Author: Kingdom Minded Ministries

From the pit I cry. I pray to the God who hears intently every word I speak. It is one thing to have an understanding of the Lord but it is everything to know Him. I can tell you of stories where all I see is success and spiritual wealth but how could I begin to speak of any success without tell you what it really looks like. It is as if you tell the ending of the story and never mention the beginning. Your mind remains wondering how you got from point A to point B when all that is known is the story of point B. Our minds have a way of remembering the “right now” moments without being reminded of the “then” moment. We find ourselves saying I do not know how I made it to this point in my life but I did. It’s our minds way of trying to push aside any trauma or pain we endured to get to a place of success. I’ve seen the ending of the book and there is victory in Jesus. But I must say that if there is an ending then there has to be a beginning. A story that we all must tell. The world could not contain all the books of miracles that Jesus Himself performed because it is never ending. Each day is a page of a book that is told in the eyes of the writer. It is everything they have seen, experienced, or have imagined it to be like. Today I tell the story of me praying from a pit and the King did hear.

The book of Jeremiah has been the theme of my life for a couple years now. Jeremiah was a young man called by God to warn the people of an upcoming captivity if they did not listen to the voice of God. Jeremiah means whom Jehovah has appointed. God appointed Jeremiah in so much that He told Jeremiah that He created him to be a prophet to the nation’s and whatsoever God told Jeremiah to do, he did it. He was faithful in all his ways to the King of glory. He rooted out, and pulled down, destroyed, and overthrew all that God commanded him to do. He even planted and built all that God commanded.

Eight months ago I never did see a battle in this way but expected something had to come to get to get to another level of success. If there is a victorious ending there must be a hard battle in the beginning. I’ve always been told if you want success then you must work hard and endure till the very end. It says in Gods word those who endure till the very end, they will be saved. Its a promise made kept by God. There are things we must endure and push through if we don’t want defeat. I was never a person who wasn’t stubborn and if I wanted it enough I would fight to get that thing I wanted.

Things began to move in my life. Revivals started breaking out and people were getting saved by the number. 400 or more people recieved the gift of life in the matter of a couple months. Not because I did anything or the ministry I’m apart of did anything but because the favor of the Lord moved in towns and cities and churches. His hand is not shortened that He can not reach even the wickedest of peoole. He is God and nothing is too hard for Him to do. It seemed as if smooth sailing was ahead of me.

Then once again God spoke to me of a battle ahead of me. A battle that affected my health and at times my walk with God who is my Father and Creator. It affected my health, my husbands health, his families health, my families health, and if that wasn’t enough it would even cause death in the family. I sat in a church after a revival in VA saying Job was a perfect and upright man and Satan came and took away all that Job had and even messed with his health. Still Job proclaimed that God was blameless. Two days later my husband fell and had to have surgery on both his knees to reattach two major tendons that held the knee caps in place. Still God remained Blameless. Three days before the surgery his sister past away and I had to remind myself of part A and say God is still blameless. The day of his supposed surgery there was a call that said ” You may have a chance that your sister was a match for a kidney transplant.” The test results came back and they were not a match. Neither did he get a long awaited kidney transplant nor did he have his surgery that day. It was then I was angry. Not with the Lord because I knew He was still blameless. I was angry with Satan. The ride home was silent and tears streamed down my face. I felt defeated but God reminded me of what I had hours earlier. I will be content in whatever state of mind I am in. If it was a match I would praise my God and if not, then I will still praise my God because He is blameless. I declared that day I was coming after the kingdom of darkness to root out, overthrow, pull down, and destroy it for doing that very thing to my family. I declared war that day in my vehicle. The day of my sister in-laws funeral my mother in-law had emergency surgery. I found out my grandma’s cancer came back and my aunt was going into renal failure. All of this in a weeks time. A couple more weeks pass and my husbands Nanna falls off a ladder and breaks her back in several places and her pelvic bone as well. To finish off I must say a month before all of this I began having pain in the right side of my abdomen that is still undiagnosed. I could not work for two months due to the severity of this pain that still to this day troubles me 7 months later. I had to again remind myself daily that God was still blameless and Satan was having a hay day with my life.

My life was turned upside down and everything was taken away from me. Revivals went on that I could not attend. My husband could not walk for 4 months. I had no job for two months and I could barely take care of myself let alone my husband on top of it. I found myself in a pit. I felt numb and overwhelmed. I found myself running hard in the direction that I fought so hard to stay away from. It was as if I was in a coma. I keep a journal to write my feelings down when I can’t express them openly. I wrote as if I was writing to someone who could hear me in the moment. I said, ” want to know what is hard?” Seeing yourself slowly slip away though you try so hard to stay alive. You mourn your own spiritual death as you begin slipping into a spiritual coma. I hear your voice I feel the emotions. My eyes do weep but my body can not move. My eyes are closed and I try so hard to jolt myself out of this coma and somehow I just can’t. I even went on to say God why doesn’t my hands work? Not even a squeeze. Why doesn’t my legs or feet work? Not even a twitch. Why doesn’t my mouth speak? Not even a moan.

After all that I expressed, there was one thing through it all that I held onto. That was only God can awake me as a girl that just sleeps. Talitha Cumi, meaning damsel arise. I am a sleepy giant. I reminded myself of this often saying I am a volcano that is asleep but when I awake I will burst and nothing can stop it. That was my prayer from the pit. As Jeremiah was to the point of death and stuck in mud up to his waist with no way out, he did not give up. He kept the faith and remembered the promise God made him in chapter one of his life when God called him. God told him to not be afraid of their faces. For I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord. A familiar presence came to me in my living room. The presence of the Lord and I began to break. For months all I could feel was muck dirty mud that was pulling me deeper even waist deep. In that moment it was as if Jesus went before the King at all authority and spoke the same words Ebed-melech did. Saying, My Lord The King, these men have done evil towards Karlee the prophet and she will die right where she is because of the famine, for there is no bread in the city. It was as if the angels were the thirty men and the old dirty rags was the Spirit of the Lord who is my comforter, wrapped me up in His arms and pulled me out of the pit I was in.

Job saw God as blameless because he loved God. Jeremiah stayed content with whatever situation he was in because he loved the Lord and knew God does not take back His promises. Love covers a multitude of sins. When all was taken away from me, the one thing that couldn’t was love. Healing isn’t mine to gibe, knowledge isn’t mine to give, wisdom isn’t mine to give. They are all Gods to gibe. But what is mine to give is Love and no man or devil can take away what is mine. It is not theirs to take. Satan can fight to put a wall between me and God but still yet, when two people love each other, love always wins. It always finds a way around the wall or even out of the pit. This is point A to point B. A time of praying from the pit and being set free by The King of all authority.

A House Divided will NOT Stand
Mark 3:24-25 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25. If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
On October 17th 2019 God had sent me to Ezekiel Chapter 27 and when I had read it I felt like it was very important but I could not understand what exactly God was trying to share with me. The fact that Tyre had a world wide import and export system and everyone came to Tyre for exchange because they were very wealthy. And this import/export system held up very well until destruction had come to it. Once the king was overthrown destruction came to the land as well.
Not understanding what the importance of these scriptures, I asked God to reveal to me what exactly it was He needed me to see. I instantly became very sleepy to the point I fell asleep within moments. God took me to a place beside the sea. It was a building of some sorts that sat literally on the sea. There was a horrible storm and the sky was black and the sea looked like someone had put all the waters of the ocean into a basin and swished it back and forth creating massive waves. The farther out at sea, the greater the waves were. As I looked out I could see what looked like a large barge boat. Watching the waves rise, I could see this ship about ready to capsize. There was cargo on this ship that looked like new trucks. They were crashing into each other and I remember being saddened by the damage that was taken place. I knew that it was a shipment from another country that could not make it to land because the storm prevented it.
I walked back into the building on the sea and there was a TV on the wall. the TV was on a news channel that was talking about the severity of the storm. The lady on the news said, ” There will be no import or export until the storm is over with and it could be as late as the third or fourth of December.” I remember a heaviness that came upon me and my though was, what is America going to do with everything at a stand still.
Walking on, there was an older man dressed in a very expensive suit with his hair slicked back. As I looked at his face I remember distincly that I could see the concern in his eyes. It was almost as if he was holding back tears. I could feel worry and fear radiating off of him. He was consummed by it. No joy could be found, only sadness and panic and some frustration. I watched as he looked at the watch on his hand. Then go through the papers he had prepared one more time before he was to go in and speak to the people of the nation. Though I could not see inside the room, it was filled with news reporters and cameras with great anticipation to hear what this man had to say. As the man sighed real deeply and entered the room, I became very curious as to why this man was so discouraged and God said to me, “He’s discouraged because of lack of funds he’ll receive for speaking to the public”
I believe God shared that part with me about the man for me to grasp the concept that we are about ready to go into a crisis that will effect our whole world. This crisis will effect the import and export of our nation and most of all the lack of money everywhere in the states because of the destruction of this storm. God said even the rich would suffer. There will be a time where all imported goods and vehicles and all sorts of things will cease until this war (storm) is over. God made it very specific that this storm will affect all nations.
Please read all of Ezekiel 27 to better understand why the dream played out the way that it did. This is the most important part and I advise you to read the verses first then go back and read the interpretation of this dream.

Ezekiel 27:4-24 The King and His Land
Lamentation- Mourning or wailing like at a funeral >Travail<

Vs.3 entrance to the sea, merchant of the people to many coastlands/USA

Tyre= America
King= A President

“Oh Tyre, you have said I am perfect in beauty…”
I have always heard outsiders consider our nation a ” Great Nation” Near and far, all the people from around the world desires to come and be a citizen of this ” Great Nation”

Your distinguishing mark was riches and bondage

Persia is modern day Iran, Lud is modern day Turkey and, Put (Phut) is modern day Africa.
They hung their shields and their helments in him- They put thier confidence in his splendor. All has put their confidence in America.

Vs. 11 Arvad= I shall break loose

Gammadim= brave men, warriors, valorous men but for this concept it is used as grasping weapons
They went into our walls and were in our towers and took away our weapons

Tarshish= The prophet Jonah was trying to flee. Months ago God had me in Jonah and He expressed to me that we needed to warn our Nation because it was about ready to fall into the hands of the enemy because of their wicked ways.

vs. 15 many coastlands were your market. The men from around Tyre became their customers because of the abundace of wealth

Ezekiel 27: 25-36 The overthrow of our Glorious Nation
vs. 25
“The ships of Tarshish were the carriers for your merchandise. And you were filled and were very glorious in the heart of the sea.”
There was rich export/import and rising of Jobs, Trade, and Businuess in the United States. You were very rich (glorious) in the heart of the sea. You were very rich in import and export overseas. (dream) I saw what was like a massive barge ship carring imported cargo.
vs. 26
“Your rowers have brought you into great waters; the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.”
Great waters = Muddy waves = the swamp is rising.
There has become a rising of the enemy against our President. A war on our ” Great Nation” will come to pass soon. One house against another house and it will cause the destruction of our Nation. A house divided will NOT stand. This Nation has become divided and God is saying it will not stand.

East wind has broken you in the heart of the seas = The east has come in to the heart of our government and has brought destruction to our land. (dream) As I looked out and saw the ship with cargo, I could see the ship about to topple over due to the massive waves. the cargo of trucks were crashing and banging against each other. It looked like someone had put all the water into a basen and shook it side to side which caused waves to grow and rise high. God spoke to me and said the swamp is rising and will bring great destruction to the nation of America.
vs. 27
“Your wealth, your wares, your merchandise, your sailors and your pilots, your repairers of seems, your dealers in merchandise and all your men of war who are in you, with all your company that is in your midst, will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your overthrow.”
The day that President Trump is overthrowed, either in impeachment or losing the election next year, our country will fall into the hands of those over seas.
vs. 28
“At the sound of the cry of your pilots the pasture lands will shake.”
vs. 29-30
A great cry will be heard in the land of the “Free”
vs. 31-34
The people will take up a lamentation for you, and say, “Who is like America, like her, who is silent in the midst of the sea? Many people have come to our nation, and you have satisfied them with the abundance of your wealth and merchandise. You made the kings of the earth rich, but now you have fallen. Your merchandise and your companies have fallen with you, The Swamp has overtaken you, you will cease to be forever.”

On April 11th 2020 I woke up from a heavy dream from the Lord. I was in a church building and my husband and I was trying to convince this pastor to let his people come to this revival. Before I go on I must explain that this pastor was portrayed as Pharaoh and his people as the Egyptians. My husband and I, plus a couple other people that I really didn’t know, was portrayed as the Jews. We were looked at as unimportant while they looked at themselves as high authority just like the Egyptians did in the bible.

As we were walking and talking in this line of people, us portrayed as Jews had to be in the back of the line. The Egyptians were first and we were made to be last. I wanted to be rebellious and ask why I had to be last and why did I have to do things different than this church. It was like they were determining which church was more important and which was not by who was first in line and who was in the back of the line. Those that were unimportant in their eyes became the Jews in Gods eyes.

As we walked and talked with this pastor in front of us trying to convince him to come to this revival, he would reject because we were “Jews” and he was “Pharaoh.” I believe here God was sharing with me that the reason this pastor wouldn’t come to this revival was because we were the underdog so to speak and he wasn’t. He was considered a very well off church that could have his own revival and hundreds of people would come, while we may have fifty to show up at ours.

The moment this pastor rejected the thought of coming to this revival, an earthquake came and these huge thorn like things shot through the legs of all the Egyptians crippling them for a moment but they could still walk. We as Jews tried to help them but they did not want our help pulling these massive bat sized splinters out of their legs. It was like they became used to them being there.

I remember at one point we were talking to this man and again he rejected. Another rejection another earthquake and another plague that would come upon them. This time it was boils. They had boils all over them and it burned and they were in so much pain. I thought why reject this revival? They rejected because it wasn’t their kind of revival. once the boils disappeared and the pain went away, they continued on with doing what they normally do.

Another plague comes because of another rejection. This time these black blobs started coming up out of water and was gnawing on people. It reminded me of big leeches/rats that had teeth. They were in peoples hair, in their food, coming out of their drinks. The crazy thing is, as much as the pastor ignored this revival, the congregations started ignoring these plagues. It was like they got used to these plagues happening to them and forgot the wrath of God was on them and claimed it as a natural thing.

We go to sit down with food in our hands and there was two rows of three tables. The first row of tables only the congregations of this pastor and like manner pastors could sit here. While the underdogs or least important to the well known churches had to sit in the second row. There were maybe at the most ten people sitting at the “Jews” table. The pastor though did not sit with neither rows of tables but sat by himself with no table and continued to talk with my husband and I.

When my husband saw that this pastor would not invite his congregation, my husband decided that he was going to invite them himself. he stood and began to beg the congregation to come to this revival. He would say, ” Hey everyone! There is this revival going on and you must come! please come to this revival… Please don’t miss it because you’re Egyptian and we are Jews… Please don’t miss because our church has a different name above the door…”

I listened as the final call went out. I watched as the pastor sat silently behind us with his head down. I watched the congregation of hundreds of people reject this last call. Certain of the congregation who were leaders would stare at the pastor in a way of saying don’t you dare accept this call and go to this revival. I watched as Pharaoh pleased his people and did not let Gods people go to the final revival because It came through an underdog church.

Another earthquake, another ignored warning of devastation. This last plague would be a plague that would never be forgotten. I watched all ten that sat at the table stand up to leave for the revival. I walked up to this young boy who was about 4 or 5 years old. I gave him a big hug with tears streaming down my face, kissed his head, and said I am so sorry, I love you. I walked into the safety of this revival while the death plague swept through those that rejected the last call.

They were Egyptians and we were Jews. All because we were for true unity and they weren’t. All because the revival came through a people that was considered the underdogs. They missed it for a number in their church. They missed it because the name over the door. They became last while we became first. We were last in line to get our food but we were first to leave and go to the final revival.

When I was young in the Lord, I never heard the terms, “spiritual mothers and fathers.” I always did have certain people that I looked up to, but I’ve realized they were more like stepping stones in my walk with God. I looked at their life and said, ” Lord I want to be as wise as this person, or worship relentless like this person.” I’ve always looked at a situation and said, ” If they can do it why can’t I?” Which in my case wasn’t always a bad thing but you do have to be very careful with it that you don’t get wrapped up in the person or the gift, but get wrapped up in the fact that If God can teach this person wisdom, then He can teach you too.

As years went by, I met some awesome people and they kept mentioning who their spiritual mothers were or who their spiritual fathers were and at the time I felt I had no one. I felt like a lost pup taken away from its mother prematurely and in search of some nurturing. I desired to have what they had. The more I sought for it, the less I found it. The less I found It, the more hurt I became and my anxiety started rising up again and I started listening to the lie of the devil. He kept saying, ” Nobody wants you. Nobody likes you. Those friends, they don’t actually want you around? They are rejecting you just like everyone else did in your past.” He was saying so many things that I fed into because I looked at my friends as my help rather than the one who knows me through and through. I got wrapped up in wanting my friends to mentor me rather than the one who said follow me in my foot steps.

Now I’m not saying that everyone does not need a spiritual mother or father because there was times I myself needed some guidance when I was being hard headed and wouldn’t stop long enough to listen to God. There are people that God sets up in our lives to help guide us along the way. I am so thankful for those people God has and had set up for me to bring me right where I am at, at this very moment. Just like our natural schooling system, You have a different teacher year by year. You remember their teachings and are thankful for them but as times changes and you come upon a new season you may need a higher grade of teacher.

One night after dealing with this thing that felt like rejection and separation, I told God I just did not understand why I was feeling this. broken and worried I began to ask God for clarity. I had contacted a great man of God and asked him to pray for me then as I was about to fall asleep, my husband turned and said, ” I don’t no what to tell you on this one, but I’m praying that God would give you some clarity.” I knew then that everything was going to be okay and that I would get the clarity that I needed.

The next night we were at a close friends house around the fire singing praises to God. Out of nowhere God reminds me of another group of people that had no spiritual father but Jesus asked them to follow Him. That’s when It all made sense to me what was going on. He reminded me of how the schooling was In the bible days. The first so many years of their lives they studied the first five books of the bible until they could read scripture word for word. Then around the early teenage years, the boys went on to see if they qualified to study under a Rabbi. If they passed reading word for word the Torah then they qualified to choose their Rabbi that they wanted to study under. It was someone they saw as a father figure. As for these twelve, they may have not qualified to go on further. So they had to continue in their fathers trade, but Jesus chose them anyway even though they weren’t deemed fit to be under a Rabbi.

There are those that will follow the very steps that other preachers, evangelists, and teachers have walked. Then there are those that are only taught by God. They have no spiritual mothers or fathers to look up to but God himself. When It feels like we are being rejected or “unqualified” to be under someone’s teachings, I found that It’s not really rejection but It is actually God saying He wants no man to teach you but Him. In this I have seen the fatherless or motherless be raised by God into a powerful spiritual mother and father themselves. In Psalm 68: 5-6 it says that God would be a father to the fatherless and a judge for the widows, Is God in His holy habitation. God makes a home for the lonely; 6. He leads out the prisoners into prosperity, Only the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

In my house I have a sign on my wall that has this very verse upon it and I forget it’s even there but every now and then God will remind me to look up and He will say don’t forget the plans I have for you Karlee. My plans are to prosper you and to give you hope and a future.

Today I asked God what do I need to study today that will help me to understand you more and once more He says I know the plans I have for you. Instead of doing my usual thanking God I had questions. What are your plans Lord? What does this verse really mea? It’s like I had the common sense of what it meant but I truly didn’t understand what prosper was or what hope looked like or even what my future would consist of.

I am one of those that God really has to break things down for me to understand the depths of these verses and how they actually apply to my life and it’s not just words spoken. You know how you can read and your mind is not actually paying attention to what you are reading so you have to read it again to realize what you’re reading? That’s me majority of the time. I read it but a lot of times I don’t really read it. I get no knowledge out of something when I don’t pay attention to what it’s saying and I definitely get no knowledge out of something I don’t study.

Here I am saying God you say you know the plans you have for me and you declared it, explain to me what declared it means. Declares in the Hebrew dictionary means to prophesy or to speak it into existence. God has spoken something into existence over everyone that has breath. In Jeremiah 1:5 it says, before I formed you in the belly I knew you before you was born I sanctified you and I ordained you a prophet to the nations.

It says in Jeremiah 29:11, plans to prosper you. This word prosper means Welfare, Peace, Soundness, and Completeness. What is so unique about this is, you can take these meanings and say Gods plans are to prosper us in welfare, prosper us in peace, prosper us in soundness, and completeness and that is so true. God does want these things to prosper in us. He does want us to be sound and complete in our walk with Him and He truly does want us to have peace and for our welfare to be good as well.

The phrase, ” … and not to harm you…” Comes from the Hebrew word Ra’ which is pronounced as Rah. The meaning of this phrase is anything evil. So it would be like God was saying His plans will not bring evil on you. If you look in any Hebrew concordance Ra’ is H7451 but there is this thing called Etymology or in other words the Root Word and it will have a number to go to that will take you to the root of the word Ra’ and it is H7489 and the prime root of Ra’ is, Ra’ a’. As I looked at this definition, the only difference between Ra’ and Ra’ a’ is the fact that Ra’ a’ means to be or to do evil. My mind almost exploded with saying, you mean to tell me, God, that your plans for our future will not bring evil on us nor does these plans consist of us being evil or doing evil? What a beautiful picture of salvation right there. His plans are salvation every time.

Then comes the big question, what hope do we hold onto? Faith is the substance of things hoped for but what is hope? Hope is the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1) As I thought on this God turned the tables on me. Instead of me asking another question, God asks me a question. It’s a very important question that He asked me. He said What is your hope Karlee? I said that’s easy, my hope is that this world would be changed by you. It’s what moves me to push harder to learn all that I can. That way I can be prepared and ready to be used to help another through hard situations. If I don’t know anything then how can I help them.

Once you find the hope for something, you find out what your future looks like. If your hope is for your family to be saved, then keep that hope. It says without a vision the people parish. If we keep saying they won’t get saved, the chances are they won’t. If salvation is your hope, then that will be your future. Our hope is the only thing that will bring our future to come to pass. My Hope comes from the Lord. He hoped in the beginning that I would accept the call on my life. I’m thankful He never stopped hoping and wanting a beautiful future for me and you. This is learning how to be Kingdom Minded.

The Israelites and the house of Judah are always referred to as sisters throughout the whole bible.
Judah means to praise or to give thanks. His name means to basically lift God high.
Israel means God prevails.
Judah and Israel split after the death of Solomon.
Solomon was known for his wisdom. Judah and Israel split when wisdom died. Wisdom brings unity. Or in other words the praises to God and the prevail of God split when wisdom died through the lack of study and lack of unity.
Without wisdom you lose how to praise and lift up God and when you lose this the prevailing power of God can’t oppurate no longer.
Jerusalem was once the capital of Judah but is now the capital of Israel
Jerusalem means the teachings of peace and in psalm 122:6 it says to pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
So when you pray for The oeace of Jerusalem you’re praying for the peace of Israel as well as Judah since Jerusalem was once their capital as well.
Jeremiah 33:7 says, 7. I will restore the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel and will rebuild them as they were at first.
In praying for peace of Jerusalem you are praying that unity will come back to Judah and Israel as a whole because they were once as one but now is not but will be again.
Jacob was known as a peacemaker as well as Judah who made peace with his brother Joseph (Genesis 37).
We hear the name of Israel everywhere but Judah is on reserve as of now but there was a prophecy given to Judah by his father Jacob (Israel) that Judah will rise again as the lion roaring. Genesis 49:8-10 speaks of this. If Judah means praises then the praises will rise once again like a lion that roars.
If you take Jeremiah 33:7 and take Judah and Israel out and replace it with the actual Hebrew and God given meaning of there names in this is what you will give.
I will restore the captivity of the praises to God (Judah= Praises to God) and the captivity of the prevailing of God (Israel= God prevails) and will rebuild as they were at first.
They were unified through the wisdom of Solomon. This next generation of salvation will carry the mantle of Solomon which is wisdom and through their wisdom will they bring back the praises to God and the prevail through God back as it was meant to be in the first place. As God ordained it to be from the very beginning.
Israel was the father of Judah. This is where we learn that this older generation, they knew how to prevail through hardship. While the newer generation knows how to worship. It will be this generation rising up that will carry the wisdom of Solomon who brought unity between Israel and Judah. This generation IS the bridge between the new generation and the old generation. It will be they that brings completeness to the body of christ that is currently split due to lack of wisdom.
So we call for this army to arise. We call for the mantle that Solomon carried to fall upon this generation that they will know how to prevent division of the body like Solomon knew how through the wisdom that God gave. Let the Solomons arise to rebuild Jerusalem back to its original meaning. Just as Solomon rebuilt the temple, Father we call these Solomons to life to rebuild the kingdom of God. Breath oh breath of God for the unity of your kingdom is what we seek.

James 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the churh; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

I have been feeling this in my Spirit for about a week now and I believe God is speaking something here. He keeps reminding me of this verse and another that is found in Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

It all connects together with James 5:14. When we are sick there is a battle that is going on inside of our body. It’s like the sickness has come in and has reeked havoc in our bodies. Our bodies may or may not be strong enough to fight off whatever sickness it might be but the thing is, it still fights in it’s own way.
But there is power in the tongue. When we speak life over a sickness there is a positive vibe that actually radiates off of us into whoever or whatever we speak life into. Same as death there is a negative vibe that radiates off of us into whoever or whatever we speak death into.

I have seen the studies of where they take two plants and plant A they speak good positive words and plant B they speak bad negative words. Plant A will prosper while plant B is said to wilt away. If not ever spoken to they both will prosper. Death wont come to plant B if positive words or no words at all are spoken.
There was a man one time that went to prophesy over a church and people within it. God said tell him that if he was to prophesy over my church and my people then he needs to speak life over them because there is life or death in his tongue. You don’t realize the actual authority you have until God opens your eyes to something like this.

I am reminded oh so often of Ezekiel 37 where God asks him if these bones could live again and It determined whether Ezekiel said yes or no. It was because of his yes did God say to prophesy over those bones that they may live again. What Ezekiel did next was speak life into the body of a great army. You don’t know the impact that this person has when you speak life over them. They can become the greatest power house you know and it all be because you spoke life rather than death over their body.

Is any sick among you? Call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. I see a world filled with dead men’s bones where there is no life within them. Sickness has come to this world but there is a multitude of Christians speaking death over them by saying things like, “this world is going to hell in a hand basket” or, “they will never change.” Even they will say, “Kill them, they don’t deserve life for what they’ve done.” Negativity spoken over people who are negative souls already.

It says in 1 John 3:14 we know that we pass from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loves not his brother abides in death.

If we truly want to be kingdom minded we must carry a vision that Jesus casted long ago and that is a world changed by God. It starts with us speaking life over a dead cold world. Let the pools of Bethesda be stirred all across this world as I speak healing over the nations. Breathe oh breath of God upon the dry bones. Bring life back to an army that once fought hard for the captives to be free from the bondage of sin. There is life in the power of this tongue.

There was a time in my life where I didn’t understand what real praise was. I’ve heard all my life people say the words, “Give praise unto God because He is worthy,” and truly He is worthy of it all. I grew up thinking praise and worship meant to sing a couple of songs, amen the preacher that was preaching the sermon, and move on. Maybe a shout of excitement every once in a while.

It wasn’t until I had gotten older and rededicated my life back to God, did I really care to have a question of anything anyone ever done in a church service. I always went with the flow of doing things. It was at this time of rededication I became completely concerned with my walk with God. I had become so serious in my walk with God that some had said, “Karlee you are way to serious. You need to have a little fun every now and then.”

I became part of a praise and worship group at my home church about three and a half years into my journey with God. There was a young lady there about my age that had asked us a very serious and eye opening question. She asked all of us individually what we thought praise and worship was. Up until that moment I had never really gave it a thought. I knew it had to do with lifting God up higher than anyone but still at that I didn’t have the understanding of what lifting or esteeming someone higher than yourself meant. Everyone was kind of quiet and really didn’t know what to say either. I had studied worship and knew that worship was more than a song but worship was really shown through prayer unto God. As for praise I was completely stumped.

Almost a year later I found myself in some awesome revival services and I kept hearing the preachers or leaders of worship say, ” Give God some praise!” I still questioned what Praise meant. How do I praise God? I really felt like the desciples when they asked Jesus to teach them how to pray. I asked God to teach me how to praise Him because He was and is and will always be worthy of my praise. As I heard the crowed start shouting and heard some cry out the name of Jesus, I still questioned is this real praise? Do you just shout and God is like oh thanks for your vocal cords of praise? I felt in my spirit that there was more to it than shouting in excitement.

It was during this time of examining that God gave me a complete revelation of what profited Him more. He pressed it on my heart to look up the word praise in the hebrew dictionary and the hebrew word for praise is Yadah which means to give thanks. This made a world of a difference on my outlook of things. It made sense that praising God was really becoming aware of what God has done for us and thanking Him for it.

I have found that the more I loved on God through thankfulness of His goodness and bragging on his beauty, that there has been a deeper love I have found for Him and Him I. It has caused a deeper connection between me and my Redeemer. There has been many times Jesus has loved on me and I have felt such a comfort. He desires us to love on Him and be thankful for Him as well. If we look at the perfect couple, you’ll see that both speak highly of each other and thank each other for being there in times of need or loving them when they were unlovable and even in there times of failure. Praise is simply recognition of the good things that sometimes go unnoticed. It is a heartfelt thankfulness for the goodness and mercy of God.

Now when someone says, “Give God some praise,” I don’t awkwardly stand there waiting to see what someone else does and then shout awkwardly to hype myself up to recieve the glory from God. I now reflect on the many things God has done and I learned that God would rather hear how good He is and how beautiful His countenance is any day of the week over a shout. Shouting does have its own purpose of releasing into the atmosphere the overwhelming power of His glory, but it is not a praising mechanism that moves God to love on us even more.

Genesis 4:7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? But if you don’t do well, sin lies at the door. It’s desire is for you but you must master it.

Sins desire is to grab a hold of you when you least expect it. But you must learn to master/rule it. Master in this concept means to have dominion or power over something. In Romans 6:14 it says, For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

Romans 6:14 is mastering what Cain could not master. The scripture says that God didn’t accept Cains offering, but why didn’t God accept his offering? Why did God make the statement that He made in Genesis 4:7? Was it because it wasn’t the firstfruits? Or the fact that God knew Cains heart and knew it lacked good intentions already? So many questions we could ask, but the main thing is, there is a lesson here stating that if we do not pick wisely the offerings we make, it may not actually be pleasing to God.

We know that God expects us to do our 100% just like we would expect our God to do His as well. What is the importance between Abel offering meat and Cain offering fruit? We have to ask ourselves this question, what is the difference between fruit and meat? Fruit is concidered what grows off of us. For example the fruit of the Spirit has 9 attributes and they are, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience. Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self Control. Which all is personal growth and all is good in God’s eyes but God is seeking for you to bring in the meat.

It leads to the next question which is, what is meat? Meat is concidered the main course meal or the mass or magnitude. So what is the magnitude? The magnitude in this case is the lost. There is a mass number of souls out there who are the meat of the earth that needs to be brought in. They are the flesh like it says, Abel brought the firstlings of his flock. Jesus is our shepherd and we are His sheep but we too are considered shepherds tending to our flocks. Our flocks are those that we bring into the fold.

So why was Abels offering accepted more so than Cains? Because Cain brought to the altar his fruits and Abel brought to the alter his firstlings or in other words those he brought into the fold.

I must stop right here and explain to you what the alter signified and why they offered to begin with. It was more than just a giving to God but it was also God giving to them in turn. It signifies us praying to God for increase in certain things or even forgiveness. There is many types of offerings and sacrifices as well.

So we can pray for our own fruits to grow like Cain did or we could pray for the flocks that needs to be brought in like Abel did. Back then when they sacrificed there was a reason for it. It was to signify that what they were sacrificing for was because they wanted more of that certain thing. Kind of like saying, if they wanted peace from God, they would make a peace offering and God would bless it and give them increase in peace. So Abel instead of laying fruit on the alter for more fruit, he laid the firstlings of his flock for more flock.

When we pray for growth God of course will give us growth, but He desires that your interest would be more for adding to the flock. You think about Solomon, he desired to have wisdom so that he could rule the people right. In doing so God gave him more than wisdom, He gave him riches as well. So when we ask God for things that will profit adding to His Kingdom he will add the other blessings of growth as well.

Now that we understand the importance of those scriptures, why did God say, “…But if you don’t do well, sin lies at the door?” First off let’s break this down some. What does “lies” mean In this context? It means to crouch down on all fours like an animal. The mindset is of someone or something being sneaky, or ready to pounce when you least expect it. We obviously know it’s talking about what Satan does but still why does this apply to Cains offering and the non-acceptance by God? Cain laid fruits upon the alter which means there was a lack of fruits in his life. So therefore it was easier to entice Cain to sin because there was lack of fruits. The fruits of the spirit are applied when we become more concerned for God’s flock. Which is adding to His Kingdom.

Jesus makes a statement in Matthew 6 verses 25-34 that speaks so much the more clearer now than it did before. It says, take no thought of what you’re going to eat or drink because God already knows you need these things. But to seek first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

This is how you master or have power over the sin that lies at the door, praying and seeking the adding of the Kingdom and then will all things be added to you. It’s selfless to want more flock. It’s loving, it’s patient, it’s kind, and gentle. It’s good, it’s faith and faithful, it brings peace, and joy when the prayers has been recieved from the Father and you see multitudes added to His flock and His Kingdom.

What a revelation God has given. He deserves all the praise for the many teachings he has impacted my life with. Unveiling the mysteries of our King!

1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

How beautiful it is for God to reveal to us what it is that He sees. It gives us an insight into the mindset of God. I have found along the line that the more we seek His face the more we start to mirror the very image of our God. So instantly what my Master showed me became the very mindset of my own. Desiring to see the world in the eyes of our Creator.

Seeing through the eyes of God was sparked in my mind a little over a year ago. As I walked up and down the isle of my church seeking the face of God I said, “God I want to see exactly what you see in your people and even in the world. What is it God? Reveal to me the very secrets in your eyes.”

As I looked infront of me, I saw our churches pulpit, which is made of fiberglass, and God says the words, “What do you see?” I said, “God, I see the reflection of the windows from the church doors.” He so comely says, “What does those windows look like?”With tears streaming down my face, I say, “Oh God I see your eyes!”

By this statement made, God gave me what I feel has been one of the greatest revelations God has ever given. He says to me, “My daughter, what do you see in my eyes?” I said, “I see the world and it is white” Once those words came out of my mouth, I was reminded of the scriptures spoken by Jesus that say the fields are white and ready for harvest. To pray for God to send workers into the field.

It was in those moments that started the beginning of the mindest of my Creator became the mindset of His creation. It was then that the words spoken by God became my future. He has called everyone of us to the field, but before we can even enter into the field we have to have a vision for it. Jesus said, “without a vision the people perish.” It’s the same as anything God shows us. We have to see it before we can pursue it.

What is it that God sees in us? It was the man at the tombs that gave me that answer. God sees in us what we can’t see in our own selves or in others either. Even the woman who was at the well who had been known as the town harlot. It’s in those instances that we truly get to see through the eyes of the one that created us.

Instead of seeing a worthless man with demons in him, Jesus seen a man that would become such a witness for Him to the point his whole town was changed. Same as the woman at the well, she too became such a great witness for her Redeemer. I’m also reminded of Paul who was once known as Saul who murdered christians. The people saw a murderer, but God saw a mighty warrior for His army.

Jesus looks at the potential in people. He does not see a world as hopeless but He sees it as a world that can be changed. If we don’t have that very same vision God has, then this world will perish. The people will perish. All God desires is people willing to see what He sees and work diligently to fulfill this vision of a world changed by God.