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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.

¹¹No 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.
¹²Therefore, 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!
¹⁴Wait 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)

³²Remember Lot’s wife!
³³Whoever 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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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Be Whole

It is time to bring me the fragments, even the forgotten pieces of yourself. Your past; your sins; your mistakes; your wounds. Lay them all before me and watch what I do.

You can’t fix yourself but I can transform everything in just one breath.

Let me put you back together in the best possible way. It’s my nature to make all things new and to bring beauty from ashes. Now, I need you well. I need you whole.

Activation: Change the tenses in the verses below to apply it directly to yourself. Speak it aloud as a decree daily.

May God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole, put you together—spirit, soul, and body—and keep you fit for the coming of our Master, Jesus Christ. The One who called you is completely dependable. If he said it, he’ll do it!
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 (MSG)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – I Tell You Who You Are

Don’t look to a screen to shape your expectations of yourself. Neither should you line yourself up against the person next to you for comparison.

Come to Me. I alone will tell you who you are, for you are built in Me and by Me.

You are My likeness. My beloved.

I know all your innermost thoughts so there is nothing to hide from Me. Instead, run towards Me with your heart open and ask Me to fill it with truth. Let Me shape your identity, blowing away the lies you have believed about yourself.

Let My voice unlock you to be who I made you to be.

Activation: Ask God to identify any lies that you have believed about yourself. Hand them to Him in prayer, repent for believing them, and ask Him to exchange the lies for truth and to give you a word that He relates specifically to your unique identity. Speak this word over yourself daily.

Don’t you know that you yourselves are YAH’s temple and that YAH’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
1 Corinthians 3:16 (NIV)

On that day you will realise that I Am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I Am in you.
John 14:20 (NIV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Prepare To Harvest

In My hand I carry a sickle made of pure gold, refined in the fire of My glory. It has been tested, tried, and found worthy for use in the Kingdom of God. I have removed every kind of impurity that would make it brittle or weak so that it does not break during times of intense pressure. The harvest season is long and laborious, so I have ensured that this tool will serve Me reliably as I thresh the fields.

This sickle represents My church and I have sharpened her for the task ahead. She has been well prepared for the coming season, and I can rely on her to work smoothly with My Spirit. It is time to see a great harvest of souls come into the Kingdom of God. It is time to swing My bride as a sharp threshing sledge over the ripe fields of the nations!

Prayer: Jesus, here I am, send me where you need me. Show me how I can co-labor with you to see the full harvest come in!

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest.”
Matthew 9:37-38 (ESV)

“See, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.”
Isaiah 41:15 (NIV)

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