Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Full Circle

Sometimes it can feel like you are back where you began. Things can suddenly come full circle and you wonder what the point of the journey so far has been. Maybe you feel a sense of déjà vu. Maybe it appears in the natural like you have walked around the mountain many times and ended up back where you started from. Rest assured, you have come further than you know.

I am not a linear God – I am in the cycles. Completion in itself is a process. The extrication from the previous requires unwinding, unravelling and tying up, in order to move on to the next.

Like the rings in the core of a tree trunk, your life has many nested cycles, and each is larger than the previous. All of these build you, grow you, prepare you, and become part of your story, your strength, and your character.

5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip,“Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” 6 He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.

7 Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages[1] to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”

8 Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up,

9 “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”

10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there).

11 Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.

12 When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.”

13 So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

John 6:5-13 (NIV)

Footnotes

  1. John 6:7 Greek take two hundred denarii

4 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy

5 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now,

6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Philippians 1:4-6 (NIV)

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Thursday Morning Scripture (Wk30/2022) – Psalm 16

The Hope of the Faithful, and the Messiah’s Victory

1 Preserve[1] me, O God, for in You I put my trust.

2 O my soul, you have said to the Lord, “You are my Lord, my goodness is nothing apart from You.”

3 As for the saints who are on the earth, “They are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.”

4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god; their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take up their names on my lips.

5 O Lord, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You [2]maintain my lot.

6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yes, I have a good inheritance.

7 I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel; my [3]heart also instructs me in the night seasons.

8 I have set the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.

9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will [4]rest in hope.

10 For You will not leave my soul in [5]Sheol, nor will You allow Your Holy One to [6]see corruption.

11 You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Psalm 16:1-11 (NKJV)

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 16:1 Watch over
  2. Psalm 16:5 Lit. uphold
  3. Psalm 16:7 Mind, lit. kidneys
  4. Psalm 16:9 Or dwell securely
  5. Psalm 16:10 The abode of the dead
  6. Psalm 16:10 undergo

Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Come Away

You are coming into a place where you are beginning to experience me in a more intimate way.

I love when you seek and press into my presence with all your heart. Did I not say that those who seek me will find me when you seek me with all of your heart? I love my time with you. I love your undivided attention. In my presence there is fullness of joy, there is peace, there is love. In my presence is freedom to move into what I have called you to do and be.

Allow me to strip away any and everything that has the potential to keep you stagnant. In my presence you will find the refreshing and refiling you so desperately long for.

You have asked for revelation and insight, and it will be found in my presence – in the secret, hidden place, with me. Come away with me, my beloved. Let me share with you how I see you. Let me reveal my secrets, the plans that I have for you.

This is my invitation to you – COME INTO MY PRESENCE! COME AWAY WITH ME!

Activation: Find a quiet place to spend with the Lord. Relax in His presence and allow Him to shower His love on you. Ask the Lord to show you how He sees you. Let Him know how much you love Him. Write down what the Lord is speaking to you.

You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

Psalm 16:11 (NKJV)

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Wednesday Morning Scripture (Wk30/2022) – 1 John 4

A Warning against False Teaching

1 Delightfully loved friends, don’t trust every spirit, but carefully examine what they say to determine if they are of God, because many false prophets have mingled into the world.

2 Here’s the test for those with the genuine Spirit of God: they will confess Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh.

3 Everyone who does not acknowledge that Jesus is from God has the spirit of antichrist, which you heard was coming and is already active in the world.

4 Little children, you can be certain that you belong to God and have conquered them, for the One who is living in you is far greater than the one who is in the world.

5 They belong to this world and they articulate the spirit of this world, and the world listens to them.

6 But we belong to God, and whoever truly knows God listens to us. Those who refuse to listen to us do not belong to God. That is how we can know the difference between the spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

God is Love

7 Those who are loved by God, let his love continually pour from you to one another, because God is love. Everyone who loves is fathered by God and experiences an intimate knowledge of him.

8 The one who doesn’t love has yet to know God, for God is love.

9 The light of God’s love shined within us when he sent his matchless Son into the world so that we might live through him.

10 This is love: He loved us long before we loved him. It was his love, not ours. He proved it by sending his Son to be the pleasing sacrificial offering to take away our sins.

11 Delightfully loved ones, if he loved us with such tremendous love, then “loving one another” should be our way of life!

12 No one has ever gazed upon the fullness of God’s splendor. But if we love one another, God makes his permanent home in us, and we make our permanent home in him, and his love is brought to its full expression in us.

13 And he has given us his Spirit within us so that we can have the assurance that he lives in us and that we live in him.

14 Moreover, we have seen with our own eyes and can testify to the truth that Father God has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.

15 Those who give thanks that Jesus is the Son of God live in God, and God lives in them.

16 We have come into an intimate experience with God’s love, and we trust in the love he has for us. God is love! Those who are living in love are living in God, and God lives through them.

17 By living in God, love has been brought to its full expression in us so that we may fearlessly face the day of judgment, because all that Jesus now is, so are we in this world.

18 Love never brings fear, for fear is always related to punishment. But love’s perfection drives the fear of punishment far from our hearts. Whoever walks constantly afraid of punishment has not reached love’s perfection.

19 Our love for others is our grateful response to the love God first demonstrated to us.

20 Anyone can say, “I love God,” yet have hatred toward another believer. This makes him a phony, because if you don’t love a brother or sister, whom you can see, how can you truly love God, whom you can’t see?

22 For he has given us this command: whoever loves God must also demonstrate love to others.

1 John 4:1-22 (TPT)

Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Antidote

My love is the antidote to the world. I gave my only Son to die for the sins of the world so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life.

My bride, you have forsaken your first love for a counterfeit love: the love of the world. It is a love that is demanding, a love that will leave, and has left my bride thirsty, hungry, and barren of my power.

My love is the very power that took my Son to the cross. Focus on my love, for in my love is where you will find victory. It is time to stop sounding like a clanging cymbal; my love is the very thing the world is looking for. My beloved, come away with me and allow me to fill you to overflowing with my love.

People are dying because of a lack of true love; I am giving you a prescription for a dying world and it is my love. My love will bring healing, bind up the brokenhearted, and set the captives free. Take the medicine of my love out into the world. But first, make sure you have had your fill.

7 Those who are loved by God, let his love continually pour from you to one another, because God is love. Everyone who loves is fathered by God and experiences an intimate knowledge of him.

8 The one who doesn’t love has yet to know God, for God is love.

9 The light of God’s love shined within us when he sent his matchless Son into the world so that we might live through him.

1 John 4:7-9 (TPT)

Our love for others is our grateful response to the love God first demonstrated to us.

1 John 4:19 (TPT)

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