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 Its day 75 and you’re still alive! If you’re still here and you are reading this that means you qualify for the future! Let us break completely out of desolation for the next few days. Decree that the next few days the doors of heaven linked with blessings will open and flood away any desolation in your life! This is a season of fulfillment.

Chuck D. Pierce

In the natural cycle of life, there are seasons. Some seasons are filled with desolation, but in those times we can take comfort in knowing that every season has a time frame. There is a time when desolation ends and prophetic fulfillment begins. Those seasons in our lives are now times—times of prophetic fulfillment when God’s promises are manifested.

In his tremendous book God’s Timing for Your Life, Dutch Sheets writes:

Life is a series of changes—a process of going from the old to the new—from chronos [a general process of time] to kairos [an opportune, strategic, or now time]. Growth, change, revival—all are processes. Life is connected. Not understanding this, we tend to despise the chronos times of preparing, sowing, believing and persevering. . . . We’re not losing or wasting time, we’re investing it. And if we do so faithfully, the shift will come.

In Daniel 9, we see a biblical example of a desolation season coming to an end so that a season of prophetic fulfillment could begin. Israel had been in captivity in Babylon for 70 years and was still in bondage when Daniel began reading the prophecies of Jeremiah: “In the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem” (v. 2). As Daniel read, he suddenly understood that there was a prophecy given many years before and that nowwas the time for the prophecy to be fulfilled. The 70 years of desolation that Jeremiah had prophesied had been completed and the time had come to break out of captivity.

God always has now times in our lives. Daniel knew that it was time for this word to be fulfilled and for captivity to end. We, like Daniel, also need to come to a place in which we understand God’s time sequence. I know that in my own life, when it is time for a season of desolation to end, I want it done and its effects off of me. And once I get out of it, I don’t want to turn back. That’s the attitude we need to have in moving forward into prophetic fulfillment. We need to be in close enough relationship with God so that we know when to start into a new sequence and a new cycle of life. We need to know when it is time to cast off our desolation and move into a new season.

“Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes” (v. 3). As Daniel came to an understanding that the times were changing and that Israel needed to break out of captivity, he did two things: He turned to God and dialogued with Him through prayer and supplications, and he began to deny himself through fasting so that all desolation could be broken. By doing these two things, he reconciled himself with God and, as a representative of Israel, broke out of the season of desolation. This allowed the process to begin for the Israelites to break out of captivity and move into their future.

Through His promises to us, God is breaking off desolation personally, corporately and territorially—and hell hates it. Any time that we are getting ready to break forth into a new season of prophetic fulfillment, Satan will oppose us and try to keep us in the desolation of the past. There is a three-step process for us to be aware of as we move out of desolation toward now times in our lives. We will focus on these steps the next few days.