Author: lisagreatenebeli

In prayer this morning the Holy Spirit highlighted the mannequin in the spare bedroom of our house to me. It has been in this same room for over two years, I pray in the same place every day, but today the Holy Spirit had me take notice of this mannequin and said to me, “Either the head is neglecting the body so it is breaking down or the body is rejecting the head, which is why it is breaking down.” Immediately I knew this was a nod to Ephesians 5.

Ephesians 5:25-30 says “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body.”

If a husband neglects his wife she will break down and not operate by design. He as the head sends messages to her that either cause her to be built up, cherished, nourished or the neglect causes a breakdown in her and the marriage. The same is true with the church, Christ is the perfect head sending messages of life, hope, joy, peace, grace, mercy, all the things to us as His body, but if we reject the messages He is sending to us, we as the body of Christ will break down.

Neglect causes a breakdown in the marriage and reject causes a breakdown in the church. Both neglect and reject breakdown what the Lord intended to be built up. It is fun to be called the head of something, but it is a whole other thing to actually take the responsibility of being the head. And we as the church are the body of Christ, we must stop rejecting the messages our head, Christ is sending to us, for He is trying to build us up, make us inside strong, establish us in truth, so we can operate by design, but we must receive not reject what He is saying to us. #morningmusings

The holidays are officially over but the effects of them will linger into the first quarter of this year. Credit card bills will arrive, sugar will need to be detoxed, those ten pounds of carbs you picked up this past season will need to be shed. I am thinking by late March early April we will be ready to really run this race that is set before us. The gym is filled with people today, the stores are having long lines at the return desk and the restaurants are doing their deep cleaning because no one is coming in. The after effect of over indulgence is real and many people are feeling it as they head back to work today. Yet for others, the holidays being over is a welcome relief, for they are ready to get back to work.

Natural things have always been ways of sharing spiritual realities. Jesus spoke in parables to people all the time, using natural things like sheep, goats, coins, sons, oil and bread to describe spiritual truths. It helps the message stick when the natural is tied to the spiritual. Naturally we just came off a season of indulgence and now we are wanting to return to being fit. I believe the same is true in the spirit, we have been in a long winter season of lethargy, grief, loss, loneliness, and all the symptoms that come with a desert time, but we have entered a new day, a new year, a new way of doing life. To fully embrace the new we must leave behind the old. The days are behind us but it is the memories of the old we bring with us and it hinders our ability to see the new. We must repent of brining old memories into new realities, if those memories hinder what God is doing now.

Proverbs 2 says “When wisdom wins your heart and revelation breaks in, true pleasure enters your soul.” The new we are entering into is a time of wisdom and revelation that is going to bring such pleasure to us without negative after effects like sugar leaves behind. Wisdom and revelation are going to infect us in a way that causes our faces to shine, our spirits to soar, our hearts to love again. Wisdom is the new we need as a body. Wisdom is superior even to gold and silver, precious jewels and stones. Here is the call coming from wisdom at the door of this new year “Follow those who follow wisdom and stay on the right path. For all my godly lovers will enjoy life to the fullest and will inherit their destinies.” (Proverbs 2:20-21) I pray this year is a year of wisdom and revelation for the benefits of these two are beautiful.

2024/5784 The year of the open door! The sound of the shofar has been released, the prophetic words are pouring in, the fireworks have been going off, and here we are on earth in a new kairos time in history. Yahweh is so personal and present in our life on earth, He actually works in our time to help us understand what He is doing on earth as it is in heaven. One of the greatest challenges we as believers face is the truth that God shows us the end from the beginning.

In 2013 I began a journey with the Lord of the likes I did not see coming. It began with prophetic words, commissioning declarations, visions, dreams and thoughts that I was going to take off that moment into this major life changing time, now 10 years have passed and the journey though the wilderness was hard, but we made it and here we are. What I didn’t realize in 2013, but I do now, is that God showed me things in 2013 which were a new beginning, for what He is about to do now in 2024. It is hard to hear promises but not see them manifest, but the promise is not for that moment, it is for the journey. When I wanted to quit, the Lord reminded me of the promises. The gift of promises are for the sake of perseverance.

Yesterday as I was reading my bible, the Holy Spirit spoke two words to me, “JUBILEE JAMBOREE”. I am a city girl, I have never used the word jamboree before in my life. I did not even know what a jamboree is, but I do live in Nashville, so it is fitting. Jamboree means, a large organized event that many people go to, or a busy, noisy occasion; a noisy celebration; a large assembly often international; a mass gathering. Now it makes sense. We are about to enter into a “JUBILEE JAMBOREE” and we will see debt cancellation, land restoration and family reconciliation (Lev. 25). This jubilee will be an international jamboree in which it is going to get really busy and very loud. The days of silence, seclusion, and suffering are over, we are now entering into a “JUBILEE JAMBOREE!”

We are extremely acquainted with our King coming in on a donkey to die for the sins of the world, but what we are not as comfortable with is the King of glory coming in on a stately chariot loaded with weighty splendor and magnificence. We have been saturated with a meek Savior crucified on a cross for sinners, but we are about to inundated with the truth of our risen King of glory who has all power and authority over the nations. 2024 is not just the turning of the calendar, it is the beginning of the King of glory’s entrance into our atmosphere.

Psalm 24 will be the theme verses for this year, but these verses will lead to other verses as well like fruit on a tree or roots that go very deep. Psalm 24:9 is the decree, “Wake up, you living gateways, and rejoice! Fling wide, you eternal doors! Here he comes; the King of Glory is ready to come in. You ask, “Who is this King of Glory?” He is Yahweh, armed and ready for battle, the Mighty One, the invincible commander of heaven’s hosts! Yes, he is the King of Glory!” He is coming in on a stately carriage and we are about to experience a golden year. His reputation precedes Him and the apostle Paul spoke of him in 1 Corinthians 2:7-8 “We speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory; the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”

5784/2024 is going to be a golden year. A year of wisdom and revelation; a year of radical transformation; a year of prophetic declaration; the King of glory is here, He is coming in, not to rapture us out of here, but to baptize us in liquid love, golden honey, and we will never the same again. Watch many return to their first love; look for the prodigals to come home; brace for Babylon to fall; and know the first one to come through the door of this year is the King of glory, the Lord strong and mighty. He is coming in on a stately carriage loaded with splendor and magnificence of the likes we have not seen before. The crucified King on a tree was a marker in history, the King of glory is His current reality. Welcome to the golden year of God’s glory!

The ways of God are not human ways, this is why we misunderstand God more often than we care to admit. We are so accustomed to humanity we do not really understand the ways of divinity. Reading Luke 1 this morning it wasn’t just words it was the story of someone’s life. As I listened to the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth, I was struck by their humanity and God’s divinity.

Zechariah and Elizabeth are both of priestly lineage, righteous, blameless, following God with their whole hearts, but she is barren and he is without an heir. Barrenness has nothing to do with whether we are righteous or not, God’s ways are not our ways. The enemy tries to tell us our barrenness is due to some sin in our life, some generational curse on our life, or some other issue we can’t seem to shake, but that is not what God says, barrenness will give way to birth, just wait and see.

Zechariah is doing his priestly duties in the temple and he is well along in years. All of the sudden while offering prayers, the angel Gabriel stands next to the altar and gives Zechariah an announcement that his wife is going to have a baby boy and that his prayers have been answered. What an announcement to a couple who has been barren for years, but the announcement was not enough, he wanted a sign. Gabriel says, okay your sign is silence until the appointed time of this child’s birth. But that’s not all, Elizabeth was sent into the seclusion for 5 months once she heard she was pregnant. Silence and seclusion do not sound like humanities way of celebrating such good news after such a long wait.

Many have been barren, but they have heard announcements from God. Now they are pregnant, but God has still kept them secluded and silent. This is confusing to humanity but it is the way of divinity. The appointed time is so close and many are going to rejoice over what God is birthing. Once the birth happens the sound will be restored and the manifestion will be seen. The days of silence and seclusion are ending! Oh my this is going to be a party for the ages as heaven and earth rejoice together.

Hear something once it can be in one ear and out the other, hear something twice and it causes us to at least pause and wonder what is this echo I am hearing and why. Many people miss the voice of God not because they cannot hear God but because they do not lean in to the echo. Pause, ponder, lean in to listen, you might experience the voice of God in the most unusual and unsuspecting places for He is the only God who is living; the only God who speaks; and the only God who hears. Jesus Christ is a living God not a statue, idol or monument to something that was.

I was reading Psalm 59 and Proverbs 29 this morning and a phrase caught my attention in Psalm 59 then was echoed in Proverbs 29. I have been telling people, the Holy Spirit is the perfect point guard for He passes you the word right in front of you as you are going through your day, your devotions, your discussions, your driving, your whatever you are a doing. Here is what I saw in Psalm 59 “Here they come again— prowling, growling like a pack of stray dogs in the city. But as for me, your strength shall be my song of joy. At each and every sunrise, my lyrics of your love will fill the air! For you have been my glory-fortress, a stronghold in my day of distress.” Now for the echo from Proverbs 29, “The wicked always have a trap laid for others, but the lovers of God escape as they sing and shout in joyous triumph!”

Here is what I am sensing, we are going to need to sing, shout and rejoice even when it looks Iike we should be scared, intimidated, and on the run. I sense the enemy is about to release something that will try to spook us, but the Lord is putting a song in us, a shout in us. Emotions are energy in motion, you are going to want to do one thing, but I sense the Lord inviting us to see beyond the smoke and mirrors the enemy wants to release to see the victory God has decreed. It is time to see the walls of Jericho fall, shout, sing my friends for God has given us the victory.

On Christmas Day my 15 year old son gave me a prophetic word with the gift he bought for me. In this prophetic word he said, “Mom, the coming year I find very special because, in the Hebrew calendar, this year is the year of the voice of the Doorkeeper. From what I read about it, it means that this new year new doors will open by the voice of God and old doors will be closed.” He went on to say some personal prophetic things to me, but what I found in this word from him a word for the body of Christ who have been waiting at the threshold as a doorkeeper.

Psalm 84:10 says, “Better is one day in your courts, than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked” (NIV). The word doorkeeper means, to wait at the threshold; to stand at; to guard the threshold. The threshold is a piece of wood or stone placed beneath a door; a door still; either end of an airport runway; the place of point of beginning; the outset. (The American Heritage Dictionary)

There have been many opportunities to leave the threshold, to abandon our post as a doorkeeper, but just like 500 started in the upper room in Acts 1-2 only 120 were there when the fire of God fell. My friends others who began with us standing at the threshold may have walked away to do other things, but for those who are still waiting at the threshold, who are still on the tarmac ready to take off, I believe what my son said, this is the year of the voice of the doorkeeper. New doors are going to open for us, old doors are going to close behind us, and we are going to launch.

Rewards are for those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 13:8); promotions are for those who produce continually; not everyone is going to experience the same thing, but for the waiters at the threshold, it is time for the year of the open double doors. 5784 in Hebrew calendar and 2024 in Gregorian calendar. I see double doors opening for those who decided better was one day in His courts than a thousand elsewhere. Welcome to the year of the open doors.

I went on an early morning walk through the woods with my dog Hunter today and we found this old barn. It caught my attention because I love taking pictures of buildings with character and this one was rich with character, texture and photographs well in both black, white and color. While looking at this barn the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “This is what desolation looks like.” I walked around the barn looked inside it and pondered what the Holy Spirit said.

Desolation means a place that is dark, empty and foreboding; biblically desolation means a state of spiritual emptiness or lonelinesss, a place where we feel cut off from God and His love. In this place of desolation we feel like we have no hope and that we are alone. According to an article I read it is the feeling of being joyless, disconsolate and sorrowful and can be very overwhelming and even debilitating. The article went on to say it can make it hard to function normally and enjoy life (theholyscript.com).

Wondering about this old barn, observing all the character, contemplating what used to happen in it, I began to hear the Lord say, “Desolation happens when life leaves.” Immediately I saw the life coming back into this building as soon as someone living put their hands on it. Boards were strengthened, stain was applied, doors were rehung, and the structure was stabilized. It wouldn’t take a lot to rebuild this desolate place, but it would take someone living to enter into it and bring it back to life.

Friends, when we see someone or something desolate, what is your response? Do you want to bring it back to life or do you walk past it and think too bad, so sad? In this proximity revolution we are going to encounter desolate places, people, and properties, but we who carry life are to enter into the desolation and release words of life. We are being invited to give a hand up to people, places and properties, these opportunities to cause dead things to live is a mark of the proximity revolution. Can you see the beauty in those broken down boards?

A phrase that has been coming out of my mouth lately is, “Protective not possessive.” I have never said this before, so I am pondering what this phrase means because I use it quite often seemingly all of the sudden. I tell people it is critical that we listen to what we say more than what others say, for we are held accountable for the words that come out of our mouth not the ones that come out of theirs. That’s a whole other blog, but I said that because when these words have been coming out of my mouth they are new phraseology to me and I like them but wanted to explore them.

God is protective not possesive and we are called to be the same. We have been subject to possessive people who sought to control us, dominate us, restrict our movement, limit our expression, so we are resistant to the idea of someone being possessive. I think we have such an aversion to possessive because sin is possessive, Satan is possessive and demons are possessive. The Bible says, we were slaves to sin. It was as though we were owned by sin, by Satan and by demonic influences, so when in the same passage in Romans, the apostle Paul says, we are called to be slaves of righteousness, we buck the idea of someone or something possessing us. But God is not possessive, He is protective and we are called to be the same.

1 Corinthians 13 says, “Love protects!” Love protects, it does not possess, it protects. Love protects us from danger, from others who are not safe, from ourselves. Love protects from snares and snipers. We long to be loved but we are afraid of being protected because we think it means possession. God loves us so He protects us by giving us commands in His word; protection creates a sense of safety so people can thrive, live and enjoy life. We have been so accustomed to the counterfeit called possession we must repent for the authentic is here and it is protection. God and others love us so much they want to protect us not take possession of us. They love you that is why they want to protect you.

The key of the kingdom is a sound that comes from God Himself. When we are all in the same key, our sound will be in unison and will penetrate even the hardest hearts, darkest nights, and deepest wounds. The key of the kingdom is a sound of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit (Romans 14:17). The Lord is wanting to tune us to His key, but so often we want to sing in our own key. The keys of self and sin take us out of tune and we do not sound good, nor do we work well with others when we are out of tune.

On this Christmas Day when the word became flesh and tabernacled/dwelt among us (John 1:14) the words of Jesus are ringing like church bells calling us to come together in agreement with the key of the kingdom of God. The prayer of Jesus in John 17 that we would be one as Jesus and His Father are one is still vibrating around the throne of God. To become One with God and each other, we must all be in the same key. We must put away sin and selfishness for there are no solos in the kingdom of God, we are a choir. We must listen to the voices of those around us and watch the direction of the Holy Spirit our conductor in front of us. For there is a sound the Father and Son wants to come from us.

When we sing together in a choral sound, there is power of the likes that will shake the ground. As we stay in tune with the key of the kingdom; as we listen to those around us; as we keep sin and selfishness far away; we will find ourselves surrounded with angels we have heard on high singing in excelsis deo! The goal of this choir is to release the sound of All Hail King Jesus for He is Majesty and we are to worship His Majesty. I hear the Lord wanting His prayer for us to be One answered this Christmas, for this is the gift we give Him together. May the key of kingdom be the key you live in and may we all love being a choir for His voice is like the sound of many waters (Ezekiel 43:2) not just one drop and I hear the sound of the abundance of rain (1 Kings 18:41) and it is in the key of the kingdom.