These are "shaky" and "dangerous" times. Steve Shultz
August 2, 2007
Chuck Pierce:
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Chuck Pierce: We Have Entered A Dangerous Season!
Even though the enemy would like to knock your legs out from under you and drive you off of your path, decree that the Lord is taking a stand and illuminating your path. I recently heard the Lord say, "The confrontation of the enemy is at hand. You must be filled with praise to enter into that conflict ahead. War is stirring in your midst. War is rising. Unless I rise and inhabit your praises, you will not be able to praise in the midst of the conflicts ahead. I am calling you into a place and I am going before you so that I am waiting to give you victory. I will establish Myself in your midst. When your conflicts arise, praise Me and I will assure you of victory in your wars ahead."
Decree that the Lord is exposing every shadow of death that has been lurking over you. We are entering very dangerous times. This is a time of opportunity, yet a time of danger. We must determine to see with eyes of faith, or else our promise could be seen like the spies who went to see the Promised Land. Two out of twelve had eyes of God to see the yield of the land. The other ten had a heart to return to the familiar and not advance. This delayed a manifestation of the promise and positioning of God for 40 years. I am decreeing that all the "unbelief delays" break!
"Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, 'Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.
If the LORD delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey. Only do not rebel against the LORD, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the LORD is with us. Do not fear them.
But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it" (Numbers 13:30; 14:8-9; 24).
The "land" which Caleb's descendants would inherit was the city of Hebron--but he would have to wait forty more years for them to do so. Ten of his fellow spies, terrified by the giants they had seen there, gave an evil report which succeeded in turning the people's hearts away from God's promises.
Fear and unbelief are very contagious. Forty years ago, on June 7, 1967, vast portions of Israel's ancient homeland were returned into her hands. Much conflict continues over God's boundaries in the earth. Today, Israel stands in the midst of her promise--disoriented, anxious, vulnerable and confused. Israel is God's firstborn. Therefore, what happens there is related to us. That is why many of us are sensing the same issues in our lives personally. Remember that we are living in dangerous times. Do not let the giants in your land keep you from experiencing the fullness of His promise. Face your enemies with the shout: BUT GOD! Declare all gloom will go so you can bloom! Decree that the light of His revelation is breaking forth.
Isaiah 9:1 says, "Nevertheless, the gloom will not be on her who is distressed." We should be shouting each morning, "Nevertheless! The gloom has left me!" The prophet Isaiah spoke this in relationship to land. "The land of Zebulun and the land of Napthali were heavily oppressed. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light." (Isaiah 9:1-2).