"'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, and that the time of the Lord's favor has come.' He (Jesus, the One who was anointed to accomplish all this) rolled up the scroll..... Then he began to speak to them. 'The scripture you've just heard has been fulfilled this very day!'" Luke 4:18 - 20



Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Aiyin Continued

Thursday evening, Chuck Pierce word for 2010, continued from previous post. This is some deeper explanation of some of his previous bullet points....


Patterns

Genesis 6 - 8 "As in the days of Noah" God sees you.

"The Lord saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had
become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
all the time. The Lord was grieved that He had made man on the earth, and
His heart was filled with pain. So the Lord said, 'I will wipe mankind,
whom I have created, from the face of the earth....' But Noah found favor
in the eyes of the Lord" Gen 6:5-8 NIV


Receive favor.

God changes his mind when He gets tired of striving with people ("My spirit shall not strive with man forever" Gen 6:3 NASB)

Genesis 6:8 But. . . Grace. You do not have to fret over the judgements about to come on the world. Make an ark and make a window between heaven and earth. He will give His people new models. He is looking to favor you.

Genesis 28 See your ladder. (You have a whole season to find it). He'll show you how to climb out of the pit you've been in. You'll see angels interacting between heaven and earth. No more pit! You are not meant to stay in the pit. You will bring riches and treasures up with you.

Save those around you who are willing to be saved. He will show you who is willing. If they are not willing, move on.

Exodus 3 See your burning bush and make sure you know how God is going to move. God went and found Moses and called him "off the shelf". It is the same for us now, in this coming season. God is going to do stuff. When He does, He wants us to LOOK, turn aside, and find out what's going on. This is the end of the season of spectator sports. Now it's about participation, and it's going to take an act of your will.


Luke 24 Look again. Get past your last traumatic experience and loss. He is there. He is looking for you. (In the next three months, God is going to be dealing with the spirit of trauma. Trauma is like a snapshot that gets stored in your thinking capacity and colors everything else that comes in.) In Luke 24 Jesus comes upon the disciples on Emmaus Way who were despondently discussing the horror and disappointment of the fate of their king. Vs 16 says their eyes were restrained; they did not recognize Jesus when He showed up. Why? Because of what they were focusing on. They couldn't see him because of their emotions. Our emotional state creates the way we converse. Remember that Jesus is always close at hand. He hears what you talk and think about. You will become aware of His nearness. You will become aware of what you're saying and how you're saying it. You'll get to explain to Him how YOU see it.


But also pay attention to how/what others are seeing. The disciples KNEW the TRUTH -- the women who had been at the tomb told it to them, but they chose to believe the lie, just because they had not seen for themselves. So, will you believe what someone SAW? Or what someone (or yourself) did NOT SEE?


After they went on about their perspective, then He told them HIS perspective. {I have found this to be a wonderful, graceful quality of the Lord over the years. He listens to our hurts, anger, and whining, first, and then shows us a far better way, the truth from his vantage point.} Chuck says, when you're struggling with what to believe about something, first of all, at least believe the WORD! Jesus would have had lots to say to these doubting disciples, but he started with the scriptures, showing them how everything that happened was spoken beforehand. Then he suggested that was enough and that He would move on. But they constrained him, asking him to stay with them. They wanted more. Will we be satisfied with the simple explanation or will we constrain him for his Presence, His visitation, His abiding. He WILL take us past the flash of revelation and sit down with us and open our eyes to His presence.

The biggest thing this year: a New Level of Communion


Monday, February 15, 2010

Ayin: The Eye of the Lord

Thursdsay evening: Chuch Pierce

Chuck's message for the coming year was exciting to me. But he talked so fast with so much to say, had so many slides to copy, and gave a message peppered with spontaneous prophecy for the moment, it is hard to capture it all on paper. I will try my best and hope you get the gist. All of it of course is my paraphrase. If you are considering ordering any of the CD's or downloads from the conference, I would recommend this session foremost. Here's the Elijah List link: http://www.elijahshopper.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=EL01%2DCP015

He started out with a for-the-moment word for the local region that was based out of the wonderful worship that had just taken place: The Healing Well has JUST been opened up here. God says, "I will extend a cup to you at my Right Time; when it comes, drink it!"

Another now-word specifically for the people there that night followed: God says, I have raised up a prophetic troop with a hunger for this season. Because you've chosen this path, because you've sought me this way here, I will change the ground you walk on (as you go back to your homes.) I will open up the gate you could not get open before. I will bring in your children. Don't fret over them. I am calling in a generation that will seek me more than you have. Because you have sought me, I will give you my glory more than you have seen before and I will lead you forward and cut off the Pass behind you. {Whoo hoo! It is so good to read this again! If you have a hunger, claim this for yourself, even if you weren't there. This prophecy became very profound and real to me on the last night of the conference --though I didn't make a connection until just now. Also it seems to fit with what pastor Denny Cline has been speaking about lately... breakthrough, and pressing/passing through for the long-haul.}

It's a New Season! "Ayin"

We have crossed over into a new season. It is important to know God's calendar.
Your clock is therefore being re-established -- including even your bio-rythm.

The calendars of the world are important. On Dec 31, Wall Street declared that they have to start paying attention to the other calendars of the world (like the Hebrew calendar, probably Chinese calendar, etc) if they are going to succeed!

Supernatural faith is increasing boldness and breaking us out of a conventional-thinking mold. New Identity! You'll start saying: "I'm just becoming new without trying!!!"

2010 is :



  • A time to transform

  • A time to thresh -- throw it all up in the air and let God separate it out!

  • A time to shout Grace -- it crumbles mountains

  • A time to move mountains
This is the Hebrew year 5770 -- it begins a whole new decade -- we have entered a new 10 year period, so think Season, not just year. This means it is no longer a time for "coming full circle" as was last year/last season. It is a time for real breakthrough.

Ayin = 70 {as in the year 5770}

The symbol for this year is "ayin" which looks like a script lower case y.

(picture from Chuck Pierce's website http://www.gloryofzion.org/)
It means: a hand extended upward to heaven and a sword coming down from heaven that creates a new intersection. So, You've already come full circle, now it's time to move forward, and for ground to break open. {I presume because of the sword from heaven intersecting the earth where we are}

[Some say it looks like two snake heads rising up (that's what I thought it looked like), and some think it looks like new sprouts of wheat with their little heads lifted up. Both are significant.... more later]

Interjected... a prophecy for Oregon: Ground is breaking open that could not break open before. God will penetrate into the soil and bring His Spirit into our spirit. The well of our spirits is opening up.

"Ayin" means: "The Eye of the Lord is upon us", and the whole season is about eyes and seeing (supernaturally).

{Barbie Breathitt similarly prophecied this season being about ayin and seeing... see her word "The Year of the Seer" at http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word/8452 I assume she is going off of much of what Chuck as been saying since August; her word is excellent and much better than what I can explain here}

It is "the most supernatural season ever." The Supernatural realm will open up like never before. {Recall that Steve Shultz, before hearing Chuck's message, prophesied an increase of superatural encounters of seeing Jesus face to face!}

All 70s in the Bible are related to captivity being broken.
10 is always related to testimony.
7 is always related to completion.
Therefore -- Testing {and testimonies?} will be completed by the fullness of the season, which Chuck says is the end of March {Remember the Jewish year started last fall, not in January}

A time to see
Ayin = The Eye of the Lord is watching. So...


  • Gain sight and vision in this season
  • See eye to eye, face to face
  • Always Look Again. Things become see-able in this season, so take a second look... Increase your aperature, pay attention to flashes and peripheral sights; record visions quickly, even if you don't understand or if you aren't sure of what you saw or whether you saw anything at all. Record it immediately and then ask for the meaning. God will give you the meaning if you are paying attention. --- Discipline your mind to capture flash thoughts. They are there to direct your life.
  • See sprouts bud (the ayin symbol kind of looks like budding sprouts)
  • It is a time to sparkle and gleam
  • Spring forth! Bubble up. Especially prophetic revelation will bubble up in the next two years, then it will lessen. Be diligent to write and guard it.
  • New wells
  • Go beyond, go deeper
  • Form a ladder and climb out of your hole/pit
  • This is a time to nurture
  • This will be a season of crime, hostility, and vexation (the evil eye) This has to do with superstition (which says if you don't do everything just right, God won't be happy with you), gambling (in terms of a bloodline issue) and mammon (concern over supply)

We are shifting from hearing to seeing. Seeing will cause your hearing to increase.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Praise The Destroyer

A few nights ago I could not sleep and was pacing and praying and praising in the wee hours of the morning. I was thanking God for Who He is, and my spirit got caught on "Thank you for being The Destroyer".

The Destroyer?

I was a little suprised by own words. God is Patience and Kindness. He is about Goodness and Grace, Healing and Freedom. But I could not get this out of my head or off my lips!

The Word of God says,

"Let evil recoil on those who slander me; in your faithfulness destroy them." Ps 54:5

"Let my persecutors be put to shame, but keep me from shame; let them be terrified but keep me from terror; bring on them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction." Jer 17:18

"The Lord watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy." Ps 145:20

Praise God that He destroys the works of the enemy in our lives. He will avenge us. He will save us from temptations, faulty belief systems, Satan's schemes to take us out, even our own folly. Not only will he remove us to safety but He will utterly destroy those things meant to destroy us.

Shortly after I began seeing God this way and thanking Him for it, I logged on to Stir the Water, a website about learning to walk in the prophetic, especially the seer anointing. In one of the posts, a user said the Lord had shown him Jesus manifested in the form of a coiled serpent. Again, I was slightly agahst -- serpents are of the devil, right? I was certain this person had lost it, but the Lord showed me again that in His Goodness, He is, indeed the Destroyer. The image given was of a coiled snake, still as a stone, but able to strike out at its enemies before they even knew what was happening. God's message to the poster (and to us) is "I can rest and be still, because I am in control". Imagine the muscle control of a serpent as it lies completely still, perhaps basking in the sun, but then lashing out in utmost precision. Our perfect Savior is just like that!

Then, a couple days later a friend was sharing with me a dream she'd had in which she found herself having snuck up on some thieves and in one swift motion, snapped their necks, killing them. I know that sounds greusome -- at least it did to me -- but she knew the Lord was affirming to her that he was giving her discernment and power to destroy evil that comes into her life and against her family. Then I saw, God not only works on our behalf, but He teaches us to destroy the works of the evil one ourselves... in His power and authority. He does not want us to be helpless babies but to "grow up in all things into Christ." (Eph 4:15; also see Psalm 101) It is God who ultimately avenges, and He alone is the Judge when it comes to people. But Satan, all his cohorts, and all his schemes and weapons, God has already judged. Therefore we judge them too, and walk in His destroying power against the darkness of the spiritual realm.

This morning I wrote out my previous post of what Steve Shultz had said, including that God is contending with the wicked and seriously avenging His own. And it hit me -- Hey, there's a theme going on here!!! (God speaks in confirmations)
Steve is a man of grace, mercy and forgiveness, and I have never heard him speak with such a tone of warning and urgency. Indeed, he even said it was hard for him to do but had to speak as the Lord was speaking. Yet, in God's severity we rejoice! After all, it's His love and grace He has poured out on us. But upon His enemies and ours, He pours out wrath and destruction... for our sake!

Thank you, Lord, for your power which you work on our behalf. Thank you for your mercy and your protection. Destroy of the works of the enemy, including the strongholds in our thinking that sometimes we'd rather hold on to. In your severity you are good and worthy of thanksgiving and praise!

Jesus Encounters and God Contending

These notes are obviously just my paraphrase of the things that were said by the speakers a the conference (What God is Doing in 2010), and totally dependent on what I was able to 'catch' as I scribbled feverishly as I listened, so they might not always have perfect sentence structure or even complete thoughts! Ask the Lord to fill in the gaps for you, and/or order the CDs from the Elijah List. http://http//www.elijahshopper.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=249
The comments inside the brackets, {} , are my own personal thoughts or revelation.

Thursday afternoon: speaker Steve Shultz

Increase of Jesus Encounters
Steve's message was primarily about new revelation of Jesus Christ. Every time the 24 elders around God's throne cast down their crowns and say, "glory!" they are getting new revelation of Jesus Christ. {And they've been there a long time, so there's alot for us yet to get!}

Every day, we have (or should be having) new, fresh revelation of Jesus Christ. He said the things we will realize about Jesus this year will amaze us.!!

Hebrews 1:1-3a "God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son.... He is the radiance of His glory and the exact reprentation of His nature and upholds all things by the word of His power. "

Believe you can have FACE TO FACE encounters with Jesus. Such experiences are increasing and will increase throughout this year and the coming decade! Have you seen Jesus in a dream? That counts for a face to face encounter. It's not just a dream.... He is in the room, manifesting Himself to you.

ASK for the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation and for the Fear of God SO THAT YOU MAY KNOW HIM BETTER. (Eph 1:17) (Steve pointed out that the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation is apparently not the same as the Holy Spirit per se, since Paul was Spirit-filled and was writing to Spirit-filled people. This is something more, to be asked for and sought out in addition to "being Spirit filled"). Then, WAIT ON THE LORD. Nothing has to "happen". Some fantastic manifestation is not proof that you are in the Presence or that God is filling you up. If something "happens", great; if not, great.

Purposefly detach your yourself from the tree of knowledge and re-graft into the True Vine Every Day. This all takes DISCIPLINE.

God will Contend with the Contentious and Vindicate the Righteous
This year, God will contend with those who contend with us, His people (Is 49:25).... IF we are blessing our enemies, loving those who hate us, praying for those who persecute us, etc.

Revelation 3:8-9 "I know your deeds. Behold, I have put before you an open door which no one can shut, because you have a little power, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name. Behold I will cause those of the synagoge of Satan, who say that they are Jews, {claim to be people of God} and are not, but lie -- behold I will make them to come and bow down at your feet, and to know I that I have loved you."

This is very sobering.
-- We must walk in forgiveness and humility or the judgement will bounce back to us.
-- We must walk in repentence and love towards our brothers.... indeed, if we are contending with -- talking against, holding things against, being dishonest with -- any of God's people then we are the ones God will contend with. We do not want that to happen!
-- We don't ask for this. God will do as He sees fit. Solomon was rewarded because He did not ask for the destruction of His enemies.

Steve says he believes we may be entering a season like that of Ananias and Saphira, who lied to the apostles and were immediately killed by God. He said that after God started speaking to him about this, he began remembering people who had "contended with" him personally in one way or another and all of those people have had very severe things happen to them (including sudden death). He's not saying he was "THE" reason for that, and he certainly did not pray for that to happen to them, but just that God's vengeance for us will come and that it is a very sobering thing to think about. The greatest form of vengeance is for them to get saved!!

"This is the year to bless your enemies and see God defend you!!"

"What God is Saying for 2010" Conference -- my overall impressions

First, my overall impressions of the the conference:

I got excited at this conference. The gist of a lot of what I heard Chuck Pierce, especially, saying was that 2009 (I have notes from his word for last year too, if you want them) was the year of the womb, and of "coming full circle." 2009 felt like a lot of pushing, and like going around the mountain again. 2010 (year 5770 on the Hebrew calendar) carries the (Jewish) symbol of ayin, which has several meanings, but the first one I clued in on was about hands reaching up to heaven and a SWORD reaching down to earth to intersect and bring a breakthrough in the very things we have been beseeching heaven for.

Several themes resonated throughout the weekend even though speakers had not talked to each other about their topics. Most of them were exciting and hopeful, some of them sobering, and all of them pretty much dependent upon a people hungry for the presence of God and willing to watch and wait in the secret place, just for the sake of love.

God is promising though, in answer to our waiting, a great outpouring of His manifest presence and a great awakening in America. We have been waiting and praying for revival and visitiation for so long, it has almost seemed the waiting will go on forever, but many are seeing that we have enered the season when we will see the answers. Indeed, many miracles, signs, and outpourings are already coming about. God has not forgotten or forsaken America and by early this spring, the prophets say, the world will recognize that He is on the move in the Church in America. Yes, the Church.

"Coming down," so to speak, after the conference, I suffered a few days of depression, because there was so much hope and vision poured out, and yet many of the specific answers for my personal life are still out of grasp. I am pressed by the Spririt every day to come into the secret place, to watch and wait even when nothing seems to come of it, and to really get specific about what I want and need. It is time to urge heaven and not shrink back. It is not time to hesitate, and that is something I am really bad about. I am also challenged to live my life before my family and friends as a testimony of His grace and glory and of faith in His promises, how ever foolish it may seem.

BTW you can purchase any or all of the conference on CD, DVD, or MP3 download from the The Elijah List. Here's the link. http://http//www.elijahshopper.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=249

The favorable year of the LORD

So how does one START a blog?
I have wanted to and been encouraged to for some time now, but where to begin?

Well, I discovered that you start with a Title. That directs you, doesn't it? It states your purpose.

So I began to ask myself, "Okay, why am I doing this?" The first thing that popped into my head was "Proclaim the Favorable Year of the Lord!" I tried to think up other titles that would fit the prophetic and mystical experiences and musings that I hope to convey, but the Holy Spirit kept pressing me... Proclaim the Favorable Year of the Lord... the time/season of his favor and grace. It can't be about me. It's about Him, and it's about YOU. Isn't that what all prophecy and heavenly "download" is about anyway?

It has been spoken by many that we -- the Church, the World -- everyone, has entered a new season (whether we know it or not) and God is about to blow across the land in unprecedented waves of both judgement and grace. It is time to seek the Lord while He may be found. And found He will be! It is His promise. I believe He will be found in many unexpected ways.

I will begin by posting my notes, which I took during the "What God is Doing: 2010" prophetic conference in Albany, OR the first week of January. Oh, man! I got excited during that conference about God's plans, His favor, His love, and the revelation of Himself that He is about to pour out on those who seek Him. Indeed, this is the year to Proclaim the Favor of the LORD.