Lisa Great

Music is an indicator of what is happening in culture. Music carries the cultural narrative in a way that sermons can’t because music is words and sound combined that stick to our soul. Songs and sermons together are powerful, for they create a cultural narrative we all can carry.

I was at the Dove Awards last night, per some friends providing me tickets. While there I was listening for what is happening in the culture called church in America. From the opening words of the head of the GMA to the songs and speeches that were presented, it is obvious to me what God is saying.

There is a hunger for truth, a desire for God and a kingdom that is advancing. One of the award recipients won for his song, Dusty Bibles and he promoted reading the word of God. Another artist won and gave a speech that could have been a 90 second sermon on giving God all the glory.

The honor between artists was palpable. One artist won for his song and honored the work of another artist in the same category that did not win. It was a night of Jesus being the guest of honor, not the artists, not the outfits, not the venue.

Jesus said, “And if I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me!” (John 12:32) There is a lifting, there is a drawing, there is a hunger for truth in the atmosphere over America. There is a longing for the word of God; for training in righteousness; there is a shift that has happened in the hearts of people that was obvious to me as I listened, as I watched.

There is also a deploying that is happening; a collaborating that is taking place. The “One” man show is done, the team is here. Those hidden in the back corners are being moved to the front row. There is so much going on, it is hard to even articulate, but suffice it to say, “The Kingdom of God is at hand!” Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Last night we began a four week women’s topical conversation bible study with the ladies from our church. The leaders of our women’s ministry broke us up into homes, assigned leaders and gave us multi-generational women to be in a group.

Myself and my co-leader Erin had our first time with the ladies last night and the subject we discussed was busyness. As we were preparing for this topic, Bill Johnson put out a reel that spoke about busyness killing intimacy with God. I thought how timely considering our new group talk this week.

Eight of us gathered in my living room last night, and two of the women were from Mexico. It was easy to lead these women because they are mature, hungry, and not afraid to be vulnerable.

As we were discussing our subject matter of busyness, the Lord kept drawing my eyes to the word busyness on the sheet we were given to lead from. As I looked at that word, the Lord changed it from busyness to business in my minds eye.

While hearing business when we were discussing busyness the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “I am trading trading their busyness for My business.” Immediately I heard, Luke 2:49 “And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?”

I spoke this over the women and declared what you thought was busyness the Lord is calling, Doing God’s Business. And I want to declare over you today, yes for some of you it is busyness for busyness sake, but for many of you it is God’s business you are doing.

When we see that we are doing the Father’s business by raising children, helping at church, volunteering, speaking to people in the grocery store, walking with a friend. The Lord says, “You are doing my Father’s business, it is not busyness.”

Finally, when you are doing Your Father’s business, there is a rhythm of rest in the business. It is not a day off, it is a rhythm of rest. Matthew 11:28-30 says it this way, “Learn the unforced rhythm of grace…” Be blessed friends as you do Your Father’s business. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

The voice of God is being heard in the hearts of many people, the Lord is saying, “Just come home!” No strings attached, no expectations upon arrival, just a call to come home from the Spirit of God. I can hear it so clearly, “Just come home.”

Home is the heart of God. People are struggling to return to God because they have been hurt by people who say they represent God. Religion does not represent God well. God is not religious. Yes, you heard me correctly, God is not religious. He is relational.

In Luke 15, the Prodigal son, heard the voice of God say, “Just come home” so he left with a prepared speech, but the call was to “Just come home!” The father in this story did not discuss with the son what he did while he was gone or even why he left. He rejoiced that his son was home.

I think we need to realize many people will not heed the call to “Just come home” because they are afraid of the response, expectations and reactions of those who are at home. The older brother in the story of the Prodigal Son was accusatory, rather than forgiving. But thank God the younger son heeded the voice of God to “Just come home”.

One person is hearing the words, “Just come home” and if you are home can you hear the Lord saying, “Forget the former things, do not dwell on the past, see I am doing a new thing” (Isaiah 43:18). We that are still at home, who have not left, are you ready to forget the former things, so they can come home?

The call is going out to both those who are far away and those who are near. One is being called to “Just come home”, while the other is being called to “Forget the former things.” Can you hear, can you heed the call? It takes courage to come home and it takes courage to forget the former things. God is calling us both simultaneously right now. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

One of the hardest things I have had to do in my life is obey God when people I highly value do not understand what I am doing or why I am doing it. If you need the approval of people, especially valuable people to you, it will be hard to obey God when what God is saying is different than what they are saying.

Those valuable people love you deeply, they are trying to protect you, they are not malicious they are loving you, but their love cannot stop you from obeying God even when they do not understand what you are doing. It is not your responsibility to convince them of what God has spoken to you, it is your responsibility to follow what God has told you, even when valuable people do not understand.

Proverbs 3 says, “Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; He’s the one who will keep you on track. Don’t lose your grip on love and loyalty…earn a reputation for living well in God’s eyes and the eyes of the people.”

Seek counsel, get wisdom from others, but at the end of the day, you must obey what God says. Now your obedience may mean you stand alone for a while, but it must mean if God said to do it, you do not try to get people to meet your need God said He would meet.

If God said it, He will do it. He is not a man that He should lie (Numbers 23:19). But you must be patient as the promise plays out. When God speaks a promise it does not have instant manifestation. Sometimes it takes decades, but if you wait for it, it truly shall come to pass if God said it. Then the valuable voices will see what God said to you has come to pass.

Evidence of God’s voice manifests as an undeniable reality that obeying God is always an investment that yields a return. He is faithful; He is going to do what He said He would do, if He said it. He is trustworthy and He wants to build faith in you and those who are watching you. Obedience is the master key to success in walking with God. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

For the past three to four weeks the Lord has been developing my ability to smell in the spirit. I know that sounds strange to some and others know exactly what I am talking about.

I have a strong sense of hearing. Hearing the voice of God is my strong ear gift. I have learned over time how to see God in symbols, signs, and patterns. Seeing has developed over time and now I know what to look for. But this smelling things was new to me.

It started about a month ago while I was walking the dog in the morning. We would walk past a house and I would get a very distinct smell. The first smell I received was cigarette smoke. I stopped and looked at the house, to make sure no one was smoking on the front porch or in a car nearby, but no sign to attach to the smell.

The next time I was walking I went by another house and smelled sawdust; another house was laundry detergent smell; and one day I walked outside and the smell of skunk was obvious.

I did not think much of it, but I wrote it down in my journal and kept moving on through my days, for I did not understand what was happening to me. Then on September 30, 2026, I could smell rain. Now here in Nashville we had been in a heat dome for weeks and on record Nashville got no rain at all in the month of September.

I told my friend at bible study yesterday, I smell rain! So I looked up what this phrase means. “I smell rain means you are picking up the scent of approaching or just starting rain before (or as) it falls.” Friends, I smell rain, not just a few drops or showers, I smell an abundance of rain coming.

To confirm this smell, Kay Nash put out her prophetic word for October and I watched it this morning and the first thing she said was, “The rain is coming!” So, I am sharing with you what I am smelling. I smell rain. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Do you want to be called blessed? Do you want to be blessed? Did you know the key to being blessed is to believe? Luke 1:45 says, “Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of those things which were told her from the Lord.”

Did you hear what was said to Mary? Blessed is she who believes. But not just believes anything. She believes what the Lord told her. Not what some other person told her, what the Lord told her. And being blessed means you see, experience the fulfillment of the things the Lord told you.

Many people call themselves blessed or say the words God blessed me with this or that, but when you inquire of what they called a blessing, it is not a blessing. A blessing from the Lord comes as fulfillment from what God told you. If this is the standard, we have lowered the bar of what is means to be blessed.

To be blessed you must be able to hear the voice of God and believe. To believe means to obey what the Lord says, to trust the timing of God, to wait on the Lord. We do not consider these things as blessings. Waiting is hard. Walking by faith is hard. Trusting God and others is hard. Being blessed is not easy, it is hard work in the spirit.

The reason it is hard is because we are so culturally scientific, we want proof, facts, before we believe. We want instant results before we believe. We do not want to put in the work of listening, reading, praying, in order to hear the word of the Lord for our lives and then obey that word until it comes to pass.

If you want to be blessed biblically, like Mary was blessed you must believe and believing brings about the fulfillment of what the Lord your God told you. I am not speaking from theory, I am speaking this from reality. I am blessed and you can be too, but you must believe. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

It’s harvest time and in harvest time it is important to know the state of your crops. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. Every person on earth, was born to declare the glory of God in the land of the living. We were created in innocence, but life has offered us some opportunities and our choices reflect our realities.

As the harvest of souls is gathered by the workers God has sent out into the harvest field, it is important to be able to discern the wounded from the wicked. Behaviors are indicators, but the root is what must be examined. We need wisdom to discern who is wounded and that is why they are behaving the way they are and who is truly wicked (perverted, twisted).

Isaiah 57:19-21 says, “I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near,” Says the LORD, “And I will heal him.” But the wicked are like the troubled sea, When it cannot rest, Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. “There is no peace,” Says my God, “for the wicked.”

Whether near or far off, the Lord is speaking peace to many right now. Wounded people are both near and far off, in church and not interested in church. But the Lord is declaring peace to them no matter where they may be. Wounded people are going to be healed by the words of the gospel of peace that is shared with them.

Wicked people will never know peace, for they are married to chaos; covenanted with death and have chosen live like the troubled sea. Both the wounded and the wicked are far off and near, so we must discern who is who, for God is healing the wounded and declaring over them peace. But the wicked will not know peace.

Go out and declare peace, the wounded will hear it and be healed for God is healing them, declaring to them, peace, shalom, wholeness, it’s time to live again. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.og

What a time to be alive. The atmosphere is electric with life, with hope, with joy, with anticipation of good coming in a tsunami fashion. It has already happened for some, it will happen soon for the majority, but all of us are going to experience the glory of God on earth to a measure as it is in heaven.

Jesus said to pray in Matthew 6, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on EARTH as it is in heaven. We must recognize, realize, we can experience measures of heaven on earth, now. David pulled the future into his reality when he worshipped in front of the ark in Zion, the city of David. And we can experience future realities now on earth as well.

Isaiah 51 is making a decree for us to see happening in now time, today. Isaiah says, “Listen to Me, My people; And give ear to Me, O My nation: For law will proceed from Me, And I will make My justice rest As a light of the peoples. My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth.”

Jesus fulfilled this prophetic word at His coming in the flesh, but He is saying it again to us as the nations today. He is coming, not in the flesh, but in salvation for the nations and justice. There is a rescue mission underway we know not of, but it is delivering us from wickedness and the Lord has said today, “My righteousness is near, my salvation has gone forth.”

The Lord is restoring nations as we speak. The Lord is destroying systems of slavery and bondage as we speak. And He is commissioning His prophetic mouthpieces according to Isaiah 51:16 saying, “I have put My words in your mouth; I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, That I may plant the heavens, Lay the foundations of the earth, And say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’ ”

Can you see; can you hear; the salvation of the nations? Dreams are coming true; builders are ready with blueprints; families are being restored; finances are being recovered; and bodies will be healed. This is what salvation looks like. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

The Lord spoke to me and said, “My people are to arrange their lives around my feasts.” The Bible speaks of the Feasts of the Lord. The Feasts of the Lord are three major ones, Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. These are appointed times of the Lord for His people to gather, to remember, to rejoice and to reflect on His works.

Passover is in the Spring, Pentecost is 50 days after Passover, and Tabernacles is in the Fall. All three Feasts are to be celebrated by the people of God, but we have not been taught about these Feasts or we have been told these are Jewish celebrations and don’t apply to us Gentiles. This is not true, these are Feasts of the Lord for all people of God to celebrate.

On Saturday we celebrated Tabernacles. This was the first time we hosted it at our house and so we are new to this, but we had so much fun. Over 50 friends and family gathered in our backyard. We had 7 tents made into tabernacles; we had food; fellowship; games for the kids; live worship led by my son and his friends; then we opened it up for anyone who wanted to testify to the goodness of God.

Autumn Darden shared about what the Feast of Tabernacles is. We had a great time. Then we ended it with the sound of three shofars blowing and the reading of Psalm 65:8-13 “They who dwell in the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs; You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy. You visit the earth and cause it to overflow; You greatly enrich it; The stream of God is full of water; You prepare their grain, for thus You prepare the earth. You water its furrows abundantly, You settle its ridges, You soften it with showers, You bless its growth. You have crowned the year with Your bounty, And Your paths drip with fatness. The pastures of the wilderness drip, And the hills gird themselves with rejoicing. The meadows are clothed with flocks And the valleys are covered with grain; They shout for joy, yes, they sing.”

This was the first time we did this but it will not be the last. Thank you to all who came to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles with us and thank you Lord for perfect weather as we worshipped under the stars.

Do you know what time it is? Did you know that our actions reveal what time we believe it is? Can you hear the the sound of the alarm going off not to warn you, but to awaken you? Can you see the Son rising with healing in His wings? Can you recognize the new day that is dawning on the nations?

Time is one of the greatest challenges we deal with. Some people procrastinate, so time becomes a thing of stress. Other people misunderstand the word of God so time becomes urgent, panic mode, and rushing. Still others are learning to walk the pace of grace in order to finish their race as laid out for them by the Lord.

Paul says in Romans 13:11-14 “Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed. The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.”

It is time to wake up!
It is time to recognize the day!
It is time to lay aside deeds of darkness!
It is time to put on the armor of light!
It is time behave as though it is day not night!
It is time to put on Christ!

Now that you know what time it is, you have a choice as to how you are going to act. The alarm is sounding to wake you out of your night slumber and break you into the new day that is dawning. It is time for salvation; it is time for healing; it is time for breakout and breakthrough; it is time for restoration; it is time for edification; it is time for us to live life abundantly. The new day is here. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org