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Only God, who has infinite wisdom, can take a verse from Psalm 86 and turn it into a teaching of the likes I had never thought about. Verse 8 says, “There is no one like You among the gods, O Lord, Nor are there any works like Yours.” The way God works is how we are called to work, but do that we must be willing to change the way we have always worked in order to adapt to His works. Many people are not willing to do this, not because they don’t see the benefit in it, but because the works of God go against the grain of every culture in the world and in the church. I know it sounds crazy, but even the church works in a way that God doesn’t work.

The Holy Spirit began speaking to me about one of the ways He works and it is through generosity. He began to teach me this morning, generosity is a value of the kingdom, while charging is a value of the world. Generosity sees and hears the value of what is being shared freely and then responds with generosity. The challenge is we are so accustomed to being charged for that which is valuable, that when there is no charge attached to value, we can see and hear the value but not respond with generosity. This is why people in the church raise money, share their needs and ask for finances, because if they don’t reveal a charge, most have no clue how to respond in generosity.

We as the church have taught this system of charging, which is a system of the world to the church. We call it tithing. We value the church and God at 10%, so once people give their 10% to the church, most believe they have done their fair share to support the work of God. But that is not the kingdom. The kingdom does not value charging and does not put a limit on generosity. The kingdom of God values our response of generosity. When is the last time you responded to what you heard or saw or felt or experienced with generosity?

I don’t fault people for tithing, for giving offerings or for anything they give, I just think we have taught you to pay for conferences, books, teachings, we call it becoming a partner of the ministry, or whatever, but we have not taught people how to be generous. If you responded in generosity to the places and people who release value only, many would change where they put their money and I believe generosity would break the spirit of poverty. However, it starts with learning how to see, hear and know value and then obeying the still small voice inside of you that nudges you to be generous.

If we did this, one, people would most likely give more than 10% because generosity does not have a limit and two it would cut off the revenue streams to those who do not add any kingdom value to this world, which would cause one system to fall and another rise. What if the answer starts with generosity? Paul said, “God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good work.” (2 Corinthians 9:8). Generosity breaks the spirit of poverty in us, henceforth, the call to respond with generosity, not wait to be told how much you are being charged.

The problem with pride is we think everything is going to happen in our lifetime. We believe we are the last generation, we have been told Jesus is coming back in our lifetime. We have seen the charts, heard what bowls, seals, trumpets we are at. People have written books on blood moons, moeds, and the seven church ages. I call them the one message wonders, because they make me wonder why they have nothing else to say. Days go by, weeks go by and years go by, but the message they preach is still the same fear based, rapture rhetoric that creates in people fear of the future. Every time an earthquake happens we hear a Matthew 24 message. My friends, when is this message which is like stretched out elastic going to stop getting airplay in your head?

Pride is reading the word of God with an agenda, an idea of what it says, where humility is letting the word of God speak to you in now time about what it is saying. When we have a one message ministry, we reveal we are not spending time with a now time, in time, on time living God. Jesus Christ is alive right now, seated at the right hand of the Father in heavenly realms. He is accurately interceding for us, praying the very will of God for us. He sees all of humanity from Adam and Eve until today, but He also sees all of humanity that is yet to be born, for He knew us before we were created in our mother’s womb (Psalm 139) and there are many many more people who have yet to be created, that He sees.

I say all that to say, we are living in John 2 time. In John 2, they ran out of wine, so Jesus tells the servants to put water into vessels and serve it to the headwaiter first, then to the people at the event. When the headwaiter tastes it, he says, EVERYONE else serves the best wine first then when people have had their fill of wine, they serve the cheaper wine, but you have saved the best wine for now. My friends, the church is filled with wine that has now run out, but Jesus has been turning water into wine, filling jars, and is now serving it to a people full of another wine. When the people taste this water that has been turned into wine, they may not know where it came from but they will know it tastes so much better than the wine they are full of. The demarcation is going to be obvious to the taster. And remember the people may not have known where the wine came from, but the servants serving it did. Welcome to John 2 time!

Did you know there is a highway in your heart? Do you know where that highway is going? Do you recognize what that highway is producing inside of you? Thanks to Dr. Caroline Leaf we know we have neuropathways in our brains. Thanks to Joyce Meyer we have been given tools to win on the Battlefield of the Mind. But only the word of God can pave a highway in your heart that leads to the presence of God to the person who is God.

Psalm 84 describes this highway so well, “How blessed is the man whose strength is in You, In whose heart are the highways to Zion! Passing through the valley of Baca they make it a spring; The early rain also covers it with blessings. They go from strength to strength, Every one of them appears before God in Zion.”

This heart highway is one of strength that only gets stronger and stronger. You know if your traveling this highway. This highway passes through valleys and makes springs in places called Baca which means weeping, this highway passes through, it does not camp out in grief, sadness, loneliness, depression. It not only passes through it creates springs of living water in places of barrenness that causes weeping. This highway is inside of us, you don’t have to build it, pave it or pay for it, but you do have to find it and when you do and when you choose to travel on it, it is a drive of the likes you will never forget.

The highway of your heart that leads to the presence of God is a highway that is worth looking for and when you find it is worth fighting to stay on. There is only one highway in your heart that leads to the presence of God, Jesus calls it the narrow way, but my friends, it is a roll the windows down, crank the radio up, kind of highway and there is no other road I would want to travel on all the days of my life. This highway leads you to the presence of God!

The new day is revealing new ways of doing ministry. Old ministry models no longer work, even though some are hanging on to them for dear life. I was speaking to someone recently and I thanked her for being willing to be buried as a root, so I could bear fruit as a branch. She was honored to know I view her as a root that I bear fruit with. It is a team approach, whether you are seen and heard or you are now a root that is not seen and heard. It takes maturity to be a root and to let someone else be the branch which is seen, heard and bearing visible fruit. I told this woman of God, I am going to bring back baskets of fruit for her to enjoy for the root she is in my life is so valuable to me.

In this new day of doing ministry, we have to understand the change from positional equity to relational equity. In the old ministry model if you had a title you were respected, honored, obeyed just because you had the title. People give themselves titles now, so just like participation awards, everyone seems to have a title. This means titles have lost their distinction in this new era in which we live. Positional equity is no longer working in a relational world.

What we are seeing is people who have relational equity are leaders without positional titles. These people love people when no one is looking. They are gathering people, praying for and with people, they are hanging out, doing life, they are checking in, not because they have to but because they want to and the people know it. Relational equity goes a long way in this new day. People know authenticity, they know who really cares. It is not the job of one person to build relational equity with everyone, but if you want people to join you in what you are doing, it will take relational equity in this new day.

Relational equity is the new currency for this kingdom age. Jesus has incredible relational equity with humanity, the challenge is people who bear the name of Jesus do not prioritize relational equity with His people. The billion soul harvest is not coming in because we have preachers of the likes we have never heard before, it will be because we have established relational equity with each other. Jesus said, they will know you are my disciples because of the way you love one another. Relational equity is kingdom currency. How rich are you in relational equity?

During the church age the enemy convinced leaders to keep people immature, weak and powerless. Youth is glamorized in the church age, the preaching of elementary things is all you hear, henceforth why you amen all the time. Milk is all that is served, so that people never grow up. But its not just the people that don’t grow up it is the leaders that don’t grow up either. So we run on the same hamster wheel over and over again and then wonder they the world has change so drastically for the worst. We find a theology that matches our immaturity so we can say, the darkness is going to get darker, it becomes an excuse so we don’t have to do anything but suck on our bottle of warm milk, enjoy our luke warm Christianity, and hang on until Jesus comes as though this is what Jesus preached. Friends, this is not the gospel of the kingdom Jesus preached, this is why we are not being called to repent on some sin we are not even committing, but we are being called to repent of luke warm, half-hearted, disinterested Christianity for the kingdom of God is at hand.

I was reading Psalm 82 this morning and it says, “God takes His stand in His own congregation; He judges in the midst of the rulers. How long will you judge unjustly And show partiality to the wicked? Selah.” God is standing in His church asking the question amongst His people who He called rulers and says, how long will you judge unjustly? How long will you show partiality to the wicked? He is asking His people how long will you tolerate wicked structures, wicked principalities, wicked doctrines and narratives in your nation? It is a correction that corrects us up. It is a call to stand up and judge wickedness and establish righteousness. It is the assignment of the ambassadof Christ to make earth like heaven. We are not here on earth to sing a few songs, hear a sermon and go home, we are here on earth to reign and rule, making earth like heaven, so Jesus has a place to come back to and defeat death once and for all. Death is the final enemy, Jesus will defeat that enemy but we are called to defeat all the other ones. What are we doing? No wonder we are bored as believers, we don’t know our assignment nor have we been trained to do it.

It’s a new day, there are true five fold ministers arising and will be in positions of leadership with a voice of authority to activate citizens of this kingdom to do the work of the ministry. Lazy boys are about to be transformed into active agents on kingdom assignments; weeping woman are about to be transformed into those who do the dance of the Mahanaim. The days of passivity are over, the days of inactivity are behind us, days of kingdom advancement are here. Everything is changing, nothing will look the same, old ways are done, old structures are being destroyed, old mindsets are giving way to new pathways. We are getting a nations wide transformation of the likes only God Himself can do.

I have a valuable voice in my life that historically has not spoken words of life to me. Due to their own personal pain, their own unforgiveness and disappointment with life, they have used me as their verbal punching bag for years and I allowed it. Thanks to godly women I have around me, who advise me in life and call me up higher, the end of last year, I made it crystal clear to this person I was not going to listen to their negative voice any longer. The person was shocked, as I had never drawn this type of boundary with them before, of which there are many reasons for this. Notwithstanding, I was loving but firm, I will no longer allow their poisonous words in my life.

Months of silence went by, as this person is older than me and very important to me, but I knew if I did not stop it now, it would never stop and honestly I should have stopped it many many years ago, but this voice was familiar to me and so I would continue to listen to it. Today, not only do this voice and I have a healthy relationship, we have agreed to only build one another up, no more tearing each other down. We have so much fun together now, we share our hearts with each other, it is the relationship I have always wanted with this person, but never knew how to get. Many manifestations are coming out of this relationship now, but it started with a zero tolerance of the negative, toxic words, and a commitment to only build together.

I tell you this story, because the enemy is a toxic voice in our lives. He is a destroyer and not a builder. He destroys others in our mind, he tears us down in the minds of others, his voice is never going to build or speak like God to us, never. He can’t, he won’t, no matter the boundary you set with him, the enemy, the devil will never change. Therefore, we have to literally but off his voice in our lives by not giving him an ear about anything. He cannot have a glance in his direction, a wink, a nothing, no attention can be given to him, for he has no ability to build, he can only destroy. We are long overdue as believers, from shutting down once and for all the voice of the enemy in our lives. You can’t stop him from talking, but you can stop listening, stop obeying, stop agreeing with him and stop echoing what he is saying.

Ephesians 4:29-32 “Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.”

The deception of Babylon is deeply rooted in a spirit of mammon a love of money. Love is a declaration of trust, pursuit, desire, passion for. Babylon is known as a system of sorcery, this system has so bewitched the nations that we have cast truth in the streets for the sake of saving a system of slavery that has held us in bondage for our entire lives. There comes a point where God does not need the permission of the majority in order to save nations. The Lord found Moses and Aaron and saved Israel from their Egyptian taskmasters; the Lord found Joshua and Caleb and saved Israel from their wilderness wanderings; the Lord found Esther and Mordecai and saved Israel from the Persian extermination of a nation; the Lord found Samson and saved Israel from the Philistines. The Lord sent Jesus to deliver us from our sin once and for all. A price we could not pay, a debt we could not get out from under. A yoke we could not break. Jesus did it all for us! God will always find what He is looking for on earth to do what He knows needs to be done for people.

We have been born in Babylon, so we do not even realize the depth of deception we are living in. It sounds like truth, it looks like financial freedom, it feels like we are making an impact, but in truth, we have been so decieved by the Babylonian spirit of mammon we don’t know what it really means to love God, for we are slaves to mammon. Proverbs 20 says, “There is gold, and an abundance of jewels; But the lips of knowledge are a more precious thing.” We have been decieved to see gold and jewels as rare, worthy of paying a large price for, but when it comes to knowledge, truth, wisdom, understanding, we cast it down like we already know this or know that. We have been so blinded by Babylon, that when truth comes we don’t value it. We value gold, silver and precious metals, but we resist the truth that could set us free. This is the world of Babylonian sorcery.

Yahweh is going to deliver us from Babylon. He is going to pull us out of slavery again. He is rescuing nations for the whole world is impacted by the Babylonian system of control, we have all been captured and He is about to lead captives captive again. He’s done it before with a 100% success rate and He is doing it again. He has found a few that see what He has shown them and agreed with His rescue plan. Heaven and earth are in agreement and now we are going to see nations being set free from Babylon. Everything we have always known is about to change radically and truth will be spoken to fill the void deception leaves. Ready of not, here we go straight outta Babylon! JUBILEE we will be set free.

I had coffee with a friend this week and she said, I want to meet with you because I had a vision in church on Sunday morning and I have a word for you. We met and she said, “Lisa, take the limits off your faith!” She didn’t just say it to me once, she said it to me multiple times during that meeting. “Take the limits off your faith!” I got the message, I knew what she was saying I was supposed to do, but how do you do that, what does that look like, sound like, feel like. I had no idea, but this phrase has been rolling around in my spirit all week long, “Take the limits off your faith!” I didn’t know I had put limits on my faith, so how do I take off what I didn’t even realize I had put on. How do you remove the limits off your faith? These were the things I was asking the Lord in prayer even as I was declaring, Lord, take the limits off my faith.

Yesterday, I heard a message by Kris Vallaton called You Need To Lighten Your Load and in this video he speaks about the Apollo 11 rocket launch and how the thrusters got them out of the atmosphere, but were a weight that had to be loosed in order to operate effectively in the stratosphere. I am no scientist, but those two words stuck with me overnight, so this morning I studied the two words and actually learned there are five spheres plus one that we have here in the earth realm. I was stunned by what I learned today. For many it is simple science, for me it was a way of taking the limits off my faith as I learned about the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere and the plus one ionosphere. Our physical bodies cannot access these spheres but they are there and they are accessible to us.

My friends, we have to take the limits off our faith and one way we do that is by removing the blocks of pride which make us think we know so much, we understand enough, we have these blocks as a way to remain in control. Control is a false sense of security, it is a mirage of safety, it is a deception. We are not called to be in control, we are called to know the Creator. There is so much we do not know. Take the limits off your faith, explore things you don’t know, listen to people who know things you don’t and stop resisting something just because it doesn’t align with what you first learned. We don’t know as much as we think we know, if it is truth, our spirit will vibrate with the sound you are hearing, but you must be listening in order to take the limits off your faith. I hear the sound of lift off. Thank you Carrie Carullo!

A voice calling in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, that was the call of John the Baptist, while everyone else was hailing how amazing the temple was, their place of security, John was declaring the arrival of the man, Jesus the Christ, who is the temple of God in the flesh. His message was repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. He even questioned the religious leaders saying, who warned you to flee the wrath to come. Oh John the Baptist was a man who was sent with a message, one message, prepare your heart for the shift of the ages. They had no idea what he was talking about in their natural minds, and neither did John. John only knew the one who had the dove land on Him, that was the Messiah. One sign, one dove, that is all John needed to know Jesus was the Messiah to come. So, he preached to all who would listen to repent, not of some dirty rotten sin, but of a way of thinking (religious laws), for a new way of thinking was about to be released, a new narrative was about to be amplified that would set them free from religious rhetoric. John was called to prepare the way, Jesus was the message!

Our religious infrastructure is so strong inside of us from living in a Christian nation, hearing sermons for years and years, now with the rise of social media and the internet, the amount of reinforcement is everywhere. We say amen to messages we have heard for years, saying the same thing over and over again, yet we don’t see much change happening. The highlight of our life is when we hear a testimony here or there of a healing, a marriage restored or someone got saved. But to live the life of an overcomer, to hear and speak the revelation of a now word from God, to repent of our religious thinking in order to hear revelation truth, the infrastructure inside of us resists that on a level we do not even realize. We get offended when someone says something we have no heard before. We have been trained to fear “some new teaching” as though it is not biblical. We fear freedom for we are so comfortable with bondage. We assume the world is getting worst and we have to just hang on until we get raptured out of here. We cling to the cross as though that was the only thing Jesus did for us and we hope for the second coming of Christ as though that was the only message of the New Covenant.

Small spaces, small theology, small lives, and we wonder why anxiety, fear, depression, divorce, suicide, financial challenges and every other issue is happening to people who have said a prayer. This should not be!!!! The blood of Jesus paid the price for us to live not a life of sin, but a life of victory. We are not sinners, we are overcomers. We are not under circumstances, we rule over them. The earth doesn’t belong to the evil one, it is the inheritance of the sons and daughters of God. When we relinquish our covenant rights to release righteousness as the ruling force of our nation and are told we are powerless to do anything about it, we have been lied to. We are a kingdom of priests, mediators of a new covenant, ambassadors of Christ, declarers of the good news of the gospel of the kingdom. We are men and women created in the image of God, called to speak the word of God and demonstrate the power of God. The truth came to set us free! It is for freedom we have have been set free! We are no longer under the yoke of slavery to sin! We are the righteousess of God in Christ Jesus! We are the salt of the earth! A city set on a hill! This is who we are and Jesus Christ is the savior of the world, that is who He is. Enough of this weak, powerless, defeatist attitude, we are more than conquerors through Christ Jesus! And that my friends is the truth! Have a great weekend.

I have had a prophetic puzzle pieces morning of the likes that is hard to describe. When things appear that are not normal, especially if you have a routine you follow everyday, you take notice, but it is when you lean into them that the message comes forth. I had 7 puzzle pieces brought before me today of the likes I did not know how they connected until I put them all together and the message was clear. I will share with you all I saw this morning on my walk with my dog, and then will share the message, and you can do with it whatever you want.

I wake up and the clock says, 5:55am; I opened my blinds and on the sidewalk there was a opossum, never seen one before in our neighborhood; I get to the gate of our neighborhood and there are 3 black crows sitting on it, again not normal; on our walk on the side of the road there is a plastic & symbol, so I pick it up; I then see a lime green dragonfly; I get back near the house and a flock of geese (flying trumpets) fly overhead; and finally I grab the mail and a check I was waiting for is in there and has 3 American flags on the stamp. I know what does all of this have to do with anything.

I sat down and prayed Holy Spirit, what are all these puzzle pieces. As I began to research what each means the message became very clear. The nation (Isaiah 55:5) of America (opossum) is going to have a financial crash (3 black crows) then (& symbol) will be transformed and renewed into fresh growth (lime green dragonfly) as repentance (flying trumpets – call to repentance) happens in America (3 American flags).

Psalm 77 is my prayer partner this morning after all these prophetic puzzle pieces and says, “Will the Lord reject forever? And will He never be favorable again? Has His lovingkindness ceased forever? Has His promise come to an end forever? Has God forgotten to be gracious, Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? . Then I said, “It is my grief, That the right hand of the Most High has changed.” I shall remember the deeds of the LORD; Surely I will remember Your wonders of old. I will meditate on all Your work And muse on Your deeds. Your way, O God, is holy; What god is great like our God?” Remember Babylon was built on money, so for it to fall the financial system has to come down. But fear not, remember the Lord, there is renewal on the other side of the fall.

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