Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Steady and Sure

To ride the coming storms of life, I am asking you to jettison unnecessary ballast, which will weigh you down and stop you from keeping your head above the waves. It is not my intention that you struggle to stay above the waves but that you manage to walk on them and rise above the circumstances surrounding you. I have made you to be one who walks in victory, in confidence.

To do this, I am asking you to throw off mindsets and habits that will jeopardise your capacity to stride with confidence through life. I am asking you to prepare. I am asking you not to wait until you are in a storm but like the wise sailor, to ready the ship ahead of the storm; to batten down the hatches, and to ensure your anchor is planted deep in solid ground so that you are not storm-tossed but steady and sure.

We have this certain hope like a strong unbreakable anchor holding our souls to God himself. Our anchor of hope is fastened to the mercy seat in the heavenly realm beyond the sacred threshold, and where Jesus, our forerunner, has gone in before us. He is now and forever our royal Priest like Melchizedek

Hebrews 6:19-20 (TPT)

But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.

James 1:6-8 (NIV)

Activation

Take time to sit with Holy Spirit and ask him the mindsets, beliefs, thoughts and habits that undermine your ability to stand firm whatever the circumstances.
Ask him if there are any habits he would like you to establish that will help you prepare for the season to come.

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Thursday Morning Scripture – Psalm 15:1-17

The Vine and the Branches

1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[1] so that it will be even more fruitful.

3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.

7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.

10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

14 You are my friends if you do what I command.

15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

17 This is my command: Love each other.

John 15:1-17 (NIV)

Footnotes

  1. John 15:2 The Greek for he prunes also means he cleans.

Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – I Call You Friend

I call you my friend, and I long for a deeper friendship with you. I have seen your heart to serve me, to honour me, to give all glory and praise. I know you see me rightly. I want to draw you closer to me and bring you into a revelation of our friendship with one another. It is not a small or weak thing, but in the place of friendship, we grow in depth and in intimacy. We grow in the knowledge of each other and in the understanding of each other’s hearts. Come and meet with me today as a friend meets with a friend and sit a little while and share the stories of life, the ups and the downs and find me with an open heart and a listening ear, my friend.

And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.

James 2:23 (NIV)

I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

John 15:15 (NIV)

Wednesday Morning Scripture – Psalm 42

1 As the deer pants [longingly] for the water brooks, so my [1]soul pants [longingly] for You, O God.

2 My soul (my life, my inner self) thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and see the face of God?

3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

4 These things I [vividly] remember as I pour out my soul; how I used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God [like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song], With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.

5 Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become restless and disturbed within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise Him for the help of His presence.

6 O my God, my soul is in despair within me [the burden more than I can bear]; Therefore I will [fervently] remember You from the land of the Jordan and the peaks of [Mount] Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

7 Deep calls to deep at the [thundering] sound of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

8 Yet the Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

9 I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

10 As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me, while they say continually to me, “Where is your God?”

11 Why are you in despair, O my soul? Why have you become restless and disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, The [2]help of my countenance and my God.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:1 The Hebrew word translated “soul” in this psalm and elsewhere in the book of Psalms is nephesh. This word usually refers to a person’s “life” or “self,” but can also mean “throat,” as perhaps in vv 1, 2.
  2. Psalm 42:11 Or saving acts of.

Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – A Prayer for the Thirsty

Oh God, I long for more of you.

Like that deer panting for water, I yearn for your presence.

Reveal yourself to me, open my eyes.

Wake me from my spiritual slumber.

Help my spirit become alert and aware of you.

Amen

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

Psalm 42:1-2 (NKJV)

Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.

Ephesians 5:14 (NKJV)

But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Hebrews 11:6 (NKJV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Fellowship With The Holy Spirit

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

2 Corinthians 13:14 (NIV)

You have known me as Saviour, as one who extends my grace to you, who brings you into the riches of my salvation. You have known me as loving Father, the one who welcomes you as beloved children, by the blood, and in the name of my precious Son. Now I want you to know my Holy Spirit.

I am expanding your understanding of the meaning of this fellowship as I walk with you daily as the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of revelation, and the spirit of counsel. I am inviting you into an experience of being entwined with me in a much deeper way that involves a level of communion that does not relegate me to moments in time or to encounters.

I am one with you. I am enlarging your capacity to live in awareness of your union with me all the time. I do not leave you, ever. I am always present. I am increasing your awareness of my presence, not in order to give you moments of intense feeling but for you to live and move and have your being in me, in my reality.

But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

1 Corinthians 6:17 (ESV)

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Tuesday Morning Scripture – 1 John 3:13-24

Children of God Love One Another

13 Do not be surprised, believers, if the world hates you.

14 We know that we have passed out of death into Life, because we love the brothers and sisters. He who does not love remains in [spiritual] death.

15 Everyone who hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is [at heart] a murderer [by God’s standards]; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

16 By this we know [and have come to understand the depth and essence of His precious] love: that He [willingly] laid down His life for us [because He loved us]. And we ought to lay down our lives for the believers.

17 But whoever has the [1]world’s goods (adequate resources), and sees his brother in need, but has no compassion for him, how does the love of God live in him?

18 Little children (believers, dear ones), let us not love [merely in theory] with word or with tongue [giving lip service to compassion], but in action and in truth [in practice and in sincerity, because practical acts of love are more than words].

19 By this we will know [without any doubt] that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart and quiet our conscience before Him

20 whenever our heart convicts us [in guilt]; for God is greater than our heart and He knows all things [nothing is hidden from Him because we are in His hands].

21 Beloved, if our heart does not convict us [of guilt], we have confidence [complete assurance and boldness] before God;

22 and we receive from Him whatever we ask because we [carefully and consistently] keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight [habitually seeking to follow His plan for us].

23 This is His commandment, that we believe [with personal faith and confident trust] in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and [that we unselfishly] love and seek the best for one another, just as He commanded us.

24 The one who habitually keeps His commandments [obeying His word and following His precepts, abides and] remains in Him, and He in him. By this we know and have the proof that He [really] abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us [as a gift].

1 John 3:13-24 (AMP)

Footnotes

  1. 1 John 3:17 Lit livelihood of the world.