5778/2018—突破囚禁進入全新身份的一年！
恰克·皮爾斯：21天的身份守望
2018年2月1日
中譯來源：AP.Media。蒙允刊載。
我們生活在人類歷史上最令人難以置信和歷史的一個轉折點上。我如此說，是帶著完全的自信，我相信並且準確地說。神已經定下我們的疆界和時間（徒17:24-28）。在祂裡面，我們生活，行動並有著我們的所是。信心在時間和空間中運作。你在指定的時刻和地點，以至於你可以去摸索，並抓住祂，並且得著你生命的目的。創世以先祂就知道你。祂透過祂兒子的血來看你的命定。祂並非透過你們的失誤，缺點和錯誤來看你。祂照你的本相看你。你如何回應祂，透過信心，決定了你將成為的，並且在這變化的世代中得勝。
我們生活在希伯來曆5778年（5000+700+70+8），你可以透過希伯來文化中的“70”這個數字很好的明白我們所在的季節。“70”意味著你的血脈已經在一個世代的周期中完全。這個數字同時指向了打破監牢。這意味著你已經忍受著你的所是，但如今，你將強力的結束那個季節並且進入你將如何代表祂，並你將成為誰。在你血脈中捆綁你，以至於是你無法完全表現祂造你所是的枷鎖，已經被斷開了。
在這個“8”的年份（5778/2018），我們必須牢記並解讀每樣事情透過一個知道，就是我們正進入一個“新的開始”。所有的“8”都與一些“新的”有關。我喜歡以賽亞書43:18-19節所說：耶和華如此說：“你們不要記念從前的事，也不要思想古時的事。看哪！我要做一件新事，如今要發現，你們豈不知道嗎？我必在曠野開道路，在沙漠開江河。”
這是一個門戶（城門）的年份。在我們所處的這個季節，天使非常頻繁的活動，為要確保我們進入正確的門戶（城門）。門戶（城門）是一個權柄和身份的地方。門戶（城門）是商業交易和財富轉移的場所。門戶（城門）是屬神的辯護的地方。這一年同樣是門的一年！祂來到我們中間為要成為我們的門！此時此刻，我看著所有我們通過的門。可以用5個詞來總結2018（5778）：門（Doors），門戶（Gates），天使（Angels），財富（Wealth）和戰爭（War）！
這將是居首的，新的開始的，並且是神國彰顯的一年。不論你的成熟度如何，你的生活，服事和權柄的領域都將有新的開始。我們，基督的身體，必須來彰顯出我們的所是以及我們所代表的！
神有一個“優先指令”，將在今年要求屬祂的百姓。神的靈正在勾勒出一個優先指令是你從未見過及被呼召完成的。
一件新事會發生，但在開始的過程中我們卻無法察覺變化。“8”連結著首先的能力。首先與原型相連，是以往不曾有的，或者在以往的演示中並未達到最佳質量。未來真正的爭戰是圍繞你新的身份。“NEW”這個單詞是一個有趣的詞。在一個新的開始之先有一個結束的時刻。因此，一些問題浮現出來：
• 我們的身份意味著什麼，在未來的日子裡你會是誰？
• 你是否將認出開啟你新的季節的轉換時刻？
• 當一個結束來到並進入一個新的開始，你如何回應？
• 你是否願意跨越並進入一個叫做未來的嶄新維度麼？
當你的靈人活了過來，並且你被神的家庭接納時，你真實的身份就開始了。那一刻，你領受了神自己那非常的生命和本性。祂的DNA透過祂的靈進入了你的核心。如今你就是祂預先所預定你的所是。然而，你的靈必須入侵你的魂，以至於你可以轉化去回應你的所是。我為你的命定全然的解鎖而禱告。我為你能在今年彰顯出神對你最好的旨意而禱告。
這個21天的聚焦禱告將幫助你發揮出你身份的完全。
第1天：閱讀詩篇139，默想第3-6節。在TPT版的翻譯如下：
“你是如此親密地了解我，主。你讀我的心像一本打開的書，你知道所有的單詞，甚至在我發言之前，在我開始一個句子之先！你知道在我的旅程開始之前我將邁出的每一步。你已經進入我的未來，來準備我的道路，並在良善中，你跟在我身後，以防止我的過往來傷害我。用你的愛手在我的生命中，你向我傳遞祝福。這實在是美妙，深奧，無法測度！你對我的認識給我帶來了奇蹟和力量。”
因著祂，你與祂緊緊相連。將手放在自己身上，為著祂將你與祂自己緊密地連結而向神感恩！
第2天：讀約翰福音1:9-12，背誦和默想12節。在Mirror Bible版本中，12節如此翻譯“凡認識到自己在祂身上的人，深信祂是他們的原本的生命，並且祂的名定義了他們，神就保證他們確實是祂的子孫，是他的後裔。祂對其名分的合法性進行了裁定。”
第3天：讀以弗所書3:16-21節，默想和背誦19和20節。Mirror Bible版中，如此翻譯“我渴望你在最深的可能層面上，與基督的愛親密地相識；遠遠超出一個單純的學術上，智力上的掌握。在這個等式的範圍內，神在你身上找到了他自己的終極表達。我們慶祝他從裡面極有力地將感情傾注於我們。我們最大的要求或最驚人的夢想都無法與他對我們極其奢侈的想法相匹配。”
第4天：讀箴言第3章，默想5-10節。求主在這一年帶你進入祂造你的目的中“最要緊的”
第5天：閱讀哥林多前書第2章，默想6-10節。神已經透過祂靈的啟示來供應我們。祈求神將需要被顯明的事情顯明。宣告在其他季節你所錯過的奧秘在這個季節將被重新開啟。
第6天：閱讀以賽亞書41章，默想14-16節。這章經文中以賽亞預言了居魯士將雅各的身份轉化為以色列。這一章中，神不斷提醒我們“不要懼怕”前面的變化。祂也告訴雅各從蟲轉化為快齒打糧的新器具。之後祂指示他拆毀那些攔阻他前進的山。你如今同樣如此！
第7天：讀撒迦利亞書3-4章，默想亞3:3-4和4:6-7。脫去一切你們所穿著的舊的外袍。外衣連結這你們過去的身份。宣告神在打碎任何過去轄製你的軛。撒旦因著我們不義的外袍控告我們。穿上你的新衣，對著過去攔阻你前行的山來呼喊恩典！
第8天：讀羅馬書12章，默想1-3節。這是一個你打破撒旦讓你所習慣的非神造你所要轉化的形象的季節。為要如此，你的心思必須要被更新。這意味著潔淨的恢復必須穿透你的思維過程。這將制定和幫助支配你的未來。求主打破所有束縛你恩賜的東西，並解開你的所是的豐滿。
5778/2018: A Year to Break Captivity and Come into a New Identity!
A 21-Day Prayer Focus Begins (with Days 1-8 Included Here) as well as 21 Days of Identity Watches!
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Dear Focused Ones:
We are living in one of the most incredible and historic junctures in the history of mankind. I say that with complete confidence and, I believe, accuracy. The Lord has determined the place and the time that we live (Acts 17: 24-28). In Him, we live and move and have our being. Faith works in time and place. You are in a certain time and a certain place so you can grope, grab hold of Him, and gain purpose in your life. He knew you before the foundation of the earth. He sees your destiny through the Blood of His Son. He doesn’t see you through your faults, shortcomings or mistakes. He sees you as you were meant to be. How you respond to Him, by faith, is how you become, and then overcome in a changing world.
We are living in the Hebraic year 5778 (5000 + 700 + 70 + ）You can find a better understanding of the season we are living in by looking at the Hebraic understanding of the number 70. Seventy means that your bloodline has completed a generational life cycle. This number is also linked with breaking out of captivity. This means you have endured being who you are, but now you will finish that season strong and enter into how you will represent Him and who you will become. The captivity in your bloodline that has held you from expressing the fullness of who He made you to be, is broken.
In this year of eight (8), 5778 or 2018, we must remember and contextualize everything within the understanding that we are entering a “New Beginning”. All eights (8’s) are linked with some “new” beginning. I love Isaiah 43:18-19 which says: “Stop dwelling on past events and brooding over times gone by! I am doing something NEW! It’s springing up — can’t you see it? I am making a road in the desert, rivers in the wasteland.” (CJB)
This is the year of the GATE. In this season we are in, angels are very active to make sure we go through the gate. A gate is a place of authority and identity. A gate is a place of business transaction and wealth transference. A gate is a place of divine counsel. This is also the year of the DOOR! He came to us to become THE DOOR for us! At this time of year, I look at all the doors we (and I say we) went through. The year 2018 (5778) is summarized by five words: DOORS, GATES, ANGELS, WEALTH and WAR! This will be a year of Firsts, New Beginnings, and Kingdom Demonstration. No matter how established you are, there will be new beginnings in your life, ministry, and spheres of authority. We, the Body of Christ, must manifest who we are and Who we represent! God has a “First Order” that will be required of His people this year. The Spirit of God is drawing out a first order that you have never seen for yourself or the mission that you are called to complete.
A new thing can be happening, but in the midst of a beginning we can fail to perceive the change. Eights (8’s) are linked with the power of the first. FIRST is linked with prototype, something that has not been before, or something that has never emerged into the BEST quality of presentation. The real war ahead is over your new identity. The word NEW is an interesting word. There is a MOMENT of ENDING preceding a New Beginning. Therefore, several questions arise:
What do we mean by IDENTITY and WHO WILL YOU BE IN THE DAYS AHEAD?
Will you recognize the moment of change that begins your new season?
How are you reacting when an END comes and a NEW BEGINNING starts?
Are you willing to go beyond and into a new dimension called FUTURE?
Your true identity begins when your spirit man comes alive and you are adopted into God’s family. At that point, you receive the very life and nature of God Himself. His DNA by His Spirit invades your core being. You now are what He predetermined you to be. However, your spirit must invade your soul so you are transformed to reflect what you were meant to be. I am praying for an unlocking of the full destiny of who you are. I am praying that you reflect the best God intended you to be this year. This 21-Day Prayer Focus (with the first eight days below) will help you develop the fullness of your identity.
Day 1: Read Psalm 139. Mediate on verses 3-6. In The Passion, theses verses are translated as: “You are so intimately aware of me, Lord. You read my heart like an open book and you know all the words I’m about to speak before I even start a sentence! You know every step I will take before my journey even begins. You’ve gone into my future to prepare the way, and in kindness you follow behind me to spare me from the harm of my past. With your hand of love upon my life, you impart a blessing to me. This is just too wonderful, deep, and incomprehensible! Your understanding of me brings me wonder and strength.”You were knit together by Him. Lay your hands on yourself and thank God for how He knit you together.
Day 2: Read John 1:9-12. Memorize and meditate on verse 12. In The Mirror Bible, verse 12, is translated as, “Everyone who realizes their association in him, convinced that he is their original life and that his name defines them, God gives the assurance that they are indeed his offspring, begotten of him; he sanctions the legitimacy of their sonship.”
Day 3: Read Ephesian 3:16-21. Memorize and meditate on verses 19-20. In The Mirror Bible, these verses are translated as: “I desire for you to become intimately acquainted with the love of Christ on the deepest possible level; far beyond the reach of a mere academic, intellectual grasp. Within the scope of this equation God finds the ultimate expression of himself in you. We celebrate him who supercharges us powerfully from within. Our biggest request or most amazing dream cannot match the extravagant proportion of his thoughts towards us.”
Day 4: Read Proverbs 3. Meditate on verses 5-10. Ask the Lord this year to bring forth the “first order” of why He created you.
Day 5: Read 1 Corinthians 2. Meditate on verses 6-10. God has provided us with a revelation through the Spirit. Ask the Lord to uncovered the things that need to be uncovered. Decree that the mysteries you have missed in other seasons will start being unlocked in this season.
Day 6: Read Isaiah 41. Meditate on verses 14-16. This is the chapter in which Isaiah prophesied how Cyrus would be used to change the identity of Jacob to Israel. In this chapter, the Lord keeps reminding us to “fear not” the change ahead. He then tells Jacob to move from being a worm to a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. He then instructs him to tear down the mountains that have prevented him from advancing in the past. Now you do the same!
Day 7: Read Zechariah 3 – 4. Meditate on Zech. 3:3-4, and Zech. 4:6-7. Remove any old garment that you are wearing. A garment is linked with your past identity. Declare that the Lord is breaking the power of any iniquity tied to your past. Satan accuses us on the iniquity we wear. Put on your new garment, and shout GRACE to the mountain from your past that stopped you from advancing.
Day 8: Read Romans 12. Mediate on verses 1-3. This is a season for you to break every schematic that Satan has used to conform you to an image other than what God has created you to be transformed into. To do this, your mind must be renewed. That means a restoration of freshness must penetrate your thought processes. This will formulate and help dictate your future. Ask the Lord to break all restraints that hold your gift captive, and to unlock the fullness of who you should be.