Author: lisagreatenebeli

It was right before sunrise yesterday, Resurrection Sunday morning, and I hear as I am waking up, “COURT IS IN SESSSION”. I keep hearing the phrase “COURT IS IN SESSION”. It was like I saw it as a sign on the door of a courtroom, but I heard it loud and clear. I thought what an odd word to receive on Resurrection Sunday, it did not feel like it fit the day, so I sat on it all day yesterday. Little did I know, it was a Resurrection word.

“COURT IS IN SESSION” is not a direct quote in scripture, but the idea of it is obvious, predominantly in Daniel 7:21-22 “I kept looking, and that horn was waging war with the saints and overpowering them until the Ancient of Days came and judgment was passed in favor of the saints of the Highest One, and the time arrived when the saints took possession of the kingdom.” When I read this, I knew God was passing judgment on the ruling system that as been overpowering us. When the Judge of all the earth is saying “COURT IS NOW IN SESSION”, He is telling us, He is rendering a verdict against our enemy and for us. We are about to be recompensed for pain and suffering.

Daniel 7:26-27 says, “The court will sit for judgment, and his dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever. Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.” The church has put this kind of language in the sweet bye and bye, but Jesus said, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. God is bringing His kingdom to earth. The COURT IS IN SESSION.

Now to stamp this with the possible reason why God spoke this on Resurrection Sunday can be found in Romans 8:31-33 “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 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? Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.” My friends, COURT IS IN SESSION and God the Judge, Jesus the Advocate and Holy Spirit the Communicator is rendering a verdict on behalf of the saints. Everything is about to change.

I was in prayer this morning and the Lord began to speak to me saying, “I reveal in order to heal, not to shame, condemn or expose.” This word came with strength, not force, it came with a stamp of truth that He wants us to understand, because so often we fear the reveal, not knowing it is happening in order to heal. The Lord wants to reveal things to us about us so we can be healed, but how often do we blame someone else, rather than look at ourselves? It is easier to point the finger than it is to look inside ourselves a little deeper.

I believe we are in a time of revealing, God is revealing to us things in us He wants to heal, for if we are not healed, we will perpetuate patterns internally even when things changes externally. The Lord is revealing many things, but many cannot see what He is revealing, because they don’t realize He is doing it as a sign of massive healing. If we resist the reveal, we will never heal. This is personal, communal, regional, national and international. No one is being left out of the reveal God is doing right now, but many are resisting.

We resist the truth because we don’t realize the truth is not being revealed to condemn, shame or embarrass us, but to heal us as individuals, as families, as communities and as countries. Remember, God is Light and there is no darkness in Him at all. He see’s everything, He knows everything and He is revealing things that are dark to us, by bringing them into the Light for Light heals that is why it reveals.

God is revealing things in our generation about the nations we did not know. Many are resisting the truth that is coming out because they don’t realize God is doing this not to condemn our nation, but to heal our land. This is an earth wide reveal, in order for a healing of the likes we have never known before. Our job is not to point fingers and get angry at what is revealed, but rejoice in the reveal knowing that it is to heal. God is healing the nations and it is seen in what He is revealing. I invite to see the reveal as evidence of the God who has come to heal.

We are living in a holiday season, today is Good Friday, Sunday is Easter or Resurrection Day. Churches all over the nation have signs up saying come to our church for Easter service, we have stuff for the kids to do, bring the whole family. The stores are filled with baskets, candy and lots of spring colors and flowers to buy in order to make this season special. I love holiday seasons, but seasons are easy to recognize for they are marketed so well, especially in America. What is challenging for most people to recognize is not a “season” but a divine moment in history.

Jesus said, “In the morning, there will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening. You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you are unable to discern the signs of the times?” (Matthew 16:3) On Good Friday in AD33, just like today, there was a lack of discernment about the signs of the times. Jesus Christ, the son of God, incarnate, in flesh, was standing before them, but they could not see Him, they did not realize their hour of His visitation. They were living history at that moment and most of them missed it. May I propose to you, we are living in similar significant times right now and most people can’t see it, don’t realize it and yet it is manifesting right in front of us all.

Hebrews 11:3 says, “By means of faith we perceive that the material universe and the God appointed ages of time were equipped and fitted by God’s word for the purpose for which they were intended.” We are living not in a season that is marketed well, but in a God appointed time that was planned long before we were born. Can you perceive by faith the day and the hour in which we live? Can you see the signs all around us of this historic hour in which we are alive? We are living in a transition of the likes that will be talked about in history books. We are alive for such a time as this. We were created for this very hour, this very day. I pray you have eyes to see and ears to hear the day of visitation in which we live for it is like nothing we have ever seen before.

Jesus is not on a cross, He is not in a tomb, He is seated at the right hand of God and He is ruling the nations from a throne of which righteousness and justice are its foundation (Psalm 97). We are in a marketed season right now, enjoy it, but the bigger narrative is we are in a historic moment and this is no time to sleep, for the day is upon us and we were born for such a time as this.

I had a dream last week and in the dream, someone had a shofar, but it was circular in shape and they were blowing it but no noise was coming out of it. The person looked at me and said, why is it not releasing any sound? I began to explain to them how to blow the shofar, but they still could not get a sound to come out of it. I then took the shofar from them and looked into the mouthpiece and I saw that there was a piece of bone that was hindering the release of the sound. I explained to the person what the issue was and said, you need to remove the bone in the mouthpiece if you want to release its sound. End of dream.

I woke up with the thought that the circular shofar was a French horn, so I contacted a couple friends about the dream and both said it was related to battle and the French. I have been sitting on this dream for nothing felt like it was clicking as to what the dream was about. Then I was watching a show called Iron Chef and the man did a Medieval themed cooking and he blew a bugle, that was circular and the Lord said, that is the instrument in your dream.

This morning, the Lord reminded me of the dream, the bugle and so I began to study the bugle. “A bugle call is a short tune, originating as a military signal announcing scheduled and certain non-scheduled events on a military installation, battlefield, or ship. Historically, bugles, drums, and other loud musical instruments were used for clear communication in the noise and confusion of a battlefield.” (wikipedia) The history of the bugle goes back to a French word cor bugler which means horn of an animal. Henceforth the shofar and being circular.

I send all this to a friend this morning and she shoots a message back saying, 1 Corinthians 14:8 “For example, if a bugle doesn’t sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle?” Now all the pieces are together. The Lord is wanting us to sound a clear call to the nations for we are in a spiritual war, but the mouthpieces are being hindered and cannot release the sound. The Lord is removing the “bones” that are hindering our breath from blowing the shofar, releasing the clear call to battle and cutting through all the noise and confusion on the battlefield.

My friends, the war is real, it is active and it is noisy, but God is releasing a sound that is cutting through so people can hear the call to pray, to sing, to shout, to declare the enemy has been defeated. I don’t know what “bone” is hindering your sound, but it is time to remove all obstacles and hinderances to the releasing of your sound for we are in a war and the bugle must sound the alarm so the army knows what is being said in the midst of this battlefield.

The shofar is the voice of God that speaks in our battles and when He does it brings peace in the midst of confusion. Can you hear the voice of God calling out right now, with His voice comes peace even as the war is raging. The hinderance has been removed and now the sound will be clearly heard.

The Church calls this week, “Holy Week” and they call the night Jesus was crucified, “Good Friday”, therefore, every year it has to be on a Friday that we celebrate “Good Friday” and it has to be a Sunday when we celebrate “Resurrection Day”. This is how the Gentiles celebrate “Holy Week”.

The Jewish people follow a Hebrew, not Gregorian calendar and they celebrate Passover on the the 14th of Abib, which this year is today, April 5, 2023. It is never celebrated on the same day of the week, but it is always celebrated on the same day of the Hebrew month. The Jews call this week, starting today, “The Feast of Unleavened Bread”, during this feast week, they celebrate the Passover and they do not eat anything leavened for one week.

On this day, in which the true Passover Lamb was killed per the Lord’s instructions to Moses in Exodus 12, we celebrate the death of Jesus Christ, who was and forever will be the Passover Lamb who took away the sins of the world, once and for all, so there is no longer a need for an animal (lamb) to be sacrificed for our sins. Hebrews 6:1 says, “Having put away once for all the beginning word of the Messiah (the first testament in animal blood, i.e., the Mosaic economy), let us be carried along to that which is complete (the New Testament in Jesus’ blood).”

Today we put the blood of Jesus over the doorposts of our life by taking communion, remembering what Jesus did for us and giving thanks that we have a Passover Lamb that we get to celebrate everyday of the year, whether its the 14th of Abib with the Jews, Good Friday with the church or every Sunday with or church community. Let the Feast of the Lord begin!

Things can be hidden for only so long, because some changes manifest in a way that is noticeable and people start to see the changes that were done in private, for now they have become public. For you that know me, you can tell I have been making physical changes to my body. I have lost over 50 pounds since January 1, 2023, and I have had some other major changes happen physically as well, all for the good. I am so thankful for the people in my life here in Tennessee for they are life speakers and they have watered this desert so now it blooms with flowers that produce a fragrance for others to enjoy.

God has a way of using physical changes to reach deep into places we did not know were buried inside of us. When you get married you learn things about yourself you did not know; when you have children you definitely see things in yourself you didn’t know, like how selfish you really are. The same is true with losing weight. People celebrate the loss, they compliment you on how good you look, but what I didn’t know is I was using food to numb an ache. Now that food is not there to be my anesthesia, I have an ache, that is connected to a dream, that I cannot deny and I choose not to numb any longer.

I have come to realize this ache is a God planted dream inside of me that I have no way of making happen in my own strength, so I have to acknowledge the ache. I believe everyone of us has a God given ache inside of us, it is a dream God put in us and it aches because we can’t fulfill it in our own strength. I do not believe God gave this too us to torment us, but He gave it to us to fulfill it in us. He is a Father, He loves us, and He knows who we were created to be.

I want to give you permission to see the ache, hear the ache, stop numbing the ache or acting like it doesn’t exist. I realize some aches can’t be fulfilled without “x” number of money; others can’t be fulfilled until “x” comes into your life; still others the ache can’t be fulfilled apart from God intervention, literally. I know the ache, I finally feel it, see it, and am shedding tears and praying prayers about it. It is not the thorn in your flesh, it is the dream of your heart that is why it aches and I finally am feeling it pulsate inside of me and it is a deep well that I have not felt before, but I feel it now.

My friends, I see now how we use food, drugs, sex, alcohol, religion, pornography, you name it to numb the ache, but it doesn’t go away. People can’t fulfill it, only God can, it is not there to punish us, it is there to remind us, we are called to “Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He will do it.” (Psalm 37:4-5) The enemy wants us to believe God is taunting us, so we pull away from the Lord, but even with an ache, we draw near, for we know the nature, character and heart of our God, He is good, He is faithful, He is a promise keeper, He cannot lie. Draw near, ache and all, He gave it to you, so He is going to fulfill it, in due time! The ache is the dream!

Have you ever been walking in the woods and you started on a path, but lost it and then had to try and find it again? Do you remember that feeling of slight panic, like oh my goodness, I am not sure where I am going? It is not fun to get lost in the woods, but if you relocate the path, the adventure of being on a path in the woods is quite fun. As long as you stay on the path, you can enjoy the scenery, experience the sounds of creation, and the smells of the trees and flowers.

Life is a lot like walking through the forest, there is a path through every season of our soul personally, communally and nationally, but if we lose sight of the path it can be nerve wracking. If we panic when we lose our path or can’t see our path, we do things out of panic and it takes us even more off course. The nations are going through some challenges right now and many cannot see the path. The media is saying the path is this way, our feelings are saying the path is that way, culture is saying no the path is over here, but there is another voice speaking, showing us the path.

Isaiah 55:9, 11 says, “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts higher than your thoughts. …My word which goes forth from My mouth; it will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.” The path of the Lord is higher than the path of the earth, it has charted a course for us to follow, but so often like Israel of old, “We are being led astray in our hearts. And we do not have experiential knowledge of God’s paths” (Hebrews 3:10).

The Lord is inviting us to lift up our eyes to the hills for that is where our help comes from (Psalm 121). There are a lot of trees in this forest, there are a lot of voices clamoring for our attention, it can cause us to be double minded, unstable and even nervous, for we do not seem to see the path through this. But remember, “You will hear a voice behind you saying, this is the way. Follow it, whether it turns to the right or to the left” (Isaiah 30:21). My friends, you can hear the voice of God, so there is nothing to fear, all you have to do is follow Him and His voice! He will lead you out of what He lead you into. The best is yet to come!

One of the greatest challenges of humanity is when we see injustice. When one person gets treated a certain way based on status, title, or bank account it causes frustration in those that don’t carry the same privileges. It may not be a spoken injustice or frustration with the injustice seen or heard, but it is legit inside of people and it stirs in them as more and more injustices are seen or heard. It’s at crockpot level but the frustrations are still cooking inside of people. This is not new to humanity and one of the Psalmist actually penned a similar challenge that he was facing.

Psalm 73 “This is what the wicked are like—
always free of care, they go on amassing wealth.
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure
and have washed my hands in innocence.
All day long I have been afflicted,
and every morning brings new punishments.
If I had spoken out like that,
I would have betrayed your children.
When I tried to understand all this,
it troubled me deeply
till I entered the sanctuary of God;
then I understood their final destiny.”

As believers enter the sanctuary of God today May we remember that Yahweh is the judge of everyone. Nothing escapes His notice. Those that think they’re getting away with something are not getting away with it. Just because justice delays does not mean it’s denied but this can only be seen when you enter the sanctuary of God. Our job is not to wish condemnation upon anyone but to remember that if we too had not met Jesus the Christ who paid the penalty for all of our sins we would have a final destination just like the wicked do.

As you enter the sanctuary of God today, May you remember how much you’ve been forgiven so when those that were once wicked turn and become righteous we do not treat them as though they don’t belong in the house of God. He who has been forgiven much loves much! Our job is to love God and love people, but that only happens inside of us when we enter the sanctuary of God.

Watch April! This is what the Lord said in August 2022, now we have entered April and we have entered it with some activity. Just after midnight here in the Tennessee area the tornadic activity was palatable for those who heard the sirens going off, felt the wind blowing, and were talking to one another on social media. However, in the words of the newscaster that @marcellamitchell was watching at 1am, it looked like a tornado was going to touchdown in the Spring Hill, Columbia, TN area, then the lady said, “Well, it’s dissipating!” Marcella said, she said this right when it was going over Columbia, TN. It took up again but never landed in our area.

I woke up this morning to messages from friends who were awake, asking if I heard the sirens, was I awake, all the questions as we take care of each other here, but me, I slept through the whole thing. I got up to walk the dogs this morning and there was no sign of any storm, not even rain on the ground, so I was like what storm, what sirens? But the fact that it happened within an hour of April 1st beginning, I knew it was a Watch April moment to remember.

The other thing about to today is that the alphabet community was planning a “Trans Day of Vengeance” rally in DC for today, but this rally has been canceled due to the school shooting in Nashville that happened at Covenant School. Watch April! What is being planned is being cancelled, this is not coincidental, this is important for us to Watch April.

We have entered the month in which Palm Sunday is the 2nd; Passover is on the 5th; Good Friday is on the 7th; Resurrection Day/Easter is on the 9th; just to name a few holidays in which the nations will be celebrating, remembering and enjoying Jesus the Christ, Yeshua the Messiah, Yahweh the Almighty. Watch April my friends, I have a sense we are going to see a lot of God activity starting this month.

Did you know God gives grace to the wicked, but that grace has an expiration date? In Daniel 4, King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon has a dream of a tree and he shares the dream with Daniel who interprets the dream for him Daniel ends his interpretation with these words, “Therefore, o king, may my advice be pleasing to you: break away now from your sins by doing righteousness and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your prosperity” (Daniel 4:27). This statement began the grace period for king Nebuchadnezzar. He now had some time to repent, or the “tree” which was him would be cut down to a stump.

How do I know it was a timed grace period? Because Daniel 4:29 says, “Twelve months later…” God gave king Nebuchadnezzar one year to repent, but he didn’t so verse 31 says, “A voice came from heaven, saying, King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is declared: soveriegnty has been removed from you.” God gave a wicked king time to repent, but he refused to do so. The same happened in Exodus 6-12 as God gave Pharaoh grace through 9 plagues to repent, but when he refused, the 10th plague was administered and then by Exodus 12:12 God was dealing with all the gods of Egypt saying, “I will go through the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments — I Am the Lord.” Grace expired on Pharaoh, just like it did on Nebuchadnezzar.

I believe we are living in a time where grace has expired on wicked rulers. We are going to see the judgment of God on wickedness and wicked leaders, but it is not because they were not given time to repent, it is because grace has expired for them. God is slow to anger and abounding in love, even when it comes to the wicked rulers, but when God says enough is enough, he executes judgment so His people can be set free from their tyrannical rule. I believe we are at this point, grace was given, repentance did not happen, so judgment is here for judgment eradicates wickedness and establishes righteousness. It is not a time to rejoice in their judgment, but we must be aware of what is happening. Eyes wide open. #watchapril