Author: lisagreatenebeli

Is anyone familiar with being hotly pursued by enemy voices, enemy circumstances, enemy diagnosis’s? You name the enemy, are you familiar with how it feels like they are in hot pursuit of you daily, weekly, monthly or even yearly? Most people are very familiar with the patterns of the enemy as we feel surrounded by them in a variety of ways.

I was praying Psalm 23 this morning and the Lord spoke to me and said, “I am reversing the roles of who pursues my people from this day on.” I literally heard the words, “Reverse the curse!” The curse of being pursued by the enemy is being reversed to be pursued by the goodness and mercy of God.

Psalm 23:6 says, “Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, And I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.” I paused to look up the word follow. Follow means, “pursue, chase, hunt down, harass.” It’s the Hebrew word radaph.

We have experienced being negatively pursued by voices, memories, words, experiences, reports, etc. but the Holy Spirit said, “Today, I am reversing the curse.” We are now being pursued hotly, chased, hunted down by goodness and lovingkindness.

We are so familiar with being chased by negative enemies, we have learned to stay one step ahead of them in order to not be completely consumed by them. Now we need to let ourselves be caught by the pursuer, because goodness is trying to catch us, lovingkindness is trying to hunt us down. It’s time to be caught by the Lord who is in hot pursuit of us.

For multiple days I have been lingering in 1 Samuel 17. When a story is familiar, I want to slow down and mine the truths that get missed in the cursory glance because the story is so well known. The Holy Spirit has been hovering over this chapter for days now with me and today another revelation has arisen from this childhood to adulthood story.

The army of Israel went from shouting to standby as David came on the scene with a sling and a stone. The Philistine has fallen face down, not by a sword, but by one smooth stone and one simple sling. David now runs over to the giant who is laying on the ground and secures the victory. Now that the victory is secure and the enemy has been defeated, an army awakens.

The Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, the American army is arising, the armies of nations are standing up. People are going to see a dead, defeated enemy and when they do, dry bones will come alive (Ezekiel 37). An army of people who were once timid, shy, shouting but not pursuing are about to see evidence of the enemies defeat and when they do they will arise, pursue and recover all.

1 Samuel 17 says, “The men of Israel and Judah arose and shouted and pursued the Philistines as far as the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. The sons of Israel returned from chasing the Philistines and plundered their camps.”

The awakening has begun, for the giant has a David who is in the valley, the army is watching. Watching is the first sign of an awakening. But when the army sees the enemy get his head cut off, his voice removed, his narrative killed, the army will arise. Arising is the second sign of an awakening. After arising, the enemy will flee and the army of nations will pursue and plunder. Pursuing and plundering is the third sign of the awakening.

Can you see the signs of the awakening in action in your nation? Friends, we are in the middle of another awakening and we are about to see 1 Samuel 30:8 “And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.”

If you have never been in the promised land you may not know how to fight the giants in the land. Promised land giants are very different than wilderness wandering or even Egyptian slavery, but the ways of God are the same.

Yahweh used blood on the doorposts to get Israel out of Egypt. Yahweh used manna from heaven and water from a rock to sustain Israel in the desert. These two ways of God were to be remembered as they came into the promised land. If they forget this, they will not be able to deal with the giants in this new land.

Jericho was the first promised land battle they fought and they won it by marching around a wall and blowing a shofar. David encountered a giant named Goliath and he used a sling and a smooth stone to defeat the giant. 1 Samuel 17 even says, “David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and he struck the Philistine and killed him; but there was no sword in David’s hand.” No sword in his hand, remember this.

Proverbs 21:31 says, “The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.” While 1 Samuel 17:47 says, “All this assembly will know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord’s and He will give you into our hand.” It is pretty clear how we are to fight.

Finally, Zechariah 4:6 says, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbable (governor of the city): Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit says the Lord of hosts.” We are in a spiritual battle and the church is called to use spiritual weapons to fight. Paul said, “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God.”

Friends, we may face different enemies, but the way we fight does not change. Put your sword down and ascend into the spirit in prayer, remember a decree does more than a discussion if we let the Lord fight the battle for us. Our sword is our tongue that we use to defend ourselves, lay it down and pick it up praise and pray, do not defend yourself. I promise the Lord knows how to win word wars.

1 Samuel 17 has a story that has been preached, taught, acted out on so many stages from flannel boards to platforms. It is the story about David and Goliath. Everybody loves to read about a hero, who defeats an enemy, but how many people rightly estimate who they are in this story?

It says, “Saul and the men of Israel gathered, camped and drew up battle array to encounter the Philistines.” This is what the church does every week all over the world. We gather, we camp and we draw up battle array ready to encounter the enemy. However, just like Israel, if we can be shook by a sound, the question is how will we be able to take ground?

We know the story, Goliath comes out, looking all intimidating with bronze from head to toe, but what he said is what greatly terrified them. “I defy the ranks of Israel this day, give me a man that we may fight together.” Israel was shaken by the sound of his voice as it says, “When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.”

Many people are living afraid of voices they are hearing. They are being shook by a sound, that is why they cannot take ground. This is not new news, but what is also happening is when someone does not get moved by the sound, rather is there to help the team take ground, those who are fearful attack the ones who are not afraid.

David said, “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that should taunt the armies of the living God?” David was on team Israel, team Saul, but he was not afraid. David’s courage exposed his older brothers who were afraid.

Friends, people are arising who are not afraid, they are on our team, they are not coming to shame us or expose our fear, but to eradicate the Goliath that keeps drawing near. We must stop attacking each other, because when Goliath falls, the whole army rushes in and takes ground together. Guard your heart, so you don’t speak against those who are coming with a different spirit than you have been around, they are for you and not against you. They see Goliath for who he is and they are not spooked by his sound, they are there to help us all take ground.

While in prayer this morning, this is what I heard…”The government of God is invading the government of earth to create a structure that cannot be shaken, subdued or stolen.” Immediately I knew God was saying it is Matthew 16:18 time.

The kingdom of God is a government, it is simplistic in nature and powerful in expression. This government is altar driven, we will be invited to lay down everything that so easily entangles in order to operate by design. Confusion, complexities, contentions none of this is getting past the gate that opens into the kingdom reality. Perversion is not permitted nor permissible in His kingdom. All must be laid on the altar.

The altar is like having your bags checked before you go into a concert or before you can enter the gates in an airport. There are things that are not allowed past certain points and this is where we are right now in the spirit. People who want to keep certain things will not be allowed to enter into the kingdom of God, for the kingdom is such a safe place, we must have the innocence of children to enter.

The invasion is for our benefit not our demise. The kingdom is coming down per Matthew 6, we are not going up as many have taught. It is an on earth as it is in heaven government takeover that we are witnessing right now. Righteousness is exalting nations. Healing is flowing like rivers. Mercy is triumphing over judgment. Mourning is turning into joy. Welcome to the gate of the kingdom of God, where the government of God is established and being built for such a time as this.

The desire to feel safe is a human need placed in us by the Lord Himself who created us. Our need to feel safe does not change the older we get, but how we find safety does. When we were children we found safety in our father or mother’s arms. In our teenage years we found safety in our friendships. In our young adult years we found safety in a spouse or close intimate friends. In our adult years we find safety in our money.

It should not surprise us that both relationships and money are the two places we find safety, because everyone looks for safety in these two places. The challenge is neither of these two places are the source of our safety, henceforth why so many people struggle to trust other people. Relationships that were supposed to be safe proved not to be. When money wains we feel insecure. All because we put our trust in that which is not the source of safety.

Proverbs 18 says, “The name of the LORD is a strong tower; The righteous runs into it and is safe. A rich man’s wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall in his own imagination.” Matthew 6 says, “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”

The source of our safety must be the name of the Lord. Yeshua, Yahweh, Jesus, Father, Holy Spirit, His name is the only source of safety that will never be shaken. When we are anchored in this as our safe place, then He will give us safe relationships and safe finances. Most people are shaken because their safety source is in something other than the name of the Lord.

Tuck this truth away, because we have entered into justice and justice has drawn a line in the sand. Some are graduating and being deployed, while others are going to be trained by fire in this next season. Everyone is redeemable but not everyone made the same choices in the last season. The goal is always to bring us to the source of safety, the name of the Lord.

The devil is a defeated foe, but the seeds of his influence are still growing in the hearts of those who listen to his voice. It is no wonder Paul said, our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against powers, rulers principalities in the heavenly realms (Eph. 6). It is a words war we are in.

Trying to fight a battle in the flesh or in your own strenght will not profit you anything, but it will cause you more problems. Everyone of us is susceptible to wanting to engage in a flesh battle, but this battle is not fleshly, it is spiritual. Paul said, “And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.” (1 Cor. 2:13-14)

What if the natural has been prophesying to us what we are invited to do in the spiritual? What if the creation of Space Force was a reminder that we are to do air warfare? If you have tried to war in the flesh to no avail, you are in a battle that is spiritual not natural. You must do air warfare and it takes a different approach and posture.

There is a story about Jonathan, Saul’s son, defeating the Philistines, by going after them on his hands and knees. Not exactly the posture of a warrior fighting in the flesh. 1 Samuel 14:13 says “Jonathan said to his armor bearer, Come up after me, for the LORD has given them into the hands of Israel. Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, with his armor bearer behind him; and they fell before Jonathan, and his armor bearer.”

Air warfare is where we fight not with power, not with might, but with the spirit of God (Zechariah 4:16). God is winning battles everyday, because air warfare is happening. Come up higher, you will find a decree does more than a discussion.

People reveal their theology (what they believe about God) through the words they speak. Theology has been taught to them by other people standing behind pulpits, or podiums in schools and they believed it. Most people’s theology came from a book or some other person, not from spending time with God, who is perfect theology.

Truth is here and it is dismantling the theology men have taught us, so we can hear, see and interact with the God of the Bible, the Lord of Creation, Jesus the Christ and the Holy Spirit who is God. Men’s theology has become a stronghold and many spout it as truth, not realizing what they are saying isn’t even biblical.

I saw in the spirit “dams” (A barrier constructed across a waterway to control the flow or raise the level of water) that are blocking the flow of what God wants to do in people, cities, churches, nations and the world. These dams had written on them the word, THEOLOGY. These dams were not granting access but hindering flow.

As I looked at these dams in the spirit, I saw truth coming like a bomb to blow up the dams so people could see, hear, and know God for who He is not for who someone told Him He was. As truth hit the dams of theology, the dam broke and the river of God rushed into people’s lives and set them free.

John 8:31-32 “Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

I see truth incoming and incoming in a way that is going to blow up our theology.

We are living history in the making. When you are living it, many struggle to see it. Prophets have declared it, now it is manifesting on earth as it is in heaven. Can you see it? Can you hear it? Can you discern the day of your visitation? Oh the sweet fragrance of the presence of God invading earth, there is no smell quite like it.

A good friend of mine sent me a video this morning that brought me behind the curtain on something’s I could not have known. Now that I have heard, now that I have seen, I was given insight in ways I did not have before and the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “The four coders are the four craftsmen of Zechariah 1.”

I immediately opened my bible to read, “And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns! And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” And he said to me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.” Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen. And I said, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

We have been living under the authority of the four horns for so long, just as Israel lived in Egypt or under Babylon, so when the matrix of wickedness was breaking some did not believe it or see it. God has released the four craftsmen again and they are systematically dismantling things we are seeing and hearing about on the news today.

The kingdom of God, which is the government of God, the mountain of the Lord (Isaiah 2) is ruling on earth as it is on heaven again. Can you see the stone striking the feet of iron and clay (Daniel 2)? Turn on the news, you will see what is falling and hear about what is rising. Babylon has fallen and will continue to fall and the kingdom is rising and will be an everlasting kingdom. We are living in biblical history as our current reality.

Flies and frogs. The Lord has been speaking to me for over a week now about flies and frogs. As the swamp is drained the frogs are croaking louder and louder, while the flies are buzzing around and laying eggs on open wounds and dead things.

These are two animals I do not think much about, but when the Holy Spirit highlights them, I must pay attention. In Revelation 16 frogs are called unclean spirits that come out of the mouth of three creatures, the dragon, the beast and the false prophet. Frogs are voices that are polluting the atmosphere.

Flies are linked biblically to Mark 3:22 where Jesus is accused of using the Lord of the flies in His ministry. “The scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.” The Holy Spirit told me the flies are lies that are landing on open wounds and laying eggs in order to multiply the lie.

I have been on a prayer retreat for the past four days and when I opened a drawer in the place I am staying a fly came out. As the day went on more than one fly was flying around. I grabbed the fly swatter and killed a total of eight flies, then the Lord said, “Those are the lies that are flying around people. They need to kill them or they will lay eggs on their wound and multiply their lies.”

Today is the end of my prayer retreat, all the flies are dead, and what is amazing is a butterfly was seen. Butterflies represent new life, transformation. Taking out the lies in the spirit, silencing the croaking of the frogs in prayer is how we deal with atmospheric enemies who are seeking to divide. For Jesus said in Mark 3:24 “, “How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.”

God is dealing with the flies and frogs in the nations, in our churches, in our families, in our lives. The reason for this is because New Life is upon us and the old lies (flies) and old polluted thoughts (frogs) are not allowed in our new day (butterfly) life. The enemy is defeated in so many ways, now we rise up together and enjoy the sights and sounds of new life and declare “Die Fly”.