Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Honourable Purposes

My Child, I have placed immense treasure within you that reflects the beauty of the Godhead.  You are made in My image but also unique, revealing dimensions of My heart in ways that only you can.  I long for you to fully comprehend your individual value and stop discrediting yourself.  Many new and beautiful opportunities await you in the days ahead to help others encounter the depths of My love. 

I say to you, ‘You are My Beloved’, so you must not allow comparison with others to discourage, undermine or distract you from the purposes I have for you.  This is one of the enemy’s greatest strategies to steal your joy and destiny. The truth of your identity in Me is immovable and beyond dispute regardless of what others may say or think.  Be careful what you listen to and what you focus on.  Be wise in who you choose to spend time with.  Partner with those who bring life and purpose.  Feed on My Word and let the truth of who you are penetrate deep within to remove the impurities and bring clarity in thought and word and deed.

This is a crossover season in the Body of Christ, so I exhort you to consecrate yourself afresh to Me.  Allow My refiner’s fire to reveal you as pure containers of My love, dedicated to My honourable purposes for your life and prepared for every good work that I give you to do.

Activation:

Spend time with the Lord in prayer and ask Him to show you where you have discredited yourself or allowed comparison to rob you in any way.  Repent, break agreement with any lies and ask the Lord to fill you with a greater revelation of His love, acceptance and purpose.  Thank Him for the plans He has for your life and dedicate yourself afresh to Him.

²⁰ Now in a large house there are not only ^[a]vessels and objects of gold and silver, but also vessels and objects of wood and of earthenware, and some are for honorable (noble, good) use and some for dishonorable (ignoble, common). 

²¹ Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things [which are dishonorable—disobedient, sinful], he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified [set apart for a special purpose and], useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

2 Timothy 2:20-21 (AMP)

Footnotes

[a] 2 Timothy 2:20 Like Rom 9:20-23, the analogy here has its roots in OT poetry (e.g. Ps 31:12; Prov 26:23) and prophecy (e.g. Is 45:9; Jer 18:2-6). Paul speaks of believers and unbelievers in Rom 9, but here he seems to be describing God’s household or family, in which all the vessels (containers, utensils) represent believers. While the objects in Rom 9:21 do not change, the vessels here are capable of changing their status and the use to which God puts them by keeping themselves from sinful behavior and influences (v 21).

That you may walk (live and conduct yourselves) in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him and^[a]desiring to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and steadily growing and increasing in and by the knowledge of God [with fuller, deeper, and clearer insight, ^[b]acquaintance, and recognition].

Colossians 1:10 (AMPC)

Footnotes

[a] Colossians 1:10 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.

[b] Colossians 1:10 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.

²³ Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart;
Test me and know my anxious thoughts;

²⁴ And see if there is any wicked or hurtful way in me,
And lead me in the everlasting way.

Psalm 139:23-24 (AMP)

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