Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Birth in the Darkness

If you look all around you with your natural eyes, there is no shortage of darkness to be found. Sometimes it is harder to find the light – but do not be fooled – I am still here, in everything, on the throne.

When you are feeling your way in the dark and you can’t hear me clearly, choose to trust that I am closer than your very breath. I am in the deepest depths of you. I am behind the scenes making a way where you think there can be no way.

Know that in the darkest hours and moments, when you cling on to me – that is where I am birthing the new in you. This is where new life begins.

Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Psalm 23:4 (NIV)

The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear?

The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalm 27:1 (NIV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – All Obedience is Small Obedience

My children, you have desired greater things, and this is to be commended. But I say to you that all obedience is small obedience. My voice directs you step-by-step. 

I allow you much freedom of choice, and I often love to see your choices, but there are times when I direct you intimately, and when I speak to you to obey in small ways. These are times that I am testing your heart, your willingness to die to yourself and live for me.
Will you obey?
Will you heed the gentle command as well as jump at my big announcements?

There are small things that you hold back from me out of fear, doubt, and selfishness. I am calling them into the light; I am calling my people to walk in integrity of the highest degree. Give me those small things as well as the big, weighty things, and see how I move mightily in favour towards you as you submit to me.

Activation: Is there anything you have been delaying obedience in? Let the beautiful light of the Lord search your heart for any tiny place you’ve been withholding from the Lord, and choose this day to obey.

So Samuel said: “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.

1 Samuel 15:22 (NKJV)

Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree.

Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Saviour, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

Acts 5:29-32 (NKJV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Hopelessness No More

My people, I am the Lord God of HOPE. In me, there is no hopeless situation! I have all wisdom, all might, all power, and I have given all things over to my children. My children are anointed to be my agents of hope in the world. If you are my child, you must partner with my hope.

Like the weary world, you once lived in hopelessness, feeling lost and powerless, but no more! As my agent of hope, you must look at the world around you with the tenacious, expectant eyes of Heaven.

You must reject the greasy film of hopelessness that weighs you down and deadens your perspective. You must not speak hopeless words of despair and death over the world around you. These are the words and thoughts of an enemy, not my words.
I, the Lord, speak LIFE, and you must too!

Activation: Repent of partnering with hopelessness. Renounce it! Command it to leave! Then ask me with tenacity for my hope in your situation, in your relationships, in the world around you, even in the global things you pray over. Ask me for my vision and my perspective and then declare it.

…In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope.

Ephesians 2:12 (NLT)

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead!

1 Peter 1:3 (NKJV)

15 Now when the attendant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was circling the city. And his servant said to him, “This is hopeless, my master! What are we to do?”

16 And he said, “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are greater than those who are with them.”

2 Kings 6:15-16 (NASB20)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Pick Up My Yoke

Are you weary and burdened? Are you feeling the weight of weariness upon your shoulders? Have you cried out to me to give you relief?

Give me your yoke; the weariness that has ground you down as well as the burdens that have weighed you down. Exchange them for my yoke which is easy and light. Leave your yoke with me. Do not pick your yoke back up again. I didn’t ask you to carry two yokes.

Activation: Get down on your knees and physically act out taking off your yoke. Watch him take the yoke. Then see the Lord’s yoke, take it, and put it upon yourself. Then ask the Lord for his strategies/plan for the things you laid at his feet.

Come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Matthew 11:28-30 (NIV)

So we are convinced that every detail of our lives is continually woven together for good, for we are his lovers who have been called to fulfil his designed purpose.

Romans 8:28 (TPT)

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Friday Morning Scripture – Isaiah 6:1-13

Isaiah’s Vision

1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw [in a vision] the Lord sitting on a throne, high and exalted, with the train of His royal robe filling the [most holy part of the] temple.

2 Above Him seraphim (heavenly beings) stood; each one had six wings: with two wings he covered his face, with two wings he covered his feet, and with two wings he flew.

3 And one called out to another, saying,

“Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts; The whole earth is filled with His glory.”

4 And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, and the temple was filling with smoke.

5 Then I said,

“Woe is me! For I am ruined, because I am a man of [ceremonially] unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”

6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs.

7 He touched my mouth with it and said, “Listen carefully, this has touched your lips; your wickedness [your sin, your injustice, your wrongdoing] is taken away and your sin atoned for and forgiven.”

Isaiah’s Commission

8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

9 And He said, “Go, and tell this people:

‘Keep on listening, but do not understand; Keep on looking, but do not comprehend.’

10

“Make the heart of this people insensitive, their ears dull, and their eyes dim, otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and return and be healed.”

11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered,

“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant, and houses are without people and the land is utterly desolate,

12

The Lord has removed [His] people far away, and there are many deserted places in the midst of the land.

13

“And though a tenth [of the people] remain in the land, it will again be subject to destruction [consumed and burned], like a massive terebinth tree or like an oak whose stump remains when it is chopped down.

The holy seed [the elect remnant] is its stump [the substance of Israel].”

Isaiah 6:1-13 (AMP)

Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Never Run Dry

You are not left dry and discarded.

You know that I am sometimes called the potter and that I shape and mould your life like a potter carefully moulds the clay.

So why do you feel so broken and dry?
Why do you feel like tiny parts of you are in shreds; dry bits of clay stuck on the floor and of no use?

Watch beloved; a good craftsman uses all his material. A good potter takes a moist piece of clay, gathers up the old dry scraps, and moulds them back into pliable clay.

Let me gather your broken, dried areas, and I will refresh you with my spirit and give you a sense of wholeness and purpose.

Activation: Ask the Lord to show you any parts of you which feel dry and discarded. Renounce the lie that you are in pieces and of no use. Then ask Him to gather you and refresh you with His Spirit.

Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter. We are all transformed by your hand.

Isaiah 64:8 (NIV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – My Boundaries

There is often talk of a new season and being aware of the times you are in.

Today, I am releasing a deeper awareness of my boundaries. I mean when I have led you to a new place and I want to place my boundary of growth, expansion, and protection around you. For some, this may mean a new call, a geographical relocation, a new relationship or a new revelation and mindset.

Don’t be like Lot’s wife who kept looking back, for I have made a way of escape for you.

Don’t be like the Israelites who grumbled and went round and round in circles, unable to step into the new.

Don’t be like the Scribes and Pharisees, so tied up with religious rules there was no space for relationship with me.

They all put their boundaries around their lives and were restricted as a result.

Open your heart to me and my boundaries, for they are good. For a season my good hand may even be restricting some of you, for I am actually protecting you. For others, I am releasing you. Again, I say, choose my boundaries.

Activation: Repent of restricting yourself and ask the Lord not just to show you your season but your change of boundary. Is He encouraging you to change something, show your willingness to change by stepping forward as a symbol of a new Godly boundary.

The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.

Psalm 16:6 (NIV)

It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone

Ephesians 1:11-12 (MSG)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Thicker Skin

My people, be tough enough to take My truth and learn from those prophets and apostles who I have anointed to lead in these different days. Take back the yoke that you set aside rather than nursing personal wounds from the past long after I have healed you. For I have an abundance of ‘thicker skin’ available to you to lay gently on your soul, heart, and mind.

It looks like a balm on some of you, a shield on others, a beauty of radiance on yet more, but in all it brings My resistance to sin, and My determination to see you through your race on earth.

Come to me where you are weak, any unsteady warriors. Build the walls of my kingdom again with your leaders, together, as one.

Activation: Ask the Lord to cover with soothing balm those tender areas of your life where you are fragile. Stay with him as he administers his gentle touch. Then ask him to firm up other parts where you need a defence shield, like a ‘thicker skin,’ before you pick up again the right yoke for you, today.

So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

Nehemiah 4:6 (ESV)

Faithful are the wounds of a friend [who corrects out of love and concern], but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful [because they serve his hidden agenda].

Proverbs 27:6 (AMP)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Keep On Keeping On

Your life is being played out in front of a capacity crowd, far more numerous than the vast stadia of this world. All of heaven is cheering you on. Does that bring you excitement? Listen and hear the loud affirmations calling your name. You have thought that what you do is hidden. Sometimes, indeed, there are places where I have hidden you for your own good. You, my bride, though, are still counted as mine, part of my enormous kingdom team. Do you see yourself running the race with my life in you?

Now that you realise you are being supported in the heavenlies, what can you hold of me today? Remember, all my fullness dwells in you!
I see your capacity and I’m enlarging it. You may feel like you might burst as this spiritual internal pressure builds in you.

Just as the outer part of a tree grows, accommodating the inner growth that is not seen, my enlargement of your capacity strengthens you. I see your ‘inner person’ and I cheer you on. In fact, I lift you high on my shoulders and say, ‘Look here everyone, my victor.’

Activation: Ask the Lord to show you three areas of your life where He and His angels have been supporting you and backing you up. Then adore him for his attentiveness

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Isaiah 41:10 (ESV)

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.

Hebrews 12:1 (ESV)

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