Sunday Morning Scripture – Psalm 84

Longing for the Temple Worship

To the Chief Musician; set to a [1]Philistine lute. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

1 How lovely are Your dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! My soul (my life, my inner self) longs for and greatly desires the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

3 The bird has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young—even Your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.

4 Blessed and greatly favored are those who dwell in Your house and Your presence; they will be singing Your praises all the day long. Selah.

5 Blessed and greatly favored is the man whose strength is in You, in [2]whose heart are the highways to Zion.

6 Passing through the Valley of Weeping ([3]Baca), they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with blessings.

7 They go from strength to strength [increasing in victorious power]; each of them appears before God in Zion.

8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; listen, O God of Jacob! Selah.

9 See our shield, O God, and look at the face of Your anointed [the king as Your representative].

10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand [anywhere else]; I would rather stand [as a doorkeeper] at the threshold of the house of my God than to live [at ease] in the tents of wickedness.

11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord bestows grace and favor and honor; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

12 O Lord of hosts, how blessed and greatly favored is the man who trusts in You [believing in You, relying on You, and committing himself to You with confident hope and expectation].

Psalm 84:1-12 (AMP)

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 84:1 A technical musical term, meaning uncertain.
  2. Psalm 84:5 Lit their.
  3. Psalm 84:6 Possibly a kind of plant.

Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Love Foundation

I am undoing you in the overwhelming reality of my outrageous love for you. If you will let me wreck you with my love, it’s power will overcome you and demolish all that has constructed itself that was not of me. It will break up and destroy old foundations of lies and man-made structures and all the things you have built on wrong motives.

My love is coming with truth and power to knock through even the ceilings of limitations you have placed on you and even let intimidate you or squash you. Let me come and destroy all that hinders you and limits you. Let me show you all the idols you have leaned on or relied upon instead of me, watch as they topple down before you like mute stone statues.

Then wait in peace and hear my voice and see the new way, the new ground settling in your inner being, heart and spirit. Let me build upon you the new and the pioneering on the settled still ground from a pure love foundation. For I am Love. Love is me. There is no fear in love. Perfect love casts out all fear. So you have been brought low to the ground but be built up again with my love, on my love, in my love.

Activation:

Ask God to envelop you with the power of his love and let his love come and pour out the truth to you to show you and expose any areas in your life that have not been built on God’s love and foundation. Break agreement with any lies that have been built into the core of your being that have limited you or kept you hidden or made you feel unworthy. Ask God for forgiveness where you have turned to idols to bring comfort instead of him. Let God pour his love into the very beginning of you in the new now, to build on you and in you and through you with his love.

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

1 John 4:18 (NIV)

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Friday Morning Scripture (Wk4/2022) – Matthew 22:1-14

Parable of the Marriage Feast

1 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying,

2 “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son.

3 And he sent his servants to call those who had [previously] been invited to the wedding feast, but they refused to come.

4 Then he sent out some other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Look, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened calves are butchered and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast.”’

5 But they paid no attention [they disregarded the invitation, treating it with contempt] and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

6 The rest [of the invited guests] seized his servants and mistreated them [insulting and humiliating them] and killed them.

7 The king was enraged [when he heard this], and sent his soldiers and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

8 Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding [feast] is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

9 So go to the main highways that lead out of the city, and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.’

10 Those servants went out into the streets and gathered together all the people they could find, both bad and good; so the wedding hall was filled with dinner guests [sitting at the banquet table].

11 “But when the king came in to see the dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed [appropriately] in wedding clothes,

12 and he said, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without wearing the wedding clothes [that were provided for you]?’ And the man was speechless and without excuse.

13 Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the darkness outside; in that place there will be weeping [over sorrow and pain] and grinding of teeth [over distress and anger].’

14 For many are called (invited, summoned), but few are chosen.”

Matthew 22:1-14 (AMP)

Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Heart Connection

I am preparing my bride to carry the light of my glory. I am weaving you together as a tightly knit people to be ones who can carry the weight of my glory without breaking and ones who share the weight and carry together. In order to carry the weight of my glory, the weight I am pouring out, you need to be closer, much closer.

Do not resist my joining and do not resist the closeness of relationship. I am breaking down division and barriers as I heal your heart so that you are able to allow my connection at a much deeper level. Do not be afraid to allow these deep connections. Do not fear for your hearts – allow me to be the one who protects you.

My love covers you. My love will protect you. It is my love that you need. My Spirit is the one who melds your hearts together. This is not something you can engineer. Surrender to the work of My Spirit within your hearts and let Him work to join you.

The glory that You have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and You in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that You sent me and loved them even as You loved me.

John 17:22-23 (ESV)

Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfil the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:2 (NIV)

Thursday Morning Scripture (Wk4/2022) – Psalm 27

A Psalm of Fearless Trust in God.

A Psalm of David.

1 The Lord is my light and my salvation—Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the refuge and fortress of my life—Whom shall I dread?

2 When the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

3 Though an army encamp against me, my heart will not fear; though war arise against me, even in this I am confident.

4 One thing I have asked of the Lord, and that I will seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord [in His presence] all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty [the delightful loveliness and majestic grandeur] of the Lord and to meditate in His temple.

5 For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock.

6 And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me, in His tent I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.

7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud; be gracious and compassionate to me and answer me.

8 When You said, “Seek My face [in prayer, require My presence as your greatest need],” my heart said to You, “Your face, O Lord, I will seek [on the authority of Your word].”

9 Do not hide Your face from me, do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; do not abandon me nor [1]leave me, O God of my salvation!

10 Although my father and my mother have abandoned me yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child].

11 Teach me Your way, O Lord, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies [who lie in wait].

12 Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries, for false witnesses have come against me; they breathe out violence.

13 I would have despaired had I not believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

14 Wait for and confidently expect the Lord; be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for and confidently expect the Lord.

Psalm 27:1-14 (AMP)

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 27:9 Lit forsake.