50-Day Prayer Focus
Entering into Harvest Praying
I am excited about the following 50-Day Prayer Focus on
Entering into Harvest Praying: Receiving Joy and Experiencing Release.
In the Biblical Hebraic timetable, we have just entered the Pentecost
season. Personally, I will be regrouping, catching up on reading some of your
emails, and spending some much needed family time over the next ten days.
This prayer focus is for all of us to shift our minds and thinking
processes toward HARVEST. Remember, this is the time that we are to be
watching NEW DOORS FORM. To “form” means to develop or
mold the shape or outline of something or to give meaning, character or nature
to something.
Another way of looking at “a forming time” is when something is becoming
what it will be in days ahead. This includes the conditioning of our mind and
body in regard to its mental performance in days ahead. A forming season
includes conceiving, training, and disciplining. This phase denotes the
arrangement of the part of a thing that gives its distinctive appearance.
A key scripture reference for the time of Pentecost is I Corinthians
16:8. Paul purposed to stay at Ephesus until Pentecost, because an effectual
door was opened to him for his ministry. This was what the Lord showed me when
He visited me in December.Many enemies are behind this forming door, but the
Lord says:
“Do not focus on your enemies during this season, but watch the door form
and be ready to enter into this new opportunity. I will give you grace over your
enemies.”
This is a time for harvest praying. I hope the following 50-Day Prayer Focus
will help you to understand and enter into this harvest season.
Blessings,
Chuck D. Pierce
(No specific dates are placed with the days since the Prayer Focus is received
at a variety of times. You may begin whenever you receive it.)
50-Day Prayer Focus
Day 1: Read Hosea 6,
especially v. 11. Ask the Lord to revive and raise you up. Ask Him to reveal
your harvest to you. “Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you, when I
return the captives of My people.”
Day 2: Read Exodus 23, especially v. 16. “And the Feast of
Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and
the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the
fruit of your labors from the field.” Thank God for His leading. Be willing
to follow Him. Thank Him that He has given you firstfruits.
Day 3: Read Gen 2 and 8:22. “While the earth remains, seedtime and
harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease."
Ask the Lord to reveal your harvest season to you.
Day 4: Read John 16:7, 13. The old Jewish festival contained a new
significance for the Christian Church by the promised outpouring of the Holy
Spirit. Ask the Holy Spirit to fill you new and fresh.
Day 5: Read John 17. Take Communion. Ask the Lord to reveal any
horizontal relationships that are not right.
Day 6: Read Job 5, especially v. 5. “Because the hungry eat up his
harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and a snare snatches their substance.”
Ask the Lord to show you how the enemy has had access to your harvest.
Day 7: Read 1 Sam. 12, especially v. 17. “Is today not the wheat
harvest? I will call to the LORD, and He will send thunder and rain, that you
may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the
sight of the LORD, in asking a king for yourselves.” Ask the Lord if there
are any judgments on your harvest.
Day 8: Read Prov 6:8. The harvest mentality of ants is mentioned as a
lesson for the sluggard. Break any apathy that is stopping you from moving
forward.
Day 9: Read Prov 20:4. “The lazy man will not plow because of
winter; he will beg during harvest and have nothing.” Ask the Lord to reveal
any area of laziness in your life that has stopped you from plowing.
Day 10: Read Prov 10:5. “He who gathers in summer is a wise son; he
who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.” Break a spirit of
slumber. Ask the Lord if you have slept when you should have gathered.
Day 11: Read Jer 8:20. “The harvest is past, the summer is ended,
and we are not saved!” Ask the Lord to forgive you for any missed
opportunities.
Day 12: Read Joel 1. Add fasting to your praying.
Day 13: Read Joel 2. Add fasting to your praying. Make a list of
anything that needs to be restored.
Day 14: Read Joel 3. Add fasting to your praying. Ask the Lord for a new
joy to enter your heart and the land you are praying for.
Day 15: Read Psalm 16. Thank Him that He has an inheritance for you.
Day 16: Read Matthew 7 and 8. Let Faith arise in your heart - “the
greater dimension of faith”.
Day 17: Read Matthew 9. Ask the Lord for laborers. Let Him show you
where you are to labor in His Kingdom.
Day 18: Read Matthew 10. “Freely you have received, freely give.”
Prepare an offering.
Day 19: Read Psalm 125. Thank Him that this is a time for new joy.
Day 20: Read Psalm 126. Sing a Song of Deliverance. Declare that all
captivity is broken.
Day 21: Read Prov 25:13. “Like the cold of snow in time of harvest is
a faithful messenger to those who send him, for he refreshes the soul of his
masters.” Ask the Lord to surprise you with a message.
Day 22: Read Isaiah 9. Thank God for His government. Praise Him for the
abundant harvest when government is in place. Pray for the government of the
church that you are connected with.
Day 23: Read Jer 50:16. “Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who
handles the sickle at harvest time. For fear of the oppressing sword everyone
shall turn to his own people, and everyone shall flee to his own land.” Pray
for our troops in Iraq. Declare every enemy of the harvest is revealed.
Day 24: Jer 51:33. “For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel: ‘The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor when it is time to
thresh her; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come.’” Call
forth a harvest in Iraq.
Day 25: Read Luke 10, especially v. 2. “Then He said to them, ‘The
harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the
Harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.’” Ask the Lord to give you a
revelation of the Lord of the Harvest.
Day 26: Read Ruth 1. Ask the Lord to reveal covenant to you.
Day 27: Read Ruth 2, especially v. 21. “Ruth the Moabitess said, ‘He
also said to me, 'You shall stay close by my young men until they have finished
all my harvest.’ … So she stayed close by the young women of Boaz, to glean
until the end of barley harvest and wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her
mother-in-law.” Ask the Lord to show you where you have been gleaning.
Day 28: Read Ruth 3. Notice how Ruth made her shift. Ask the Lord to
give you a strategy to make a shift from gleaning to harvest.
Day 29: Read Ruth 4. Thank God that He has a full, redemptive plan for
you life.
Day 30: Read Amos 9. Ask the Lord to reveal to you the Tabernacle of
David.
Day 31: Read II Sam. 5. Ask the Lord for the Breaker Anointing and
strategies for breakthrough.
Day 32: Read Acts 15. Ask the Lord to settle any disputes that are
keeping you from moving into full restoration.
Day 33: Read Joshua 3, especially v. 15. “And as those who bore the
ark came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark dipped in
the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks during the whole
time of harvest)…” Do not be afraid to take that step of faith from
wilderness to harvest.
Day 34: Read 1 Sam. 8, especially v. 12. “He will appoint captains
over his thousands and captains over his fifties, will set some to plow his
ground and reap his harvest, and some to make his weapons of war and equipment
for his chariots.” Ask the Lord to show you your assignment and role in
Harvest.
Day 35: Read Lev. 23 especially v. 22. “When you reap the harvest of
your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field when you reap,
nor shall you gather any gleaning from your harvest. You shall leave them for
the poor and for the stranger: I am the LORD your God.” Prepare a gift for
someone less fortunate than you.
Day 36: Read Judges 14. Study the life of Samson. Note verse 14. Ask
the Lord to reveal any root of bitterness that needs to turn sweet.
Day 37: Read Judges 15. “After a while, in the time of wheat
harvest, it happened that Samson visited his wife with a young goat. And he
said, ‘Let me go in to my wife, into her room.’ But her father would not permit
him to go in.” See patterns that prevented victory in Samson’s life. Ask
the Lord to break any similar patterns in your life.
Day 38: Read Judges 16. Ask the Lord for strength to break through. Ask
Him to recoup your losses.
Day 39: Read Exodus 34:21, 22. “Six days you shall work, but on the
seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. And
you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and
the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.” Find your Sabbath.
Day 40: Read Mark 4, especially v. 29. “But when the grain ripens,
immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come." Ask the
Lord to show you when to put in your sickle for harvest.
Day 41: Read Matthew 13:1-23. Understand the process of harvest.
Day 42: Read Matthew 13:24-58. Understand the process of wheat and tares.
Ask Him to reveal and release your treasures.
Day 43: Read Matthew 14. Ask the Lord to teach you to multiply and take
you past the half way point.
Day 44: Read Psalm 1 and 2. Thank Him for your personal harvest. Thank
Him for the harvest He has in the nations.
Day 45: Read John 4:1-34. Ask Him to show you the “woman at the well”.
Day 46: Read John 4:39-54. Declare someone you know will get to know Him
as Savior.
Day 47: Read Rev 14:15. “And another angel came out of the temple,
crying with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, ‘Thrust in Your sickle and
reap, for the time has come for You to reap, for the harvest of the earth is
ripe.’” Give thanks for the One Who is able to reap the Harvest of the
nations.
Day 48: Read Acts 2. Thank Him for filling you with His Spirit. Receive
the wind of the Holy Spirit. Thank Him for the gift of tongues in the Church.
Day 49: Read Acts 19. Declare an awakening in your “Ephesus.”
Day 50: Read I Cor. 16. Ask Him to show you your new door.
Key Resources for this Time:
A Time of Pentecost: Entering into a Season of
Harvest Praying. TEACHING CD ($6.00) Many of you like to
listen rather than read. I spoke this message on Pentecost Sunday. This
Teaching CD will explain and activate a new mindset in you. This message
explains Pentecost and Harvest, and releases an anointing and impartation to
enter into this necessary time.
The Harvest Series: Crossing Over.
Music CD by Glory of Zion International Worship ($6.00). I am doing something a
little different with this music CD. This is the first of our Harvest Series
of songs that God is bringing this year to get us ready to cross over into the
Harvest. This CD is called “Crossing Over.” I am not including as many
songs but rather the songs that the Lord is birthing or using in our prophetic
prayer times at Glory of Zion International this year.
This first CD in the series has three songs on it: March All
Night, The Best is Yet Ahead, and Jump in the River.
This CD causes our spirit to be stirred up so we are ready to move forward. We
are now in the process of doing our next CD. This will be entitled I AM:
Burn with Me. The next CD will have intimate worship songs that bring
you into the Throne Room and exalt the Lord. Keep moving forward. Don’t stop. The
best is yet ahead!
You can purchase both of these CDs for $10 and we will pay the postage
(US orders only). To order you can call (888) 965-1099 and use code
PENTECOST50 to order. Or you may go to our website at
www.glory-of-zion.org (MC and Visa only). This offer expires June 30,
2004.
