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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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Living For Who?

I see you and I honour you in your journey of life with me. I love your enlarging capacity to face your difficulties and I rejoice at your humble devotion to me.

Now I challenge you to put aside even more of yourself, laying down your selfishness in a way that demonstrates how bored you are with living for yourself. For I am bored with how much unnecessary time you lavish on you and yours and how you protect space for you, without inviting me, YAHWH, into that space. Leave behind the hours of only planning and thinking of you.

I bought your life at my Son’s expense, for your value is immeasurable to me. So, my church, bring your fullness of heart to me for the sake of others, as Christ did for you.

Activation: Ask Holy Spirit, ‘Where are you provoking today?’ Is it to rely less on yourself, your intellect? Have you yet come to the end of yourself? Choose this day how you will live. Do not run past His challenge. Trust in Him and He will act.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.

Philippians 2:3 (NIVUK)

In fact, the mind-set focused on the flesh fights God’s plan and refuses to submit to his direction, because it cannot!

Romans 8:7 (TPT)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Re-invigorate and Strengthen

I am your joy and your hope! I am with you and I am for you. I watch over you and I am a passionate and zealous God, not willing for anyone to perish. As you walk with Me and as you look to Me, as you place your hope in Me and look in expectancy to Me, you will not be disappointed. You have cried out in My presence, “Lord, when will it come? When will your promise come?”

Yet, I am calling you to re-invigorate. Strengthen yourself in Me, in My love for you. Strengthen yourself in walking with Me in your daily choices and decisions. Strengthen your brothers and sisters in Christ and see to it that no one falters. Know My heart, the heart of a protective Father. I will lead you in paths of righteousness for My Name’s sake. Your hope in Me will not be cut off.

11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

12 Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees.

13 “Make level paths for your feet,”[a] so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.

Hebrews 12:11-13 (NIV)

13 [What, what would have become of me] had I not believed that I would see the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living!

14 Wait and hope for and expect the Lord; be brave and of good courage and let your heart be stout and enduring. Yes, wait for and hope for and expect the Lord.

Psalm 27:13-14 (AMPC)

For surely there is a latter end [a future and a reward], and your hope and expectation shall not be cut off.

Proverbs 23:18 (AMPC)

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Lion bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Release!

Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.”

1 Kings 18:21 (NIV)

Some of you have been walking a tightrope; you have been walking a thin line. You have been caught between two minds; between the will of the Lord, and considering the questions posed to you by the enemy of your soul, who has been playing on desires that have been, as yet, unfulfilled in your life.

But the Spirit of the Lord says to you, “Release those desires to Me; bring them again to Me. Submit your will to Mine. It is in your surrender, where you allow Me to have My way, that a great release will come. A release from the storehouse of heaven, of My bountiful supply, where I long to fulfil your desires because you have first placed your hope in Me.

I am the One who holds your destiny. I am the One who holds the Key of David, who opens and no-one will shut and who shuts and no-one shall open. You are at a juncture, a door of decision. Will you follow Me?”

“If you love me, keep my commands…”

John 14:15 (NIV)

“…yet not my will, but yours be done.”

Luke 22:42 (NIV)

Delight yourself in the Lord, And He will give you the desires and petitions of your heart.

Psalm 37:4 (AMP)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Don’t Look Back

For some time you have felt static, waiting, preparing. Now is the time to ask me for your next step. Each step may not make sense to man, but as I position my people, you need to trust me, and get your shoes on. It’s time to get up, shake the dust off your feet, and get moving.

What once was, will never be again. How things were, have gone forever. Close the door on those days and ways. Set your face like flint into forward gear, and don’t look back.

So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the ploughing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his servant.

1 Kings 19:21 (NIV)

32 Remember Lot’s wife!

33 Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.

Luke 17:32-33 (NIV)

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