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well I’ve known Lisa and John bav for a
long time and uh they both do a great
job they’ve had a huge impact on the
body of Christ and we love and
appreciate them and when we get an
opportunity we all have have Lisa come
around and help us in our conferences
and I know she’s going to be a blessing
to you this morning and tell you about a
book that she’s written so welcome Lisa
bav
well good
morning oh can you put those down there
that’ be awesome how are you
doing I am so impressed you guys are
here you’re present you’re awake you
know Joyce did not mention my favorite
book Christine sat outside of our hotel
room in a hallway but I sat in my bed
and wept as I read the book Beauty for
Ashes Joyce has been a mother to so many
of us from afar and I’m so honored that
I got to come and be up close I remember
the first time I came to one of your
women’s conferences I drove by myself up
from Colorado Springs to Denver I put on
press on nails in my
car driving up and during worship I had
my hands up in the air and at the end of
worship when my hands came down I was
missing press on nails and I looked at
the woman next to me who had big hair
and my press on nails were in your
friend’s hair and I sat there and I
thought do I tell
her but I didn’t so this is a confession
I just put a finger down the whole time
Joyce preached I hid my press on nails
and uh I just I’m so thankful for you
Joyce I’m so thankful for your integrity
Dave I cried when you started crying
yesterday thank you for our heart for
our nation and when I came to Joyce’s
conference in St Louis I met a sister I
met Christine Kane and I know that so
many of you are here and you are having
God Divine connections that God is
aligning his women that God is doing
something beautiful God is doing
something amazing
and since I was uh speaking or
ministering at a conference my world has
enlarged a little bit so I’m going to
show you a picture of my family I am the
mother to four sons and I am now there
they are look at that that is my husband
of 41 years this
month then there is my second born son
Austin his beautiful wife Jessica
holding Scarlet who looks kind of like
The Godfather in that photo she’s got
the cheeks hanging down there’s my third
born son just got married a year ago to
meline mine was an intern for me then
she came to work for Christine then we
stole her back as a daughter-in-law my
firstborn son Addison his beautiful
Texas bride Juliana their four children
my baby boy with his beautiful wife and
she is holding a baby in that picture
that baby is Azariah there is Azariah
Jack they call him Ajax that’s his
Warrior name but can I go back to the
the family photo for just a moment I
want to show you my grandson Asher Asher
is a 39-year-old man trapped in the body
of a
14-year-old preco John and I took him to
Disney World and I sat with him on the
plane he spread out the brochure and he
went through every single ride is it
going to be dark are they going to turn
me up side down I don’t want to go
upside down I’m okay with spinning will
people be screaming will you be
screaming will I be screaming and so we
ranked every ride according to Terror
and when we’re at the baggage claim and
Disney you and and Orlando John pulls me
aside and he said we better start out
slow with Asher he could have a meltdown
on the very first
ride but John is Italian and I am
Sicilian Italians are known for feeding
people Sicilians are known for killing
people so I have a little bit of a
different parenting style than my
husband I said we are not starting out
slow I’m going to find out the scariest
ride at Disney World and we’re starting
on that one first everybody I asked said
it is the dinosaur ride and he is all
about the dinosaurs so we go on the
dinosaur ride we get off the ride he
looks at me and he said G Mama that was
terrifying
and that was fun welcome to being a
Christian in
2023 it is terrifying and it is fun but
you were not made for It’s A Small World
you were made for the Avatar ride you
were made for another time and another
place and you and I are here just
passing through I don’t know if you’ve
sensed the depth of the deposit in each
of the i s the anointing on the worship
I don’t know if you understand you may
think that you came here to hear
speakers but I know that you are here
because something inside of you is
necessary in this time I believe that
you are here and there has been a
deposit because God is doing something
magnificent in and through his daughters
and you and I are part of this time
period and it is exciting and
terrifying I wrote a book called adamant
finding truth in a universe of opinions
how many of you
know I love what Joyce said last night
there is not a bazillion different
truths there is the truth and a lot of
us have opinions that we don’t like I’m
I’m going to just be honest with you 15
years ago I had opinions about things
that I don’t even believe anymore
opinions can change but the truth
doesn’t change you can have a story but
what is truth does not change and
because Jesus does not change you and I
can change I love that he’s not a moving
Target and we live in a culture right
now where the truth is under attack and
we have to understand the truth is not a
river that es and flows with time the
truth is a rock and Jesus is asking each
of us to fall upon that rock and allow
his truth to be evident in our life the
truth is that for a long time the church
has preached the truth without love and
the truth without love is Harsh so our
culture has responded by preaching love
without truth
but love without truth is a lie and you
and I are alive in a merging of Truth
and Love this is what we have to express
to one another first and then to the
world the world is watching for the
Christians to even like one another it
says they’re going to know we’re
Christians by our love for one another
so I think we need to focus on what
unites us instead of what divides us and
so I have this book here I’m going to
give it to Michelle if you are here and
I I would like a younger girl I would
like a okay right there I see her I want
somebody that wants to bring truth to
the generations okay what I’m going to
do awesome awesome look at you you ran
you beat Michelle there you go awesome I
know I wasn’t supposed to throw that
sorry about that okay truth and then the
other attack
identity identity see the enemy is so
busy telling you who you’re not that you
are missing who God is saying that you
are I have four Sons I love all of my
sons when I had my firstborn son I was
so in love with him I said I want to
have eight more the Lord was like no you
may have four but anyway when I became
pregnant with my second son I remember I
began to panic because I imagined that
the love I had for Addison was going to
have to be cut in half and shared
equally with stranger baby from the
sonogram who looked like an alien and I
was like I know how I feel about Addison
I don’t know how I feel about stranger
baby but the truth is when I gave birth
to my second son something opened up in
my life that had never been present
before and the things I love about
Addison are very different than the
things I love about Austin and the
things I love about Austin are different
than the things I love about Alec and
ardan and the truth is that God doesn’t
love his children equally he loves them
uniquely and unique is better see there
is something unique inside of you and
what I love about the definition of the
word unique it means without rival there
is no competition for your place in the
heart of God God loves each of his
children unique there is something that
God has uniquely gifted into your life
and how he loves you and how you express
his love for others is something this
world needs right
now I love Millennials I bir four of
them Millennials are amazing yes cheer
for yourselves you guys do a great job
with that okay listen to
me yeah you guys all knew that was funny
all right this is what I love about
Millennials Millennials will come up to
you and they’ll be shaking and they’ll
say I know that God has his hand on my
life for something significant and I’ll
say that’s amazing I agree and then
they’ll say but I have no idea what it
is and I’m going to tell you something
when God begins to do a new thing you do
not discover what you are called to do
looking at Instagram you discover what
you are called to do in the presence of
God and God is pushing a generation into
his presence stop looking at what
everybody else is doing God wants to
download what he wants to do in and
through
you we have a generation of young people
that God has anointed to prophesy but
they have been content to criticize
oh I need you to step back instead of
criticizing what is I need to you to
prophesy what could be what should be to
stand in the Gap and begin to declare
thy kingdom come thy will be done on
Earth as it is in heaven is a prophetic
release and invitation for the spirit of
God to fall in our homes fall in our
communities fall in our Nations and we
need women who stop seeing one another
as Rivals and
competition we need to stop it we need
to stop it there is room enough for
everyone there’s enough Joyce doesn’t
have to invite Christine and I to come
and speak Joyce doesn’t have to do that
but you know what she’s doing I’m going
to make room for the Next Generation she
doesn’t have to invite stie she’s like
I’m going to make room for the Next
Generation we might say silly things do
stupid things she’s going to call us out
on it but she’s going to continue to
make room for the next generation and we
all need to make room for other people
to grow and actually make some mistakes
so over here do I have a young girl okay
right here second row you pop up fast
you get it okay I’m going to throw it on
the floor there we go awesome that felt
disrespectful all right one of my
favorite quotes of all times is by a
British poet and philosopher his name is
Matthew Arnold and this is what he said
if ever there comes a time when the
women of the world come together purely
and simply for the benefit of mankind
there will be a force such as the world
has never
known if ever there Comes A Time
well I don’t know where there hasn’t
been a more urgent time than right now I
don’t know if you’re looking and seeing
what’s happening in our world but the
very idea of Womanhood is under
attack everything about our femininity
is being undermined and sexualized
because the enemy knows that Jesus is
coming back for a bride so he is
undermining the imagery of Mary
Purity longing femininity he is trying
to get us to operate in our lowest forms
he’s having the men act like women and
the women act like men and God is saying
I need my daughters to be daughters I
need my sons to be Sons I need the
strength of both genders to rise up and
remember my gifting on their
[Applause]
life we need to be those women in a time
of confusion in a time of discouragement
in a time of disparity and division we
need to remember who we are and why we
are God created woman as the answer to
the very first problem and that was it
is not good for man to be
alone men are not the problem nor they
are answer
but we are supposed to be God created
answers in a world of problems and yet
we’ve attacked the men and said the man
is the problem the culture is the
problem the government is the problem
well I don’t know about you I am tired
of talking about the problem I want to
see the answer of woman manifested in
this
earth Matthew 10 verse 26- 28
don’t be intimidated oh but if I say
something like that they’re going to
kick me off of Instagram who
cares who
cares don’t be intimidated eventually
everything is going to be out in the
open and everyone will know how things
really are so don’t hesitate to go
public now don’t be silenced by the
threats of bullies there is nothing they
can do to your soul your core being save
your fear for God who holds your entire
life body and soul in his hands fear of
man fear of God fear of man is a snare
fear of God is a liberator we have to be
women who decide we are going to live in
the fear of God and not in the fear of
man
[Applause]
I don’t know when we began to think that
we could be
heroes without a
battle I used to read Hebrews 11 and I
would think I want to be one of those
Heroes of Faith oh my gosh I want to be
one of them but see I’m reading the end
of the story I’m not reading the middle
I’m not reading the dash Choice I’m not
reading the hardship I’m just reading
the like Hall of
Fame I don’t know why we saw followers
on Instagram made us a
hero I don’t know when all that
began but we need to expose it for what
it is it’s fear of man we have a battle
and God is asking his people to walk in
truth and love and to stand strong and
remember who he is and what he is
longing to do I watched last night as
hundreds of you came running down to the
altar some of you were saved for the
first time and some of you were like I
I’m I’m reporting for Duty I just
realized that we’re in a
war I look around at our day and I
wonder what the heck is going on do you
ever do you ever feel that way I think
okay it’s not you know what it can’t get
crazier it just it can’t we’re done
we’re done with crazy it can’t get
crazier they take it up another notch it
just keeps getting crazier and I’m like
what is going on well I believe that
we’re in a Romans 1 verse
26 moment where it says refusing to know
God see you have a generation that knows
about God but knowing about God is not
the same as worshiping God it’s not the
same as a knowing relationship an
intimate relationship with the god most
high refusing to know God they soon
didn’t know how to be human
either I have never seen such
cruelty among strangers I have never
seen people say things that are so mean
and for a while there we all thought
well they’re saying it because you know
they’re they’re hiding behind screens
well you get emboldened when you say it
in private and when you say it in Social
you get embolden and you begin to say it
in the streets you begin to attack
people and God is saying hey
people I need you to realize this is a
sign of the time women didn’t know how
to be women and men didn’t know how to
be men this is the day this is the time
that God chose us to be alive in we
could have been chosen for any other
time but we’ve been chosen for this time
where evil is called good good is called
evil lies are broadcast his truth
leaders are falling children are afraid
women are violated people are losing
their faith and far too many have
compromised their
integrity
actors
performers
singers they become Our
Heroes people who pretend for a living
those are our
heroes I have watched as our entire na
ation and in many ways our world has
gone off balance but the truth is it’s
all part of the plan and God is not like
what is going on I did not think this
was going to happen I did not know
things were going to get that dark but
Darkness always punctuates the light and
so we are made for this day we are Made
for This Time 1 John 2:18 says says
children time is just about up you heard
that Antichrist is coming well they’re
all over the place Antichrist everywhere
you look and that is how we know we are
close to the end one of the signature
traits of an antichrist spirit is the
hatred of women we see Joy me Joyce
mentioned that enmity in the garden
between a woman and a serpent
but the enmity between the one becomes
the enmity between the all in
Revelations 12:17 we see and then the
dragon was enraged and went to make war
with enraged with the woman and went to
make war with her children I don’t know
how much ground needs to be taken from
our mothers and our our Christian faith
before the moms just say you know what
I’m going to fight on behalf of my
children I am not going to allow this to
go any further we got to wake up if
we’re not willing to do it for us we’ve
got to wake up for our children sex
trafficking traffic sex trafficking of
children that is Dragon spawn that does
not happen people don’t just normally
think I’m going to have sex with a child
I’m going to steal a child from its home
these kind of dark things that we see
going on have nothing to do with
humanity and everything to do with
forces of the Demonic realm and we do
need to be daughters not just filled
with the Holy Spirit and then hateful in
in like real life we need to be filled
with the Holy Spirit praying in the Holy
Spirit reading the word of God and
walking it out in our own personal lives
we need to be women on fire right now
because of what is happening in our
world
you know I I remember I got saved on my
first date with John I was a handful he
saw me in a in a bikini top and cut off
shorts that I slid up to the waistband
so that everybody would know I didn’t
have underr cuz I thought that was
important to communicate at that point
in my
life and uh he was like I I really I
really like her legs but I bind lust in
Jesus name and he invited me to a Bible
study picnic I got born again filled
with the Holy Spirit and healed on the
very first night I was desperate I was
desperate for the something more but I
remember the next morning when I jumped
out of
bed I heard nothing happened last night
you can’t just pray some little prayer
and everything changes in your life and
I remember I I
froze I heard you’re not a Christian and
then I began to remember that I had been
getting up for
21 years and I had never heard you’re
not a Christian so I realized I must be
a Christian because the enemy does not
come to steal what you don’t have I took
it as a confirmation that something
significant had happened the night
before and some of you are going to go
home and and the enem is going to say
nothing happened nothing happened when
Joyce told you that it was a spiritual
to Warfare nothing happened when Bishop
Jake said you got to trust the process
nothing happened when you heard from sad
about God has a position nothing
happened when you heard that you could
be born again out of a kingdom of
darkness into light nothing happened
when God was whispering you during
worship nothing happened none of that’s
real he’s a liar and he is a thief and
you need to fight to maintain what has
been imparted into you while you were
here
so I’m going to just read 1 John 2: 20-
21 as a preemptive strike but you
belong you belong you are supposed to be
here you belong to the body of Christ
you belong to one another but you belong
the Holy One anointed you and you all
know it I haven’t been writing this to
tell you something you don’t know but to
confirm the truth you do know and to
remind you the truth does not breed lies
you belong to God you belong to this
time God has his hand on you for this
moment for this
moment I had a experience when I was
pregnant with my four son my four son is
named ardan Christopher ardan stands for
fiery and determin and Christopher
stands for anointed one when I gave
birth to ardan my world began to change
while I was pregnant with him though I
had a night vision I had a night vision
and in my night vision I saw a
magnificent lioness she was laying on
top of a platform of stone on the front
of the platform was the word numbers and
then the Roman numerals
xx3 and the longer I looked at this
magnificent lioness I knew that even
though she never moved she was more
alive than me there are things that you
can look at in creation that draw your
heart to the Creator and when I felt
like I actually couldn’t take anything
more in I heard a voice behind me say
with the birth of this son you will
awaken a
lioness I remember I began to shake and
I came fully awake immersed in the Pres
of God I’m going to be honest with you
it can take hours for me to be fully
awake I’ve had six shots of expresso
just so I could be in person with you
guys hours let alone the presence of God
but that day I was fully awake immersed
in the presence of God and God took me
to numbers chap 23 and in verse 24 I
read the people rise like a lioness they
Rouse them himself like a lion see we’re
going to have to rise like a lionist and
we’re going to have to Rouse ourself
like a lion because Jesus is the lion of
the tribe of Judah he came as a lamb but
he is not coming back as a lamb he is
coming back for a bride that is
dangerously and fully awake a bride that
is awake to what he is doing not
consumed by what everybody else else is
doing or what we think they shouldn’t be
doing but a fierce wakeup and I wrote a
book called lioness arising and
afterwards I said a prayer I was like
God um so I wrote a book it’s called
lonus arising uh I forgot to pray before
I wrote the book but since you’re
independent of time I would just love
you to confirm that that was okay never
thinking that I would be rehearsing my
car prayer out loud to you guys and I
went home that night and my boys you
know 8:00 at night youngest son said I
just remember I have a school project
due tomorrow morning we lived in
Colorado there was a blizzard I’m like
okay let me tear apart the other boy
school projects that were in the
basement and I brought him the poster
board he was like nope that’s not going
to work I need different poster board so
I paid my other boys money braved a
blizzard went to office Depot came back
with it and it was just crazy Mayhem
I’ve got one son typing another son
cutting out magazine pictures they’re
all assembling it when my husband does
something that I used to call annoy
annoying but if they’ve done it for more
than 10 years you might as well just
call it cute because it is not going to
stop my husband calls me and says hey I
I have someone I want you to talk to I’m
like John I cannot talk to a random
stranger right now I am in the middle of
your son’s school project he said yeah I
I know so I gave him your cell number
he’s going to call you later I’m like
what why would you do that to me and so
you know this guy calls me and I answer
the phone I’m like hello and he’s like
is this is this Lisa bavier I said yes
yes this is Lisa he said well your
husband held up your book tonight and he
said lions are the best Killers but
lionesses are the best hunters