Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – The Cup of Restoration

Come and sit next to me at the banqueting table. Take my hand and allow the devastation of the last season, the loss and bereavement, to wash away. Do not feel ashamed or exposed for there is nothing hidden from me. Experience the waves of my love and mercy washing over you. I am removing any lack of unbelief, fear, anger, and frustration. Today, I give you a cup of restoration to drink at my banqueting table. This cup is filled with healing, forgiveness, and the restoration of all things that have been long devastated.

“‘Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security. I will bring Judah and Israel back from captivity and will rebuild them as they were before. I will cleanse them from all the sin they have committed against me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against me. Then this city will bring me renown, joy, praise and honour before all nations on earth that hear of all the good things I do for it; and they will be in awe and will tremble at the abundant prosperity and peace I provide for it.’ “This is what the Lord says: ‘You say about this place, “It is a desolate waste, without people or animals.” Yet in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, inhabited by neither people nor animals, there will be heard once more the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord, saying, “Give thanks to the Lord Almighty, for the Lord is good; his love endures forever.” For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were before,’ says the Lord.

Jeremiah 33:6-11 (NIV)

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Monday Morning Scripture (Wk11/2022) – Jeremiah 30:1-17

Freedom From Captivity Promised

1 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord:

2 “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Write in a book all the words which I have spoken to you.

3 For behold (hear this), the days are coming,’ says the Lord, ‘when I will restore the fortunes of My people Israel and Judah,’ says the Lord, ‘and I will return them to the land that I gave to their forefathers and they will take possession of it.’”

4 Now these are the words the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah:

5 “Thus says the Lord, ‘We have heard a terrified voice of panic and dread, and there is no peace.

6 ‘Ask now, and see whether a man can give birth [to a child].

Why then do I see every man with his hands on his [1]loins, as a woman in labor? Why have all faces turned pale?

7 ‘Alas! for that day is great, there is none like it; it is the time of Jacob’s [unequaled] trouble, but he will be saved from it.

8 ‘It shall come about on that day,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘that I will break the yoke off your neck and I will tear off your bonds and force apart your shackles; and strangers will no longer make slaves of the people [of Israel].

9 But they shall serve the Lord their God and [the descendant of] David their King, whom I will raise up for them.

10 ‘Fear not, O Jacob My servant,’ says the Lord, ‘Nor be dismayed or downcast, O Israel; for behold, I will save you from a distant land [of exile] and your descendants from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return and will be quiet and at ease, and no one will make him afraid.

11 ‘For I am with you,’ says the Lord, ‘to save you; for I will destroy completely all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not destroy you completely. But I will judge and discipline you fairly and will by no means regard you as guiltless and leave you unpunished.’

12 “For thus says the Lord, ‘Your wound is incurable and your injury is beyond healing.

13 ‘There is no one to plead your cause; no [device to close and allow the] healing of your wound, no recovery for you.

14 ‘All your lovers (allies) have forgotten you; They do not seek and long for you. For I have injured you with the wound of an enemy, with the punishment of a cruel and mercilessly foe, because your guilt is great and your sins are glaring and innumerable.

15 ‘Why do you cry out over your injury [since it is the natural result of your sin]? Your pain is incurable (deadly). Because your guilt is great and your sins are glaring and innumerable, I have done these things to you.

16 ‘Therefore all who devour you will be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity. And they who plunder you will become plunder, and all who prey upon you I will give for prey.

17 ‘For I will restore health to you and I will heal your wounds,’ says the Lord, ‘Because they have called you an outcast, saying: “This is Zion; no one seeks her and no one cares for her.”’

Jeremiah 30:1-17

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 30:6 The midsection of the body between the lower ribs and the hips.

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)