Author: lisagreatenebeli

Have you been experiencing full circle moments? Have you been brought back to places you have been already, but you are the not the same person, even though the location, situation or manifestation looks the same? Friends, we are in a brief time of full circle, not to set us back but to show us how far we have come.

“Coming full circle” means returning to the place, condition, or stage where something began — but usually with added experience, growth, or insight gained from the journey. It is like a mile marker on the highway to show you how far you have come, how much you have grown, how deep and wide your life has grown.

Full circle moments are to encourage you, to propel you, to reveal to you who you have become. They are exhortations to propel you into the next season, next journey, next assignment. We are not stagnant, we are becoming more like Christ everyday, we are being healed in ways we did not see, so full circle moments, help you see how far you have traveled, when you felt like you made no movement.

I want to encourage you to keep watch for full circle moments right now, for they are popping up everywhere, revealing to us how far we have come individually, locally, nationally and internationally. We are not where were were even five years ago.

These moments are important, for they give us time to reflect, time to rejoice, time to remember that even when we think God is not working, He is doing things we could not see. We are in a full circle moment right now, because the door to the future is open and we are crossing over, stepping in and there is no turning back. Enjoy the full circle moments, they are for your encouragement that God has been and continues to be for you. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

I was with a friend the other day and I told her, I struggle with hope because when I hope and it doesn’t happen it brings about disappointment and I have disappointment fatigue. She smiled at me with her older than me self and said, “That is because you do not have a revelation of hope!”

This statement has been musing in my spirit from the day she spoke it. Since she said I do not have a revelation of hope, my spirit has been crying out for a revelation of hope. Our hearts long to know truth and so we will search for it until we find it, if we are lovers of truth.

My spirit has been searching for this revelation since that day and I have been getting puzzle pieces of it here and there for the past three weeks. One of those puzzle pieces is going from the idea that God can do something to God will do it. This tectonic plate shifted from He can to He will and confidence came.

Then I was with an Indian man from India yesterday and he said to me, “Lisa, growing up we were taught about karma, I can’t escape it. What we sow we reap, but we don’t expect anything from what we sow, because of karma. For we do not know if what we will reap is good or bad, so we have no expectation when we sow.”

When he left, I repented of not expecting anything good from the seeds I sow. Seeds of time, money, love, energy, help, whatever it may be. I realized when he said that, the Jews never doubted they would reap something good when they sowed and the Lord whispered “that is hope.”

Hebrews 11:1 says, “Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.”

Hope is CONFIDENT EXPECTATION OF GOOD! My confidence is rising; my expectation of good is increasing; and I am gaining a revelation of hope daily as the Lord speaks truth to me about what He has for me. Hope is not my circumstances or other people’s choices, it is my trust in the words and ways of God. Hope is a game changer, I hope this encourages you, just like my friend challenged me to get a revelation of hope. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

I saw a post the other day with Tom Brady having nine Super Bowl rings on his fingers. He was showing off his trophies by wearing them on his fingers. His trophies are his pride and joy for the hard work, the team work and the physical work he did to be one of the greatest quarterbacks in the NFL.

Patrick Mahomes could put a similar picture on his social media, with multiple Super Bowl rings, Lombardi Trophies and Championship t-shirts, hats and banners. Hard work brought them to the level of professional and then more work got them the title of greatest to play the game called football.

The Lord revealed to me this morning while reading 1 Peter 1, His trophy case and I saw the men and women of the Word of God in His trophy case. But they were not there for their physical prowess, their high level of play on a sports field, but because of their faith and how they believed God when circumstances spoke another narrative.

Peter says it this way, “Pure gold put in the fire comes out of it proved pure; genuine faith put through this suffering comes out proved genuine. When Jesus wraps this all up, it’s your faith, not your gold, that God will have on display as evidence of his victory. You never saw him, yet you love him. You still don’t see him, yet you trust him—with laughter and singing. Because you kept on believing, you’ll get what you’re looking forward to: total salvation.”

Rings will tarnish, trophies will collect dust, but our faith will be spoken of for all of eternity. Jesus said, when I return will I find faith on earth? We are the faith filled ones He is watching, protecting, displaying for all of creation to see. We read about them in Hebrews 11, but it is not just them it is us as well. Faith displays the victory of God on earth as it is in heaven. May we be a display of His victory. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

The ache in all of humanity is the desire to be loved, the need to know we are loved, the want to be loved. Every behavior is rooted in a desire, a need to be loved. When that need is not met, it creates an ache that cannot be satisfied until the acknowledgment of love is actualized. The challenge is, we are loved, but we resist it.

Malachi 1 states, “GOD said, “I love you.” You replied, “Really? How have you loved us?” Look at history” (this is GOD’s answer).” (MSG). The mystery is always in the history. A mystery is something that is veiled, we cannot see it, so we think it is not true. However, revelation is the unveiling of what has been concealed. God is revealing He has loved us all along, we just haven’t been able to see it, because it was veiled to us.

The veil is being removed from our eyes in a way that is astounding. The knowing we are loved is piercing the darkness and it is penetrating love that is lighting up every area of our lives on the inside and will be visible on the outside. This love is the river of life that is going to be flowing from our bellies. It is a river that will never run dry.

Liquid love is bursting up from the dry ground inside of us. It is the fountain in us that is beginning to bubble up. It is the well that has been sealed, but is now being revealed. Love is deep, it is passionate, it is generous, it is wild, it is free, it is truth, it is power, it is Christ in us the hope of glory. Love is the mystery that has been veiled but is being revealed. The river of love is flowing down from the mountain of God. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

I have never met someone that does not like something new. I know I do. The new has a smell to it; a look to it; a sound to it; a feel to it; it is new. I remember when I became a Christian and I was made new. I remember when I was born again again while in revival. I was made new. The sun was brighter, the clouds were whiter, the love was deeper, the joy was louder. I was new.

I love people who are made new, they forgive quickly, they love deeply, they worship passionately, they show up unexpectedly, they give generously. Oh that we would be a people who are made new again again. We need an outpouring of the washing of the water through the word, for people have lost their first love, their quick forgiveness, their deep passion and their kind heart. Oh that we would be made new again again.

God had a new plan for Israel, which is the plan He has for all of us. It is found in Hebrews 8 and it says, “This new plan I’m making with Israel isn’t going to be written on paper, isn’t going to be chiseled in stone; This time I’m writing out the plan in them, carving it on the lining of their hearts. I’ll be their God, they’ll be my people. They won’t go to school to learn about me, or buy a book called God in Five Easy Lessons. They’ll all get to know me firsthand, the little and the big, the small and the great. They’ll get to know me by being kindly forgiven, with the slate of their sins forever wiped clean. By coming up with a new plan, a new covenant between God and his people, God put the old plan on the shelf. And there it stays, gathering dust.” (MSG)

Oh that we would surrender to being made new again again. Our schooling has made us stale; our self-help culture has made us divisive; our record deals have made us performers; our politics have made us suspicious; we have tried it all and it has made us less like Christ not more like Him. Oh how I pray we would be willing to be made new again again. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

There is something better!
There is a more excellent way!
There is more!
What is the hold up for you?
What is it that is keeping you back?
What causes you to question if it is real?

We are the hinderance to the more. It is not someone else’s fault. Until we are willing to take personal responsibility we will never come into something greater than we have ever known. There is no where to place blame, there is no reason to live in shame. But without humility there is no access.

Hebrews 8 says, “Now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.” A more excellent ministry; a better covenant; better promises. Humility is the access key.

1 Corinthians 12:31 says, “Earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I show you a still more excellent way.” There is a more excellent way than even the gifts. Humility is the access key.

Acts 18:24-27 “Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures. This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with the baptism of John; and he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.” There is a more accurate way, and humility is the access key.

Friends, there is more, but you must humble yourself in order to access it. You can remain where you are, but others are going beyond where we have ever been before, for the Lord has extended the invitation to more. Don’t let pride halt your process for there is still more. Come on friends, we haven’t seen anything yet.

We have known restriction; we have experienced the cramp, tight places; but now the time has declared we will access abundance. It will demand a learning curve for we can not live as survivors when we have access to abundance. We cannot live small in our thinking, when we have acccess to wide open spaces.

The psalmist says, “You have known my soul in adversities, And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a wide place.” The process had places of pain, people who confined us and tried to define us, but God has opened wide the windows of heaven and poured out an identity as sons and daughters upon us.

What hurt in the dark will give way to the joy of the light. What was tight in the small is giving way to what is broad in the land we have entered into. The days of fighting over crumbs is over, the days of operating by design is here.

The nations are going through seismic shifts, burning of the old fields, washing with water, for the change is natural and supernatural. What looks like an “oh no” is actually a “here we go!”

It is time to rejoice, celebrate, forgive, forget and face the truth that we have been set free. It is no longer only He can, it is He will. Our God is not a man that He should lie, what He said He would do, He is doing and has done. Welcome to the kingdom of God on earth not in words, but in power.

The narrative of the religious system has been one of fear. This was not by accident, it was by design. Fear is a form of control to keep you from the freedom that God has promised you. Jesus said, You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Paul said, The Lord did not give you a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind. The coordinated effort to seed the body of Christ with fear was intentional, but God has been and still is a deliverer.

When Israel was in Egypt they were locked into a system of control that used them for Egypt’s benefit, not for the liberation of a people. Moses was raised up in human form as a deliverer of a nation. The Israelites were so locked into the Egyptian system, they could not see Moses as a deliverer. Remember Moses was raised in Pharoh’s house, the very system he was going to be used to deliver God’s people out of.

Due to idolatry, Israel found themselves in another system of control, which used fear to keep them bound, called Babylon. This was their 70 years of exile and Daniel was in the same exile as the other Hebrew people. But God gave Daniel dreams, night visions and authority to speak to the king of whom he served. A king that demanded all people bow to his golden image or be thrown in a furnace or lion’s den. But God in true fashion, again delivered His people from Babylonian exile and control.

There is nothing knew under the sun, Solomon says. What was will be again. We should not be surprised by the religious system that has enslaved generations of people since the days of Constantine (around 300AD). Yes it has been in operation for that long and has touched every nation. But God, yet again is on a rescue mission.

Those in the system are so accustomed to fear and control, the shaking is going to scare them, but what we need to know is that the shaking is what opened Peter’s prison doors in the book of Acts. The shaking is setting us free not putting us in bondage, not killing us. God is Haggai 2:21-22 ing us right now. “I will shake heaven and earth. I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms.” The shaking is overthrowing wicked thrones, demonic systems. The shaking is not punishment it is liberation. The shaking is declaring our deliverance.

What do you hear? Some people can’t sleep because what is inside of them is so loud, it keeps them up at night. Other people can’t hear truth because the lies are so loud. The narrative is the noise and the noise is what you hear. But there is another option.

The voice of God, the word of God is not loud, it is not clamoring for attention, it is not demanding to be heard, which is why so many people can’t hear it. Many are so accustomed to noise they can’t hear the word of God, the voice of God.

We seek environments that will give us peace, like mountains or beaches, but environments manifest what they are, not who we are, unless who we are matches the environment we are in.

Air pods in so many people’s ears listening to music or podcasts, narratives from television and billboards, music and marketing. Noise, noise, so much noise. Then we wonder why mental health is so rampant. The noise of narratives is driving us crazy, but there is a stirring, a shifting, a seismic thing happening as people’s internal tectonic plates are moving.

The word of God is being desired, the voice of God is being heard, the stillness, the silence of the presence of God is the absence of narratives that create noise and it is the substance of that which brings joy.

God is releasing substance through His word and His voice. Can you hear it? http://www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Knowing who we are is important, but knowing who He is defines who we are. Once you have seen Him, you will never be enamored by the glittering things of earth (cars, houses, images, bank accounts). When we know who He is that is when we truly understand who we are. Our seeking to know us without knowing Him is what causes competition, comparison, pride, division, ego and all the destructive attitudes, thoughts and behaviors of mankind.

John the Baptist knew who He was, He declared, He is the lamb who takes away the sins of the world. He is the one of whom I am not worthy to stoop down and untie His sandals. He is the One you are to follow. In John’s statements, two of John’s disciples left him and followed Jesus and John celebrated that, for John knew who Jesus was and he knew who he was.

We will not elevate ourselves when we know who He is. We will not seek fame and glory when we know who He is. We will not idolize ministries or ministers when we know who He is. We will seek Him and He will not only grab our attention, He will keep our attention, for He is that amazing.

Once we see Him, we cannot be captured by another sight, but we do enjoy other people and other places. For He loves to bring us to places we can enjoy, around people who we can celebrate and be celebrated by. He loves doing life with us.

I was praying Psalm 29 this morning and it speaks of God’s voice and the power of His voice. In verse 3 I paused and realized again, He is the voice, we are the echo!!!! He speaks so we have something to say. What an honor to sit in silence in the mountains of North Carolina and hear the voice of the One who sits on a throne that cannot be shaken. And what an honor to be invited to be an echo for that voice that speaks with such power, authority and majesty. He is the voice, we are His echo on earth. Www.apostolicresourccecenter.org