Month: August 2023

I have a valuable voice in my life that historically has not spoken words of life to me. Due to their own personal pain, their own unforgiveness and disappointment with life, they have used me as their verbal punching bag for years and I allowed it. Thanks to godly women I have around me, who advise me in life and call me up higher, the end of last year, I made it crystal clear to this person I was not going to listen to their negative voice any longer. The person was shocked, as I had never drawn this type of boundary with them before, of which there are many reasons for this. Notwithstanding, I was loving but firm, I will no longer allow their poisonous words in my life.

Months of silence went by, as this person is older than me and very important to me, but I knew if I did not stop it now, it would never stop and honestly I should have stopped it many many years ago, but this voice was familiar to me and so I would continue to listen to it. Today, not only do this voice and I have a healthy relationship, we have agreed to only build one another up, no more tearing each other down. We have so much fun together now, we share our hearts with each other, it is the relationship I have always wanted with this person, but never knew how to get. Many manifestations are coming out of this relationship now, but it started with a zero tolerance of the negative, toxic words, and a commitment to only build together.

I tell you this story, because the enemy is a toxic voice in our lives. He is a destroyer and not a builder. He destroys others in our mind, he tears us down in the minds of others, his voice is never going to build or speak like God to us, never. He can’t, he won’t, no matter the boundary you set with him, the enemy, the devil will never change. Therefore, we have to literally but off his voice in our lives by not giving him an ear about anything. He cannot have a glance in his direction, a wink, a nothing, no attention can be given to him, for he has no ability to build, he can only destroy. We are long overdue as believers, from shutting down once and for all the voice of the enemy in our lives. You can’t stop him from talking, but you can stop listening, stop obeying, stop agreeing with him and stop echoing what he is saying.

Ephesians 4:29-32 “Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.”

The deception of Babylon is deeply rooted in a spirit of mammon a love of money. Love is a declaration of trust, pursuit, desire, passion for. Babylon is known as a system of sorcery, this system has so bewitched the nations that we have cast truth in the streets for the sake of saving a system of slavery that has held us in bondage for our entire lives. There comes a point where God does not need the permission of the majority in order to save nations. The Lord found Moses and Aaron and saved Israel from their Egyptian taskmasters; the Lord found Joshua and Caleb and saved Israel from their wilderness wanderings; the Lord found Esther and Mordecai and saved Israel from the Persian extermination of a nation; the Lord found Samson and saved Israel from the Philistines. The Lord sent Jesus to deliver us from our sin once and for all. A price we could not pay, a debt we could not get out from under. A yoke we could not break. Jesus did it all for us! God will always find what He is looking for on earth to do what He knows needs to be done for people.

We have been born in Babylon, so we do not even realize the depth of deception we are living in. It sounds like truth, it looks like financial freedom, it feels like we are making an impact, but in truth, we have been so decieved by the Babylonian spirit of mammon we don’t know what it really means to love God, for we are slaves to mammon. Proverbs 20 says, “There is gold, and an abundance of jewels; But the lips of knowledge are a more precious thing.” We have been decieved to see gold and jewels as rare, worthy of paying a large price for, but when it comes to knowledge, truth, wisdom, understanding, we cast it down like we already know this or know that. We have been so blinded by Babylon, that when truth comes we don’t value it. We value gold, silver and precious metals, but we resist the truth that could set us free. This is the world of Babylonian sorcery.

Yahweh is going to deliver us from Babylon. He is going to pull us out of slavery again. He is rescuing nations for the whole world is impacted by the Babylonian system of control, we have all been captured and He is about to lead captives captive again. He’s done it before with a 100% success rate and He is doing it again. He has found a few that see what He has shown them and agreed with His rescue plan. Heaven and earth are in agreement and now we are going to see nations being set free from Babylon. Everything we have always known is about to change radically and truth will be spoken to fill the void deception leaves. Ready of not, here we go straight outta Babylon! JUBILEE we will be set free.

I had coffee with a friend this week and she said, I want to meet with you because I had a vision in church on Sunday morning and I have a word for you. We met and she said, “Lisa, take the limits off your faith!” She didn’t just say it to me once, she said it to me multiple times during that meeting. “Take the limits off your faith!” I got the message, I knew what she was saying I was supposed to do, but how do you do that, what does that look like, sound like, feel like. I had no idea, but this phrase has been rolling around in my spirit all week long, “Take the limits off your faith!” I didn’t know I had put limits on my faith, so how do I take off what I didn’t even realize I had put on. How do you remove the limits off your faith? These were the things I was asking the Lord in prayer even as I was declaring, Lord, take the limits off my faith.

Yesterday, I heard a message by Kris Vallaton called You Need To Lighten Your Load and in this video he speaks about the Apollo 11 rocket launch and how the thrusters got them out of the atmosphere, but were a weight that had to be loosed in order to operate effectively in the stratosphere. I am no scientist, but those two words stuck with me overnight, so this morning I studied the two words and actually learned there are five spheres plus one that we have here in the earth realm. I was stunned by what I learned today. For many it is simple science, for me it was a way of taking the limits off my faith as I learned about the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere and the plus one ionosphere. Our physical bodies cannot access these spheres but they are there and they are accessible to us.

My friends, we have to take the limits off our faith and one way we do that is by removing the blocks of pride which make us think we know so much, we understand enough, we have these blocks as a way to remain in control. Control is a false sense of security, it is a mirage of safety, it is a deception. We are not called to be in control, we are called to know the Creator. There is so much we do not know. Take the limits off your faith, explore things you don’t know, listen to people who know things you don’t and stop resisting something just because it doesn’t align with what you first learned. We don’t know as much as we think we know, if it is truth, our spirit will vibrate with the sound you are hearing, but you must be listening in order to take the limits off your faith. I hear the sound of lift off. Thank you Carrie Carullo!

A voice calling in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, that was the call of John the Baptist, while everyone else was hailing how amazing the temple was, their place of security, John was declaring the arrival of the man, Jesus the Christ, who is the temple of God in the flesh. His message was repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. He even questioned the religious leaders saying, who warned you to flee the wrath to come. Oh John the Baptist was a man who was sent with a message, one message, prepare your heart for the shift of the ages. They had no idea what he was talking about in their natural minds, and neither did John. John only knew the one who had the dove land on Him, that was the Messiah. One sign, one dove, that is all John needed to know Jesus was the Messiah to come. So, he preached to all who would listen to repent, not of some dirty rotten sin, but of a way of thinking (religious laws), for a new way of thinking was about to be released, a new narrative was about to be amplified that would set them free from religious rhetoric. John was called to prepare the way, Jesus was the message!

Our religious infrastructure is so strong inside of us from living in a Christian nation, hearing sermons for years and years, now with the rise of social media and the internet, the amount of reinforcement is everywhere. We say amen to messages we have heard for years, saying the same thing over and over again, yet we don’t see much change happening. The highlight of our life is when we hear a testimony here or there of a healing, a marriage restored or someone got saved. But to live the life of an overcomer, to hear and speak the revelation of a now word from God, to repent of our religious thinking in order to hear revelation truth, the infrastructure inside of us resists that on a level we do not even realize. We get offended when someone says something we have no heard before. We have been trained to fear “some new teaching” as though it is not biblical. We fear freedom for we are so comfortable with bondage. We assume the world is getting worst and we have to just hang on until we get raptured out of here. We cling to the cross as though that was the only thing Jesus did for us and we hope for the second coming of Christ as though that was the only message of the New Covenant.

Small spaces, small theology, small lives, and we wonder why anxiety, fear, depression, divorce, suicide, financial challenges and every other issue is happening to people who have said a prayer. This should not be!!!! The blood of Jesus paid the price for us to live not a life of sin, but a life of victory. We are not sinners, we are overcomers. We are not under circumstances, we rule over them. The earth doesn’t belong to the evil one, it is the inheritance of the sons and daughters of God. When we relinquish our covenant rights to release righteousness as the ruling force of our nation and are told we are powerless to do anything about it, we have been lied to. We are a kingdom of priests, mediators of a new covenant, ambassadors of Christ, declarers of the good news of the gospel of the kingdom. We are men and women created in the image of God, called to speak the word of God and demonstrate the power of God. The truth came to set us free! It is for freedom we have have been set free! We are no longer under the yoke of slavery to sin! We are the righteousess of God in Christ Jesus! We are the salt of the earth! A city set on a hill! This is who we are and Jesus Christ is the savior of the world, that is who He is. Enough of this weak, powerless, defeatist attitude, we are more than conquerors through Christ Jesus! And that my friends is the truth! Have a great weekend.

I have had a prophetic puzzle pieces morning of the likes that is hard to describe. When things appear that are not normal, especially if you have a routine you follow everyday, you take notice, but it is when you lean into them that the message comes forth. I had 7 puzzle pieces brought before me today of the likes I did not know how they connected until I put them all together and the message was clear. I will share with you all I saw this morning on my walk with my dog, and then will share the message, and you can do with it whatever you want.

I wake up and the clock says, 5:55am; I opened my blinds and on the sidewalk there was a opossum, never seen one before in our neighborhood; I get to the gate of our neighborhood and there are 3 black crows sitting on it, again not normal; on our walk on the side of the road there is a plastic & symbol, so I pick it up; I then see a lime green dragonfly; I get back near the house and a flock of geese (flying trumpets) fly overhead; and finally I grab the mail and a check I was waiting for is in there and has 3 American flags on the stamp. I know what does all of this have to do with anything.

I sat down and prayed Holy Spirit, what are all these puzzle pieces. As I began to research what each means the message became very clear. The nation (Isaiah 55:5) of America (opossum) is going to have a financial crash (3 black crows) then (& symbol) will be transformed and renewed into fresh growth (lime green dragonfly) as repentance (flying trumpets – call to repentance) happens in America (3 American flags).

Psalm 77 is my prayer partner this morning after all these prophetic puzzle pieces and says, “Will the Lord reject forever? And will He never be favorable again? Has His lovingkindness ceased forever? Has His promise come to an end forever? Has God forgotten to be gracious, Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? . Then I said, “It is my grief, That the right hand of the Most High has changed.” I shall remember the deeds of the LORD; Surely I will remember Your wonders of old. I will meditate on all Your work And muse on Your deeds. Your way, O God, is holy; What god is great like our God?” Remember Babylon was built on money, so for it to fall the financial system has to come down. But fear not, remember the Lord, there is renewal on the other side of the fall.

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I was convicted this morning for making assumptions rather than asking questions. The Lord is continually talking to us, but as we walk with him in maturity, we have to learn to ask more questions and make less assumptions. This was a lesson I learned from the Holy Spirit this morning and wanted to share with you.

For two weeks I was seeing the number 616 on the clock and I assumed it meant Jeremiah 6:16 “Thus says the LORD, Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths, Where the good way is, and walk in it; And you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.” I would say in my heart, I want the ancient path, I will walk in the ancient paths. I never turned to verse, I never asked the Holy Spirit is this what you are saying, I just assumed 616 meant Jeremiah 6:16.

This morning I was praying Psalm 76 and it says, “There He broke the flaming arrows, The shield and the sword and the weapons of war. Selah.” I have a note in my bible that takes me to Ephesians 6:16 and as I see 616, I remember I was seeing 616, but never thought it meant Ephesians 6:16 “In addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.” I finish reading this verse and I put my hands in my face and tell the Holy Spirit, I am so sorry, for He was trying to tell me to get my shield up, for fiery darts were coming my way.

When I look back on when I was seeing 616, it was the exact time I was being attacked verbally behind my back by people. When I learned about their words it hurt me, fiery arrows are burning, stinging words. If I would have asked the Holy Spirit what He was saying when He said 616, I could have put my shield up and been ready for the enemies fiery arrows. No shame, just a lesson learned, ask more assume less.

We are living in miraculous, marvelous and mysterious days, of the likes we have never lived in our generation. They are mysterious in so many ways and we are saying, what is going on? They are miraculous beyond words and we are saying, holy smokes. They are marvelous to a degree that is not measurable and we are standing in awe and wonder. The days we are living in, current, present reality, feel very unstable in the earth realm, in the world’s system, but if your feet and heart are anchored to the rock of your salvation, the Chief Cornerstone, the mountain of God, in the midst of it all, the mystery, the marvel and the miraculous, you find yourself firmly planted.

These are the words that came out of my spirit as I was praying this morning. Then the Lord opened up a moving picture to me as I prayed Psalm 75:6-7 “For not from the east, nor from the west, Nor from the desert comes exaltation; But God is the Judge; He puts down one and exalts another.” The moving picture I saw was of two elevators, they were side by side, but could not see each other. One was going up, the other was going down. Simultaneously this was happening. Some were on the elevator that was going down and others were on the elevator going up. The moving of the elevators was crystal clear.

As this moving picture was in my spirit and I could see it in my mind’s eye, the Holy Spirit said, “It’s Isaiah 22 time!” Here is what happens in Isaiah 22 before the keys are given, “I will depose you from your office, And I will pull you down from your station. Then it will come about in that day, That I will summon My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, And I will clothe him with your tunic And tie your sash securely about him. I will entrust him with your authority.” One was coming down and another was being lifted up. This was not the doing of any man, this was the Lord’s doing. This is where we are right now. But who is coming down and who is going up? Psalm 75:10 answers that question for us, “And all the horns of the wicked He will cut off, But the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.” Enjoy the ride!

Familiar scriptures are like trodden paths that we walk on without even considering where we put our feet. We have heard them preached so many times, we think we know what they mean when we hear them. John 3:16 is so common you see it at sporting events on a placard or on a bumper sticker. People know words, but they don’t know revelation. Words are the surface level, revelation is the well that springs forth living water. If God speaks a familiar scripture to you, there is a really good chance He is not just taking you on a stroll through a well trodden path of which you know what it means, He is inviting you to dig a well, for He has living water for you to find and share with others.

Last night I kept hearing in my spirit, “He prepares a table for us in the presence of our enemies.” I didn’t get up and write it down, for I know it so well. I wake up and same words are reverberating in my spirit, “He prepares a table for us in the presence of our enemies.” My first thought while laying in bed was, is the enemy plotting something and the Lord is saying, don’t worry, I have a table prepared for you in the midst of it. But it kept echoing in my spirit, so I got up and went to my desk to dig into this verse in Psalm 23:5 that we all have heard so many times, but what I learned was surprising.

Breaking down the words prepares, table, presence and enemies, in the Hebrew, unlocks a whole new way to hear this verse, I call it revelation. Here is what the Lord said to me, “I, the LORD, your God, have announced your sending out in the midst of your narrow places, because I have ordained it”. My friends, God does not want you in confined narrow places, He made you for wide open spaces. Fear, anxiety, depression, addiction, poverty, they all come from cramped spaces, for the enemy wants to shut you up and make you small, but the LORD is abundance, He wants to open you up, expand your territory, make you bigger. “He prepares a table for us in the presence of our enemies.”

We have all heard “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.” (Proverbs 13) This morning the Lord had me break down this scripture word by word to hear what it is actually saying. We know deferred means to delay, to prolong, to drag along, but did you know it means to scatter, to remove. Interesting added definitions for this word deferred. Then the word sick, which is connected to deferred means weak, rubbed, worn, afflicted, wounded, sore, grieved or diseased. Therefore, when what we hope for prolongs its arrival in our life it actually afflicts us, grieves us, and can disease our heart. No wonder we are told to guard our heart with all diligence for it is the wellspring of life.

The second half of this verse is about desire and fulfillment that produces a tree of life. Desire is delight, longing, pleasant, wish, and an object of desire. While the world fulfilled is what really got me thinking this morning, it means, to go, come, abide, send, attain, come to pass, to be introduced. What? Oh yeah, fulfilled is a sending, introducing, coming to pass word. We are not fulfilled in the sitting, we are fulfilled in the sending. Is it possible, many people have sick hearts because they are not being sent anywhere, they are not being introduced anywhere, they are not going anywhere?

The contrast between a sick heart and a tree of life is so obvious and to think part of healing has to do with sending, makes me realize why the Lord is raising up apostles and prophets in this day, because they are the sending ones. Pastors love for you to stay with them, snuggle into the flock, they don’t want you to leave, go do. The evangelist wants more people to come to church, come to Jesus and then come to church, the teacher wants people to teach in church. But the apostle and prophet, they see the future, they send the people, they are the ones that create movement. My friends, I see us moving as a body of Christ from sitting sick to moving, going, doing, so we can be a tree of life and Ezekiel says, then our leaves will heal nations.

Who you follow matters!!!!! No matter what they promise you in order to get you to follow them, is of little consequence, knowing who you are following is what really matters. I was praying Psalm 72 this morning and the psalmist says “Let the nomads of the desert bow before him, And his enemies lick the dust.” We live in such a “soft” culture that most of us would just breeze over this statement as harsh and move on. The Lord would not allow me to do that, for my brain is wired biblically, so my neuropathways jump from scripture to scripture until the message is clear what the Lord is speaking to me in now time.

Genesis 3 says, the Lord cursed the serpent, the devil to be on his belly and lick dust all the days of his life, so when the psalmist says let his enemies lick the dust it is a nod to Genesis 3, its not harsh. As I was praying into this which the Holy Spirit was showing me, the Lord said, “Those who follow the devil will become dust lickers dwelling in desolation locations.” He went on to explain to me that the devil will present illusions of grandeur, offering things he cannot deliver, for it is just an illusion. Those who can be lured away will find themselves licking the dust, just like their belly dust licking master, Satan himself.

Who we follow matters!!!! When we follow the Spirit of God, the LORD God Almighty, Jesus the Christ, we will ascend the hill of the Lord, we will stand on the heights and call out to others come up here (Revelation 4). Yahweh is a God who calls us up, doesn’t push us down, He corrects us up, doesn’t condemn us in shame, He is the lifter of our heads. He promises and delivers, He speaks and does what He says He will do. He is trustworthy. If we choose to follow HIm we will rise and shine, we will be blessed and highly favored. But it all comes down to who we chose to follow.

Dust lickers are following the devil and become enemies of all the mountain climbers, hill ascenders. The enemy promises illusions up front in order for you to fall on your belly and lick dust with him, but the LORD makes promises that may take time to manifest because we have to grow into who He is calling us to be so we can carry what He is making us to be. As for me, I am going to ascend for I follow Jesus the Christ. Who do you follow? Trust me it matters not just in eternity, but now.