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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Whose Counsel

Come close and let Me speak. Incline your ear to hear all that I have to say.

Whose counsel are you considering? Are other voices in your life taking precedence over Mine? Are you prioritising the opinions of others over My plan? Look at the 10 spies who gave an ill report upon scouting out the promise land. These spies prioritised fear of the giants over Me and My desires. But Caleb was of a different spirit; he desired My approval above all things. Caleb was not afraid of the giants. I was Caleb’s priority and he received his inheritance.

When your focus is on pleasing others and gaining their approval, compromise becomes inevitable which can cause you to either forget My words or deviate from My plan. Whose voices are you listening to? Whose counsel are you considering apart from Mine?

Come closer. Listen to My words and to My counsel.

Activation: Read through the scriptures below and spend some time reflecting on them. Then, spend some time sitting with Holy Spirit considering whose counsel you value.

30 But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.”

31 Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.”

32 So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height.
Numbers 13:30-32 (ESV)

6 And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes

7 and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.

8 If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey.

9 Only do not rebel against the Lord. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.”

10 Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.
Numbers 14:6-10 (ESV)

But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
Numbers 14:24 (ESV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – God Solutions

My people, so much of your life’s expectations are grounded in your upbringing; where on the globe you live and your circumstances. It might shock you to realise the percentage of MY influence there has been in your life. It is time to stop forming so many decisions based on your life’s history.

Ask Me for My wisdom. Set your heart on journeying, now, with Me. Let us do this together; you the humble person and Me Almighty God. What better way is there? Seek Kingdom solutions, the bold, often daring and ultimately life-giving outcomes.

Activation: Choose to take every thought captive specifically over the next decision you have to make, asking to see God’s view of those matters. Expect a growing joy in hearing His immense interest in your life as you do this.

5 You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and Your thoughts toward us; none can compare with You! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.

6 In sacrifice and offering You have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear.[a] Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.
Psalm 40:5-6 (ESV)
Footnotes
[a] Psalm 40:6 Hebrew ears you have dug for me

9 Give instruction[a] to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
Proverbs 9:9-10 (ESV)
Footnotes
[a] Proverbs 9:9 Hebrew lacks instruction

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Equipped with Wisdom

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
Proverbs 9:10 (ESV)

I want my people to grasp a new sense of what it means to live life rooted in “the fear of the Lord.” I want to refresh your old thought patterns and bring fresh revelation to your understanding of this.

The fear of Me, knowledge of Me, and wisdom are key to this season. I want to equip you with fresh wisdom and insight. I need My body to have a deeper understanding of who I am, how I function, and the truth of My ways.

Fear of Me produces yieldedness, awe, and pure worship. Fear of Me produces humility, wisdom, and revelation no one person can grasp. Fear of Me places Me in My rightful place -on the throne- allowing for a deeper revelation of the Spirit.

Activation: Spend time today looking through scripture for references to “the fear of the Lord.” As you read, ask the Lord to bring fresh revelation of what it looks like to live in the fear of the Lord.

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Romans 12:12 (ESV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Your Whole Life

I am calling you to a complete lifestyle of worship where every aspect of your daily living glorifies Me. Will you choose to worship Me, not only by your works, but will you also worship Me with your entire life demonstrating the fullness of your heart’s dedication and devotion to Me? A life that is pleasing to Me extends beyond the practice of going to worship services on traditionally designated days and serving in the physical house of worship. I want you to honour Me with every detail of your living. I want the small as well as the big parts of your life.

Will you take your ordinary life and present it to Me by laying it on my altar as a sacrifice? This is what I consider true worship. I want the mundane, I want the simple, I want the minute, and I want the seemingly unimportant.

Your everyday walking around life should reflect Me even in the most mundane of things. Give it to Me, worship Me with it, and see how My light will radiate through you. Everything in your life is important to Me because YOU are important to Me, and I want you to give Me all of you!

Activation: It’s easy for us to live on autopilot without thinking to engage YHWH in the most mundane of tasks. So, for the next 7 days, get into the practice of engaging YHWH in every aspect of your life. Whether it’s taking the kids to school, picking up groceries, making the shopping and to-do lists, or arranging your daily diary, before each duty say… “YHWH, I take my everyday ordinary life and place it before You as an offering. How would YOU have me complete this task?” Write down what He says and be sure to follow His instructions.

A Living Sacrifice

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Romans 12:1 (ESV)

²³And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men,

²⁴knowing that from YHWH you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
Colossians 3:23-24 (NKJV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Recondition

It is time for a reconditioning of minds. I am bringing a new way of doing things but you must let go of old mindsets. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Your spirit is sensing the new that I am doing but your minds are still needing to catch up. They are still in the old patterns.

I am renewing all things. So let go and let me recondition you. You cannot rely on the fruit from yesterday for this will go rotten and sour. The fruit of this season is new and fresh and pure and it will be a result from a time of cleansing. This fresh fruit is not just for you – it will feed upcoming generations. The most important thing in this process is remaining in Me.

Activation: Ask YHWH what are yesterday’s thoughts and mindsets that He wants you to let go of and where is He wanting to recondition your thinking. Ask YHWH to help you to remain in Him and embrace this process.

Do not allow this world to mold you in its own image. Instead, be transformed from the inside out by renewing your mind. As a result, you will be able to discern what God wills and whatever God finds good, pleasing, and complete.
Romans 12:2 (VOICE)

Abide in Me, and I will abide in you. A branch cannot bear fruit if it is disconnected from the vine, and neither will you if you are not connected to Me.
John 15:4 (VOICE)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Overcomer

My follower, when you ‘put yourself down’, you have little idea of the influence that you have in the place you are, both in the seen and the unseen realms. I know you, the good, the indifferent and the sinful. As was written to the church in Ephesus, in the spiritual realm:-

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 6:12 (ESV)

You are spirit and body, made in my image. Grasp that and life on earth looks different. You already have an influence in the spirit realm and as a child of mine through My Son, Yeshua HaMashiach, you are invited into the war rooms of the Kingdom. Be taught together with kingdom strategists in intercession and warfare, fully using the armour that Holy Spirit provides. The heavenly host praise Me and are sent out on assignments. Learn My ways to bring heaven to earth.

Prayer:

Glorious God make me stronger as a fighting force in your Kingdom. Give me people who I can learn from and the determination to say yes to you as I submit to your Spirit’s work in my whole life. I choose to believe what you say about me and my influence in the spirit realm. I want to learn more. Amen

Little children, you are from YHWH and have overcome them, for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:4 (ESV)

as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:18 (AMP)

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My Future

What are you most excited about for the future?

For I know the plans I have for you,” says YHWH. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11 (NLT)

Looking at the world today, the Bible verse that comes to mind after seeing the prompt is from the Book of Jeremiah. My life is in His hands, and seeing as He is giving me a future and a hope, what more is there to be excited about! I need not fear.

No matter what we are facing at this present time; debt, doubt, illness, loneliness, sickness, unemployment and whatever else. We are not alone and it will not last forever.

Whatever I put my hands, mind, focus to; I will succeed and it will exceed my expectations.

Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – No Time Has Been Lost

Beloved, I would remind you today that no time has been lost. Though the years have passed chronologically, no time has been lost in the spirit. I see you!

Despite the circumstances and how things have looked around you, I know that your faith has not wavered. Your trust in who I am has never wavered. You have not been moved by what you’ve seen, you have only been moved by My promise. You have been faithful in holding fast to My name; you have been faithful in doing the work of My kingdom. In all of this you have grown even deeper in your intimacy with Me.

I say to you, no time has been lost.

Beloved, there is still a battle, but you WILL WIN! Now, is the time to rise up in strength in Me. Now is the time to rise to a greater level of boldness fueled by My Spirit. Now is the time that you will go in and take the land. You will go in and dispossess every enemy squatter on your promised land to possess your inheritance. By My Spirit I am anointing you with fresh strength and with new vitality and wherever your feet step, My glory will be known. No time has been lost!

Activation:

Declare aloud:

YHWH is with me. So, by the Spirit of YHWH and by His power and might, I will drive out the giants from the land and possess my inheritance!

Caleb Requests His Land

⁶A delegation from the tribe of Judah, led by Caleb, son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, came to Joshua at Gilgal. Caleb said to Joshua, “Remember what YHWH said to Moses, the man of God, about you and me when we were at Kadesh-barnea.

⁷I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of YHWH, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to explore the land of Canaan. I returned and gave an honest report,

⁸but my brothers who went with me frightened the people from entering the Promised Land. For my part, I wholeheartedly followed YHWH my God.

⁹So that day Moses solemnly promised me, ‘The land of Canaan on which you were just walking will be your grant of land and that of your descendants forever, because you wholeheartedly followed YHWH my God.’

¹⁰“Now, as you can see, YHWH has kept me alive and well as He promised for all these forty-five years since Moses made this promise—even while Israel wandered in the wilderness. Today I am eighty-five years old.

¹¹I am as strong now as I was when Moses sent me on that journey, and I can still travel and fight as well as I could then.

¹²So give me the hill country that YHWH promised me. You will remember that as scouts we found the descendants of Anak living there in great, walled towns. But if YHWH is with me, I will drive them out of the land, just as YHWH said.”

¹³So Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave Hebron to him as his portion of land.

¹⁴Hebron still belongs to the descendants of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite because he wholeheartedly followed YHWH, the God of Israel.

¹⁵(Previously Hebron had been called Kiriath-arba. It had been named after Arba, a great hero of the descendants of Anak.)

And the land had rest from war.
Joshua 14:6-15 (NLT)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – My Wings

I invite you, My child, to come under the shelter of My wings. When it feels as if you are about to sink, My wings will uphold you. They will surround you on every side. My wings will enable you to fly. They will propel you forward, so you can build up the momentum to soar. Their impact causes you to push forward, move upwards, to speed up, and to slow down. My wings will shield and protect you from adverse and dangerous conditions and will steer you correctly. My child, they will be a shelter for you.

I have extended to you the covering of My wings, but will you accept it? Will you come under My shadow? It is a place of unconditional guidance and protection. The state of being under My wings causes a positional change that brings mercy and rest to those who experience it. Unfortunately, there are many who choose not to accept.

Whatever your circumstances, I offer you unconditional help and support, come under the shelter of my wings, my child. You will find refuge in me. Under my wings you will encounter my safety.

Activation: Let Yahweh know you want to be under His wings. Ask Yahweh, of the many benefits of His wings, which will you encounter first. Thank Him for that experience.

For You have been my help, and in the shadow of Your wings [where I am always protected] I sing for joy.
Psalm 63:7 (AMP)

Like a bird protecting its young, Yahweh will cover you with His feathers, will protect you under His great wings; His faithfulness will form a shield around you, a rock-solid wall to protect you.
Psalm 91:4 (VOICE)

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Monday Morning Scripture – Psalm 63

The Thirsting Soul Satisfied in Yahweh

A Psalm of David; when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

¹ O God, You are my God; with deepest longing I will seek You; my soul [my life, my very self] thirsts for You, my flesh longs and sighs for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

²So I have gazed upon You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your glory.

³Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You.

⁴So will I bless You as long as I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name.

⁵My soul [my life, my very self] is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth offers praises [to You] with joyful lips.

⁶When I remember You on my bed, I meditate and thoughtfully focus on You in the night watches,

⁷For You have been my help,
And in the shadow of Your wings [where I am always protected] I sing for joy.

⁸My soul [my life, my very self] clings to You;
Your right hand upholds me.

⁹But those who seek my life to destroy it will [be destroyed and] go into the depths of the earth [into the underworld].

¹⁰They will be given over to the power of the sword; they will be a prey for foxes.

¹¹But the king will rejoice in God; everyone who swears by Him [honoring the true God, acknowledging His authority and majesty] will glory, for the mouths of those who speak lies will be stopped.
Psalm 63:1:11 (AMP)