Be Anointed to Make it Through Your Narrow Place!

This is the time to shift beyond the NARROW PLACE that would try to stop you from advancing. We have entered one of the narrowest times of the year. I think we are all feeling this DIRE STRAIT time. We are "between the straits". July/August is the Hebraic month of Av. This is our "low point" or "high point" month, and a time when we must be very careful with what we hear as well as the decisions we make. This is a critical time to watch and pray for Israel and Jews in the nations.

A Time of the "Dire Straits"
"From the straits I called to Yah. Yah answered me in a wide-open place. The LORD is for me, I shall not fear. What can humankind do to me...All the nations surrounded me. With the LORD's name I cut them down. They swarmed round me, oh they surrounded me. With the LORD's name I cut them down. You pushed me hard to knock me down, but the LORD helped me. My strength and my might [song] is Yah, and He has become my rescue [Hebrew: Yeshua/salvation]" Psalm 118:5-14 (Robert Alter translation).

We are presently in the Hebrew month of Tammuz. It is not mentioned in the Bible by this (Babylonian) name-yet most certainly "the Fast of the Fourth Month" in Zechariah 8:19 refers to an ancient memorial on the 17th of this month, a time set aside to soberly remember the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. The three-week period between the 17th of Tammuz and the 9th of Av (June 29-July 20 this year) is sometimes known as "the Dire Straits", after Lamentations 1:3-"All her persecutors overtake her in dire straits" (NKJV).

You can make it through your narrow places ahead. In warring against the enemies of this age, we must learn how to occupy and possess. We each have a portion that we have been given. When we occupy something, we take possession, and keep possession. In Luke 21:19, we are called to possess our souls. When we possess the portion that God has for each of us, we become whole--we are fulfilled and full of peace. This is what we are actually warring to accomplish! We must be a people who settle for nothing less than the abundance the Lord has for us. However, there always seems to be another war in the portion we have been given! The month of Av (July/August) is traditionally an antagonistic or opposing month - a month of destruction rather than reconciliation. Do not listen to carnal desires that would lead you on a destructive path. Rather, listen to God and live within the boundaries of covenant blessing. Continue on and resist every wrong path (Deut. 33:18). You have a good future!

Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce

We are in a time where we feel pressed and pulled, little hills seem like mountains. So, are we going to press into the things of God, so that it is His strength and not ours, we navigate with His eyes, not ours, we are lead by His voice not ours?

Just a thought....