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7 Therefore, what are we to say? That the Torah is sinful? Heaven forbid! Rather, the function of the Torah was that without it, I would not have known what sin is. For example, I would not have become conscious of what greed is if the Torah had not said, “Thou shalt not covet.”

8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of evil desires – for apart from Torah, sin is dead.

9 I was once alive outside the framework of Torah. But when the commandment really encountered me, sin sprang to life,

10 and I died. The commandment that was intended to bring me life was found to be bringing me death!

11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me; and through the commandment, sin killed me.

12 So the Torah is holy; that is, the commandment is holy, just and good.

13 Then did something good become for me the source of death? Heaven forbid! Rather, it was sin working death in me through something good, so that sin might be clearly exposed as sin, so that sin through the commandment might come to be experienced as sinful beyond measure.

14 For we know that the Torah is of the Spirit; but as for me, I am bound to the old nature, sold to sin as a slave.

15 I don’t understand my own behavior – I don’t do what I want to do; instead, I do the very thing I hate!

16 Now if I am doing what I don’t want to do, I am agreeing that the Torah is good.

17 But now it is no longer “the real me” doing it, but the sin housed inside me.

18 For I know that there is nothing good housed inside me – that is, inside my old nature. I can want what is good, but I can’t do it!

19 For I don’t do the good I want; instead, the evil that I don’t want is what I do!

20 But if I am doing what “the real me” doesn’t want, it is no longer “the real me” doing it but the sin housed inside me.

21 So I find it to be the rule, a kind of perverse “torah,” that although I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me!

22 For in my inner self I completely agree with God’s Torah;

23 but in my various parts, I see a different “torah,” one that battles with the Torah in my mind and makes me a prisoner of sin’s “torah,” which is operating in my various parts.

24 What a miserable creature I am! Who will rescue me from this body bound for death?

25 Thanks be to God [, he will]! – through Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord! To sum up: with my mind, I am a slave of God’s Torah; but with my old nature, I am a slave of sin’s “Torah.” – Romans 7:7-25 CJB

Today, I want you to know you are hurting yourself by allowing sin to dwell in you.  How can sin and Christ dwell in you simultaneously?  God forbid . . . it will never happen.  I, like Paul, didn’t come to condemn you. I came to shake up your leadership senses and cause you to wake up to the fact that your asking, seeking, knocking, hoping, believing, and praying for the glory of God while sins has made its home in you is fruitless.  “Well, no one is perfect”, you say.  He says, “Be ye perfect for I am perfect.”  He is the perfect One who leads, teaches, convicts, gently guides, and reproves in and by His word to be perfect.  Be ye holy for I am holy.  What sin is dwelling in you that you keep making excuses for and justifying by picking out certain scriptures?  Release it today that you may go from the glory to the glory He has laid up for you, beloved.

The real you (hidden in Christ) is waiting.  Stop listening to the instructions of your mind, will, and emotions.  Yeshua (Jesus) has already rescued us and called us to be His servant  . . . a servant of the instruction of His Spirit. What sin are you housing that’s stopping Him?

Responding to His glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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Mentee, if you’ve been in ministry for any length of time, you’ve seen much sin, wickedness, and things that will make your stomach and head turn.  We need our Father to endure in the Spirit.  We need something imparted directly from Him that no counseling session, talking about it with your best friend or spouse can give.  Sadly, many of us don’t know what it is that we need.  I’ll make it personal today.  I didn’t know what I needed.  I have been crying out to God about all the sin that dwells in those who He’s assigned to my life in this season.  I want to make sure you don’t tune me out right now by saying, “Who does this self-righteous woman think she is?”  ABBA will show you things about others to pray for them. At the same time, the evil, sin, and heinous ways we encounter as we stand in the gap for others are more than our flesh can bear.  Notice, He said through me “ . . . more than our flesh can bear.”  This clues us into the fact that by His Spirit we can bear all He chooses to show us about others.  How?  By appropriating this scripture:

“You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore, O God, your God has anointed you with the oil of joy in preference to your companions” – Hebrews 1:9 CJB

The one this scripture is referencing is Yeshua (Jesus).  Let’s bring it home, now.  The Yeshua (Jesus) within hates wickedness and loves righteousness and this is why you ache the way you do as you see what He chooses to reveal to you about the sin that dwells in others.  The key here in terms of being free and not allowing the sin that lives in others to ensnare you and cause you to miss the Promise Land is to ask Him to anoint you with the oil of joy!  I don’t know about you, but when the eyes of my understanding became enlightened, the scales fell off my spiritual eyes, and I began to see, I really began to see.  There was no turning back, and honestly, what I saw disturbed me greatly.

I’ve found myself low, sad, and woe is me on many occasions.  The freedom I find lies in this scripture.  I need the oil of His joy in order to persevere with the right heart and attitude.  I need the oil of joy to pass His test, and you need the oil of joy too.  You see, mentee it’s really not about the sin that is dwelling in those you or I are assigned to.  It’s all about how we handle, deal and cope with the sin as He reveals it to us.  So I thank Him for His oil of joy for it is the strength both you and I need to continue to love righteousness, hate wickedness and sin, and not be overcome by anything but His love, grace, and mercy for us and others.

I want to leave you with one more thing, and it is this:  Don’t forget to release and send the angels of the Most High Elohim (God) to assist in delivering those who have sin dwelling in their members.  Don’t attempt to do what He’s called you to do in the flesh.  He provided supernatural aid and resources because we need them.  I admonish you to use them by appropriating the below scripture on the behalf of those assigned to you:

“Aren’t they all merely spirits who serve, sent out to help those whom God will deliver?” – Hebrews 1:14 CJB

Responding to His glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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7 Therefore, what are we to say? That the Torah is sinful? Heaven forbid! Rather, the function of the Torah was that without it, I would not have known what sin is. For example, I would not have become conscious of what greed is if the Torah had not said, “Thou shalt not covet.”

8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of evil desires – for apart from Torah, sin is dead.

9 I was once alive outside the framework of Torah. But when the commandment really encountered me, sin sprang to life,

10 and I died. The commandment that was intended to bring me life was found to be bringing me death!

11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me; and through the commandment, sin killed me.

12 So the Torah is holy; that is, the commandment is holy, just and good.

13 Then did something good become for me the source of death? Heaven forbid! Rather, it was sin working death in me through something good, so that sin might be clearly exposed as sin, so that sin through the commandment might come to be experienced as sinful beyond measure.

14 For we know that the Torah is of the Spirit; but as for me, I am bound to the old nature, sold to sin as a slave.

15 I don’t understand my own behavior – I don’t do what I want to do; instead, I do the very thing I hate!

16 Now if I am doing what I don’t want to do, I am agreeing that the Torah is good.

17 But now it is no longer “the real me” doing it, but the sin housed inside me.

18 For I know that there is nothing good housed inside me – that is, inside my old nature. I can want what is good, but I can’t do it!

19 For I don’t do the good I want; instead, the evil that I don’t want is what I do!

20 But if I am doing what “the real me” doesn’t want, it is no longer “the real me” doing it but the sin housed inside me.

21 So I find it to be the rule, a kind of perverse “torah,” that although I want to do what is good, evil is right there with me!

22 For in my inner self I completely agree with God’s Torah;

23 but in my various parts, I see a different “torah,” one that battles with the Torah in my mind and makes me a prisoner of sin’s “torah,” which is operating in my various parts.

24 What a miserable creature I am! Who will rescue me from this body bound for death?

25 Thanks be to God [, he will]! – through Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord! To sum up: with my mind, I am a slave of God’s Torah; but with my old nature, I am a slave of sin’s “Torah.” – Romans 7:7-25 CJB

Many of us are acquainted with Apostle Paul’s flesh struggle in Romans 7.  This is the chapter right before he broke out in Chapter 8 and said, “Now, there is therefore no condemnation to those who walk after the Spirit and not after the flesh!” Many ministers have selectively used these two chapters as justification to keep doing what they are doing and give God what they want to give and not what He is asking for and requiring of them.  I know, I know . . . every time I head down this direction, people will rise up and say, “Judge not or you shall be judged.”  I am judged by the word of God just like you, and the word says, “Teachers shall be judged more harshly and held at a higher standard.”  What makes us think we can teach and preach this word and continue to justify our sinful actions?

Responding to His glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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“Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.” – 1 Chronicles 16:27 KJV

No glory, no honour!  You can’t separate God’s glory from His honour.  These two phrases appear numerous times in scripture. You’ve been on a journey of being mentored into becoming a glorious vessel.  Today, Father wants you to pause and call a time out so He can ask you through me, “What honour have you been denying Him through unsurrendered areas of your soul (i.e., mind, will, emotions, and in your flesh (i.e., your physical body)?”  Whether you choose to answer this question or not is entirely up to you and really is irrelevant.  You see since glory and honour are inseparable and if you don’t pass this time out test, you’ve gone as far as I can take you into the glory.  You must be willing to give it all up.  So, let me ask you again.  “What honour have you been denying Him through unsurrendered areas of your soul (i.e., mind, will, emotions, and in your flesh (i.e., your physical body)?”

For more inspiration and encouragement, listen.

Responding to His glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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When you lie down, you shall not be afraid; yes, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet. – Proverbs 3:24 AMP

For a dream comes with much business and painful effort, and a fool’s voice with many words. – Eccl 5:3 AMP

We spent the last several days focusing on entering rest by casting all of our cares, anxieties, fears, and worries upon Adonai (the LORD) so we can enter into His carefree glory and glorious rest.  Today, we (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) mentor you in the area of your sleep.

I’ve seen a connection between where our focus lies throughout the day and what type of sleep we get throughout the night.  Whatever you spend your days worrying about will determine what type of sleep you get as well as how long you sleep, if at all.  It also impacts if you dream and what you’re dreaming at night.  How many times do you dream about the last thing that was on your mind right before you drifted off to sleep?  Mentees, the things that keep you awake or that enter your mind when you first wake up reveal the heart of your cares and anxieties, as well as establish whether your sleep is a sweet, glorious rest.

I challenge you to get still right before going to sleep.  Spend 10 minutes focusing on who Elohim (God) is, what He’s promised, and pray that your mind be renewed to His word prior to going to sleep.  Checking your e-mail or social networking activity may not be the wisest thing to place in your spirit prior to going to bed.  Use wisdom and discretion here.  You should also avoid interacting with people who sow discord, strife, are malicious, and keep stuff going all the time.  These folks thrive off being their flesh.  I must remind you that are flesh is our enemy.  The last encounter of the day should be with Ruach haKodesh (Set Apart Holy Spirit), not flesh!

My prayer for you is that from this post forward as you apply what your being mentored in here that you go to sleep with a renewed mind, full of His Spirit, and ready to receive divine manifestations (e.g., visions, dreams, go on trips—translations) that are produced by setting an atmosphere for sweet, glorious sleep.

Responding to His glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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I pray the exercise and the song moved you out of worry into a new place with Him.  Today, we continue in this theme by looking at this scripture:

“For we who have believed (adhered to and trusted in and relied on God) do enter that rest, in accordance with His declaration that those [who did not believe] should not enter when He said, As I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter My rest; and this He said although [His] works had been completed and prepared [and waiting for all who would believe] from the foundation of the world.” – Hebrews 4:3 AMP

We see from this scripture that when we stay in a worry cycle we have not entered into His rest.  What may not be quite so visible to us is where the worry stems from and this is what He wants us to focus on today.  The scripture teaches that rest is synonymous with believing. So if we aren’t living in glorious rest, then we are disbelieving, doubtful, and fearful and this is what causes us to worry.  The next time you start to worry or go to pick up the cares/anxieties we cast away on Friday.  Do this:  Identify the source (e.g., the fear, doubt, disbelief or all three) by asking God and yourself, “What am I afraid of, what do I fear will happen, and what do I believe that You’ve already promised/said?”

I know many who teach practicing Sabbath based on whether you should enter rest on Saturday or Sunday.  Then there are those who have completely done away with “Sabbath rest” altogether and completely ignore His command to keep the Sabbath.

I’m not here to tell you to enter Sabbath rest on a specific day.  This is something I encourage you to study to show yourself approved unto to God.  What I am here to mentor you in is a concept of a continuous, glorious rest where you cease striving, fretting, worrying, and being anxious.  For what good does it do to enter rest on a specific day if you are physically resting, but spiritually you haven’t let go of all of your cares and concerns?

I close with this scripture:

8 [This mention of a rest was not a reference to their entering into Canaan.] For if Joshua had given them rest, He [God] would not speak afterward about another day.

9 So then, there is still awaiting a full and complete Sabbath-rest reserved for the [true] people of God;

10 For he who has once entered [God's] rest also has ceased from [the weariness and pain] of human labors, just as God rested from those labors peculiarly His own.

11 Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter that rest [of God, to know and experience it for ourselves], that no one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief and disobedience [into which those in the wilderness fell]. – Hebrews 4:8-11 AMP

Captivated by His glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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“Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.” – 1 Peter 5:7 AMP

Mentee, I want you take this scripture literally today.  I mean literally.  Let me illustrate.

1) Write your cares, concerns, worries, and anxieties down on separate pieces of paper
2) Ball each paper up
3) Now release them

You can release them a couple of ways:

1 ) Throw them away (e.g., in the garbage)
2) Throw them up to Him (e.g., the heavenlies) for Him to catch and deal with them and burn them

Whichever way you choose, while releasing them to our God ask Him to take you away with Him as you release them.  In essence, you are making a glorious exchange. You are exchanging your earthly concerns unto heaven.   You’ll know when you’ve been successful in a full release because your perspective will be a carefree spiritual one versus a bogged-down soulish one.

My beloved speaks and says to me, “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.” – SOS 2:10 AMP

That’s Carefree Glory!  So many ministers are weighed down with the cares of this world, the cares of providing and being in ministry at the same time, the cares of their family, so forth and so on.  How can you be free to explore the glory carrying all this?  What spiritual exploration can you go on if He wanted to take you?  He’s calling you to come up and away.  Step one is come up!  The cares you are holding onto are low level living.  Step into the abundant (a full and overflowing life) life.  Let it take you away with Him into His carefree glory!

Now if you completed this exercise, I have a song that ministers to me every time a thought come across my mind that would cause me to pick it up again and start worrying.  Here it is!

Captivated by His glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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In The Making Chapter 6, you’ll learn about the process God takes His ministers through in order for His glory to shew forth in their finances.  He’ll challenge you with generosity.  How generous are you to others in ministry . . . even when they don’t support a thing He’s called you to do?  You give and give and know they either can’t or won’t give anything in return.  As a matter of fact when His glory has been infused into you in this area, you aren’t even looking for or expecting them to give anything in return.  A glorious vessel who has allowed God to make them financially is debt free, money has no hold on them, they know the earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof and that everything including money belongs to Him.  They have long since stopped looking to others to finance and support the work He’s assigned their hands and they are looking to Him and Him only.  They know no man holds all that they need to fund the colossal vision God has given them. They aren’t financially despondent.  No, they are hopeful and faithful.  They know in the fullness of time, He is going to provide everything they need through whoever and whatever God deems appropriate. A made vessel is financially free and His glory rests upon their finances supernaturally providing, sustaining, and maintaining the work of their hands.

“And he shall be like a tree firmly planted [and tended] by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not fade or wither; and everything he does shall prosper [and come to maturity].” – Psalm 1:3 AMP

They young lion do lack and suffer hunger, but not glorious leaders (Psalm 34:10)!

Captivated by and focused on glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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“The mystery of which was hidden for ages and generations [from angels and men], but is now revealed to His holy people (the saints),

To whom God was pleased to make known how great for the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ within and among you, the Hope of [realizing the] glory.” – Colossians 1:26-27 AMP

Some of us live like the realization of the Hope of glory is still a hidden mystery.  It is not!  Yeshua haMasiyach (Jesus Christ the Messiah) has been revealed to His holy people.  I often say, “Elohim (God) isn’t hiding mysteries and secrets of the Kingdom from us, He’s hiding them for us!”  This scripture and Matthew 13:11 prove this statement is from Ruach haKodesh (Holy Spirit, the Set Apart One).   It pleased Elohim (God) to reveal Christ to us and since He did the question becomes, “Are you tapping into the Hope of glory which is Christ within you on a daily basis?”

The reason it pleased Elohim (God) to reveal Christ to us is that He may be revealed through us as we live in His glory on a daily basis.  The glory is not some far off mystery or some spooky shimmy.  It’s the Hope we have within that can be accessed on a daily basis to manifest Christ in the earth, not a future hope way off in glory.  Many of us are waiting to live in the Hope of glory in eternity.  What about right now for all men to see and be drawn into the Kingdom of God?

In closing, my prayer for you and all five-fold leaders is rooted in the below scripture:

And let us rejoice and exult in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the glory of God! – Romans 5:3b AMP

Resting in the realization of His glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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“For, brothers, you were called to be free. Only do not let that freedom become an excuse for allowing your old nature to have its way. Instead, serve one another in love.” – Galatians 5:13 CJB

“For you, brethren, were [indeed] called to freedom; only [do not let your] freedom be an incentive to your flesh and an opportunity or excuse [for selfishness], but through love you should serve one another.” – Galatians 5:13 AMP

Yesterday, we spoke about all Elohim (God) will show us and cause us to explore when we live in the glory on a regular basis.  Unfortunately, many never experience this type of freedom because they are living primarily from their soul.  When you live from your soul on a regular basis, you’ll find yourself in bondage to the soul’s desires, whims, and appetites.  Can you see how restrictive that is?  It’s funny how many of us believe that living from the soul is where freedom is.

I’m here to tell you that is far from the truth.  The truth is:  You are severely hindered and restricted to this earthly realm only when you live from your soul.  The only explorations and journeys you’ll find yourself on are the appetites, whims, and lusts of your flesh.  What low level living.  It’s time to live free in the glory!  If you are ready for this journey and would like support, let me be your midwife of glory through The Making.

Resting in His glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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