Lisa Great

I was reading and meditating on Isaiah 58 this morning and while doing so I saw a vision. In the vision I saw a people who chose to fast. Fast wine and beer, criticism and complaining, anger and resentment. I saw a people who went against the grain of culture and their friend group, not just once, but as a lifestyle, not to be more spiritual, but because they knew there must be more than this.

When these fasting ones, walked into a room or down a street, I saw Isaiah 58 happening. When they walked by, or spoke to people in grocery stores, at kitchen tables or in community centers, I saw, Isaiah 58 happening:

Is This not the fast that I have chosen:
To loose the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the heavy burdens,
To let the oppressed go free,
And that you break every yoke?
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,
And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out;
When you see the naked, that you cover him,
And not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Those people tho had their bonds loosed, their burdens undone, free from oppression, yokes broken. I saw them joining the ones walking who had been fasting. The group got larger and larger, they went into city after city and Isaiah 58 happened through this group:

Then your light shall break forth like the morning,
Your healing shall spring forth speedily,
And your righteousness shall go before you;
The glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.

It was powerful, it was easy, it was the kingdom of God coming into cities, setting people free. All because a few chose to fast cultural norms, friendship group activities, a whole movement touched city after city and it kept picking up people. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

People who struggle with a poverty mindset do not lack money, they lack the ability to hear, believe and obey the voice of God. Other people’s words cannot break the spirit of poverty off of our minds, it can only come from the voice of God. To hear the voice of God you must prioritize the word of God.

In a world of way too much information, from podcasts, to books, to sermons, to trainings and lectures, to videos and conferences, we are information overloaded. When there is so much information available to read, listen to, it actually makes it harder to discern the voice of God not easier.

The reason being, is because we have to sort through all the other voices we are listening to in order to hear the only voice that can change our lives forever. Matthew 4:4 says, “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” The voice of God is substance that sustains us, other people’s words may encourage, excite or give strategy, but they are nothing in comparison to the voice of God.

Isaiah 55 says, “Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance. Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live.” The voice of God is abundance, it is satisfying, it heals, it transforms, it delivers, it corrects, it encourages, it is life itself.

As Christians, we serve a God who speaks, who is alive, who knows us and knows how to communicate with us. One word from God changes our lives forever. But to hear His voice we must listen carefully, read consistently and obey instantly what He says.

Other people’s voices should be the echo that establishes what we heard from God. All the other voices are supplements, they are not the meat of His word that sustains us; not the Truth that sets us free. If you want to hear God more clearly, stop listening to so many other people’s voices and spend time alone with the Lord in your Bible.

Then when you hear a podcast, listen to a sermon, receive a prophetic word, it will echo what God has been speaking to you and you will come alive. God is on your side, He is for you, He is speaking to you personally, but you must make time to be in His word and listen for He is speaking for His word is alive and active (Hebrews 4:12). Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

We landed in Kansas City, MO on Thursday morning and immediately we drove two and half hours to Galena, KS for our prophetic adventure. I spent eight years in MO doing prophetic adventures all over the region, how I missed this location I do not know, but the timing of going this time was perfect.

Galena, KS is known for a healing revival that was led by Charles Parham. A woman named Mary Arthur was healed of blindness in one of Parham’s meetings, so she invited him to her house for a healing meeting. We went to her house at 311 Galena St. but it yielded no clues to work with. But from this house they moved very quickly to a warehouse on Main Street, so to Main Street we go.

When on a prophetic adventure you are looking for clues as to what God is saying about this location. We drive down Main Street and there is no one around, no traffic, no nothing, but we did see a sign that said we are on Route 66 and this excited Kari. We turn a corner at the end of Main Street and jackpot. We are literally in the location where they filmed the movie Cars on Route 66, Radiator Springs is what they named this area.

All the landmarks for the movie are here, but what caught our attention is the bright yellow archway that has a huge black gorilla sitting on top of it. The gorilla’s name is Gus and he is 400 pounds and 8 feet tall. He is sitting in a Buddha position on top of this arch. We found our symbol that reveals the stronghold.

Mark Taylor in his prophetic symbols book says this about gorillas and what they represent, “Gorilla’s prophetically mean stronghold, or a defiant and rebellious spirit” The gorilla told us we found the stronghold, but it was not just the gorilla, we were at a tri-state gate. This very location is where MO, KS and OK all meet.

We salted the land and declared desolation location. And broke the stronghold off the tri-state area. Then we met a man who told us about Rainbow bridge that connects Galena to Los Angeles, CA on Route 66. This matters to us because Charles Parham prayed for William Seymour to be baptized in the Holy Spirit with speaking in tongues and Seymour is who started the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, CA.

We anointed the bridge with oil, opening the gate of Spirit outpouring on our nation. We broke the stronghold of the gorilla spirit and we declared healing flow across the USA. It was a powerful time. Then yesterday, there was a car race in DC and the symbol was Lightning McQueen from Cars. You can’t make this up, God is healing our land and tearing down strongholds.

Are you able to pivot when God pivots? Are you able to shift when God shifts? Are you able to move when God moves? Are you able to notice when God does something different? Sometimes it is nuanced, other times it is obvious, but God never changes His nature, character or ways, but He does shift His name.

When God shifts the name He is operating from when dealing with us individually, corporately and nationally or even internationally, do we see the shift, hear the shift, move with the shift? When we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. We needed a Savior when we were a sinner. But once saved, there are many many more aspects to who God is that He is showing us.

For years God showed up for Israel as a fire, a smoke, a pillar in the wilderness. Then He shifted when they crossed the Jordan river in Joshua 1 to become a sound, a shout, a God who goes to war with the shofar and torches. What a shift. From the sight of the cloud and fire to a torch and shofar.

The same happens to us personally, God has been known in churches as a Shepherd. We love the invitation to lie down in green pastures, being led by still waters (Psalm 23); we want a Pastor who has coffee with us, knows our kids and comes to our events. God is the good Shepherd (John 10), but that is not all He is and I believe He has shifted.

When the Lord has decreed Babylon is falling, that means we are not seeing God as a Shepherd leading people, we see and hear of God as a Lord of Hosts (Jeremiah 51:19) or Lord of Angel Armies (Psalm 84:9-12). When spiritual warfare goes from somewhere out there reality to right here reality, we don’t need a Shepherd, we need Lord Sabaoth.

Being a believer for over 35 years, I can tell you, I serve a God who never changes. He is a covenant keeper, He is consistent, comforting, compassionate and fiercely protective of His people. I love everything about the Lord. But when He shows another side of Himself, I must be aware and be willing to let Him be God even if it is not something I am comfortable with.

The Lord is still our Shepherd, but the battle of Babylon for our deliverance is bringing out the God who released plagues on Egypt, a flood on the Nephilim, fire on the altar of Baal. When the Lord is dealing with His enemies, He is strong in battle, mighty in power. We are in the time of the Psalm 24 God who is coming into Babylon and He is here as the Lion of Judah. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Every bird needs two wings to fly. Every boat needs two oars to row. Every family needs a mom and a dad to function by design. Every one of us needs two legs to walk; two hands to clap; two ears to hear; two eyes to see. If one is missing we are handicapped. We learn to function with only one, but the design of God was always two.

Two animals of each kind were brought into Noah’s ark; two people were created in the Garden of Eden; the Bible says on the testimony of two witnesses something is established. There are two scales for measuring weights. Oh the power of two.

When there are two there is balance, there is authority, there is power, there is protection, there is maturity. If we live only one sided, we miss the maturity that comes from hearing, doing, the other side.

This morning the Holy Spirit was speaking to me about how we love to be forgiven but we struggle to forgive. We love for people to forget our mistakes, but we don’t want to forget the mistakes of others. We love to receive but we struggle to give. We love to be served, but we don’t want to serve.

If we are going to mature as believers, we have got to stop being so one sided. We must not only receive all Jesus has done for us, we must become like Jesus in the way we treat others. We cannot just want to be loved but not love. We must move from receiving the word of God to doing the word of God.

James 1 says, “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.”

We deceive ourselves if we think we can receive from God and not become like God. This kingdom is a love God and love people kingdom. It is a receive from God and give like God kingdom. It is not okay to expect something from God, but you are not willing to be like God when it comes to others. Selah. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Atmospheres are filled with smells and for those who have the ability to smell an atmosphere, you can smell what is operating in that atmosphere. Discerning the smell of an atmosphere is not for calling something or someone out, but for the ability to shift the atmosphere and change the smell of the air people are breathing.

Because we are human beings and have emotions, we want to diagnose our emotions, deal with our issues and defend ourselves or protect ourselves when we sense the smell of an atmosphere that we deem is not safe.

What if we detoxed the smell, so we do not become intoxicated by it, and then we take our authority as believers and we call for the winds of God to remove the foul smell in the atmosphere. Once the foul smell is removed, we can then call for the fragrance of God to fill the room, the city, the state, the country, the family, the community.

John 12:1-3 says, “Mary then took a pound of very expensive perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.”

The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. This woman changed the smell of the atmosphere in the room with her pouring out of her heart to the Lord.

If one bottle of perfume can change the smell in a room, who much more can our prayers change the smell of an atmosphere in our homes, in our churches, in our cities, in our communities?

Our words are creating atmospheres that are either foul or fragrant. When we hear foul words, or smell foul atmospheres, we have authority in the spirit, to pray for a shifting of the atmosphere from foul to fragrant.

We are being invited to use our authority to change atmospheres from foul to fragrant, rather than promote and propel the smell by just talking about it with each other. Detox the odor, then release a fragrance that fills the whole room you are standing in. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

It’s not just about an emotion or the singing of songs. It is not just about showing up, even though that is important. If we are going to have an impact on a community, a city, a region or even a family, we must learn how to worship.

Worship is a weapon that wields wonders we do not even understand. We stand in church with our coffee cups, waiting for a song we like to be sung, but worship is not a song, it is not enjoyable voices, it is not just sounding good from the platform. It is entering into the presence of the One who is on the Throne.

When we can push past myriad of distractions inside of us, we can enter into real worship, which is not about us but about the Stone upon the Throne. Revelation 4 speaks of a door that is open in heaven and a voice that calls out, “Come up here!” This is language of worship, “Come up here!”

Then in Revelation 5 it speaks of a scroll, seven seals, a Lamb, 24 elders, a song, a voice of many angels, living creatures and a throne. And it ends by saying Amen and they fell down and worshipped. Worship is about seeing, hearing and responding the One that is on the throne. The Lamb who was slain.

Dr. Laura Sanger said in a conference I attended yesterday, “Throne room worship renders the occult powerless in a city.” Throne room worship is not just singing a song with a coffee cup in your hand, it is focused attention on the One on the throne. It is the voice that shakes thresholds and door posts as in Isaiah 6.

Throne room worship is hearts of people crying out in song because of who they saw; remembering and responding to what He did; and this kind of worship is what will dismantle the occult structures in our cities. We must learn how to worship if we are going to see our cities changed. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

The Lord just showed me a vision using the church across the street from where I attend church on a Sunday morning. In the vision I saw the many cars in their parking lot. This church I am speaking of has multiple services and many people attend it. The pastor is amazing and the Lord is moving in that place mightily.

What I saw in the vision was the cars leaving the parking lot after a service. Car after car after car with people inside, who had just left the sanctuary. The Lord showed me the Pastor seeding the people who sit in that sanctuary. The seeds of the Word were being given to those who were in whatever service they attended.

As they left the sanctuary and got in their cars to leave, they were leaving with seed they had just received. Some will take the seed and eat it and it will sustain them until next week. Other people will take the seed and sow it so they can multiply the seed their were given. Others will take the seed and put it in a silo.

Listening to the Lord share these things with me, I then saw how every person that goes to church is seeded and whether they realize it or not, they are carrying seed in the soil of their heart. The Lord showed me the hearts are like fields filled with seed.

Then I heard the Lord say, “Once it starts to rain, the seeds that have been planted in people’s hearts week after week after week, will become a harvest of the likes we did not know was possible.

Friends, people who hear the word are being seeded and once it starts to rain, the seeds they have been seeded with from pulpits all over the world are going to release a harvest of righteousness that is going to blow our natural minds. God wastes nothing. The harvest will be plentiful. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

The eagle nation has been plunged into Babylonian captivity. Hidden in an exiled state, lied to about who they are and what they were created, ordained, called to do and be. But the eagle nation will not remain in captivity. The eagle nation has rising in its DNA, so rise it will.

We have a biblical precedence and pattern in scripture of nations, people and even our Savior Jesus the Christ as having had a place of prominence, then being plunged into captivity.

This plunging happened for many reasons, for Israel it was due to their idolatry. For Jesus the Christ it was for the saving of the world, by taking on the sins of the world. For nations it is because of their sin, their loss of identity, their capitulation to enemy nations.

The eagle nations are rising again. This is a pattern in scripture. Our very own creed said, Jesus died, was buried and rose again and is seated at the right hand of the Father in heaven.

Isaiah 40:31 says, “Those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.”

When you are dealing with eagle nations, eagle people, they may be thrown down, but it is for their molting, their shedding of the old, their dying to self, and their renewing. No eagle nation ever stays in captivity.

Israel came out of Egypt; they came out of Babylon; they came out of Persia; they came out of Greece and they will come out of Rome. We have been in an exile state, but the eagle nations are rising again. New feathers, new strength, same identity, we are eagles.

Look up, for the eagles will not be found in chicken coops, they will be found soaring in the skies above, inviting all to remember they have the DNA of an eagle, so they need to stop living like chickens. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

There are certain words, phrases, statements we make in church or as Christians that just become common language without understanding. The language becomes baked into our culture and we may or may not even know what we are saying.

One of those phrases has to do with the words the glory of God. We talk about as though it is a casual, common, revival thing. We say things like glory to God; we want to see the glory of God; show us Your glory. We sing it, we speak it, we declare it, but do we know what it means?

Yes, we know it means weighty, we know that in the glory people get healed; people get saved; people get delivered; but do we actually know what the glory of God is? Honestly, we say and speak of things we know very little about. But the truth is, God wants us to know about His glory.

Glory: Kavod’s root is kabed — heavy, weighty, substantial. It’s the same word used for a “heavy” famine, a “hardened” heart, an “honored” person. So glory-as-weight isn’t just metaphor for importance; it carries a sense of mass breaking into perceptible space — God’s reality becoming dense enough to register on human senses. (Claude)

God’s reality becoming dense enough to register on human senses. Selah. When the glory of God comes, we will know it, not just on the platform, not just on the pulpit, not just on the anointed one, but we will all know it. Not just in one church, at one conference, in one meeting, we will all know it.

Look at this, the glory has had a trajectory shift from mountain (Exodus 19/24); to Tabernacle in the wilderness (Exodus 40); to Temple (2 Chronicles 5); to Throne room visions (Ezekiel 1/10); to now the glory of God is going to fill the whole earth (Habakkuk 2:14/Psalm 72:19).

If we are looking for a revival in a church we are missing what God is doing in the earth. The glory of God is going to fill the earth, not when Jesus returns, but in our generation. God’s reality is going to be dense enough to register on human senses.

The glory of God will not just be luminosity (fire, smoke, gold dust, thunder, cloud) it will also be self-disclosure, revealing the nature and character of God. The glory of God is not going to fill the earth with a show, it is going to catch our attention and then reveal to us the character of our God. The whole earth is going to see and know who God is. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org