Special Purim Weekend! 
Gain Favor and Triumph like Esther!
Know Who Opposes You!

February 25, 2010

Dear Overcomers: 

Understand PURIM as you celebrate with us this weekend. Also, don’t miss the KEY PROPHETIC WORD TO USE AS YOU PLANT YOUR HEAVENS FOR THE FUTURE! (see below)

Purim begins this Saturday evening.  This is a day of commemorating the deliverance of the Jewish people in ancient Persia from annihilation at the hands of Haman, as recorded in the Book of Esther.   Just as in Esther’s day, this is a time to overthrow decrees that have been set against God’s covenant people that would stop us from corporately advancing.  Those anti-Semitic decrees hate God’s sovereign plan for the Jews as well as Christians that have been grafted into that plan.  Esther was at the right place, at the right time, and did the right thing.  Therefore, she had victory over the enemy.  Your faith can overthrow any decree the enemy has established against you.  The enemy prepares a noose to tighten around God’s promised plan for your life.  Faith breaks the power of that noose.  Declare your Haman’s noose will begin to break.   

SPECIAL SATURDAY NIGHT!
We have a special weekend to help observe what the Lord is communicating to us at Purim.  On Saturday night our Zion Kidz will have a special art show that focuses on the story of Purim.  Pastor Lisa Bailey, along with Mindy Faubion and Lauren Ross, have worked to bring out the creative talents of this next generation.  A video presentation of this art display will begin at 6:30 PM and will also be available by webcast.  At 7:00 PM, our Ignited Junior High children will “take the stage” with a very unique look at Purim.  Everyone is welcome to join this special production onsite or by webcast.  Pastor Stacie Forest, along with Chip Conrad, have worked with our Junior High students to come up with an “extra-galactic” application of the account of Queen Esther, Mordecai, and (the evil) Haman. 

Wow – God is Changing Things for Sunday morning! 
Keith walked into my office this morning and told me the Lord has given him a message on “Who is that Opposing You?”  Therefore, I will be speaking on “Esther: The Model of Triumph!”  Be sure to join us on Sunday at 8:00 AM for the Power of Lift Service and Keith’s message on opposition, and then at 10:15 AM as we continue with our "Power of Use" Service and my message on Esther.   

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Adjust and Align Your Vision!  Zebulun School with Special Guest Pam Pierce (Monday, March 1)
The Rewards of Simplicity is about Vision! I am so grateful for how the Lord has led us with revelation month after month for the Zebulun School.  Our courses are helping many begin to think in new ways so that poverty structures are dismantled and we begin to see provision in new ways.  Our next Zebulun School class will be on Monday night at 7:00 PM (CDT) when Pam Pierce will be joining me to teach on VISION and how to develop your VISION for the season ahead!  Join us onsite or by webcast on Monday night! Remember, this class will be available as an "on demand" through the end of March.   For more information on The Zebulun School, go to www.gloryofzion.org and select "The Zebulun School" tab, or call 1-888-965-1099 and ask for Rose.  E-tickets are available on our MP3Store tab for $50.

Commune and Triumph!   HERE IS A KEY PROPHETIC WORD TO USE AS YOU PLANT YOUR HEAVENS FOR THE FUTURE! (Portions given by Chuck D. Pierce, Linus Vaughn, LeAnn Squier, John Dickson and Anne Tate)

“I will cause you to triumph through a new type of communion. As you have set your face to seek Me, I am leading you into a new level of intimacy.  In Me you will see a new level of revelation.  In Me you will see new strategies.  The intimacy I am leading you into will break open that which has been hidden from you in the dark places you have been going through.  I am moving you forward to new levels of intimacy so that you may see in Me that which I have for you and that which I am moving you forward to possess.  The territory is yours and the new land is yours, so move forward into new levels of intimacy.

“You’ve been trying to commune enough to gain the strength you need to press through.  Now you will commune and I will speak into you, and your eye that has been surrounded by sleep will now open.  I am opening the fire gate to pour down communion on My people.  There will be an ease in your communion.  You have been striving to commune, but now there will be an ease in your communion.

 “Wait for the turning, for I am showing you facets that you have not understood, and I am causing corners that have stored revelation within you to come alive.  Wait for the turning, for I am bringing into focus a multi-colored vision that will cause you to not only see Me, but to see the enemy and have the wisdom to speak so that he falls before you.  There is a multi-faceted vision coming into focus for you!

“I am ready to accelerate the new alignment that I am producing in the earth. This will create a new order in My armies. Pieces are falling in place.  By April, I must have My armies in place and shaking the earth in a new way.

“Did I not say that I appeared as a lamb that had been slain, but I came alive as a lion and created a triumphant people.  Bring your fat to the altar.  Sacrifice now, then hear and see your new provision.   I have shifted the gate of heaven and I am pouring out a fire that will burn away the fat that has developed over your last season.  This is a time of burning the fat on the altar.  As the fat goes into the fire, My voice will come to raise you higher above the waters that have tried to overtake you and above the fires of this earth that have tried to burn you.  As you bring the fat and place it in the fire, I will cause My voice to raise you higher and you will see the order that I have. Get ready to be reordered, to remove fat.  I am not talking about physical fat.  I will show you pockets of fat that you did not even know were there.  Much of this fat is My Word that has been stored and not allowed to work within you. Let go of certain portions of the Word that you have stored in you and in your mind, and watch a demonstration of that word begin to come alive.

“I sent in spies to see the Promised Land. They brought out the grapes and they were for communion.  However, the giants in the land were their bread. They rejected what would have made their body strong. The giants will only strengthen you, not defeat you.  I was calling the people to come into the land and commune with Me.  I was facilitating the bread and the wine. Today, you will open your eyes to see that the giants are your bread.  You have plenty of wine for the people in the grapes of the land. 

“Come in! Come in!  Sit at the table in the midst of your enemies.  Let Me anoint your head and we will ‘sup and commune’ in the presence of your enemies.

“You’ve been postponing the communion I have ordained for you. You have not known how to commune with the elements that I’ve brought to you.  I brought you the grapes and I brought you the giants in a new land.  You backed up and tried to go back into an old communion because you did not know how to commune with the bread I was bringing you.  The giants around you are your communion.  Use those giants to produce communion, and do not back up into old patterns.  The giants around you are what I want you to use to produce communion in a new way!

“By not resisting your enemies and overtaking your giants, you have grown fat.  You have been trying to calculate your path by manipulating My Word instead of allowing My voice to work faith within you.  You have been postponing the communion I have for you. Let’s commune over your enemies. Do not be in denial of them. Your denial of the war ahead (to secure what I have for you) has caused you to grow fat and enter into a deferred hope.  You are creating the deferred hope, not Me. I have a new communion for you.  Cross over into the land so the communion that I have planned can come alive.

 “You have been deferred by the things that have been around you.  You have waited on people around you to begin to catch up, to begin to recognize and justify the stance that you are taking, and to justify the place that you are moving.  If you will stand up and move forward as you hear My voice, those that are languishing around you will begin to awaken and arise.  Everything depends on you getting in your place and moving in the position that you have been called to, and hearing the voice of God as it comes to you. 

“As I release your place of alignment to you and you move with Me, the things around you will begin to sort themselves out.  Those people around you will begin to arise and awaken.  They cannot arise and awaken to your voice or the things that you say or the things that you do.  They will only awaken to the sound of My voice and what I am doing in the Kingdom. Begin to stand up and move as you hear My voice.  Come into communion and move forward with the army and with Me.  The time of the Triumphant Troop of the Lord has come.  They will stand and arise as they watch the river of My Glory rise.  Stand up in what you have been called to do, and move forward.  Have the courage to begin to move according to what you are hearing Me say. Find your place in my army. I will cause you to triumph through a new type of communion. The grapes of the land that you rejected will come alive again.  The giants will be your bread.  Commune with Me in a new way.  Bring your fat and lay it on the altar. Cry out and follow Me into a new level of worship.

“There’s a longing and a hunger that I’m bringing into My people at this time.   I AM causing you to long for Me in a new way.  Your desires have not satisfied you.  You’ve not had the ability to say, ‘I feel full.’  So I will not activate you into a new level of fullness.  You will long for Me, and you and I will become one in a new way.  You will go past all those things that have tried to hold you and that you have tried to grab hold of in the past.  You will come to the place in this season where you say, ‘Lord, it is You I long for!’’

“WATCH NOW! I will open My Treasure Room to those who will WATCH! I am sending out a call to My gatekeepers.  Many times you are the ones that no one notices! You are hidden and watching! You must always watch.  I have called you to watch, but I am also calling your heart to rejoice in your watching.  Worship while you watch.  This is the call to My gatekeepers: come into My presence, stand your watch, keep your gate.  I am calling you as Mary to come into My presence.  Stand your post but do not stay out of My presence.  I am opening a great and effectual door for those who are watching.  As you watch, a door will form in the heavenlies over you.  As you step through that doorway, I will take you to places that you have never been to or seen, and you will call forth, pull down, and raise up. I will take you into the Treasure Room of Heaven and you will throw treasures down.  So hear Me: new assignments are coming -- new assignments, new positioning.  The gate I place you at is where My glory will meet you.  Don’t try to get in a gate or a door that I have not called you to.  Rather, take the gate I give you, for the glory awaits you at the gate.

“I am rolling out a red carpet for you if you will begin to step forward.  Many of you have been held walking in an old place, but a red carpet is being rolled out.  I am beginning to roll out the way for you, but you must leave the identity of the last place you walked and walk on the red carpet that I roll out.  I have kings and I have priests and I have queens in My kingdom.  Now I am unfurling My kingdom carpet.  Take a step on it and go. You’ve been walking in a calculated freedom but I am about to show you a summing up that I’m about to do that will pour you into a new mold.”

(LeAnn Squier’s prophetic song):

I hear it rising up.
I hear it rising up in the people of God.
You won’t be restrained and you can’t be tamed.
I hear it rising up in the people of God.
Devil, you have roused a sleeping lion.
What are you going to do now?
Devil, you have roused a sleeping lion.
What are you going to do now?
There’s a host of little Davids arising now.
What are you going to do now?
There’s a host of Joshuas and Calebs.
What are going to do now?
The pursued has become the pursuer.
So what are you going to do now?
The pursued is now in pursuit of you!
What are going to do now?
We’re going beyond conformity.
You will reform this vessel into what You see that I really need to be.
So I’m leaving that old mold and I’m pursuing all that You are.
I’m letting you reform my identity to be what you see that I really am.
I embrace what You see for me.

“I am rousing a sleeping lion that has a sound that will be unlocked. My people will have such a desire to worship Me in a new way in this coming month that they won’t remain where they are now. I am creating a different spirit in My people.  You’ve had the longing for your spirit to be molded in a new way.  So today I will recreate the spirit of My people.  Where they have been known to be in doubt and unbelief, they will be known as a different spirit who triumphs. I’m shifting and I’m shaping your spirit into what I would have you be.  So do not resist the hand that I am bringing, for you would be resisting Me.

“I don’t have wolves hidden this hour in My body -- I have lions.  I am raising them.  The sheep will know My voice, for the roar of the lion is coming.  Where you couldn’t enter into triumph in your thoughts and in your ways, I will cause you to triumph as you enter in this day.

“I am needing to give you times where you fall on your face at the altar.  I am needing to give you times where you cry out for Me like you’ve never cried out before.  I am needing to give you times where you run and run and run until you have circled your future.  I am going to have to make you hungry so that I can reveal to you the vision that will strengthen your brothers.

“I’m calling you again.  I’m calling you again and I’m saying, ‘Don’t be distracted by your brothers.’  For if you will heed My call, you will strengthen them on your path.  On the path ahead is one that is filled with a glory beyond what you’ve known.  So come and hear the call.  I am calling you again, and you will see what I have stored for this season ahead.  Many of you have tried and are trying and striving to get into the new season, but what you need is the call and the vision that I release.  Let Me renew your call.  Let Me give you vision for your responsibilities in the new place.

“I have need to go to Samaria.  Because I have to go there I want you to know you can follow Me.  Even though you wouldn’t choose to go, I need to go.  There are places where I need to show up.  Be willing to be at the right place, for I am coming to meet you in a new way. Return to a place where a fulfillment will take place.  At that place, what you didn’t see in the last season you will see in this season.

“You are at the foot of a path looking up.  You say, ‘But the steps are too steep for me to get to that place You call ‘BEYOND.’’  Take one step, for in each step there is a rest you’ve not known.  In this rest, you will end up being ushered into a presence that you’ve never experienced.

“Having begun in the Spirit, will you finish in the flesh?  This is an hour that I am going to cause you to so thirst after Me.  Many have gotten off of the path in days past.  But I am creating a thirst in you in this hour.  By that thirst I shall position you on the path.  Do not say, ‘It is too late.’  Do not say, ‘I missed the path in the past.’  This is a day when I am even redeeming your past.  I am even redeeming the path that I would have you walk on.  I shall set you on a sure path, on a sure course.  So know having begun in the Spirit, you are going to finish in the Spirit.  It is by My Spirit that I shall draw you back on to that path.  I shall set a straight course in front of you.  You shall not miss the best, for this shall be your finest hour on the path that I shall redeem for you.

“You are getting to a plateau! Stop at every plateau, for that is where you will dance.  When you dance at the plateau, that is where you will begin to hear Me in a new way.  Don’t miss your plateaus, for if you miss your plateaus you will miss the movement I have for your future.  Stop at every plateau and let Me create energy by you dancing the dance of heaven. 

“Watch where you step!  For in your stepping I will cause old ground to be shaken.  When you go out, watch where you step, for I am going to start shaking up some places that need to be shaken.  So STEP, for the old structures will begin to fall this week.  Even though you say, ‘Lord, I feel like I’m naked in a clearance,’  I will build a new structure and hedge around you.  Watch where you step!”

SEEING Your BLESSINGS! Don’t Miss this Week’s Issachar School Class
The teachings on SEEING YOUR CURSES and SEEING YOUR BLESSINGS are the best!  Robert Heidler went beyond his normal ability and excellent teaching this week.  His teaching on “Seeing Your BLESSINGS” is a must to understand!  In this season to “Look and LOOK AGAIN”, we want to learn how to SEE all that He has provided for us. 

In March, our Issachar School classes will focus on The Battle for the BLOOD!  This course will be instrumental in helping us prepare for Passover.  For more information on The Issachar School, go to www.gloryofzion.org and select “The Issachar School” tab, or call 1-888-965-1099 and ask for Rose.  E-tickets are available on our MP3Store for $15, and are available on webcast replay through the following Monday night.

Webcast Only Firstfruits Gathering on Saturday, March 13!
We all must get accustomed to meeting and worshiping in our homes. The home was the original war unit created by the Lord. Because I see the Lord restoring home worship, at least once a year we like everyone to join our Firstfruits Gathering the same way -- BY WEBCAST.  On Saturday, March 13, we will have our Firstfruits Celebration for the month of Nisan (Abib).  Plan to invite your friends or family to join with you for this webcast which begins at 7 PM (CDT).  There is no charge or registration needed for this Saturday night gathering.

Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce

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Key Resources to Help You Who Opposes You!

Understanding Your Opponent: The Antichrist System by Chuck D. Pierce

These are days where we must walk in VICTORY in the earth realm.  This course will help you learn who is opposing you. Learn the person and character of our enemy, how to discern his ways and wiles, the system he operates from, and how to bind his actions and loose the perfect will of God for your life.  Topics include:

Special: $50 for CD or DVD set (regularly $99)

The Issachar School - Overcoming Faith: The Bride vs. the Dragon! by Robert Heidler and Chuck D. Pierce

Who are we?  Exactly who is our adversary and is it possible to defeat him?  If so, then how do we overcome him rather than be overcome by him?  In this course we defined the Bride, the Dragon, and the conflict we will face in days ahead.  Gain an overcoming faith to obtain the victory.  Some of the topics covered in this course are:

Special: $50 for CD or DVD set (regularly $99)

Through March 9, you can purchase any of our Issachar School courses for half price!  Call 1-888-965-1099 or 1-940-382-7231 for this special.

God’ Unfolding Battle Plan by Chuck D. Pierce
This season of war that we have been living in, the Lord has released much revelation.  THE SPIRITUAL WAR AROUND US IS UNFOLDING. A people without knowledge perish. God's Unfolding Battle Plan and the revised Future War of the Church will help you understand how to stand in victory in the times we are living in. God's Unfolding Battle Plan: A Field Manual for Advancing the Kingdom of God will point you into an understanding of the warfare we are presently fighting and what is ahead for us in the future. This book will also give you great insight through the next 20 years and beyond!  The chapter on “The Blood War” is one you will want to study at this time!  ($13)

Then revised edition of The Future War of the Church is an important foundational study of our times. Initially released in May 2001, before the tragedy of the World Trade Center on 9-11-01, this book helped us get established in the season of war that we are presently living in. We have now revised this book to include key, prophetic testimonies behind every chapter that affirm the prophetic call to His Church for a Kingdom perspective during these times. Even if you purchased the original version, you will want this revised copy as a documented history of the times we are living in and how "God does nothing without first telling the prophets."  ($13)

OR purchase both for $20!

Protecting your Home from Spiritual Darkness by Chuck D. Pierce and Rebecca Wagner Sytsema


This book is unique, fun to read, and probably as helpful as any book on the market to show you things to look for in your home that could be allowing demonic activity.  This book also has an excellent chapter on how not to cause your children to resent you as you teach them discernment. In a season when we are praying to "crossover" into the new, this book can help you cut ties with the past and free yourself to move forward in a new way.  

($8)

Prayers That Outwit the Enemy by Chuck D. Pierce and Rebecca Wagner Sytsema


By understanding the game of chess in the natural, we can understand the spiritual dynamic of strategy, warfare, and communion. This unique book begins with a comparison of the earthly game of chess with spiritual warfare, prayer, and ascending and communing from our heavenly abiding place. Prayers that Outwit the Enemy explains the devil in a way that alleviates your fear to confront him and overturn his schemes! Learn how to overcome the enemy’s plan in your life by gaining the strategy of God. The Holy Spirit is teaching the Body to pray in a new way. This book explains many of those ways. Understand your enemy and defeat his plan through prayer. This is a book for now! 

Special:$12 (regularly $14)

These and many other resources are available by going to www.gloryofzion.org or by calling (888) 965-1099 or (940) 382-7231.  Specials are valid through March 9, 2010.