Lisa Great

I’ve never realized how many times we go in an out of things. We go in and out of relationships, we go in and out of jobs, we go in and out of churches, we go in and out of living arrangements. In and out, in and out. I never realized how hard it is for us to remain.

Remain: meno in the Greek and it means to abide, to stay in a given place, state, relation or expectancy; continue; dwell; endure; be present; stand; tarry.

We live in a culture that wants out of anything and everything the moment it gets hard, it gets uncomfortable, it doesn’t make sense, it doesn’t meet our needs, it hinders us in any way. We seek advice and people say just divorce him, just leave, get out of that friendship.

We add labels like it is toxic, co-dependent, he is a narcissist, she is nagging, that is not healthy for you, and on and on we go with counseling language that has become cultural.

Then church people say, move on, they are not meeting your needs, find somewhere that celebrates you, your gifts are not wanted there so keep moving, and we move on from people, places and situations.

But the spirit of the Lord is declaring from heaven, REMAIN! Remain, remain, remain, all I need you to do is remain. Because we do not just leave churches, friends, marriages and jobs, we leave God. We move on from God when the healing doesn’t happen, the prayer doesn’t get answered, the money doesn’t come.

The Lord is saying to us as the church, I need you to REMAIN. Remain in my love, remain in my truth, remain in my pace of grace, remain in the authority I have given you. REMAIN, REMAIN, REMAIN.

Is it hard to remain, yes. It takes grace, patience, communication and a lot of forgiveness. Jesus remained when rejected, Paul remained when persecuted, Deborah remained when all of Israel was going astray. There is power in remaining. There is a blessing for those who remain. Look again, the call is to remain. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

The greatest challenge humans face is deception, for it is deceiving. Some people guard against deception by isolation, but isolation is a tell tale sign you are deceived. One opinion, one persons thoughts, cannot reveal the full picture of any truth. Which is why isolation enhances deception and keeps people isolated.

Another tactic to ward off deception is distrust. People who do not trust other people, hear others say they are not trustworthy, that person cannot be trusted for this or that reason. Listen they said this or look at they did that. Distrust is a form of deception, because without trust you cannot know truth, which means you are deceived.

Deception was the first weapon the enemy used in the garden. Eve was deceived. Paul even says that as well, it was not the man who was deceived it was the woman who was deceived. This is not a gender issue, this is a reality of humanity, people are easily deceived.

Unsealed emotional wounds are access points for deception to enter in. We are vulnerable to deception when we are unhealed. Which is why we isolate, don’t trust people and remain deceived. But deception is easy to spot because it is always a counterfeit to what is truth.

In the case of Eve in the garden, the serpent said what God said, but added the words, did God really say? Don’t you realize you will be like God and God doesn’t want you like Him. Deception. The truth was she was created in the image and likeness of God. (Genesis 1-3)

Proverbs picks up on this in chapter 5 saying, “For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil; But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.” Deception looks like truth, honey, oil, but it is not the initial situation which is sweet, it is the long term effects which is bitterness.

The fruit of deception will always make you angry, bitter, unforgiving, resentful, distant, cold. Deceptions two edged sword cuts you and others. But truth sets you free, brings you into community, heals wounds, and truths two edged sword (Hebrews 4:12) does precision surgery on your soul for your liberation. Love truth and be free. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Pondering the moment we are in as the nations and being an American, pondering the moment we are in as a nation, I began to think about the number, 250.

None of us will live 250 years, and even though we are one of the younger nations in the world, 250 years is not a small amount of time to be a nation. Just like every other nation, this nation is not perfect.

Over 250 years we have had great victories and significant defeats. We have attacked others and been attacked ourselves. We are not a perfect people, but we are a resilient people. We are the land of the free and the home of the brave.

We as a nation have a 250 year history, just like every human alive today. No history is without spots, wrinkles and blemishes. No wonder Jesus said, if you are without sin, go ahead and cast the first stone.

Many people love this nation and come here for a better life, others want to take over this nation and make it into what they think is right. We have corruption and we are making corrections, we are not perfect, but we are proud to be an American.

250 years of existence. Congratulations and Happy Anniversary America.

250 is 5 times 50 and as the Lord showed me these numbers, I heard the words, “Grace to Jubilee.” Grace is an unearned gift, it is empowerment to succeed. God is declaring grace to jubilee over America on her 250th anniversary.

Even Leviticus 25:10 is a 250 verse. “And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.”

My spoken anniversary gift decree to the nation I love is “God has graced us to jubilee!” Happy 250th America 🇺🇸. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

One of the first names given to those who gathered as followers of Jesus Christ after His resurrection from the dead and ascension to the right hand of the Father, was called The Way. Acts 9:1-3 tells us they were called people who followed The Way.

This seems fitting, as Jesus Himself described Himself in John 14 as: The Way, The Truth and The Life, saying no one can come to the Father except through Him. Jesus was The Way, so His followers after His departure from earth, followed the way and were called followers of The Way.

For the past week I have been seeing the Hebrew word for Way in a variety of places. The word way is very consistent in the word of God, but the Hebrew word has been highlighted over and over again.

The word way in Hebrew is derekh. In Hebrew there is no vowels, so it would be spelled DRKH. Each letter in Hebrew is a letter, a number and a picture, it is a trilingual language. So the this word has been speaking to me for days and I finally submitted to it and what I found I believe will bless you.

D – Dalet in Hebrew and is the 4th letter representing the number 4 and is the picture of an open door.

R – Reysh in Hebrew and is the 20th letter representing the number 200 and is the picture of a crown on a head

K – Kat in Hebrew and is the 11th letter representing the number 20 and is the picture of an open hand or palm of the hand.

P – Pey in Hebrew and is the 17th letter representing the number 80 and is the picture of an open mouth.

Putting this all together the Lord spoke to me and said, “The way is open!” The open door, the open crown, the open hand, the open hand, the open mouth. All speaking of the way, the manner, the course, the journey. The Lord wants you to know, “The way is open!”

We as believers are followers of The Way and the way is open for salvation, deliverance, healing, reconciliation, prosperity, truth, life, hope, the way is open. For Jesus is The Way and He is declaring, “The Way is Open!!!” Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

If God was to rebuke us what do you think His rebuke would be about? Rebuke means to admonish, to correct, to convict, to convince, to reason, to argue a point. Alright, so if God was to rebuke us, what do you think He would rebuke us about or for?

I can hear a myriad of behaviors people are saying in their heads, but what if He was not going to rebuke us for any behavior, but rather He was going to rebuke us for our mistaken perception? You see, our perception is our reality, but our perception is not God’s reality.

We may see something as truth, but God does not call it truth. We may have a definition of something, but that is not God’s definition of it. When our perception does not align with God’s perception, we are to adjust, correct our perception to match His.

I was reading Isaiah 2:4 and I saw God rebuking many for a wrong perception about other people. At least this is what He rebuked Israel for and I believe He is rebuking us for the same thing.

“He shall judge between the nations, And rebuke many people; They shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war anymore.”

God is rebuking them for viewing people as enemies to destroy, rather than as a harvest to gather in. The Lord always had a vision for all nations to know Him. That is why in Genesis 12 He had Abram look up and called Him the Father of All Nations.

What if God is calling who we see as an enemy a harvest? What if He is rebuking us for not seeing people as a harvest field to reap, but rather as an enemy to remove? We can see this in our lives on a personal and national level. It happens in churches and cities. It happens between races and religions.

Friends, we are called to see people as a harvest to reap, not an enemy to destroy. Henceforth the call to beat swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks. Jesus said, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Can you hear the rebuke of the Lord to see people as a harvest not someone to destroy? Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

On Saturday morning June 20, 2026 I had a dream. In the dream I was walking around a facility, a very large facility. There were other people in the facility and we were all walking in and out of threshold doorways that went into rooms. The whole place was rooms that were accessed by thresholds, but there was nothing in the rooms nor in the facility. 

We were sharing with each other, saying, no, it is not in there. This was so whatever we were looking for, others did not waste time checking the room we just exited. I came to one threshold door and in the room entrance was a loveseat size couch with a clutch purse sitting on it. I saw it so took off my purse and stuck it around a corner under a tablecloth, knowing I did not need it to keep looking. 

I walked out of the room with the couch and purse saying, no it is not in there. Then while I was still looking, I heard someone say, 30506, 30506 that is what we are looking for and the dream ended. 

I was walking the dog that morning and the Holy Spirit reminded me of the numbers 30506 and I saw in a vision, hand held up with the five fingers saying, 3-0-5-0-6. Then I heard, it is a zip code. I come home and 30506 is the zip code for Gainesville, GA. This city is literally on my path for the week long adventure we had planned, starting in North Carolina and ending in Georgia. 

This dream led to a prophetic adventure in Gainesville, GA. But this zip code is what led me to the exact location God wanted us at which was Lake Lanier Olympic Park. Lake Lanier has a reputation among those who live there for there is a city that was flooded and is underneath this lake. The name of the city is Oscarville. 

There is much to say about this city, but a little research will reveal why God sent us there. Four of us women went to this spot, salted the water and declared 2 Kings 2, no more death any longer here. We decreed life over that lake. Then we broke the spirt of racism over the area by blowing the shofar with the four of us in agreement. 

The Lord loves the land and anything that is producing death, we show up and release the sound, the salt and the speech of life over it. Now death has been swallowed up in victory again, for death was defeated while we were in Gainesville, GA at 30506. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org 

Movement, momentum, advancement, progress, all words that we love to proclaim, preach and promise to people who hear our voice. But not all movement is loud, not all advancement is swift, not all progress is instant. People have a pace and God has a pace. The challenge we face is when our pace is faster than God’s pace.

There is a lot happening in the earth realm right now. There are tectonic plates in the natural and in the spirit moving as we speak. There are alterations happening behind the scenes we cannot even see, hear or understand. Like blood flowing in our body, there is continual movement happening both externally and internally.

In the midst of movement, there is an invitation to behold the wonderful. I was reading Proverbs 30 this morning and my spirit hovered over these verses: There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yes, four which I do not understand: The way of an eagle in the air, The way of a serpent on a rock, The way of a ship in the midst of the sea, And the way of a man with a virgin.

The word wonderful in Hebrew is pala. It is the vocabulary of standing before something that exceeds categorization. We categorize everything. Before someone opens their mouth we have them in a category. After we have known them we categorize them. But God says, slow down, there is something wonderful I want you to see. Something uncategorizable.

In Isaiah 9:6 God is called wonderful (uncategorizable) counselor; in Judges 13 the Angel declares his name as “It is Wonderful”; and in Psalm 139:14 it says, you are fearfully and wonderfully made.

David stands inside the womb, marveling that he himself is hidden, formed in secret, “in the depths of the earth” as he puts it in 139:15, and yet fully known to God the whole time. This is wonderful, you are wonderful, uncategorizable.

I pray you slow down enough, consistently, to behold the wonderful, there are many things in the world that are beyond categorization. If we could stand in wonder we may find it easier to love one another. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

We as the church have spent much of our time presenting an image of Christ to the world. We have added lights, smoke, sound systems, outfits to wow the best of them. Our image has been established externally, but now we have spent a lot of time talking about our image internally.

Teaching people to know who they are in Christ, reminding them of Christ in them the hope of glory. Helping them tell a new story in their hearts, minds and souls. We have let people know God loves them, we see them and they are wanted. People need to know who they are, who created them and what Genesis 1:26-28 says about them.

Adding to this we have entered into a sound that is coming out of the people of God on soccer fields at the World Cup, on slogans and banners at baseball games: John 3:16. We have heard people’s voices and messages on social media, from young to older. Pulpits and platforms have sent forth the sound of salvation to the nation. Our sound is getting louder and this is a good thing.

Now God is adding one more aspect to our arsenal of declaration to the world. He is adding fragrance. He is adding smell. He wants us to smell like him. 1 Corinthians 2:15 says, “For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.” God has created a fragrance line for us that we are to wear.

Our smell is out attitude, how a room experiences us, what people say once we leave a place. What smell are we leaving behind. Smell remains even when we leave. If you are in an elevator, people say, you smell good. Once we are off the elevator your smell is still in the elevator. God is releasing His fragrant line for both men and women, because what we smell like in our attitudes matters to God.

Our fragrance is the final touch which will add value to our image and our sound. We are called to be people who are seen, heard and smelled, so the kingdom of God can be represented on earth as it is in heaven. We are to smell good. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Over and over again the video game Mario Bros comes to mind as the best way to describe how the word of God is a deep well and if you push on a verse they will unlock for you mysteries you could not have known.

If we read our bible and don’t understand it, we must just keep reading, the road that is rough upon arrival will smooth out in understand as you keep treading the path of the discipline of reading.

But if you have some understanding of the word, then the next layer is to read until you no longer hear other people’s voices, sermons, podcasts, books when you read a verse. This too takes time, but is worth the miles of travel in the word to remove all these voices.

Then you get to a place where the word is an adventure. You can’t wait to get up and open your bible for you know there is something in there that will electrify your spirit with truth. This is the Mario Bros analogy I speak of.

In the game Mario has pipes he is jumping on and over. Some pipes, if he pushes into them open up a world he did not know was there on the surface. In biblical vernacular we call this a spirit of wisdom and revelation.

Jesus said to Peter in Matthew 16 when Peter declared Jesus the Christ, the Son of the Living God, Jesus said, you could not have known that if My Father did not tell you. Spirit of wisdom and revelation.

Psalm 25 says, “The secret council of the Lord is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant.” This secret language is common in scripture for Amos 3:7 says, “For God does nothing without revealing His secrets to His servants the prophets.” But what secret is being spoken of.

Secret is sod in Hebrew and it means divine council. It’s: the one who fears YHWH is granted a seat in His council — admitted into the deliberative throne-room space where God’s purposes are formed and disclosed. (Claude)

As we lean in to the Lord with respect for God (fear of the Lord); honor and obedience to His voice, we are now postured to be in the divine council and hear secrets about His covenant. We hear, so we can speak not so we can hoard what we heard.

Everyone is invited but not all lean in, so not all hear the secrets of God so as to speak them to the people of God. This is not an elite society, this is a posture of listening in order to speak for God not only about God and to do it accurately, it starts with listening. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

When the nations align with the kingdom of God and what the Lord has been doing on the earth, long before we got here and will be doing long after we leave here, it is a powerful time to be alive.

God has been building the body of Christ since Jesus was slain before the foundation of the earth. This building project escalated after the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. When He ascended into heaven, the Bible says in Ephesians 4, He gave gifts to men.

God gave gifts, He gave craftsmen to the earth to build the body of Christ. The 12 apostles are craftsmen of Christ, the apostle Paul is a craftsman of Christ. There are still craftsmen of Christ on earth right now.

These builders God gave to the church in a specific order, not for hierarchy but for building. Paul says it this way in 1 Corinthians 12:28, listen to the order established. “Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues.”

What was the reason for the order? Because we are the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6) and we are being built into a spiritual house (1 Peter). If God is building us into a house, the first thing you do when building a house is lay the foundation. Henceforth, first apostles.

Proverbs 24 actually speaks of this idea before Paul does by saying, “Through wisdom a house is built, And by understanding it is established; By knowledge the rooms are filled With all precious and pleasant riches.”

God is a builder and when the nations are aligned with God for the building up of people, for nations are people, we have a perfect match and things move quickly. Ephesians 4:29 says, “Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.”

Edification is an architectural term and is where we get the word edifice. God is building us into a body that will be established on truth, will be able to stand in the midst of storms and will reveal the glory of God to nations who have yet to decide to build. Friends, God is building the body of Christ and there is so much work to do, everyone has a role to play. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org