Lisa Great

Have you heard the amplified voices declaring a shaking is coming? Have you wondered, when is it coming? Have you asked, what will it look like? Have you pondered how will it effect us? It is so easy to say a shaking is coming, not realizing all the questions people are asking about what is being said.

Voices that speak for God assume everyone understands our language, not realizing how many people smile and nod, read and scroll on to the next message on their feed. We as the church hear so much and see so little, we say amen, but don’t really let what was said sink deep inside of us.

Today is the first day of the Hebrew month called Kislev. There are many different calendars in the world, we have the Gregorian calendar, which is the one we use; there is the Mayan calendar; and the Hebrew calendar. The Hebrew calendar is the calendar spoken of in the Bible. Kislev is the 9th month after Passover. So, today on the Hebrew calendar is the first of Kislev.

I have not really dove deep into the Hebrew months, what they mean and how they are prophetically aligned with what God is doing on the earth. I listen to others, but I have not dug in myself. Well, today the Lord highlighted to me the month of Kislev and how today is the first day of this new month.

Haggai 2 says, “Consider now from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of the LORD’S temple was laid—consider it: Is the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit. But from this day I will bless you.’ ”

The Lord said to me, “Seeds have been sown, trees have been planted, but it has not yet rained, so no fruit has come forth. Until now. Consider, watch, for it is about to rain and I am going to bless my sowers who have sown but not seen a harvest yet. Yes this month of Kislev from the 24th day on, I will bless you.”

I am not one who makes stuff up just to tickle your ears or feed you candy prophesy. My friends, its about to rain and all those seeds in the ground are about to produce fruit. If you can’t believe, just consider, just watch, for many of you, you are not going to believe your eyes.

Haggai 2 speaks of the shaking and the blessing. This tells me, in this 9th month, this month of Kislev, this month of Hanukkah, it is going to rain and we are going to see miracles of the likes that will blow our minds. Just watch, just consider, for this is the Lord’s idea not mans.

We have access to more than we apprehend and we have been called to occupy more than we possess. Have you ever wondered why we shrink back from what we have been given?

I realize very clearly, confidence comes from winning, from overcoming, from seeing the fruits of labor actualized. I am fully aware of the battle we have been in for a solid 10 years or more as a church, but actually is probably a lot longer than that. I am not unaware of these things, but I hear the Lord saying, you must shake off the dust from your last season, for the new season has broke open for you.

Memories tend to damper our mobility; when the Lord is inviting us to arise and walk. The man at the gate beautiful in Acts 4 had been placed there to beg from birth, but one day, two men arrived at that gate without silver or gold, but with power and they grabbed him by the hands and lifted him up on his feet and the Bible says, his ankles were strengthened and he went into the temple, jumping, leaping and praising God.

God is sending people into our lives to give us a hand up, not a hand out, for it is a new season. They are coming in the power their words, their giftings, their love for God and for you. But if you still are looking for a hand out so you can stay in your old season, you are going to miss the invitation they are brining with a hand up to launch you into this next season.

We are being ushered into a season of the abundance of rain and when the rain hits the soil, the harvest is going to pop up so quickly, you are going to have to call your friends to help you with the mother load God is releasing upon us with the rain.

A friend at church yesterday was sharing with me the cloud a size of a man’s hand that she sees and I said to her, get ready, get ready, we are about to do a-bun-dance! Oh yeah, it is going to be so good, we are going to shake our buns as we rejoice in the harvest God is releasing. It is a new season, can you see the hand up God is extending to you? Can you hear the music playing the song, “Shake, shake, shake, shake your groove thing?” I can!

There is a decree in my mouth, there is a resolve in my spirit, even before I opened my Bible to pray this morning, the words, “I decree” came out of my mouth. I had not yet decreed anything, but I said, I decree and then opened my Bible to pray Psalm 12. The decree became crystal clear in this psalm as the decree of the Lord today.

Psalm 12:3-4 “With flattering lips and a double heart they speak. May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that speaks proud things, Who have said, With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own; Who is lord over us?”

I decree fluffy and puffy lips be removed from the narrative of the nations. I silence every fluffy puffy voice controlling the narrative in media and church. I decree they shall no longer be amplified in our land, the fluffy and the puffy must not have a platform any longer in Jesus name.

Psalm 12:5-6 “Now I will arise, says the LORD; I will set him in the safety for which he yearns. The words of the LORD are pure words, Like silver tried in a furnace of earth, Purified seven times.”

I decree the silver words of God will be the new narrative of the nations. I declare the purified words of God will prevail in the land. I decree with the rise of the cost of silver in the natural, it will be a sign of the rise of the silver words of God in the nations. The word of God will not bow to the fluffy and the puffy and neither shall we the people of God.

We cut off the fluffy and the puffy and we call forth the silver, purified seven times over, word of God to be the narrative of the nations. We decree it now in Jesus name. Amen and Amen. Have a great Sunday!

The Holy Spirit spoke to me the other day saying, “The battle is over, the war is won; the Lord has left the battlefield; it is time to rejoice; come on let’s celebrate.” The words were so strong in my spirit, they felt real on a level I can’t explain. They brought such joy to my heart, it was as thought I could exhale after many years of holding my breath on the battlefield.

I have been pondering these words for days now, then today the Lord had me look up the words, the king has left the battlefield and what it led me to was The Battle of King’s Mountain in South Carolina. I found it timely since today is Veteran’s Day.

The Battle of King’s Mountain was fought between Patriots and Loyalists militias. The Patriots were called Overmountain Men, for they came from what is now Tennessee and traveled 330 miles along a wearisome wilderness road abounding with mountains and valleys. These men were considered a rag-tag group with makeshift ways. They fought with rifles which were slow to load but very accurate, rather than traditional muskets that were quick to load but inaccurate.

This battle is said by Thomas Jefferson to be “The turn of the tide of success.” Herbert Hoover said, “It was a little army and a little battle, but it was of mighty portent.” Theodore Roosevelt said, “This brilliant victory marked the turning point of the American Revolution.”

I know it doesn’t look like it, but the Holy Spirit said, “The battle is over, the war is won; the Lord has left the battlefield; it is time to rejoice; lets celebrate!” On this Veteran’s Day, the Lord is declaring victory, and He is instructing us to rejoice, to celebrate. The Battle of King’s Mountain has been won yet again.

The Lord said, “We drink from broken cisterns and then wonder why we are dehydrated.” There is a river that never runs dry and when we drink from it, it springs up in us as an ever flowing stream. Change from where you are drinking and you will thirst no more.”

Jeremiah 2:11-13 “Has a nation changed its gods, Which are not gods?

But My people have changed their Glory For what does not profit. Be astonished, O heavens, at this, And be horribly afraid; Be very desolate,” says the LORD. ‘For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.’”

My friends, the Lord is inviting us as nations to stop drinking from broken cisterns that cannot hold water. We are literally sucking air and it is exhausting us. Right next to us, within reach is a river, a bubbling brook that never runs dry. It is the refreshing we long for; the living water we need, but we must choose to stop drinking from broken cisterns and drink from the bubbling brook.

Some think we are in a drought, no we are not in a drought, we are drinking from the wrong place. We drink from our own desires, hoping maybe one day our dreams will come true. We are drinking from other people, clinging onto their love and affirmation thinking it will quench our thirsty soul only to find ourselves thirsting for more. We drink from our bank account, addiction or community, thinking these highs will give us what we long for, only to find they are temporal not permanent relief.

The choice to change where you drink from is yours alone, but we need you to be well-watered, for as our rivers join together it creates a waterfall of God’s glory, power and love that wets nations that have long been deserts and causes flowers to arise in the desert; nations to turn to the Lord. It all starts with what you drink from, repent of drinking from broken cisterns and put your mouth to the river that never runs dry, it will hydrate you in a way you have been longing for.

Messages are coming in from all directions about seeing, dreaming, hearing the numbers 911 and 1111. This is not just now that we are approaching this date on the calendar, but this has been happening for some people for months on end. I got a message from a friend in Athens, Greece this morning saying she had a dream in which she said “Siri, call 911.” Over and over again.

Cindy Jacobs put out a word saying, 11/11 is a day of prayer for the nations. The prophets are saying 1111, but what does it mean, no one is clear, but some are watching the news thinking it is another 9/11 attack. All of these things combined can create confusion, fear or even apathy as dates come and dates go.

I was praying into this moments ago and the Lord was so clear when He said to me, “A New Nations Anthem!” Immediately I started singing, “You are worthy of it all, you are worthy of it all, for from you are all things, and to you are all things, you deserve the glory!” Over and over I sing this song and the Holy Spirit shows me a new anthem coming out of the nations. It’s an anthem of praise that will thwart the enemy.

Psalm 9:1-3 says,

“I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart;

I will tell of all Your marvelous works.

I will be glad and rejoice in You;

I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

When my enemies turn back,

They shall fall and perish at Your presence.”

The invitation of the Lord is for the nations to praise, to worship, to lift our voice in song. It literally shatters the darkness, confuses the enemy, opens wide the heavens and the presence of God calms our fears. What the enemy is planning is not catching God off guard, so sing my friends, sing. Lift your voice for praise is the national anthems of the world.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. This is the prayer that Jesus taught His disciples to pray. This is the most famous prayer in all of scripture. It has been preached on for centuries. Books have been written off of this one prayer. Thousands upon thousands around the world have said this prayer. In the realm of bowls in heaven being the prayers of the saints, I believe this bowl should have tipped a long time ago. What if it is not words we speak, a cry we send up, a decree we make, what if it is a model God wants to see established? Not a model prayer, but a model example of what God is doing? What if this popular prayer in Matthew 6 is the blueprint?

I was pondering the thought this morning about the difference between creation and the church. Creation is everything God created before He created man. Sun, moon, stars, trees, birds, fish, cattle, beasts, creeping things on the earth. Proverbs talks about the ant, the badger, the lion, the rooster; Psalms talk about the sun, the moon and the stars; Moses talked about bushes, trees, deserts and rivers. Then there are allegories about cows of Bashan and trees of Lebanon. Jesus even prayed for a man and said, what do you see and the man said, I see men walking around like trees. The word of God is riddled with comments about creation.

The difference between creation and the church is that creation is in submission to the Creator, the church is not. Creation lives in harmony, peace and order, no competition, no titles, no trying to be someone they are not, because they are submitted to the one who created them. Trees are not trying to be cows; birds aren’t trying to be bushes; you get the point. But the church is trying to be all things to all people and we are out of order. When there is a lack of order there is a lack of peace. Not everyone can sing, not everyone can speak well, not everyone can build. If we only did what we were created to do, everyone, like creation would be doing their role and we would have order, we would have peace, we would express beauty and the world would declare “O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens!” (Psalm 8:1). Then we would see Jesus’s prayer in Matthew 6 manifest, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. To manifest the blueprint we, the church must live in submission to God, just like creation does.

The church doesn’t need another revival, we have been there done that and now our lives are no different than they were pre revival and some people’s live are even worst. This is not an opinion, this is first hand knowledge, as I was apart of a revival in which we went to church 4-5 days a week for 3-4 hours at a time. We worshiped for minimum of an hour, then had a minimum of an hour sermon, a 15 minute offering, and a minimum of an hour prayer time where people were radically touched by the power of God. I saw healings, heard testimonies of restored, revived and reconstructed marriages and families. I myself was radically changed in this revival. But I also know of many people who are still just sitting in church waiting for the fire to fall again; people who have literally walked away from God and are engaged in Eastern religions like reiki and yoga. The destruction of their lives is of a measure I cannot describe as I get calls of another marriage ending in divorce more often than I want to tell about; another person who is engaged in homosexual lifestyles and these were people in revival with me. They had hands raised, they were on the worship team, they were on the prayer floor with me, tears streaming down their face. That’s just what I saw in revival. That does not include all the salvations that happened in Brownsville or the healings that happened in Toronto. With all this manifest power of God where is the transformed lives?

The church does not need another revival, we need a reformation of the likes most are not ready for. Religion will resist this reformation as vehemently as they resisted the apostle Pauls message of Christ in you the hope of glory. Religion knows what they are doing is not changing lives, but they love functioning in their dysfunction so they just keep doing what they are doing and people just keep funding the same same but different Sunday situation hoping, wishing, maybe something will change. We need a reformation; we need a 95 thesis; we need an Acts 2 outpouring, we need reformers, not revivalists; we need maturity not church growth; we need discipleship not more microphones. Hebrews 5:8 says, “Though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.”

What is coming next for the church is going to grow us up, mature us, bring us back to the Bible and it will be painful at times. If you haven’t been to the gym in a long time, when you go back it hurts, but if you stay with it it makes you stronger, healthier and more fit for the Master’s use. We need a church reformation, so we can mature, obey and live the way Yahweh has intended for us to do. We will never change national culture until church culture changes, for we have been given authority over the earth and honestly it doesn’t look good at all and its not the fault of politics, it is the fault of the church. We must have a reformation!

I woke up hearing two very clear statements this morning from the Holy Spirit. First I heard, “I am separating the holy from the profane.” This is a direct quote from Ezekiel 44:23. Then I heard “Humpty dumpty had a great fall.” This of course is an old English nursery rhyme. These two phrases whether to be heard as two distinct and different statements or whether they are to be heard together, I am not making a statement about, but they both have great depth to them and practical applications for right now.

The church has a hard time with the idea of separation, for we have been so dipped in humanism, we think it is not loving to even consider the idea of God seperating. Separation is deeply rooted biblically in both the Old and the New Testament. In the OT the talk of the seperation is between the righteous and the wicked, the foolish and the wise, it is riddled throughout the Psalms, Proverbs and the Prophets. In the NT the imagery of sheep and goats; wheat and chaff; moral and immoral; are just a few of the references that make it clear, seperation is a biblical narrative.

The Holy Spirit said, “I AM seperating the holy from the profane.” This is what God is doing, this is not some person’s idea, this is God letting us know what He is doing. We may not like what God is doing, we may not agree with God is doing, but it does not change what God is doing. My suggestion is, we get in alignment with God, for He sees things we cannot see; hears things we cannot hear; and knows things we do not know, so when He tells us what He is doing, it is so we will not be caught off guard when what He is doing manifests.

Now for Humpty Dumpty, I know we have heard of a few names we know who have fallen, but what is interesting is that just as Humpty Dumpty fell, the first response was to put him back together again. We are so quick to put something that falls back together again, not even asking the Lord what brought about the fall. I have been told to call for the fall of the iron and clay kingdom once and for all (Daniel 2). When it falls I don’t want it put back together again, so we need to be extremely discerning in this time, because as Humpty Dumpty falls, we must not put him back together again or we will end up with the same mess we are currently in. Our job is to agree with God.

We have two options at all times. In these times of war, we have two options again. Our options are to succumb to the spirits of the air that are seeking to intimidate, exterminate and dictate with violence, death and coercion; or we can be atmosphere shifters who shoot prayer missiles into the atmosphere and take down the fiery darts of the enemy over Israel and other nations of the world. The choice is ours.

We can spend our time talking about what the terrorists are planning, doing or trying to do and live in fear, or we can be proactive and remember Psalm 91 which says, “I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress;

My God, in Him I will trust. You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day, Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you.” Or Psalm 5:12 which states, “For You, O LORD, will bless the righteous;

With favor You will surround him as with a shield.”

Remember who is inside of you. Jesus Christ sent the Holy Spirit to dwell with us as a promised guarantee that He will not leave us nor forsake us. The prophetic word is our weapon, America shall be saved. Israel shall never be removed from their land again. Friends, we are at war, Jane Hammon said, tell the church this is your call to arms. Israel is united as one people against their enemy. They are all trained for war, men and women, so when war happens, they are ready to fight as one nation together with the Lord as their shield, their sword and their fortress.

There is nothing to fear, Lord Sabbaoth, God of Angel Armies is in this war, He will not be defeated, the enemy will be thwarted. Stop fearing the terrorist as though evil triumphs over the Righteous One. Evil may flex but it will fall, fear not. Send up the word of God in prayer, remember favor is your shield, put on the whole armor of God and fight with Israel against this anti-Christ; anti-God spirit; and never forget Psalm 2, the nations rage, the people plot, but the Lord sits in heaven and laughs. Yahweh, our God is not moved and neither should we be. Our commander of heavenly hosts has never lost a battle and He will win this war! Pray friends, pray for Israel and pray for your nation. The anti-Christ spirit is no respecter or people or boundaries.