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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Tuesday Morning Scripture (Wk30/2022) – John 4:1-26

Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman

1 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John—

2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.

3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

4 Now he had to go through Samaria.

5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”

8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[1])

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?

12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the welland drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,

14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

17 “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband.

18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.

20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”

21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

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

23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.

24 God is spirit,and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”

John 4:1-26 (NIV)

Footnotes

  1. John 4:9 Or do not use dishes Samaritans have used

Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Come to the Water

Come, all who are thirsty and drink.
Come to my living water and fountain of life.
For out of me comes living water.

I am coming to wash you and soak you, bringing you back to life where you have felt dry, weak, and weary. I am coming to drench you in abundant life and to awaken all that has grown tired. Drink me in each day and you will never grow thirsty again.

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

John 4:13-14 (NIV)

Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind, for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.

Psalm 107:8-9 (NIV)

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