I have been giving a great deal of thought to the prophetic word given for 2008. It is my firm conviction that we must judge the prophets as well as the words they deliver. For that reason I have for the past number of years carefully examined the words given at the beginning and end of each year. Do you remember what the primary word was for 2008? 2008 was termed the year of “New Beginnings“. Part of the reason for this I am sure is the fact that the number eight stands for “new beginnings”. Perhaps some of you are saying that this word has been far from accurate as far as you are concerned. Many who are reading this article are saying “I am far worse off now than I was when this prophetic word was given at the beginning of 2008“. While meditating on these things I believe the Lord spoke some powerful truths into my heart. I would like to share them with you.
I remember how many of God’s people were very excited about the New Year that lay ahead. Very few had foresaw the economic collapse that would literally sweep the world and usher in a deep recession. Neither did some see the vast change that would take place in the White House. Nor the failure of our strongest factories. One of the problems we have when we hear a prophetic word is how we interpret it. We forget the scripture that says God’s ways are not our way’s.
Isa 55:8-9 KJV
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
What the Lord spoke to my heart was this. New Beginnings will take place when people are so fed up with the way things have been that they are ready for change. It was like a light bulb went off in my spirit. One of the ways in which the Lord prepared the Israelites for new beginnings was to increase their work load when Pharaoh required them to gather the straw that was before provided for them in their brick making. In other words they were required to produce the same number of bricks with less supply. This is where many people are today. Vast numbers of people have been asked to take cuts in their wages and yet work just as hard if not harder. The prophet Moses came to tell them that they were headed for new beginnings! Yet the path to new beginnings will rarely look like we thought they would.
In other words we will not recognize the opportunity of new beginnings unless we are fed up with the way things have been . When we heard the word for 2008 that we were headed for “New Beginnings”, very few of us thought we would have to face so much disappointment to get us ready for these new beginnings. Yet many people are now saying “I just cannot do it that way anymore”? Most are speaking of many of the extravagances that we participated in.
As far as the economy is concerned America must have a new beginning. It is impossible for a nation to continue to exist that is addicted to credit. It is said that over sixty per-cent of Americans have over $25,000 in credit card debt, and that the vast majority of those only pay the portion that covers the interest each month. That is about 38 billion a month in interest on credit card debt alone. That does not include interest on car or house loans. We never dreamed that “new beginnings” would mean fore-closures on our homes. The closing of our factories and the loss of jobs. The truth is however that most of will not change our ways, even if they are harmful, unless we are forced too. Are you beginning to take a fresh look at “new beginnings?”
What will these new beginnings look like? They will look like the wilderness that Israel first stepped into. Many will long to go back to the old ways as they face the challenges of the new beginnings. Many will quickly forget how difficult things have been the past years and long for the old ways. Do not be the one who says “let’s go back to the way it used to be.”
A new sensitivity. When Israel was led into it’s new beginnings they were required to experience a new sensitivity to the Lord. They were to watch the pillar of fire by night and the cloud by day. There was a watchman who stood on the pulpit and it was his job to announce when the cloud was beginning to move. He would cry out and say ——— “let God arise and His enemies be scattered.”
It is the job of the Apostles and Prophets to hear from the Lord first and then to communicate what they have heard. The Prophets hear and the Apostles establish. Even as Israel had trusted men who stood watching the pillar of fire and the cloud by day for even the slightest movement we must find trusted Apostles and Prophets who will be willing to wait upon the Lord.
One of the things that must change in order for us to experience new beginnings is our thoughts about “productivity”. In the past we required our leaders to be “busy all the time”. In truth the most productive thing we can do is to “wait upon the Lord”. We must put a new value on those whom the Lord has chosen to spend the vast majority of their time “waiting on Him.”
Years ago the Church that I pastor found a way to allow me to spend most of my time in prayer and listening to the Lord. This change required loving Deacons and wise Elders too pick up the load I had been carrying. They did it and our Church has prospered tremendously. I kept my word to them and did not “idle” my time away. As a result great revelation has been flowing down thru our congregation. In fact the Lord has challenged our Church to “pay for a new system”. Yes the new beginnings will cost us something. The Articles on “Apostolic Gold” are part of the “new system”. I tell you this the Apostles have the gold we need. Gold tried in the fire. Gold from the throne room of God. We absolutely must cry out for the Apostles. Asking God to send the fire into their lives until they shine with pure motives and methods. When I first came into the Prophetic movement about fifteen years ago I had a vision of “thousands of Camels racing toward me loaded down with untold riches”. I also saw a train car representing the Apostle loaded with pure gold. Later the Lord showed me a sword that represented the writings He has given me. As I swung the sword “tens of thousands of golden stars came off it’s edges. Each of these stars represented a child of God who received and understood the writings. They became golden lights to others.
Are your ready for new beginnings. I am closing today’s writings with some words from Chuck Pierce. See if they speak to your heart. As always comments and insights are welcome.
GLORY OF ZION
CHUCH PIERCE
Keith then read Isaiah 60 over me. Here are some excerpts from that chapter:
“Arise, shine, for your light is come and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. Darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over My people, but the Lord rises upon you and His glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light and kings to the brightness of your dawn. Lift up your eyes and look about you. All assemble and come to you. Your sons come from afar and your daughters are carried on the arm. Then you will look and be radiant. Your heart will throb and swell with joy.
The wealth on the seas will be brought to you. The riches of the nations will come. Herds of camels will cover your land. Young camels from Midian and Ephrah and all from Sheba (cites in the Arabian desert) In 1988 I saw in a dream thousands of camels racing toward me all loaded down with great valuables. – I have said that when the Lord desires to do something in the earth that is significant He gives it to someone who can carry and Prophesy it for as long as it takes to come to pass- It seems that this is one of those revelations.(the words in bold are my comments – Apostle Bob Rogers)
will come bearing gold and incense and proclaiming the praise of the Lord. All Kedars flocks will gather to you. The Rams of Neboah will serve you. (The Gentile wealth from these cities would be brought to complete the second building of the Temple). They will be accepted as offerings on My altar and I will adorn My glorious temple. Who are these who fly along like clouds and like doves to the nest? Surely the islands look to Me. In the lead are the ships of Tarshish bringing your sons from afar with their silver and their gold to the honor of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for He has endowed you with splendor.”
This will be a Season of Redirecting the Ships of Supply.
“This will be a season of redirecting the ships of supply. I have held ships in bay for a while. I have kept them in port, but now I will take ships from unusual places and bring them into new places. (Also in 1998 I had a dream in which I was placed at the helm of a Freighter – I piloted this freighter from Pensacola Fla. Back to Muskegon. I was told “I am putting you on “night watch duty, after all you are family”).
I am causing a new group to arise who understand trade and the shipping system. These will redirect the ships of supply throughout the earth realm. In the boundaries I have set you in, learn how supply is attached to its source. In other words, if you work for Neimans Clothing Store (like Janice Swinney), you will have to know how the trade is coming into Neimans. I will then give My positioned people the ability to redirect and open up new trade systems. If My people do not understand the power of redirecting trade at this time then they will not pull in their supply for My Kingdom advancement. This is a time of redirecting supply and causing supply lines to form in new ways. Lines of supply have been flowing in one way, but now My people will redirect them throughout the earth.
You will know how you are being supplied. You have been taking supply, but not understanding the root of the produce. That is why My plan of giving is so important. Without giving, you cannot break the power of supply received from a bad root. Most provision that comes into your hands is from Me. However, it must be sanctified. For everything that I allow you to steward on My behalf, you will ask the question, ‘Where did this come from? How do I prosper when I lay my hand upon something?’ This will be a different season for My people. Their sources will not always be “holy”, but they can redeem the provision. They will know and cause lines that have not formed to open up. They will cause lines that have been closed down to be reformed. I am changing the supply lines of nations, and port cities must know NOW that they will change. Watch the ports throughout the earth.
Great Contending for the Ships to Come to Shore – the Pirates are in the Water.
There will be great contention for ships to reach their destination. Even though the pirates have risen to take the booty at the ports, My people will be redirecting the booty for they have the law of booty built within them. Because you have the law of booty in you, you will know how to cause lines of supply to come into My house. Even the airline industry will start making a great change in days ahead. You must know the flight patterns and how they are changing. There will be a great change coming in the airline industry in this administration. This is a time that I am replanting your feet. Some will say, ‘I am called to the 7-11’ (gas stations). Others will say, ‘I am called to the newspapers.’ Some are resisting the change I am moving you into. Some will say, ‘I am called to the music industry.’ You will have to understand the supply lines from the source. You must go to the next level if you want to see My Kingdom make its shift in this generation. Don’t try to understand by using old skills and mindsets. For the enemy is developing new ways to pirate the booty. Start thinking in a new way for I will quicken your spirit in the place I plant you and every where your hand extends and touches something you will cause growth to occur. Every contract will have meaning. Watch for supply structures to change.
Teachers Must Teach Differently
I say to the teachers of the earth, ‘You must understand the resources that I have given you and how they affect My Kingdom. You have not been sent into the school system just for jobs. You have been set there to see the resources that I have in the next generation. This is a different time. You have not yet seen how I will cause the next generation to be used. Change the way you are teaching. You will see roots’.
This is a new day of understanding. You will understand the drug trafficking that is going on around you. You will understand how supply is being shifted illegally, and I will give My people the ability to shift it back. You have been focusing on how illegal drug trade is occurring, but not the Mammon system behind it. If I allow drugs into a port, you will have the ability to redirect them into the right place. If you ask Me then I will reveal to you in the night where and what has come in. You will be able to stop illegal spending.
I have new supply strategies. Gather My supply into the new supply lines. I am delivering you from a system that you have been built into. This system has produced familiar spirits around you. I am pulling you out of that system and replanting you all over the earth. This will allow you to gather new supply in fields that are now forming. I will show you new provision that is springing up all around you. You will cause the right path to form for this provision to be brought to the right harbors.
This is a different season. Your mind is still in the last season and that is why your fire is going out. I am redoing the housing system and opening up homes for My people to gather so I can reposition them in various areas. Watch what I am doing. See the recession differently than you have in the past and prepare yourself. Some of you need new skills. Be willing to learn in a new way. You are relying on your understanding and knowledge of the past. Be willing to learn. Know what I AM doing and develop your skills around the opportunities that I place on your path. Study to show yourself approved. Prove Me NOW!
You are entering a war season over supply over the next 7 years. You are being put on the front line to redirect it. Watch every canal system. Watch the Suez and Panama Canals. Watch the trade systems coming in and watch what I AM doing. I will show you boats. The boats and ports that I reveal to you are the key to your future in this generation. You will direct the ships of the earth and where they are bringing supply into the nations and the Kingdom development of My plans this hour. Whether they are in the air or in the sea or in the port, My people will now redirect the ships of the earth. If you are in a port city, this is your assignment: to tear down Mammon systems and to control what is coming into your port.
There is a change that is occurring in the earth. The enemy has had a sound that has caused the ships to crash upon the rocks. But I am giving My people a sound that will redirect the ships to bring them into the harbor. This will release the supply that is intended for a Kingdom advance this hour. Receive your sound. There is a turning of the waters, and ships are being redirected. Release the sound I give you and turn My supply for your future into the right harbor.
Do not look at your wilderness job the same way that you have viewed it in the past. You have seen your job as menial. Every position is a divine appointment – whether you stay there one day or one year. I AM divinely appointing and positioning My people for them to understand supply lines. I AM even going to give you the ships of the desert. You have resisted your desert place and have not seen the ships in the desert, and have misappropriated and misdirected the supply of your desert. This is a time, no matter where you are positioned, for you to gain your skills for the next season. I will not release you from your desert until you understand the supply line of that desert. If you are being released, this means that you are ready to learn something new from Me. This is a new season. Hear Me now: the season has shifted!
You are trying to change the flow of supply and the way things are done. You are looking at a government and becoming bitter over the way that government is doing things. Get to the root of your bitterness. I have a people that I can take into the root systems of control structures, get to the root of where the supply originated and redirect the flow of supply. I have given you the authority to say, ‘Dry up.’ You have the authority to say, ‘Flow.’ You have the authority to say, ‘Unlock the fruit.’ You have the authority because you are grafted into My covenant plan of prosperity. Because you are grafted, you can graft in new creative strands that will produce new prototypes. Many that you have been reporting to will now harden their hearts toward you. Do not resist the training that I am bringing you, for I must harden you to circumstances until you understand that it is Me who has positioned you to take the spoils that I am training you to take in days ahead. You are relying on old supply methods and now they will shift and you will have dreams and visions that tear down old methodologies and cause new systems to come forth.”
LeAnn Squier then began to sing, “I am no longer comfortable in my comfort zone. The Lord is pushing me out. I must find the gold in the desert and the rivers of living water where ever I am.”
The Lord continued, “Move past spirits of divination. Divination is always linked with supply and lust. You will get past divination and you will lead My people past it in days ahead. There is creative ability in each one of you, but you do not understand the root system. You do not understand how to grab the opportunities that I am bringing to you. They are floating right past you and you are unaware of your opportunities that I am producing around you daily. This is a different time and season. You must not think religiously but must see what I want you to see.
Leave, step above words spoken over you in the last season, and step into the words that have been prophesied for your future. If you will move into those words and rely upon Me, I will open doors that will astound you. You will rise up into a call that you have not known. Because of that call, you will shine in new ways. I am changing national alignments and have repositioned you for such a time as this. Learn and follow. Though you might not know, you can get behind the wagon of which way you are to go.
You will move in new ways to see how to multiply your past resources and gain new resources. This generation must learn of Me, sing of Me, and move with Me. You will lead them in a new way and cause them to see in new ways – past their old methods of seeing. This is not a season of prejudices. You are fighting for your future and it has nothing to do with your bloodline or your race. You are fighting for a release that I AM bringing. I am a God that purifies your blood and causes old iniquities in your blood to be released and My Spirit will cause your blood to become new again. New blood flow will cause you conscience to come alive to Me. I am a God who unlocks things that have been held up. This is your day of change and rearranging. I will use everything in your past. Instead of seeing things you don’t like, make a list of the things you want to know and I will not limit My revelation to you this hour. I will make you a father to Pharaoh systems in days ahead and you will administrate My new plans in the earth.
The times have changed. Change with Me, for this will be a house that I throw into a directing call for the future of My people. Those who line up, those who bow down, those that come in will say, ‘I am getting my revelation. I am reforming the way I am doing things. I must let go of the system I have been part of and align with the system God is giving me. I will gain the revelation I need and have an ear to hear what Father is saying to me.’ Hear carefully now for the days of change are upon you. You will not do church the way you have done it in the past. You will get in the flow I have put you in or you will lose your way to go.
LET GO of your expectations from your last spiritual season. They mean nothing anymore except that they will become new strength for your future. Your loss and defeat can now become the bridge of revelation for your victorious future. Get past the structures that come into your path. God will cause demon forces to stand before you so that you can cause them to disintegrate and be bound for a season.
The camels are here! Open the gate. The supply has turned. The flow has shifted. Receive the camels. For today is a new beginning for those who have received My word and are willing to shift and catch the wind in their sails. The supply lines have turned. Grab the new lines and enjoy the journey to the destination. Do not worry about how you are going to do this – just receive the grace you will need to make the shift. My grace is abundant in this hour and My revelation is flowing freely. Receive, and you will prosper in the future.”
Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce
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