Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Look Outside

Have you looked outside recently; I mean really taking a look outside the safety of your own home?
It is uncomfortable, isn’t it?
The world is a scary place with so much rebellion and hatred all around and no one taking responsibility for their actions. But I took responsibility for their actions and bore all that sin and took the punishment for it, and yet they do not know it. I know you want to be safe and sometimes it is easy to hideaway and cover yourself with your safety blanket. But aren’t you stifling the light inside of you? Small acts of love are all I require, and I will do the rest. Can you do that? Love covers a multitude of sins; this is what I ask you to do, to love your neighbour as yourself.
I know you can! I know how much pleasure that has brought you in the past, it brings me pleasure too.
So, respond to those nudges I am giving you, go and bless your neighbour and that simple act of love may result in their salvation.

Activation: Ask the Lord to show you where you can spread his love to those around you and step out in faith knowing that he will not disappoint you.

14 “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

15 Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.

16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:14-16 (NKJV)

8 And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”

9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

1 Peter 4:8-10 (NKJV)

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Thursday Morning Scripture (Wk33/2022) – John 4:19-38

Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.”

26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”

27 Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”

28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people,

29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”

30 They went out of the town and were coming to him.

31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

33 So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”

34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

John 4:19-38 (ESV)

Footnotes

  1. John 4:6 That is, about noon
  2. John 4:14 Greek forever

Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – New High Places

I am looking for people who will set up camp in the new high places. Blessed is he who is up with the Lord in high places. My hand is on those who are willing to let go of what they think that worship is and partner with Me in the new. Tear down your old camp and set up a new camp. This camp is new so there must be no remains of the old. Ask Me for a refreshment in worship; how to lose yourself in worshiping Me.

I want you to camp in the high places. Dwell there, live there, be there. Be in a constant state of worship and surrender to me. Don’t just worship Me on a Sunday, or when you decide to put on worship music.

In the high places you will meet Me and experience Me in a way you haven’t before. In that place I will satisfy your hunger for more of Me. When you are in the high places, worshiping Me, I will equip you for your present and future seasons. It is a lifestyle of worship that I require of you. Do this and the blessing will follow. Cultivate a lifestyle of constant worship and adoration for the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Activation: Sit with Holy Spirit and ask Him to bring you to a moment where you were really worshiping Jesus. Ask Him why that moment was real worship.

Now look back on other moments and talk to the Lord if there were also moments of worship where you weren’t worshiping Jesus.

Ask the Lord what you need to surrender to get to that lifestyle of constant worship

23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

John 4:23-24 (ESV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Generosity

I am a generous, abundant father, one who gives without limit. I have not held anything back. I even gave my most precious, beloved son for you. The kingdom family is a generous, giving family, giving to the point of sacrifice, even sacrifice of our whole life. This is the family you have joined, the family you have been grafted into.

As you increasingly reflect the fullness of who I am, know that I am making you to be a generous people. In this season, when the earthly wisdom is to “tighten your belt”, hoard, save and conserve, I am asking you to give. The strategy against the enemy’s squeeze on your life at this time is to give generously out of the abundance I have lavished upon you.

Give of your time, your food, your home, your money, your energy, and yourself. This is not a time to hold back. This is a time for whole-hearted giving, for you are to be a whole-hearted people, reflecting the wholeness of my heart and the unstinting generosity of my character.

Activation: Ask God to help you respond to this word with heavenly wisdom, not earthly wisdom, and ask Him to show you when, where, and how to give. Ask him to deal with the issues of your heart that lead you into limitation and a mindset of lack. Thank him for His abundance, His blessing in your life – ask Him to help you see it.

Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

Luke 6:38 (NIV)

40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.

41 If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles.

42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

Matthew 5:40-42 (NIV)

6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

7 Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

8 And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

9 As it is written:

“They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor;
their righteousness endures forever.”

10 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.

11 You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.

2 Corinthians 9:6-11 (NIV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Restitution and Reward

I am rewarding to you what the enemy has tried to kill, steal and destroy over the last years. He tried hard to silence you and make you useless. He did everything to rob you from your destiny.

Many times you were on the floor and ready to give up. But you didn’t! You got up again and again. I am so proud of you, my beloved one!

I have seen you and all your circumstances.

I will bless you richly for your perseverance and your obedience.
I am coming with a double portion of my blessing.

I am coming with restitution and reward.

Now is your time to receive and be filled with joy again. Famine is over and there is so much waiting ahead of you. Open your hands to receive my blessing and drink deeply from my goodness, your King.

Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so you inherit a double portion in your land, and everlasting
joy will be yours.

Isaiah 61:7 NIV)

Drink deeply of the pleasures of this God.

Psalm 34:8 (TPT)

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Tuesday Morning Scripture (Wk33/2022) – Isaiah 61

Exaltation of the Afflicted

1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed and commissioned me to bring good news to the humble and afflicted; He has sent me to bind up [the wounds of] the brokenhearted, to proclaim release [from confinement and condemnation] to the [physical and spiritual] captives and freedom to prisoners,

2 To proclaim [1]the favorable year of the Lord, [2]And the day of vengeance and retribution of our God, to comfort all who mourn,

3 To grant to those who mourn in Zion the following: to give them a [3]turban instead of dust [on their heads, a sign of mourning], the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment [expressive] of praise instead of a disheartened spirit. So they will be called the trees of righteousness [strong and magnificent, distinguished for integrity, justice, and right standing with God], the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.

4 Then they will rebuild the ancient ruins, they will raise up and restore the former desolations; and they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations (deserted settlements) of many generations.

5 Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

6 But you shall be called the priests of the Lord; people will speak of you as the ministers of our God. You will eat the wealth of nations, and you will boast of their riches.

7 Instead of your [former] shame you will have a [4]double portion; and instead of humiliation your people will shout for joy over their portion. Therefore in their land they will possess double [what they had forfeited]; everlasting joy will be theirs.

8 For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery with [5]a burnt offering. And I will faithfully reward them, and make an everlasting covenant with them.

9 Then their offspring will be known among the nations, and their descendants among the peoples. All who see them [in their prosperity] will recognize and acknowledge them that they are the people whom the Lord has blessed.

10 I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has covered me with a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom puts on a [6]turban, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

11 For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will [most certainly] cause righteousness and justice and praise to spring up before all the nations [through the power of His word].

Isaiah 61:1-11 (AMP)

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 61:2 The same as a day of salvation(49:8), and the year of my redeemed(63:4).
  2. Isaiah 61:2 See note Ezek 34:28.
  3. Isaiah 61:3 In the Hebrew there is a kind of wordplay here as “turban” (Heb pe’er)and dust (epher) have the same consonants and similar vowels.
  4. Isaiah 61:7 I.e. abundant reward.
  5. Isaiah 61:8 Another reading is wrongdoing or malice, but by itself either would hardly be an improvement. Some prefer to read with as “and,” which requires the assumption of a scribal error that is possible though not found in existing manuscripts. It would also raise the question of why robbery is singled out among other kinds of wrongdoing. In the Talmud the verse is taken to refer literally to the theft of an animal which the thief intends to offer as a sacrifice. The point is that the offering is unacceptable even though everything actually belongs to God and the thief arguably is only returning to God what is His.
  6. Isaiah 61:10 Or head wrap.