Lisa Great

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

The word shame is used in Psalms and Proverbs enough to catch our attention. If we view shame through our humanisitic, I am ashamed or I feel shame, or even I acted shamefully, as our only understanding of the word, we will miss what the word is speaking in context.

Praying Psalm 71 this morning, verse 1 says, “In You, O LORD, I put my trust; Let me never be put to shame.” I paused in my prayer because I thought how does putting our trust in the Lord cause us to never be put to shame? Questions unlock revelations, the more questions we ask the more revelations we will receive.

Shame in Hebrew in this Psalm means to pale; be disappointed; delayed; become dry; be long; confused; disconcerted.

I was surprised to say the least by this definition of shame, but in context of putting our trust in the Lord so we are not put to shame, it makes total sense. But I would have never defined shame as disappointment, delay, confusion or even being dry.

When this revelation unlocked for me the definition of shame, I realized our trust is in something other than the Lord if we are feeling like we are being delayed, we have become dry, we are confused or disconcerted. This is a hard truth to hear, but it is the truth.

Trust in the Lord alone is where we experience Him as the Fountain of Living Water, which is how we never are ashamed. Jeremiah 2:13 says, “My people have committed two sins, one they have forsaken Me the Fountain of Living Water and two they have hewn out broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”

If we trust the Lord we will never be ashamed, for He is the Fountain of Living Water, He is the source of all life; He is the headwaters; He is the mouth of the river; He knows the timing; so there is no delay. He is the water so there is no drought. He is crystal clear so there is no confusion. He is eternity, so nothing is considered long to Him.

We might need to get a slight adjustment on where our trust is, for if our trust is in the Lord we will not be put to shame. (Psalm 71:1) Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Here is the irony of prosperity…it is not get rich so I do not have to work, it is increase so I can be a blessing to more people. The more you have the more work you will do. When God blesses you with more friends, there are more text messages to respond to. When God blesses your business with more customers there are more products to produce.

We tend to strive to rise when we are struggling to rise. Prosperity is not a problem, but it is more work. Some people spend so much energy striving to prosper, under the Adamic curse of Genesis 3:17, toil from the sweat of your brow. What we don’t know how to do is reveal a work ethic that produces more work, because to whom much is given more will be added.

More added is not striving for more, it is working in such a way that it says, I can handle more for I have managed what you have given me thus far well. It is not earning anything, but it is not apathy either. Sonship is about inheritance, but it is not something for nothing. Sonship is about relationship. Sonship is apprenticeship, teaching you how to take over the Father’s business.

Psalm 2 says, Ask of me and I will give the nations as your inheritance. If you don’t like to work, you will not like the inheritance of the nations. The more we are given the more responsibility we have and the more work we are called to do. Prosperity is a blessing that adds no sorrow to it, because it is not striving, but it is working.

Friends, God wants to prosper us, He delights in the prosperity of His children, but how many of us have a work ethic that reveals we can handle more prosperity? Prosperity is not so you can sit more, it is so you can serve more. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

We serve a relational God. He is alive right now, seated at the right hand of the Father in heaven. When we pray, He hears, when He speaks we can hear Him. He is fully alive, nothing dead in Him at all.

We are created in the image of a living God. He is not made with the hands of man, He made the very hands of man. He made us with eyes to see, ears to hear, a heart that is created to respond. We are as much alive as He is and actually He is more alive than us, for in Him there is no sin.

The wages of sin is always death, not always death in the sense of ceasing to exist on earth, but death to parts of us that lay dormant, unresponsive. If we cannot hear God our ears are deaf; if we cannot see God our eyes are blind; that means they are not functioning by design. They are dead in a sense.

But we serve a God that makes blind eyes see, deaf ears hear and casts our sins as far as the East is from the West. We have access to abundant life here on earth, not just one day when we die and see Him in the sky.

The question is, do you want to live?

Strongs Concordance number 2222 is Zoe (ζωή) translates to “life,” referring to both physical and spiritual existence. It emphasizes the concept of life as a gift from God, highlighting the connection between vitality and divine essence.

One way to come alive is to forgive those who you have felt like they have wronged you. Another way to come alive is to repent, for he is without sin should not cast the first stone. A third way to live is to surrender control of your life to Jesus. A fourth way to live is to sing, songs have a way of calling us back to life.

God is alive, we are alive and the one thing we were created for is relationships with God and each other. Loneliness is a killer; abandonment is a distorter of design; rejection alters the way we think about people; God is perfect, there is nothing crooked in Him. Return to God and watch Him bring others to you. Life is worth living. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org