Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – You Are My Favourite

The Spirit of the Lord says, “You are my favourite, the one I long to spend every day loving. I do love you. Feel the embrace of my arms around your heart. Taste my kindness, whilst believing the truth that I will never let you go. Tell me that you love me too, fully. I am jealous for your unreserved response to my attention and affection. Love me more than your family and friends.”

“Do not think that your salvation was merely a helping hand from a difficult situation. You were dead in sin, and I have loved you so strongly and with resurrection power to raise you from the deadness of sin. Nothing you do now stops my love. It never has.”

“But I did not save you to give you salvation only; it was to meet with you and walk with you, as at the start in the garden of Eden. There is something for you yet to grasp my loved one: the fulness of relationship with me, heaven on earth.”

Activation: Spend time with Jesus and ask him what he wants you to know of his love today, giving him your full attention.

“Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”

Isaiah 1:18 (NIV)

“..that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”

Ephesians 3:16-19 (ESV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – War for Love

This is a time to war for community, to war for connection, and to fight for the joy and the privilege of loving deeply amongst your kingdom family. Resist the temptation to stay at surface level, to exchange social niceties, and smooth over the cracks.
Are you willing to allow me to heal the places of resistance? Are you willing to let me help you lower your protective walls, allowing me to be your defender?

I am giving you the grace to go deeper in your kingdom relationships, grace to display vulnerability, and grace to embrace the cost of friendship. As you lean on me for my enabling power, I will help you to build a depth of connection and friendship with those I highlight, that will be a source of mutual strength and encouragement in the days ahead.

Activation: Ask the Father if there are particular connections that he is asking you to invest in more. Ask him if there are any friendships that he would like to heal. Ask him if there are any connections that are not for this season.

“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. . . This is my command: Love each other.”

John 15:12-13,17 (NIV)

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

John 13:34-35 (NIV)

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labour: if either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no-one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (NIVUK)

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Gospel Song of the Day – In Love With You

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

Matthew 22:37 (KJV)

And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Mark 12:33 (KJV)

We love him, because he first loved us.

1 John 4:19 (KJV)

Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Eyes off the Tailspin

Take your eyes off the tailspin portrayed to you daily in the media and by the one who feeds you a steady diet of lies. Take your eyes off the chaos which feeds a sense of life being out of control. Where is your hope? Where are you looking for stability?

“I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.”

Psalm 121:1-2 (ESV)

I AM, your source of stability in the unravelling of this world. I AM, the rock on which you stand. I AM, The One who brings you help. I AM, your safe place.

“God is a safe place to hide, ready to help when we need him.

We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom, courageous in seastorm and earthquake,

Before the rush and roar of oceans, the tremors that shift mountains.

Jacob-wrestling God fights for us, God-of-Angel-Armies protects us.”

Psalm 46:1-3 (MSG)

I am strengthening you, My bride, to stand firm with your head held high, unassailable by the enemy as you put all of your trust in Me. I am removing your fear of the future as you choose to receive the fullness of My love for you. I have made you to be the head and not the tail, the one who forges a way through the days ahead with confidence and with hope. I have made you to be one who declares My hope to those spinning out of control, those caught in the cross winds and whirling in the storm. I have made you to be one in whom I hold out My hand of rescue to those in need of My deliverance.

Activation: Ask Holy Spirit to show you where you have been drawn into the ‘tailspin,’ and allowed fear, panic or anxiety to plant a seed within you. Uproot anything that He shows you and ask Him to give you a fresh revelation of His love for you.

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Psalm 139:23-24 (NIV)

Now may God, the fountain of hope, fill you to overflowing with uncontainable joy and perfect peace as you trust in Him. And may the power of the Holy Spirit continually surround your life with His super-abundance until you radiate with hope!

Romans 15:13 (TPT)

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Tuesday Morning Scripture (Wk10/2022) – Acts 11:19-26

Barnabas and Saul at Antioch

19 Now those who were scattered after the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to no one but the Jews only.

20 But some of them were men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.

21 And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

22 Then news of these things came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent out Barnabas to go as far as Antioch.

23 When he came and had seen the grace of God, he was glad, and encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord.

24 For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to the Lord.

25 Then Barnabas departed for Tarsus to seek Saul.

26 And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

Acts 11:19-26 (NKJV)

Gospel Song of the Day – Encourage Yourself

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.

Proverbs 18:21 (NKJV)

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

1 John 4:4 (NKJV)

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

Romans 8:37 (NKJV)

The Truth Shall Make You Free

31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.

32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

33 They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will be made free’?”

34 Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.

35 And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever.

36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

John 8:31-36 (NKJV)

Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – More of God’s Glory

I know the struggle of faith that you have been walking through and I want to help you today. Let’s be like Thomas and look at my son’s wounds; see the scars, see the holes in his hands. You are used to bringing your prayers to the foot of the cross and I am preparing you to carry more of my glory, but first we need to deal with doubts and fears.

It is time to put those doubts and fears into the wounds of Jesus. After all, He was wounded for your transgressions, punished for your sins, and you do not need to carry them. Just like Thomas, it is time to receive the blessing of peace. Jesus spoke to Thomas as He saw him wrestling with his doubts, and He wanted to encourage him. I want to encourage you.

Activation: Ask the Lord to help you become aware of His scars. Explore them like Thomas. Ask Him to show you any doubts or fears you are holding onto. Repent, then receive forgiveness as you place those doubts and fears into His wounded hands. Receive His peace and know that He is preparing you for more of His glory.

Seeing and Believing

24 Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.

25 The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.”

So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.”

26 And after eight days His disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, “Peace to you!”

27 Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not beunbelieving, but believing.”

John 20:24-27 (NKJV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Come Up Higher

Come and walk with me for a while. Come up higher my children, for too long you have been looking down, bogged down in the details of life. Though there are times and seasons that you need to deal with the minutiae of life, I want you to come up higher and receive a higher perspective. Come and see through my eyes of love.

Many of you have gotten lost in the details and feel overwhelmed, like someone lost in the woods. Come up to me and let me show you another perspective: the bigger picture. It is time to see things differently. For many of you, those things that seemed beautiful, important, and necessary now make you feel overwhelmed and anxious. I want you to come up higher, where the air is clear and you can see.

From my perspective things are so much clearer, for my ways are not your ways, and my thoughts are not your thoughts. Come up to me and embrace my perspective, letting all fear disappear, and walk with me in peace.

Activation: Take the hand of Jesus and ask him to lift you above your circumstances. Ask him to show you everything that you are concerned about from his perspective. Ask him to show you things through his eyes and for him to help you see the bigger picture of what he is doing.

8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.

9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Isaiah 55:8-9 (NIV)

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