Lion Bites — January 2022
Daily prophecy for January, 2022, republished with the kind permission of the Global Prophetic Alliance. Every Monday — Friday.
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January 31, 2022. Uncharted Territory
“I AM the God who compels and propels you, and this year, I AM catapulting you into new adventures with force. I AM excited about what is ahead, for I have uncharted territory for you to explore this year.
My Kingdom is not advanced by the hesitant, and My Kingdom is not advanced by those who choose to sit arms folded on the back row. You have heard many Words about adventuring with Me over the years, but many of you have not really experienced adventure where you are exploring the unknown with Me. But now, hear the call! I AM calling you into a real adventure of new and uncharted territories. Feel the excitement and allow it to begin to course through your veins.
Do not allow fear of the unknown to hold you back. Do not allow fear of what might happen or fear of getting it wrong to cause you to hesitate on the borders. Approach this year with confidence and with boldness, knowing that, although it is uncharted territory for you, I have gone before you.”
Matthew 11:12 TPT “From the moment John stepped onto the scene until now, the realm of heaven’s kingdom is bursting forth, and passionate people have taken hold of its power.”
January 28, 2022. 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 agreements 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.
1 John 4:18 NIV “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.”
January 27, 2022. 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.”
John 17:22-23 ESV “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.”
Galatians 6:2 “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”
January 26, 2022. Beauty and Blessing
“You are a delight, not just to Me, but to others in The Body of Christ, your family, your job and in your area and Nation. Do not doubt it! Where you have submitted your tongue to Me, and your heart to love others, you have been Christ to them. My Pleasure is over you. Where you have spoken beautiful soothing things into sore relationships, you have bestowed beauty and blessings to battered believers and your words have been seen and heard. Rejoice that you have made a difference.
Believe me that you display My Beauty. Thank you for choosing the voice and words when speaking with others that I long to speak to them. They see Me through you.”
1 Peter 4 :10 NIV UK “‘Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.’”
January 25, 2022. Valleys
“I made and continue to make valleys and hills, the dry and the wet places. I set the cliffs with their glorious views, and their sudden drops. I touch the tops of huge mountains, where oxygen levels are thinner. All are places of My Beauty, home to innumerable creatures, many too small to see with the naked eye. My Hand is visible throughout the earth. And so it is in the spiritual realms, My Children.
You have labelled ‘spiritual valleys’ as places to get out of as soon as possible, to scramble away from. You have preached that the mountain-high experiences are to be gained at any, and at all costs. As a result, there are those who struggle, having been put aside. Have you forgotten that My Son served thankless people, and he fasted through wilderness times, living through torture, and was killed? Yet my Son did what he saw me do, following My Will sinlessly.
When you feel that you are in a valley, know that I AM in the valleys: I AM everywhere. Moreover, there is beauty in valleys to be understood, and appreciated. Small, yet significant, new choices can unlock hope. The insights from Holy Spirit, which begin when wrestling hard things with me, will lead to strategies that transform. Do not be afraid of valleys. I AM there and I give you wonders to enjoy.”
Psalm 84:5-7 AMP “Blessed and greatly favoured is the man whose strength is in You, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. Passing through the Valley of Weeping (Baca), they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with blessings. They go from strength to strength, [increasing in victorious power]; Each of them appears before God in Zion.”
January 24, 2022. “I AM Good”
“I AM teaching you to discern the difference between a storm, which you have authority to deal with and My Power causing a shaking. I will use both to reveal my goodness in your life, but I AM in the business of upskilling you to know how to respond when these things happen.
Remember my nature, I AM always looking to what will ultimately do you good as I establish My Kingdom. I will stretch and prune and shake, I AM a good gardener. I will prune, plant and growth you. Lean into me in all these processes.”
John 15: 1-2 NIV “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.”
Jeremiah 1:10 NKJV “See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, To root out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant.”
January 21, 2022. Peace Be Still
The LORD says, “Hear Me say peace be to the storms of your life and watch the wind and waves of anxiety and watch them subside. Where everything has been unsettled or confusion has been swirling around you, there is peace! Where you have felt out of control and you have feared even for your very life, there is peace!
Just like Jesus had full authority on the lake of Galilee to stand up and rebuke the weather that even the winds and sea obeyed him, so do you. Speak and release your voice and declare “peace be!” to that which seeks to overwhelm you and watch as the wind and waves subside.”
Activation : In your spirit stand up and begin to release your voice and declare peace into the difficult situations in your life or any place where you have felt anxiety or fear or turmoil internally. Declare “peace be!” to these situations and to your anxiety and fears.
Wait on God to receive his peace from heaven; see what it looks like or feels like and let him show you what peace looks as it is released into those impossible situations.
Mark 4:35-41 NIV “That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!””
January 20, 2022. Fear No More
“I AM declaring war and silencing fear, and every false tongue that has risen to intimidate and shut down the move of my Spirit. I AM starting with you, I AM coming to eradicate all fear in your midst. I AM teaching you how to fight from victory which is where you live!
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)
This is your battle strategy, not strength or might but perfect love having its work in your life. I AM toppling fear in your life today.”
Application : Ask The LORD to reveal any place in your life where you need to experience a fresh wave of His perfect love. Allow this perfect love wash over you and bring you into freedom
Psalm 56:11NIV “in God, I trust and am not afraid. What can man do to me?”
Hebrews 13:6 NIV “So we say with confidence “The LORD is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?””
January 19, 2022. Children of light
Matthew 5:16 TPT “So don’t hide your light! Let it shine brightly before others, so that your commendable works will shine as light upon them, and then they will give their praise to your Father in heaven.”
“I have called you to be a people of the light. Did I not take you out of the kingdom of darkness and transfer you into My Kingdom, The Kingdom of My Beloved Son, The Kingdom of Light? I have put My Light within you; My Light that overwhelms the darkness; My Light that cannot be overcome.
You are Mine, children of light. Live as those who are consumed by the light and overcome by the light. Live as ones who carry the light and do not try to hide it. My Light is so bright, so luminous, so radiant that it is foolish to try and keep it hidden.
Allow Me to fill you and overwhelm you with My Light to drive out every vestige of darkness from within you. As you do, you will find that My Light overcomes not only the darkness within you but also around you without having to make a conscious effort.
Let My Light shine from you. Let it out; allow it to show.”
Activation: You might like to pray a prayer of submission to the work of the Holy Spirit’s work in that expunging of darkness from your life, giving him access to all areas of your life, asking him to shine his light on any hidden areas that need attention. You might like to ask him to show you anywhere you have tried to “hide your light” and the reasons behind that.
Pray : God I choose to let your light shine in, around and through me. I will not keep it hidden.
Matthew 5:14-16 MSG “Here’s another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colours in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light-bearers, you don’t think I’m going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I’m putting you on a light stand. Now that I’ve put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand — shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you’ll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven.”
January 17, 2022. Dare To Dream
“I AM breathing life back into your dreams afresh. I have seen where you have been disappointed or let down. You have thought the best way to keep going would be to dream smaller, to make your goals manageable.
I AM coming today to break off you anything of small-mindedness and anything of settling which has been limiting you from being the fullness of who I have called you to be and stopped you from walking out in the fullness of The Kingdom of God.
I AM wanting to display you to the world, to take you to places in your work, relationships, life and other areas which display my wonder-working hand in your life. Now is the time to dream again My Child, I have big things in store for you!”
Activation : Write a dream list try and push yourself to 50 -100 dreams, of things you want to do and see in your life. Be sure to include plenty of dreams which can not be possible without God.
Isiah 46:10 NIV “I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’”
Isiah 55:11- 12 NIV “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. You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace.”
January 14, 2022. God Of All Comfort
“Behold, something wonderful is happening. Look carefully as I bring my comfort to your life. Perceive Me working as I rebuild you with beautiful precious stones.
I AM working in each and every situation. I AM the master-builder. I AM the God of all comfort. I AM your hiding place. I AM the restorer and I will restore you to health and heal your wounds.
I AM longing to rebuild you with precious stones. Ask Me to be your hiding place, ask Me to restore you. Let’s work together on your restoration.”
Isaiah 54:11-12 NIV “O, you afflicted city, Lashed by storms and not comforted, I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise, your foundations with sapphires. I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.”
2 Corinthians 1:3-5 NIV “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.”
January 13, 2022. Prayer Warriors Arise
“I AM releasing a fresh boldness to My People! I AM pulling your prayer out of timidity into a place of fire, I AM setting your tongues ablaze with courage and filling your mouth with degrees of faith.
I AM pouring out a new fire from heaven that will consume you, My Bride, burning up everything that is not of me. I AM calling you into a place of intimacy with me, where you will pray alongside me in the purity of My Heart. In this unity, we will see My Glory pour forth across the earth. I AM wanting to birth in you a new prayer warrior, where your prayers carry power, might and My Strategies. I AM making you a burning one in the place of prayer full of courage, purity and power.”
Prayer : Lord, ignite our tongues with fresh fire to pray in a new and bold way that will break down the strongholds of the enemy!
Jeremiah 23:29 NLT “”Does not my word burn like fire?” says The LORD. “Is it not like a mighty hammer that smashes a rock to pieces?””
Acts 4:31 NIV “After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.”
January 12, 2022. Freedom Is Mine!
“In this season of dismantling, I AM removing old mindsets and habits that would keep you from moving forward. I want to remove the familiarity of the previous era so that you can truly step into a brand-new way of living. I AM exposing deep-seated strongholds of fear, anxiety, worry, stress, and depression. I AM emphasising this process of healing so that I can fine-tune places in your heart. I AM inviting you to take a deep look at your emotions and feelings so that I can remove old roots of bitterness, fear, and resentment. It’s time to bring these areas to the light so that you can be radically free!”
Application : Ask The LORD to reveal any deep or hidden issues in your life that have prevented you from moving forward into the fresh start that God has for you. Allow the Holy Spirit to walk you through a healing process to set you free.
2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV “Now The LORD is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of The LORD is, there is freedom.”
John 8:36 NIV “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”
January 11, 2022. Cornerstone
“It’s building time in the House of The LORD! Have you been feeling the shaking and dismantling in the past few months and seasons? I have been breaking down the things which are not of Me and bringing you back to the foundations.
I AM launching My Church into building mode, launching her into growth mode. Remember this, I AM The Cornerstone upon which everything is held together, you can not build something that lasts without Me at the centre.
In this season you must also use The Living Stones. Which is you, you’re The Church and all the people who belong to Me. You are The Living Stones that I AM piecing together in a new formation to build something of My Kingdom which will stand against any shaking.
Do not try and build on your own or around just one person, but join together with The Body of Christ and become The Living Stones. Know how much you need one another to build what is needed on the earth in this time.”
1 Peter 2:7 NIV “Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.””
1 Peter 2:5 NIV “you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”
Ephesians 2:19-22 NIV “Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in The LORD. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.”
January 10, 2022. Naked Truth
“Just as Adam and Eve lived before Me naked and unashamed, walking freely in the garden I have created, so I AM calling you into a fresh place of honest vulnerability before me where shame shall have no hold on you.
I AM ripping off the layers of cover up; the filthy rags of the artificial to expose the naked truth below. Don’t get confused, this is not in a desire to shame you but instead to free you. You have dressed in clothes that are stiff, ill-fitting and restrictive. You have dressed in the robes of the courtesans of old, seductive and gaudy. You have dressed to please others, not Me, to please the eyes of men, the eyes of other lovers.
Oh My Bride, your beauty is beneath the external trappings, your beauty is within. This is not the simplicity of the robes of righteousness that I have prepared for you. Let Me redress you, let Me redress the balance and restore righteousness to your ways. My heart longs for you to dress to please Me. Be dressed in the simplicity of my ways, in the priestly garments that I have picked out for you.”
Genesis 2:25 “Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.”
January 7, 2022. Cast Your Nets
“As you start the year, start the year with Me. This isn’t just any year but this is a year of divine connection and divine revelation with Me. This is a year of chasing after those dreams which feel like they have passed you by. This is a year of welcoming new opportunities and new adventures into your day to day life. This is not the time to feel defeated or disappointed.
So rise up My Child! Take your stand! For I AM decreeing the word hope over your heart and mind this year. Stand up, dust yourself off and go again. It’s time to cast your nets on the other side of the boat and trust me once more for a bigger catch.”
Luke 21:3-6 NIV “I’m going out to fish,” Simon Peter told them, and they said, “We’ll go with you.” So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realise that it was Jesus. He called out to them, “Friends, haven’t you any fish?” “No,” they answered. He said, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares The LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
January 6, 2022. The Voice of Many Waters
“Does My Voice not cause mountains to melt like wax? Is it not like the sound of many waters? Do not forget that my voice shakes the deserts and causes the wilderness to tremble. My Voice carries infinite power. Yet, I have opened up a pathway for you to steward My Voice and to hear it, not just once or twice, but all of the time.
Love My Voice and seek My Wisdom. Do not pick up the past solutions like a repeat prescription. Have courage, instead, to keep asking for fresh wisdom, fresh insight and fresh revelation. Hear My Voice over and again in humility and submission. I always have something new and fresh to tell you.”
Psalm 29:3-9 NIV “The voice of The LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, The LORD thunders over the mighty waters. The voice of The LORD is powerful; the voice of The LORD is majestic. The voice of The LORD breaks the cedars; The LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
He makes Lebanon leap like a calf, Sirion like a young wild ox. The voice of The LORD strikes with flashes of lightning.
The voice of The LORD shakes the desert; The LORD shakes the Desert of Kadesh.
The voice of The LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in his temple all cry, “Glory!””
January 5, 2022. Royal Robes
“In the depth of My Love, I have come to you and I AM liberating you from coverings that have become e containers. I AM removing and dismantling shame, disgrace, despair and disappointment and I AM reviving fresh hope and awakening vision.
Where the enemy has sought to place a burden of heaviness upon you, I have come to bring release, that my light will be able to shine through your life. Know that I have clothed you with royal robes and I call you Mine!”
Activation : Bring to The LORD any old coverings that are not fitting for you. Repent of any partnership with any old “labels” and release forgiveness to others or yourself where needed and give these old coverings to The LORD in exchange for His provision.
Prayer : Lord, please come and remove the old coverings of (insert relevant names, e.g. shame, disappointment etc) from my life. I take them off me now and give them to you (symbolically remove these from yourself, giving them to The LORD). Lord, I receive Your love, and fresh hope and vision. Thank you that You have clothed me with royal robes and I give You praise. Amen.
See yourself clothed in His garments of salvation and His Robe of Righteousness.
Isaiah 61:3 (NKJV) “To console those who mourn in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, The oil of joy for mourning, The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of The LORD, that He may be glorified.”
January 4, 2022. Foundations
Can you say as Paul did, ‘I am content with insults, distresses, persecutions and with difficulties for the sake of Christ’? (2 Corinthians 12:10). How can you be satisfied with these hard things? Only if you are standing on Yahweh’s foundations.
The Spirit of The LORD says, ‘’As you look to re-form, using my strategies for the lost of the world, know that I will not bless building on that which has spiritually-contaminated foundations. I AM holy and righteous, pure and true. Just as a new wall requires new foundations, the basics of your life and community need to be refined and relayed.’
Have you linked with other religions, life habits or popular culture that denies my existence? Seek first My Wisdom, not your own, asking what heaven’s plan is. Be willing to listen and adjust, listen, and adjust again, like a string orchestra fine-tuning their instruments.’’
Ephesians 2:19-21 NIVUK “Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in The LORD.”
January 3, 2022. Slow Down
“Slow down, Sons and Daughters. Do not be in such a rush that you miss what I AM doing right here and now. Do not look to the right or left, for I AM right in front of you. Don’t allow the frantic bustle of life to drown out My Voice or hide how I AM moving you into a new time. The busyness is your worst enemy. I AM a God who values family and community. Don’t waste precious time and sacred moments with your family for I have designed you for such a time as this. Do not forget that My spirit rests within a healthy family and community. Slow down, be thankful. Slow down, be grateful. Slow down, and laugh a little bit. I take off the stress and give you rest today!”
Activation : Take time to sit and rest in His presence. Ask Him what He wants to speak to you today? What is He asking you to do?
Mark 6:31 NIV “Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.””
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