is changing rapidly! Ask the Lord to make you able to SEE the miracles that He is doing in your atmosphere, workplace, and home. There is a due time or proper time for things to happen in our lives. There is a concept that as we pray and trust, the Lord is mounting or summing up our prayers. The perfect time becomes ‘the fullness of time’ (Gal. 4:4), and what we have invested is poured out in a multiplied form. If we keep preparing and going through the trials that are in our lives by faith, eventually the blessings of God will overtake us. Remember:
1. Without revelation from the Throne Room, we are weak and incapable of breaking loose what God has for us in our strength, and limited to our own wisdom.
2. He does not come when everything is at peace, perfect and quiet, and all our circumstances are fully taken care of.
3. He visits at His favorable time in our lives when we are responding by faith. A small amount of faith (mustard-seed quantity) can cause the God of the Universe to visit us. He can birth a nation in a day. He can change your circumstances in a day. The response of faith to God by man can cause a “suddenly” to occur.
4. Many are being trained to enter into this Harvest. Look at your circumstances and testings as a catalyst in the hands of a Holy God to develop an overcoming testimony. In due time, the promise and manifestation of His will shall be hastened and 'He that shall come, will come, and will not tarry' (Heb 10:37).
RECEIVE the Blessing of the MONTH of AV! The next portion of the Time Capsule is August 9 - September 5: “The Breakthrough Window will appear for God’s covenant plan in your life!” Watch carefully! I will send details on this later.
Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce
