Author: lisagreatenebeli

Trust is intimate knowledge of someone. Trust is knowing someone’s character; knowing someone’s movement; knowing someone’s lifestyle. We use the phrase, “That is out of character for that person.” It is a statement of trust, because we know how they would act or speak in any given situation. 

Trust is a powerful tool we have been given and we gain trust by being a safe place for others. Trust increases when we do what we say we will do. Trust is established when we hold in confidentiality that which we have been told. 

Trust is such a weapon, such a gift, it is no wonder the enemy attacks our trust in our childhood. If we do not trust it is a crack in our foundation that hinders any weight being placed on it. Trust is bedrock and the strength of our foundation is critical to everything in life. 

We are called to trust the Lord as people. God has never lied to us, yet we doubt what He says to us. God has never hurt us, yet we stay at a distance as though He is not safe for us. God has never betrayed us or denied us, yet we are suspicious of Him. Why? 

The enemy of our souls whispered to us God is not trustworthy. God is not dependable. God is not telling you the truth. God cannot do this or do that for you. God does not want to help you. But what is the enemy? 

When a prayer is not answered when or in the way we think it should be, the enemy whispers, see God can’t be trusted. When something bad happens, we hear God could have stopped that but didn’t. God gets blamed for everything negative in our lives and then we don’t trust Him. 

Psalm 44 says, “It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them. You are my King and my God, who decrees victories for Jacob. Through you we push back our enemies; through your name we trample our foes. I put no trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory; but you give us victory over our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame.”

God is not your enemy, God is for you, God loves you, God wants you to be victorious. God is restoring trust in you, so you can trust Him. Trust is the key to victory for all of humanity. Www.apostolicrecourcecenter.org

When revelation crosses over into manifestation there is a new way of thinking that we must employ. Revelation was the runway, the set up, for the execution of the manifestation of what He showed us in the revelation.

Proverbs 29:18 says, “Where there is no revelation, people cast off restraint; but blessed is the one who heeds wisdom’s instruction.”

When people cannot see or hear what God is doing in the earth in now time, they lose hope, purpose, anticipation, direction, so they just do their own thing.

Revelation is the first move of God on earth. We live in a time in history where we can read our bible for ourselves and God will reveal Himself to us. Most books people write are about a revelation they received on a subject, and as you read them you are reading second hand smoke.

You can get firsthand revelation from God, if you will make time to read His words for yourself. Revelation that comes from God to you directly changes the way you think, the way you act, the way you do life. Revelation brings joy which gives you strength. Revelation gives us the desire to know Him more.

The Lord is dealing with people’s foundation called trust, because He is releasing revelation about who He is and what He is doing. If we can’t trust Him we will not obey Him. He gives us revelations so we know who He is, so when He asks us to do something, we can trust Him.

We need a revelation of Jesus Christ. You can’t trust someone you don’t know. So, even thought we love the manifestation of healing, prosperity and revival, what we need is a revelation of Jesus Christ, so our foundation is repaired.

Many are in the foundation repair stage of their walk with God, they are learning to trust Him, so He is revealing Himself to them. But there are some, who are crossing from revelation to manifestation. Those who have been through the foundation repair stage, your next season is manifestation and demonstration of the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. Let’s go!!!! Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

I cannot get past the phrase “ask anything”, it keeps arising, bubbling up in my spirit. It is an invitation to ask for things I never thought to ask for. Contemplating this question is challenging, because I feel so small in my asking, when the Lord is so big in His ability to answer.

How do we as finite people step into the abundance of God who says, ask anything, nothing is beyond my ability or capacity to respond. This idea of ask anything is revealing my finite thinking in light of His infinite presence. Prayers seem so puny in light of the invitation to ask anything.

I stepped outside this morning looked up into the bright blue skies and the massive sky whispered, ask anything. I came outside after being at a friends last night, looked up into the dark sky with bright stars all around and I hear the voice again, saying, ask anything.

What do I ask for? Why am I afraid to ask for anything? What is holding me back, keeping me locked in when He is inviting me to step out, into the great unknown, into the beyond all we can ask think or imagine realm.

Then this morning reading Psalm 42:7 it says, “Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.” Go deeper is the invitation, ask anything, plummet the depths, soar the heights, the invitation is on the table.

We are made of deeper things than we allow ourselves to explore. We serve a God who is bigger than we can control or comprehend. We don’t need to physically die to dive into the deep, but we do need to die to our limitations, human strength, personal knowledge, small thinking.

I remember having an encounter one time where I was walking on the floor of the ocean. It was level ground with water all around. The beauty of creation under water is indescribable, the encounter was powerful. The Lord said, this is my love surrounding you. Depths reveal His heart for us. Love like we cannot describe is what unlocks the limitations, so we can ask anything. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Have you noticed there is a lack of wisdom in people no matter their age? When I was younger I was taught that wisdom was for the older generation. Now I am in the older generation and there is such a lack of wisdom in people.

In church I was taught wisdom comes from asking God and He will give it generously without finding fault (James 1:5). I know many people who have asked for wisdom, but they still lack it.

This has puzzled me for years of being a Christian. How can people go to church every Sunday, be a believer for 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 or more years and still lack wisdom. It seems like the idea of how to actually obtain wisdom is lost in cultural translation.

If wisdom does not come with age, nor does it come by just asking for it, then how do we become wise? Solomon was known as the wisest man on earth and he shares how to get wisdom.

Proverbs 11:22 “When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.”

Solomon discovered the key to wisdom, humility. Humility is the ability to admit we do not know as much as we think we know. Humility is teachablity, no matter our age, our gender, our socio economic status, our title. Humility is the path to wisdom.

Culturally we are very opinionated, but not very wise. It is time we, at least as believers humble ourselves and recognize we do not know as much as we think we do about God, church, politics, nations, even things we see on the news. We are long over due of being an echo chamber of opinions and it is time to humble ourselves and listen, for in doing this we will become wise. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Last night we were watching Mr. Beasts game on television. If you have never seen it, Mr. Beast is giving away 5 million dollars and there are 1000 people seeking this money. Games are used to eliminate people, so eventually there is only one winner.

One of the games they played was to put three people in a box. Each box had all white walls and one phone that said on it, “Ask Anything”. The rule of the game was, they had to decide which one of the three of them was going to handcuff themselves to the wall in order to be eliminated. If they could not decide on who would be eliminated, within the 5 hour time period, then all three would be eliminated.

What was fascinating to me was the phone in the room. They were told they could literally ask for anything in the world, anything. Some ordered pizza, others ordered dice or playing cards, some ordered bean bags, and the list went on. Anything, they could ask anything.

How often do we limit what we ask for? They could ask for anything, anything, Jesus said the same thing to us, ask anything in my name and it will be given to you. Anything. How many of us ask for pizza when we would ask for nations? How many of us want playing cards, when we could ask for restoration of marriages.

Watching this last night made me realize, we are so small in our thinking, believing and asking because our experiences are so small. For the month of January the Lord has invited me to make decrees daily over certain people. I have a list of 7 people, I am making decrees over daily. Why?

Job 22:26-28 says, “For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows. Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.”

My decrees for them is to bless them, but I also get the blessing of light on my ways. I can decree anything, for anyone, but for this month it is decrees for seven people and I am listening closely for them to be established in their lives. Ask anything friends, there are no limits to what you can ask for, or what you can decree for someone else. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

What are you leaning on? Where we lean reveals where we find our confidence, where we put our trust. If where we lean changes, we feel shaky, nervous, unsettled. What are you leaning on?

Some of the places and people we lean on are stable for a season, but when they change, we feel unstable. If you lean on a President or Prime Minister, a Pastor or Apostle, if they do something other than what you expect, it shakes you.

If you lean on numbers, which many many many people do, if those numbers dip below where you feel safe, it makes you feel unstable. This can be stock market numbers, paycheck numbers, bank account numbers, members numbers, so many numbers we as people lean on.

King David shifted his confidence from covenant to numbers and it was detrimental for him. In 2 Samuel 24, King David took a census and this census brought judgment from the Lord. Why? Because the census was a David initiated not God commanded census. The census revealed numbers David wanted to know in order to have confidence in a battle God called him to fight.

Joab warned David not to take the census, but he took it anyway. This census shifted confidence from covenant to numbers and God was not happy.

We live in a world of numbers. Job numbers, stock market numbers, portfolio numbers, credit numbers, membership numbers, bank account numbers. There are numbers everywhere, but the Lord is saying, don’t shift your trust from covenant to numbers or it will make you shaky, unstable, insecure.

Numbers fluctuate, covenant remains constant, consistent. Lean on the truth that you are in a covenant relationship with God, so if numbers fluctuate you may see it but it does not alter your confidence, for covenant is continual, numbers are temporal. Www.apostolicresoucecenter.org

I have a strong sense in the spirit that some have given up on the waiting at the crossroads. Some have come to a crossroads moment in their life and some paused, but the Lord is saying you did not wait, you did not watch, you did not listen.

Proverbs 8 says, “Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice? At the highest point along the way, where the paths meet, she takes her stand; beside the gate leading into the city, at the entrance, she cries aloud.”

After reading this, immediately I heard in my spirit Jeremiah 6:16, “This is what the LORD says: Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’”

Some have not asked for wisdom at the crossroads, they just did their own thing. Others asked for wisdom, but did not get an answer quick enough. As I heard this in the spirit, the Lord showed me Saul who was told to wait for Samuel to do the evening sacrifice, but when he didn’t show up in the time Saul thought he should, he proceeded without him. (1 Samuel 15).

Friends, impatience is a high price to pay. Our own opinions, plans, goals and thoughts are a high price to pay, when we are at a crossroads moment. We must ask for wisdom, we must wait for wisdom’s answer, we must not proceed prematurely, even when the waiting is very uncomfortable.

I sense in the spirit people are dealing with the consequences of their impatience or their own decisions. These consequences are not an attack, they are the result of not waiting on the Lord, doing your own thing.

We have entered a new season in the earth and we must remain 15 steps behind the ark, for we have not gone this way before. (Joshua 3). Slow down, be still, wait on the Lord, lean into Him, the consequences are not worth the rush. Trust the Lord. Ask for wisdom. Listen carefully and obey quickly. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

We have heard the phrase, “in the shadow”. When something or someone is in the shadow of something else, that means the person or thing is blocking our ability to see the sun, so it is casting a shadow. When we live in the shadow we cannot see the sun, only the shadow.

Babylon is a system of government that has cast a shadow and blocked many people’s ability to see the Son. The Son has been building a kingdom that cannot be shaken since He rose from the dead. This kingdom has been in the shadow of Babylon and its ruling system. This is why many can’t see the kingdom, because Babylon is blocking the Son.

However, the Son does not stop shining, does not stop building, does not stop advancing, just because Babylon and its system has blocked its view. It continues to be built in the shadow. Noah built an ark in the shadow of a wicked system during his day. He did not stop building just because it was in the shadow.

Jesus walked the earth in the shadow of a larger than life religious system of control. He did not cease to build people, display miracles, and defy the system, just because He was walking in the shadow of a Roman governmental system.

Building does not stop just because it is being built in the shadow of an existing system. Psalm 37:38 says, “Hope in the LORD and keep his way. He will exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are destroyed, you will see it.” When the structure creating the shadow is removed, you will see clearly what was being built.

Hope is confident expectation. Hope keeps us building even in the shadow, when others can’t see what is being built. The wicked systems are being destroyed, Babylon is falling, and when the larger than life system falls, all will see the kingdom that has been continually being built. They saw the ark in Noah’s day, they saw the miracles in Jesus’ day and they will see the kingdom on earth in our day. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

There is no scarcity in the kingdom of God. When the world is fearing a stock market crash, the four horses of the apocalypse or some other gloom and doom outcome, the sun is shining bright in the kingdom of God.

The kingdom of God is a place of abundance in every way. To see the kingdom all you have to do is go outside on a rainy day and think about how many rain drops are falling, just where you are, let alone all over the world. It is an abundance of rain.

Have you ever sat on the beach and looked at the amount of water in that one body of water you are looking at, not even realizing that is only one of the many bodies of water on earth. There is an abundance of water there, but also an abundance of sea creatures below the surface.

Have you ever sat outside on a clear night and looked up at the sky. I did this the other morning and the Lord reminded me, these are the same stars Abraham looked up and saw when he was promised descendants more numerous than the stars. There is an abudance of light even in the night sky.

Psalm 36 says, “How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.” Abundance reveals the love of God in a way that overwhelms us.

Many of us know lack, scarcity, survival mode, the grind, work ethic and earning, but when the Lord changes the season from earning to receiving, from striving to inheriting, the love of God releases an abundance that is incomprehensible. You don’t deserve it, you didn’t earn it, but you can receive it. Abundance communicates love in a way many have not experienced, but are about to. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

A splash of color adds life, vigor, joy, to any room. In a world that is loving black and white, beige and brown, a splash of color adds value to a room. People are like that splash of color, they add value to the room.

Yesterday in church a friend shared how he and his wife are doing after spending their first 90 days living in Uruguay. Before service we spoke and he said, it already feels like home there. Then we he got up to speak in front of the church, he said, I could show you the soccer complex we are building and ask for funding, but what really matters is the people not the building.

He went on to speak of two men who have captured his heart since being in Uruguay. He said, when I tell them about our church, I do not show them a picture of the barn we meet in, I tell them about the people who have shaped us and formed us. The room was in tears. People add value, people are the splash of color.

God loves color as well. Exodus 24:9-10 says, “Israel went up and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky.” The Hebrew word is Sapir where we get the word sapphire from. People are the valuable jewels in our lives that add a splash of color.

While pondering these thoughts, I thanked the Lord for being my sole provider and as I said these words, the Holy Spirit showed me the words soul provider. I said sole provider, but the Holy Spirit said soul provider. God is our sole and soul provider and He gives us people as the pop of color for our soul. I am thankful for the sapphires, diamonds, rubies, emeralds in my life. They truly add a pop of color. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org