Author: lisagreatenebeli

We have been told a third great awakening is coming to the nations. Most of the time this language is tied to past awakenings which were about “revival” happening in churches, people getting saved, our idea of an awakening based on history. Then some have expanded this awakening to include a cultural revolution and language like seven mountain mandate have been brought into the vernacular of the church culture. Much of what we hear about a great awakening is rooted in historic awakenings, not in the mystery of a next awakening. Truly prophetic people can peer into the mystery of the future, they do not prophesy the past.

We are headed into a great awakening, but it is not going to be like any awakening we have experienced or read about before. The great awakening we are headed into is going to be a Song of Solomon (S o S) great awakening. S o S 3:5 and 8:4 say, “Do not arouse or awaken love before it is time.” Well, it is time. It is a time in history when God Himself has decided to awaken love in us. This is not a perverted, selfish, worldly love. This love is pure, unadulterated love. It is a great awakening. We have been seeded with a desire, a need, for love from both God and people. This love has been sleeping inside of us for our whole life, but God is awakening us to this love. It is truly going to be a great awakening.

This love is going to change our identity, for we see ourselves like S o S 1 says, “Do not stare at me because I am swarthy, For the sun has burned me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; They made me caretaker of the vineyards, But I have not taken care of my own vineyard.” We may not say it, but this is what is deeply rooted in most people. But the great love awakening is going to declare over us, “How beautiful you are, my darling, How beautiful you are! Your eyes are like doves. How handsome you are, my beloved, And so pleasant!” The Lord Himself, who is Light and in Him there is no darkness at all is saying, “I am awakening you to love, a love you have never known before.” It is time for the great love awakening.

Fear is losing its grip on us and when we finally get set free from fear, we are going to know a freedom that will break the spirit of control that has been put on us, off of us. We will walk in such freedom, we will declare wide open spaces are holy places and we will never go back to living in restricted places called fear. My lungs are expanding with every truth the Lord is revealing and the rhythm of His roar is returning in a way it is hard to describe. The wilderness was hard, it was long, it was a long season of holding our breath. But it lead to promised lands of the likes we did not know were available to us on this side of heaven. Oh friends, there is truly joy in the morning!!!!!

I was telling my women’s bible study yesterday, Jesus Christ is very simple, religion is complicated. The word of God is not hard to understand, but we must cast off all the doctrines of men if we are going to hear the simple truths that set us free. The amazing thing about simplicity is that it is very profound. Church, we are being set free from religion and once we are untangled from all the doctrines of men we are going to dance, sing, shout and rejoice because God is breaking the shackles off our feet!

The obstacle that is hard to overcome on this road to freedom is what I call the law of first mention. Whatever you have been told first tends to be what we believe and unhearing it or changing what we believe about it is very hard, because we have had it ingrained in us so we struggle to stip it off of us in order to be free from it. The word of God is not hard to understand, what people have told us the Bible says is what has us tangled up. God is untangling people from the doctrines of men, simplifying us so we can hear the Word of God and it is releasing a freedom of the likes we have never known before. The revolution is a revelation of Jesus Christ and it is building momentum daily!!!!

Why would you want to stay somewhere you don’t like? Why would you want to be living in a land, in a culture, you don’t enjoy? Why would you curse, destroy and demean somewhere you are currently living, rather than just move somewhere else? If you don’t like where you are living why don’t you move somewhere that you enjoy? Why do we stay in miserable situations and then blame the place rather than remove ourselves from there and find somewhere we do enjoy?

I spent nine years in another country. That country did not conform to my American way of life, my American values, my American attitude. No if I was going to live in that country, peaceably, I had to operate by their cultural norms, their patterns of behavior and their ways of doing life. They did not conform to me I had to conform to them if I was going to live in peace while there. The more I tried to make them like me, the more miserable I became. Once I submitted to their country and their culture, I enjoyed living in that foreign country, for I realized they are not going to change for me, so I must submit to them or leave.

I was praying Psalm 122 this morning and I realized the prayer for Jerusalem is given because you love that city. “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: (pray like this) May they prosper who love you. May peace be within your walls, And prosperity within your palaces. May peace be within you.” The call was to pray for the city called Jerusalem, if you don’t love the city, you won’t pray for it to have peace, safety, wealth. If you don’t love your nation you won’t pray for it like this. Church, we must find somewhere we love, live there and pray for it to have peace and prosperity. I love my nation, so I pray for it to have peace and prosperity, I pray you love where you live to.

There are passages in scripture that we are so familiar with we think we know them. But the word of God is living, active, sharper than a two-edged sword. The word speaks in now time, it does not change, but it reveals another aspect of its ability to build faith in us in any given moment. We do not make a theology out of every personal word God speaks to us, but when He speaks into our time, into our situation, it is rhema to us and it is like a kiss from heaven.

Psalm 121:1-2 says, “I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come? My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth.” How many times have we heard this? A lot. But today if we hear His voice we are not to harden our hearts. So, on a soft heart these words fall on us today. We are invited to lift up our eyes beyond the seven mountains of culture where most people are getting their help from. We are invited to lift up our eyes to the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. The invitation is to lift up your eyes even higher. When we lift up our eyes we will first notice a change in our posture. When we are looking down our posture pulls us down, when we are lifting up our eyes, our posture is being lifted up. Posture change is one benefit of lifting up our eyes.

Next, these verses are reminding us of the source of our help that never changes. The Source of help is the Lord, the helpers God uses change all the time. We are not to put our trust in the helpers, but in the Source that is constant, unchanging. Our job is not our Source, it is our helper. Our government is not our Source, it is our helper. We must realize God is going to change helpers in our life many times, but the Source remains constant. Put your trust in the Source and you will not be shaken when the helpers He sends to help us changes. He is right now changing helpers, but the Source is remaining the same. Fear not, help is on the way!!!!

Would you join me for a coffee talk this morning? Repent means to change the way we think, correct? Okay, so when we call for repentance, we are calling for people to change the way they think. Yet changing the way we think is actually harder to do than changing what we do in many cases. Our thoughts are the root while our actions are the fruit. It is easier to pick bad fruit, than to change a bad root. But to really repent we must change the way we think. This must be a deliberate decision, this is not something that just happens. Let’s talk about a thought we need to change in order to be ready for what is fast approaching.

In Matthew 24 it says “As in the days of Noah so it will be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man”. There were many things that happened in the days of Noah, but the main one is the flood. Who was swept away in the waters of the flood? The wicked. Who was left behind to replenish the new earth? Noah and his family. In Exodus 14, who crossed through the Red Sea on dry ground? Yes, the nation of Israel. Who was swept away in the waters of the Red Sea? Yes, Pharoh and his army. Were we not told in Exodus 14:13, “The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.” Okay, since this is all true, why is it so hard for us to believe God is sweeping away our enemies not us? Why do we struggle to believe we are called to be builders of the nations when the enemy is removed?

Isaiah 65 is what started this in me this morning, “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former things will not be remembered or come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create.” As I read this I realized we have been taught this is in the “millenial reign” or for some time after Jesus returns, but the Lord keeps telling me this is for now not for some time in the future. We are in the days of Noah, we are in the days of the Red Sea crossing, we are in the Isaiah 65 days, but we must repent, change the way we think, for the enemy is going to be swept away and we are going to be left behind to replenish the earth, to rebuild the nation, to restore the people. We are about to get to work in a way that is going to be enjoyable. I hope you ready to live your best life!

No one is perfect; we all need grace; no one will always say or do the right thing; have mercy; remember love covers. We must remove our finger from the trigger of snap judgments as to why someone reacted the way they did or said what they said. There are many variables that make up a persons life. Sometimes people will act out of character; extend grace, remember where you came from, remember who they are.

I was reading James 5:19-20 today in the Message translation and it reminded me of how in church we try to act so perfect and yet fail so often. We need to be gracious with each other, no matter how strong someone may be they have weak moments, they have struggles, they are human just like you and just like me. Listen to what James says, “My dear friends, if you know people who have wandered off from God’s truth, don’t write them off. Go after them. Get them back and you will have rescued precious lives from destruction and prevented an epidemic of wandering away from God.” When we see someone who is “off” our job is to lead them back not push them away further.

One thing I have learned from walking with God is that He always corrects us up, He does not rub out nose in our mistakes. He wants to lift us up and out of whatever situation we have gotten ourselves into. Friends, we must do this for one another. We must show each other grace, we must extend a hand to those who are struggling, we must keep our eyes wide open, for there are many who have fallen into pits of shame, sin, struggles and they don’t know how to get out. Love lifts others up does not push them down when they fall, stumble or struggle. There is a lot going on we know nothing about, show grace, it will give people what they need to get back in the race. Grace is the empowerment to succeed.

What the mainstream media says about a nation maybe the facts that are happening in a nation, but only what God says about a nation is the truth about that nation. There are many nations on the earth, each nation has a destiny, a calling, a reason for which it was created. Every nation is made up of people with a culture that is unique to them. One nation is not greater than another nation, each nation is distinct in its design. God made the nations and He himself birthed people in those nations to express what He wanted to come from that nation.

There is not national heirarchy on the planet from the view from God’s throne. There is distinction, there is variety and there is color, but there is no heirarchy. God does not prioritize one nation over another as more valuable, more special, more favorable. God is no respector of persons. John 3:16 makes this clear, “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in Him shall have everlasting life, but whoever does not believe in Him is condemned.” The choice is ours to believe or not believe in the Son who is the Savior of the world.

Now here is what God is saying to the planet, to the nations of the world. There is a planet wide rescue mission happening and it is being declared from heaven to all nations, Isaiah 62:8-9 “GOD has taken a solemn oath, an oath he means to keep: Never again will I open your grain-filled barns to your enemies to loot and eat. Never again will foreigners drink the wine that you worked so hard to produce. No. The farmers who grow the food will eat the food and praise GOD for it. And those who make the wine will drink the wine in my holy courtyards.” The decree coming from the throne of God is this! I can hear it loud and clear, the era of enemy invasion on the planet is over and the restoration, recompense and reward is fast approaching. Watch God rebuild the planet like only God can. This is the good news coming out of the kingdom throne room today. Hallelujah

Across the street from where we live currently, is a house that recently sold, but has not yet been moved into. While walking the dog, I saw a raccoon in the yard of this house. I have lived in this neighborhood for two years and have never seen a raccoon, so I knew this was a prophetic statement of some kind, but I wasn’t clear what. I processed some ideas with friends, then this morning while walking the dog, the Holy Spirit spoke to me about this raccoon and vacant house.

Raccoon prophetically is a picture of an “opportunistic thief” according to the Divinity Code. I thought about this all day yesterday, wondering many things about this raccoon and where I saw it. Then this morning, as I walked by the house, the Lord said to me, “Opportunistic thieves take advantage of vacant houses.” Immediately the Holy Spirit reminded me of Matthew 12:43-45 “When a defiling evil spirit is expelled from someone, it drifts along through the desert looking for an oasis, some unsuspecting soul it can bedevil. When it doesn’t find anyone, it says, ‘I’ll go back to my old haunt.’ On return it finds the person spotlessly clean, but vacant. It then runs out and rounds up seven other spirits more evil than itself and they all move in, whooping it up. That person ends up far worse off than if he’d never gotten cleaned up in the first place. That’s what this generation is like: You may think you have cleaned out the junk from your lives and gotten ready for God, but you weren’t hospitable to my kingdom message, and now all the devils are moving back in.”

I was stunned by this statement and prophetic picture the Lord was showing me. Yet the truth of it all is undeniable. We are undergoing a drip drip drip of a national house cleaning, but we are about to experience a flush and fill of the likes that is going to blow our minds. The Lord is going to flush out the wickedness, clean the house of our nation and then fill us with the Spirit of God in a way we have never known before. All because He knows better than we do, an opportunistic thief is waiting to invade a vacant house and the Lord is not going to leave us vacant, He is going to fill us with the glory of God. We have been robbed long enough, it is time to be flushed and filled with the glory of God!!!!! We are the house of God as a nation, as a church, as a family.

The Lord spoke to me last week and said, “The next revelation for the church is going to be intimacy with humanity.” I have sat on this for a week now, because it came with such a deep love, a piercing gaze and a powerful presence, I did not want to treat this word lightly. Now a week has passed and it is coming up in so many different ways, I knew with what the Lord spoke to me moments ago, I had to share it with all of you. Friends, the church is about to learn what it means that God Himself wants and is releasing intimacy with humanity.

I sat down to read and pray this morning and as I did my phone had the numbers 6:33 as the time, immediately I heard Matthew 6:33 “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you.” Then right on the heels of this verse the Holy Spirit said, with only the Matthew 6:33 context, “GOD HEARS!” I smiled and took it as a kiss from heaven, opened my bible to pray Psalm 116:1 and now I am undone. “I love the LORD, because He hears My voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live.”

I tell people in my bible study group, the Holy Spirit is the perfect point guard (basketball language) because He passes the truth right on your path so you walk right into it. The Holy Spirit said, God Hears and then the first verse on this 16th day of February in Psalm 116:1 the Bible says, “I love the LORD, because He hear My voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I shall call upon Him as long as I live.” I call this a kiss from heaven. The Lord is about to reveal His passionate pursuit of us as His church, His children and He is calling it intimacy with humanity.

My friends, God hears you when you pray; God sees where you are; God knows your name and He is hotly pursuing you. He loves to talk with us, He longs to walk with us, He loves doing life with us. He is not a god that is far away, He is Yahweh and He wants intimacy with humanity.

Have you ever wondered why people seek glory (abundance, honor, splendor, reputation, dignity, the best seat)? Glory is the Hebrew word kabod and it means “weighty”, it is heavy and it was not meant for us to carry. Yet it comes with things we think we want. Our wants for glory are rooted in our lack of knowing the truth about who we really are.

Here is what happens. The enemy deceives us and when we believe his lies, it creates in us a deficit. Then he offers us glory to fill the vacuum he created. The glory then gets so heavy we can’t maintain what we gained. The weight crushes us and hurts others. When we are under pressure, when we are carrying any kind of weight, we say and do things that hurts other people. The enemy is never after just injuring you, he is an equal opportunity enemy. He goes after those you love as well.

It is no wonder the psalmist says “Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory because of your loving kindness and truth (Psalm 115:1). The Lord loves us so much He does not want to put a weight on us we cannot carry. We were never meant to be ones who get glory. The beauty of the mystery of God is that Christ is in us and we are in Christ. People see the works of Christ in us and through us and they acknowledge that as they should. However, we are not meant to carry His glory, we are not built for that kind of pressure.

Jesus said, “My yoke is easy and my burden is light.” When we declare with the psalmist, “Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory…” we are walking with an easy yoke and a light burden, but if you want the glory, you will experience the pressure, the weight and the results of carrying something you were never created to carry. He alone is built to carry glory, so we sing, “You deserve the glory and the honor, so I lift my hands in worship and bless your holy name!”