高舉你信心的盾牌！
預言者：恰克·皮爾斯及團隊 Chuck D. Pierce and Team(Melinda Richardson, Chuck D. Pierce, Keith Pierce)
日期：2018年7月1日（聚會）
中譯：榮耀國度
來源：AP.Media。蒙允刊載。
祂恩惠的盾牌環繞著我們！
Keith確實看到在神的子民上面掛著的盾牌。他開始喊道：“把這些盾牌拉下來，讓它們環繞你們。願信心的盾牌進入合適的位置，以至於你被帶入一個新的恩寵中。”
一位基督徒所要學習的最重要的事情之一就是屬靈爭戰的真實。當你重生的時候，你就是生在戰場中。你的選擇不是去不去爭戰，因為爭戰已經明確的朝你而來！你唯一的選擇就是你想要被仇敵踐踏還是學習戰鬥並且得勝！這個戰場的問題在乎神的應許。彼得說神已經賜給我們祂的“又寶貴又極大的應許”，透過這些應許，我們才能與神的性情有份。（彼後1:4）
神已經將關乎我們生命每一個領域的應許給了我們。祂應許我們有豐富的供應。應許我們得醫治。祂應許我們在各個領域有極大的祝福。但當你打開你的聖經並開始宣告這些應許，你發現你在戰場上了！當你說，“我想要進到在主裡面的新的位置！我想要向前行得著這些應許！”撒旦會試圖阻止你。這就是這個戰場問題的核心，撒旦的目的是來恐嚇你，讓你失去勇氣，讓你回頭，使你不去依靠主。
就像使徒保羅想到我們與撒旦的爭戰，他認識到神已經給了我們一個像這樣的盾牌，就是信心的盾牌。當保羅在以弗所書6:16提到我們的盾牌，他用了在羅馬戰場上的盾牌的單詞。這個單詞是“THURA”，它的意思是一個“門形的盾牌”。（希臘文的門是“THURA”）。“THURIA”是一個巨大的，長方形的盾，差不多5英尺高，3英尺寬。它也被叫做堡盾。如果你是一個拿著這種盾牌在你前面的戰士，你就是帶著自己的移動堡壘。你有了一個你可以帶著的城堡，無論你去到哪裡，它都可以在你敵人的面前保護你。
學習這個盾牌的製作方法也很有趣。Thuria因為非常大，所以如果是用實木或者金屬來製作它，它將難以攜帶。為了製作Thuria，羅馬人會先做一個木製的框架，在框架上他們會扣上7層從一頭公牛或者牛犢身上取下的堅韌的皮。他們製作這一層層的皮直到整個盾牌有4到5英寸的厚度，然後把它們牢牢地定在原處。當士兵們準備進入戰場，他們會把盾牌放在附近的河裡浸透，以至於它不僅可以擋住弓箭，它也能滅掉火焰。
許多基督徒認為他們正在為自己的需求爭戰。他們說，“我正為了財務供應的突破在屬靈爭戰！我正為了新工作爭戰…為了所愛的人的救恩…為了身體得醫治…等等。”這些不是我們所要爭戰的！如果你認為你在為著得醫治，經濟或者任何其他需要爭戰，你就是不明白爭戰！我們的爭戰不是為了這任何一個需要！我們的爭戰只為了一件事，那就是信心！神的話語告訴我們，信是必不可少的。如果你有信心，沒有任何事是不可能的，沒有任何事是隱藏的。如果你抓住信心並在信心中站立，其餘的都會接著來。如果你相信，凡事都能！所以當你有一個經濟的，健康上的，或者任何其他的需要。你的爭戰就是找到堅定信心的方式。讓我再說一次：無論我們需要什麼，如果我們有信心且持守信心，每一個需要都將被滿足。我們的爭戰是持守信心！
關鍵預言：
我為你們準備的盾牌不是為了和平時期。相反地，這降下給你的盾牌將能夠使你勇往直前去戰鬥。沒有任何被鑄造來反對你的弓箭或者武器可以勝過或者穿透這恩惠的盾牌。當你向上伸出手抓住這盾牌，你就進入跟這一部分恩惠的約定當中，並且與之對齊。這一部分恩惠正是為這個季節所預備的，你在上一個季節並不需要它。
在列國之上，現在有恩惠的盾牌正對齊神的國度，人們將以前所未有的方式投入戰鬥。你從你知道自己已經得勝的地方開始打仗，所以要有目的和意圖地戴上你恩惠的盾牌。
作為萬王之王，我使你如同恩惠的武器在你眾敵人之中。現在用這恩惠去清潔這地。
在你們的旅程中，你們已經感到疲倦了，然而我擁有你們不知道的能量。盡管現在還是白日，但是我已經預備好要給你們能量來激活你們，你們將會起來，順利通過前面的黑夜。
有超自然的能力讓你上去，穿過那河流。你們中的一些人已經陷入河中，無力掙扎，但是現在有能力給你讓你起來並且抵達對岸。從水裡站起來，穿過去！我正在我的民當中釋放活躍的信心！準備好，因為你即將以你從來沒有過的方式行動。我即將做一些事情，以一種超自然的方式聯合我的民，那將帶來全地的重大轉變。
你們一直在秘密地做工。在你們所做的這些秘密工作當中，我已經在以你們以前沒有經歷過的方式在操練你們。那在黑暗當中的，現在我正在使其進入光中。你們在黑暗當中所獲得的，現在當你們前行時，將形成關鍵。不再有任何力量可以阻止你們進入並在這地帶來改變。這是列國重新對齊的時間，我正在呼召你們起來，呼召你們出來。在未來的日子，你們將會行走在變化中，並且在你們所到之處帶來變化。
你已經待在低地很久了，以至於對那已經很熟悉。但是，你再次觀看，又一次看見了山頂。你決定離開你所在的低地，再次攀登，攀登，攀登。我曾經呼召你到山頂，造了一朵新雲，現在我提你的名對你說話。下定決心起來，把低地變成高處。曾經是凹洞的地方，正在變成宮殿。你將會清晰地看見，不是需要花費多久才能到達那山，而是你自己的意願，才能使你的腳動起來，向上前進。
Read this Prophecy: Lift Up Your Shield of Faith!
(Melinda Richardson, Chuck D. Pierce, Keith Pierce)
(July 1, 2018)
His Shield of Favor Surrounds Us!
Keith actually saw shields hanging over the top of God’s people. He began to shout: “Pull those shields down and let them surround you. May the shield of faith come into place so you press through into a new favor!”
One of the most important things a Christian can learn is the reality of spiritual warfare. When you were born again you were born onto a battlefield. Your choice is not whether you want to go to war, for war has been declared against you! Your only choice is whether you want to get trampled by the enemy, or learn to fight and win! At issue in this battle are the promises of God. Peter says that God has given us his “precious and magnificent promises” that through them we can become partakers of the divine nature. (II Peter 1:4)
God has given us promises that relate to every area of life. He has promised us abundant provision. He’s promised us healing. He has promised great blessings in every area. But when you open your Bible and begin to claim these promises, you discover you are in a battle! When you say, “I want to come into a new place in the Lord! I want to move forward to obtain the promise!” Satan will try to stop you. That’s what the battle is all about. Satan’s goal is to frighten and discourage you, to make you to turn back and not press on in the Lord.
As the apostle Paul thought about our struggle against Satan, he realized that God has given us a shield like that. It is a shield of faith. When Paul talks about our shield in Ephesians 6:16, he uses the word for the Roman battle shield. The word is THURIA and it means a “door-shaped shield.” (The Greek word for door is THURA.) The thuria was a large, rectangular shield about five feet high and three feet wide. It was also called a castle shield. If you were a warrior holding this shield in front of you, you carried your own portable fortress. You had a castle you could take with you wherever you went and be protected against the enemy.
It is interesting to study how this shield is made. The thuria was so large that, if made of solid wood or metal, it would have been difficult to carry. To construct a thuria the Romans began with a wooden framework. Over that framework they fastened seven layers of tough leather from the skin of a bull or a calf. They built up these layers until the shield was four or five inches thick and nailed them securely in place. As the soldiers got ready to go into battle they could dip the shield in a nearby river to saturate it with water so it would not only stop an arrow, it would quench the fire.
Many Christians think they are battling for their needs. They say, "I'm in a spiritual warfare to break through for financial provision! I’m warring in prayer for a new job …for salvation of a loved one …for physical healing …etc." That is not what we are battling for! If you think you are in warfare for healing, finances, or any other need, you do not understand the battle! Our battle is not for any of those needs! Our battle is only for one thing and that is FAITH. The Word of God tells us that faith is the one essential. If you have faith, nothing is impossible, nothing is withheld. If you can get in faith and stay in faith, all the rest will come. All things are possible if you believe! So when you have a need for finances, health, or anything else, your battle is to find a way to stand in faith. Let me say that again: no matter what we need, if we can get in faith and stay in faith, EVERY need will be met. Our battle is to stay in faith!
Key Prophecy:
“I have not provided you a shield for peacetime. Rather, the shield coming down over you will enable you to forge ahead. No arrow or weapon forged against you will prosper or penetrate through this shield of favor. When you reach up to grab this shield, you come into agreement and alignment with the portion of favor for this season that you didn’t need in the last one. Over nations, there are now shields of favor in alignment for God’s Kingdom people to battle in a way they have not previously battled. You war from the place of knowing that you have overcome, so put your shield of favor on with purpose and intent. Know that as the King of kings, I have established you as a weapon of favor in the midst of your enemies. Now clear the land with that favor.
“You’ve grown tired in your journey, but I have energy you know not of. I am ready to energize you while it’s still day, and you will rise up and see through the night ahead. There is supernatural energy for you to go up and go through the river. Some of you have gotten in the river and become waterlogged, but now there is energy for you to rise up and get to the other side. Get up out of the water and walk across it. I am loosing buoyant faith in My people! Get ready, for you’re about to move in ways you’ve never moved before. I am about to do something that unites My people in a supernatural way and that causes great shifts throughout the earth.
“You’ve been working covertly. In the covert working you’ve been doing, I have been training you in ways you’ve never been trained before. What was in the dark I am now bringing into the light. What you were gaining in the dark will now form keys as you move forward. No more will you be held back from entering in and bringing change into this land. This is a time that nations are realigning, and I am calling you up and calling you out. You will walk in change in days ahead and produce change where you walk.
“You have stayed in the lowlands until familiarity occurred. However, you looked again and saw the mountaintop one more time. You decided to leave the low place you were in, and climb and climb and climb again. I have called you to the mountain top, created a new cloud, and am addressing you by name. Determine to come up and exchange the lowlands for the high place. What was once a pit is becoming a palace. You will see clearly that it’s not how long it takes to journey up to the mountain, but your willingness to set your feet in motion and come up.”