Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Purity of Heart

I am extending an invitation to My Bride to walk in new levels of purity that will ensure greater depths of love, freedom and joy. A purity that comes from an undivided heart which is set on the love of her Bridegroom King. A purity that causes everything that is false to fall away. A purity that is so attractive to the world it brings favour and draws people in.

My Beloved, I want you to examine your hearts. Since the days of the sermon on the Mount, the righteous attribute of purity has been hijacked by the religious spirit and twisted to resemble something which is based on self-effort and striving; a concept totally devoid of grace. This so easily creeps in.

Purity is not about avoiding the ‘contamination’ of the world and adhering to strict discipline and rules in an effort to steer clear of sin. That is both fear and performance based and has no part in a relationship with Me. Avoid this counterfeit faith which robs joy, breeds comparison and undermines the power of the cross.

Instead, pursue encounters with Me which will cause your love to grow and will set alight a holy, burning desire to run after only that which is pure and pleases Me. True purity and Christ- like obedience are birthed in intimacy and flow from a heart that knows and loves her King. 

Activation

Pursuing purity of heart takes time. Allow Holy Spirit to reveal if there is one area of your life where you partner with striving, performance or a wrongful fear. Ask Him to show you where this started and expose any lie that you believe. Confess, repent and break agreement with that lie. Ask Jesus what He wants to give you instead. Spend time with the Lord and ask Him to draw you into an encounter with him; a place of intimacy from which purity of heart will flow. If this is new to you, meditate on a Bible verse and allow the Lord to lead you into abiding with him.

Blessed (happy, [a]enviably fortunate, and [b]spiritually prosperous—possessing the [c]happiness produced by the experience of God’s favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His grace, regardless of their outward conditions) are the pure in heart, for they shall see God!

Matthew 5:8 (AMPC)

Footnotes

[a] Matthew 5:8 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.

[b] Matthew 5:8 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.

[c] Matthew 5:8 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.

    The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever;
    The judgments of the LORD are true, they are righteous altogether.

    Psalm 19:9 (AMP)

    And everyone who has this hope [confidently placed] in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure (holy, undefiled, guiltless).

    1 John 3:3 (AMP)

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    Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Voices of Power

    The Spirit of the Lord says:

    Kingdom authority is empowered and activated through Kingdom speech. By My words, life is created, and frameworks are established. If I can cause rivers to flow in dry places and gardens to bloom in desert lands by My words, then so can you. Understand that your words have the power to activate and shift atmospheres, but you must allow Me to train your mouth to speak words of life and power, recognizing that all true power and authority come from Me.

    Beloved, as Sons of God, I am empowering you to speak as I do but you must learn to speak with intentionality, understanding that a purity of sound must be released. When you speak, be mindful that what you say also declares your agreement into the atmosphere. If you are to sound like Me, then you must recognize that not everything you say—no matter how socially acceptable it may be—is acceptable.

    Learn not to carelessly use words and phrases that align with demonic spirits and their operations because they are casual sayings of the day. Doing so diminishes your ability to stand in the fullness of My power.

    If you frequently say you’re “sick of” something, how can you truly command the spirit of infirmity to leave someone without resistance? If you are always “dying” to do something, how can you command the spirit of death to leave, as you tell Lazarus to come forth as Jesus did? And if you are constantly involved in gossip and slander, how can you confront the spirit of the false prophet, who operates through accusation and slander?

    As you learn to speak with intention and align to My ways, you will train the spirit realm, and the atmosphere on how to respond. Remember, I am training you to speak as I do. Trust that just as I train your hands to war and your fingers to fight, so am I also training your mouth to release life, truth, and power.

    Activation:

    Using Romans 8:14 as a daily prayer, invite the Holy Spirit to lead you through a “speech audit”.

    • Pray “Holy Spirit, lead my words today as a Son of God. Train my mouth to release Your sound. Make my speech pure, powerful, and aligned with Heaven.”
    • As you go through your day, take note of phrases that you often say without thought (e.g., “I’m dead tired,” “That’s killing me,” “I don’t have power”, “I’m sick of this”, etc.).
    • Pause and ask yourself and the Holy Spirit “Does this phrase agree with God or with the enemy’s agenda? Does this contradict Kingdom truth?”
    • Repent for any misalignments, renounce and break agreement with the phrases. Then give thanks to the Lord for His counsel.

    Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
    And those who love it and indulge it will eat its fruit and bear the consequences of their words.

    Proverbs 18:21 (AMP)

    By faith [that is, with an inherent trust and enduring confidence in the power, wisdom and goodness of God] we understand that the worlds (universe, ages) were framed and created [formed, put in order, and equipped for their intended purpose] by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

    Hebrews 11:3 (AMP)

    For all who are allowing themselves to be led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

    Romans 8:14 (AMP)

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    Monday Morning Scripture – Romans 8

    Escape from Bondage

    1 Therefore there is now no condemnation [no guilty verdict, no punishment] for those who are in Christ Jesus [who believe in Him as personal Lord and Savior]. 

    2 For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 

    3 For what the Law could not do [that is, overcome sin and remove its penalty, its power] being weakened by the flesh [man’s nature without the Holy Spirit], God did: He sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful man as an offering for sin. And He condemned sin in the flesh [subdued it and overcame it in the person of His own Son], 

    4 so that the [righteous and just] requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not live our lives in the ways of the flesh [guided by worldliness and our sinful nature], but [live our lives] in the ways of the Spirit [guided by His power]. 

    5 For those who are living according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh [which gratify the body], but those who are living according to the Spirit, [set their minds on] the things of the Spirit [His will and purpose]. 

    6 Now the mind of the flesh is death [both now and forever—because it pursues sin]; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace [the spiritual well-being that comes from walking with God—both now and forever]; 

    7 the mind of the flesh [with its sinful pursuits] is actively hostile to God. It does not submit itself to God’s law, since it cannot, 

    8 and those who are in the flesh [living a life that caters to sinful appetites and impulses] cannot please God.

    9 However, you are not [living] in the flesh [controlled by the sinful nature] but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God lives in you [directing and guiding you]. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him [and is not a child of God]. 

    10 If Christ lives in you, though your [natural] body is dead because of sin, your spirit is alive because of righteousness [which He provides]. 

    11 And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.

    12 So then, [a]brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but not to our flesh [our human nature, our worldliness, our sinful capacity], to live according to the [impulses of the] flesh [our nature without the Holy Spirit]— 

    13 for if you are living according to the [impulses of the] flesh, you are going to die. But if [you are living] by the [power of the Holy] Spirit you are habitually putting to death the sinful deeds of the body, you will [really] live forever. 

    14 For all who are allowing themselves to be led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 

    15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading again to fear [of God’s judgment], but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons [the Spirit producing sonship] by which we [joyfully] cry, “[b]Abba! Father!” 

    16 The Spirit Himself testifies andconfirms together with our spirit [assuring us] that we [believers] are children of God. 

    17 And if [we are His] children, [then we are His] heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His spiritual blessing and inheritance], if indeed we share in His suffering so that we may also share in His glory.

    18 For I consider [from the standpoint of faith] that the sufferings of the present life are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us! 

    19 For [even the whole] creation [all nature] waits eagerly for the children of God to be revealed. 

    20 For the creation was subjected to frustration and futility, not willingly [because of some intentional fault on its part], but by the will of Him who subjected it, in hope 

    21 that the creation itself will also be freed from its bondage to decay [and gain entrance] into the glorious freedom of the children of God. 

    22 For we know that the whole creation has been moaning together as in the pains of childbirth until now.

    23 And not only this, but we too, who have the first fruits of the Spirit [a joyful indication of the blessings to come], even we groan inwardly, as we wait eagerly for [the sign of] our adoption as sons—the redemption and transformation of our body [at the resurrection]. 

    24 For in this hope we were saved [by faith]. But hope [the object of] which is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he already sees? 

    25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait eagerly for it with patience and composure.

    Our Victory in Christ

    26 In the same way the Spirit [comes to us and] helps us in our weakness. We do not know what prayer to offer or how to offer it as we should, but the Spirit Himself [knows our need and at the right time] intercedes on our behalf with sighs and groanings too deep for words. 

    27 And He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because the Spirit intercedes [before God] on behalf of [c]God’s people in accordance with God’s will.

    28 And we know [with great confidence] that God [who is deeply concerned about us] causes all things to work together [as a plan] for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His plan and purpose. 

    29 For those whom He foreknew [and loved and chose beforehand], He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son [and ultimately share in His complete sanctification], so that He would be the firstborn [the most beloved and honored] among many believers. 

    30 And those whom He predestined, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified [declared free of the guilt of sin]; and those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity].

    31 What then shall we say to all these things? If God is for us, who can be [successful] against us? 

    32 He who did not spare [even] His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things? 

    33 Who will bring any charge against God’s elect (His chosen ones)? It is God who justifies us [declaring us blameless and putting us in a right relationship with Himself]. 

    34 Who is the one who condemns us? Christ Jesus is the One who died [to pay our penalty], and more than that, who was raised [from the dead], and who is at the right hand of God interceding [with the Father] for us. 

    35 Who shall ever separate us from the love of [d]Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 

    36 Just as it is written and forever remains written,

    “FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG;
    WE ARE REGARDED AS SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER.”

    37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors and gain an overwhelming victory through Him who loved us [so much that He died for us]. 

    38 For I am convinced [and continue to be convinced—beyond any doubt] that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present and threatening, nor things to come, nor powers, 

    39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the [unlimited] love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    Romans 8:1-39 (AMP)

    Footnotes

    [a] Romans 8:12 Lit brethren.

    [b] Romans 8:15 An Aramaic word used by young children when addressing their fathers, but not used by Jews in prayer because it implies a sense of familiarity. Jesus’ use of the word emphasized his Father-Son relationship with God.

    [c] Romans 8:27 Lit the saints.

    [d] Romans 8:35 Two early mss read God.

    Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Put Love First

    My beloved ones, will you choose to love like Jesus and sacrificially love others first! Will you follow My commands and love wildly, love fiercely, love first? Will you be the open handed love of God in fleshly form? Will you wear love and receive the stranger, host the foreigner? 

    This is your commission and one of your most important assignments to love Me the LORD your God with all of your heart, but to also love others fiercely.

    I see the pain you’ve had to walk through and I have been with you as you wept and were rejected by those you loved. I have held your heart in times of trauma and I know the depth of the ask to love again, to open your heart to a broken world.

    It’s time to love wildly again. Take courage and open your heart once more. Step into being a sign and a wonder to the world, modelling love in a time of fear. Be defiant in an anxious world, refusing to let crisis drive your response. Don’t close the doors to your heart or your home. Instead look to the unseen and be the Jesus your community so desperately needs. Love like Jesus – love first.

    Activation:

    Intentionally connect with someone you don’t know very well, to start to build community. Ask the Holy Spirit to highlight someone to you who He wants you to love well and ask Him how He wants you to do that. Love in the Kingdom is an active word, it is a way of doing life together and choosing someone else over our own needs to display Jesus to them.

    As an added bonus, search the Bible for how many times the Word asks us to love one another. Loving others well is so deeply important to God.

    We love, because [a]He first loved us.

    1 John 4:19 (AMP)

    Footnotes

    [a] 1 John 4:19 Because God bestowed on humanity a free will, man is not forced to love Him, but rather consciously and freely chooses the response he makes to God’s love.

      34 I am giving you a new commandment, that you [a]love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too are to love one another.

      35 By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you have love and unselfish concern for one another.”

      John 13:34-35 (AMP)

      Footnotes

      [a] John 13:34 The key to understanding this and other statements about love is to know that this love (the Greek word agape) is not so much a matter of emotion as it is of doing things for the benefit of another person, that is, having an unselfish concern for another and a willingness to seek the best for another.

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        Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Nothing is Wasted

        When you are brokenhearted and you weep, I see you and I count every teardrop that falls. Nothing is wasted in My kingdom and nothing is left hidden or unseen. I am the God who sees you. I am the God who knows you. I am the God who loves you fiercely. I am the God who fights for you always. You are My beloved, you are dear to Me, I cherish and I treasure you.

        Nothing is wasted especially in the hidden secret exchanges between you and I. I treasure intimate moments shared with you in these spaces and always have a purpose in the things you walk through. Share your heart with Me and let Me heal the places of pain.

        I am tending to your heart and showing you My faithfulness and your strength in Me,even in moments of pain and weakness. Lean into Me and ask Me what I am teaching you in this season, what I am growing you in and what precious treasures I am imparting in you as you walk through trials with Me. This is the beautiful exchange between a father and a daughter, a father and a son!

        Activation:

        Write a letter to Jesus, God or Holy spirit, pour out your heart and share the secret hidden things with the Lord. Be spirit led in the exchange and once you have poured out, wait and listen. Write down in letter format what Jesus, God or Holy spirit share with you and treasure it. You may even wish you could write some of the things on post notes to keep in your bible, on your mirror, on your desk as a reminder of God with you in every moment and all He has shared with you. When you feel overwhelmed remember that space of intimacy and closeness and let God meet you in the middle again each time!

        The Lord is near to the heartbroken
        And He saves those who are crushed in spirit (contrite in heart, truly sorry for their sin).

        Psalm 34:18 (AMP)

        You have taken account of my wanderings;
        Put my tears in Your bottle.
        Are they not recorded in Your book?

        Psalm 56:8 (AMP)

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        Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Steadiness in the Waves

        Many of you find yourselves struggling to stand firm in rough waves and stormy seas where life has brought unexpected turbulence and your feet are searching for solid ground. I want you to know that I am the one that calls to you and brings you into peace. I am calling you by name and beckoning you, move out of the rocky boat and take my hand, walk on the waters with me.

        Stand firm even now in me and lift your gaze, focus on me and me alone. Do not focus on the waves round about you but capture my gaze. I the Lord your God am sure and steadfast and I will keep you sure and steadfast. I am giving you the faith you need to overcome every storm and to find a firm and steady place in Me. Rest in My peace, My safety and My steadfastness in this season.

        Activitation:

        Take a moment and focus on where Jesus is in the room with you today. He is giving you faith, peace, security and steadiness in Him. Ask Him what that looks like – can you see colours, shapes, is He handing you something, taking you somewhere with Him, let Him lead and guide you as you experience His closeness and nearness.

        Take Jesus by the hand as He extends His hand to you and stand firmly in the place of steadfastness He has shown you. Ask Him what it looks like in the natural to walk on the waves with Him and to take His hand as He leads you out onto still waters with Him.

        28 Peter replied to Him, “Lord, if it is [really] You, command me to come to You on the water.”

        29 He said, “Come!” So Peter got out of the boat, and walked on the water and came toward Jesus.

        30 But when he saw [the effects of] the wind, he was frightened, and he began to sink, and he cried out, “Lord, save me!”

        31 Immediately Jesus extended His hand and caught him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you [a]doubt?”

        Matthew 14:28-31 (AMP)

        Footnotes

        [a] Matthew 14:31 I.e. allow yourself to be drawn in two directions.

        For to us a Child shall be born, to us a Son shall be given;
        And the government shall be upon His shoulder,
        And His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
        Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

        Isaiah 9:6 (AMP)

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        Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Awake and Arise

        The Spirit of the Lord says:

        Wake up and arise from the sadness you have lived in for too long. I am breaking off the infirmity that has kept you bound, for that was never your portion. You are stepping into a season of unwinding.

        The infirmity has wrapped itself around you so tightly and you have felt suffocated and alone, but not anymore. No longer do I want for you to live in limitation but instead I want you to live in My fullness. Watch and see My life flow from you again. I am making fitness an ease for you again, as a sign and a wonder of the miracle I am doing in you, and the life I am bringing back to you again.

        Activation

        Each morning as you wake up, speak over yourself: “Come alive in the name of Jesus”! Move your body. Introduce exercise and movement into your day. You could choose to jump, dance, run, do a push up or a jumping jack, whatever you choose as a prophetic act of partnering with God’s momentum, healing and freedom in this place.

        The Deity of Jesus Christ

        1 In the beginning [before all time] was the Word ([a]Christ), and the Word was with God, and [b]the Word was God Himself. 

        2 He was [continually existing] in the beginning [co-eternally] with God. 

        3 All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him not even one thing was made that has come into being. 

        4 In Him was life [and the power to bestow life], and the life was the Light of men.

        John 1:1-4 (AMP)

        Footnotes

        [a] John 1:1 In John the Apostle’s vision (Rev 19), he sees Christ returning as Warrior-Messiah-King, and “…His name is called The Word of God…and LORD OF LORDS.” (Rev 19:13, 16).

        [b] John 1:1 In this phrase, “God” appears first in the Greek word order, emphasizing the fact that “the Word” (Christ) was God—so “God Himself.”

        even when we were [spiritually] dead and separated from Him because of our sins, He made us [spiritually] alive together with Christ (for by His grace—His undeserved favor and mercy—you have been saved from God’s judgment).

        Ephesians 2:5 (AMP)

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        Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Extravagant Worship

        I have heard your cries of adoration and wonder in worship. I have seen your open heart before Me as you exalt Me and lift up My name in the earth. You lift your eyes and your hands up to Me and sing songs that others have written, but this season calls for more.

        Remember Mary who sat at My feet to learn from Me and get to know Me. The one who wept at My feet, whose pain moved Me deeply. The one who came back to My feet in worship. She had been so marked by the experience of Lazarus’ resurrection, of her grief, and then the joy of victory and freedom, that she was moved to such a pure and extravagant act of worship: pouring a pint of expensive perfume over My feet and wiping it with her hair.

        Before this happened, she did not come out of the house to meet Me. She hid away and distanced herself. But after the encounter with Me, she changed for good. Instead of distance and hiding, she publicly submitted herself to Me in an act of outrageous dedication. Even My disciples were shocked by it.

        Yet I welcomed this act of worship. Mary’s worship was also a realisation about who I AM; she understood that Jesus had to die to bring forth salvation, and this led her to a place of deep gratitude and wonder. She saw through spiritual eyes, not wordly ones.

        That is what I am calling you into today. Pure, extravagant, outrageous worship through spiritual eyes. Worship that comes from a place of knowing Me, encountering Me in your pain, and allowing Me to lead you through it. Embracing freedom, knowing that it is only because of the sacrifice that I made that you can stand healed, whole, and righteous before Me.

        Activation:

        Create some space in your day to come before the Lord in worship. Use instrumental music, or no music at all, so that you can offer your own dedication to Him. Remember that you have been marked for good by the experiences that Jesus has brought you through. You have walked through pain and you have met Jesus there. You know the joy of life and the fullness of resurrection. He is calling you to a place of pure, extravagant, outrageous worship now. Fall at His feet, cover them with perfume; in awe, reverence and wonder at who He is and what He has done.

        32 When Mary came [to the place] where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.”

        33 When Jesus saw her sobbing, and the Jews who had come with her also sobbing, He was [a]deeply moved in spirit [to the point of anger at the sorrow caused by death] and was troubled,

        John 11:32-33 (AMP)

        Footnotes

        [a] John 11:33 In Greek this term suggests an emotional indignation or sternness. Jesus was angry at the sorrow caused by death. It occurs four more times in the NT in reference to Jesus’ words or His feelings. See Matt 9:30; Mark 1:43; John 11:38; 13:21.

          Then [a]Mary took a pound of very expensive perfume of pure [b]nard, and she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

          John 12:3 (AMP)

          Footnotes

          [a] John 12:3 There were two anointings of Jesus. This one in Bethany by Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus (Matt 26:7; Mark 14:3), and the other in the area of Galilee by an unnamed woman (Luke 7:37, 38).

          [b] John 12:3 This was a thick, scented oil obtained from the root of a flowering plant grown in the Himalayas of Tibet and in the northern regions of India and Nepal.

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            Lion Bites – Global Prophetic Alliance – Shake the Dust Off Your Feet

            For too long you have stayed stuck and stagnant, but I am urging you to step up and into the things I have pressed into your heart and ignited in you through dreams and visions. I have asked many of you to complete assignments, move locations and make big changes to the ways in which you currently live, but many of you have not taken the bold steps I have asked you to take.

            How much longer will you stay in disobedience to Me in the things I am asking you to steward well? How much longer will you wait on My provision and guidance when I have already bestowed it on you? You are waiting on Me to establish things and make choices for you when I have already equipped you to make the choices I am asking you to make.

            I ask you this: what are you waiting for? I trust you in your decisions led by My Spirit and My wisdom. I say to you, sons and daughters, now is the time for you to faithfully establish what I have asked. It is not the time for delay, stepping back or second guessing but a time of swift obedience.

            I have entrusted you with the secrets of My heart and the things of the Kingdom and I have made no mistake in that. You are trustworthy and I trust you. Shake the dust off your feet, awaken from your slumber and establish the next steps with Me. It’s time to go again with fresh momentum!

            Activation:

            Read Matthew 25:14-30

            Parable of the Talents

            14 “For it is just like a man who was about to take a journey, and he called his servants together and entrusted them with his possessions.

            15 To one he gave five [a]talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and then he went on his journey.

            16 The one who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he [made a profit and] gained five more.

            17 Likewise the one who had two [made a profit and] gained two more.

            18 But the one who had received the one went and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.

            19 “Now after a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them.

            20 And the one who had received the five talents came and brought him five more, saying, ‘Master, you entrusted to me five talents. See, I have [made a profit and] gained five more talents.’

            21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful and trustworthy over a little, I will put you in charge of many things; share in the joy of your master.’

            22 “Also the one who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you entrusted two talents to me. See, I have [made a profit and] gained two more talents.’

            23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful and trustworthy over a little, I will put you in charge of many things; share in the joy of your master.’

            24 “The one who had received one talent also came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a harsh and demanding man, reaping [the harvest] where you did not sow and gathering where you did not scatter seed.

            25 So I was afraid [to lose the talent], and I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is your own.’

            26 “But his master answered him, ‘You wicked, lazy servant, you knew that I reap [the harvest] where I did not sow and gather where I did not scatter seed.

            27 Then you ought to have put my money with the bankers, and at my return I would have received my money back with interest.

            28 So take the talent away from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.’

            29 “For to everyone who has [and values his blessings and gifts from God, and has used them wisely], more will be given, and [he will be richly supplied so that] he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have [because he has ignored or disregarded his blessings and gifts from God], even what he does have will be taken away.

            30 And throw out the worthless servant into the outer darkness; in that place [of grief and torment] there will be weeping [over sorrow and pain] and grinding of teeth [over distress and anger].

            Matthew 25:14-30 (AMP)

            Footnotes
            [a] Matthew 25:15 A talent was a measurement of weight, usually 58-80 pounds. One talent of silver was worth more than 15 years’ wages. One talent of gold was worth even more.

            Spend time reflecting and meditating on it before spending time with Jesus reflecting on the questions below.

            What was the last thing the Lord asked you to do? Was it to connect with someone, build something, start something, do more of something, less of something, put something down or pick something up? Have you been obedient in doing as He asked or have you spent too much time delaying, trying to figure it all out or felt unable to do all He is asking you to do? What has held you back? What have been barriers to your obedience?

            Recommit to the things He has asked of you and is asking of you, repent where you have fallen into disobedience, knowingly or unknowingly, and ask for forgiveness. The Holy Spirit will give you fresh understanding and revelation of the next steps to fulfil your assignment. As a prophetic act, get up and physically shake the dust off your feet and take a big step forward. Now is the time to go again!

            The one who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he [made a profit and] gained five more.

            Matthew 25:16 (AMP)

            His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful and trustworthy over a little, I will put you in charge of many things; share in the joy of your master.’

            Matthew 25:21 (AMP)

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