Lisa Great

There is something better!
There is a more excellent way!
There is more!
What is the hold up for you?
What is it that is keeping you back?
What causes you to question if it is real?

We are the hinderance to the more. It is not someone else’s fault. Until we are willing to take personal responsibility we will never come into something greater than we have ever known. There is no where to place blame, there is no reason to live in shame. But without humility there is no access.

Hebrews 8 says, “Now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.” A more excellent ministry; a better covenant; better promises. Humility is the access key.

1 Corinthians 12:31 says, “Earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I show you a still more excellent way.” There is a more excellent way than even the gifts. Humility is the access key.

Acts 18:24-27 “Now a Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the Scriptures. This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, being acquainted only with the baptism of John; and he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.” There is a more accurate way, and humility is the access key.

Friends, there is more, but you must humble yourself in order to access it. You can remain where you are, but others are going beyond where we have ever been before, for the Lord has extended the invitation to more. Don’t let pride halt your process for there is still more. Come on friends, we haven’t seen anything yet.

We have known restriction; we have experienced the cramp, tight places; but now the time has declared we will access abundance. It will demand a learning curve for we can not live as survivors when we have access to abundance. We cannot live small in our thinking, when we have acccess to wide open spaces.

The psalmist says, “You have known my soul in adversities, And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a wide place.” The process had places of pain, people who confined us and tried to define us, but God has opened wide the windows of heaven and poured out an identity as sons and daughters upon us.

What hurt in the dark will give way to the joy of the light. What was tight in the small is giving way to what is broad in the land we have entered into. The days of fighting over crumbs is over, the days of operating by design is here.

The nations are going through seismic shifts, burning of the old fields, washing with water, for the change is natural and supernatural. What looks like an “oh no” is actually a “here we go!”

It is time to rejoice, celebrate, forgive, forget and face the truth that we have been set free. It is no longer only He can, it is He will. Our God is not a man that He should lie, what He said He would do, He is doing and has done. Welcome to the kingdom of God on earth not in words, but in power.

The narrative of the religious system has been one of fear. This was not by accident, it was by design. Fear is a form of control to keep you from the freedom that God has promised you. Jesus said, You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Paul said, The Lord did not give you a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind. The coordinated effort to seed the body of Christ with fear was intentional, but God has been and still is a deliverer.

When Israel was in Egypt they were locked into a system of control that used them for Egypt’s benefit, not for the liberation of a people. Moses was raised up in human form as a deliverer of a nation. The Israelites were so locked into the Egyptian system, they could not see Moses as a deliverer. Remember Moses was raised in Pharoh’s house, the very system he was going to be used to deliver God’s people out of.

Due to idolatry, Israel found themselves in another system of control, which used fear to keep them bound, called Babylon. This was their 70 years of exile and Daniel was in the same exile as the other Hebrew people. But God gave Daniel dreams, night visions and authority to speak to the king of whom he served. A king that demanded all people bow to his golden image or be thrown in a furnace or lion’s den. But God in true fashion, again delivered His people from Babylonian exile and control.

There is nothing knew under the sun, Solomon says. What was will be again. We should not be surprised by the religious system that has enslaved generations of people since the days of Constantine (around 300AD). Yes it has been in operation for that long and has touched every nation. But God, yet again is on a rescue mission.

Those in the system are so accustomed to fear and control, the shaking is going to scare them, but what we need to know is that the shaking is what opened Peter’s prison doors in the book of Acts. The shaking is setting us free not putting us in bondage, not killing us. God is Haggai 2:21-22 ing us right now. “I will shake heaven and earth. I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms.” The shaking is overthrowing wicked thrones, demonic systems. The shaking is not punishment it is liberation. The shaking is declaring our deliverance.

What do you hear? Some people can’t sleep because what is inside of them is so loud, it keeps them up at night. Other people can’t hear truth because the lies are so loud. The narrative is the noise and the noise is what you hear. But there is another option.

The voice of God, the word of God is not loud, it is not clamoring for attention, it is not demanding to be heard, which is why so many people can’t hear it. Many are so accustomed to noise they can’t hear the word of God, the voice of God.

We seek environments that will give us peace, like mountains or beaches, but environments manifest what they are, not who we are, unless who we are matches the environment we are in.

Air pods in so many people’s ears listening to music or podcasts, narratives from television and billboards, music and marketing. Noise, noise, so much noise. Then we wonder why mental health is so rampant. The noise of narratives is driving us crazy, but there is a stirring, a shifting, a seismic thing happening as people’s internal tectonic plates are moving.

The word of God is being desired, the voice of God is being heard, the stillness, the silence of the presence of God is the absence of narratives that create noise and it is the substance of that which brings joy.

God is releasing substance through His word and His voice. Can you hear it? http://www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Knowing who we are is important, but knowing who He is defines who we are. Once you have seen Him, you will never be enamored by the glittering things of earth (cars, houses, images, bank accounts). When we know who He is that is when we truly understand who we are. Our seeking to know us without knowing Him is what causes competition, comparison, pride, division, ego and all the destructive attitudes, thoughts and behaviors of mankind.

John the Baptist knew who He was, He declared, He is the lamb who takes away the sins of the world. He is the one of whom I am not worthy to stoop down and untie His sandals. He is the One you are to follow. In John’s statements, two of John’s disciples left him and followed Jesus and John celebrated that, for John knew who Jesus was and he knew who he was.

We will not elevate ourselves when we know who He is. We will not seek fame and glory when we know who He is. We will not idolize ministries or ministers when we know who He is. We will seek Him and He will not only grab our attention, He will keep our attention, for He is that amazing.

Once we see Him, we cannot be captured by another sight, but we do enjoy other people and other places. For He loves to bring us to places we can enjoy, around people who we can celebrate and be celebrated by. He loves doing life with us.

I was praying Psalm 29 this morning and it speaks of God’s voice and the power of His voice. In verse 3 I paused and realized again, He is the voice, we are the echo!!!! He speaks so we have something to say. What an honor to sit in silence in the mountains of North Carolina and hear the voice of the One who sits on a throne that cannot be shaken. And what an honor to be invited to be an echo for that voice that speaks with such power, authority and majesty. He is the voice, we are His echo on earth. Www.apostolicresourccecenter.org

One of the dangers of favor, blessings and increase is we can fall into the trap of believing we earned it, we deserve it, for we worked hard for it. It can become a one man show idea when success happens, but no one is successful in a bubble. There are so many components that make someone prosper, but the danger is in the ignorance of what brought about what you are walking in. 

We are a team. Nothing happens in a vacuum. The idea that one person can change the world, the church, the nation, is absurd. God called one family to leave Ur of the Chaldeans, this included Terah, Abraham, Lot, Sarah and others. It was a family that left not one man. 

From this family, Abraham was called to go beyond Haran where his father died and to go the land God would show him, Lot came with him as did Sarah and many of their servants and supplies. From Abraham came Isaac and Ishmael, then from Isaac came Jacob and the the 12 tribes of Israel, who created the nation we know call Israel. 

Favor, success, prosperity, increase is a team effort. There are no self-made men or women, despite what we may have been taught. Everything is a team bringing about God’s dream.

Genesis 26 is God speaking to Isaac and the Lord says, “I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

Isaac was favored, blessed, set up for success because of Abraham’s obedience. Friends, we are standing on the shoulders of many who went before us, all the way back to Abraham. This is not about me, this is not about you, this is about us advancing the kingdom of God on earth, together. This is why no man or woman can take the glory, because it is the story of God working with us His people.

We are temporal, He is eternal. We add value in our generation, but those who went before us and those who come after us will add value as well, for we are in a kingdom that knows no end. This is bigger than one person, for this is a move of God that cannot be stopped, this is eternal and we are blessed to live during one of the kingdom manifestations on earth. Www.apostolicrecourcecenter.org

The LORD is redeeming everything and has been since the reassurection and ascension of Jesus the Christ. Because our God is a Redeemer of all things, we must repent (change the way we think) for the kingdom of God is at hand. Our unwillingness to repent (change the way we think) is resisting what God is doing in the earth right now today. Repentance was not about behavior, but about our thinking patterns. 

In the days of Jesus they were programmed to think one way and Jesus came along, as did John the Baptist, and they both said, Repent, (change the way you think) for the kingdom of God is at hand. John questioned the Pharisees coming to be baptized by him, because he knew they were not going to change the way they think. 

Jesus said to the same leaders, you refuse to enter the kingdom of God and you hinder others from entering. This was the inditement Jesus had against them. They proved both John and Jesus’ claims about them, when they had him crucified, because they refused to repent (change the way they think) even though the kingdom of God was at hand. 

The Lord spoke to me clearly last night about being provoked to jealousy. The saying is unique, because common sense says, why would you provoke someone to jealousy? We don’t understand because we don’t know what jealousy means biblically. This means we have to change the way we think. 

Jealousy means to emulate not separate. When Joseph wore the coat of many colors, his brothers were provoked but not to emulate Joseph but to separate from Joseph. Cain was jealous of Abel’s offering and instead of being provoked to emulate, he was provoked to separate and killed him. 

Paul in Romans 11:11-14 says, God is going to use the Gentiles to provoke the Jews to jealousy. This was not a call to seperation but to emulation. The Jews were to emulate the acceptance of Christ as seen by the Gentiles. 

Friends we must repent (change the way we think) for the kingdom of God is at hand. Jealousy is not to separate you from people but to get you to emulate them. If they have what you want, emulate what they do and who they are, don’t separate from them, for God put them in your life for your uplifting not downgrading. http://www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Do you ever wish you could gaze over the shoulder of God and peek at His calendar to know where were are in the history of the world?

Have you ever wanted to be in the connection chamber where God meets with His top advisors to discuss what is happening on earth, how people are responding to His truth and how hearts are turning to Him?

Most people only know what is happening their little world, on their news channels or in their neighborhood or church or city or maybe state. Most people are looking down and around, not lifting up their eyes to the hills.

This is not an incitement, it is a reality for most people. I meet people every day and they have bills to pay, doctors to visit, kids to raise and husbands to feed. They have companies to run, houses to clean and teams to coach. Most people are involved in their life, they are not thinking about where we are on a macro level in the earth.

However, there is something stirring in the hearts of people and their awareness of God is awakening. They are asking questions about God, His kingdom and where we are on His timeline.

I am reading the prophet Micah right now and I believe we are walking into Micah 4 as we speak. “In the last days, the mountain of the LORD’s house
will be the highest of all— the most important place on earth. It will be raised above the other hills, and people from all over the world will stream there to worship. People from many nations will come and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of Jacob’s God. There he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For the LORD’s teaching will go out from Zion; his word will go out from Jerusalem. The LORD will mediate between peoples and will settle disputes between strong nations far away. They will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer fight against nation, nor train for war anymore. Everyone will live in peace and prosperity, enjoying their own grapevines and fig trees, for there will be nothing to fear. The LORD of Heaven’s Armies has made this promise! Though the nations around us follow their idols, we will follow the LORD our God forever and ever.”

You may disagree, but this is what I see as we live in these days on earth. It has begun and will only increase more and more over the decades, even millennia. Things are getting better now worst. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Christianity is not like any other religion, the reason being, our God is alive. We have a God that speaks, that listens, that gets involved in our lives. Our prayers are not to stone and wood, to trees and temples, no our God is living and active. This is the demarcation of Christianity. Jesus Christ is alive, He is seated at the right hand of God and is living to make intercession for us right now. What a mighty God we serve.

Having a living God, means we have as speaking God and when we hear His voice, we honor Him by obeying what He says. Abraham is called the Father of our faith, because He heard the voice of God and obeyed. He was then declared righteous for His obedience to the voice of God not because of anything He did and this was all before Jesus.

What I love about Abraham, is that whatever He heard God say He did. God said leave your family and follow me to a place I will show you, so he left Haran and headed out. When God said, to the mountain and make a sacrifice, he grabbed his son Isaac and off he went.

Today, while reading Genesis 22 it struck me, that even without all the resources needed to do what God said, he went. Isaac noted they were missing something and said, “We have the fire and the wood, the boy said, but where is the sheep for the burnt offering? God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering, my son, Abraham answered. And they both walked on together.” Abraham’s faith was heard in his answer.

Friends we are being called to obey even if all the resources are not identifiable upon departure. We are children of Abraham and we must go, we must do, what God says. If asked what about this or what about that, our first response needs to be, God will provide what is missing. Oh the faith of our Father Abraham, may we be people of action, not just words.

Being comfortable with the concealed and revealed takes maturity. Our lack of trust in the concealed nature and knowledge of God is what hinders us from comprehending and embracing the revealed nature of God. We resist so much more than we realize, because we think we know more than we really know.

Living in the days of revelation is about illumination or light shining in the darkness. John said, “The light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not comprehend it.” What is the it? The it is the light, the revelation.

Religion and religious systems of all kinds have kept us in the dark. Our living in the dark and being dipped in the dark for so long has trained our eyes to resist the light of revelation pouring forth from the kingdom of God.

Jesus was and still is the Light of the world. When He walked the earth as God in the flesh, He illuminated darkness wherever He went. In the synagogue light shown through the words He spoke; on the streets light shown into dark tombs where the dead were raised; in homes light shown into dark diseases as healing happened; and light shown in cities where demons were more accepted than the Messiah (Mark 5).

We are going from concealment to manifestation. This means there is an increase of revelation being seen and heard all over the world. God is enlightening us to the truth that will set us free, but many are resisting the truth for they believe what they see in the dark is the truth, so when the light shines they reject it.

Our history hinders our current reality, because we filter the light through our past out of fear. Truth stands the test of time, distance and resistance. Truth will prevail, revelation light will be seen and heard, and liquid love will soften the hardest hearts, break off the deepest shame and open the closed eyes.

This is a kingdom of Light, He is the Light of the world, and His city is on a hill where all can see. Concealment is giving way to manifestation in this day and though many resist, nothing can stop what God is manifesting on earth. Welcome to the days of revelation light! Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org