The Making Ministry Blog (2 Corinthians 3:18 AMP)

1 I WARN and counsel the elders among you (the pastors and spiritual guides of the church) as a fellow elder and as an eyewitness [called to testify] of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a sharer in the glory (the honor and splendor) that is to be revealed (disclosed, unfolded):

2 Tend (nurture, guard, guide, and fold) the flock of God that is [your responsibility], not by coercion or constraint, but willingly; not dishonorably motivated by the advantages and profits [belonging to the office], but eagerly and cheerfully;

3 Not domineering [as arrogant, dictatorial, and overbearing persons] over those in your charge, but being examples (patterns and models of Christian living) to the flock (the congregation). – 1 Peter 5:1-3 AMP

Today’s post is a warning and admonition to shepherds who use their leadership and influence to produce a false glory that benefits and serves them versus producing Godly glory that Is focused on serving, equipping, and building up His people.

Many times we get so fixed on the glory and manifesting His glory right now that we lose sight of the fact that there is a glory yet to be revealed . . . reserved for a later time.  We will rule and reign with Him as overcomers.  Leaders, we shouldn’t become so blinded by our day-to-day challenges that we forget we are one day closer to judgment day each and every day.  If we are to partake of the glory that is to be revealed, we cannot afford to be overtaken by the lusts of the flesh (e.g., hungry for power) and lusts of the eyes (e.g., greedy and craving for material things – all the things we see and believe we want, have to have, and can’t live without).

Pastors, we are servants, slaves of the Most High Yahweh.  Be eager to serve and serve humbly and joyously, not with a whip and a stick beating people into total submission to the orders you bark from the pulpit.  Adopting the posture and attitude of Christ, (servanthood, humility, obedience to Father) is the only way to share in the glory that is to be revealed.  Repent, change your mind about how you’ve been leading, pastor and line up with the way of Christ.  I know there are some (a remnant) of pastors who have let the mind of Christ permeate their service.  At the same time, there are still far too many that haven’t and this is who Yahweh (God) is calling to attention today through this post.

Sharing in glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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Yesterday we laid the foundation of this lesson by exposing the deeds and actions of professing ministers who deceive themselves and others into believing Yahweh’s glory is with them.  The Isaiah passage of scripture tells us that the righteous will eat the fruit of their deeds. The glorious fruit of the righteous can be eaten in its entirety.  They become a habitation of His glory.  The food and the fruit they dispense fulfill the spiritual hunger of those who are hungering and thirsting after glorious manifestations and results.

The Lord stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples and His people. – Isaiah 3:13 AMP

The day where your actions and speech are being judged is here and woe to the wicked for what their hands and mouth have done.  Woe to the proud and arrogant who have flaunted their sins before Yahweh’s eyes and provoked His glory.  He is standing at attention and every leader that is causing others to err and tripping them up on this path shall behold His glory, but not in the way they tout.  For He has entered into glorious judgment with them.  Let’s not ever forget the judgment attribute of His glory.

10 Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

11 Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with them, for what their hands have done shall be done to them. – Isaiah 3:10-11 AMP

With fresh glory on me,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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⁸For Jerusalem is ruined and Judah is fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of His glory and defy His glorious presence.

⁹Their respecting of persons and showing of partiality witnesses against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil [as a reward upon themselves].

¹⁰Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

¹¹Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with them, for what their hands have done shall be done to them. - Isaiah 3:8-11 AMP

There are professing ministers of the gospel who deceive themselves and others about Yahweh’s glorious presence abiding and dwelling and moving amongst them.  As the scriptures shows their actions (and speech) are against Yahweh.  Of course, it’s not the actions and speech that we see that matters, but what Yahweh sees with His eyes, and what He sees them doing and saying is provoking His glory and defying His glory, not reverencing, but irritating His glory.  So, then how could His glory be dwelling, abiding, and moving in their midst?

Embracing glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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When you are actively involved in ministry, there is always something to do and I do mean always.  You have to constantly resist the temptation to become so busy that you are no longer ministering to Elohim (God) in prayer, communion, fellowship, and worship.  The other temptation that you must resist is the temptation to worry that everything that needs to get done won’t get done.  This is a trick of the enemy to keep you caught up toiling, spinning, running, and wishing for more time.  Do you know how much precious God given energy you waste worrying about not having enough time to complete God’s work.  If it’s His work, He knows how much time you need to get it done.  And if you didn’t have such time, He wouldn’t have charged you to do it.  So today, release the worry and embrace the glory.  If the release was successful, lightness should be present in your midst right now, not only that, but propelling you forward with new strength and a new resolve to rest in Him versus strive to get things done on human terms.  His glory is here to aid and assist us in completing the work He’s assigned our hands. Stop fighting and warring against it and embrace it wholeheartedly.  Repeat after Holy Spirit through me, “I rest in the fact there is enough time for me to do everything You’ve called me to do.”

31 Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear?

32 For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.

33 But seek aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.

34 So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble. – Matthew 6:31-34 AMP

Embracing glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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We continue to pull back the covers on false glory. Have you read or listened to something a minister wrote or spoke and immediately afterward or during the message/writing you start feeling like, “Are they talking about me?” or you think, “Hmm . . .  that feels like a dig aimed t me to kick me down a couple of notches in my Godly confidence.”  If so, what you are discerning (perhaps unknowingly) is a characteristic of false glory.  This characteristic can be found in the below scripture:

We have renounced disgraceful ways (secret thoughts, feelings, desires and underhandedness, the methods and arts that men hide through shame); we refuse to deal craftily (to practice trickery and cunning) or to adulterate or handle dishonestly the Word of God, but we state the truth openly (clearly and candidly). And so we commend ourselves in the sight and presence of God to every man’s conscience. – 2 Corinthians 4:2 AMP

When you handle the Word of God deceitfully or craftily, the Word is mixed with an ulterior motive, another agenda, manipulation, witchcraft (defined as an attempt to bend or twist the will of another via cunning mental stratagem).  You see, truth is coming forth as it’s the Word which is true glory, but the spirit behind the Word is false glory.  It’s the antithesis of John 4:24; worship in Spirit and Truth.  Our spirit must be pure, holy as His Word emanates from us or else all we are releasing is a false glory that entangles others in more bondage versus set them free.   I pray this characteristic of false glory be far from you, mentee as you go forth to do His work.  I also pray that this post exercised your spiritual senses (e.g., discernment – Hebrews 5:14) even the more as we must start calling false glory, false glory and not backing up off or down to what we are seeing and discerning.

Responding to true glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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P.S. – Another classic example of this is using the pulpit to address something that should have Matthew 18:15-17 applied to the matter.

We’ve (Hashem, Ruach HaKodesh, and Yeshua) spent close to a year mentoring in the glory of God. By now, you should recognize it, be intimately acquainted with it, be living in it, and clearly distinguish the fruit of it. This is so important as you embark on all He’s assigned you’re hands. There is a false glory that exists in the church world and many are afraid to call it what it is. They skate around it, tell others to not judge less they be judged, to love like God, etc. I can fully recognize a false vessel and false glory by their fruit. Check out what they are doing versus what they are saying! Do the two match up . . . is there spiritual agreement? Either it is or it isn’t. The answer is yes or no here, mentee. Stop shrinking back on the belief and teaching you’ve learned here. Elohim (God) is no respecter of persons. Either it is a good tree bringing forth good, holy fruit or it isn’t. Let’s pray:

Father, awaken the spiritual senses of Your mentees and cause them to fully recognize and confront (by the Spirit) the false glory in their midst. We’ve learned that whenever You arise in Your people, the false arises simultaneously. May our spiritual eyes be fully opened so that we will not be seduced, deceived, tripped up, taken off course, or manipulated. Make us strong, set our faces like flint, and keep our feet pointed on the straight and narrow road of true glory. It is through Yeshua’s name we pray and it is so in heaven and on the earth.

¹⁵Beware of false prophets, who come to you dressed as sheep, but inside they are devouring wolves.

¹⁶You will fully recognize them by their fruits. Do people pick grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

¹⁷Even so, every healthy (sound) tree bears good fruit [worthy of admiration], but the sickly (decaying, worthless) tree bears bad (worthless) fruit.

¹⁸A good (healthy) tree cannot bear bad (worthless) fruit, nor can a bad (diseased) tree bear excellent fruit [worthy of admiration].

¹⁹Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

²⁰Therefore, you will fully know them by their fruits. – Matthew 7:15-20 AMP

Responding to true glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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Come close to God, and he will come close to you. – James 4:8 CJB

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. – Psalm 91:1 KJV

I see so many ministers revving up to the pinnacle or highest height in the Spirit.  They do this by speaking tongues, shouting, jumping up and down, hooping, quoting scriptures, preaching, etc.  As ministers of the gospel, our relationship with God should be a continuous closeness that enables us to simply start conversing with Him and find ourselves at the highest height in 10 seconds flat.  What’s all the spiritual calisthenics about?  Either you are in a close relationship with Him or you aren’t.

As I often tell you, mentee it ‘s about living in the glory not putting it on, taking it off, or needing to rev up to it.  Now, there’s nothing wrong with any of the things I mentioned at the beginning of this post, if that’s what He’s instructing you to do at that moment.  I do and have them all (except hoop and preach.  There’s no power in this for me.) as He leads.  This is the important lesson I want you to take away today.  We can get to the glory in 10 seconds flat.  We can find ourselves in the Most Holy place in 10 seconds flat by doing what He tells us do, no more, no less.  Everything else is in vain.

Captivated by glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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But [the time is coming when] the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. – Habakkuk 2:14 AMP

Many of us hear this scripture and Joel 2:28 and we jump to the conclusion that the masses – everyone – is going to walk in His glory (e.g., His presence, Spirit).  This post comes to bust up this myth.  The truth is just because I’m filled with the knowledge of the glory doesn’t mean I’m experiencing the blessing of dwelling in His glory.  If you read the old covenant, you’ll notice this statement, “. . . and then you will know that I am the Lord.”  Okay, now when Elohim (God) says this, it is because He’s demonstrated His glory (defined as His character, nature, and power) through judgment.  He humbled the people and demonstrated His power by allowing their enemies or a plague to overtake them (see Ezekiel 15).  Now, you see that’s not the kind of “knowledge” we think of when we quote our scripture reference today.  Is it?  So, we don’t know what we think we know.  His thoughts and ways are higher than ours.  So, the next time you or someone else you know gets ready to jump up and down in excitement over this scripture ask yourself, “What do I know?”

Who can know the mind of God except the Spirit of God?  So don’t repeat things inspired from man’s soul (e.g., intellect, reasoning, opinion, or thoughts).  We need to ask Ruach Hakodesh (Holy Spirit), “What is God’s mind on this, that, or a particular scripture?”  The best learning posture for the revelation of Kingdom secrets is to discard all you think you know and come like a little child who absorbs all the teacher teaches with eyes and ears wide open and attentive.  Our posture should be:  “I don’t know anything; teach me, Lord!”

Captivated by glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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There have been so many things happening as I’ve pressed further in to the secret place in my prayer time. This is where I am finding myself:

37 As He was approaching [the city], at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to rejoice and to praise God [extolling Him exultantly and] loudly for all the mighty miracles and works of power that they had witnessed,

38 Crying, Blessed (celebrated with praises) is the King Who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven [freedom there from all the distresses that are experienced as the result of sin] and glory (majesty and splendor) in the highest [heaven]! – Luke 19:37-38 AMP

I’ve been extolling Him loudly; I’ve been crying; I’ve been brought to my knees to worship; I am overwhelmed by the glory and by the King of Glory. Whoever said, “quiet” is the only way missed this scripture and this one:

He replied, I tell you that if these keep silent, the very stones will cry out. – Luke 19:40 – AMP

I issue a spiritual dare to you:

* Increase time dwelling in the secret place

* Get specific about the stubborn things in your life, ministry, and the life of others. Allow Holy Spirit to direct you to the scriptures to stand in for those “hard” issues. Here’s one to start you off with: Alas, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! There is nothing too hard or too wonderful for You. – Jeremiah 32:17 KJV

* When you see Him beginning to move miraculously do a Luke 19:37-39, and I decree the glory of Elohim will overtake you and overwhelm you.

I am overwhelmed by glory!

Captivated by glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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The reason why many ministers will never live in the glory or even create a habitation for the Most High Elohim (God) is because they are unwilling to walk in strict obedience. We must strictly and unhesitantly obey all that God commands in order to create a place where His glory abides. So don’t be fooled by those who say, “His glory abides here” or “it abides over there,” but when you look at their lives, you see all kinds of sin and disobedience.

I highly doubt the rigidly righteous God, who created us to obey Him as the King of Glory that He is, is abiding there. We are funny people! We want what God possesses and who He is, but we don’t want want to obey Him (i.e., do what it takes) to receive it. Then, we start making up stuff, fabricating things, and eventually deceiving ourselves and others into believing that we are obeying and that He is dwelling with us. I come today to tell you if you are not walking in strict obedience, The King of glory shall not come in. I don’t care how much you lift up you head (and hands), quote Psalm 24:7-10, and dance around.

If you hopped over Psalm 24:3-5 and have not lifted up your life as a holy sacrifice, The King of Glory is not coming.

Captivated by glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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