Author: lisagreatenebeli

The spirit of poverty has nothing to do with how much money you have, it is a spirit and it is no respecter of persons. This spirit of poverty is in the rich and the poor alike. It is in every class you see, middle, lower, upper class. The spirit of poverty tells you if you more money is the answer to your problems. If only you had more money, but money is not going to defeat the spirit of poverty. God in His absolute genius, used poverty to defeat poverty. The Bible says, “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich” (2 Cor. 8:9). This is the pattern of God, for He used sin to defeat sin (2 Cor. 5:21); He used death to defeat death (1 Cor. 15:55); and He used poverty to defeat poverty. It’s hard to understand but it is the truth.

We are being invited to let the Lord defeat the spirit of poverty in our lives, for if this spirit is not put under your feet, no amount of money is going to change the unrest in your soul. Money does not cure anxiety, fear, depression, loneliness, fear of missing out, anger, drunkenness, sexual immorality, you name the battle. They all are rooted in a spirit of poverty and create unrest for your soul. The Lord wants us to believe His word and trust His ways, if we want to be free from a spirit of poverty. We must partner with God, who is abundance to come out from under the spirit of poverty.

Psalm 116 says, “Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yes, our God is compassionate. The LORD preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me. Return to your rest, O my soul, For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. For You have rescued my soul from death, My eyes from tears, My feet from stumbling. I shall walk before the LORD In the land of the living.” He didn’t just save you from hell, He saved you from the spirit of poverty, by treating you bountifully, so your soul can return to rest while you are alive. I hear the old hymn “Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, and to take Him at His word…” Come on friends, it’s time to access salvation from all sin which is the spirit of poverty. We have access to abundance!

The root of fear which is so deeply entrenched is producing the fruit of anxiety, depression, anger, loneliness, all the hinderances to living an abundant life. One of the fruits of this root of fear, which hinders us more than any other is control. Control has so many synonyms, self- protection, self- preservation, self-promotion, yes, all of self focus is the fruit of control and is rooted in fear. This taproot called fear must be cast out with perfect love. This means, only the love of God can uproot this out of your life. The body of Christ needs to be delivered from the taproot of fear, and planted in perfect love if we are going to accomplish all God has planned for our generation. No wonder Jesus said, “My Father is the vinedresser” in John 15, the Father is a Master gardener. I mean it all started in a garden, so He knows what He is doing.

I bring this up, because I was praying Psalm 115 this morning and it says, “Not to us, O LORD, not to us, But to Your name give glory Because of Your lovingkindness, because of Your truth. Why should the nations say, Where, now, is their God? But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases.” As I prayed these first 3 verses of this Psalm, it was obvious to me, that the words, “Our God is in the heavens, He does whatever He pleases” is a hard statement to swallow for fearful, controlling people. Actually all three verses are hard for us, because the words “Not to us, not to us” is about not being selfish or self-centered, or self-focused. Wow, what a Psalm. It really gives you a good morning chiropractic adjustment immediately.

What i realized is, we cannot be controlling and walk with God. He alone is in charge and our response to His leadership is to either trust Him or to resist Him. No matter which option we choose it does not change His position of being in charge and doing whatever He pleases. However, our response does affect our peace. As scary as not being in control sounds, it is actually the only place where we find true peace. We can not control and trust at the same time. Trust is the heart posture of being at rest knowing someone else is control, in charge, and I can tell you from experience, there is no one I trust like I trust God. He is trustworthy.

There are many differences between Christians and Hebrews, I called them Hebrews rather than Jews because Jews only represent the southern kingdom of Israel called Judah it does not represent the northern kingdom of Israel called Israel. The differences between Christians and Hebrews is stark in many ways. One of the main differences is that the Hebrews are not afraid of the word dominion but Christians are.

The idea of a dominion mandate which was given to humanity in Genesis chapter 1 is challenging for Christians to accept, because the counterfeit dominion was seen, heard and felt before the authentic dominion could be experienced. Whenever the mention of the idea of dominion or taking dominion happens, many believers go back to the crusades or to the expulsion of Native Americans. These histories are the reason we don’t understand the mystery call dominion.

The Hebrew people do not stumble over the word dominion. When God told them to take Jericho they took it with a shout (Joshua 6), when God told them to take the promised land and take out the Giants they did it with five smooth stones (1 Samuel 17). Throughout the word of God the Hebrews took land and it was a mandate from God, as Christians we struggle to take dominion because we remember what Rome did and we don’t want to treat people that way. The challeng is we are anchored in history rather than biblical reality when we resist the very invitation that God gives us. This is not only related to dominion this is related to many other healings as well.

The reason we are called to take dominion over the Earth can be found in Psalm 114:2 “Judah became His sanctuary, Israel, His dominion!” To understand this verse we have to understand that names meant callings. Therefore when it says Judah became His sanctuary, Judah means praise therefore wherever there is praise there is a sanctuary. Judah is also a land where Jerusalem is located physically today. And what is located in Jerusalem…the temple (Mount). The sanctuary of praise is located in the land of praise which is called Judah. Now when he says Israel, Israel means peace, therefore the land of Israel is a place of peace or at least it’s called to be a place of peace and that explains why there’s so much conflict. The enemy will fight the calling that he knows is on a land or a person with the very antithesis of what they were called to be. Now with that being said Israel, peace is His dominion. That means wherever peace reigns the dominion of God is.

We have been given a dominion mandate, that means only people that have given Yahweh dominion over their life will be able to take dominion over other peoples lives. Not to rule over, not to lord over, not to harm, not to punish, but to create a place of peace. When the righteous are in power peace is supposed to reign in the Earth. Peace is His dominion so wherever you find genuine peace, you will find the dominion of God. Have a great Saturday!

Oh my good news! I am reading the prophet Micah this morning and it is telling the story of a people who have gotten themselves knee deep into idolatry, falsehood, deception, I mean they are in a mess. Micah even says in chapter 2 “If a man walking after wind and falsehood Had told lies and said, I will speak out to you concerning wine and liquor,’ He would be spokesman to this people.” Now that is not a compliment to the people of God to whom Micah is speaking, but it was the reality they were living in.

People do not like to be confronted on their “stuff”. Most people are not lovers of the truth, that is why they do not want you to tell them the truth about who they are. It is as though we have learned to function in our dysfunction so we do not want to change our function. Sin is a destroyer, no matter what the sin is, but we don’t want to hear the truth about sin, our attitude, who we are hurting, how we are self-sabotaging, none of it. Just tell me I am seen, heard and loved just as I am and I will be fine. This is what was happening in Israel and Judah while Micah prophesied.

Then all of the sudden, seemingly out of nowhere, Micah, speaking for the Lord says, ““I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob, I will surely gather the remnant of Israel. I will put them together like sheep in the fold; Like a flock in the midst of its pasture They will be noisy with men. “The breaker goes up before them; They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it. So their king goes on before them, And the LORD at their head” (Micah 2:12-13). God gathered them like sheep in a fold, then went before them to break them out! I see a gathering taking place of people who are scattered and God is about to do a jail break from the bondage, dysfunction, the disasters they are in. This is not unbelievers, this is a jail break for Christians who are in sin. Oh my good news, this is what God is about to do!

Reading the Bible can be mentally challenging. Not because the word of God is not truth, but because we have so much mental infrastructure that is not true. The challenge is, we have agreed with our internal mental infrastructure so when we read truth, even though we know its the truth, we do not agree with it unto action. Deception is so deep seeded, so deeply rooted in us, it literally does not move even when we read the word of God, which is truth.

How many sermons have we heard and done nothing with what we heard? How many bible studies have we attended, but still nothing changed in us when it comes to internal infrastructure. We are masters of justification and then wonder why we struggle with the same sins, the same attitudes, the same issues. We have been seeded by culture and it is deception. How do I know, because we read something in the word of God and even though we like what it says, we don’t agree with it, so we do nothing with what we just read.

James 1:22-25 says, “But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.”

Humility is not a one time thing, it is a character quality, it means we remain teachable. We are so secure in what little we know about God, so we stop learning. When it comes to technology, we are out buying the latest gadget; when it comes to food, we are on the latest fad; when it comes to the news, we don’t miss a story. We change with culture, but we remain the same with what we know about God. My friends, we must be teachable, for what God is doing is beyond anything we have ever seen or heard before. If you are not humble, you will resist the move of God because of your internal infrastructure that thinks it knows all it needs to about God. Beware, God is going to offend us if we are not humble and teachable.

What you put your hand to is not your identity, who He says you are is your identity, no matter what your hand may be doing. Many people think their identity is what they do, so if they are not doing what they believe they were created for, they struggle with their identity. On the other hand, because people put their identity in what they do with their hand, when they are no longer doing anything with their hand, they don’t know who they are. Our identity is not what we do with our hand.

I am currently doing things with my hand which look contrary to who I am based on calling. However, my identity does not change. I can clean a chicken coup, oversee a chimney cleaning and go shopping for supplies to set up an AirBnB and it does not change my identity as a mouthpiece and minister of God. I know who I am and whose I am so what I do with my hand has no affect on who I am.

People who have tied their identity to what they do will only do what they believe they are called to do. But Jesus said, “The Son of Man came to serve, not to be served and to give His life as a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:45). Jesus grew up learning the trade of stonemason or carpenter, that is what He did with His hands, but it was not His identity. His identity was Son of God; Savior of the world. Because He knew who He was, what He did, did not diminish who He was and He could serve anyone and do anything His hand found to do.

Church, our identity is not in what we do, but in who God says we are. We must separate these two things, identity and what our hand is doing, or we will never be a servant of all, for we will think that is not who I am so that is not what I am supposed to do and we will miss out on so many things God put on our path for us. I am a mouthpiece and minister no matter what my hand is doing, and you are who God says you are, no matter what your hand is doing. Now lets get to work, to serving, for we know who we are.

I wonder if our challenge is we want to be alive in the flesh so badly, we are not coming fully alive in the spirit. We cannot be alive in both the flesh and the spirit. We are called to put to death the deeds of the flesh so we can be alive in the spirit, but we have been lied to and said we can live in the flesh and the spirit simultaneously and that is just not biblically accurate. No wonder so many people avoid church, Christianity and even God. They were told come as you are, so they did. Then they were told say a prayer so you can go to heaven, so they did. But no one told them you have to die to your flesh in order to be alive in the spirit. So, they said a prayer, but do not have an abundant life. Hmmmmmmmm

1 Peter 3:18 says, “For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;” Until we put to death the flesh, the self life we love so much, we will never be alive in the spirit. Being a Christian in the flesh is the most challenging life you will live. But we are not called to live in the flesh, but in the spirit. However, to do this, you must literally surrender all. You must die to your self, your flesh, and live for Jesus the Christ. There is no lukewarm, half-hearted, when I feel like it or am in the mood spirit life. When you have died to your self, to your flesh, you are alive in the spirit and you want you want to get up in the morning, for you are so alive.

1 Peter 1:13-16 says, “Prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, “YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.” Friends, He paid a big price for us to be free, this is not about going to heaven, but about living alive in the spirit on earth. We are ambassadors for Christ. We are His witnesses. We must die to our self, so we can live and show a dying world what life really looks Iike.

Chuck Pierce and Glory of Zion International in Dallas, TX does a Head of the Year conference to start off the every new Hebrew year. Insight both prophetically and practically is released during this conference from a variety of speakers and prophetically voices both planned and spontaneous. Staring on Thursday and ending on Sunday morning, revelation flowed freely through this ministry this past weekend. One thing Chuck said was, “Pay attention to the signs on your path this year.”

For you that don’t know on the Hebrew calendar, which predates the Gregorian calendar, it is the year 5784. The number 4 in Hebrew is the picture of a door, as the Hebrew alphabet is letters, numbers and pictures. Therefore, this year was themed the year of the door. Much was said about this year and there are many scriptures about doors, gates, thresholds in scripture, so the creeks off this years river are many. But, yesterday, I opened the passanger “door” to my son’s truck to go to church and when I did there was a fully developed spider web with a spider sitting right in the center of it. I looked at it, for it was visible to me and needed to be dealt with for me to enter into the vehicle.

Remembering what Chuck said about paying attention to the signs on your path this year, I found it prophetic, that a spider web and spider would be on the other side of the door. Spiders and webs represent deception, lies, evil spirits, entanglement, but it also represents an end of an era. The web and spider so visibly displayed on the others side of the door, represents the end of an era of lies, deception and evil spirits ruling in the atmosphere of the church. I called my son over and he killed that spider and destroyed that web so I could enter into his vehicle. My son said, “now that it’s dead there will be no more webs”. I said, yes, yes, yes, son you are so right.

My friends, the evil ruling spirits of the last era are dead, the web of their lies is visible and as we enter this new year of the door, open door, double doors, we must kill any old mindsets and destroy any webs of lies from a past season, an old era, for we have crossed over into a new space and time in which truth reigns, righteousness rules and purity prevails. Welcome to 5784. Get in, we have so many places to go!

When all the main amplified voices in our nation, who we call “prophets” are all saying the same thing, it is unique and worthy of taking note. It is unique not because it shouldn’t always be this way, but because usually there is not this type of synchronicity of sound that is undeniable. People have said, who are we supposed to believe, one person is saying this and another is saying that. We do not have that issue right now in this moment. All the amplified voices are saying a shaking is coming. All of the amplified voices are saying they do not know what it will be in specificity but a shaking is coming and it is inevitable.

For years I have said, Babylon is falling (Revelation 18). Since the Lord sent me to Jekyll Island, GA to abort what was conceived there in 2021, I have known this shaking was going to be financial. I have written about it over and over again. Then last Sunday, the Lord spoke to me and said, “Read the book of Amos, so I have been reading this book of prophecy all week long and yesterday I read Amos 8:4-8 “Hear this, you who trample the needy, to do away with the humble of the land, saying, When will the new moon be over, So that we may sell grain, And the sabbath, that we may open the wheat market, To make the bushel smaller and the shekel bigger, And to cheat with dishonest scales, So as to buy the helpless for money And the needy for a pair of sandals, And that we may sell the refuse (chaff) of the wheat? The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob, Indeed, I will never forget any of their deeds. Because of this will not the land quake.”

When I read financial injustice is what is causing the land to quake, I was again told this shaking is going to be financial. We have been robbed financially since the conception on Jekyll Island, GA and we have been being robbed every since. Even today prices are higher and portion sizes are smaller, sounds like Amos to me. The hammer of justice is coming down on Babylon and this system of corruption is being judged by God Himself. Yes we will feel the shaking, but it is not for our breaking but our making. Don’t try and hoard, for your money won’t spare you from the shaking, only your faith will stabilize you when Babylon falls.

What is the purpose for which you were made? You and I were born for such a time as this. People love to look back on different eras of time, wishing they lived during one of the great awakenings; dreaming of what it would have been like in Ireland during the Welsh revival; or how much fun it would have been to live in Israel when Jesus was alive. We spend time dreaming of a day gone by while we live with no understanding of the purpose for which we were made right here and right now. What is the purpose for which you were made for right now?

We are living in historic days. We were born for these days, for this time, for this moment in history. What is the purpose for which God has made you for right here, right now. You are in your nation for a purpose. You are your gender for a purpose. You are your race for a reason. What is the purpose of all of it for right now? The answer to this question unlocks untold joy, which is really the fruit of contentment. Anxiety, fear, depression, are fruits of a lack of contentment, which comes from understanding purpose. God did not just toss seed and out you came, He planted seed and birthed you for such a time as this. Understanding your purpose is critical for your soul’s rest. If you don’t know the answer then ask the Lord, what is the purpose of my being born at this time in history? He will answer if you ask.

Proverbs 16:4 says, “The LORD has made everything for its own purpose, Even the wicked for the day of evil.” God made you for a purpose. Paul said in Acts 13:36 “Now when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep; he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed.” God made you for a purpose. I pray you discover what that purpose is, so you can fulfill the purpose for which you were made. My purpose is to communicate the gospel of the kingdom to a generation that does not know the truth that wil set them free. I was created for a purpose in this time of history. What is your purpose, once you know it, you will realize you were created on purpose to solve a problem and it will bring you great joy.