Lisa Great

Everyone is seeking to be in the know. They want to know what is the latest news report, they want to know where the latest revival is breaking out, they want to know what other people are doing. The need to be in the know is palatable in every area of life. People love to be in the know. The challenge with being in the know about people or the news, is that every moment of the day there has to be new things to know. It is an unquenchable pursuit. But if that hunger to be in the know about others or about the news was switched over to being in the know about God, oh the satisfaction that would fill your soul, body, mind and heart.

I was praying this morning and when I opened to Psalm 99 the first line burst in my spirit like a dam breaking and water rushing onto a desert. Immediately everything inside of me burst forth with life. It was a surge of life, of energy of confidence, of faith, of power, of God. One verse in one Psalm saturated my need to know when it said, “The Eternal is the king ruling over all; let all people shake in fear. He sits on His throne, settled between winged guardians; let the planet tremble.” When these words crossed my eyes, I spoke them out of my mouth and immediately order was set in my heart for the day. Now no matter what I may hear, I have a plumbline truth already established.

“The Eternal is the king ruling over all; let all people shake in fear. He sits on His throne, settled between winged guardians; let the planet tremble.” With so many people wanting to be in charge, wanting to decide how things happens for the nations, wanting to be seen and heard; this truth puts it all in perspective. This truth that the Eternal is the king ruling over all is where peace lands, trust rests, and confidence comes from. Men and women will say and do all kinds of things, but our God is seated on a throne, settled between winged guardians. He’s not moving, He’s not changing; He’s not being voted in or out. This is the truth that does not move, does not change, this is our God!

Taking a step is different than taking a stand. If a step does not turn into a stand you will change your step based on situations, circumstances or feelings. When you take a stand you decide this is the way things are going to be and nothing changes that. Believers get tossed to and fro because they step but don’t stand so what they tolerate will dominate. Take a stand, plant your feet and don’t move. Not only will others take courage in your stand, they will also find their footing and not be moved. When we take a stand we create an environment for others to thrive in for they know where we stand. Is it any wonder The apostle Paul told us to stand and keep on standing.

Ephesians 6:13 “Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Stand firm…!”

You my friend are powerful!
You my friend are loved extravagantly!
You my friend are perfectly designed!
You my friend are the representative of the kingdom of God on earth.

When you hear this, is it any wonder the enemy wants you to believe or think you are powerless; unloved; imperfect; without authority? You are the enemies worst enemy just because you are created in the image of God. Just be you and watch God put the enemy to shame because He made you and is proud of you!

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The airwaves over this nation are not determined by the main stream media, they are determined by those who carry the message they are hearing. The message that resonates with us is the message we carry on and put into the airways. If we want to cleanse the airwaves over our nation, so healing flows into our bodies, faith rises in our hearts, deliverance happens with a word, salvation manifests everywhere, we must become carriers of good news. Our words seed the atmosphere and affect the airwaves. We can’t just praise on Sunday morning when the worship team starts to sing, we can’t just worship when the right song comes on the radio and think this is going to shift the atmospheres over our cities, over our nation. No, we must chose to carry one message, repeat one report, dispense one truth, that Jesus Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords.

All this sharing of what the enemy is doing in our nation, all this reiterating of what the news is saying, all it is doing is cluttering the airwaves in your own heart, in your own city, in your own nation. I realize we live in the world, I understand about being informed, but the challenge is most people are more informed about the news than they are the word of God. We freely share the latest news report about this variant or that mandate, but we are not sharing, we are not promoting what God is doing. We are not dispensing the truth we read in the word that day, or the latest revelation we received. Church, we are not called to carry the news of the nations as our primary talking points. We are called to seed each other with faith and faith comes by hearing the word of God. The word washes the atmosphere, the word cleanses the country, the word is what sets us free. Not more information about politics, three letter agencies, or evil doers.

We are the church, we have been given governmental authority in the land in which we live, we are the voice that sets the course for where we are going. Start speaking, start sharing, start prophesying what is going to happen in your city, in your family, in your country. The days of being passive and waiting to see what is going to happen are over. Speak about what God is doing. Praise the Lord in all your conversations. Lift up your voice and declare the faithfulness of God. Everyone can see and feel the darkness, but people are looking for the light, shine my friends, shine, shout, sing, in the streets not just on Sunday morning. We have been given the authority to change the atmosphere with our mouth.

Psalm 98:4-6 “Raise your voices; make a beautiful noise to the Eternal, all the earth. Let your joy explode into song and praise; Make music to the Eternal with the harp; sing a beautiful melody with the harp and chorus. With trumpets and horns, fill the air with joyful sounds to the King, the Eternal.”

Resistance training always makes you stronger. It hurts to do resistance training, but the results are obvious. We are in a season of serious resistance training and many people are feeling the pull of their spritiual muscles during this training season. It hurts, people are struggling, it is obvious. Pain has a way of screaming at us, so we know it hurts and pain has a way of being all consuming so we do not lose sight of the fact that it hurts. But if you can look past the pain of this season of resistance training, you will notice you are getting stronger. The pain is going to subside, the challenges are going to loose you and let you go, but what you gained in strength is going to remain.

The kingdom of God in us is teaching us that we have more authority than we exercise, so the Holy Spirit is being our personal trainer and teaching us how to excercise the authority we have been given. This short season of resistance training is making us inside strong so we can carry that new strength into the work we will do when our training is over. Once you gain the muscle of spiritual discipline, that comes through resistance training, you will remain strong in that area. Keep seeking the Lord. Keep reading the word. Keep believing God. What we are in is a short season of resistance training, not a final destination.

1 Timothy 4:8 “For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.”

Faith speaks what it sees in the spirit, that is why it is called faith, because you see it in the spirit before it manifests in the natural. I have been lingering in the Old Testament prophets this week, as the Holy Spirit has led me to do so. I read Amos, then Isaiah, Obadiah and now today Joel. What has caused me to pause and marvel is that the Lord has woven a theme through the words of these men, that I did not recognize until this week, which tells me this is a word God wants us to know.

When we think OT prophets, we lean towards harsh judgments, but actually these men and women knew the heart of God that was bent toward restoration, compassion and faithfulness to His covenant people. Their goal was always to turn Israel back to God, by stating the truth of their situation and then releasing hope for help from heaven.

This week, the theme the Lord showed me is one of abundance that is about to be released upon us as His people. I know it doesn’t look like abundance is coming, when store shelves are missing items, gas prices are soaring, housing markets are bursting at the seems and more and more mandates seems to be being instated. But it doesn’t take faith to see those things happening, those are obvious. It takes faith to see what the Lord is showing me and telling to me to share with you.

God is about to be super generous to us. I mean undeservedly generous, beyond imagination generous. Amos 9:13-15 says, “The day is coming when the person stomping grapes will overtake the person planting the vineyard. And in that fertile day, new wine will drip from the mountains and the hills will flow with it.” Joel 2:21-27 says, “The drought is over; He has sent the early autumn rain as a sign of His faithfulness. He has poured down heavy rain, autumn and spring rain as before. The threshing floors will be covered in grain; the vats will spillover with new wine and fresh oil.” Then Deuteronomy 11:7-21 says, “I’ll send rain on your land when its needed, in the autumn and the spring. You’ll have an abundant harvest of grain, wine and olive oil.”

I didn’t do a word study, I didn’t go looking for these puzzle pieces, as I was randomly reading they came together to paint a picture of abundance that is about to be poured out upon us. I know it doesn’t look like it, but faith says it going to happen and faith is always the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things yet seen (Hebrews 11:1). My faith sees abundance being released upon us and so I expect to receive what I see. The drought is over, it’s raining my friends!

Transition is a challenging place, because it is continually fluid, it feels unstable, it does not forward us the privilege of being comfortable. When one person is in transition, it is more manageable because we can watch them go through it, but when nations are in transition that makes everything unstable. The atmosphere is charged with instability right now, and everyone is experiencing it, for we are in an international transition. The way we deal with this transition is dependent upon our level of faith in God as sovereign.

Many people are wrestling right now with the sovereignty of God. They can’t control the timing of anything that is going on, but they can see and hear many things happening. Welcome to wrestling with sovereignty. We have all heard God is sovereign, meaning God gets to do whatever God wants, but the truth is, most of us haven’t come this close to His sovereignty where literally we have no control over an outcome and especially the timing of it. We actually wrestle with sovereignty often, but instead of surrendering to it, we make our own way apart from it. Not this time though, God is not going to let us, as the nations, go this time. He is going to allow us to wrestle with His sovereignty until we surrender to Him and His plan for the nations.

Surrender is scary for those who don’t really know who God is. The idea of someone, God, being in control of everything, especially timing, is not something most people are comfortable with. We like to do things in our timing, especially since we are adults, and don’t like to be told what to do. But God is our Father, and we will always be His children, no matter our age, and He is not going to let us win this wrestling match of timing. He has a set time for what He is doing in the earth and no man, no woman, not nothing is going to change His sovereign timing on the unfolding of events.

The best thing we can do is shake off the dust of the last era, stand confident in the current transition and throw your hands in the air as a sign of surrender, knowing full well, none of us are going to be able to do anything to change God’s timing on this major change we are in. When it opens for us to see, we will rejoice greatly for our God is better to us than any of us realize, so stop wrestling with sovereignty and just surrender.

Isaiah 52:10 “The Eternal has flexed His muscles, bared His holy arm for the world to see His power; Every nation, every person, every place on earth will witness the victory of our God.”

Have you sown more than you have reaped?

Have you waited and still have not seen what you are waiting for?

Have you been prophesied over but still no movement?

Are there prayers you’ve prayed that are yet to be answered?

Are you standing in faith about something?

Have you done all God has told you to do?

Have you been obedient continually with out seeing rewards?

The Lord has an announcement for those of us who fit this description in one or more than one of these ways. The Lord says, “JUSTICE IS COMING FOR THOSE WHO DO RIGHT!” My friends, justice is coming for you. It is an injustice in the eyes of God for you to sow and not reap; to wait and not see what you are waiting for; To obey and not be rewarded. It is an injustice in the sight of God and the Lord says, “JUSTICE IS COMING FOR YOU!”

Psalm 94:15 “Justice is coming for those who do what is right and all the good-hearted will pursue it.”

We are living in a time of God’s justice manifesting in the earth. We are going to see many kinds of justice roll down like the waters (Amos 5:24). But one justice we rarely speak about is the justice that is coming for those who do right. Today, God is wanting us to know, He see’s the good you have done, He sees the seeds you have sown, He hears the prayers you are praying, He knows they ways you have obeyed and the Lord is going to release justice to you who do what is right.

Waterfalls of justice are hitting us like water to a weary soul and it is going to refresh every aspect of our lives and we will know that God is not a man that He should lie, He is God and He never forgets His children. Justice is rushing towards us right now!

It’s amazing how the loudest voices we hear; the constant barrage of noise we have to endure; can feel like those voices are the authority, that those voices have the final say. But despite their volume and their persistence, they are only in charge until the voice of God speaks. Once the Lord opens His mouth to speak, every other voice is inferior to His voice.

Psalm 93:3-4 says, “The waters have risen, O Eternal One; the sound of pounding waves is deafening. The waters have roared with power. More powerful than the thunder of mighty rivers, more powerful than the mighty waves in the ocean is the Eternal on high!”

One word from God cuts through all the noise, all the voices, all the attacks of the enemy and changes everything. God’s voice has such authority, it come with such clarity, it stands unchallenged once it is heard. In our frail humanity, we can lose sight of divinity, but God brings us back to our identity, so we can operate in His authority. His voice recalibrates everything.

Have you ever heard of “gold diggers”? It is a slang term for people who are with other people for their money. The Bible says, the rich have many friends, but “gold diggers” are not looking for friendship, they are looking for money. The thing is, people know when someone is after them for their money, because people with an agenda, have a smell about them that is palatable. We as believers are not called to be “gold diggers” but we are called to be “good diggers”.

In this world it is very easy to find what is wrong with people. Their faults, their weaknesses, their challenges are easily spotted, however, in the midst of all this, who among us can see the good in others? When evil is rampant in every area of society, from CRT in schools to fraud in government; from division in families to selective reporting in media; it is easy to find the evil among us. You don’t need to be a prophet to recognize what is going wrong in the world, but where are the people who know how to find what good is happening all around us.

Amos 5:14-15 says, “Search for good and not for evil so that you may live;

That way the Eternal God, the Commander of heavenly armies, will be at your side, as you yourselves have even said. Hate what is evil, and love all that is good.”

I think it is time for believers to stop magnifying, sharing and talking about all the evil we see, for it does not benefit us in any way to be reminded of all the evil around us. What we need to be doing is finding the good in the world. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His Son…: God saw good in the world, so He gave. We need to see the good, search fo the good, spread the good, for this is our victory in Christ Jesus. Good news is the antidote for the world, not the spreading of all the evil that is obvious to all. Be a voice for God, see the good and share it over and over again.