Lisa Great

Pentecost gave to us the ability to have Christ in us, the hope of glory. When Jesus rose from the dead, He breathed on them and said, Receive the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is what Jesus prayed for the Father to send to us when He ascended to the right hand of the Father (John 16).

Do you realize the Spirit of God used to rest on people, like the dove rested on Jesus at His baptism in the Jordan river by John? The Spirit came upon Moses; the Spirit came upon Saul; the Spirit came upon Samson; but the Spirit of God has not come upon us, the Spirit of God lives in us.

This divine transfer from on us to in us, is the X factor. This is the ability to do even greater things than these, as Jesus said we would do. So, why did they see more miracles than we see? Why did they experience the power of God and we don’t?

If we have Christ in us, the Spirit in us, then why are we not seeing the dead raised, the sick healed, marriages restored, children returning, revival spreading? It is not because we do not believe it is possible; it is not because we do not have enough faith.

May I propose it is because we live with distance and they lived in proximity. We have been taught about a God who lives in heaven. We have been indoctrinated to believe nothing good happens until we reach heaven. Words of men have created in us a lack of expectation of God intervening in the affairs of men now.

We call car payments blessings; we say we are blessed if we get a house with a mortgage; we call ourselves healed if medication is doing its job; we do not need miracles, we have access to everything without God. This is what distance looks like.

But may I tell you something, God is not content with distance, He is after proximity. He is coming near, drawing close, bringing miracles, signs and wonders with the word of God and revelation. Distance is giving way to proximity and proximity will lead us right into intimacy. This is where Christ and the Church is going (Ephesians 5) Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

In a world that has gone from rotary to cellular; from swords and shields to drones and EMP’s; from wagon trains to airplanes; we have seen a lot of changes in one generation. If we sat with some of the silver haired saints, we would realize how much has changed in just one generation. In a word we can say we have experienced acceleration in this generation.

Acceleration looks like advancement; it can feel like we are so smart; it can cause us to think more highly of ourselves than we ought. This is why we need to be people who love the Word of God. The Bible keeps us in perspective; reveals the nature and character of God; and unlocks us for even greater things than science and technology can offer us.

I was reading Psalm 113 this morning and I could not get past verses 4-6, “The LORD is high above all nations; His glory is above the heavens. Who is like the LORD our God, Who is enthroned on high, Who humbles Himself to behold The things that are in heaven and in the earth?”

I was thinking we cannot even explain the heavens we can see, how do we think we understand the heavens we cannot see? We hear news about nations and think we know what is happening in nations, but the Lord is high above all nations.

I was thinking about all the people on earth and how he hears the first cry of every child born and is watching the last breath someone is taking. All over the world. He misses nothing. And then to add that He humbles Himself to listen to me when I speak. I am undone.

Our God is humble, generous, gracious and God all in one. If He is willing to heal us, deliver us, redeem us, restore us, speak to us, make promises to us, how can we not humble ourselves and obey Him? He is God, we are His people; He is in charge and He is good. We are truly blessed and if we could realize this, we would humble ourselves and do whatever He asks of us. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

When waiting becomes reality; when faith becomes sight; when hope does not disappoint us; there is a confidence in the nature and character of God that cannot be shaken. When you have sown and reaped, no one can tell you not to be a sower. When you have believed and received, no one can convince you not to believe. When you have tasted and seen that the Lord is good, who can tell you otherwise?

People you have more faith than you give yourself credit for. You have more hope than you can even explain. You have tasted more than you can describe. But what is missing is the confidence in what you know you have heard; what you know you have tasted; and what you know is possible.

Confidence come from seeing what you have been saying!!!!

Paul says in Romans 8:32 “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?”

Did you hear what Paul just said? He said, if you know God did not spare His own Son, Jesus Christ, but gave Him as a gift of love to the world by releasing to us the forgiveness of our sins, so we can be in a relationship with God, what will He not give us?

I know you have not seen what you have asked for. I know you have been believing for that healing, that restoration, that breakthrough. I know, I have waited for 13 years for some things, but friends, waiting is giving way to seeing, experiencing, receiving what we have been asking for.

Paul said, God wants to give us all things freely. ALL means ALL. Psalm 103 says, Forget not ALL His benefits. Come on friends, I hear, I see the Lord saying, oooohhh child things are gonna get easier, oooohhh child things are gonna get brighter. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

We have heard individual voices. People whose voice is amplified by a microphone, likes, shares, subscribes. Individual voices that certain people determine are worthy of being pushed to the forefront, to create the narrative for the nation; for the church. They have dominated and dictated what others are supposed to echo.

The Lord is the only voice we are to echo. When we are all hearing the same voice, the echo of what He is saying will be like surround sound. It will not have static, nor confusion; it will not be hard to understand, or cause you to wonder if you should believe this or believe that.

The voice of the Lord is going corporate. There is a corporate sound that is rising from the throne of God. A sound that cities, nations, churches will hear and join in with the corporate sound. The corporate voice.

Revelation 14:2 “And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder.”

Ezekiel 43:2 “And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.”

Revelation 19:6 “Then I heard something like the voice of a great multitude and like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, saying, Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns.”

When the Lord speaks, it will reverberate, vibrate, dominate the air waves and everywhere we will hear the voice of God. His voice will calm the seas inside of you; it will bring water from the rock; it will move mountains; it will heal bodies. When the voice of God speaks though us corporately, it will bring forth the reformation of a nation.

The corporate voice is going to be heard. Our individual voices are great, but the corporate voice is greater. Our individual ministry is wonderful, but the corporate ministry of the Spirit is far more powerful. The corporate voice is rising and it will be heard in every nation. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Sometimes I wonder if our brain is looking for certain things and therefore we find them everywhere. Like when you find a car you like, all of the sudden you start seeing that car all the time, whereas before you did not see it, even though it was always there.

The Lord has been speaking to me for two solid weeks, one phrase, BEHOLD, I AM DOING A NEW THING, FORGET THE PAST, SEE I AM DOING A NEW THING.” Over and over again I hear it in my spirit and now everywhere I am this phrase is finding me.

The phrase comes from Isaiah 43:18-19, “Do not call to mind the former things, Or ponder things of the past. Behold, I will do something new,
Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it?”

This is such good news, but why does it make me nervous as though it will not come to pass? Have we gotten our hopes us and been disappointed so much that we no longer get excited about a word like this?

I see the signs of restoration, recompense and reconciliation all over the place. Friends are getting jobs; marriages are being restored; checks are coming in the mail. I get calls, messages daily with good news like this. I am seeing it myself as well, but something still stutter steps as though I fear another false start.

But the Lord is relentless, I AM DOING A NEW THING! Over and over again, I can’t stop hearing it, I can’t stop seeing it. You see I think in the past I have set the timeline, I have decided when it was going to happen, so I was disappointed because of what I said, not what God said.

So, now, though I am treading gently, I am walking gingerly, I am hearing and seeing something I cannot deny, He is doing a New Thing, It is springing up, I can see it, I can hear it. This is not my doing, my idea, my timeline, this is what the Lord Himself is doing. So, ready or not, here comes the New Thing. Can you see it, can you hear it, can you feel it? Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

At the start of Hebrew year 5786 the Lord spoke to me and said, this year, 5786 and 2026 is going to be a Psalm 126 year. I wrote a blog about it, I had high, high, high hopes about a year of having dreams fulfilled.

Now as I stand at the end of 5786, nearing the end of 2026, I can honestly say, this has been and continues to be a Psalm 126 year. Dreams I did not know were hidden in my heart have come true this year. Desires that have been buried for years, have begun to blossom this year.

Was Psalm 126 a corporate or a personal word, that is for you to decide. But as for me and my house, we have seen the Lord bring the reality of Psalm 126 to pass in our lives this year. And we are glad.

As I was rereading Psalm 126 moments ago, I realized something I had not seen before. Listen to this Psalm, “When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, The LORD has done great things for them.” The LORD has done great things for us; we are glad.”

Did you notice the words WHEN and THEN? When God did it, then we…! We have been heavy on the side of waiting, watching, praying, believing, standing, but we have not seen a lot of WHEN’s corporately. It can feel like we are kids in the backseat of a car, saying, “Are we there yet?”

The wait can be long, it can be hard, and honestly, it can be exhausting. The wait can lull us to sleep, if we don’t guard our hearts in the wait. But I see a WHEN happening, WHEN God heals your body; WHEN God provides that job; WHEN that relationship is restored; WHEN that nation is debt free; WHEN that harvest of souls comes in; WHEN, WHEN, WHEN!!!!

The WHEN will produce the THEN. The THEN is the response to the WHEN. THEN you will shout for joy; then you will dance around the house; then you will gather your friends and testify; then the streets will be filled with celebration. THEN is a response to the WHEN. 2026 is not over yet, and I see a WHEN that will produce a THEN. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

I got married at 37 years old. I thought I had done the work to prepare to be a wife. But I quickly learned, you can only learn so much about yourself while single, there are some things you will never know about yourself until you are married. Living in that close of proximity to another person, who you love and who loves you, yields knowledge of things about yourself you could know no other way. Can I get an amen from all the married people?

One thing I learned very quickly, for my husband told me, I was not patient. My knee jerk response to him was, what are you talking about, I am not patient? I laugh at myself now, when I think back on that day he said it, for I can still hear his voice saying it and I can hear my quick, impatient response. But now, 19 years later, I can honestly say, I have learned patience.

In Genesis 37, Joseph was a young man who had a dream of being in authority and the dream said it would be in authority over his family. In his youthful zeal, he told his brothers, mother and father the dream. The family did not understand the dream and quite frankly did not like it either. Joseph was the youngest son, so ruling over his elders was not culturally cooth.

Psalm 105 says, “Joseph, who was a man sold as a slave…until the time that his word (dream) came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him.”

People love prophetic words, but how many people have the patience to wait for them to come to pass. Abraham waited 25 years for his promise of an heir to come to pass; Paul spent 14 years in another country waiting to be an apostle to the nations; Jesus waited 30 years to do His first miracle; how long have you waited? I have waited for many years for many prophecies that are now coming to pass.

The waiting is hard. Waiting tests us, trains us, develops character in us. We learn patience in the waiting, we learn cadence in the waiting, we learn how to love, forgive, release mercy and grace in the waiting. The waiting is not wasted it is needed. Promises are coming to pass in this season, for those who have been developed in the waiting. The waiting is not wasted, it is necessary for the promise to be fulfilled. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

It’s still very dark outside, but I am wide awake, ninety minutes before my alarm. I get dressed for my morning walk with the dog and the morning air is starting to cool just a little bit. It is still shorts weather, sweat is still dripping down my back and face as I am walking, but you can sense in the air the season is changing, ever so slowly.

It has been a hot summer, really hot, unusually hot. The slight temperature change is a relief from the heat of summer and gives hope that summer is not going to stay, for fall is knocking on the door. Pumpkin spice lattes do not change the temperature, we are still in summer clothes. Watching the men sweat at various stadiums yesterday while watching football was evidence, football games do not change the season either.

Genesis 1:14-15 says, “God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” Those lights not our calendar determine the seasons.

As I was walking the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “The kingdom of God has a cadence.” Once I got home I looked up the word cadence. Cadence means rhythmic flow; pattern; regular recurring beat or sequence; in music it resolves a phrase and moves you into the next one; in speech it means movement, seasons, discernible pattern of rise and rest, movement and pause, repeat and build.

“The kingdom of God has a cadence.” Not everyone is on the same cadence, for some are in a cadence of movement and now their cadence is changing to rest; others have been in a cadence of pause and now they are entering into movement. But everyone of us is in a rhythmic flow with the Spirit of God if we are surrendered to His timing.

I pray you catch the cadence of the Kingdom of God, it is for your health, your wealth, your freedom, your deliverance. Don’t rush it and don’t resist it, just follow the pattern for in it is life abundantly. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Good morning,

I am so thankful for you that choose to read the posts I write on the daily. It is my way of encouraging you, exhorting you, inviting you into what I am hearing and saying. I am not the only voice, I am actually only one voice. But as our one voices join together we create a symphony of sound that declares the glory of God in the land of the living. Thank you for listening to my voice and releasing your voice.

This morning I decided to do this blog in letter format. I love doing handwritten letters, putting them in an envelope and sending them in the mail. It is the personal touch that speaks value to the one who receives what was sent. So this is my personal letter to you this morning, I hope you sense how valuable you are to the kingdom of God through these words.

The Bible is very clear there are things we are called to forget. Isaiah 43 says, forget the former things, do not dwell on the past. Paul says in Philippians 3, Forgetting what is behind, I press on. The invitation to forget things is a prominent theme in scripture. Jesus said, I cast your sins as far as the east is from the west. For the wages of sin is death. We are to forget the things that produce death. Don’t dwell on those things.

However, the Bible is also very clear about what we are to remember. Genesis 8 says, God remembered Noah and the flood waters seceded. The Psalmist says in 103, Forget not all His benefits. And Jesus said at the communion/Passover table, Every time you do this, remember Me. What we are invited to remember are things that produce life.

I pray this morning, you forget what God says to forget and you remember what the Lord tells us to remember. Life is a gift and what we are forget and what we remember are truly a matter of life and death, so choose life and remember all you have been forgiven of; remember God never ghosted you; remember while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

Have a great Sunday.

I woke up this morning hearing clear as day, “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?”

The words rang in my spirit all morning long, other thoughts added value as I pondered how remembering clouds our ability to see the new thing. It is not that we have not forgiven, nor is it we have not been healed, it is the memory that causes us to think it will be that way again.

I saw a geyser and a volcano in the spirit. Both of them spew liquid, but geysers spew water and volcanos spew fire, lava, ash. Both are releasing what has been hidden in the earth beneath them, but the liquids they release are very different.

I wonder how often we see a geyser bursting forth and call it a volcano because of our history, our memory of some other event that happened in our past. What once hurt us, burned us, transformed our landscape like a volcano is not what God is doing right now.

There is a bursting forth, a gushing happening in the spirit like that of a geyser. It is a new thing God is doing, but can we perceive it for what it is or are we remembering what was, how much it hurt, how much it changed our world for the worst, not the best?

On this day of remembrance, that is etched in the minds of all Americans and many Internationals, can we see that what is happening in our day today is not volcanic but rather gushing? Can you perceive the new that God is doing in the earth or are you still holding on for dear life waiting to fly out of here at any moment?

Friends, God is doing. a new thing. A, we have never been this way before, we must stay fifteen steps behind the ark, let the Lord lead the way, it is all new (Joshua 3:4).Let’s go!!!