Lisa Great

Many of us have heard of a stamp of authenticity. It is a statement that what you are looking at is authentic. Authenticity is a high honor, it reveals the quality of workmanship, the idea of originality and it deems whatever it is as genuine.

In a world of counterfeits, knock-offs and copy cats, the stamp of authenticity is what God gives to those who live authentically. Our writing should be authentic, not second hand smoke. Our songs should be authentic not AI inspired. Our sermons should be from an authentic relationship with God not some Chat GPT conversation shared publicly.

When God puts a stamp of authenticity on your work, it carries a weight that cannot be denied. One of the course corrections Jesus made in the temple was they were using false weights and balances in order to make more money on something that did not have authentic weight.

I see in the spirit the Lord pulling out His stamp of authenticity and marking some words, works, songs, and sermons and others are not carrying that stamp of authenticity. This may explain why transformation is not happening in people’s lives, but crowds are being drawn.

The second stamp I saw in the spirit was the stamp of valuability. God has deemed humanity, all of humanity valuable. Whether you are male or female God says you carry value. He has stamped every human being with the stamp of valuablity.

People may not deem you as valuable based on gender, size, color, or some other issue externally, but God has stamped you as valuable. Our job as people is to see the stamp God has placed on people and agree with God’s stamp not our opinion, cultures demand or any other voice.

Can you see the stamps of authenticity and valuability God has placed on works of His hands? Once you see it, He is inviting us to agree with it and treat it accordingly. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Many of us have heard of a stamp of authenticity. It is a statement that what you are looking at is authentic. Authenticity is a high honor, it reveals the quality of workmanship, the idea of originality and it deems whatever it is as genuine.

In a world of counterfeits, knock-offs and copy cats, the stamp of authenticity is what God gives to those who live authentically. Our writing should be authentic, not second hand smoke. Our songs should be authentic not AI inspired. Our sermons should be from an authentic relationship with God not some Chat GPT conversation shared publicly.

When God puts a stamp of authenticity on your work, it carries a weight that cannot be denied. One of the course corrections Jesus made in the temple was they were using false weights and balances in order to make more money on something that did not have authentic weight.

I see in the spirit the Lord pulling out His stamp of authenticity and marking some words, works, songs, and sermons and others are not carrying that stamp of authenticity. This may explain why transformation is not happening in people’s lives, but crowds are being drawn.

The second stamp I saw in the spirit was the stamp of valuability. God has deemed humanity, all of humanity valuable. Whether you are male or female God says you carry value. He has stamped every human being with the stamp of valuablity.

People may not deem you as valuable based on gender, size, color, or some other issue externally, but God has stamped you as valuable. Our job as people is to see the stamp God has placed on people and agree with God’s stamp not our opinion, cultures demand or any other voice.

Can you see the stamps of authenticity and valuability God has placed on works of His hands? Once you see it, He is inviting us to agree with it and treat it accordingly. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Being able to see words as pictures changes the words from one dimensional to multidimensional. It is like a veil is lifted and words go from black on white, to images of the likes that cannot be seen without the Spirit of God revealing them to us.

Hebrews 4:12 says, the word of God is living and active; and when this truth becomes a reality in picture form in our spirits, it adds a dimension of reality that seers our hearts with truth that will never be forgotten.

Matthew 27:27-30 describes a scene that I saw in picture form for the first time and I will never unsee it now that I have seen it. Here is how Matthew speaks it, “Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around Him. And they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand. And they bowed the knee before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” Then they spat on Him, and took the reed and struck Him on the head. And when they had mocked Him, they took the robe off Him, put His own clothes on Him, and led Him away to be crucified.”

When these words become a picture, it changes the dynamics of the words. A garrison of soldiers is 600 men in a circle, all looking at Jesus as some of them undress and then dress Jesus. They dress Him according to the charges levied against Him, that He is claiming to be the king of the Jews.

Jesus stands there, no retaliation, no response, just lets the ones He created in their mothers womb, He lets them dress Him up. But not only that, they use the very breath in their lungs to mock Him and He says nothing. Then they undress Him again and dress Him to go be crucified.

People feel so powerful when they are mocking, because they believe their own narrative or the narrative they were told. But the Truth was standing right in front of them and they could not see it. The truth was they were the ones who needed Jesus, the very One they were mocking.

Friends, we can feel so justified when we are angry, hurt, offended, but the truth is standing right in front of us, and we miss it. Take notice of the circle you are in, Jesus stood alone, for truth needs no defense, and He said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. Can you see it? Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

The church has become domesticated, tamed and controlled. This was not the original design. This is not how this governmental structure called church began. Those men who walked with Jesus were not passive, they were not castrated, they were not docile.

The man named Peter said, if that is you Lord, call me out on the water? There is nothing tame about that. The man Paul who persecuted Christians and then was struck by lightning, became blind for three days and then got baptized and began an apostolic mission that brought the gospel to the known world of that time was not docile.

The authorities of the day were threatened by them, because they could not be tamed, they would not allow them to cut their horns off or shave them down to make them more controllable.

Mary did not ask permission before saying yes to the Holy Spirit to become pregnant without a man; Jael did not say I can’t do this because I am a woman, no she drove a tent peg through that man’s head and brought victory to a whole nation.

The Bible even declares “These men have been with Jesus, for they are uneducated.” It also says, “These men who turn the world upside down have come here as well.” These are not statements about weak, half-hearted domesticated people. These are people who have been with Jesus.

Passion, authority, purpose, decrees, life, joy, peace, prayer, power, signs, wonders, miracles. When they brought the ark back to Jerusalem a man tried to steady it, domesticate it, control it, and Uzzah can tell you what happened. David then realized, I need to become even more undignified than this.

Friends, the ark is coming back to the church, to His people. It is going to make us untamed, wild and free. We are going to see passion restored, power available, love like we’ve never known. It won’t be stopped, it won’t be controlled, it won’t happen in two hours on a Sunday, it is going to be a move that will be everyone, everywhere, everyday. It might get loud. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

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