Lisa Great

A few years back my son was a big Marvel fan, so when Infinity War came out, he and his friend wanted to go, so I took them. I hated that movie, because it was a battle from the first scene to the last scene. We walked out of there and I said, son what was that all about? He said, mom it is called Infinity War. I said, that was the worst movie I have ever seen. War from start to finish, no end, just fighting and battles from the beginning to the end.

I share that story from years ago, because we have been born into a war, but the war is over. Yes the war is over. On Yom Kippur this year, the Lord spoke to me and said, “The war is over, you are safe again.” I thought it was personal, but since being in DC the past couple days, the Lord has shown me that what He said, was not just personal but International. “The war is over!”

We went to Fox News studio yesterday on a private tour and we spoke to the executive producer, who is a a relative of a friend of mine. She shared stories that are upcoming and it confirmed to me, “The war is over! We are safe again.” The atmosphere of this city is peaceful. The people are kind, it is not what I expected.

An Uber ride last night is what solidified this for me from the Lord. Our driver was Palestinian, born in Hebron, West Bank, Gaza. He had Arabic news on his phone and we talked about what is happening between Israel and Gaza. With tears in his eyes, he shared how the peace deal was going to be signed, hostages were going to be returned and how peace was being restored. He is an older man and this was real for him.

When we want to prophecy an infinity war that never ends, we are not hearing what the Spirit is saying right now. When we fear this is fake peace, we are not on the right narrative and we will be on the wrong side of history. The Lord said, on Yom Kippur 5786, “The war is over, the slate is clean, we are safe again.”

We must learn to live in peace for the war is over. We are going learn many new things as we are no longer in war. The narrative has changed, some will resist it and not believe it, but it will not change it, “The war is over!” Proverbs 10 says, “The beautiful ways of God are a safe resting place
for those who have integrity. “ Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

In 1999 I went to a revival in Missouri and my life changed forever. I saw, heard and experienced things I had never known before. I was blessed with some of the best friends in the world, I was trained by one of the best apostolic leaders I know and I carry inside of me the seeds of those years.

Like with anything we cannot live our lives from a moment in our history, we must build on what we have learned, we must continue to grow in our walk with the Lord, no matter how powerful a time in our history was. If we stop and camp at one encounter, even if that encountered lasted years, we must continue listening, learning, loving and leaning into the Lord.

This morning the Lord built upon that which I learned in that revival, but showing me that it is not about pulling something down from heaven, but about pouring something out that is already in me. This is a huge paradigm shift for me, for I was trained to pull it down and God is saying, pour it out.

Proverbs 8 with Wisdom speaking says, “What I impart has greater worth than gold and treasure, and the increase I bring benefits more than a windfall of income. I lead you into the ways of righteousness to discover the paths of true justice. Those who love me gain great wealth and a glorious inheritance, and I will fill their lives with treasures.”

The paradigm shift for me is that this is in me, therefore, God is wanting it to come through me, to come out of me, for people need what God has put in me. I do not have to pull it down, I need to pour it out. Friends, we need to quit looking up to heaven for something to come down and ask the Lord how do I pour out what you have planted within?

We are a walking treasure chest of the glory of God on earth, now we need to pour out what He has put in us. Christ in you is the hope of glory. You are the temple of the Holy Spirit. You are a son/daughter of God. You are wealthier than you recognize, so you can be more generous than you think. We must repent of waiting for something to come down upon us and change the way we think to something that is to come out of us. The kingdom of God is at hand. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Yesterday while in Murphy, NC for a prophetic adventure, staking claim for the salvation of the nations, we went into a gift shop on site at the location we were at. While in that gift shop, I found a compact Bible, and I opened it randomly to Isaiah 33 and my eyes fell on the words “Ambassadors of Peace.” 

We left the gift shop, but the words “Ambassadors of Peace” would not leave my mind. Then the words of Paul in Romans 16 flooded my thoughts, “The God of peace will soon crush Satan under His feet.” Jesus is the Prince of Peace and with all the peace talks happening, I am honestly surprised at how anti-peace many Christians are. 

When war is in our hearts, peace cannot rule over us. People who are not healed are familiar with and okay with war. Wounded people are warriors, because they are not healed enough to enter into peace. Peace feels passive, vulnerable, to people who are wounded. Peace is hard to access if you are wounded, this is why God wants to heal His people. 

Jesus never went to war with people or the enemy. Jesus remained in peace and through peace He crushed the head of Satan. Peace is a powerful weapon, for in peace you are not moved by circumstances or situations. We as the body of Christ have been so dipped in Matthew 24 wars and rumors of wars, we cannot enter into Romans 16 and Isaiah 33, to let the God of peace make us ambassadors of peace. 

Friends, peace is not a precursor to some Ezekiel 38 war. When peace makes you afraid of a looming war, your theology is off. Jesus Christ declared it is finished. He is the Prince of Peace and we are to be ambassadors of peace, but we must allow the Lord to healus. 

We must embrace the man of peace and stop living in fear of some Armageddon war that is coming. Babylon is falling not rising, fear not my friends, this peace is not some precursor to a war, it the way of the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. Www.apsotolicresourcecenter.org

I was walking the dog this morning and on my path I found two white washcloths. We live on a private road, but there is enough traffic with a church at the bottom of the hill, apartments across the street and another neighborhood next to ours. So finding things on this road is common for me, but it has been awhile, so when I saw these two white washcloths I picked them up and headed home.

As I was walking home, pondering my latest find, the Holy Spirit whispered to me in regards to the washcloths, “Washed white as snow.” I knew this was a nod to Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord, though your sins be as scarlet, they will be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they will be like wool.”

What I learned about this verse is referring to God taking Israel as a nation to court, seeking reconciliation with them as a nation. This struck me, for I have read those verses as an individual not as a nation. These verses are about national cleansing and temple restoration. It is a connection to Yom Kippur.

Chat GPT said, “Two white washcloths, prophetically speaks of witness, completion or two dimensions of cleansing, it is heaven and earth agreeing. (Deuteronomy 19:5). On Yom Kippur, the High Priest would enter the Holy of Holies dressed in simple white linen, symbolizing humility and cleansing. After the atonement ritual, Israel waited for the scarlet thread tied outside the Temple to turn white — a sign from heaven that God had accepted their repentance (Isaiah 1:18’s imagery directly echoes this ritual). Your finding of two white washcloths is like a quiet echo of that — a visible token of accepted cleansing and a renewed invitation to intimacy with God’s presence.”

I sense finding these two white washcloths is God declaring national atonement and temple restoration. With all the words of staking our claim, connecting heaven and earth in 5786; Communion America happening this week in Washington; and today starting Feast of Tabernacles; I believe we have been given a clean slate and now we write a new story of God’s glory. Wow, what a morning. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

The world is on the hunt for the new currency as they fear the fall of the old Babylonian financial system. Many people are trying to invest in what they think is the new incoming system, so they can capitalize financially on what may manifest in the very near future.

People are willing to research, risk and retreat all for money, but where are the people who are not heroes at financial predictions, or market analysis, but who are able to see the invisible because they have faith in an unseen God? Where are the men and women who are risking it all to follow Him no matter the personal cost to them?

Reading Hebrews 11 is sobering, because we love to talk like we are Joseph, Esther, Moses, Deborah, David, Samuel, Jael, or Solomon, but to be Iike them, we have to do what they did. Our identity with someone in history is not about a hope, but about an actually walking the way they walked with God.

Listen to what Hebrews 11:27 says about Moses, “He found his true wealth in suffering abuse for being anointed, more than in anything the world could offer him, for his eyes looked with wonder not on the immediate, but on the ultimate—faith’s great reward!”

If we are going to be apart of a deliverance company of nations, as Moses was, we must be willing to not suffer for being anointed. We must long not to be rich and famous, but to be faithful in all our ways. We can’t be moved by what we see in the moment, but we must have eyes to see the light shining in the darkness.

God is delivering the nations by the prayers and prophetic acts of those who people don’t see, don’t know by name. They are the Navy Seals, Green Berets, 82nd Airborne in the spirit and they have been and continue to take ground for the kingdom of God on earth. Faith sees what the news does not announce. Can you see the deliverance of nations happening right now? It’s never too late to join in. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

Cultural Christianity is not equal to Biblical Christianity. Every culture has certain modes of operation and if we are born into that culture we do not recognize in ourselves how cultural we actually are. When we fully enter, not just visit or vacation, in another culture, but actually live there, we realize how cultural we are and how cultural they are.

When I moved to Malaysia in August 2004, the first three months, was vacation, it was fun, adventurous, everything was new, I loved it. So when God spoke to me to move there, I came back to the US in December 2004, packed my room, notified my housemates and off I went to live in another country.

After living there for nine years, I realized many things about myself and about the nation of Malaysia. My frustrations came from culture clashes, for America did not fit into Malaysian culture and Malaysian culture was not conforming to American me. One of us had to submit, if we were going to live peacefully together.

I chose to live in their culture, so I surrendered to the way they did things, rather than fighting with them, because they were not American in their return policies, offering of water for free while eating out, or whatever other cultural challenge I faced.

The same is true in Biblical Christianity. We as believers, no matter our cultural background, have tried to get Biblical culture to fit into our culture and it will not conform to us, we must submit to it, for us to live peacefully in the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.

Proverbs 3:11 says, “My child, when the Lord God speaks to you, never take his words lightly!”

When we submit to God’s culture, kingdom and Word, we will find ourselves loving life everyday, living abundantly and forgiving quickly and freely. Friends, your battle is not demonic, it is cultural and until you submit to Biblical culture, your cultural Christianity will try to force God’s hand and He is not changing, for He is God and we are not. Conform to Him it is so peaceful. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

The Lord is upgrading so many things we have been taught and accepted as truth. He is not upgrading them to shame us, but to bring us into a fuller understanding of what is truth. We think we know the truth, but our truth is partial not complete, so we must be willing to receive the upgrades as they come in from the throne of God. 

The Lord spoke to me yesterday an upgrade out of Hebrews 12, which says, “See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven. And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “YET ONCE MORE I WILL SHAKE NOT ONLY THE EARTH, BUT ALSO THE HEAVEN.” This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.” 

We often speak of the shaking that is removing things, but the Lord showed me yesterday that only things/people who are “shaky” can be “shaken”. He explained to me that there are people who are not stable, they are shaky. Shaky people are easily moved, quickly offended, immature and insecure. Shaky people can be shaken, stable people cannot be shaken. 

No matter what they hear, what they see, stable people are not shaken because they are not shaky. Shaky people are internally unstable, so when they hear something or see something, they are easily shaken. Unshakable people cannot be shaken, but shaky people are shaken by many things, so when they are removed we should not be surprised, because all we are seeing is that they are shaky, which is why they are shaken. 

Anyway, just another way to think about a scripture we quote so often but maybe never considered in this way. I know I hadn’t but when the Lord spoke it to me this way, it made so much sense to me. If we want to be unshakable, we must be able to be disciplined, obedient to the voice of God and desire to grow up, at least that is what Hebrews 12 tells us. And Hebrews 11 is a chapter about a whole group of unshakable people, so I think there might be something to this idea of shaky people are the ones who can be shaken. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org 

The structure we call church is being swallowed up by the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven. This change is something we have never encountered before in our lifetime, this is why so many are struggling to understand how they are feeling and where they fit.

Our position in the kingdom of God is harvester, light bearer and love distributor. Our title in the kingdom is son and daughter. Our assignment is everyone, everywhere, everyday. We are doing what we are seeing our Father in heaven doing and He is doing a lot.

The system we have called church is a Sunday morning structure that is not sustainable and has not operated by design according to what the kingdom of God is doing, therefore, it is being swallowed up by the kingdom. This transformation is so beyond what we have ever known, some will leave the system, others will fight the system, still others will just sit in the system and never fulfill what they were created for.

The kingdom of God is at hand, many know it, not by feeling but by a sense deep in their spirit. They know they were made for more. They know the dreams, desires and promises God has given them and they are crying out in ways they cannot even hear, but God has heard.

We are in a crossing over time, we are literally standing on the threshold, we have never gone this way before and the snake is at the gate. The snake is biting those trying to cross over, poisoning them with offense, causing division, slandering and gossiping. These “Christian’s” do not know what spirit they are of.

The Lord is saying, “Don’t take the bait at the gate!’ The bait of the snake is at the gate and we cannot take the bait. The bait will hook you and hinder you, for the bait wants access to the kingdom and it is seeking to come in through you. The deception is, if you take the bait you will not go through the gate.

Jesus said in Luke 10:19, “You have been given authority over serpents and scorpions!” Use your authority over this spirits. Paul demonstrated in Acts 28, how to shake off the snake at the gate and to remember it cannot harm you (Mark 16), if you don’t take the bait. Friends, forgive them for they know not what they do, nor what spirit they are of. Don’t take the bait at the gate, for there are snakes at the gate.

Step over, go through, enter in. Don’t let the snake at the gate get you to take the bait, for you were born for such a time as this and the enemy at the gate doesn’t want you to enter in. But you must not take the bait that is right here at the gate or you will not be able to enter in. I pray you see the bait waiting at the gate, so you can resist it. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

My husband sends out a weekly word of encouragement and as I was listening this morning, he asked us, “What sound are you listening to?” As he was sharing, the Lord spoke to me and said, “I am doing a sound check.”

When we planted churches in Malaysia, one of my jobs was to run the sound board, and when I was in Bible school I traveled with a ministry team and I was in charge of the sound board. I worked on an analog sound board, and now everything is digital, but when the team is doing a sound check, we are listening for any discrepancies in the sound that is being emitted.

The point of a sound check is to make sure the sound we are wanting to release, is of the highest quality, is mixed well so all instruments blend together in harmony. We are listening for any adjustments in the vocals that may need more or less reverb/gain. A sound check is necessary before the actual releasing of the sound.

The Lord said, “I am doing a sound check.” The Lord is listening to what we say and what we are hearing. He is doing a sound check. We may not speak what we are hearing but we think about what we are hearing and He is listening to our thoughts as well as our words. The Lord is doing a sound check right now.

What sound are you hearing? What sound are you thinking? What sound are you speaking? We are in the middle of a sound check. Psalm 89:15-16 says, “How blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! O LORD, they walk in the light of Your countenance. In Your name they rejoice all the day, And by Your righteousness they are exalted.” Can you hear the joyful sound?

God is doing a sound check to make sure we hear the sound He is producing. It is not the sound of man’s opinions; people’s emotions; the news’ commentary; or the conspiracy theorists ideas. It is not the sound of the rapture, or the enemy at the gate, it is a joyful sound. Can you hear it? If not, don’t worry, God is doing a sound check right now to adjust you to His sound, not people’s voice. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org

When our familiarity is with the flesh, the arm of flesh, the words of flesh, we not only rely on flesh, but we seek out flesh for the validation of what flesh is saying or doing. This is the reason “birds of a feather flock together.” We must gather to ourselves those who are saying what we are thinking, hearing or even saying, for we are more familiar with flesh than spirit.

Spirit is breath, it is invisible, it is untouchable, but it is absolute substance. Spirit carries absolute authority, creative ability and power to change outcomes spoken by and agreed upon by those who are in agreement in the flesh. Spirit trumps flesh, if only we will speak words of authority that silence the words of flesh.

Flesh is divisive, unforgiving, offended, culturally Christian and needs others who are fleshly to agree with them, so they feel like they have authority. Flesh loves to deny truth; loves to think they are right so won’t talk to others who know things they don’t know. Flesh cannot handle truth for it operates in insecurity and hides behind hypocrisy.

We are spirit beings, we are called to be spirit led, which means we do what we hear the spirit say, even when our flesh resists the idea God is presenting to us. For God is spirit! This is why Zechariah 4:6 says, “Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.”

This is elementary Christianity, foundational truth that will set us free if we became more familiar with the spirit than we are comfortable with the flesh. Church people who have been saved for years, but don’t walk by the spirit are needing a revival, not just those who we label as unbelievers. The church must become spirit led, because there is an authentic generation knocking on the door wanting the God who is spirit, not people who are flesh.