All of the tests you presently face are there to develop you into the person you need to be to live your destiny. Everything you are going through has been aligned by God to forge you into the person He has called you to be. Your destiny is unfolding before your very eyes. You have a battle to win, and He must prepare you for it.

When we embrace the idea that God has a plan for us, no issue should be able to stop us.The statement, "This situation will be the death of me," is completely incorrect. The truth is that this situation will make you into who you are destined to be.

God partners with our present situation to prepare us for the future He has designed. He uses every test, every challenge, every hurdle, every issue to sharpen us for what is to come.

Intimacy as a Way of Life

We can use the prophecies over our life to navigate our way through our present circumstance. God wants to establish intimacy as a way of life. He wants to cover us in His favor. This process starts by God establishing the fact that He is our source. Quietly and deliberately, God will strip away every crutch we have been relying on and obliterate anything that detracts from His ability to provide for us.
He wants to take away the false sense of security most of us have been clinging to. God is not in the business of playing second fiddle to anything-and certainly not to the many ways we try and take care of ourselves.

Lesson one is to go into the future and bring back the traits and intimacy we will need to fulfill our destiny.We must understand what that intimacy will look like. How must our relationship with God evolve and grow in order for us to become the person He has destined us to be?

When I was 31 years old, I had a dream about the kind of relationship with God I would have when I was 45.It was so alluring, so magnificent, so amazing, that I did not want to wait 14 years to get there. I was so hungry when I woke up that I immediately began to pray for that kind of intimacy to happen right away. I discovered something in the process of fighting for that word-I didn't have to wait until I was 45 for it to come to pass. I had been looking prophetically at a 45-year-old who had lived in that intimacy for ten years!


Our timeline is not always God's timeline. He often wants to bring breakthrough far sooner than we dare hope. I wanted that intimacy at age 31, thanks to God creating a deep hunger in me for it. I thought about it, meditated on it, prayed for it, and began to come into powerful times of worship. An hour worshipping God would turn into two and then three and sometimes six. I desperately wanted to know God, and God always answers an extreme desire for intimacy.

Become Hungry and Your Destiny Will Come

Prophetic words come to pass as our intimacy and reliance on God develops. Intimacy is a part of our destiny. Look at the prophetic words over your life and ask yourself about the intimacy you will need to live in that kind of wonder. Become hungry for that relationship, and your destiny will come into focus.


In Genesis 18:9, God says a remarkably simple thing about Abraham, His dear friend: "I have known him," (NKJV). God wants that same intimacy with us, and has guaranteed that it can occur through the love and motivation of Jesus. Intimacy draws us and keeps us in the presence of God. Jesus taught on the importance of this relationship in John 15:4-5 - Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

Intimacy is a Two-Way Street


Intimacy is a reciprocal act; there is exchange and dialogue. It is not a one-way street. There is interaction between us and the Lord Jesus, and that interaction results in us staying, dwelling, and remaining where God has put us in Christ.

The enemy wants to knock us out of that place of intimacy. He knows how key that relationship is to everything the Lord wants to accomplish, so he tries to poison it from the start. Without water, a seed won't grow; the enemy wants to kill the seed of our destiny before we grow even a single inch. But our job is to be so established in an intimate relationship with God that nothing can come between us and Him.


"Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting," David sang in Psalm 139:23-24. That is the very crux of intimacy-allowing God to look deep into us and remove any blockage between Him and us. Everything in our lives, every situation we go through, is about growing our intimacy with God.

Graham Cooke
Brilliant Perspectives

Prophesied by Chuck D. Pierce, James Vincent, Robyn Vincent, Shatece McLeod, Anne Tate, Keith Pierce, Acijam Otaxa, Barbara Wentroble, and Sylvia Sizemore

The Lord says: "There are some of you whose bones are being fortified at this moment! You are being healed. Where your bones have been very weak, all of a sudden there's a strengthening occurring that is causing you to arise! Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit. Let Me touch you now! Healing power is coming through! Grace to deliver is coming through! Joy everlasting is coming through! Let the gates swing wide, for the joy of the Lord will be, the joy of the Lord will be, the joy of the Lord will be your strength. So let the gates swing wide! Let the gates swing wide! Let the gates swing wide! Let the gates swing wide.

New Song:

He comes in power, and healing, and joy, and grace,
He comes in power, and healing, and joy and grace,
He comes in power and healing and joy and grace,
He's coming in power and healing, and joy and grace.


Look at the doors that need to swing open, look at the gates where you have the keys! These are doors that need to be unlocked! Look at the walls that need to be broken down! Let the gates swing wide. I Am coming in power! I AM coming in surety! I AM coming to strengthen your feet! I AM coming to strengthen your bones! I will open up every door for you! You open up the gate! Break the locks! Knock down the walls!

Locks like Panama Canal!

All locks are breaking right now! Let them break! This looks like the Panama Canal! The locks are shifting. You're rising! The water's rising! This is the type of lock where you couldn't get through to the next level, without the lock shifting and the water rising! The lock is shifting. The water's rising! You're just going to float in!

The Next Ten Days!

In the next 10 days there will be a supernatural rest coming from the trauma that we've been under. In that rest, you will begin to gain a clarity of vision for the future. Let the "gate of rest" swing wide!
I AM blowing open some gates that have never been opened on this earth before. You don't know where they are, but suddenly you're going to be standing in a place, and you'll feel the wind and you'll see this gate open in front of you! The gate will then swing wide. Be bold to go through! Ancient gates do not depend upon your ability, but your relationship with Me. These gates open up ancient paths. Do not fear entering the unfamiliar place I show you. You go through the gate you see, and do not try to convince others to go through with you. You could be paving the way for many! I can access and wait for you to come back to give others access!
In your life this far, some of you have been taught to only open certain gates. Go with your spirit, not with what you've been taught. I know how to teach you to open every gate that is set in front of you. The Word of God in you is working something new. Swing wide the gate when the Spirit comes upon you! Swing wide that gate. I AM moving by the Spirit! A supernatural wind is coming upon you! Swing wide the gate in the time of swinging wide!
Now hear the Word of the Lord! I saw a gate---Religion was written on it. It was cracked, with a narrow opening! Many of you backed off and said that's way too narrow for me to even try to go through. The Lord says, I'm moving the lock of religion! The gate of My worship is opening up! Go in and worship Me in freedom! For you have been held by man's way. I'm sending one major tidal wave! This wave is going to push you past man's way. This wave will push to where I've called you to settle! This is a place where your full destiny is located! I'm gonna push you all the way in!
Many have been resisting that gate because you know when you step in, your feet will lose control over the circumstances around you and that's what I'm intending for you to do. Let Me get you through the gate and get your feet walking! You will go through and see a tunnel. This tunnel is a supernatural tunnel. This tunnel is not from the enemy! Do not be deceived. Do not be confused. I Am the One sending you this tunnel! For when you go through this tunnel, you will land and you will show up in a brand new land!"


Gate of Sorrow and Trauma will Turn to the Gate of New Laughter! (Interpretation of Tongues Message by Shatece McLeod)

You've been fighting for the ship and you've been causing the ship to stay afloat! Remember though that I send the winds and I send the waves. Over these few days ahead, let Me show you how I can bring afloat that which you have been fighting for! In the midst of the winds and waves you will say, 'I have seen the Lord intervene in my trauma'. Many of you have been bailing water and bailing water but now I will send a wind that will not only dry up the water in your boat, but I'll even fix the leak that's been there. For there are leaks in your spirit man that cause you to lose strength. This is a day if you will submit that, I will control and I will gain authority in your life and you will rest.
Today is a day that the 40 years of trauma is coming to an end. Today is a day where the sorrow and the heartache that was hidden behind the gate, I AM opening it. Yes, the gate of sorrow looks one way this moment, but very soon this gate will turn into the "gate of new laughter." This gate will be filled with a new joy and will be filled with a new healing. What was unaligned because of the trauma of youth will be aligned and your youth will be restored. Yes (My daughter, Penny Pierce is representing the Body), just as I'm speaking to you individually, I'm speaking to My daughters corporately, and I AM speaking to My daughter. There has been a disc that has shifted in the backbone of My Body. I Am aligning the disc to create a flow that will release, release, release, breaking trauma and restoring the hope of My faith this day in Jesus' Name!
I Am working out the shaking that went on in your bones and in your soul that went all the way back to our childhood. Some of you were even shaken when you were a child - shaken physically - and you've had trauma since that day. I say today, I Am opening the gate for you to step in and be healed of that trauma. Take a step right now, and be healed of trauma. This is going to be a season of such joy and rejoicing. Not joy and rejoicing over your circumstances but joy and rejoicing over the hand of the Lord that has brought you through, that has caused you to come through in victory when everything around you said there is no way. But you have said in your heart, 'BUT GOD!' Because you have said, 'But God,' I say I have come to your defense in this hour. I Am breaking you out of all that would try to hold you in that old season. I am cleansing in this hour. I Am even going to cause you to be able to stand and testify. The Word will come forth from your lips, for did I not say that you will overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony and you loved not your life unto death. Even where death tried to take you out, death could not! You said, 'But God!' I have come to your defense. Enter into the rejoicing of the season for you are My overcoming army!
I am removing the Gate of Religion, breaking the Gate of Trauma, and Addressing the Gate of Poverty!
As you step into this place that I AM calling and are healed of the trauma of the past 40 years, you will see great abundance in this season. You will see the overflow! Pennies will become abundant! This is a "bumper gate" that will create a bumper crop! Bumper gates stay closed until they are bumped. Bump up against what is closed, and you will see an opening!
Many times in your life you are afraid to hit that thing that's closed in front of you. Because of the hurt, the trauma, the pain, etc., we'll come right up to it, and we will pray and we will pray and we will cry and we will beg and we will plead, but we just won't bump up against the gates of hell! The enemy doesn't want us to hit this new gate because the moment we hit the gate, the gate must swing wide. Now today is a day, and I saw something in the heavens; there's a bronze gate and that bronze gate loves to remain closed and locked up! That gate tries to prevent us from receiving what Christ, the hope of glory has in store for us. The Lord say, "Remember, I've called a Church to shake the gates of hell and I've called a Church, that if they will hit that gate, they will see it open! They will see the release that I promised, they will see the fulfilment of the pouring out and they will see My will done on this earth as it is in Heaven! This is the gate that holds captivity captive! Bump it and watch the opening occur!


Chuck D. Pierce
Glory of Zion International Ministries

Dear Overcoming Saints,

The Spirit of God is moving powerfully, and is beginning to confirm the Father's love for us. Continue to meditate on these words and receive the heart of the Father for you!


"This week I'm going to reveal Myself to you. For I am love and you will experience Me expressing My Love to you. Don't look around you to the right or the left, but experience who I am in the midst of your struggles and trials, and allow Me to show you the love that My Son displayed in the earth. Listen for Father's voice this week and you will hear Father in a way you've never heard Him.
Let the voice of My faith silence any other voice around you! Let the voice of My faith silence any other voice around you! Let the voice of My faith move that mountain, part that sea, and birth that promise this week! This is also a week to run into My rock! I am a refuge against your enemies. Come in and watch Me protect that which I am calling to protect this hour!
Satan desired to sift you like wheat, but I have declared My Word over you! I have declared the Word of the Lord over you and it will not return void. As I bring you out this week, go back and strengthen your brothers. This is working a far greater glory in you. Now watch for the glory to rise up within you this week, and when you go back, strengthen your brothers!
Though you walk through the Gates of Hell, even though there's a war coming, position yourselves, because I am rising up. As you position yourselves, do not be distracted; do not move out of your position because this is a day, this is a week, and this is a year that I am calling you to rise up in your position. A war is coming, but if you rise up in your position, you let My love rise up in you and there is nothing, nothing that can shake you! You have not danced at the Gates of Hell, but this week dance the dance of triumph at the Gates of Hell, and Hell will back off! Today is the day that I am threshing the wheat. As I thresh the wheat I am cutting a pathway that will lead up to the Gates of Hell, and the Gates of Hell's gate will be broken and My harvest will be returned!"
(Chuck Pierce, Keith Pierce, Robyn Vincent, Raven Vincent)

Chuck D. Pierce
Glory of Zion International Ministries