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My life is filled with music. My family loves music. We go to plays, concerts, and musical performances. We attend jazz festivals and outdoor music gatherings. We watch musicals. All of my children are musical. For some, music seems to be their goal. Sound and music play a great part of our lives. The people I minister with are musical. If they are not gifted musicians, they are worshippers. In Heaven, worship and musical sound are one.
Here is an example of music, sound, and violent worship. The Lord said that “the Kingdom is filled with violence, and the violent take it by force.” However, many of us cannot visualize what this looks like. FIRESONG: The Darkness is Turning is the best example I have seen of this statement. You can preview this DVD by clicking HERE. This is a DVD that you will want to purchase. Play it over and over until the sound and expression builds in you.
Wherever I minister, music and sound set the stage for the release of God’s will into the place I have been called. Last year, I had a team ministering in Paris. Key leaders and influencers from the city were with us. In my heart I had this desire arise to go through the city and sow joy. During our worship, I kept hearing the Holy Spirit saying ‘The sound of joy is in you!’ He kept saying this over and over again. Then He showed me that we, the people of God, must release the sound of joy! No matter what our natural circumstances or situations dictate, and no matter what we feel physically, we have a sound of joy to release. We must employ the law of sowing and reaping, and sow from the joy in us which is a fruit of the Holy Spirit. As we release the sound of joy from the earth, He releases His joy from Heaven based on Psalm 16:11, ‘In His Presence, there is fullness of joy and at His right hand there are pleasures for evermore’. That joy becomes our strength to produce supernatural victory! I knew that I could find the sound in Heaven that would produce joy in the people of Paris as I ministered and visited the city.
Heaven is filled with sound because Heaven is filled with worship. When we enter the Throne Room and come boldly before the Lord, we have access to the same worship sounds of Heaven. We also have access to the same emotion of Heaven. Sound creates movement. Worship, sound, and music are important. Your conscience is like a window between your soul and spirit. Make sure nothing is clouding your conscience. Sound that leads you into movement and worship will cause your conscience to remain in alignment with God. The conscience is one of the absolute authorities of our life. When our conscience is aligned and interacting with the Word of God, the “window” remains clean and open. The conscience is the lamp of the body. The conscience is the eye of our spirit that causes us to see into the heavenly realms. Clean and open your window and receive the sound of the Lord! Let the wind of the Spirit bring the sound that you need through the window of Heaven and into the place where you are standing.
“Weeping may last for the night, but a shout of joy comes in the morning” (NASB). Unshakable praise must keep going forth in your life. Unshakable praise plows through the hardest ground. When the ground is hard, when the circumstances are adverse, God’s favor is on the one who will praise. Fallow ground will break up. Declare the plow of praise will cut through the un-giving Earth and make a way for the good seed of the Word to be planted. The Word of God tells us to submit ourselves to God, draw near to Him and then resist the devil. I believe that as we worship and submit ourselves to a holy God, we can come into intimate contact with Him. Even though we walk here on the earth in our worshipful submission, we ascend into Heaven. As we individually seek God and ascend into the Throne Room, we can hear the sound of Heaven in our spirit man on Earth.
Recently in a worship service, LeAnn Squier, an amazing musician and psalmist, began to prophesy. I began to hear and release revelation along with her. The Spirit of God began to speak to us the following: “I am creating a unique identity in My people. Even in searching for the sound of your sound, your identity is found in the unique sound within you. I am removing from you the noise of the world’s confusion. This noise has made you something that I never intended you to become.
“I am going to begin to pour such a pure stream of sound from Heaven around you that you will hear who you are to become. You won’t sound like any other individual and the place on earth where I have positioned you will not sound like any other location. You are in My time, so you will not sound like another day, century, or decade. You will have a sound for now. You will have an identity that is unique and unmistakable. There are ten thousands of ten thousands of voices that are going to begin to join with your sound. This sound will be poured from Heaven, but then rise back from the earth.
“I am tipping My golden chalice from My heavenly palace and disseminating and depositing thousands and thousands of songs and sounds in you, the sanctuary of your dwelling and the land around you. You will birth words that express and sounds that impart and deliver the voice of what I have done and what I am doing to the societal culture around you. This will not be a sound that has one local expression, but will be linked together with harmonies of others around the world. This sound will produce a joy in the lands of the earth.
“There is a voice. The sound of My voice is going to come in an unmistakable clarity. Begin to look for the new expression. Begin to look for the new words. Begin to look for the new sounds that are going to accurately express the sound of this pouring out of this drink offering that I am delivering. I am giving assignments! Some will sing! Some will orchestrate! Some will create the movement of dance to the sound. You will bind the enemy in chains and break the back of principalities that are controlling and resisting the movement of My Spirit in the earth. I am re-ordering your day with sound and the music of Heaven. This day will not sound like nor look like any other day.”
Here are two of our Issachar School courses that will help you worship in a new way:
Worship,
Sound, and Movement by Chuck D. Pierce and JoAnn McFatter
Communion leads to intimacy, and intimacy creates access. We can
ascend to God’s throne because Jesus has made a way for us. Learn how
to gain prophetic keys to worship in a new dimension! Some of the topics
covered in this course are:
- Understanding the Time of Realignment
- The Sounds of Heaven
- Ascending Through the Portal
- The New Song Breaks Old Cycles
- The Influence of Sound
- Scientific Application of Sound
- Activation in Worship, Sound, and Movement
SPECIAL: $49 (regularly $99 for CD or DVD set)
The
Power of Sound in Worship and Warfare by Chuck D. Pierce
and Robert Heidler
This teaching builds on the teaching that was begun in the “Worship, Sound,
and Movement” class. In this course, learn how sound in worship and warfare
has the power to change the atmosphere we are a part of and causes the enemy’s
camp to be thrown into confusion. Some of the topics covered in this course
are:
- The Sounds of Heaven
- What is Sound?
- Understanding Sound
- Lord Sabaoth Sends the Hosts of Heaven to Help You
- Sound is Voice
- The Tabernacle of David
- There’s a Battle for Zion
SPECIAL: $49 (regularly $99 for CD or DVD set)
Blessings,
Chuck Pierce
Other Resources that Will Help You Worship and War in New Ways …
The Worship Warrior by Chuck D. Pierce with John
Dickson
Also available in Spanish ($12), Portuguese
($14) and French
($14)
If you do not understand ascension - how the Lord ascended and how we can
ascend - this book is for you. This is one of the few worship books
that combines the ascent into a place of intimacy and the call to descend
and war for harvest. Vision comes when we worship the Lord and gain revelation.
This book is a must read to understand how to come near to God and overcome
in the midst of warfare. The Worship Warrior helps you understand
how to move from one faith dimension to another!
Special $10 (regularly $14)
Freed to Enter the Glory Realm
This CD by the Glory of Zion International Worship Team is a spontaneous expression
of heaven and earth. The sounds and releases captured here represent
the apostolic, prophetic stream we are moving in. This CD had no limitations
as we wove together new songs, prophetic declarations, nighttime prayer watches,
spontaneous releases and much more. I am so grateful for what the Lord
is allowing us to present to Him as a Pentecost Firstfruits offering with
the release of this CD. You will want to order Freed to Enter the Glory
Realm to help propel you in a new realm of freedom and increased momentum.
Songs include Great
Grace, Jesus
Free Us (spontaneous), Best
of Everything, Your
Law, Beauty
for Ashes (spontaneous), Your
Blood, Rise
Up Your Worshippers, Songs
of the Ages (spontaneous), Heart
of Momentum (spontaneous), Stand
Strong (spontaneous), Deep
Down (spontaneous), Dry
Bones, Push
to New Heights (spontaneous), One
More Time, and Called
for this Moment (spontaneous).
Special Price: $10 (regularly $15).
True worshippers are those who worship in Spirit and in truth. When
we find this place in Him, we find reality. When we come to the end of a season,
we must have a mentality of TRIUMPH. Descending in Triumph is profound!
The music that the Glory of Zion International Worship Team has brought forth
will amaze you. You have to “GO UP” to “GO FORTH” in TRIUMPH!
This collection has some awesome songs to propel you into the future.
“Sing
Oh Barren One” (Hannah’s Song) by Tiffany & Aaron Smith stirs your
heart to break forth in song and break out of desolation. “Strike
the Doorpost,” led by John Dickson, is an incredible song that reminds
you that we can praise our way through every entry way or new gate that we
come to throughout the year. LeAnn Squier and Chad Foxworth remind us
with a new rendition of “Amazing
Grace” that even though we’ve been through many trials, His grace has
always been there and will be there to keep us going forth this year.
Many other prophetic utterances and new songs will cause your faith to come
alive and give you new strength to move forward.
Special Price: $13 (regularly $15).
The sound for this season is here! This CD includes the Hawaiians (who joined
us at Starting the Year off Right 2010) and the latest music you have been
hearing from the Glory of Zion International Worship Team. Songs include
The
Restoration Song (You Are Not Alone), The
Journey, HE
Knows, Planted
by the Waters, Fill
the Room, and more. I have never heard a song that has the sound
of the land and Heaven meeting like is demonstrated in Kingdom Come
when LeAnn Squier leads us! Listen to this CD and allow your faith to
be stirred to see the darkness turn and the Glory of the Lord fill your atmosphere.
Special: $12 (regularly $17)
Letting Go by LeAnn Squier
There is a sound in the throne room of Heaven that calls to us in the earth
to let go and worship. One of our most difficult calls in
life is to LET GO and LET GOD. LeAnn Squier has captured that sound
of release. Letting Go is one of the most beautiful expressions of
freedom and joy that I have ever heard. Imagine yourself floating through
space or walking on water. This Gospel Music Association
award winner for Songwriter of the Year helps
to bring Heaven's expression into your living room, car, bedroom, office and
heart. The songs and sounds on this project are a must to help us lose
control of our desire and experience HIS desire for us. We invite you to enter
in with One
Magnificent Song, let your heart be exposed, let the thoughts
of your mind be released, and let your hands be raised in surrender to the
King of all kings. The special sound that has been achieved on Blackbird
expresses the cry of a nation for freedom. This song, written by the Beatles
about the cry of a young Black girl for freedom in the 1960s, was chosen
by LeAnn well before this election season. The prophetic dimension of
this compilation of songs for this time surpasses most worship expressions
in this day and hour. Savor the sound of Letting GO!
Special Price: $14 (regularly $16)
Sound the Shofar - by Allen Faubion
From the earliest of times God chose the ram’s horn or “shofar” as one of
His instruments to release this sound. Awesome things take place when
the shofar sounds according to the command of the Lord God Almighty. Walls
fall down (Jericho), enemies are destroyed (Gideon), the presence of God manifests
(Sinai), and God’s people enter into the covenant cycle of blessing God has
prepared for us (Feasts). On this CD, Allen Faubion both shares on and
demonstrates the power and anointing of sounding the shofar according to the
command of the Lord. Sound the Shofar!
($10)
God has appointed His feasts as a time for us to meet with Him so that we
move into an ever increasing cycle of freedom and fruitfulness. He has
also designed the instruments so that they release the anointing of each feast
through their sound. Sound the Feasts is an interactive
CD that will help you flow in the anointing of the feasts throughout the year.
Each part of the feast cycle is explained before the sound of the feast is
released. Each explanation includes a series of decrees for the listener
to release during the musical portion. As you interact with Sound
the Feasts you will experience the blood of Jesus (Passover), the
Spirit (Pentecost), and the presence of God (the Fall Feasts) like never before.
Sound creates movement. Each Feast is linked with prosperity.
May this CD lead you into the sound that will unlock your harvest!
Special: $10 (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 July 31, 2010.