Wednesday Morning Scripture (Wk14/2022) – Isaiah 26

Song of Trust in God’s Protection

1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; He sets up salvation as walls and ramparts.

2 “Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, The One that [1]remains faithful and trustworthy.

3 “You will keep in [2]perfect andconstant peace the one whose mind is steadfast [that is, committed and focused on You—in both [3]inclination and character],

Because he trusts and takes refuge in You [with hope and confident expectation].

4 “Trust [confidently] in the Lord forever [He is your fortress, your shield, your banner], for the Lord God is an everlasting Rock [the Rock of Ages].

5 “For He has thrown down the [arrogant] ones who dwell on high, the lofty and inaccessible city; He lays it low, He lays it low to the ground, He hurls it to the dust.

6 “The foot will trample it, even the feet of the suffering, and the steps of the helpless.”

7 The way of the righteous [those in right-standing with God—living in moral and spiritual integrity] is smooth and level; O Upright One, make a level path for the just and righteous.

8 Indeed, in the path of Your judgments, O Lord, we have waited expectantly for You; Your name, even Your memory, is the desire and deep longing of our souls.

9 In the night my soul longs for You [O Lord], indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently; for [only] when Your judgments are experienced on the earth will the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

10 Though the wicked is shown compassion and favor, He does not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals unjustly, and refuses to see the majesty of the Lord.

11 Though Your hand is lifted up [to strike], O Lord, the wicked do not see it. Let them see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame; indeed, let the fire reserved for Your enemies consume them.

12 Lord, You will establish peace for us, since You have also performed for us all that we have done.

13 O Lord our God, other masters besides You have ruled over us; but through You alone we confess Your name.

14 The [wicked] dead will not live [again], the spirits of the dead will not rise and return; therefore You have punished and destroyed them, and You have wiped out every memory of them [every trace of them].

15 You have increased the nation, O Lord; You have increased the nation, You are glorified; You have extended all the borders of the land.

16 O Lord, they sought You in distress; they managed only a prayerful whisper when Your discipline was upon them.

17 As a woman with child approaches the time to give birth, she is in pain and struggles and cries out in her labor, so we were before You, O Lord.

18 We have been with child, we have twisted and struggled in labor; we gave birth, as it seems, only to wind. We could not accomplish salvation for the earth, nor were inhabitants of the world [4]born.

19 Your dead will live; [5] their dead bodies will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy! For your dew is a dew of [celestial] light [heavenly, supernatural], and the earth will give birth to the spirits of the dead.

20 Come, my people, enter your chambers and shut your doors behind you; hide for a little while until the [Lord’s] [6]wrath is past.

21 Listen carefully, the Lord is about to come out of His [heavenly] place

To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their wickedness [their sin, their injustice, their wrongdoing]; the earth will reveal the [innocent] blood shed upon her and will no longer cover her slain.

Isaiah 26:1-21

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 26:2 Lit keeps trustworthiness.
  2. Isaiah 26:3 Lit peace, peace, a Hebrew idiom of emphasis.
  3. Isaiah 26:3 The Hebrew word for inclination became a technical term in Jewish tradition, and the rabbis frequently referred to the “evil inclination” much in the same sense as the sin nature. They also recognized a “good inclination,” which the righteous choose to follow, and urged people to make their good inclination king over the evil inclination.
  4. Isaiah 26:18 Lit fallen.
  5. Isaiah 26:19 So with some ancient versions; MT reads My dead body.
  6. Isaiah 26:20 Lit curse.

Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Rich In Mercy

Just as you know the sun will rise each new day know my great mercy and steadfast love for you is new every morning too.

It’s part of my nature, part of my great love for you. I delight in mercy and I delight in you. 

I am rich in mercy because of love, I am making you rich in love and mercy too.

This mercy, this faithfulness and steadfast love will increase your trust in me. Because you trust me I will keep you in perfect peace. Because you walk in my peace you will be bringing my Prince of Peace into the atmosphere around you every day.

Activation: Ask the Lord to show you any areas within you that are not at peace. Repent of not trusting Him and ask for the steady reassurance of His love, mercy and peace. It’s such an intrinsic part of His faithful nature He will delight in releasing his hope to you.

Because I delight in mercy.

Micah 7:19 (NIV)

Because you trust me I will keep you in perfect peace.

Isaiah 26:3 (NIV)

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”

Lamentations 3:22-24 (ESV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – The Pioneering Way

You have not gone this way before I see you looking for the ancient paths and trying to find your way by following those. But they are the routes that have gone before but this is a new way and no one has gone this way before. You must move and take each step in the new way. I will literally move the ground beneath your feet. It may feel uncomfortable for a time, but it will become a level ground where you will not stumble or fall. It is a step of faith. For it is a faith journey. For faith is being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you cannot see. So it is with me. The sign you are looking for is Jesus for he is the way and the truth and the life there is no other way so when you cannot see keep following him. He will lead you to me, The Father, my evangelist pioneers, my children move with me and my Spirit, step out in faith and lead others to the way to the father he is waiting.

Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life no one can come to the Father except through me”.

John 14:6 (NIV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Be One

You belong to me. I chose you before the creation of the world. Many of you feel lonely or isolated or on the outside. Or feel that you don’t fit in, or even rejected or bullied. But you belong to me. I am yours, and you are mine. You are my child and, you belong to me, my family. I want my family to know that they belong together. The cry of my heart is that you become one as we are one. Father, Son and Holy Spirit, embody me in your whole being So that we live in you and you in us, you are in us so that we are all in perfect unity so the world will know and see that you belong to me. You have my DNA I am your father and in you, Christ lives by his Holy Spirit in all his fullness.

I pray that all of them may be one Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

John 17:21 (NIV)

Activation: Pray that you get the revelation that the full trinity in perfect unity lives in you and that you are one with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. That there is no separation between you and God but that all his fullness lives in you and all of you lives in him

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Monday Morning Scripture (Wk14/2022) – John 17:13-26

The Disciples in the World

13 But now I am coming to You; and I say these things [while I am still] in the world so that they may experience My joy made full and complete and perfect within them [filling their hearts with My delight].

14 I have given to them Your word [the message You gave Me]; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world and do not belong to the world, just as I am not of the world and do not belong to it.

15 I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but that You keep them and protect them from the evil one.

16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

17 Sanctify them in the truth [set them apart for Your purposes, make them holy]; Your word is truth.

18 Just as You commissioned and sent Me into the world, I also have commissioned and sent them (believers) into the world.

19 For their sake [1]I sanctify Myself [to do Your will], so that they also may be sanctified [set apart, dedicated, made holy] in [Your] truth.

20 “I do not pray for these alone [it is not for their sake only that I make this request], but also for [all] those who [will ever] believe and trust in Me through their message,

21 that they all may be one; just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe [without any doubt] that You sent Me.

Their Future Glory

22 I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one, just as We are one;

23 I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected and completed into one, so that the world may know [without any doubt] that You sent Me, and [that You] have loved them, just as You have loved Me.

24 Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given to Me [as Your gift to Me], may be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

25 “O just and righteous Father, although the world has not known You and has never acknowledged You [and the revelation of Your mercy], yet I have always known You; and these [believers] know [without any doubt] that You sent Me;

26 and I have made Your name known to them, and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which You have loved Me may be in them [overwhelming their heart], and I [may be] in them.”

John 17:13-26 (AMP

Footnotes

  1. John 17:19 Jesus’ sacrificial death allows Christians to be truly sanctified—set apart for God’s purpose.

Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Courage

Take heart for I have overcome the world. It is time to know that in me, you are more than conquerors. In me you can do all things. Your confidence is in me. It is time to be courageous, my child, my bride, for I need you to rise up to your greatest hour. It is time to fight your adversary who roams around like a lion, looking for who he can devour. But just like I taught David how to kill the bear and lion with his bare hands as preparation to stand and face Goliath, so I have been training you.

Take your stand with weapons in your hand and rise up like David in the camp of the enemy. Declare today: “I come in the name of the Lord!” Put on the cloak of courage that I am bestowing on you; rise up, shine, and take the land I have given you.

Activation: Ask God to show you what your cloak of courage looks like. What colour is it? What texture is it? Are there words written on it? Then ask God what you need to give him or take off before you can put on the cloak of courage. See yourself stand up like David and say to any Goliaths in your life, “I stand in the name of the Lord.”

I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace. In the world you have tribulation and distress and suffering, but be courageous [be confident, be undaunted, be filled with joy]; I have overcome the world [My conquest is accomplished, My victory abiding].

John 16:33 (AMP)

But David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a sabre, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.”

1 Samuel 17:45 (NASB)

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