Monday Morning Scripture (Wk8/2022) – Matthew 13:53-58

Jesus Revisits Nazareth

53 When Jesus had finished these parables, He left there.

54 And after coming to [Nazareth] His hometown, He began teaching them in their synagogue, and they were astonished, and said, “Where did this Man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers [what is the source of His authority]?

55 Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And are not His brothers, James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?

56 And His sisters, are they not [living here] among us? Where then did this Man get all this [wisdom and power]?”

57 And they took offense at Him [refusing to believe in Him]. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”

58 And He did not do many miracles there [in Nazareth] because of their unbelief.

Matthew 13:53-58 (AMP)

Friday Morning Scripture – Matthew 13:47-52

A Dragnet

47 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet which was lowered into the sea, and gathered fish of every kind,

48 and when it was full, they dragged it up on the beach; and they sat down and sorted out the good fish into baskets, but the worthless ones they threw away.

49 So it will be at the end of the age; the angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous

50 and throw the wicked into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping [over sorrow and pain] and grinding of teeth [over distress and anger].

51 “Have you understood all these things [in the lessons of the parables]?” They said to Jesus, “Yes.”

52 He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the head of a household, who brings out of his [1]treasure things that are new and fresh and things that are old and familiar.”

Matthew 13:47-52 (AMP)

Footnotes

  1. Matthew 13:52 God’s precepts, both the old and the new, contain truths to be treasured.

Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Increased Authority

Today I am inviting you to step into a new level of authority. Today I am calling you to take a step into a new authority that makes you stand out as different from the many voices of this earth. The influence of the earth holds nothing in comparison to the authority of Heaven flowing through your voice.

It is time to start speaking the truth and watch as Heaven’s authority shifts and changes situations around you. I see the people who don’t yet know me wandering around looking for a voice of authority, and today, I call you to be my mouth. Speak the truth, speak love, and stand in this new wave of authority.

When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.

Matthew 7:28-29 (NIV)

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.

Ephesians 4:15 (NIV)

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbour, for we are all members of one body.

Ephesians 4:25 (NIV)

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Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Hope

It’s time to desire, expect and trust…

It is time to hope! Time to hope above disappointment and hope in the face of the unknown. I am restoring hope in you today. It is time to stand up and believe in my promises more than the reality of your circumstances.

Am I not powerful enough to defy the law of nature and defy the reason of man?

Do I not laugh at the plans of the enemy and make the wise man look foolish?

Am I not the God who can part the waters and raise the dead back to life?

Does not my touch bring healing and my words deliver those who are bound?

I Am the God whose words do not return to Him void, but that go forth and accomplish that with which it was sent. That is my promise to you today. Hope again, for I have not stopped moving. I have not stopped promising or changed My mind.

As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

Isaiah 55:10-11 (NIV)

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people.

Ephesians 1:18 (NIV)

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