Lisa Great

We all live on the same planet; we are all breathing the same air; we all are given the same 24 hours in a day; but we are all not going through the same things.

There are corporate seasons and personal seasons; there are national issues and international issues; there are business challenges and church challenges; we are all needed to accomplish the will of God on earth, but we cannot give a one size fits all answer, for there are complexities that make situations identifiable, but not individual.

The apostle Paul in 2 Timothy 2 identifies three groups of people and as I read these verses, I sensed most of us can fit in one of these three categories. Here is what Paul says, “Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier. Also if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not win the prize unless he competes according to the rules. The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops.”

Paul describes the soldier, the athlete and the farmer as three prototype people and he says, “Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.” Honestly I had not really considered what was being said about these three people until today.

The soldier is in a battle, this is where many people are. They are in a battle with sickness, relationships, finances, or enemies. If you are in a battle, you are a soldier and Paul exhorts you to not get entangled in everyday affairs. Is this you?

The athlete is in a competition, this is for those who are in an internal wrestle with your past, your future, your desires, the invitation is to contentment but the reality is competition. Paul exhorts you to play by the rules. Or said another way, obey the commands to love God and love people.

The farmer is sowing, plowing, reaping and harvesting. If this is you, if you are a sower, a giver of time, energy, gifts, wisdom, yourself, Paul exhorts you that you will be the one who receives.

The solider needs to get untangled, the athlete needs to be content, and the farmer needs to learn to receive. Where are you? Who are you? What is the Lord inviting you into? Only you know, but I sense when you find who you are, you will see what is tripping you up, and how to get free. Thank you Paul for exhorting us. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Divine intervention is happening right now. We don’t deserve it and we did not earn it. This is grace on an international and personal level and if we see it any other way we are going to miss it. A divine reversal has taken place, the Lord has extended mercy to the nations, not because of our righteousness, prayer meetings, fasting or any other thing, but because of His love for humanity.

I was in prayer and the Lord just spoke to me and said, “I am sending masonry angels to come and seal the breach in you all, so you no longer have broken cisterns that don’t hold water. Then I am going to send the rain!”

I heard it clear as day, and immediately I went to find the verse and it is in Jeremiah 2:13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters, To hew for themselves cisterns, Broken cisterns That can hold no water.”

The Lord is reversing the curse of these broken cisterns and sending masonry angels to come and seal the breach, so He can send the rain. We are being gifted these masonry angels and they have one assignment, seal the breach. Once the breach is sealed in our cisterns, He is going to send an abundance of rain. (1 Kings 18:41)

When you don’t deserve it and you did not earn it, you must learn to receive it not reject it. Our shame rejects more than we realize and the Lord is sealing the breach of shame, sealing the breach of iniquity, sealing the breach of wounds, sealing the breach of bitterness, so many breaches, so much sealing. All so we can hold water because He is sending the rain, an abundance of rain.

I can only say what I heard and I know I heard, “I am sending masonry angels to come and seal the breach in you all, so you no longer have broken cisterns that don’t hold water. Then I am going to send the rain!” Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Does anyone else feel like you are going through a metamorphosis, not symbolically, not hopefully, but you can actually feel it in your body. Not weight loss in the natural, but rather a removing of a skin that we were given to navigate the last season of life in Babylon, into which we were born.

I keep sensing the Lord is removing the skin of the last season, for that skin is not compatible with this new season we are entering into. It is such a vulnerable feeling, such a sense of removing of survival mode. This skin we have lived in has been so helpful during the last season of life.

I heard the Lord say, “Do not resist the removal, absorb the new.” Absorb do not resist. Absorb is the invitation to let something in on a very deep level, to allow the Lord to remove what is no longer needed. This removal is familiar modes of operation. One of which is survival mode, self-protection, self-preservation.

I can feel it even as I type, the removing of this skin that has been such a blessing in the season we are leaving. Those coping mechanisms that kept us safe will not be needed in the new season. I can’t explain it, but I keep hearing absorb, don’t resist.

Friends, we are in-between seasons and the command is Joshua 3:3-4 “When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God with the Levitical priests carrying it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it. However, there shall be between you and it a distance of about 2,000 cubits by measure. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.”

Let the Lord remove the old skin, embrace the vulnerable moments called transition, absorb the new don’t resist it. We have never gone this way before, so no one knows where we are going but the LORD. It takes faith to walk this way, to shed the old skin and to trust the Ark of His Presence. Absorb don’t resist. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

I was talking to a new friend first thing this morning, she is prophetic, but has been sidelined and this morning, a fresh wind blew in her spirit and all that has been put in her came back to life. To hear her voice from the start of the conversation to the end of it, was night and day difference.

She made a comment that I cannot shake, she said, “the church is struggling with a language barrier.” This phrase has been mulling around in my spirit, for I have another friend who is apostolic and she has said to me many times, “We have got to be speaking the same language as leaders.”

Two women, who have never met, one a new friend, one a longer known friend, both saying the same thing.

As I thought about what they were saying, I kept hearing in my spirit, “But you (all) have the mind of Christ.” The context has to do with being of the mind of the flesh or being of the mind of the spirit. (1 Corinthians 2) So our language barrier is the age old battle of spirit language or flesh language.

We have both voices speaking into us as the body of Christ. We have the mind of the flesh sharing humanistic ideas, thoughts, plans, and people declaring thus says the Lord. Denominations are a great example of our language barrier, because we all think we know the truth.

The mind of Christ is not double minded, it is not schizophrenic. The mind of Christ is single minded, simple, the Truth. If we want to break down the language barrier inside of us, we must Romans 12:2 be transformed by the renewing of our mind, from the mind of the flesh, the mind of the world, to the mind of Christ.

The mind of Christ is humility and no one person has the mind of Christ, so we must learn from each other, listen to each other. If we as the body of Christ had the mind of Christ, we would be a force on earth to be reckoned with, for the mind of Christ is unity. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

The reason the word of God does not produce what it promises in our lives is not because the word is inactive, but because we take it out of context. When we read one verse that sounds like something we want, we can make it say whatever we want, but it does not produce what we want.

The body of Christ struggles with disappointment fatigue and unbeief, not because they are not sincere believers, but because the words they have been told have not produced what they promised. It is because God is a liar? Absolutely not, it is because we have not been taught the truth in context.

The word of God is not sound bites, it is not memes, it is not headlines or footnotes. The word of God is a narrative and an author, whose character and nature are truthworthy. The word of God is a person. John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God and the Word was with God in the beginning.”

As the word of God is preached in context, not in piece meal scriptures to create a topic of ones choosing, it actually liberates, exonerates and demonstrates realities we long to see. The word of God is a partnership we are to have with it, not a decree we make with no relationship to it, hoping to get something for nothing from it.

Proverbs 10 says, “It is the blessing of the LORD that makes rich, And He adds no sorrow to it.” This is not an offering scripture, this is about wisdom. The blessing of the Lord is upon those who are wise. Wisdom makes you rich in relationships, business, family, everything. Wisdom like the Word is a person, not some material possession.

The word of God’s highest values are Jesus and people. When you realize this, you will see how truly blessed you are, how truly rich you are, but you have to read it in context to hear what it is saying. The narrative is shifting to truth that sets us free, for the narrative is about the nature/character of God and his treasured possession, people. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

I was in prayer this morning and these words came out of my mouth…IT IS TOO RICH TO RUSH. I had to pause and hear what the spirit was saying through me. IT IS TOO RICH TO RUSH. I was speaking of Daniel 2 in my prayer based on the class we had yesterday morning on this chapter, but this phrase is more than one chapter.

What in your life is too rich to rush?

We live in a hurry up culture, always headed to the next thing. We rush in and out of everywhere, as though time is chasing us down and we are trying not to get caught. Where in your life do you pause, have no limit, linger, let whatever it is just be about the moment, the hour, the day, the week, the year?

We say time flies, but time does not fly, time has the same cadence everyday all day, we fly, time does not fly. What if we slowed down, what if we found something in our lives that was too rich to rush.

For me the word of God and the presence of God is too rich to rush. I am never in a hurry to get out His presence, to stop reading His word. He is so consuming, so enjoyable, so desirable, He for me is too rich to rush. I guess that is why I am willing to wait as long as it takes for Him to do whatever He has promised He would do.

This morning many people are going to rush into a building called church and rush out. They are going to sing some songs, meet some people, listen to some words, hear some announcements and pray some prayers, they may even give some money. Whether 2 hours or 45 minutes. What is the rush?

What in your life is too rich to rush?
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One of the things I love about reading the Bible is that it is relational at its core. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. Father/Son language and relationships are throughout the word of God. This relationship reveals the idea of passing down truth.

When we do not have fathers and mothers in the faith standing for truth, passing down truth, defending truth, the generation behind them lose their way. When parents let their children decide for themselves on subjects they are not equipped emotionally or intellectually to make, those decisions cripple them, not liberate them.

The apostle Paul is a father in the faith and he is speaking to his son, Timothy, in 1 Timothy 1:5-7 and says, “The goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion, wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions.”

Paul was exhorting Timothy to remain in love, keep a pure heart and never lose a good conscience, for these attributes are safe guards for teaching the word of God. But Paul also warns him about fruitless discussions that arise amongst those who have lost these attributes.

Reading this today made me realize, we all need to examine ourselves to see if we have the same goal of our instruction as Paul said Timothy needed to have or we too may have gotten off into fruitless discussions.

We need fathers and mothers in the faith to know the truth, stand for the truth, defend the truth and pass on the truth. The youth are not to lead, for they are to learn, but when parents relinquish their authority to culture, the next generation suffers. The revival of truth is here, stand up parents and be truth speakers in love. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

This morning just moments ago, the news headline that popped up on my phone said the words, “Unconditional Surrender!” I know those words because I went with some friends on a prophetic adventure in August 2025 to Dover, TN to the Surrender House, where this term was coined in history. Here is the blog I wrote on August 26, 2026 the day after we were at the Surrender House.

August 26, 2025 “We headed to Dover, TN. I cannot find the words to explain what we sensed in the atmosphere while in this location, where two generals, who once were friends then became foes and ended as friends after the war, met and made a decree. It is said in that place is where they guarded the heart of Tennessee, right on the Cumberland River.

At this place called the Dover Hotel, which is also called the Surrender House we learned of how the war was turned with this Unconditional Surrender agreement and how the war went from visicious and could have resulted in more death to mercy and reconciliation. It was a life changing experience for them then and for us.

We stood at that hotel, which was the guard post for the heart of Tennessee and we decreed mercy and reconciliation to come to and out of the heart of TN to the United States of America. We decreed the church would unconditionally surrender to the Lord in our nation. We made the decree and now we will see a nation unconditionally surrender to the Lord.

It was an incredible day trip to Dover, TN (37058), declaring healing all day long over the state of TN and the nation of the United States. The mystery is in the history.”

Reading this headline, triggered this prophetic adventure and what I sensed prophetically for the nation and the church while I was there. Oh friends, I have no words, other than only God knows the beginning from the end and all He wants from us is YES in order to live the greatest adventure in life. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

People are the carriers of spirits. The question is what spirit do you carry? When you enter a house, a building, a car, a restaurant, people in that place carry spirits that create the atmosphere for that space.

We know what Paul says in Ephesians 6 that our battle is not against flesh and blood, but the truth is flesh and blood people are the carriers of spirits that we are battling.

Jesus said it this way, “When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ / On its return, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. / Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there. And the final plight of that man is worse than the first.” (Luke 11)

Evil or unclean, impure spirits can also be called negative spirits. Anger, jealousy, envy, sorrow, fear, anxiety, lust, rage, intimidation, hopelessness, bitterness, these are all spirits people carry. They are from unmet expectations, wounds, memories we carry around inside of us. They are thoughts we meditate on that become spirits we carry.

We carry the spirit in us to the places we go into. Have you ever felt the room shift when someone walks into it? That is the spirit they carry. People walk into churches, homes, stores, workplaces, neighborhoods carrying their spirit. We can feel it, sense it, discern it, perceive it. Some can’t put their finger on it, but they know something is off.

The question we must ask ourselves is, what spirit are we of? What spirit am I carrying into a room? Warfare is predominantly inside of us or inside of someone else.

In Luke 9 Jesus said, “When his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.”

Jesus is rebuking us and we are resisting it, because the spirit we carry is for self-protection, so we resist the invitation to forgive, and we resist the rebuke of God in order to be right.

Pride comes before a fall, but humility still brings honor. There is a whole lot of falling and honoring happening right now and we need to know, what spirit are we of? We are spirit beings who carry the Holy Spirit and all other spirits must go for us to grow. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Every year during this time of the year I read the book of Esther, because it is the time of Purim, the Feast of Lots. Purim is celebrated on the 14th and 15th of Adar which was yesterday and today on the Hebrew calendar. As I sat and read the whole book of Esther yesterday I saw so many parallels to our current reality.

I have always wanted to go to Israel to walk where Jesus walked, see what Jesus saw, smell what Jesus smelled and hear what Jesus heard, but yesterday I felt like I was living in the book of Esther in real time. There is so much we miss as Christians if we do not read our Bible, for our God is alive, He speaks, He is active in now time.

In Esther 4-5, Esther invites the king and his top official, Haman, to two banquets of wine. “The king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request?” Did not the US administration invite Iran to the table for a banquet to discuss how to resolve the conflict? Not just once but multiple times, just like Esther did with the king and Haman?

What was the request. It was the liberation of a nation. Sounds just like Esthers request in chapter 7, “Let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish.” The story of Esther is in Persia, the people she is wanting released are Jews, to be freed from a Perisan wicked ruler. Not personal, national.

When talking doesn’t work, action must be taken, but not just any action, killing of the leader, Haman and his 10 sons (Esther 9) was the action taken. The Jews defeated their enemies, but took none of the spoil. And it did not end with the removal of leadership, Jesus said you can clean the house, but you must fill it or worst comes back. Install Mordecai (Esther 10). Sound familiar?

Friends, let it not miss us that we are living right now in the celebration of Purim, the enemy is being defeated, the stock markets are falling for Babylonian money must be transferred to the righteous to distribute and new leadership is rising among the people. Nations are being saved. This is a time to celebrate for God is winning nations right now in a biblical, historical way. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org