Lisa Great

On February 19, 2026 I woke up at 3am hearing the words, “Beat your plowshares and your pruning hooks!” (Isaiah 21:4 – Joel 3:10 – Micah 4:3) I go back to sleep and am awakened at 4:56am to the words, “The horse is made ready for battle…” (Proverbs 21:31 – Proverbs 20:7). I wrote a blog about it that day on my social media, but now this morning waking up to hearing about the strike on Iran, I am thinking the Lord was speaking about this day we are in.

What struck me on the 19th when I heard these words, I did not know if they were going to beat their plowshares into spears, so prepare for war, or they were going to capitulate and beat their swords into pruning hooks, because the word of God goes both directions depending on what prophet is using this verse.

Now as I go back to that word the Lord spoke to me on the 19th of February I heard beat your plowshares and pruning hooks, then I heard the horse is made ready for battle. Those were words speaking of going to war. This is where we are right now today. Iran has chosen to go to war rather than enter into the terms of peace, so here we go.

The peace I have is the Lord told us ahead of time on February 19, 2026, so this is not a surprise the Lord. Number two, He said, the horse is made ready for battle, but the rest of the verse says, but victory belongs to the Lord. I have absolute confidence in the victory God is going to win for the advancing of His kingdom.

Main stream media is going to seek to create fear, but the kingdom of God has already declared victory. We are seeing smoke rise, people running to bomb shelters and missles being launched, but God has declared victory belongs to the Lord. Shalom my friends, God has already spoken victory, nine days before a missle was launched. Www.apostollicresourcecenter.org

Living in a culture that is easily offended and wants everything served soft like oatmeal, it is hard to even speak the Bible to them. The reason being, the word of God does not mince words, does not lower the standard to match our cultural preferences and does not back down when challenged.

When people don’t read their Bible, don’t submit to what it says, they take verses out of context to match their view on any given subject. The word of God is powerful, it sets boundaries for our safety, it speaks truth for our freedom, and it provokes us to move from immature to mature.

1 John 4:1 speaks directly to us today in the 21st Century, saying, “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” A false prophet is not someone who gets a prophetic word wrong, a false prophet is one who gets a narrative wrong.

A prophet is someone who speaks for God or speaks about God. If you are a Christian, you are a prophet, for 1 Corinthians 14 says, “One who prophesies speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation.” And Moses said in Numbers 11:29 “If only all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that Lord would put His Spirit upon them!” When the Holy Spirit fell at Pentecost (Acts 2), we all were invited to be filled with the spirit and to prophesy, speak the words of God to one another.

Now with that said, we must test the spirits or narratives that people of God and people in general are speaking to us. The spirit is a narrative that is being shared and it is either building up the body of Christ or tearing it down. It is either maturing us or keeping us immature. It is either raising the standard or dumbing it down to fit our own or someone we loves lifestyle.

Friends, please hear the words of John, the apostle who walked with Jesus on earth. We must test the spirits, the narratives we are hearing. But you cannot test them if you have already believed them for then you will find verses in your Bible to support them. Read your Bible to have your mind renewed (Romans 12) to God’s standard, God’s truth, not what culture and people have taught you. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Peace is a gift from God that we all long for but many are afraid of. I am not sure if we fear peace because we have heard so many prophets speak words of war over us or if it is because we have been taught wrongly the words of Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:3 that say, “When people are saying, “All is well; everything is quiet and peaceful”—then, all of a sudden, disaster will fall upon them as suddenly as a woman’s birth pains begin when her child is born. And these people will not be able to get away anywhere—there will be no place to hide.”

Jesus, the Word of God, the final authority, the author of truth, is called “The Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6) and is said by Paul in Romans 16:20 “The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The blessings from our Lord Jesus Christ be upon you.” If Jesus is Peace, which is not passive or a doormat, but is a force that evil cannot control, why are we so afraid of peace?

Peace is a gift from a good God. Our nervous system longs for peace; our soul is crying out for peace; our minds need peace; our relationships only work in peace; our nations want to live peacefully with each other; peace is not some protest we do with signs; peace is safety; peace is power; peace is the presence of God.

We will sow into others what is inside of us. If we are at war internally, if we are disappointed, disillusioned, divided, bitter, angry, lonely, wounded, we will sow that into others. If we are living in peace with God, we will live in peace with others. “Those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of goodness.” (James 3:18)

God has so much good for us, but we must allow the harvest of peace He has planted in us take root and grow, then we must release the harvest of peace from us, so goodness can be seen, heard and felt around us. Peace is the culture of the kingdom of God. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

What you see is what you say, it is called a testimony. You cannot testify to what you have not seen, or at least you can’t testify with authority. You can echo what others have seen, but it is like second hand smoke, it does not carry the same authority.

What we see we say. What we hear we repeat. When I was a youth pastor my students could not believe how much I knew about them or understood about where they were coming from. They were amazed many times as I actually listened when they spoke so heard what was going on in their heart.

We as people speak what we are hearing, thinking, questioning, believing, wondering, pondering. Our mouths cannot help but share what is on our hearts. If you read through Facebook, listen to YouTube videos, listen to the news, pay attention to your spouse when they speak, listen to friends at church, you can know where someone is and what they are thinking. Listening is powerful.

To be a great communicator, you need to be a prolific listener. Most people don’t listen well that is why so many people can say things that are not biblical and we believe them, echo them, like, share and subscribe to them, without really listening to them. If you listen you will hear.

John was an eye and ear witness to Jesus Christ on earth. If we listen to what he says, we will hear who Jesus was and when we know who Jesus is, we can hear who is speaking for God and who is echoing the news.

Listen to what John says, “This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.” (1 John 1)

Why are we so afraid of the dark, so curious about what people do in the dark, so eager to share the latest dark news, when God is Light and in Him there is no darkness at all? We speak what we see, we echo what we hear. Can you see the light that is God? Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Restoration can take longer than we originally thought. Restoration is a process of uprooting some things, tearing down some things, destroying some things, planting some things, building some things, reviving some things, and even removing some things.

Flipping houses has become a known concept that was made popular by Chip and Joanna Gaines. Taking what is delapitated and making it beautiful is the process of restoration. Restoration is the ability to return to original design.

People restore furniture, they restore cars, and God Himself restores lives. Restoration takes time, we think it will be done in a week, a month or even a year, but some restorations can take years. If you believe in restoration you cannot retreat when the restoration does not happen in your desired timeline.

When the Lord says He is restoring something, who are we to want to see it removed from our lives; removed from the agenda; removed from the situation.

Restoration takes place under cover. We restore cars in garages; we restore marriages in private spaces; we restore houses on the inside; much of restoration is done out of sight, but as the restoration happens we get glimpses into something is being restored.

Psalm 80:3 says, “Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.”

While restoration may be private, the reveal of what has been restored is public, visible, for God shines His face on what He restores. God has been restoring nations secretly but they are about to be seen publicly as restored.

I do not know what God has been restoring in your life in secret, but when the restoration is revealed it will be a public display for His glory. For the story of restoration is a story of salvation and God is going to go public with all He has been restoring. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Do you realize the presence of God is in you, but it feels like it is in the room, because people in the room are opening up their hearts, to release what is in them in the room? When you get a group of people who are willing to release the spirit that is in them, the room is filled with the presence of God.

This happens all the time, when someone is angry you can feel the tension in the room. When someone is mourning you can feel the grief or heaviness in the room. When someone is scared or anxious you can feel the fear in the room. The spirit we are agreeing with fills the room, that is why we say this or that spirit is in the room.

Have you ever thought about why one of the marks of revival is longer services? Have you ever considered the reason people do not want to leave an atmosphere or environment is not because people are such great musicians or preachers, but because of the presence of God coming out of the people in the room?

Genesis 2:7 says, “Then the Lord God formed man from thedust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being.”

Sunday morning services do not experience revival, because the clock determines the end time not the spirit in the room. College campuses can experience revival for they are not clock driven. Revival means to live again or to restore breath. Breath is spirit, spirit is presence. Presence is the only thing that will restore our breath.

When the presence of God is coming out of the people of God in the room, you don’t want to leave. It is not about longer services, it is about breathing again. What if the clock is hindering us from living again? Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Positions of authority, leadership and power are places of great responsibility. Many people who have never been in these high level positions do not realize the temptation to compromise that comes. It takes great courage, structural integrity, and resolve of the likes many do not have to stand in certain positions and not compromise.

The desire to be a leader, to be seen, to be heard, to hold the microphone, to be on television, to lead the room is strong amongst people who do not know the cost of such a role. When we are young we do not realize how hard it is to lead, because of the great responsibility given, which is people.

The apostle James said, “Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.” (James 3:1). Yet turn on social media and what do we see?

I was at a topical bible study, which taught some scriptures out of context to match the topic. Verses were excluded, context was not honored, but subject was incredible. It was an eat the meat spit out the bones event.

The fear of the Lord came on me as I realized how easily we can lead people astray. One degree off from truth can take our whole theology, end times views, biblical understanding off, way off. I wept in the car on the way home, with the fear of the Lord on me, for I learned things I did not know and heard things taught out of context to match the topic.

If I was to tell my younger self, who was called to ministry at age 19, one thing, it would be, do not be in a hurry to teach, be humble enough to spend years learning, listening, watching, for leadership is a weighty responsibility in the kingdom of God on earth, not just in church but everywhere.

Psalm 82:1 says, “God stands up to open heaven’s court. He pronounces judgment on the judges. How long will you judges refuse to listen to the evidence? How long will you shower special favors on the wicked?” Bible teachers and national or Supreme Court judges, God does not take lightly what we say, how we lead, what verdicts we declare.

The fear of the Lord is to keep us in truth, for people are depending on us to tell them the truth, leadership is returning to truth and the fear of the Lord is not His wrath or anger, it is His protection of His people. Be slow to lead, quick to learn. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Let’s talk prosperity for a moment on this Saturday morning. Have you ever wondered why some people prosper and others don’t? Have you ever considered the prosperity of one nation and the seeming poverty of another? Is it because of something they did or is it because of something they are called to do?

Psalm 35:27 says, “May those shout for joy and rejoice, who take delight in my vindication; And may they say continually, “The Lord be exalted, Who delights in the prosperity of His servant.” (NASB)

God delights in our prosperity, but what if the reason one prospers and another doesn’t isn’t because God has favorite people or favorite nations? What if work ethic is only part of the equation? I know a lot of people who work hard, who have degrees, who have started businesses and they have not prospered.

The Lord was discussing this issue with me as I walked the dog and what He shared with me was not new information but it refreshed a revelation. God always speaks in now time and uses what is happening our world to speak to us so we can hear. America is a distribution nation.

The Lord showed me that prosperity is not meant for personal lavishing, extravagant living, but for distribution and training. If we distribute without training, we are giving people a hand out and actually keeping them in poverty. If we distribute with training we give them a hand up and then they begin to prosper.

We have seen ministries give hand outs, we have witnessed people live extravagantly while others struggled, but where are the places, the nations, the people, the churches, that will train people and distribute to people?

We have a King who is prosperous, He generously gives to us, He trains us, now He wants us to be like Him. Prosperous and generous. Training and distributing.

We must train people to be generous, for we are called to be distributors as individuals, churches, nations. God gives more prosperity to those who distribute, not to those who hoard or spend on themselves. We must be taught how to distribute generously so we can live prosperously. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

THERE IS A RAPID READINESS TAKING PLACE FOR THE RELEASING OF GOD’S GLORY ON EARTH. God is rapidly reading people who have an anointing, a calling, a heart that is crying out for something they have not seen before. God is rapidly reading people for the releasing of His glory.

Psalm 80 says, “O Shepherd of Israel who leads Israel like a flock; O God enthroned above the Guardian Angels, bend down your ear and listen as I plead. Display your power and radiant glory.”

There is a cry in the hearts of leaders who used to be but are not right now; for those who once did, but have not been doing; who are mature, experienced, anointed, called and yet are still waiting. They see from experience, they understand from maturity, they are awake but not shouting, not pushing, not jockeying.

Oh mature ones, I see you, I hear you, I know what I put in you says the Lord. Maturity does not come from time it comes from processed pain, healed hurts, scars that show a battle happened but no longer hurts. Mature ones are rapidly being readied for the releasing of His glory.

Culture honors immaturity and flash, but God honors maturity, humility, those who have been processed, who declare with the apostle Paul, it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. Glory is weighty and it is not easily carried. Glory takes resilience, authority, perseverance, time tested people to carry it. You are not forgotten by God.

THERE IS A RAPID READINESS TAKING PLACE FOR THE RELEASE OF GOD’S GLORY ON THE EARTH. Can you feel it happening to you? You were not sidelined out of punishment, you were protected, prepared and now are being readied to carry, communicate, demonstrate, and experience the glory of God in the land of the living. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Mysteries and puzzles, parables and symbols are a few of the ways God speaks to us. It is not to hide something from us, it is to reveal things to us we could not know any other way. His voice is truth, it is spoken with clarity, but the joy is found in searching out the mystery, putting together the puzzle, pondering the parable and trying to decode the symbols of what the Lord is saying.

Mature people get bored with straightforward statements, what keeps us alive, keeps us seeking, keeps us pursuing it the intrigue, the wonder, the awe of a God who is active in the lives of people. He is orchestrating the outcome of nations. He is judging the hearts of men and women so He can reward us, bless us, correct us, liberate us, reveal His love to us.

God is a revealer of mysteries is what Daniel said; He is a speaker of parables is what the gospels tell us; He is a speaker of things we do not know is what Amos declares; He has thoughts that are higher than our thoughts is what Isaiah understands. Oh the joy of walking with a God who loves to lead His people into truth.

I was awakened this morning at 3:00am to the words, “Plowshares and pruning hooks.” Three prophets speak of these two harvesting tools. Isaiah 2; Joel 3 and Micah 4; all share the same word from God. God’s judgment brings peace. Then at 4:56am I was awakened to the words, “The horse is made ready for battle.” This is Proverbs 21:31 which ends by saying, but victory belongs to the Lord.

Putting this together, revealed a truth that God, who is Judge of all the earth is rendering a judgment to bring peace to the nations by removing the enemy who has stirred up division. If we fear peace, we will miss what the Lord is doing right now. Peace is not our enemy, chaos is and God is judging chaos.

Remember what Micah 4:10-12 says, “You shall go to Babylon; there you shall be rescued. There the Lord shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies. Now many nations are assembled against you…But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither do they understand His plan, for He shall gather them as the sheaves to the threshing floor.” God is threshing the enemy and granting peace to nations. We are witnessing victory over Babylon, can you see it? Can you hear it? Www.apostolicreourcecenter.org