Friday Morning Scripture (WK31/2022) – 2 Timothy 1:6-14

Paul Encourages Timothy To Be Faithful

6 This is why I remind you to help God’s gift grow, just as a small spark grows into a fire. God put his gift in you when I placed my hands on you.

7 God gave us his Spirit. And the Spirit doesn’t make us weak and fearful. Instead, the Spirit gives us power and love. He helps us control ourselves.

8 So don’t be ashamed of the message about our Lord. And don’t be ashamed of me, his prisoner. Instead, join with me as I suffer for the good news. God’s power will help us do that.

9 God has saved us. He has chosen us to live a holy life. It wasn’t because of anything we have done. It was because of his own purpose and grace. Through Christ Jesus, God gave us this grace even before time began.

10 It has now been made known through the coming of our Savior, Christ Jesus. He has broken the power of death. Because of the good news, he has brought life out into the light. That life never dies.

11 I was appointed to announce the good news. I was appointed to be an apostle and a teacher.

12 That’s why I’m suffering the way I am. But this gives me no reason to be ashamed. That’s because I know who I have believed in. I am sure he is able to take care of what I have given him. I can trust him with it until the day he returns as judge.

13 Follow what you heard from me as the pattern of true teaching. Follow it with faith and love because you belong to Christ Jesus.

14 Guard the truth of the good news that you were trusted with. Guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.

2 Timothy 1:6-14 (NIRV)

Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Choices

With every thought there is a choice. Is it from me? Is it truth or a lie? What will you allow to take root and grow in your thinking?

With every step there is a choice. Will you follow truth or lies?

As you submit to me, I will lead you and show you the way forward, but you have free will. You can make your own choices. You must allow my spirit to lead and actively choose how to spend your time; choose who to align with; choose your words wisely; choose to trust me; choose to follow peace; choose to live from rest.

I will help you and guide you but you must partner with me and choose the path of life.

God gave us his Spirit. And the Spirit doesn’t make us weak and fearful. Instead, the Spirit gives us power and love. He helps us control ourselves.

2 Timothy 1:7 (NIRV)

This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.

Deuteronomy 30:19 (NIV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Hands Off

Be selective about what you put your energy into and where you invest your time and efforts. As things are shifting and moving like tectonic plates beneath you, hold everything lightly. Deliberately submit it all to me and leave it there.

We are in a place you haven’t been before and your journey so far will not inform the road ahead. You won’t help anything by trying to analyse and figure things out for yourself.

Submit to the spirit and focus on me alone; trust that I can handle it all and will guide your steps. Hand me all your responsibilities and let me show you what to drop, what to pick up, what to build.

The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.

Exodus 14:14 (NIV)

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Rewire

Renewing your mind is the doorway to a new era. Hand me your knowledge and let me multiply it. Submit your mindsets to me and let me upgrade your thinking.

You cannot operate in old thoughts, old defaults, and believing the old lies. What worked before won’t wash in the future. As you hand your mind to me there will be a complete change of perspective. I will provide a fresh map for this new landscape. Suspend your earthly thinking and let me bring the expansion you need to steward the new. 

Prayer: Lord, I submit to you every aspect of my mind and thinking. I give you everything I know and understand. I repent for every place where I have believed lies which have affected my thoughts and my life; where I have carried wrong mindsets that are not in alignment with truth. I give you permission to rewire my thinking and ask Lord that you would transform me by the renewing of my mind.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Philippians 4:8 (ESV)

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:2 (ESV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – The Great Reshuffling

For some there is waiting, others rest. Some are regrouping and many are recovering. Some are to clear out, some are to wind down, while others are to rise up.


There is a great reshuffling under way but it is not a time for fear!

Engage with the process and embrace this season. Find joy in the journey because it’s all in my hands.

Activation: Ask God to clarify where you are in this great reshuffling. What is your focus in this season? Are you to rest or rise, wait or move? Submit your timings into his hands.

But I trust in you, Lord; I say, “You are my God.” My times are in your hands; deliver me from the hands of my enemies, from those who pursue me.

Psalm 31:14-15 (NIV)

Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his. He changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.

Daniel 2:20 (NIV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Oneness

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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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