Here in this place, the Lord has opened a door to me. He presented it, and I chose to walk through. I will occupy the place the Lord has for me. No other options, really.
My heart beats just a little faster knowing He's leading me....the anticipation for what's ahead. Oh, to be closer to my Beloved.....
A question was posed; "what comforts the Lord when His heart is breaking?" In that moment, a quiet whisper comes softly to my ear: "when a humble heart chooses My way, no matter the outcome, just because I have asked.....".
Monday, December 31, 2007
Friday, November 2, 2007
A good word....
October 25, 2007
CHUCK PIERCE:
"Align Your Heart with ME and Wait For My Presence"
"You can't go forth in this hour without My presence, so you must wait for the positioning of My presence."
Last week at our Tuesday morning prayer, the Lord began to establish His presence in a new way among us. In this time of new beginnings, we must not presume that we know where the "Ark of His Presence" is moving. We must wait and watch with expectancy to see how He would have us advance into our next war.
On that Tuesday morning, God began by having us stand very quietly, so we could hear our heart beat. I would encourage you to listen carefully for your heartbeat. Ask for a realignment of your heart desires with His heart desires. Then ask the Lord for you to hear the stillness of the Heavens. In the midst of your chaos, ask Him to let you hear the stillness of His shadow. Ask Him to let you hear sounds you have not heard. Tell Him you are listening, and let Him circulate the atmosphere of Heaven around you. Ask Him to bring and activate your atmospheric change.
Let the cares of the day slip away, so you hear the will of Heaven. Don't go out in your own strength. Wait for the pulsating heart of God to propel the blood in your heart, forth. Some of you are contending over how others are moving forward. Some of you are being awakened with anxiety, and you are questioning how you will ever get everything done so you can advance into your best, in days ahead.
Prophetic Word of the Lord
Then I heard the Lord say, "My heart is not anxious. Wait for My heart to align yours. Stay in time with My heartbeat. Sit before Me and listen now, and you will be energized to bring everything into order that seems confusing and bringing disarray in your life. The beating of My heart positions My Ark. You can't go forth in this hour without My presence, so you must wait for the positioning of My presence. Give Me space. If you walk too quickly, you will stumble. Let the Ark go before you.
In My presence you will be surefooted. In My presence you will see your way. In My presence you will see your enemy. So look up, for the Heavens are clear. Even though there is fog and debris in your path, the Heavens are clear before you. In My presence you're aware of all of your surroundings. You know when to turn right and when to turn left. 'Your' scheduling of time is allowing the enemy to come in and find a way to change time and set legalistic structures. You are not choosing the best.
The best is what My heart has for you. Allow My heart to beat within you, so that best can be yours. I am a God that can move just as easily behind you as in front of you. Align yourself with Me, and I will open up the way and will guard your mistakes so they do not catch up with you again.
Don't cross the ford of the next stream in front of you too quickly. It is deceptive, and deeper than you know. Allow My presence to go before you, and you will see the bottom of that place become a way before you. You will see dry ground before you step into the river that would attempt to sweep you away. Let My presence prepare the way before you.
I will be able to redirect you to move to the right and then to the left to avoid the crash that is already in your path. That which would hit you head on will find its way past you, and you will find the path that will bring you fulfillment in your life.
The concern you have over supply is driving you out of time and driving you ahead of what I have for you. Stay in My presence so you can see the path of supply that is ahead of you.
Many of you are seeking deliverance, but that path has not formed and My Ark has not entered your path yet. Wait until you see My presence beginning to transform and open up and do surgery, then deliverance will come quickly. My path is a path of freedom. It is not one that I would have you strive to enter and walk in.
Now My heart will beat with yours, for you have crossed over into a new beginning. Let My Ark go first! Let My Ark go before you. This will be a time of starting and stopping. Because of the new beginning you are in, you must start and stop with Me. You must not try to come up without Me calling you to come up. You must not go to a platform that I do not call you up upon, for the winds would be too brisk for you there. The winds would be too strong for you and you would blow away instead of standing to see your next step.
Don't celebrate too quickly before Me. Watch and wait, and you will see yourself celebrating; you will see the victory ahead and will be liberated into the fullness of the next war that I have for you."
Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce Glory of Zion Ministries
Permission is granted (and you are also encouraged) to reprint these articles in hard copy form, as well as sending them to your own email lists and posting them on your own websites. We ask only that you keep ElijahList website, email contact info, and author contact information intact.
ElijahList Publications310 2nd Ave SE, Albany, OR 97321 www.elijahlist.com email: info@elijahlist.netPhone 1-541-926-3250
CHUCK PIERCE:
"Align Your Heart with ME and Wait For My Presence"
"You can't go forth in this hour without My presence, so you must wait for the positioning of My presence."
Last week at our Tuesday morning prayer, the Lord began to establish His presence in a new way among us. In this time of new beginnings, we must not presume that we know where the "Ark of His Presence" is moving. We must wait and watch with expectancy to see how He would have us advance into our next war.
On that Tuesday morning, God began by having us stand very quietly, so we could hear our heart beat. I would encourage you to listen carefully for your heartbeat. Ask for a realignment of your heart desires with His heart desires. Then ask the Lord for you to hear the stillness of the Heavens. In the midst of your chaos, ask Him to let you hear the stillness of His shadow. Ask Him to let you hear sounds you have not heard. Tell Him you are listening, and let Him circulate the atmosphere of Heaven around you. Ask Him to bring and activate your atmospheric change.
Let the cares of the day slip away, so you hear the will of Heaven. Don't go out in your own strength. Wait for the pulsating heart of God to propel the blood in your heart, forth. Some of you are contending over how others are moving forward. Some of you are being awakened with anxiety, and you are questioning how you will ever get everything done so you can advance into your best, in days ahead.
Prophetic Word of the Lord
Then I heard the Lord say, "My heart is not anxious. Wait for My heart to align yours. Stay in time with My heartbeat. Sit before Me and listen now, and you will be energized to bring everything into order that seems confusing and bringing disarray in your life. The beating of My heart positions My Ark. You can't go forth in this hour without My presence, so you must wait for the positioning of My presence. Give Me space. If you walk too quickly, you will stumble. Let the Ark go before you.
In My presence you will be surefooted. In My presence you will see your way. In My presence you will see your enemy. So look up, for the Heavens are clear. Even though there is fog and debris in your path, the Heavens are clear before you. In My presence you're aware of all of your surroundings. You know when to turn right and when to turn left. 'Your' scheduling of time is allowing the enemy to come in and find a way to change time and set legalistic structures. You are not choosing the best.
The best is what My heart has for you. Allow My heart to beat within you, so that best can be yours. I am a God that can move just as easily behind you as in front of you. Align yourself with Me, and I will open up the way and will guard your mistakes so they do not catch up with you again.
Don't cross the ford of the next stream in front of you too quickly. It is deceptive, and deeper than you know. Allow My presence to go before you, and you will see the bottom of that place become a way before you. You will see dry ground before you step into the river that would attempt to sweep you away. Let My presence prepare the way before you.
I will be able to redirect you to move to the right and then to the left to avoid the crash that is already in your path. That which would hit you head on will find its way past you, and you will find the path that will bring you fulfillment in your life.
The concern you have over supply is driving you out of time and driving you ahead of what I have for you. Stay in My presence so you can see the path of supply that is ahead of you.
Many of you are seeking deliverance, but that path has not formed and My Ark has not entered your path yet. Wait until you see My presence beginning to transform and open up and do surgery, then deliverance will come quickly. My path is a path of freedom. It is not one that I would have you strive to enter and walk in.
Now My heart will beat with yours, for you have crossed over into a new beginning. Let My Ark go first! Let My Ark go before you. This will be a time of starting and stopping. Because of the new beginning you are in, you must start and stop with Me. You must not try to come up without Me calling you to come up. You must not go to a platform that I do not call you up upon, for the winds would be too brisk for you there. The winds would be too strong for you and you would blow away instead of standing to see your next step.
Don't celebrate too quickly before Me. Watch and wait, and you will see yourself celebrating; you will see the victory ahead and will be liberated into the fullness of the next war that I have for you."
Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce Glory of Zion Ministries
Permission is granted (and you are also encouraged) to reprint these articles in hard copy form, as well as sending them to your own email lists and posting them on your own websites. We ask only that you keep ElijahList website, email contact info, and author contact information intact.
ElijahList Publications310 2nd Ave SE, Albany, OR 97321 www.elijahlist.com email: info@elijahlist.netPhone 1-541-926-3250
Friday, October 26, 2007
Hands
O.K. I know people grieve in different ways. I also know grief comes and goes, and you never know when it is gonna hit you.
When I am round men who seem to be around the age of my Dad, I cannot look at their hands! If I see anyone who has hands like my Dad, it nearly kills me......I cannot control the tears, and have to excuse myself! Weird, I know.
Grief is hard.....
When I am round men who seem to be around the age of my Dad, I cannot look at their hands! If I see anyone who has hands like my Dad, it nearly kills me......I cannot control the tears, and have to excuse myself! Weird, I know.
Grief is hard.....
Monday, October 22, 2007
Getting there.....
Last night, I went back to the place where the Lord last spoke to me. Peace flooded my thirsty soul as I re-read the words He gave to me. Funny.....how we get ourselves so off track when we stray from the place He has for us.
I am not in the position to rebuke this storm, this isn't really even a storm. I am in a season of captivity, and only the Lord can bring me out. He promised that He would, and I believe it. I am, however, in the position to rebuke the lies that are being hurled at me right now (ie: being a failure, being alone, etc., etc.) I just have to remind the enemy, "for it is written.........!"
I took Steve shopping yesterday, and as I was traveling on the freeway and aproached my exit, I took notice of the road ahead of me, straight ahead. There was I70 ahead of me, and I was just really aware of the two different directions they could take me. I am not sure why this is staying with me, but I am sure there is something in this the Lord is going to teach me. The word that comes to me is crossroads. I am at a crossroad. I have no idea what the Lord wants me to do with the rest of my life. I am not "feeling" corporate america. I can't shake the feeling that huge changes are ahead....so in this time, I am just going to take one step at a time and trust that He will lead me. These are the scriptures that the Lord gave me (Jer 29:10-14, then last night He gave me another portion- verses 29:4-7):
For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.
THen:4 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5 Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit. 6 Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters--that you may be increased there, and not diminished. 7 And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you will have peace.
I will continue LIVING in this place; I will seek peace in the place where I have been positioned, and will intercede for those in this place with me. That's my story and I'm sticking with it!
I am not in the position to rebuke this storm, this isn't really even a storm. I am in a season of captivity, and only the Lord can bring me out. He promised that He would, and I believe it. I am, however, in the position to rebuke the lies that are being hurled at me right now (ie: being a failure, being alone, etc., etc.) I just have to remind the enemy, "for it is written.........!"
I took Steve shopping yesterday, and as I was traveling on the freeway and aproached my exit, I took notice of the road ahead of me, straight ahead. There was I70 ahead of me, and I was just really aware of the two different directions they could take me. I am not sure why this is staying with me, but I am sure there is something in this the Lord is going to teach me. The word that comes to me is crossroads. I am at a crossroad. I have no idea what the Lord wants me to do with the rest of my life. I am not "feeling" corporate america. I can't shake the feeling that huge changes are ahead....so in this time, I am just going to take one step at a time and trust that He will lead me. These are the scriptures that the Lord gave me (Jer 29:10-14, then last night He gave me another portion- verses 29:4-7):
For thus says the LORD: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.
THen:4 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5 Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit. 6 Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters--that you may be increased there, and not diminished. 7 And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you will have peace.
I will continue LIVING in this place; I will seek peace in the place where I have been positioned, and will intercede for those in this place with me. That's my story and I'm sticking with it!
Friday, October 19, 2007
Raw
2007, a year in review:
Being stripped of something I loved, then walking through the shadow of the valley of collection calls, to the death of my father without being reconciled to him on this earth-only in heaven, to a 60 to 70 hour work week, to being downsized. Not sure I can handle much more, honestly.
I have been advised to dig deeper, but all I want to do is run away. I need help, but.......
I am alone. No one can help me in this, only my Father. And for some reason, I can't turn to Him. Am I angry at Him? Afraid of what's next?
I am sensing those close to me treading about cautiously, and that hurts. Is this accurate? I do not know. Doors are closing all around me, failure seems to be all aroung me like a thick blanket; again makes me wonder what is going to happen next. This too, makes me want to run.
This is what is going to happen: The Lord will care for me, will provide for me, will satisfy my lonely soul, will heal my broken heart, will sing over me, and will speak tender words of comfort to me, and will continue to allow His peace and joy to settle me. I believe this. I am waiting for this, desperately......
Being stripped of something I loved, then walking through the shadow of the valley of collection calls, to the death of my father without being reconciled to him on this earth-only in heaven, to a 60 to 70 hour work week, to being downsized. Not sure I can handle much more, honestly.
I have been advised to dig deeper, but all I want to do is run away. I need help, but.......
I am alone. No one can help me in this, only my Father. And for some reason, I can't turn to Him. Am I angry at Him? Afraid of what's next?
I am sensing those close to me treading about cautiously, and that hurts. Is this accurate? I do not know. Doors are closing all around me, failure seems to be all aroung me like a thick blanket; again makes me wonder what is going to happen next. This too, makes me want to run.
This is what is going to happen: The Lord will care for me, will provide for me, will satisfy my lonely soul, will heal my broken heart, will sing over me, and will speak tender words of comfort to me, and will continue to allow His peace and joy to settle me. I believe this. I am waiting for this, desperately......
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Waiting
Here I am.....
In a corner of my own doing, I wait.
Though not alone, I suffer. Shame is lifted, but somewhat fearful of what's to happen next.
Just as in Hosea, I've been wooed into this wilderness by my Beloved. Healing will come.
My Beloved, I need Your touch, Your breath, Your voice....
I'll not be denied, of that I'm sure. It's Your promise to me.
In a corner of my own doing, I wait.
Though not alone, I suffer. Shame is lifted, but somewhat fearful of what's to happen next.
Just as in Hosea, I've been wooed into this wilderness by my Beloved. Healing will come.
My Beloved, I need Your touch, Your breath, Your voice....
I'll not be denied, of that I'm sure. It's Your promise to me.
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