Chuck D. Pierce - A Time to Prosper: Finding and Entering Gods Realm of Blessings

2013 Chuck D. Pierce and Robert Heidler

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GODS PROMISE OF PROSPERITY

CHUCK D. PIERCE

A time to prosper! What an interesting, wonderful phrase, thought, interjection and decree. In a world where there is chaos and poverty, to hear these words brings excitement mixed with skepticism. As you read this book, we want to turn your skepticism into faith and your excitement into a manifestation of reality in your life! God intends for us to live peacefully. His goal is for us to cultivate and multiply in the place He assigns us. He means for us to be efficient in what we do, maximizing our allotted time and space. His ultimate goal for us is to live in harmony with Him and with those who enter our lives and spheres of influence.

Faith works in time and space! Prosperity is proportionately related to faith! A Time to Prosper will help you understand your time, your space and the dimension of faith that is linked to multiplication. In the midst of your time and space, faith must not only rise but also grow to deal with all the tests that attempt to stop your progress and your prosperity.

So many of us have been sorely tested in the areas of finances, particularly in regard to provisions and supply. The atmospheres in the heavens and earth, however, continue to change rapidly. This is a season of looking beyond. We can use the Word of God to do war in the area of finances; and in the following pages, you will learn how some key laws and your testimony can lead to a future of financial peace. Gods will is that you extend the testimony from your testings of the last season into the next season. Your testings are major components of your testimony, but the seeds and sacrifice sown during your testings will cause the growth of a greater faith at an appropriate time in your future! These types of testings produce testimonies that have a multiplying, combustible power and create triumph and prosperity.

This is a time to go deeper into the things of God. You will search for answers to a matter and find that you understand more deeply what you have been seeking to understand. You will find the missing link, the lost puzzle piece, of the vision you are carrying in your heart. You will gain understanding of the circumstances of the past season that left you perplexed, which will produce a new hope and strength in you. You can prosper in every situation, and every circumstance can work for good on your behalf!

Pray Big and Expect Changes

Most people do not see prosperity in their lives because they do not expect to prosper! Expect. Look at that word for a moment. Say the word aloud. Feel the weight and power of the word as expect leaves your tongue and passes into the atmosphere around you.

God created us with a built-in barometer of expectation. That expectation barometer should register at least 9.8 on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest expectation (the .2 is a factor that causes us to rise up and war for the final increase). But how does this work?

What we expect from life is often a direct result of our desires, whether they are Holy Spirit-prompted or not. We expect many things as humans, and many of us are not satisfied until our expectations are met. Expectation is defined as a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future.

Expectation is linked with the concept of the future and the emotional ability to embrace what should happen. Therefore, without healthy emotions, our expectations suffer. This, in turn, produces what is described by a phrase that couples an emotional spiritual state with an accounting term: hope deferred. Hope is the expectation of faithwhat we were trusting would manifest in a touchable formand defer means to put off.

Some of you might have deferred your ability to prosper because your hope of the future has been wounded. If youre one of these people, here is a good prayer to pray:

I expect You, God, to meet me at every corner. I expect Your presence to overtake me when I least expect You to help me. I expect and desire the best that You have for me. I expect You to open my eyes to that which I have not been able to see or attain. I MEAN TO PRAY BIG! I know that You delight in me and long to make my desires the same as Your best for me. Restore me and redeem the wasted time linked with past failings.

Break Out of Your Shell! Remove Waste and Poverty!

This is a time to break out of the shell of your last identity, whether good or bad. God is doing a new thing with His people and creating a new model of Kingdom authority in the earth. You are part of this! It is time to break the spirit of poverty from your life Poverty thinking is contrary to faith, and without faith you cannot please God. You please God when you have a mind to prosper. Thinking prosperity is the same as grasping the promise. You must break out of the shell of insecurity that convinces you that you cannot succeed. Joshua 1:8 says, Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do (NLT).

When you look at the stages of a chick hatching from an egg, you find a timed process that leads to victory and breakthrough. The egg has three main parts: yolk, albumen (egg white) and shell. The yolk is where the chick forms. The albumen, along with the shell, protects the chick. The shell also changes coloration, depending on its surrounding environment. The chick can hatch by either natural or artificial incubation. The natural process just leaves everything to the hen, from laying the egg to kicking the chick from the nest. Here is the process: