Lisa Great

The Tennessee River when it was first discovered was called wild, untamed, by those who traveled it. This wild untamed river was captured by the TVA, where they tamed or domesticated the river by putting up dams to control the flow of water the river was releasing. Now the river is slowing enough for riverboats to take you on a dinner cruise on.

Praying Psalm 1 this morning and reading Ezekiel 47, it yielded river imagery for me. Psalm 1 speaks of the blessed man as being planted by streams of water. Ezekiel 47 speaks of river water that begins in the temple and is ever increasing in depth until it has trees on either side of it with leaves for the healing of the nations.

Rivers, water, like us as people are made for movement, made to be untamed, wild in our pursuit of God and love for people. We were not created to be domesticated, dominated and dictated. Rivers have banks, so this is not about recklessness, but it is about movement, fluidity, free flow.

The challenge is people have built dams to control the water. People decide when the water gets held back and when it gets let out. This keeps people controlled, manageable, operating according to what someone else wants not necessarily how they were designed or even what the Spirit of God wants to do.

Dams are like doctrines of men, they control the wild, untamed reality of who God is, how His spirit moves and what He wants to do in our lives. Jesus was not reckless but He would not be tamed or domesticated either. The religious leaders of Jesus’ day tried to lock him into the Law, but Jesus fulfilled it and even the Law was freedom not bondage for Jesus.

Friends, there will always be a TVA that builds dams, but you are made to be a Psalm 1 person floating down the Ezekiel 47 river. The water keeps getting deeper and deeper, don’t let the dams distract you from the wild, untamed love of God that is calling you to become a tree planted in the deep end of the river, so you can bear fruit in every season. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

When I go out to eat, I do not usually want to bring home the leftovers, for in my fridge they will sit until it is time to throw them away. Therefore, I lean towards not taking a to go box, for even if my intentions are good to eat them, I rarely do.

For me, it never tastes as good the second time as it did when it first came out of the kitchen, hot and ready to consume upon arrival. Now I have a friend, who will not leave anything on the table, she knows how to turn leftovers into a brand new meal. I marvel at her skills in this area, so I bring home a to go box, not for me, but for her to curate a new creation.

Leftovers do not carry much value for some people and they carry great value for others. 2 Chronicles 31 speaks of the restoration of the temple in Jerusalem under the leadership of Hezekiah and the subject of leftovers comes up.

Verse 10 says, “Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat and have plenty left, for the Lord has blessed His people, and what is left is this great abundance.”

This verse reminded me of the Jesus when He fed the 4,000 and the 5,000 and He had the disciples pick up the leftovers which amounted to multiple baskets full. The Holy Spirit filled my soul and His presence rose in me as I realized a sign of a blessed people, a blessed nation, a blessed family is leftovers.

One of the signs of abundance is leftovers. The narrative of abundance is not heard by a people in debt, a church raising money, or a nation with a debt clock that keeps growing. We live in under a cultural narrative of lack, but the kingdom is declaring a culture of leftovers.

It is time to shift what narrative you listen to. The kingdom of God is an ever increasing kingdom, a kingdom that never runs out, and will always have left overs as a sign of abundance. When this narrative is inside of you, generosity will come natural. But if you live under a narrative of lack, you will fight over money, complain when someone mentions taking an offering and squirm when a bill comes in the mail. You can switch kingdoms, which is the switching of narratives. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

It does not take a prophetic word to see that the prophetic ministers are experiencing a house cleansing from the Lord. When immorality is evident, when financial mishandling is present, when fake words are spoken, it is evidence of accountability coming from the Lord for the cleansing of the prophetic, not the removal of it.

One of the things we need to guard against as believers is that when we walk through as a body of Christ, cleansing of the temple of God, which is people, leaders, and systems, it is not to throw that aspect of ministry out. God is cleansing His body, not throwing it away.

Cleansing is a common theme in scripture. Hezekiah did a temple cleansing that took 16 days in 2 Chronicles 29. Malachi spent a whole book to explain the cleansing God was doing of the Levitical priesthood, which culminated in a summary in chapter 4 of Malachi.

We are in a time of God cleansing nations, cleansing governments and the church is not exempt, for the church is people and we as the people of God are part of the government of God that He is cleansing. The cleansing is the first stage of the restoration we are undergoing internationally and individually.

I was reading 1 Kings 19 this morning and the Lord showed me how the prophetic has prophesied the wind, prophesied the earthquake and prophesied the fire they have seen, but the cleansing is so the prophetic prophesies only what the still small voice is speaking.

If we are going to have a pure prophetic voice rising out of the body of Christ, it needs to be cleansed from the wind, the earthquake and the fire, so we can hear the still small voice and only speak what that voice is speaking. One word from God can shift nations. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

The Bible says, there is a river that makes glad the city of God. This is poetic language, symbolic truth, and if we can see it, this river of God is inside of us and the city He is building is in us.

The river of God is life-giving, refreshing, always full of water. This is a river that will never run dry. This is the river the psalmist describes when he says, “As a deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after you, O God.”

Every major city is located on a river, for rivers produces power. Rivers are filled with fish of all kinds, and rivers are for recreation. We have the Oceoee River here in Tennessee and it is breath taking in beauty, rugged in rapids, and twisty in its turns.

The first paths God gave us on earth were rivers. They became trade routes for people to buy and sell goods on. They were the main transportation ways from one location to the next. Rivers are a gift from God and they lead us if we let them be in control.

After the rivers were traversed, trails were created for people to walk on. The trails were paths that people followed. We in America know of the Oregon Trail, a place where many a feet have walked. Trails began by following rivers, so we now had two ways in which to travel from place to place.

This morning, the verse the Holy Spirit dropped in my heart was Psalm 109:105 “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” We as believers never have to walk in the dark as long as we continue to stay on the path of the word of God that is light.

I am seeing in the spirit paths lit with light so we do not stumble even if it is dark, we always have light on our path. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

I had a dream on May 25, 2026 and it was a simple dream, but I was reminded of it yesterday afternoon, so felt like it was worth sharing with you for your encouragement.

In the dream I was picking up coins, silver coins, off the ground. These coins were nickels, dimes, quarters and I remember distinctly picking up a fifty cent piece. I remember this clearly because the coin was so big compared to the other coins.

All of these coins were at the feet of people who were standing where I saw the coins. As I am bent over picking up the coins, others see what I am doing and they start bending over and picking them up as well. End of dream.

It does not feel like an earth shaking dream, but it carries a message of hope for those who have felt overlooked. Many years ago in Kansas City I was in an evangelism training class with a man named Jerome.

He shared with us an analogy saying, evangelism is like seeing a penny on the ground, most people walk right past it as though it has no value, but I stop and pick up every penny I see, because no matter what it looks like, what its been through, it carries value.

I never forgot that, so to this day I pick up pennies off the ground to remind me of the value of people. Now back to the coins. Silver means redemption, refinement and covenant value. Numbers 10 (silver trumpets); Luke 15 (lost coin); 30 pieces of silver was paid for Jesus. People are present on the ground, being overlooked but they carry value.

I want to encourage you to look down and around throughout your day. There is already present treasure in the people around you. Can you see it? God is on a recovery mission picking up those who carry value but have been overlooked.

Just like in my dream, when we pick up those around us who carry value it activates others to pick up people they see as well. Everyone of us has felt overlooked at some point in our life, but God is calling us to look down, look around and pick up those around you. They carry value, they carry redemption, they carry recovery. People are valuable. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

The challenge of delayed consequences for actions is that we begin to believe we are not accountable for what we say and what we do. This is why correction is such a gift and why Hebrews says, God disciplines those He loves. If you have not been corrected, if you are not being convicted, this is not a place of safety, it is actually a place of warning.

When we allow children to act however they want, we think we are giving them a gift in the moment, but we are actually setting them up for failure in more ways than we realize. When we do not hold ourselves accountable, we do not see the need to hold others accountable.

If we believe we can act how we want, say whatever we want, and there are not consequences for our choices, we are more deceived than we realize. Jesus says in Matthew 24, “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” With authority comes accountability.

The lack of accountability has proven to be detrimental to families, communities, churches, cities, and nations. We have seen this played out in a public way over the years, but for some public accountability has not activated private accountability.

Our lack of conviction, our lack of correction is not a gift, it is a silence before the reveal of the consequences of our choices. This is not to scare us, but reveal to us that God is still holy, the Word is still the Truth, and the standard is still a plumb line, whether we believe it or not.

The signs are all around us, but the call is to course correct in our hearts, changing who we are calling God on the inside. Proverbs 26 says, “Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.”

Friends, we do not get to decide what is right and wrong, we do not get to be the standard of truth. The Bible sets these standards and we are called to submit to them. Conviction and correction is here and coming. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

To actually read, hear and understand Matthew 24, we must remove all the lenses the doctrines of men have put on our eyes and ears. This may be the most lense heavy chapter in the whole bible.

I have been reading my bible for over 30 years, everyday, for not just one verse or one chapter, but for minutes, hours, chunks, at a time and I still hear the voices of others when I read this chapter. For many people it is the loudest chapter in the New Testament.

The challenge is, it is also the most misunderstood chapter, because the minute you enter it we immediately tend to lean towards end times theology. But the question is whose end time theology?

The story of this chapter recounts Jesus sitting on the Mount of Olives with His disciples, when the disciples pose a question to Jesus because of a comment Jesus made earlier about the Temple being destroyed.

We must enter a Jewish disciples mindset in order to understand the Messiahs answer. Here is what the disciples were really asking…”For a first-century Jew, Temple destruction wasn’t just political catastrophe. It was cosmic. It meant the Shekinah departing, the sacrificial system ending, the covenant structure of Israel collapsing. This question was: When does our entire world end?” (Claude)

Everything in their worldview as a Jew was interwoven with the very Temple Jesus just said would be destroyed. This was huge for them. Everything they had ever been taught, everything they had ever known, their national identity was about to be destroyed. The question was not random, it was intentional.

There is much more to say about this chapter, but just knowing this is enough for us to remove the glasses people have put on us and sit in this truth the disciples were dealing with as they looked at Jesus on that mountain. It is more important to us than we have been taught, so sit with it a minute. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

After an incredible day of hanging out with a couple friends, fluttering here and there around the cities we love so much, I came home and sat on the couch to watch a movie. Little did I know the movie I chose would have such an impact on me.

First of all I am not much of a movie watcher. I am honestly not much of a television watcher, so to watch a movie, it had to be something I wanted to see. While scrolling through the hundreds of choices, I found The Great Awakening.

I had heard about this movie, but thought it was about the revolutionary war and the nation of the United States, little did I know it was about a man named George Whitfield.

I sat eyes peeled, ears locked into every word that was being spoken. I was told it was a good movie, but I did not know it was this good. I learned about a man of whose name I had heard of, but never knew anything about.

What struck me most about this movie is that this man was about the word of God being in the forefront. He did not have a band open for his sermon, he did not have three points and a personality to keep people interested. The only thing this man had was the word of God and awoke a nation.

It was said his voice could reach 30,000 people at a time, but what came out of his mouth was not personal stories, it was the word of God. When the people of America in the 1700’s heard the word of God they were cut to the heart. Conviction struck them and they wanted this man they were hearing about, Jesus Christ.

The statement they highlighted that George Whitfield would say at the end of every sermon was awake awake o sleeper, scripture and the word of God awoke a nation; sparked a revolution; put a verse on the Liberty Bell; saved Benjamin Franklin; and cut me to the core again.

If we are going to have a worldwide awakening, we need the word of God, not all the extras, pure, unadulterated word of God. Word that pierces our hearts with truth. Word that sends us to our knees in repentance. Word that melts us in love we cannot deny. The Word will bring the next great awakening. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Being taught the word of God through verses not context has truly caused our theology to be more riddled with the doctrines of men than the truth of the kingdom of God. We quote scriptures and build theologies around one verse that is lying in the midst of a whole conversation. This has caused us to be powerless, because context is where the authority is.

Here is an example. I am reading the gospel of Matthew and in chapter 20 Jesus has a conversation with a man we know as the rich young ruler. This talk leads to the idea of commandments and which ones he is following. Did you know Jesus only asked him about the commandments on the second tablet of the law, which is related to loving your neighbor as yourself?

Jesus never quoted any of the commandments related to the first tablet, love the Lord your God. Hold this thought. Now when I get to chapter 22 of Matthew it says, “On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” What commandments the only two Jesus gave us, love the Lord your God and love your neighbor as yourself. Same as the two tablets of the law.

What fascinated me is that the rich young ruler was impeccable in the second tablet, loving his neighbor, but in loving the Lord His God he stumbled, because Jesus began to speak to him about his possessions, about money.

Money in Matthew 6 is called mammon and is called a god. Selah. So, when the rich young ruler was invited to submit to the first tablet of the love the Lord your God, he walked away sad because he had many possessions. Money was his god and he couldn’t see it and when Jesus showed it to him he walked away sad, but did not repent and follow Jesus.

Friends, money is a god issue, not a people issue. It is a first tablet of the first commandment of which Jesus says it related to love the Lord your God. Money is a god, and gods demand obedience as an act of worship, why do you think it is so hard to give it away? Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Watchmen are called to sit in watchtowers, not to watch for what they want to see, not to report what they interpret about what they saw, but to only say what they actually see.

In the Old Testament watchmen would watch for any enemy army that may be approaching and when they saw one, they were to send word to those that could do something about what they saw coming (2 Kings 9:17).

Another role of the watchmen was to announce what the Lord was saying to His people. This would be likened to a prophetic watchman. Isaiah 21:6 says, “For thus says the Lord to me, Go station the lookout, let him report what he sees.” Their job was to say what they see.

This is then spoken in the New Testament by Paul when he says in 1 Corinthians 13:9 “For we know in part and we prophesy in part.” If prophetic people only say what they see and allow others in the body to add value or insight into what they saw from the watchtower, we would see more clearly and confusion would be minimized.

With that said, I want to share with you what I see. I see God reconciling nations for peace; and I see economies being restored for distribution. Both of these things I see happening are being done through the governments on earth. But I also see a healing of humanity that earthly governments cannot do.

I see a healing movement fast approaching with the presence of God and the kingdom of God doing a work so fast and so thorough it will astound us. I see with a word deliverance coming; with one hand laid on people and miracles happening. I do not see one person on a platform doing this, I see the presence of God doing this through and to everyone.

I can say what I see and it is fast approaching and it is about to change everything. To have nations at peace, and economies restored, we must have a people that are healed. God is doing a complete work in our day that is beyond anything we could ask, think or imagine. This is what I see. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org