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The Baptism in the Holy Spirit

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CBN.com – Missing person: The Holy Spirit

Many people may have had an experience like that of the little girl who heard the Holy Ghost (as the Holy Spirit is sometimes called) mentioned in church from time to time, but so vaguely and infrequently she could only guess what sort of ghost this might be. So one day, when she venture down into the dark furnace room in the church's cellar, she decided with a child's firm logic that this spooky place must be where the Holy Ghost lurked.

The fact is, adult believers often act as if the Holy Spirit really was hiding in the church cellar. They may know something about the Holy Spirit, but they don't know Him personally or realize that He is God in the same way the Son and the Father are God. When they read the Bible, many people are surprised to find that the Holy Spirit was at the very dawn of time: "The Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters" (Genesis1:2), and many are amazed to find out there are approximately 100 references to the Holy Spirit throughout the Old and New Testaments.

Nevertheless, the Spirit's role is fundamental both to creation and the life of the believer. When a person comes to Jesus Christ, he receives Christ into his heart. The Spirit of God comes and joins with the spirit of the believer. This "indwelling Spirit" reproduces the life of Jesus in the believer's life.

What, Then, Is The Baptism In The Holy Spirit?

The baptism in the Holy Spirit is an empowering for service that takes place in the life of the Christian (Acts 1:5,8). In it we are immersed in the Spirit's life and power.

To illustrate, if we drank water from a glass, then the water would be inside us. However, if we went to the beach and stepped into the ocean, then we would be in the water. We receive, as it were, a drink of the Holy Spirit when we are saved, but when we are baptized in the Spirit, it is as if that initial drink becomes an ocean that completely surrounds us.

Just as the indwelling Spirit that Christians receive when they are saved reproduces the life of Jesus, so the outpoured, or baptizing, Spirit reproduces the ministry of Jesus, including miracles and healings.

Why Do We Need The Baptism In The Holy Spirit?

We need a power beyond ourselves for service and ministry in Christ's Kingdom.

When Jesus gave the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20), He knew that His disciples could not fulfill it in their own power. Therefore, He had a special gift in store for them: It was His plan to give them the same power that He had -- the power of the Spirit of God. So, immediately after giving them the Great Commission, Jesus commanded his disciples not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father promised, "which," He said, "you heard of from Me; for John baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now" (Acts 1:4-5). He further promised: "You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth" (Acts 1:8).

The disciples waited in Jerusalem as Jesus had commanded, and one day when they were all together, "suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent, rushing winds, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them. And they were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance" (Acts 2:3,4). Then Peter explained to the crowd that gathered that they were seeing the working of God's Spirit and told them about Jesus. The Christian church began that day with the disciples and the three thousand people who joined them as a result of the day's events.

We can undertake making disciples of all nations with some degree of success without the baptism in the Holy Spirit, but when we do, we are undertaking a supernatural task with limited power.

It is God's will -- it is His commandment -- that we be baptized, or filled with the Holy Spirit: "Be filled with the Spirit" (Ephesians 5:18). The knowledge and reality of the empowering Spirit enables us to reproduce the works of Jesus.

When May I Receive The Baptism In The Holy Spirit?

It can take place at the moment you confess faith in Christ, as in the case of the first Gentile convert, Cornelius (Acts 10:44-46; 11:15, 16); but often it occurs some time after the salvation experience (Acts 8:12-17).

Is There Anything To Fear?

Some people fear that if they ask for the baptism in the Holy Spirit, what they experience won't be the authentic working of the Spirit. But once they do ask for it, they are always glad they did. God doesn't cause us to do anything we don't want to, and all His gifts are good and perfect (James 1:17). Jesus said, "Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will be? Or if he is asked for an egg, he will not give him a scorpion, will he? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?" (Luke 11:11-13). The baptism in the Holy Spirit is an even better gift than any material gift you could receive, and God wants you to have it because He loves you and wants the very best for you.

What Should I Do Before Asking?

The Bible says that a wise man counts the cost before he begins to build a tower (Luke 14:28). This beautiful experience of the baptism in the Holy Spirit is a free gift, but you must be willing to submit fully to God to receive it.

Jesus will respond to a totally yielded vessel. He never asks anything of you that you are incapable of giving, nor does He ever fail to give you something greater in return when you do give your all. The joy He gives through total obedience to Him far outweighs anything you could possibly give up.

There is one more important consideration: In Acts 8, a man named Simon, deeply involved in the occult, wanted to buy the gift of the Holy Spirit. Peter sharply rebuked Simon, commanding him to repent. Therefore, if you ever at any time had anything to do with the occult (Ouija boards, fortune tellers, seances, horoscopes, ESP, transcendental mediation, hypnotism, or other such practices), you must renounce and turn away from all such sinful participation, and you must ask for God's forgiveness and cleansing.

How Do I Receive The Baptism In The Holy Spirit?

You only have to do two things.

First, once you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior you just have to ask God to baptize you in the Holy Spirit. The Bible says, "Ask, and it shall be given to you" (Luke 11:9).

Second, believe you have in fact received this gift from God. The apostle Paul, writing to the Galatians, said, "Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing with faith?"

(Galatians 3:2). The answer, obviously, is faith. You have to believe that if you ask, you will receive.

Pray this prayer if you sincerely desire to receive the baptism in God's Holy Spirit:

"Heavenly Father, at this moment I come to You. I thank You that Jesus saved me. I pray that the Holy Spirit might come upon me. Lord Jesus, baptize me now in the Holy Spirit. I receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit right now by faith in Your Word. May the anointing, the glory, and the power of God come upon me and into my life right now. May I be empowered for service from this day forward. Thank You, Lord Jesus, for baptizing me in Your Holy Spirit. Amen."

Now, having asked and received, begin to practice the power of the Spirit. An ideal place to begin is where the first apostles did, praising God in a new language. To do this, begin praising God out loud in whatever words come to you. Tell Him how much you love Him. Thank Him, worship Him, and yield your voice to Him. Now let Him give you new words of praise you never heard before. Praise Him with those words, too. You'll find that thiscan be a very rewarding experience of communication with God that will build up your faith. Continue to pray to God each day in the language that the Holy Spirit has given you.

But this "prayer language" is just one of the gifts that God wants to give you through the baptism in His Spirit.

The Gifts and Fruit of the Holy Spirit

The apostle Paul told the Corinthians that the Holy Spirit would manifest Himself among them in special gifts, of which speaking in tongues was only one: "Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware....To one is give the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, and to another the distinguishing of spirit, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues" (I Corinthians 12:1,8-10).

Paul also wrote that the Holy Spirit produces "fruit" in the lives of believers. These are virtues that demonstrate Jesus' righteousness in the lives of His disciples: "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control" (Galatians 5:22).

So, in asking for the baptism in the Holy Spirit you are availing yourself of these gifts for advancing God's Kingdom and allowing the Holy Spirit to further cultivate in your life the fruit of righteousness -- two great helps in living a life God can use mightily for His glory.

That's the way it is with God. God is offering the baptism in the Holy Spirit to people who need only to reach out and receive it in order to be on fire to fully serve Him.

Walking in the Spirit

By now you can see that the Holy Spirit is so much more than a shadowy figure to pay lip-service to on Sunday morning. He can be with you and in your to bring new life to your Christian walk. Likewise, the baptism in the Holy Spirit is more than a single experience. It is a continual dependence on the Spirit for guidance and strength in all circumstances. "If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit" (Galatians 5:25).

The baptism in the Holy Spirit cannot be earned. You cannot become "good enough" to receive it. It is a gift from God. It is not a "cure-all" for your problems. But the same wonderful power that enabled Jesus to open blind eyes, to command the elements of nature, and to live a life pleasing to the Father during His ministry on earth is also available to you. Ask, and it shall be given to you.

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The Mystery of the Date of Pentecost - Zola Levitt Ministries

The Mystery of the Date of Pentecost

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by Thomas S. McCall, Th.D.

Dr. Thomas McCall, the Senior Theologian of our ministry, has written many articles for the Levitt Letter. He holds a Th.M. in Old Testament studies and a Th.D. in Semitic languages and Old Testament. He has served as Zola’s co-author, mentor, pastor, and friend for nearly 30 years.

This article appeared originally in the July 1995 Levitt Letter.

Page Contents

• Introduction
• Problem with Vagueness
• The Case for Sunday

Introduction

For believers in Jesus the Messiah, the dating of Pentecost is one of the most exquisite examples of type and fulfillment in the Scriptures. Pentecost means fifty, and is actually fifty days from another feast, First Fruits. These calculations are explained in Leviticus 23:10–11, 15–17. The feast of First Fruits was to occur on the day after the Sabbath (verse 11), which was always the Sunday of Passover week. Pentecost, then, was the day after the seventh following Sabbath (verses 15–16), which would be the fiftieth day after First Fruits and also on a Sunday.

The fulfillment of these feasts is striking. Jesus died the Friday of Passover week and had to be buried hastily before sunset, which was when the Sabbath began. His body remained in the borrowed sepulchre throughout the Sabbath day, but on that Sunday morning, when the priest was to offer the First Fruits offering in the Temple, Christ arose from the dead, the first fruits of them that slept (I Cor. 15:20).

For forty ensuing days, the Lord appeared to His disciples in His resurrection body, and then ascended into Heaven. Ten days later, the Sunday of the Feast of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit descended upon the believers in Jerusalem and created the ekklesia, the called out body of Christ, the church. These fulfillments were obviously no coincidence, but were part of the overall plan and purpose of God in verifying the powerful meaning of the death and resurrection of Christ, and the establishment of the new body of believers.

From then on, the Jewish believers in Christ must have repeatedly informed the people of Israel about the nature of the fulfillment of Passover, First Fruits and Pentecost. It must have made a great impact on the Jewish people who lived between the resurrection of Christ and the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD, a span of about forty years.

The Rabbis’ Problem with Vagueness

This brings us to the explanation of First Fruits and Pentecost offered in a recent article by Moshe Kohn in the Jerusalem Post.Students of the New Testament might well be mystified over the tortured reasoning concerning what he perceives as the singular vagueness in the Torah about these two feasts:

It is strange that of all the festivals the Torah ordains, Shavuot [Weeks, Pentecost] alone the anniversary of the event that marks the birth of the Jewish people is given no specific date. The Torah only tells us that at a vaguely specified time during Pessah, from the day after the shabbat … there shall be seven full weeks. Till the day after the seventhshabbat you shall count 50 days (Leviticus 23:15–16).

Why is the day after the Sabbath considered vague? It seems pretty definite to us! It means the day after Saturday, that is, Sunday. This is the way the Sadducees and the later Jewish sect of the Karaites understood the Scriptures, as Kohn explains:

This vague formulation was in dispute between Jewish sectarians and the Sages. The Sadducees maintained thatshabbat in this passage is a proper noun referring to the weekly Shabbat.

According to this understanding, accepted by the Karaites and Samaritans, the omer count begins the first Sunday after the first Shabbat of Pessah, so that Shavuot always falls on Sunday seven weeks later (as it happens to fall this year).

The normal Saturday meaning of the Sabbath in this passage was the view of the Sadducees. They were the priestly party and had control of the Temple, where the feasts were focused until the Temple was destroyed. The view of the Sadducees appears to be supported by the Septuagint, which was the translation from Hebrew to Greek by Jewish scholars in Egypt around 180 BC. In rendering the two Hebrew words mimmacharat hashabbat (on the morrow after the Sabbath) in Lev. 23:11, they used the Greek word protos (first). This would indicate the first day of the week, or Sunday. Thus, the Septuagint suggests that the Sunday First Fruits and Pentecost was observed throughout the centuries before the First Coming of the Messiah.

However, Kohn explains that the Sages, the rabbis who compiled the Talmud after the destruction of the Temple, had a very different interpretation of the term Sabbath in this passage:

The Sages’ view … was that this shabbat is the generic for day of rest, referring to the first day of Pessah. Accordingly, the count begins the second day of Pessah rather the night before and Shavuot always falls on Sivan 6.

No less strange is that the Torah doesn’t name this 50th day as the day of the Mount Sinai event. Again it is the talmudic Sages who ruled that the date is Sivan 6. (Shabbat 6b, Pessahim 68b)

Now, this is strange! The rabbis decided that in this case the term Sabbath did not mean Saturday, but something else: the first day of Passover, or, more precisely, the first day of Unleavened Bread (the second day of Passover). What justification do they have for changing the meaning of Sabbath that way? Kohn does not say, but there must have been a very strong motive to cause the Sages to interpret Sabbath as something other than the regular sacred Saturday Sabbath.

We have no proof, but suggest that the change came some time after the resurrection of Christ and before the destruction of the Temple. Think of the impact the Jewish believers must have had as they described the Lord’s resurrection on the Sunday of Passover week at First Fruits and the coming of the Spirit seven Sundays later on Pentecost. The leaders must have been hard pressed to explain away the relevance of the feasts and their fulfillment in the Messiah.

The solution they came up with was to obfuscate the calendar in such a way as to make the connection less clear between the feasts and their fulfillment in Christ and the Holy Spirit. The strategy apparently worked because most Jewish people today see no connection whatever between the Feasts and the Messiah. By the time Josephus wrote his history about the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD, the Jewish authorities had established the concept that First Fruits was always on Nisan 16, and Pentecost on Sivan 6. Josephus went through a rather lengthy explanation that the Sabbath of Lev. 23:11 meant the first day of Unleavened Bread, not Saturday. Thus, apparently some time before the destruction of the Temple, the practice of observing First Fruits and Pentecost on Nisan 16 and Sivan 6 was in place.

Instead of causing Jewish leaders to marvel over the relationship between the Feasts and the Messiah, the current festival schedule leaves scholars like Moshe Kohn scratching their heads. They are perplexed over the vagueness of the dates of First Fruits and Pentecost, and why there is no clear statement in the Torah that Pentecost is the day Moses received the Law, which is the teaching of the Sages. Such appears to be part of the veil over the eyes of the majority of Jewish people that so tragically obscures the truth about the Messiah in the Law.

Nevertheless, many Jews today and a lot of Gentiles who have no background in these matters are being graciously enlightened and are receiving the Lord.

The Case for Sunday for First Fruits and Pentecost

There are strong arguments for the Sunday interpretation for First Fruits and Pentecost in the Leviticus passage:

1. The basic meaning of the term Shabbat in the Torah is Saturday. There are some rare exceptions to this rule, but the context usually clarifies the meaning when there is an exception. It would appear that the burden of proof would be with anyone who claims that Shabbat means anything other than Saturday. Thus, the morrow after the Sabbath must mean Sunday unless there are compelling reasons for understanding otherwise.
2. Even if the Sages could make a case for the first day of Unleavened Bread (the second day of Passover) to be considered a Sabbath, how could the seven succeeding Sabbaths be considered anything other than Saturdays? In order for Pentecost to fall always on Sivan 6, the seventh Sabbath after First Fruits has to be understood as something other than a Saturday. If it was difficult to consider the first day of Unleavened Bread as a Sabbath, it would appear almost impossible to consider Sivan 5 (seven weeks later) to be a Sabbath, no matter what day of the week on which it fell. Yet this is what the Sages are asking us to believe in order to accept what they have ruled.
3. All the other Mosaic feasts are given specific dates, such as Nisan 14, Tishri 1, Tishri 10, and so forth. If the Lord intended for First Fruits and Pentecost always to fall on Nisan 16 and Sivan 6, why did He not so specify as He did with the other feasts? Why go through the elaborate process of counting the seven Sabbaths, unless it was clear that these two feasts were moveable, and would fall on different days of the month each year? It seems that the emphasis in these two feasts is that they would always fall on the same day of the week (Sunday) every year, rather than on the same numerical day of the month.
4. As indicated above, the Septuagint appears to confirm the Saturday meaning of Sabbath in Lev. 23:11 because it usedprotos to translate the phrase on the morrow after the Sabbath. The testimony of the Septuagint is important because it represents the thinking of Jewish authorities long before the first coming of Christ and the development of the Talmudic positions on controversial matters.

Thus, the great weight of evidence is that First Fruits and Pentecost were always intended to fall on Sundays, without regard to the day of the month they occurred. As for the New Testament record, it is clear that Jesus arose from the dead on Sunday, the First Day of the Week, the day after the Sabbath, as the fulfillment of the feast of First Fruits. What day of the month was this that year? We believe that Thursday was Nisan 14, the day the Passover lambs were sacrificed. Jesus ate the traditional Passover and died on Friday, Nisan 15, and arose from the dead on Sunday, Nisan 17. This would mean Pentecost fell that year on Sivan 7.

Source: Zola Levitt Ministries - Pentecost

What Is Your Itch? - Now Think On This by Steve Martin

What Is Your Itch?

- Now Think On This

by Steve Martin

“But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary in doing good.” 2 Thess. 3:13 NKJV

 “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” Gal. 6:9 NKJV


Day in and day out. Sometimes the mundane gets to be too mundane, and we wonder how we are going to keep on keeping on. Doing that which we know to do can get wearisome, but we do know we have to keep doing it.

Faithfulness coming from within, empowered by His Holy Spirit, enables us to keep going, even when we don’t have the strength – mentally, spiritually, physically and emotionally. We can be thankful the Holy Spirit, empowering us from within, is there as our Helper. He was sent by the Father to be with us in our walk up the mountain of life.

Have you ever wondered why you get an itch? A continual irritation that doesn’t seem to go away, and it causes you to give attention to it when you’d rather not have that issue to deal with?

One simple example comes to mind, and I share this illustration because many of you also have a pet. Our mini Dachshund Zoe, going on eight years old now, either has a skin rash, an allergy, or whatever that irritation is that has continually caused her to itch all the time. Day, night – it doesn’t matter. Not only is it annoying and bothering her, but it has become that to us also.

I watch my good wife Laurie do all she can to stop the irritation that keeps causing Zoe to keep having to scratch the itch – a daily bath with medicated shampoo, prescription pills, rubbing lotion on the red area – yet nothing seems to stop it. It has been a daily, wearisome task for a long time now. But Laurie has been faithfully doing all she knows to do to. She has been very diligent in heeding advice, researching causes and remedies. By God’s grace she will eventually prevail. Her faithfulness in this regard will be rewarded with an “itch-free” dog! Yeah!

Zoe - don't you just love that face??!!

Both you and I have things in our lives that itch. They cause irritation needing our attention. We’d rather be spending energy and focus on other things having more pleasurable moments, but these “itches” are not going to go away if we don’t pay attention to them.

So what is the point in all this?

I like how Paul gives us a clear perspective on how to approach these matters that we face and must deal with, whether we like it or not.

“These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us. There's far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can't see now will last forever.” 2 Cor. 4:17-18 (THE MESSAGE)

Here is another version of 2 Corinthians 4:17-18, from the New American Standard Bible, “For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

Living 40, 50, 60 years is a very small time compared to the length of eternity, for time there has no end. We can’t fathom that, but at least we can comprehend that this time, on this planet, with its many trials, temptations and “itches”, is nothing compared to that time with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Keeping this firmly implanted in our brains and hearts will help us overcome that which will come our way. These light afflictions, or hard times, will come to an end. With the help of Ruach Hakodesh, the Holy Spirit given to us since Pentecost, He will see us through.

Be blessed with the itches, knowing that they are only temporary. You are made to be an overcomer, and so you shall. Be blessed in keeping faithful to the end.

Now think on this,

Steve Martin

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I Miss Americanism - Jim Croft

 I Miss Americanism

Jim Croft

News Coverage has been frustrating for me the past several weeks. There's a lot of discussion about US Army Sgt Bowe Bergdahl. He purposely walked off of his Afghanistan post in 2009 and had an intentional stay with the Taliban for 5 years. He was brought back into US hands by a prisoner exchange for 5 of the most dangerous Islamic Jihad combatants captured during the WOT. The WH is defining Bergdahl’s Army career as distinguished and honorable. They describe the POW exchange as a fulfillment of US policy not to leave a man behind.

In contrast, there is the case of a US Marine named Andrew Tahmooressi. He volunteered for 2 honorably fulfilled tours of duty in Afghanistan and returned home with PTSD. Nearly 2 months ago he was driving near the Tijuana, MX border and accidently crossed into MX. He got confused and did not see the directive sign about how to make a u-turn back into the USA without the necessity of an official manned border crossing.

Tahmooressi voluntarily told the MX border guards that he had personal weapons in his car. He was hauled off to a MX prison where he has been chained to a bed, beaten and threatened with sodomistic rape. This has been happening in a country that is supposedly a friend of the USA that has thousands of its citizens who travel daily into the US for work and return home each evening. Our State Dept claims that it is best to let the legal process work in MX without US governmental intervention. 

This claim is made when we have a sitting President who brags that if Congress does not act on the legislation that he wants passed that he has the power of the pen and phone to bypass them. What could possibly prevent our President and/or the Secretary of State from picking up the phone and making a strategic call to end the insults to Tahmooressi’s dignity and to that of our nation? I think I have the answer to that question.

There is nothing within this present administration that resonates with classic Americanism. Space does not permit the listing of all examples of what comprises Americanism. But, I will attempt to convey its tone and gist.

OK, Emperor of Japan; you bomb our Hawaiian naval port without provocation 12/7/41? We’ll rebuild our navy in short order and bring the battle to you. Then we’ll invent bombs with unprecedented power that will have destructive blasts that will inflict collateral damage so devastating that you’ll lose all heart to ever instigate another war.

Germany is aggressive for the second time in 50 years and begins to gobble up the nations of our European allies in 1939. Eisenhower helps plan and execute the D-Day invasion of Normandy on the Western coast of France 6/6/44. General George Patton vows that his first act after conquering all territory eastward to Germany’s Rhine River will be to piss in it. That he did, and my father joined him

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President Reagan, in front of the entire world spoke about the Soviet’s Berlin Wall. He emphatically demanded: “Mr. Gorbachev open this gate; tear down this wall.” It happened and years of murderous oppression cased in numerous Communistic countries. 

Give every American equal opportunity to exceed the socioeconomic class of their birth. Whether here or abroad, Americans always have and always will continue to freely donate billions of $s to relieve those traumatized by life situations that are beyond their control. Just don’t try to extract generosity from us through forced governmental wealth redistribution. 

Our national doors are always open to those who come in by lawful entry like our ancestors. But, don’t override our proven method of immigration for the sake of securing the illegal votes of aliens who have not sworn allegiance to our flag and Constitution.

What is preventing our President, our Secretary of State from picking up the phone to have a brief word with the President of MX about the shameful treatment of Andrew Tahmooressi to demand his immediate release? The reason is that they don’t understand nor want to support traditional Americanism that might suggest that it’s possible to reap after like manner if hardheartedness has been sown.

“What was that Senior Mexican President? You say that Tahmooressi’s case must be fully investigated and go through your court system? Okeedokie, have it your way. From this point on, not a single Mexican citizen will be permitted into the USA for daily work or any other reason. All US banks and money wire services will cease sending funds to individuals and businesses within MX. I’m quite sure that the bonafide citizens of the USA will voluntarily comply with this policy until our warrior is back safely with his family in America.” What say you?

Chuck D. Pierce: "I Speak to You Asia - This New Apostolic Move Will Penetrate!" And "Each Nation Will Arise!"

Chuck D. Pierce:

"I Speak to You Asia - This New Apostolic Move 

Will Penetrate!" 

And 

"Each Nation Will Arise!"

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Intro from Julie A. Smith:

In just returning from Thailand two weeks ago, I appreciate this prophetic word of the Lord for Asia by Chuck Pierce, in which he includes Thailand, my home country and where I was born. This is a powerful prophetic word for Asia and the nations of the earth.

This recent trip to Thailand was unlike any other trip I've been on. I visited North Thailand for the first time, where God told me Revival would start. 

Before my trip, I didn't know that I would be visiting the most northern city in Thailand, Mae Sai, which is at the border of Myanmar. From there I visited specific locations bordering Thailand, Myanmar and Laos, and spoke at a couple of churches and we declared "Revival and God's Peace" to come over the region. 

It was an amazing time of reconnecting with ministry friends, making new connections, and seeing the "birthing of dreams and promises" taking place, which has been spoken about greatly in this season. It was a time of "releasing decrees" as Chuck shares:

"I am beginning to give revelation over ley lines and power lines over nations and continents. I am releasing angels to war along with you and bring revelation over power sources and strong men. You will release decrees, and you will see giants coming down and My glory rising. 

The world is Mine, and today I am hovering and holding the earth and its nations in My hands. The Father has given them to Me and I am giving them to you as your inheritance. Call out and come into One New Man for the earth is Mine."

If you have been standing and praying for specific lands, regions and nations, you will be greatly encouraged by this word. At the end, there is a powerful prayer declaration that Chuck Pierce shares and I would encourage you all to declare it over your location(s).

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"I Speak to You Asia - 

This New Apostolic Move 

Will Penetrate!" 

And 

"Each Nation Will Arise!"

Newsletter from Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Dear Pentecost Celebrants:

This morning's 5:15 Movement Prayer Meeting was just amazing! On this Pentecost morning, the voice of Holy Spirit was so clear and powerful.

When we began, we heard the Lord say:, "This is a day of diffusing My Spirit into My people." 

To diffuse means to move outward, to spread through or over a wide area, or cause to become widely known. 

I saw the fathoms of the deep speaking to the deep within us, diffusing times, words, sounds and seasons. The fathoms are speaking of the diffusing coming up and out of us in this season.

On Pentecost, the sound from Heaven came and diffused. 

THE THIRD PERSON OF THE TRINITY came into one place and fanned out all over. I see that what we decree here will move over the continents. Holy Spirit will go even to Antarctica and Alaska where ice formed during the ice age. What comes in during this age will refresh and go out again. San Marcos, Texas will have a visitation.

Here is a portion of other prophetic revelation that came forward:

One New Man - This is the Time of the Greater Works

"I am coming down from Heaven, and I am pulling My rivers together. My rivers within My people will become one mighty rushing water that begins to spread out into places that they have not touched before. This is a day of collecting the waters again that I might pour out upon places of the earth that are dry. 

These waters will begin to overwhelm that which has been so depleted and overwhelmed, and that which has been so separated. These waters will begin to draw together.

"Where there has been many, they will now become one. Where things need to be drawn together, they will now be drawn together into one place. This is a pulling together of My people that the earth has not seen. 

Within the movement of the pulling together, I will begin to demonstrate the power of My being that will flood through the doors around the earth, and cause a ground that has been dry, and a people that have been weary, and a people depleted and divided to come into a One New Man.

"Fiery trials will make One New Man for the times ahead and the new things I will send you into. You will carry a new message of greater works into the nations. This takes the One New Man! You will come into agreements that generations before could not form. 

This is the time of the greater works.

"At creation My Spirit hovered, and when I spoke, all of the earth shifted. At Pentecost My Spirit hovered, and when I released My voice, the whole earth shifted. 

I am hovering again, and the earth will shift at the sound of My voice.

There is a whirlwind coming to places in the earth. In this whirlwind is fire! You will be like the three friends of Daniel in the fiery furnace. Where the whirlwind of fire comes, I will visit! 

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"The Poles are shifting and My people are being reoriented. My people will no longer be oriented by what the world says is up and down, but will have a third Heaven orientation. I am ready to draw in people that have yet to been drawn in. I will cause many around to be confused.

"My glory will fall on those who have not known My glory. Because you have tasted My goodness, you will be tasted by others. Even words that have fallen in crevices throughout the earth will now begin to rise up and manifest – just as Joel prophesied. And in this day of diffusion, that which was prophesied thousands of days before began to manifest."

"I Speak to You, Asia..."

"When I enter Asia, the fire of the seven-headed dragon that is ready to blow will be stopped and cooled by the power of My Spirit. 

The dragon's breath now will grow hot in the earth, but My people will be like a cool drink of water, and those who have never experienced My joy will now be filled with My joy.

"In China, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, I will fall. 

I will come to Kazakhstan. 

And Russia will be awakened because I will fall on the people of Asian descent. 

I am hovering in ways that you have never seen. Singapore now will be realigned in My Spirit. Thailand will have divisions broken down. A Oneness of My Spirit will arise upon the island of Taiwan. The West Coast will know that I am alive. That which has been divided over the centuries will now become one again. I began One New Man and now One New Man will be seen.

"I speak to you, Asia. For in the early days you closed the door on My first apostolic move toward you. But this time in this day, this new apostolic move will penetrate! I am standing at the door, and will cause My fire to circle you. I am coming in strength and fire this time!

"Only the nations who rise above their religion to embrace the One New Man that I am arising in the earth will be the nations that begin to follow Me and that I bless in new ways.  What has been divided, I will heal. 

Where the power of fornication and adultery has caused My presence to retract from the earth, even there I will heal the breach where you have scattered your seed. 

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"Seeds will come back into the rows that I have prepared, through the plowing of My people. Many people have scattered seeds through their division, but now a preparation has come through the plowing of My people, and those seeds will be brought back and My people who have been scattered and divided will become one.

"Each Nation Will Arise"

"I am beginning to give revelation over ley lines and power lines over nations and continents. I am releasing angels to war along with you and bring revelation over power sources and strong men. You will release decrees, and you will see giants coming down and My glory rising. The world is Mine, and today I am hovering and holding the earth and its nations in My hands. The Father has given them to Me and I am giving them to you as your inheritance. Call out and come into One New Man for the earth is Mine."

"My dancing hand is coming over the seven continents. My breath is upon the waters. I am gathering together what will pull the end time portion into place. Watch My breath on the waters. South America, watch the domain of Heaven invading your portion. I am coming into the caves of South America.

"Malaysia, now arise with the fullness of the Godhead, in the remnant. The seeds that have been strewn are now blossoming up, for such a time as this. The demonstration of My power will cause the Oneness of the cry of Jesus, My Son, to manifest. Each nation will arise, and the ends of the continents will be the diffusers, activated to move us across. Watch My breath and whirlwinds on the waters. Rivers will be rearranged. Waters will flow differently. 

Many on paths who are headed in one direction will be knocked down and rise up with scales removed from their eyes."

Declarative Prayer:

We decree the diffusing power of Holy Spirit today. We invite You to have access to those who profess the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, make us one, diffused with Your power.

We invite that which will cause those who have sat at the Gate Beautiful to rise up in a new way. 

Many have begged, but today there is an interacting of the Spirit of God in the earth with those that are crying out in one accord, that will cause the doors and gates of Your present synagogues and churches to change greatly. The doors of the Church and the gates will change in such a way that the government will take notice. 

 In nations, in cities, in America, we ask and cry out for a change in the door of your Church. From this movement let the doors and the Gate Beautiful that leads into Your present places of worship, become demonstrations.

Blessings,

Chuck D. Pierce
Glory of Zion International Ministries

Email: chuckp@glory-of-zion.org
Website: glory-of-zion.org

Charles D. "Chuck" Pierce serves as President of Global Spheres, Inc. (GSI) in Corinth, Texas. This is an apostolic, prophetic ministry that is being used to gather and mobilize the worshipping Triumphant Reserve throughout the world. GSI facilitates other ministries as well, and participates in regional and national gatherings to develop new Kingdom paradigms. 

Chuck also serves as President of Glory of Zion International Ministries, a ministry that aligns Jew and Gentile. He is known for his accurate prophetic gifting which helps direct nations, cities, churches, and individuals in understanding the times and seasons in which we live. 

Chuck and his wife, Pam, have six children and seven grandchildren. He has authored over 20 books, including the best-sellers Possessing Your Inheritance, The Future War of the Church, The Worship Warrior, God's Unfolding Battle Plan, Interpreting the Times, Redeeming the Time, and Time to Defeat the Devil.

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