Lisa Great

My dad and I were on the phone yesterday discussing healing and he said, “We need the presence of God like it used to be in the old tent revival meetings with Oral Roberts, AA Allen, Marie Woodworth-Etter and Smith Wigglesworth. We need the presence of God for we need the healer to heal us.”

I have been thinking about this for the past 24 hours and the Lord has put it together with Psalm 139 which I was praying yesterday morning. We as people, were created in the very presence of God. Psalm 139 is bold in its decree that we were knit together in our mothers womb, that the hand of God was upon us, forming us, fashioning us. That means His fingerprints are all over us.

We began in God’s presence, we will end our days, when our last breath is taken in His presence. Once we breath our final breath on earth we will immediately be breathing in the presence of God. Our eyes will see the One who created us. We will marvel at how loved we are, how valuable we are, how enjoyed we are. We are not going to meet a God who can’t stand the sight of our face, we are going to see the Revelation 1 Jesus who is raised from the dead.

We start in His presence, we end in His presence, so why are we so afraid, so distant, so confident that we do not need His presence in the in-between time? Where did we learn independence from His presence, until we are in a health or financial situation? We go to church, we do all the right things, but still without His presence. We read a devotional or open our Bible for a minute, but still no desire for His presence?

We need the presence of God. We have experienced human presence, human ingenuity, human inventions, human touch, human words, human love but it is not healing us, it is not satisfying our souls. We need the presence of God. Some have never experienced it, so they do not know what they are missing, others have experienced it and are not sure how to get it back. Exhale, take a deep breath, relax, lean in, linger with Him, His presence is needed, but we must cease prioritizing human over divine. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

May 17, 2026 will not just be any other day in the history of America, it will be a day known in both the natural and the spirit. This is not just any ordinary Sunday and it was not picked frivolously.

In order to lead nations under the leadership of the Lord of Hosts (YHVH) dates are extremely important and May 17, 2026 is no different. For us as Americans it is Sunday, our day of celebration as families by going to church, having a day off of work, a sabbath day of sorts. On the surface this sounds simple. But what if there was more to the choosing of this date?

There are multiple calendars in operation in the world and one of those calendars is the Hebrew calendar. On the Hebrew calendar, Sunday May 17, 2026 is the 1st of Sivan, the beginning of a new Hebrew month. But not just any Hebrew month, not just a random day.

Sivan 1 is Rosh Chodesh, the head of the the month. It is the 45th day of the counting of the Omer from Passover to Pentecost. The Torah reading for this day is Number 28:1-15. This is all very significant, so follow me for just a moment. Numbers 28 is about the commanded offering of two lambs without blemish offered by fire as a sweet aroma to the Lord.

In Jewish history this is the day that the nation of Israel arrived at the foot of Mount Sinai AS ONE MAN WITH ONE HEART in preparation for the receiving of the Torah. In this month on the 6th of Sivan is Shavuot or Pentecost and on the 17th of Sivan the flood waters receded from the earth in Genesis 7-8.

Sivan means season or appointed time. It is a month of divine revelation and covenant and commissioning. This day, May 17, 2026 on the 1st of Sivan was not picked randomly. This day of rededication was picked on purpose. It is the day we as a nation will stand and rededicate our nation back to God, we will make a new covenant with God to be His people and He will be our God.

It is fitting we do this on Sunday, the 1st of Sivan, for we are a Judeo/Christian nation and we are about to tell heaven we know who we are and tell the nations we know who our God is. May 17, 2026 is not just another day on the calendar, it is going to change everything for America. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Jesus was not a man who sugar coated what He wanted to say. He was love, He was grace, but He also was truth and when He spoke the truth it was not to shame, condemn or embarrass people it was to set them free. Jesus came to change the narrative they were believing, but he encountered a lot of resistance. Resistance is not always rebellion, sometimes it is entrenched narratives that refuse to budge, no matter how true what is being spoken is heard.

Jesus said in Luke 12:54-56 “Then He also said to the multitudes, “Whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming’; and so it is. And when you see the south wind blow, you say, ‘There will be hot weather’; and there is. Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?”

I sense this is a word for us today. Can you discern the times we are living in? Discernment does not come from personal opinion, it comes from laying down our thoughts, our ideas, our timelines and listening to the voice of God, watching the activity of God and pursuing the face of God. When we become a listener, we become discerning.

Can you see the activity of God on earth as it is in heaven playing out right before your eyes? Do you see we are days away from the rededication of a nation, decreed by the highest office in our land? Do you realize what this means? Can you discern the times we are living in? Do you recognize what is really happening with the changing of the guard this week at the Federal Reserve or the meeting happening in China as we speak?

We may not know what the whole loaf looks like, but we are being given enough bread crumbs to eat so we can enjoy the meal that is bring prepared for us as the nations. This is not a normal time in history. This is significant beyond what we can see, what we can hear, what we even know. But if you can’t discern the atmosphere of the earth and what God is doing, can you at least see all the good news that is happening with the rededication of a nation back to God this Sunday morning? Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

There is a zero tolerance policy coming out of the kingdom of God today in regards to physical issues in people’s bodies. Any foreign agent; any enemy combatant; any hidden virus; the Lord is releasing an eviction notice on all of it right now in the name of Jesus.

Any lump, hump, or bump in your body; any tumor, any cancer, any unseen, unidentified agent at work in your body that is hindering original design, it is receiving its eviction notice right now in the name of Jesus.

Any emotional wound that is infected; any spiritual attack that is tormenting; any voices that are lying, any trauma that is seeking to linger and lodge in your body, we decree you are evicted right now in Jesus name. We are thankful for counselors, but somethings need to be served an eviction notice and they must go now in Jesus name.

Acts 10:38 says, “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”

While praying for people who have revealed things that need to be removed from their bodies, the Lord showed me the Temple in Jerusalem, back in the days of Solomon. He showed me how the Temple was made to be a place where no foreigners were allowed to enter. The Temple was holy ground, it was sacred space and no enemy, no foreigner was allowed access to the Temple. Then He said, and believers are now the temple of the Holy Spirit, and the same rules apply. No foreign agent is allowed to remain in our bodies. You are the temple of the Holy Spirit. You are holy ground.

So today, we send out the eviction notice to all foreign agents in your body and say, you must leave immediately in Jesus name. No lingering, no delaying, this is a command from Jesus Christ the Commander and Chief of the Kingdom of God. Speak eviction to that foreign agent in your body and tell it to go in Jesus name. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Independence is an American value but it is not a kingdom value. The kingdom is a collaboration of nations, a community of counselors, a plethora of people working together as one body, though we are many parts. Independence can feel so liberating, even exhilerating in the moment, but the long term effects of independence is loneliness.

Independent, self-sufficient, people act like they need no one but in reality they need people but don’t know how to trust people. Therefore, they form their own opinions and believe whatever they think is right. When you are the only voice you hear, it is easy to believe you are right.

Community is for our safety. Collaboration is for our protection. Proverbs 11:14 says, “Where there is no counsel, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.” When I read this verse I realized, we need community for it holds us accountable, and keeps us safe.

Independence is an enemy of community, but it also keeps us out of safety. People who struggle to accept correction reveal not rebellion, but rather independence, for independence fosters insecurity. Insecure people cannot be corrected. In community it is not about me, it is about us, so we must learn to listen to one another.

We all need to be value added people to community, but we all must also remain teachable if we are going to live communal. Family is a community, church is a community, cities are communities, nations are communities. Independence destroys the individual, and can create speed bumps in community. Oh that we would love community more than individuality, life is so much better when we do it together. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

It’s graduation day here in this house and the excitement and preparation for celebration is in full swing. The Lord has been and continues to be so faithful to our family. If you knew the history you would celebrate the victory with us. We all have a testimony, and we need to shout it from the roof tops for our God is truly a restorer of the years the locust tried to eat away.

This morning I walked downstairs to hear my dad and step mom praying in my living room. I paused on the steps and tears fell down my face. To have praying parents is a gift money cannot buy. Our blended family did not start out the way we are now, there were many potholes and speed bumps, but from last nights table talk after dinner to waking up to them praying, God has done miracles that cannot be denied.

Now we are minutes away from going to the location destination for the graduation. But before I leave I sat down to read a psalm, say a prayer and thank God for this awesome day and Psalm 149 says, “Sing to the Lord a dw song, and His praise in the assembly of the saints. For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation.”

Jesus Christ has saved a lot of people in my family, we still have a few to go, but anything is possible with God. This is why, Psalm 149 continues and says, “Let the high praise of God be in your mouth and a two-edged sword in your hand.” Praise and the word of God are the weapons we fight with against spirits that seeks to steal, kill or destroy, what God has restored.

Well, we are headed out to celebrated with the ceremony, then we will come back to celebrate with friends and family at the open house. If your live near by come on over it starts at 5pm. But until the photos come out, I wanted to say thank you to all of you for reading these blogs daily and supporting what God has called me to do, for they come out of real life every morning and this morning, we are celebrating my son’s life as he graduates. 🎓

Can you see the puzzle pieces moving and being placed correctly in the picture God is showing us? This is personal, communal, corporate and national all at the same time. We must be looking multidimensionally or we will miss what God is doing right now.

We are experiencing national and international jubilee of nations. Jubilee is a decree of debt cancellation, family reconciliation and land restoration. It is found in Leviticus 25. It can also be found on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, PA, USA. The decree of jubilee!

As we are watching the jubilee of nations, as we see the jubilee of community and as we experience the jubilee personally, it is an invitation for us to cleanse the gate, so we can pass through the threshold and enter into the commissioning that is upon us.

In Joshua 5, Israel saw the Jordan River dry up, the whole nation crossed over on dry ground. The twelve stones were placed in the dry riverbed where the feet of the priests crossed and here with their feet on the promised land, they stood, as an uncircumcised group of people. They were uncircumcised because while in the wilderness disobedience to the voice and commands of God was the norm not the exception.

The command to circumcise those who had crossed over was a cleansing of the gate, so they could walk through the threshold and be commissioned to operate by design in the land of promise. This is a biblical pattern, and we are in the same process of the pattern. The Lord is circumcising the hearts of nations right now. Removing anything that hinders them from crossing into all He has promised for them.

I pray as you hear the voice of God to repent, be cleansed, reconcile, return, confess, you respond immediately, for He is cleansing us right now, for we are at the threshold and the commissioning is about to commence. This is historical, this is biblical and this is undeniable. We do not want to miss this moment. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Quick question for you this morning? What is the pace of your race? When it comes to directives handed down from superiors in your company what are you willing to sacrifice to get done what they have sent as a directive? When it comes to your pastor asking you to do something, how quickly do you respond to their request? Children, your children, when you ask them to do something, how aptly do they reply to you?

What we respond to immediately reveals the value the one who made the request has in our life. Obedience to a command, a request, a directive reveals value. I was listening to someone on the phone the other day and they were sharing about how they are up late into the night accomplishing tasks for their company, sacrificing sleep for the demands of the organization. This revealed what they value.

Another person said to me, the Lord told them to do something and they still had not done it. They know what the Lord said to do, but they just had not gotten around to doing it yet. They were planning on doing it, it just hadn’t happened yet. This revealed value.

Psalm 147 says, “He sends out His command to the earth; His word runs very swiftly.” The pace of God’s word is much faster than the pace of many people’s obedience to His word. When our pace of obedience does not align with His pace of command, we miss out on many blessings. I do not think we realize how many of our challenges are consequences of disobedience or delayed obedience not the devil.

When God speaks He does not give you a date it needs to be done by, but when He speaks, we show Him value in the when we do what He says. We want God to answer our prayers quickly, but we do not want to obey His commands just as fast.

We miss out on wisdom, timing, grace, peace, and even opportunities when we do not obey the word/voice of God quickly. Have you ever asked yourself why you delay to obey? An honest answer to this question may yield repentance that restores relationship. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

The older I get, the more teachable I become, because I realize the more I learn the more I do not know. Holding onto what we know loosely is not a sign of weakness or instability, it is actually a sign of humility. Biblical humility is the ability to remain teachable. We reveal our arrogance when we think what we believe, or what we know is the final answer on the subject.

When I was in Bible school we used to stay up late into the night debating things in the word of God. We had a lot of zeal but next to no revelation knowledge. For we read the Bible through the lense of doctrine not the lense of Jesus. I had no idea how indoctrinated I was with the ideas of man as I argued my point. Looking back at that girl, I saw the passion, but I see how she lacked so much understanding.

Maybe you can relate. Maybe you can honestly say, as I am saying, we do not know as much as we think we do. In a world of access to unlimited information, humility should be our posture, for we do not know as much as we think we do.

Reading Ephesians 2 this morning it says, “Even when we were dead and doomed in our many sins, he united us into the very life of Christ and saved us by his wonderful grace! He raised us up with Christ the exalted One, and we ascended with him into the glorious perfection and authority of the heavenly realm, for we are now co-seated as one with Christ! Throughout the coming ages we will be the visible display of the infinite riches of his grace and kindness, which was showered upon us in Jesus Christ.”

We know we are seated with Christ, we know we are loved, but do we realize we are called to be a VISIBLE DISPLAY of the infinite riches of His grace and kindness? When people look at us do they see a visible display of grace and kindness? I know they hear doctrine. I know they come to church. But do they see a visible display of grace and kindness?

Jesus said the greatest commandment is love. Maybe we should work on embodying this commandment rather than arguing over things we do not know as much about as we think we do. I have learned over the years that zeal for doctrine can be a hinderance to being a visible display of grace and kindness. I pray we argue less and display more. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

We are not called to relive the past, but we are invited to excavate the pattern. There are patterns in the way God moves. If you study revival history you will see patterns of prayer, fasting, repentance, and genuine response to the presence of God. Did every revival look the exact same, no, but is there a distinguishable pattern, yes there is.

We call them blueprints, which is another way of saying a pattern. Blueprints/patterns are to be excavated from history in order to understand the mystery that was being revealed through the pattern.

Israel is God’s pattern nation. How God works with Israel will be a pattern for how God works with nations. If we can see the pattern, we will be able to better understand the day in which we live.

While reading Jeremiah 31 this morning, the Lord excavated a pattern of restoration for the nation of Israel and I see it as a pattern for the restoration of nations we are seeing today. I discovered 15 key aspects to this pattern, but I am going to only highlight a few, if you read the chapter yourself, I think you will see the pattern God is laying out for nations.

I call it the pattern of restoration and it begins with Jeremiah 31:2 where it says, “The people (Israel) who survived the sword, found grace in the wilderness.” Can you see how your nation has survived the sword and found grace in the wilderness? It’s a biblical pattern of restoration.

The pattern continues in verses 3-4 saying, “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you; I will build you; I will adorn you with tamborines.” Restoration is a continual rebuilding process and it is good news. Verse 13-14 continues, “I will turn their mourning to joy; I will satiate the priests with abundance and My people will be satisfied with My goodness.”

We as the nations are in a pattern of restoration. For those with the wrong eschatology, this pattern is only temporary, so they remind you, don’t get too excited, but for those who know their God, who understand the kingdom that knows no end, this is really good news, for the cycle of destruction is ending and the cycle of building is upon us. It is the pattern of restoration and we are in it right now. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org