Lisa Great

I dropped out of high school in 10th grade, lived at a friends house steps away from the school, but never made it to class. I went back to school in 11th grade and with two years of summer school after 11th and 12th grade, I graduated with my high school diploma. I then got saved in 1989 and went to Bible school in 1991-1997. I received my Bachelor’s degree with a 3.6 GPA. Then I went on to get my Masters Degree and completed that with a 4.0 GPA in 2011.

How did a high school drop out get a Masters Degree? I ask myself this question all the time. The answer is simple, when I got saved, I heard the voice of God say two things to me. I first heard Him say, I love you. Secondly, I heard Him say, I will never lie to you. These two statements have changed my life forever.

I became a lifelong learner, because I know God never lies to me. Therefore, I am willing to pick up and lay down anything I have been taught, think or hear. I hold my hands open when it comes to learning. Always wanting the Lord to speak, to reveal and detox me of anything that is not of Him.

The Church must become learners again. We think we know more than we do and we critize as evil that which we don’t understand. We are quick to resist and slow to respond to what God is doing. We call new things demonic, we live in more fear than faith and we are not willing to admit we are wrong. We think only a certain gender can preach, teach or lead.

God has trained in private mouthpieces that carry wisdom and revelation. They have not gone to seminary, but like the apostles they have been with Jesus. Their narrative will not tickle your ears and may activate your resistor, but their goal is to get you to respond to God not be locked into the doctrines of men.

The book of Proverbs speaks of two women, which are actually two narratives. One woman is called wisdom, the other woman is called the harlot. This language is consistent throughout the word of God. We get to chose what narrative we want to walk in, to believe. One produces life, one ends in death.

Friends, I pray you would open your hands, open your heart, and ask God to make you a lifelong learner. Resistance is hindering your growth, your authority, your ability to walk in freedom. He is not a man that He should lie, (Numbers 23:19) and He is raising up narratives that will set you free if you stop resisting His mouthpieces. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

When you are on the ground level of life happening, moment by moment, second by second, day by day, it can feel like and even look like nothing is happening. When you step back and do a year in review, a month in review, a decade in review, it changes the perspective of our lives significantly. It grants us a view of events, situations and prophetic revelations that are hard to see when you are too close to them.

For a couple weeks now the Lord has been speaking to me about the fast approaching presence of God. It has come in visual form of the ark of the covenant, for this biblically represents the manifest presence of God. Now this is symbolic not literal language I am using with the ark.

What I have been sensing so strongly is that the manifest presence of God is going to so invade us here on earth, we are not going to be able to deny it is God. Signs, wonders and miracles will be normal. Reconciliations will be rapid. Deliverance will be easy. Increase will break the back of lack. Revelation truth will set people free and the narrative war will capitulate to wisdom.

I have sensed this so strongly, that I changed my phone screen saver to a picture of my dog looking out the window in the back seat and me taking a picture of him in the mirror. Then the other day Lorilei Cooley posted a word that said, “I heard the Lord say, Objects are closer than they appear!” I immediately responded to her and said, me too, I am hearing the same thing and sent her the picture of my phone screen saver.

But for the past couple days I cannot get this thought out of my mind, it is the ark that is in the mirror and it is closer than it appears. So, I created an image on Chat of what I am seeing and what Lorilei and I are hearing. Friends, pull back so you can see the bigger picture, the ark is hot on our tail and it should not surprise us.

Psalm 23:6 “Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

I have a friend named Jana Alcorn who is seasoned in the ministry, but also is a very wise woman. She said one time to a group of us, when you are in the room with a man or woman of God, make sure you come prepared with 2-3 substantive questions for them. She continued, in rooms like that, you will want to hear what they have to say.

I was in a room last night, close proximity, to someone I have learned from through books and conferences from a far. To be feet away from her and to have her come and give me a hug, was proximity I never thought I would have. Then she opened the room up for comments and questions about the subject matter at hand.

In that moment I was grateful for the words of my friend Jana, who prepared me to come with a question to hear from the matriarch in the room. Many were given the microphone, but most missed who was sitting just feet in front of them. As younger woman after younger woman talked about their story, they never asked a question that drew out wisdom from this mighty woman of God.

I realized two things in this moment, one we love to share what we are thinking, feeling or going through, we do not listen well. Multiple people spoke and it was not according to the subject at hand. Secondly, people did not come prepared to ask a question, to draw more out of this very seasoned woman of God and public figure.

Living in Nashville, we do not fan girl over people. People come to our churches, shop in our grocery stores, walk in our malls who you would know by name. But when given the honor of being in a room with them and talking on a microphone to them, it is not the time to tell your story, it is time to learn from theirs.

Jesus was in proximity to the disciples and they did life with Him, but they still asked questions like, how do we pray; how are we going to feed all these people; is that really you? When you are gifted with the presence of someone that has done what you haven’t be a listener and learner, ask questions, at least that is what Jana taught me. So, I asked a question, I asked her why do women shut down the voice of other women, her answer caused many in the room to take notes. 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

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