HEAD OF THE YEAR 5770

We are entering a season of occupying our inheritance, digging new wells, and entering the “Tent” to tabernacle with our God. The Hebraic letter, Ayin, is also the number 70. Prepare to cross over into the “head” of the Hebraic year, receive power to war for breakthrough and find new wells of life.  Prepare to be CLEANSED and ready to celebrate the going in to your promise.

This season is supernatural! God’s people must leave “religion” and their natural way of battle and enter this supernatural season with sharpened weapons. This is a season of breaking new ground.

When you look at the symbol for AYIN, you can see the necessary action for breakthrough. You must extend your hand through the darkness and into the heavenlies. At that point, the Lord will give you strength by touching you with His HAND. He will release the Sword of Revelation that will connect with you to do war.

This will be the battle of the EYES. You will battle with MAMMON in the next years. You will battle dark watchers and “dark pools”. This will be a season where we battle with occult structures that are attempting to rule the earth realm and keep us from unlocking new resources. May the Spirit of wisdom and revelation rest on you now!

Prophet Chuck Pierce

Your Piece is Important

Be sure to review the prophecy below: Your Piece is Important. Reach Down Deep Within You. There is Blessing that Needs to Unlock. This is key for us as we move into the year ahead.

God says, “I am putting something together in you and for you that is very unique. I am recreating what you tried to create. You have longed to finalize things but now you will see that you cannot put together your own puzzle. You’ve even tried to put together other people around you and their puzzle.

“However, over that which I have created for them, I am holding the missing piece. This has frustrated you. You kept looking for the other piece and looking for the piece for someone else, but now you realize that it was you that I was dealing with. And NOW, I am going to show you the missing piece—your piece.

“This is a time that I am beginning to refine that last corner. The sharpness that was in you in one area is now being rounded off. Get ready, for there will be a supernatural fitting for your life in the coming few weeks. I have sent signs in the heavens to let you know that only I am in control of time. Know this—I am determined to complete the project in you that I began.

“Wait for the placement. Wait for your placement. I will cause you to pull up that place in you that needs to have this piece fitted. If you will reach down deep and pull up that place that only I can fill, I will fill it. There’s a blessing that you have not released, and I am saying, ‘Pull that deep blessing up. It is down deep within you. When that blessing forms in your mouth and comes forth, blessings that you’ve been waiting for will pour upon you.’”

“Pull Up the Deep Blessing and Bless Your Enemies”

“Even those things that you didn’t think you could bless, you can release a blessing upon. For I have said, ‘BLESS YOUR ENEMIES.’ There’s a blessing, deep, waiting for you to speak forth. You are entering a season of unlocking blessings, so go deeper and bring forth blessings that have never come forth from your mouth.

“You haven’t seen your enemies the way that I see your enemies. You haven’t seen your past the way I see your past. So pull up the deep blessing and bless your enemies. In blessing your enemies I will cause your head to go above your enemies. But until from your mouth you bless your enemies, I cannot cause your head to be lifted up and see what I would long you to see.

“I have allowed that catastrophe that has come near you to cause you to grow in a new way. In your growing you now can open your eyes and see what you couldn’t see. Rise up and see what would have been disastrous to you, since from the catastrophe and the hard place I have prevented you from being molded in a wrong way. Now you will be able to have vision that you could not have in the last season.”

LeAnn Squier is a Psalmist and she sang the following words based on the prophecy above:

Now I can see what I could not see.

Streams have broken up in front of me.

Now I can see what I could not see.

You are opening a path in front of me.

Here’s the Lord’s reply:

You thought I was fixing this present moment, but oh, no.

I was preparing a future where you would be going.

My eye was not on just the here and now

But My eye was on your path for the future.

The Lord then said, “My eye was on your path for the future. That which you were trying to hold on tightly to—now you will see that it was your grip instead of My grip that was grabbing hold. Now you can see how to let go. Now you can see what I would have you grab hold of. Now what you couldn’t see has been broken up around you. Lift up your head to Me and then look down and you will see what you couldn’t see.

“I Am in the Process of Knitting and Reforming”

“I am creating a government and I have positions already formed. You are a key player in My troop that I am forming to move with precision. Come up and then look down and you will begin to see the movement and the positioning and the placement that I have for you.

“Your puzzle piece is important to Me. Watch Me place it in you now. This will be like a missing chip that will now create blessings to begin to flow in your mind and heart. I will then take you and place you in the component that will be used for the future.

“Don’t judge what I am doing in those around you. Don’t judge quickly from the way that you perceived and judged in the past season, because now I am in the process of knitting and reforming. If you judge too quickly, you will miss the vessel that will come forth, shining. Some that tarnished and seemed unusable I AM bringing forth NOW. I have new vessels for many to drink from during this season.”

Blessings, Chuck D. Pierce

He Will Keep You and Your Destiny

When the Lord begins to fulfill our destiny, the enemy will try and destroy it in its infancy. “The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child…” (Revelation 12:4).

There are many similarities between giving birth to a child in the natural and giving birth to our destiny in the spirit realm. There is a time of conception, of waiting, of labor and there is also delivery. In the spirit, when we give birth to the promises of God for our lives, our destiny is in its most vulnerable state. It is then that the enemy will try to gain access to devour it.

At the moment our destiny is birthed, it is at its most helpless state. We can do nothing for ourselves, and if we were left alone, we would surely be destroyed. Just like a newborn child needs tender care to keep them healthy and happy, we need our Lord more than ever. So, why would the Lord allow His plan for us to be tested at such a vulnerable time? It is because at this stage He is the strongest; when we need Him the most.

We are in desperate need of His help. We don’t know what we’re doing and He likes it that way. It is at this stage and through this method that God seeks to input into our method of operation a singular trust and reliance on Him. He is in charge, and with every trial we grow stronger and stronger in Him, and we are driven more and more into God. We know our need is great. We see now how vulnerable we are and how much we need to obey Him.

Infant Child

The Christ child was no exception. Yes, He was very special, but this little wrinkly baby could not save the world at this stage, but that was His destiny. He could not even change His own diaper, but three kings, many shepherds, and a host of angels honored Him as the Savior of the human race. Herod feared Him and realized there was no better time to try and destroy Him than to kill the Savior while He was a helpless child. Herod killed hundreds or perhaps thousands of babies while he was trying to destroy Jesus. Even with all his horrendous efforts to kill Jesus and stop the promise from coming to pass…he failed. But Herod did not destroy Him because God saved Him again and again.

This is one thing that we know to be true—when the Lord begins to fulfill a promise, the enemy will try and destroy it in its infancy. When your destiny is birthed, all Hell seems to come against it. Your destiny, even in its infancy, is a prime target for the enemy. He wants to destroy it while it is small and seemingly helpless…we should expect this. That way when the attack comes, we will know it is just an attack and not the end of our destiny.

We should not fear this attack, because it is indeed a part of the process of birth. You may not look very threatening to the enemy now; you may even feel like a failure. However, satan, like Herod, is terrified of your future.

God’s Protection

I truly believe that the vision of the dragon waiting for the woman to give birth in Revelation 12:4 is a prophetic picture of Christ, but quite often in Scripture there is more than one meaning to a passage. I believe this Scripture is also a picture of the enemy’s tactics against our future in Christ. We know he does not play fair, that he will strike us at our weakest. He did not play fair with Jesus and he won’t play fair with us.

“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine! When you pass through the waters, I will be with you…” (Isaiah 43:1-2). When we walk through the waters of persecution, we see God more clearly and experience a greater measure of His power to protect us. We shouldn’t become fearful because of these circumstances, but let it increase our confidence in our Lord.

When He was born, Christ’s defeat seemed inevitable. He was the Savior, but He was just a helpless baby…or was He? Don’t forget the God of destiny. The God of the whole universe is watching out for you. Whatever comes upon you, you will see the dawn of destiny’s light and you will have nothing to fear because God is with you.

I am with you, and will protect you wherever you go.—Genesis 28:15 TLB

In spite of all that life throws at you, you know that you are in the arms of a gentle Heavenly Father, and every battle you endure He will use to strengthen you. Through every trial, you gain knowledge. With every test, whether you pass or fail, you become more aware of God’s mercy and grace. It is God’s desire that you possess more of His Son’s character through every trial you endure.

Our Destiny

She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.—Revelation 12:2 This woman’s destiny was to give birth to a child. She was in great pain, but her pain was a part of the plan. It had a purpose! How often we want the pain to stop. It hurts and we do not understand it. But it is a part of God’s plan for us and we need to trust Him. Our trials produce a power in us that can be gained by nothing else.

Do not despair, friend, He will carry you through every valley and up to every mountaintop. Don’t waste your energy or your heart trying to rush through or away from your pain. Work with it to produce the purpose and power God intends.

When the Lord Builds the House

For (God) spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm.—Psalm 33:9

God set into motion the days that we live in; He spoke and separated the light from the darkness. The light He called day and the darkness night. Every morning when we awake and the sun rises with us, we experience God’s faithfulness to the plans He has spoken into being for our lives. It doesn’t matter if we make mistakes; God is faithful to defend what He has set in place.

“The Lord foils the plans of the nations; He thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of His heart through all generations” (Psalm 33:10-11). When the Lord has set you in place, you will stand firm. He will keep you!

Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.—Psalm 127:1

Only God can keep you. If He has set you into place, He will be faithful to keep you. What God has established, He is faithful to protect. Your destiny is in God’s hands and He will not fail you!

The only destiny worth having is the one God has planned for you. The only house that is of any value to you is the house which God has built for you.

Dearest Father, I bless what You are building in Your dear child. I pray now that You would complete and defend what You have created in their heart. Amen May God bless you and keep you.

May your unfailing love rest upon (this one), O Lord, even as (they) put (their) hope in you.—Psalm 33:22

by Victoria Boyson

THE NEXT DECADE

A New Generation of Blessings, Entrepreneurs, and Creative Expression will Emerge

We are standing as it were at the banks of the Jordan, and generational shift is occurring as it did with Moses and Joshua and as it did with Elijah and Elisha. The crossing of the Jordan is about a shift in the economy of God and the administration of the move of God. A generation that was rooted in warring for survival is passing off the scene and a generation more open and more capable of facing the unfolding of the future and warring for possession of their inheritance—not merely as individuals, rather more importantly as tribes—is going to emerge. Whether we use the metaphor of the Ark of the Covenant going ahead of us being carried on the soft shoulders of the priests or we use the metaphor of the mantle of the prophet being used to part the waters—a threshold is going to be crossed in the coming days as we’ve entered this new decade.

The SPEED OF CHANGE (Daniel 12:4) will increase at a rapid level in the coming era and we will experience radical acceleration into the new and unexplored dimensions of the Word and the Spirit as we are strategically prepared, strategically postured, and strategically positioned for what wants to emerge out of the invisible into the visible relative to Kingdom expansion and enlargement.

Daniel 12:4 But you, Daniel, close up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.

Blessings for a New Generation

With strategic preparation (as in the lives of the children born in the wilderness who enter the land and now are told to prepare provision for a crossing over in three days, and the dealings of God with Elisha in Abel-meholah where the mantle will fall upon him while he is plowing, which is the first step in harvesting), and strategic posturing (which for the generation under Joshua required a fresh circumcision and cutting of the flesh, and for Elisha a sacrifice of everything he had ever worked for in order to pursue the calling inherent in the mantle which had already fallen upon him; both metaphors describing the fresh and radical embrace of the crucified life and the cauterizing power of the Cross which releases the power and glory of the throne), and strategic positioning (following the first two stages, the tribes will find themselves in the right place at the right time)—there will be the opening of strategic portals, gateways and places of access and transition and change (both of which will be constant in the coming days) that will, for those ready to adapt with precision and skill, open up avenues of rich and fertile resources and blessings held in trust for this new generation.

For those who long for the nostalgia of past days of glory, there will be a brief period of what looks like a return to a former day in the move of God, as it were when the sons of the prophets begged Elisha that they seek out the whereabouts of the departed Elijah (which also was a short three-day journey, the invitation being to die to a former move, bury it as part of something complete, and rise to the new era that is dawning).

A new thing will begin to unfold for those who, according to Isaiah, are “aware of it.” While the new move of God will not move the “ancient landmarks” that have been established by the fathers, it will find fresh applications and fresh processes for the fleshing out of the Word (when Jesus came to earth, when the Word became flesh, see John 1:14) as the Body embodies the testimony of Jesus, which is what ultimately the spirit of prophecy is all about.

New Generation of Entrepreneurs

In the process of this unfolding, both in the meeting place and in the marketplace, there will be a recovery of a godly work ethic as well as the recovery of a “can-do” spirit. This will spark innovation, ingenuity and creativity, and a renewed spirit of servanthood, which will be attested to and endorsed by God with signs, wonders and the miraculous.

Enterprise will get bigger by getting smaller. The rise of a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Kingdom, who have goods and services to offer the marketplace for the well-being of all, will find many open doors for their trade and craft. God will shake many more major monopolies, and make room for values-based and morally and ethically sound entrepreneurs to rebuild the economy of the nation and the nations.

A Generation of New Expression and Creative Evangelism

In addition, as the level of gifting and creativity increases in the arts, there will be more outlets for the expression of creativity and culture. As it was in the Renaissance, where culture was elevated because of the influence of the Reformation, so there will be a move of a generation who will bring a fresh expression of purity to the arts and media. Production companies and studios built specifically for Kingdom purposes will rise in many locations and even unexpected locations, and will produce first-class quality products that will rival what is done in the entertainment industry.

The Internet will become a vast place of opportunity for the arts, drama, commerce, and even news from a Biblical perspective and worldview. The world as our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents have known it will no longer be the world we live in. Alvin Toffler called the Information Age the third wave (the first being the Agricultural Wave which lasted for thousands of years, the 2nd being the Industrial Age which lasted for about a century and a half). The Information Age is fast morphing into an age unnamed as yet, and for the Believer we will enter into a time of seeing the “plowman overtake the reaper.”

Unprecedented opportunity for the harvest of souls will be present because of the major global shifts and the continued shaking of the nations by the Voice of the Lord. There will be multitudes in the valley of decision and there will be great campaigns on many continents and in many creative ways for the evangelization of the people groups of the earth.

by Dr. Mark J. Chironna

INTO 2010

Believers, I wanted to write and encourage you! The year of 2009 has been a year of much shifting, changing and rearranging. However, it is important to move forward into 2010 with a great expectation. Knowing that God Himself was in the shaking and shifting of our last season will empower you rather than cause discouragement. Discouragement will steal courage for the season ahead. It is very important to shift into 2010 with courage and godly anticipation for a divine visitation. God desires to show us His glory; however, as He passes by, we must believe He is doing all He promised even when we can’t actually see it in the natural. We must develop greater faith to see with spiritual eyes in the year ahead.

A Season of Divine Measurement

In 2006, I heard from the Lord that 2010 would be a year of a completed “measuring.” The term “measure” is important to God. You will notice that in Scripture the term “measure” is often used. Just to name a few, Psalm 39:4 states that God “measures our days” (AMP). When planning the temple, it was important that the curtains “measured” the same (see Exodus 26:2,8). Several chapters in Ezekiel speak about the “measuring” of the temple. Interestingly, one of the words deriving from the word “measure” is the word “stretched”! As God measures us, He is also checking to see if we have endured the stretching process! I believe we did!

In 2006, I prophetically saw God measuring us for the next four years and that it would be a type of testing for a shifting into our next season, beginning in 2010. The number 10 often speaks prophetically concerning a divine measuring. Think of the number of years that Israel wandered in the wilderness—40 years—which is 4 times 10. Four is a number that represents things in the natural—such as the four seasons, the earthly realm, four directions (North, South, East and West), etc.

In this type of thinking, we depend upon the natural eye. However, our enemy would cause us to focus on what occurs in the natural. This would link us to the past and to the occult if we are not careful. Remember, the occult attempts to keep revelation hidden so that we cannot see. Revelation exposes what is hidden—so you need to understand the war between the occult and revelation. In other words, keep pressing for revelation, which is the ability to see in the supernatural—like peeking into Heaven!

But thinking along the lines of “divine measurement” (again, multiplying 4 with the number 10), let us be reminded of how often the “natural circumstances” affected Israel’s faith while they were being tested in the wilderness. At each wilderness stop, their faith was challenged and God was measuring their trust and obedience. Obviously, we can certainly learn from Israel’s mistakes in the wilderness and, therefore, become determined to shift into our new season with greater faith, right? I don’t know about you, but I feel that God has used 2009 as a type of plumb line in my life. I pray I passed the test!

Know that the enemy would desire to discourage you during such uncertain times and cause you to walk in confusion. While God is measuring us to determine levels of increase, the enemy seeks to kill, steal and destroy. Let’s be alert in this next year and become more determined than ever before to run the race that has been set before us.

We are Like Moses Asking God to Show Us His Glory!

A few nights ago, I met with a group of ladies at an annual gathering of many women connected to Zion Ministries in the Bedford, Texas area, as well as some guests, and I heard a word of encouragement for them. I want to share this with all of you because it was a corporate word to the entire Body of Christ. The Lord told me that many of us have been similar to Moses, being asked to move forward into unknown territory. Again, when we venture into the unknown, we are uncomfortable because we can’t fully see our future—therefore we must trust God and develop supernatural eyesight.

I’m sure you remember the story. Moses had presented some “needs” to God and needed to know that God was going to be with him as he led God’s people. Moses told God he would continue to lead, but he needed someone to go with him. In other words, before stepping out, Moses needed some type of confirmation. So, Moses asked for God’s presence to go with him. The Scripture quote from Exodus 33:15, 16 defines Moses’ concern: “If Your presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. How will anyone know that You are pleased with me and with Your people unless You go with us? What else will distinguish me and Your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

As I was studying to present this article to you, I thought about the Ark of God: the Presence of God that was in the wilderness for a season. In my book, Conquering the Antichrist Spirit, I go to great lengths to discuss why the presence of God had not manifested in Israel. There were many different wilderness “stops” that Israel made, but many don’t realize that the Ark had its own wilderness. I encourage you to consider ordering this book if you feel as if God’s presence is not manifesting in your life. We need God’s presence in this next year as never before.

The dark is becoming darker and we must be a brighter light. Jesus is the Light of the world, so in order to arise and shine, we must look into the face of Christ and be determined to be a reflection of His Glory. Jesus said if we have seen Him, then we have seen the Father. Though Father God told Moses that he could not see His face, we can rest assured that we can see Father’s face if we look into the face of Christ! What an awesome thought!

The Lord heard the cry of Moses and said that He would give Him the direction needed. God replied to Moses by saying, “I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name” (Exodus 33:17).

What an awesome reply from the Lord! God affirmed that He would do what Moses needed. Believers, don’t allow discouragement to come right now during such uncertain times. God has promised you that He will fulfill what He declares! It’s time to get out some of those prophecies you have placed on shelves, or find that journal where you documented God’s promises and begin to declare, out loud, what God has spoken concerning your future.

The enemy has attempted to steal your vision; he does not want you to see! You must look once more at what God has promised, stand on His promises and see your future. You may be in the midst of a shaking, but you’re not being shaken out of your destiny…God won’t allow it!

Let’s look at Moses’ next response: Then Moses said, “Now show me your glory.”—Exodus 33:18 Wow! Don’t you want to see God’s glory, also? I know I sure do. But, look what God’s reply was to Moses: And the LORD said, “I will cause all My goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim My name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. But,” He said, “you cannot see My face, for no one may see Me and live.”—Exodus 33:19-20

Now, let’s pull aside and look at what is occurring. God is going in front of Moses…to His future. God is clearing the pathway for Moses’ destiny with a manifestation of His glory. But, dear ones, you need to get this part; God said that Moses would not “see His face” when He passed by him. What we will witness is His glory passing by and then see His back after He has finished making a straight path for us to follow. Oh, how I pray I can convey this by mere words. I am trusting the Holy Spirit to take over here… Look at verse 21: Then the LORD said, “There is a place near Me where you may stand on a rock. When My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by. Then I will remove My hand and you will see My back; but My face must not be seen.”—Exodus 33:21-23 (my emphasis added)

Beloved, there are times when we cannot see God coming! Yet we must believe and trust the fact that He is still moving toward fulfilling what He promised. We may not see it happening in the natural, but when His glory passes by we know it because we experience visitations through His Word, prophetic messages, Bible studies, etc. Let’s not maintain a mindset concerning how God visits us, okay? If we can do that, we’re ready for Him to visit us in a fresh way.

That Was God

Now, let’s fast forward a little to the New Testament. Jesus is the Rock, right? Also, God says that we are “hidden in Christ.” Therefore when His glory passes by, we must be hidden in Jesus, and standing on the Rock! We will witness the glory if we are standing on the Rock. We may not get “goose bumps” during a visitation, but if we remain connected in Christ—well, a visitation is guaranteed! Believers, our ground in the natural is very shaky. Unless we are truly standing on the Rock, we will tilt and maybe even miss the time of His visitation to us! If you are struggling, then it’s time to hide in Christ. Find Jesus in this season and renew your relationship with the King of Kings. You will experience peace, satisfaction and fulfillment in Him.

Now, back to Moses. As God’s glory passed by Moses, he was able to see His back. I believe that we may not always see God coming, but we know and trust that He is and that He is faithful to intervene in our circumstances. We will experience His glory because He promises to pass by. Also, when He passes by and has cleared a straight path for our future, we can look at His back and then say, “That was God who just passed me by!”

Have you ever been in a situation when you weren’t certain that what was occurring was God until it was over? And then you found yourself saying, “That was God.” This is because it already happened; you used hindsight, but all along God was coming, His presence manifested in your situation, and you didn’t realize it until it was over!

There are many different ways to describe this passage. Theologians believe that this is how God revealed the “past” to Moses and empowered him to write the first five books of Scripture. But for me, now, today, this speaks to me differently. I have cried out, God, I need to know that as I move forward Your presence is with me. He is saying that, As long as you all are still trusting and believing in Me, then I’m still moving to accomplish what I have promised.

Dear ones, don’t be discouraged any longer. God is moving on your behalf! We may not see breakthrough in the natural, but if you will allow the Holy Spirit to touch your eyes, He will give you supernatural eyesight for your future. We are overcomers. Be encouraged. You WILL break out of old cycles in your new season.

Allow me to pray for you: Father God, You know all things. You alone are God. You say that You are not a God that would lie, and that what You have promised, You will fulfill. We are crying out for Your glory. Today we are determined to become hidden in Christ. We will firmly stand upon the Rock and trust You. We realize that when things are dark it may be a time when we are hidden in Jesus. Empower us to see with spiritual eyes, and understand with supernatural understanding, and realize that You are moving forward into our future and creating straight paths into victory. In Jesus’ name. Amen. Have a glorious 2010!

As always, love and blessings,

Sandie Freed

For ALL Believers Worldwide | 2010

In the order of their importance, here are some prophetic words the Lord gave me for all Believers for 2010. Let me emphasize these words are for ALL Believers everywhere—worldwide.

1. OBEY! As each Believer begins or continues to OBEY God, the devil will experience frustration and failure in his attempt to delay and destroy the will of God upon the earth. Simple obedience will produce incredible spiritual victories. The devil has no strategy that can successfully stop any Believer who is operating in obedience. Obedience is the KEY word for 2010. To obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen to God is better than to offer religious sacrifice. Amen. Everyone obey God!

2. SECRETS! As each Believer walks in obedience, God will begin to share even more prophetic secrets with them through the prophets for 2010. This will be a year where the prophets increase in their spiritual capacity to receive and release more SECRETS to the Church. This is what Amos meant when he said in Chapter 3, verse 7, “The Lord God does nothing (of any spiritual significance) without first revealing his SECRETS to his servants the prophets.”

2010 prophets will be dealing in more high level secrets than ever before. Individuals, conferences, churches, states, regions, and even nations will have SECRETS revealed to the prophets for them. A new and even more deadly level of revelation will come to the prophets. These SECRETS will equip the Church for its role in the earth for 2010 and beyond. The Church will not be pushed around anymore. Watch out!

3. FILTERS! As each Believer walks in obedience, all negative “hearing” FILTERS—blockages, hindrances, and restrictions that affect our hearing the voice of God—will be removed. Perfect Prophetic Perception (hearing) is being restored to the Church. She will begin to hear more clearly again and act more decisively again on the word of the Lord. A spirit of deafness is coming off the Bride. She will declare, “I can hear again!”

4. HONOR! It is the year to give honor. Churches need to increase the honor they show to their leaders. “Honor to whom honor is DUE,” says the Lord. Each Believer must do something to honor a servant of God who has blessed his life. Even if it means going back 30 years to bless or honor someone who blessed you. In 2010 each Believer will remove the debt of HONOR they owe another—debt free for 2010. “Owe no man a debt of honor….pay up,” says the Lord!

I strongly encourage all Believers to honor or bless any minister who has helped you in your spiritual life. But don’t honor them to get something more or something new; just honor, bless, or give to them for who they are and what they have already done for you in the past.

5. WISDOM! The wisdom of God is going to be heard and seen in and through the Church as never before. It is time for the Church to fully realize what Ephesians 3:10 says, “It is God’s intention that right now the manifold WISDOM of God be made known in and through the Church…to all the heavenly and demonic principalities and powers.”

The Church (worldwide) will be the happening place to hear and receive God’s wisdom for your life for 2010. God will unveil His wisdom in and through the Church. Demons will tremble and angels will applaud as all hear the wisdom of God spoken and demonstrated in and through the Church. The Church will be the place to be for 2010 and the hotspot to hear what God has in store for the earth. People will begin to say, “You heard it here first…in the Church!” Amen.

6. CREATIVE! Apostles and Prophets will begin to unleash a barrage of prophetic creative declarations over the Church. These will not be sermons or teachings, but anointed “now” creative declarations from Heaven, literal “awakening words.” Their words will have a life-giving dimension—a literal “bring into being” creative dimension when they prophesy. Apostles and prophets will operate in and express more revelation in their ministries in 2010 than in the last 10 years combined. Awesome!

7. MEDIA! For 2010 we are to take the media back from the world. Any Christian ministry that has an opportunity to get on the radio or TV needs to do it now!

8. FEAR! The Church needs to repent for the sin of fear. It is epidemic in the Church. We must all go from fearful to fearless. The devil has used fear as his number one strategy, and it has been working.

9. HOLINESS! It is time for the Church to clean up her act. “The filthiness of the flesh AND OF THE SPIRIT…” will be eradicated from the Church.

10. DREAMS! 2010 will be a year where ALL Believers will see a dramatic increase in the number of spiritual dreams they experience. Seventy-five percent of them will be warnings. Take heed.

By Dennis Cramer

“hope” and “future”

A Vision of Jesus and His Plans for Me

Every Wednesday morning some of us gather for a time of soaking. Recently, during one of these sessions, I had an encounter with the Lord. I realize that getting up in the early morning to meet with the Lord is truly a sacrifice, but I am finding quickly that it does not take long for Him to show up when we make that sacrifice.

This particular morning I made my place in the front of the stage to be still, and immediately I saw Him. He had the biggest, toothiest smile planted across His face. He leapt upon seeing me, and you could tell He had a sprightly step this particular morning. As I looked into His eyes, I could tell He was up to something.

As soon as that thought came to my mind, Jeremiah 29:11 was in my spirit, “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’”

Immediately, He held out His hands and in them He had two blocks. On one block was written, “Hope,” and on the other, “Future.” I stood up to take them, but instead of taking them He shoved them straight into my chest. I knew at that instant I would be able to discern the mysteries of my hope and future.

My first instinct was to search inside to see the details. I had such excitement that my destiny would finally be revealed and my future laid out in full detail before me. As my eyes focused on the two blocks, the words “hope” and “future” had been replaced by only one name: “Jesus.” There were no details at all, no plans for world domination, no formula to take the globe, no step-by-step programs—only His name.

I looked up and He spoke. “I have the details and I will reveal them when I am ready; for now I am all you need, I am your hope and your future! I am the rhythm of life, I am the next note, I am the next unknown which I already know, I am the next breath which I have already taken. I hold all the wisdom from the age past, the age present, and the age to come.”

For the next few moments I pondered this deep in my heart. We get so wrapped up in the details; I know how important plans and details are. They are needed, but many times “the details” become the focus. Honestly, He is the only detail that matters! In Proverbs 16:9 it states, “A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.”

The Daily Details

In Matthew 5 Jesus sees the multitudes coming and He climbs the mountain. His disciples climbed with Him, and if you read closely, you will see He taught those that climbed with Him, not the multitudes. That is another article for another day. However, in the next couple of chapters Jesus begins to lay the foundations of the Kingdom of Heaven. Later, in chapter 6, He begins to talk about the daily details. In verses 25-32, Jesus talks about the details of life, and He sums it all up in verse 33: “But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

Seek Him first in everything we do and He will reveal and add everything else later. We strive so hard for the details when all we have to do is be in the secret place with no agenda except to love on Him, and out of that—the hope and the future appear. Remember that He taught and revealed those details to the ones that climbed the mountain with Him. This “climb” will take work and sacrifice on our part.

Peter encountered this very thing when Jesus asked him to step out of the boat and walk on the water. At first Peter was so focused on Jesus that nothing else around him mattered. As he got out on the water, the details of how he was doing this and the “what-if’s” began to creep in. In my opinion, Peter starting looking around and forming details of how he would get out of this predicament if needed, and as soon as he did he began to sink. As soon as Peter focused again on Jesus and took His hand, everything was fine.

I encourage you that as you plan out the details, always keep the focus on Him. I love planning meetings and brainstorming, but in the end He knows the plans He has for you, not to harm you, but to give you a hope and a future!

That hope and future has always been and will always be—Jesus.

By Vince Gibson

God’s General | ORAL ROBERTS

Oral Roberts, the evangelist who rose from humble tent revivals to found a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university bearing his name, died Tuesday. He was 91.

Roberts died of complications from pneumonia in Newport Beach, Calif., according to his spokesman, A. Larry Ross. The evangelist was hospitalized after a fall on Saturday. He had survived two heart attacks in the 1990s and a broken hip in 2006.

Roberts was a pioneer on two fronts — he helped bring spirit-filled charismatic Christianity into the mainstream and took his trademark revivals to television, a new frontier for religion.

Historian of religion Martin Marty, professor emeritus at University of Chicago, also noted Roberts’ astute and innovative use of broadcasting to bring a religion once associated with the least educated in society into the mainstream.

“He proved before Rev. Jerry Falwell built Liberty University that you could build something more than a little bitty Bible college to train missionaries and learned Greek not to read Plato but to read Luke,” Marty said.

When Roberts opened his university to students in 1965 “it was the first to offer a full academic vision.”

But Marty also noted that while Graham saw his reputation rise across the decades, Roberts “overreached.”

The university has struggled. According to the Associated Press, last year Roberts settled with two professors who alleged that they were forced out after detailing financial and ethical wrongdoing by Oral’s son, Richard, the school’s former president, who resigned. And this year the university is cutting 10% of its workforce.

Roberts will also be remembered, says Marty, for his “clownish moments, like an idea to build a 900-foot-tall statue of Jesus to knock on the windows of the United Nations. He would stop at nothing to make a point, didn’t worry about manners or prestige. He had a genuine faith — but he lost perspective along the way.”

Roberts is survived by his son, Richard, his daughter, Roberta Potts, and 12 grandchildren, all of Tulsa.

David Edwin Harrell, Jr., author of Oral Roberts: An American Life, told NPR’s Robert Siegel that Roberts was one of the most important Protestant figures of the 20th century because he moved the Pentecostal message into mainstream Protestant churches in the U.S. and around the world.

“His legacy is that he changed religious television … by first broadcasting his healing tent revivals and then, in 1968, going to Hollywood and hiring professional producers and starting prime-time specials that included celebrity guests and competed with secular television,” Harrell said. “That really introduced the modern electronic religious church.”

Roberts overcame tuberculosis at age 17, and credited that triumph with leading him to become one of the country’s most famous ministers.

He gave up a local pastorate in Enid in 1947 to enter an evangelistic ministry in Tulsa to pray for the healing of the whole person — the body, mind and spirit. The philosophy led many to call him a “faith healer,” a label he rejected with the comment: “God heals — I don’t.”

By the 1960s and ’70s, he was reaching millions around the world through radio, television, publications and personal appearances.

Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, called Roberts a pioneer.

“He went into the highways and byways of America and introduced people to faith,” Robertson told NPR’s Siegel. “He was a great exponent of faith in God and along with it came faith in physical healing.”

Roberts remained on TV into the new century, co-hosting the program, Miracles Now, with son Richard. He published dozens of books and conducted hundreds of crusades. A famous photograph showed him working at a desk with a sign on it reading, “Make no little plans here.”

He credited his oratorical skills to his faith, saying, “I become anointed with God’s word, and the spirit of the Lord builds up in me like a coiled spring. By the time I’m ready to go on, my mind is razor-sharp. I know exactly what I’m going to say and I’m feeling like a lion.”

Unity of body, mind and spirit became the theme of Oral Roberts University. The campus is a Tulsa landmark, with its space-age buildings laden with gold paint, including a 200-foot prayer tower and a 60-foot bronze statue of praying hands.

His ministry hit upon rocky times in the 1980s. There was controversy over his City of Faith medical center, a $250 million investment that eventually folded, and Roberts’ widely ridiculed proclamation that God would “call me home” if he failed to meet a fundraising goal of $8 million. A law school he founded also was shuttered.

Semiretired in recent years and living in California, he returned to Tulsa, Okla., in October 2007 as scandal roiled Oral Roberts University. His son, Richard Roberts, who succeeded him as ORU president, faced allegations of spending university money on shopping sprees and other luxuries at a time the institution was more than $50 million in debt.

Richard Roberts resigned as president in November 2007, marking the first time since Oral Roberts University was chartered in 1963 that a member of the Roberts family would not be at its helm.

The rocky period for the evangelical school was eased by billionaire Oklahoma City businessman Mart Green donated $70 million and helped run the school in the interim, pledging to restore the public’s trust. By the fall of 2009, things were looking up, with officials saying tens of millions of dollars worth of debt had been paid off and enrollment was up slightly.

That September, a frail-looking Oral Roberts attended the ceremony when the school’s new president, Mark Rutland, was formally inaugurated.

“He was not only my earthly father; he was my spiritual father and mentor,” said son, Richard Roberts, in a statement.

The Rev. Billy Graham said in a statement that he spoke to Oral Roberts three weeks ago by phone, and that Roberts told him his “life’s journey” was ending.

“Oral Roberts was a man of God, and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother,” Graham said.

the ARROW of victory !

This is the best month of the year to gain strategy and victory over your enemy. We will soon enter the beginning of Chanukah. Chanukah is an eight day celebration that commemorates the rededication of the Temple. During the Feast we celebrate that the oil and light never go out.

Kislev is the month of Benjamin – the most gifted with the art of the bow! He was the only one of Jacob’s children born in the land of promise. Watch Israel carefully during this month. Think of the bow and the arrow. This is a month to develop your warfare strategies and receive prophetic revelation for war. Shoot straight this month and move quickly. As we presented the ARROW for our First Fruits gathering, remember not only to strike your enemy and take victory but extend that victory into the years ahead and to the generations to come.

In this time to fight we must enter into a new level of trust and rest. Let your trust, confidence, and support go to a new level. Be sure you have snipped off all tendrils from the past season, come full circle, and are moving with clarity in this next season. Watch for rainbows this month. They indicate that peace is coming into your warfare. Record all of your dreams this month. This is a month of night vision or the “month of dreams” where your future is being revealed or aligned. In a year of digging new wells, this is the time for the belly/womb/abdomen/river of God to break into a new level of fullness. We are asking the Lord to develop new relationships so we each have the ability to understand our next measure.

The Lord is saying, “Come up here and I will show you things you have never seen before. Do not come up in the old way. In this last season you strove in what you did so do not try to follow your old way of sacrificing. Let Me put a new, fresh sacrifice in your heart and hand. Do not observe the heavenly realm around you in the old way. I will press out a new portion in you; there is a new measure of faith and vision that I will open to you. You will hear one word from My mouth and faith will explode. The enemy has tried to attach to your failures and mistakes from the last season, but I will remove them from you. I will clothe you with a new mantle and you will wear the shine of Heaven.

“Some of you are lagging behind in the old because of your emotional need. You are refusing to come to the table and sup with Me. I have positioned you one way, but you are still longing to be established in another way. Come up! Get in position and don’t look back. Come up! Get positioned and don’t turn back. You have been seated with Me in heavenly places. Come UP, receive this new mantle and go back. Shut every door and keep out the devil. Block his forward movement. Do not let certain things come with you into your land of promise. Express thanksgiving with your will! I will fill you with new strength if you will just shut the door and say, ‘That will not cross over this season!’ I will end this season for you in surprising ways and you will move with new confidence into the place I have positioned for you.

“I am shutting the door on vain imaginations. Get control of them by the Spirit and move into what I have for you. This is a time for your eyes to be opened to My plan. I am going to show you how the devil has been working to subtly distract and keep you out of victory. More importantly, I will show you his plan to keep you from entering into a mindset for victory. When you recognize his strategy to block you, say, ‘I have shut the door on you. I am choosing to move forward in a new way!’ Do not belabor the last season or what the enemy did to you. Do not belabor how you’ve been ensnared. Shut the door and say, ‘Now I see.’

“Move on! I have been taking you through emotional stresses and strains. I am straining out that which has been vain, causing you to have sure vision. I can cause you to see and be prepared to advance quickly with Me. I am readying you to move forward into new opportunities. Ready and train yourself with Me. I am ready for you to shut the door of LOST HOPE and open and enter into another door of HOPE REALIZED.

“Release your reins from the past! Release your reins from the past! Some of you have moved on but are still holding a rein from the past for security. This rein is affecting your kidneys. The power of its directing force is causing spirits of fear to attach to your inward parts and stop the river of confidence that I have for your future. You think that you are tidying up past mistakes and trying to work our missteps, but that rein from the past is actually pulling you in a wrong direction. LET GO of the reins from your past and I will ease your way and accelerate you into a new path. I will bring things into your path so you can clearly see what is still trying to pull on you. There are still pulls, there are still tendrils, there are still tentacles, and there are still reins that are keeping you from hearing Me say, ‘GET UP AND GO’. Like a horse, I am slapping you on the behind and saying, ‘Get up! We must advance more quickly. We have much ground to cover in this earth and many atmospheres to change. We have transformational assignments waiting.’ Therefore, let go, be transformed and renewed, and move with Me.”

Blessings,

Chuck D. Pierce