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URGENT! 21 DAYS OF INTENSITY TO RESTORE THE SABBATH "REST" -- PLUS MARCH 12 & 13 ISRAEL/CHURCH FAST!
Chuck Pierce
Mar 11, 2002
URGENT! 21 DAYS OF INTENSITY TO RESTORE THE SABBATH "REST" -- PLUS MARCH 12 & 13 ISRAEL/CHURCH FAST! CHUCK PIERCE Mar 11, 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------- Books by Chuck Pierce, including: "THE FUTURE WAR OF THE CHURCH" (One of our most popular books) and "THE BEST IS YET AHEAD", Chuck Pierce's newest and also one of our most popular books. Click on: http://theelijahlist.safeshopper.com/80/cat80.htm?733 -------------------------------------------------------------- Note from Steve Shultz, Publisher, THE ELIJAH LIST Regarding Chuck Pierce's "21 days of Intensity" Chuck Pierce, I believe and have discovered as "Sons of Issachar" (I Chronicles 12:32) anointing to understand the times and seasons on the earth, like few I have ever seen. Chuck heads of the United States Strategic Prayer Network, which goes to prayer coordinators in all 50 states. His ministry website: www.globalharvest.org has more information on it. Some of Chuck's most recent and most popular books can be found at: Click on: http://theelijahlist.safeshopper.com/80/cat80.htm?733. Please read with soberness and hope the following "just in time" word by Chuck Pierce Blessings, Steve Shultz THE ELIJAH LIST ------------------------------------------------------------------ COVENANT CONFLICT: 21 DAYS OF INTENSITY TO RESTORE THE SABBATH "REST" By Chuck Pierce www.glory-of-zion.org www.globalharvest.org As many of you know, we are in an intense time of prayer. I so appreciate the Body of Christ responding and praying. We are in times of covenant conflict. ------------------------------------------------- ROSH HASHANAH BEGAN THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS OF WAR ------------------------------------------------- September at Rosh Hashanah began the next seven years of war in the earth realm over God’s covenant blessings and plan manifesting. These 58 days that we are praying and prophetically declaring God’s Word are very important. (FOR THE WORD ABOUT THESE 58 DAYS, CLICK ON http://elijahlist.com/words/display_word_pf.html?ID=1088 ) --------------------------------- THE MARCH 13 THROUGH PASSOVER - 21-DAYS OF PRAYER AND FASTING --------------------------------- The enemy wants to interrupt the covenant blessings that God has planned at this time to release in the earth realm. Rabbis and Messianic Leaders are declaring a day of fasting and prayer in Jerusalem. This is a sign for all of us. Since we are already in a time of prayer, I am including their call, along with an understanding of the War over Sabbath blessings. ---------------------------- AT THE END OF EVERY SABBATH, HELL BREAKS LOOSE IN ISRAEL ---------------------------- I am also including the 21 days of prayer and declaration that correspond with the time frame from March 13 through the end of Passover. Additionally, I am including an understanding of the Sabbath. Notice at the end of every Sabbath, hell breaks loose in Jerusalem. The same thing may happen in your own life. I’m explaining why the enemy does this in this call to prayer. ----------------------------------------- RABBIS DECLARE WEDNESDAY MARCH 13 A DAY OF FASTING AND PRAYER THROUGHOUT ISRAEL --THE CHURCH MUST JOIN THEM! ----------------------------------------- The Rabbis of Israel have called for Wednesday, March 13, to be a national day of fasting and prayer for the protection of the nation of Israel and for Jews worldwide. I am asking you to join in this fasting and prayer with Israel on Wednesday. A special Prayer Service will be held at the Western Wall. The chief rabbi of Jerusalem has called a fast for the Rosh Chodesh on Wednesday. This is the 'first month of the year' according to Exodus. ----------------------------------------------- U.S. TIME ZONES CORRESPONDING TO ISRAEL'S FAST ----------------------------------------------- Israel is seven hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time. Sundown in Israel on Tuesday, March 12, will be about 6:30 pm Jerusalem time. Therefore, to join in at the exact same time use the following as a guideline. Eastern standard time - Begin at 11:30 am Tuesday; Central Time - Begin at 10:30 am; Mountain Time - Begin at 9:30 am; and Pacific Time - Begin at 8:30 am.--all on Tuesday to Correspond with Israel's Wednesday. ----------------------------------------------------------- LIVE WEB CAM AT THE WESTERN WALL - YOU CAN WATCH AND JOIN IN ----------------------------------------------------------- The latest report indicates that thousands are expected to be at the Western Wall on Wednesday for the prayer vigil. To be a part of that, and see what is actually happening LIVE, you can go to the website, www.foryourglory.org and click on LIVE WESTERN WALL CAM just below the Star of David with the dove. It will give you live pictures of the prayer service as it happens. ------------------------------------------------------- MESSIANIC LEADERS JOIN THIS CALL TO PRAYER AND FASTING ------------------------------------------------------- The following messianic leaders are joining this National Day and calling believers from the 12 Gateways to Jerusalem of the World Wide Watch from 200 nations to join as well, and to continue in heightened prayer and fasting as directed by the Holy Spirit-- at least until Passover ends. May the Lord see the blood and pass over His people in mercy instead of judgment and release great salvation through the shakings. Tom Hess, Jerusalem House of Prayer for all Nations, Jerusalem, Israel Howard Bass, Messianic Congregation, Beer Sheva, Israel David Davis, Karmel Assembly, Haifa, Israel David Lazarus, Beth Ímmanuel Congregation, Jaffa / Tel-Aviv, Israel Daniel Yahav, Pniel Fellowship, Tiberias, Israel --------------------------------------------------------------- WORSHIP CAN OVERTHROW THE COALITION OF ENEMIES THAT IS FORMING --------------------------------------------------------------- In 2 Chronicles 20, we find a coalition of enemies forming against Israel. This was the greatest threat that Israel, under the leadership of Jehoshaphat, had ever faced. There was a plot to crush God’s covenant plan. Jehoshaphat said, “And now, here are the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir; whom You would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and did not destroy them; here they are, rewarding us by coming to throw us out of Your possession which You have given us to inherit. O our God, will You not judge them? For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You." ------------------------------------------- PRAYER DIRECTIVES INCLUDING PRAYING ABOUT IRAN, PALESTINE, SYRIA, AND LEBANON ------------------------------------------- There is a coalition of terrorist alignment plotting today to overthrow God’s covenant plan in the earth. These target Israel and any Christian nation that profess the Good News of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We must stay alert and develop a shield of prayer over God’s covenant plan in Israel and in each one of our lives. March 25 leads us to three days before the Jewish spring festival of Passover. Ask God to reveal any hidden plots in Iran, Palestine, Syria, or Lebanon that have sent groups out throughout the world to release evil. Declare that their evil will not be able to manifest. ---------------------------- EVEN IN TIMES OF WAR, REST! ---------------------------- It is interesting that the last two verses of Isaiah 58 are about Shabbat. Isaiah 58:13-14 says: "If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD honorable, and shall honor Him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, then you shall delight yourself in the LORD; and I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth, and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father. The mouth of the LORD has spoken." ----------------------------------------------- THE MINUTE SHABBAT ( THE SABBATH) IS OVER . . . ----------------------------------------------- One pattern that we see happening in Israel is this: the minute that Shabbat is over, there is an attack that disrupts the principle and “rest” of Shabbat so that people begin to think, “What’s the use?” or “What are we doing wrong?” Ezekiel 20:12 says, "Also I gave them My Sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them." The last several words of this verse are "ki ani YHWH m'kodshem"--because I am YHWH who sanctifies them (makes them holy). As you know, the first time the word "holy" is used is as a verb in Genesis 2:3: "Then God blessed the seventh day and SANCTIFIED it..." This made it Holy, "Holified" or "Hallowed" it. The enemy’s plan is to pull you out of your abiding place so you cannot walk holy throughout the week. Then we react wrongly and miss God’s blessings. ----------------------------------- THE PRAYER, "HAVDALA" --DIFFERENCE ----------------------------------- There is a prayer that is said when Shabbat is over called Havdala. This word means “difference”. The prayer distinguishes the difference between the sacred (Shabbat) and the profane (the other six days). During this prayer a cup is filled to overflowing with wine in a symbol that the Shabbat blessings will spill into the week. Another important aspect of this observance is breathing from a container of aromatic leaves or spices. This signifies that the aroma of holiness will follow into and sweeten the new week. The enemy wants to disrupt this fragrance of Holiness and Blessing flowing in the earth realm. He hates the sweet fragrance of God’s people. The enemy hates the thought of us obeying God’s covenant plan of rest and walking in the Lord’s blessings throughout the week. This is what he is attacking through evil anti-Christ systems in the earth. Shabbat is the heart of God’s covenant plan. We find this in the 10 Commandments, and we find the principle of rest all the way through the New Testament. ----------------------- WAR TO ENTER INTO REST ----------------------- The Sabbath became a symbol of the heavenly rest to come (Heb. 4:1-11). Actually, the number “58” in the Hebrew numbering system means, "nun" and "chet", which together spell "nach", a form of the Hebrew verb "To Rest". It is interesting that the name "Noah" means “58 or nun-chet”. This is a time to build an ark of safety for the generation who will demonstrate God’s blessings in days ahead. ------------------------------- A PROMISE OF ENTERING HIS REST ------------------------------- Hebrews 4:1-11 says, “Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: ‘So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest,' ‘ although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: ‘And God rested on the seventh day from all His works’; and again in this place: ‘They shall not enter My rest.’ Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, again He designates a certain day, saying in David, ‘Today,’ after such a long time, as it has been said: ‘Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.’ For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.” ------------------------- SABBATH BLESSINGS DEFINED ------------------------- The word Sabbath comes from the Hebrew Shabbat, meaning “to cease” or “desist.” The primary meaning is that of cessation from all work. Regulations concerning the Sabbath are a main feature of the Mosaic laws. Both reports of the Ten Commandments stated that the Sabbath belonged to the Lord. On six days the Israelites should work, but on the seventh, they as well as all slaves, foreigners, and beasts must rest. Two reasons are given. The first is that God rested on the seventh day after creation, thereby making the day holy (Ex. 29:8-11). The second was a reminder of their redemption from slavery in Egypt (Deut. 5:12-15). The day became a time for sacred assembly and worship (Lev. 23:1-3), a token of their covenant with God (Ex. 31:12-17; Ezek. 20:12-20). Death was the penalty for desecration (Ex. 35:1-3). The true observance of not following one’s own pursuits on that day would lift a person to God’s holy mountain and bring spiritual nourishment (Isa. 56:1-7; 58:13), but failure to keep the Sabbath would bring destruction to their earthly kingdom (Neh. 13:15-22; Jer. 17:21-27). ---------------------- THE SABBATH PRINCIPLE ---------------------- Even though many prohibitions entered into Sabbath regulations, the principle of Sabbath has never been removed. In the New Testament, the habit of Jesus was to observe the Sabbath as a day of worship in the synagogues (Luke 4:16), but His failure to comply with the minute restrictions brought conflict (Mark 2:23-28; 3:1-6; Luke 13:10-17; John 5:1-18). At first, Christians also met on the Sabbath with the Jews in the synagogues to proclaim Christ (Acts 13:14). Their holy day, the day that belonged especially to the Lord, was the first day of the week, the day of resurrection (Matt. 28:1; Acts 20:7; Rev. 1:10). They viewed the Sabbath and other matters of the law as a shadow of the reality which had now been revealed (Col. 2:16-23). ----------------------------------------------------- 21 DAYS OF DECLARATION FROM THE 58-DAY PRAYER THRUST ---------------------------------------------------- March 13: Ask the Lord to set the oppressed free. Pray for the Lord to expose structures of oppression. March 14: Pray for those in your area that are working with the poor. March 15: Ask the Lord what you could give to touch the poor in your area. March 16: Ask the Lord to show you excess garments in your closet to give to the poor. March 17: Ask the Lord to expose and remove judgmental spirits within you. March 18: Ask the Lord to let you hear criticism that comes from your mouth. March 19: Ask the Lord to show you how the Accuser of the Brethren is operating. March 20: Declare the power of accusation to break from you. March 21: Ask God to show you places you have slipped in the past, and ask for firm footing. March 22: Declare that no plan of the enemy will be able to ensnare and entrap you. March 23: Shout RESTORE over your life, your family, your church, your city, and this nation. March 24: Ask the Lord to break the power of loss from your life. March 25: Know God as the Repairer of Broken Walls. March 26: Know God as the Restorer of Streets with Dwellings. March 27: Declare a release of the building plan that you need to come into place. March 28: Declare a release of supply for that building plan. March 29: Break the power of discouragement that would resist you building for the future. March 30: Declare the enemy’s plan at the gates of your life will be exposed. March 31: Declare any legal decrees that have been set against you to become void. April 1: Pray and ask the Lord for the enemy’s power and voice to break in your life. April 2: Pray and ask the Lord to expose the enemy’s strategies in your city. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DECLARE COVENANT BLESSINGS TO MANIFEST IN YOUR LIFE, CHURCH, CITY AND NATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ God’s covenant with His people released a tremendous grace into the earth. God’s original covenant with Abraham pervaded the nation, manifested fully through Jesus Christ visiting the earth, and has now been extended into the future. The blessings of this covenant are ours. Hell does not want us to enter into a manifestation of God’s blessings. As you worship, declare: 1. Protection 2. Financial supply 3. Health 4. Success 5. Victory over your enemies 6. Your children and inheritance will possess the gate of their enemy 7. The nation of the earth where God has placed you will know God ----------------- PRAY FOR AMERICA ----------------- Because there is such a manifestation of God’s covenant blessing within this nation, the days mentioned above are also very critical for America. Pray we do not compromise our relationship with God’s covenant land, Israel. Pray that our cities enter into a time of worship to protect them from enemies invading their gates. ----------------------------------------- PRAY FOR WASHINGTON D.C. AND PORT CITIES ----------------------------------------- Pray specifically for Washington DC during this time. Also, pray for the port cities throughout America. Pray that any nuclear bombs be exposed in our cities. Pray that we operate under the commandments of God, confess our sins, and declare that this land is in full covenant protection (2 Chronicles 6, 7). Rick Ridings, a key prophet in Israel, just sent an email confirming this same prayer. Pray for the leadership in America, especially the Cabinet (President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Colin Powell, and Condeleeza Rice). Pray that our agenda for war does not violate any of God’s principles. Pray we stay in God’s perfect timing. Pray that the issues of Iraq do not pull us out of our abiding place. Blessings, Chuck D. Pierce ------------------------------ Visit the ELIJAH LIST PROPHETIC STORE: www.theelijahlist.safeshopper.com Books by Chuck Pierce, including: "THE FUTURE WAR OF THE CHURCH" (One of our most popular books) and "THE BEST IS YET AHEAD", Chuck Pierce's newest and also one of our most popular books. Click on: http://theelijahlist.safeshopper.com/80/cat80.htm?733
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