Author: lisagreatenebeli

The fear of the Lord is a subject that has been pondered, discussed and considered from so many different directions. John Bevere wrote a whole book on the subject, to help us understand what God is saying with the five simple words the fear of the Lord.

Reading Genesis 22, the Holy Spirit highlighted to me that when Abraham was willing to sacrifice his promised son, Isaac, on the altar, the angel stopped him and said, “Now I know you fear God.” Here we get the words, the fear of the Lord, but it is not until we continue on in the story that we find what the fear of God is.

Genesis 22:17-18 says, “Indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.” Blessings followed the fear of the Lord, which is identified as obedience to the voice of God.

I bring this up, because the call to the fear of the Lord is packed with resources for those who are willing to obey the voice of God. Our obedience to the word of God and the voice of God unlocks untold treasures. When people say, we need the fear of the Lord back in the church, I am not sure what they are saying, but God is saying, “I want my people to obey my voice and My word.”

Friends, don’t let pop psychology, life coaching, or a counseling culture tell you what the voice of God is saying, for all of that is self-serving. Obedience to the voice of God is death to self for the flesh does not want to forgive, does not want to apologize, does not want to love again, but when we obey the voice of God, blessings upon blessings flow.

The fear of God is obedience to the voice and word of God. May we, who call ourselves Christians, return to the fear of the Lord. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Book ends. These are the words I am hearing from the Lord, “Book Ends.”

On September 11, 2001, twenty four years ago today, the United States of America was attacked, today is the rememberance day of that event etched into the minds of a generation. Many can tell you where they were when they heard of the planes crashing into the Twin Towers.

Yesterday, September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk, a bible believing, unashamed, gospel of the kingdom, man of God, who led large group political and spiritual discussions on college campuses all over the nation was shot and killed in Utah. The nation is shocked, grieving and wondering.

“Book ends”, says the Lord. “Book ends to the end of a 24 year season.” What I am sensing is what started on September 11, 2001 and opened up this season we have been in for 24 years, has ended with the death of Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025.

America must take seven days to grieve the death of this young man. Our grieving as a nation will include shock, anger, tears, questions, denial, frustration, blame and all the other aspects that come with grief, but once we accept what happened, it will activate a passion that is not emotional, not political, but honorable.

The smoke is upon us, the shot heard around the world is still echoing throughout nations, but this death will not be in vain, it will produce a harvest of righteousness in a nation for generations to come. The season of wickedness ruling is over, it’s 24 year reign came to an end with one shot. Now we will see and hear the inauguration of righteousness exalting the nation like we have never seen or heard before.

9/11/2001 to 9/10/2025 will be seen as “Book ends” of a 24 year season. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

I received a text message the other day from someone asking me to do something for them. The text came with a sense of pleading and almost begging for help, as though I might not be willing. After reading the message the Lord spoke to me and said, “My people do not need to beg and plead, all they have to do is ask.”

Much prayer in the Christian church is begging and pleading God to do something for us, hoping He will respond in kind. Begging and pleading is not faith, but fear of a no or not yet, reveals we do not know the heart and character of our Father.

In Acts 9 a woman dies and they call for Peter to come to their house, here is what it says, “So Peter arose and went with them. When he arrived, they brought him into the upper room; and all the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing all the tunics and garments that Dorcas used to make while she was with them. But Peter sent them all out and knelt down and prayed, and turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.”

The people in the room were begging and pleading with Peter to do something by showing them all she did for the community, but Peter sent them out and turned to the dead woman and told her to arise. No begging, no pleading, no fanfare or all night prayer meeting, just a command, Tabitha arise.

Many people have learned to beg and plead with God, because they have lived with hope deferred for so long, but we are living in a new day and the Lord is near to the broken hearted; He tells us to seek and we will find, to knock and the door will be opened, to ask and it will be granted to us. We must stop begging and pleading with God, for it is a childish form of manipulation and it will not get us anywhere.

We are sons and daughters not beggars and pleaders. Father, forgive us for acting like beggars in the house of our Father. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Solomon in his proverbs says things we love to quote, but they are very real life things we need to ponder, process and allow to practically apply to our lives. One of the themes of the Proverbs of Solomon is around guarding our hearts, for it is the wellspring of life. It is easy to say, but hard to do, for the heart longs for things we do not even realize it is longing for.

If we view the heart like a tree, it has roots that are longing for water and it will seek a drink in places it may or may not realize it is drinking from. Therefore, if we are drinking from pollluted wells of water, because of roots we do not recognize, we will pour out water from our mouth that comes from our heart that pollutes the one that is listening. Silence is just as pollutant as speaking, for both represent how we are thinking.

Guarding our hearts is easier said than done, for another proverb says, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.” When we have been in a long season of waiting for a promise we know God spoke to us, when the Lord nudges to us to dream again, we may resist the nudging. This resistance is evidence of a heart that has grown sick in the waiting, in the hope that has been deferred.

But can I encourage you today, that God is not done with you, He does not speak and not fulfill what He said He would do. However, He needs us to agree with what He is doing right now. Many have been told things that have not come true yet, but when time meets promises, things happen and they happen quickly.

Friends, don’t resist what God is doing right now, because you have been waiting for so long and cynicism has crept in. Pray with David in Psalm 51, create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit in me. There is a wind blowing, a fire blazing, a love descending, a power residing, in us that wants to come through us, but we must agree with it, not resist it. Dream again, love again, serve again, forgive again, desires are being fulfilled and it is a tree of life. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Our posture in the spirit is determined by our understanding and accepting who we are, whose we are and what we have been given. When we do not know who we are, whose we are and what we have been given we live a very small, insecure, boring life.

God is fun! The Lord is full of adventures! Jesus is easy to get along with! The Father gives great advice! The Holy Spirit is the best comforter! Oh that we understood whose we are. Life would be so much more enjoyable; people would be so much more tolerable to us; and joy would be more speakable.

The Bible says, a cheerful heart is good medicine, I wonder if we need some laughter, some enjoyment, some fun in our lives to break off this heaviness many carry, cast out these diseases many are riddled with and lift off this yoke that many are under.

Think about this, Psalm 68 says, “Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered, And let those who hate Him flee before Him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; As wax melts before the fire, So let the wicked perish before God. But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God; Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.” Who are you in these verses? Are you the wicked and perishing or the righteous and rejoicing?

All God has to do is arise, stand up, take notice, look our direction. He does not make a move toward the enemy other than arising and look at the enemy flee, scatter, run for cover. One posture change by God, arise and the enemy can’t handle it. If you are in Christ and Christ is in you, if you just stand up in who God says you are, the enemy will flee. Didn’t Paul say, stand and keep on standing in Ephesians 6?

This truth is only one of many in the word of God and this alone is worthy of throwing our hands up in praise over; lifting our voice up in joy over; stomping our feet in dancing over. Joy is an inside job, because it is about knowing who you are, whose you are and what you have been given. No matter what it looks like circumstantially. God is arising so we need to be rejoicing for greater is He that is in us than He that is in th world. Rejoice! Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

When under a theology of everything needs to get worst so we can get raptured out of here, we look for bad things, in all things that happen. But Matthew 6 says, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done…ON EARTH as it is in heaven.” It sounds like we are supposed to make earth like heaven, not leave earth and go to heaven. With a slight shift from everything getting worst, to redemption of the earth and the nations, we see events a little differently.

There was a lunar eclipse last night that lasted 82 minutes. Lunar eclipses are a sign, a message to Israel and solar ecliipses are a sign or message to the Gentile nations. What I didn’t know is what this sign in the sky was communicating to Israel, so I did some research from a rabbinical point of view, since I am not a Hebrew.

According to the rabbi’s, the Talmud and even the Bible, the moon is a symbol of David’s dynasty (Psalm 89:37). This alone is a fascinating thought, but it gets better. The eclipse of the moon was a call to repentance; a call to look for redemption; a sign before the Messiah’s reign; a birth pang of redemption that brought hope to a people in exile.

The moon to the rabbi’s was tied to Israel’s destiny, David’s covenant and Messiah’s revelation. The blood moon was a sign to them of shaking, judgment or transition. (Joel 2:31/Acts 2:20/Revelation 6:12)

The blood moon was not just a bad omen where people lived in fear, but it was a sign of a coming Messiah, a reminder that redemption is near, transition is upon us and a reminder of the Davidic dynasty.

Genesis 1 tells us the sun, moon and stars are for signs and for seasons, and the Hebrew people would look to the sky for their calendar, their communication about coming events and for direction from God. The God who created these beautiful celestial wonders, is communicating to all of us that we are transitioning into the Messianic Age and that our exile is coming to an end. And this is worth shouting over. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

To a people who have only known hardship, poverty, or being less than in culture, comments or covenant, a warning is being issued from the heart of God. Not a warning to shame, but a warning to protect.

Israel lived in Egypt as a nation for 430 years. That means they were dipped in a culture of oppression for a minimum of four generations. That is a long time to be living under oppressive rulership. Multiple generations were born into oppression and they did not know anything different.

Understanding this is imperative, for it gives us a better view as to why they needed some time in the wilderness, they had to be retrained in the way they thought from oppression to abundance mindset. If the shift in mindset does not happen, we will become the very people and place we have been rescued from.

When Jesus said, Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand, He was not asking them to do some behavior modification, He was inviting them to change the way they think, for He was delivering them from an oppressive religious system and bringing them into a kingdom that would know no end.

The warning the Lord is giving us, repent for the kingdom of God is at hand, abundance is about to invade our lives, but we must change the way we think from oppressive, survival mode to abundance mindset or we will treat others the way the oppressive system treated us.

If we repeat on others what was done to us, we will perpetuate a system God has rescued us from. If you never forget where you came from, you will never do to others what was done to you. Friends, a new narrative is needed for a new mindset is being offfered and a new land of abundance is being accessed. Everything is changing, everything and we must change the way we think. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

People are powerful. Created in the image of God, we have the power to create other people, create businesses, build churches, invent space programs, start schools, develop blueprints, the list goes on and on, what people are able to do. This is a gift given to us by God, but the challenge is, we do most of it, if not all of it in our own strength.

Nation goes to war against nation with man-power, people who carry weapons, ride in tanks, shoot missles or launch drones. We build iron domes, golden domes, temples, and draw lines we don’t want people to cross. People decide who gets humanitarian aid and who has to live in poverty without water or paved roads. Human strength has both helped and hindered humanity.

The greatest challenge we face as believers in Jesus Christ is surrendering our human strength. We are so gifted, talented, educated, and motivated, we do more out of our own strength than we even realize. We pray to get a blueprint to build the next thing in our own strength. We meet with others to write songs, plant churches, or start businesses, all in our own strength.

Human strength has done some remarkable things on earth, but a new day is here and human strength is going to pale in comparison to supernatural signs that are going to make you wonder. Many are going to wonder how did they do that; where did they learn that; it is going to blow the natural mind, because we are about to see and hear what it looks like to be supernatural.

Genesis 14:14-16 says, “When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken prisoner, he lined up his servants, all of them born in his household—there were 318 of them—and chased after the captors all the way to Dan. Abram and his men split into small groups and attacked by night. They chased them as far as Hobah, just north of Damascus. They recovered all the plunder along with nephew Lot and his possessions, including the women and the people.”

God specializes in doing the supernatural not with large numbers, but small ones, for if it is human strength, might is found in big numbers in the bank, big numbers in your military, big numbers in your building, but God is still in the business of taking the few and doing mighty supernatural exploits that give Him all the glory. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Three words have permeated our atmosphere over the past year, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! With a bloody face and a fierce look, these words have called a nation into a battle that had already been waged, a war that had already been won. They were words for waking up the sleeping, arousing those who lay in graves of despair. It was an invitation to take back a country that had been long occupied by internal and external enemies. 

People in survival mode love the idea of a fight. We know how to wage war, we know how to take back what has been stolen, so those words resonated with many who had become apathetic due to disappointment, cynical due to delay, and angry due to feeling helpless and powerless to change anything. Three words rallied a nation and the cry for justice is being heard in the land. 

To hear the voice of God, who dwells in a tabernacle not on earth, who speaks from a throne not made by man, who has resources beyond comprehension, to hear the Lord of heaven and earth and to respond to His voice is the call of the church. To echo what He is saying is what we are called to do, even when it is not what the leaders on earth are saying and doing, at least not what is being magnified by the media. 

The decree of heaven is not fight, fight, fight, the decree of heaven is build, build, build. This decree is hard for many to hear, for they love the fight, they love the war, they make millions on the battle, but the Lord of heaven and earth is not in a fight, He is not inviting us into a war, He is calling us to build. 

In the words of the prophet Isaiah we hear, “And it shall be said, Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstruction from my people’s way.”

God is looking for builders not fighters. The call has gone out for those who want to build the kingdom of God on earth; who want to build a highway for our God. He is asking, where are my builders? 

Ephesians 4:29 says, do not let any unwholesome words come out of your mouth, but only that which is for the building up of other people. It is Ephesians 4:29 and Isaiah 54:17 time on earth as it is in heaven. Are you willing to accept the call to build, because this is the next phase of the kingdom of God on earth. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org 

Noise is artificial significance.
Noise gives the promise of safety, but it never delivers it.
Noise feels like the presence but lacks the person.
Noise fills the gaps where silence wants to penetrate.

Silence is a gift that is often forfeited out of fear of what we willl hear.
Silence is misunderstood because of the noise in our own heads.
Silence is powerful and penetrates the deep places of our lives.
Silence is truth that sets us free if only we will submit to it.

Psalm 62 says, “My soul, wait silently for God alone, For my expectation is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be moved. In God is my salvation and my glory; The rock of my strength, And my refuge, is in God.”

How much truth do we forfeit because we love the noise of scrolling over the silence of reading God’s word?

How many hours do we waste trying to figure it out on our own, rather than waiting in the silence for the all knowing God to speak?

How much money do we spend trying to meet a need created by all the noise in our head, because we can’t handle the stillness called rest?

When we wait silently for God alone (selah) we find Him to be the very person we need, the very answer to our question, the very revealer of the lies lodged deep in our heart. We find His still small voice speaking words that will set us free, giving us commands that will get us out of our mess, and offering us solutions to problems we ourselves created.

Most people are troubled by noise, both outside of them and inside of them, but God is not noise, He is silence and His silence speaks, His silence reveals, His silence heals, His silence is a frequency that only He can emit in order to transform us, if only we would surrender to the silence. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org