Lisa Great

God’s love is genuine, it is authentic, it is pure, it is undefiled, that is why it is trustworthy. But when people who claim to know God defile God’s love by calling evil good and good evil, people become suspicious of God’s love. When people defile God’s love to attract a crowd, gain a following or appease others, when those people learn the truth they will turn away from the people who lied to them and will turn to the Living God who genuinely loves them. God’s love doesn’t alter the truth for anyone or for any reason. His love speaks the truth all the time.

Romans 12:9, 16 “Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good. … Do not be wise in your own estimation.”

Isaiah 5:20-21 “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight!”

To become talented you must spend hours mastering your craft. To exercise spiritual authority you must spend your life in obedience to God and His word. The church has preferred talent over authority because it looks and sounds better on camera. However, without spiritual authority exercised atmospheres remain the same. The issues we face today talent can’t fix, we need people of authority to exercise Jesus’ authority in their city, their country and their sphere of influence. One day we will broadcast authority again! People of authority aren’t looking to be seen, but they do need to be heard.

We have known the ministry of men, but we are about to experience the glory of God. The demarcation is going to be undeniable and it will draw attention and gain momentum. Some will resist it, but most will rejoice in it. The message and the manifestation is going to be significantly different, as we are carried along by the voice of God. But what will be consistent and dependable is the unshakable truth of the gospel of the kingdom.

Hebrews 13:8 “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”

Remember the old saying, the bigger they are the harder they fall? This can refer to pride, which makes them stiff-necked so they won’t fall without a fight; Or it can mean when they fall because of their size (Influence) their fall will cause a shaking. The iron and clay kingdom is about to fall; big trees are going to fall; and when they do things are going to shake, because they fell… so do not fear. Their fall is going to shake the nations.

Amos 9:8-9 “Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom,

And I will destroy it from the face of the earth; Nevertheless, I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob, Declares the LORD. For behold, I am commanding, And I will shake the house of Israel among all nations As grain is shaken in a sieve, But not a kernel will fall to the ground.”

Daniel 2:32-35 “The head of that statue was made of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. You continued looking until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed all at the same time and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.”

I was driving home from a day-cation yesterday and for the last 90 minutes of the trip I watched the sunset. Psalm 19 says “The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words; Their voice is not heard,” so I drove in silence and listened to what creation was saying.

What I heard was scripture because Psalm 19 also says “In them He has placed a tent for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber; It rejoices as a strong man to run his course. Its rising is from one end of the heavens, and its circuit to the other end of them; And there is nothing hidden from its heat.”

What I heard as I listened to the Lord as the sun was setting is the Bridegroom lingers long for He never wants the day to end. The light seemed to stretch the sky, the colors changed effortlessly from gold and pink to tan and gray.

I realized during that 90 minutes of listening, watching, and pondering that we miss a lot because we don’t know how to linger. We are so quick to move on to the next thing and God is not in a hurry at all. I learned the God I serve is a God that lingers long at the end of the day and loves to break forth with a new day.

Unforgivess is a scheme of the enemy of which many people are trapped in. How do you know if you’ve fallen for the scheme called unforgiveness? You know because if you don’t release them you will police them. Everyone you police is someone you have yet to release. This goes from Presidents to parents and every person in between. Policing is evidence of not releasing.

2 Corinthians 2:10-11 “If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And if I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven it in the presence of Christ for your sake, in order that Satan should not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.”

Matthew 6:14-15 “For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.”

The path of obedience is not a one time choice we make, it is a continuous choosing to obey God’s voice despite all the attacks that come with other choices. Every attack comes to get us to choose another way, but when we decide to stay on the path of obedience we reveal the value we’ve placed on God and obeying His voice. Obedience to God’s voice and His word is not forced on us, it’s a choice we make, because we’ve decided though none go with us, still we will follow. I chose and keep on choosing to obey, for me there is no other way, because I have heard the voice of Yahweh!

Psalm 19:7-11

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The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul;

The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

The precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart;

The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever;

The judgments of the LORD are true; they are righteous altogether.

They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold;

Sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb.

Moreover, by them Your servant is warned;

In keeping them there is great reward.

In the midst of a war of words, chaos in the streets and emotions running high due to the volatility in the atmosphere, silence is not weakness its strength. The silent realize in our current situation no one is listening with the intent of doing anything different anyway. People have chosen their side, it had to be this way for who people really are to be revealed. It is a time to be wise and Solomon has wisdom for our day…

Proverbs 24:1-2 “Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be with them; For their minds devise violence, And their lips talk of trouble.”

Ecclesiastes 3:1, 7 “There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—A time to be silent and a time to speak.”

We are in the season of “sounds good” coming out of church leadership, but the season of “The Sounds of God” are about to be heard loud and clear. The sounds of God will restore the glory of God to His church! Authority has a sound.

Psalm 29:3-9

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The voice of the LORD is upon the waters;

The God of glory thunders,

The LORD is over many waters.

The voice of the LORD is powerful,

The voice of the LORD is majestic.

The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars;

Yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.

He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,

And Sirion like a young wild ox.

The voice of the LORD hews out flames of fire.

The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness;

The LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

The voice of the LORD makes the deer to calve

And strips the forests bare;

And in His temple everything says, “Glory!”

For the past two to three years the Lord has been making a salvation declaration over the nation, but today He is making a vindication declaration over the nation. The Lord is vindicating this nation, it is His declaration!

Vindication = Righteousness, cleanse, clear, justify, to rule, to litigate, to govern.

Almighty God has ruled in our favor, we have been vindicated and this is His declaration. Rejoice in God’s vindication declaration over our nation.

Psalm 35:27-28 “Let them shout for joy and rejoice, who favor my vindication; and let them say continually, ‘The LORD be magnified, Who delights in the prosperity of His servant’. And my tongue shall declare Your righteousness and Your praise all day long.”