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

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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Moses entered into the midst of the cloud and went up the mountain . . . Exodus 24:18 AMP

For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys. – Exodus 40:38

The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people. – Exodus 13:22 AMP

Under the cloud there is:

• Protection
• Provision
• Prosperity
• Health
• Wellness
• Peace
• Prayer
• Obedience
• And so much more . . .

Are you under the cloud?  If you are experiencing these bulleted items, you can answer affirmatively.  Now, I’m not talking about an occasional manifestation of the above (e.g., prosperity).  That which I see is a consistent stream of glory (i.e., a flow if you will).  Well, this is a call to come into that place.  Get under the cloud!  If you need help getting here, reach out to me.

And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, Lord, are in the midst of this people [of Israel], that You, Lord, are seen face to face, and that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.  - Numbers 14:14 AMP

Captivated by glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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So all of us, with faces unveiled, see as in a mirror the glory of the Lord; and we are being changed into his very image, from one degree of glory to the next, by ADONAI the Spirit.” – 2 Corinthians 3:18 CJB

In yesterday’s post, I mentored you to take a look at the things you’ve haven’t obeyed to get clear about what’s stopping you from ascending into the glory.  We must come closer to His glory each and every day by coming closer to Him.  Our obedience is like a diving board or a springboard into the rivers of glory.  The more we obey, the deeper, higher, and wider we go in Him.  It’s time to ascend . . . daily.  We can go from glory to glory daily.  There is nothing stopping us except us!  It’s a conscious choice to allow Him to work both the will and the do in us.  Your obedience to God makes you unstoppable, impenetrable, and Satan proof.  No enemy can reach you when you live a life of one obedient act to the next.  The way the enemy trips us up, without even trying, is through our disobedience.  He knows the power of rebelling and disobeying firsthand.  He knows the road it leads us to, and therefore, he can put His feet upon the table, drink lemonade, and watch us like a good movie that He already knows the ending to.

On the other hand, when we consistently we obey, we release the power, glory, resources, and 100% complete backing of all of heaven and the heavenly hosts.  Now, what foe can withstand this?  No one foe can.  Isn’t that what the word tells us?  Stop thinking something outside of you is stopping you and start looking at how time and time again stop gaps are being set up in the realm of the spirit through your very own disobedience.  An obedient minister of God is a glorious minister of God.  Your steps of obedience are interconnected.  You see, when God tells you to do a thing it is connected to other things unfolding and manifesting in your life and ministry.  If you fail to take the first step of obedience, you miss out on all the steps that are connected to where God desires to bring you.  What I’m teaching you, mentee is that disobedience has a rippling effect and by the way so does disobedience.  I charge you and admonish you to obey and ascend.  Let’s pray:

Lord, thank you for making me 100% obedient 100% of the time through these posts on ascending that I may set the work you’ve assigned my hands on a path of ascending into your glory.  I am an obedient servant of the Most High Elohim (God).  It is through Yeshua’s name we pray.  Amen.

From faith to faith,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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My glory and honor are fresh in me [being constantly renewed], and my bow gains [ever] new strength in my hand. – Job 29:20 AMP

What is fresh glory and what does it look like?  You can recognize glory in, on, and upon you when the strength to offer up high praises in a way that the two-edged sword, which is your mouth executes vengeance on the heathen and punishment on the people.  This is radical praise; this isn’t the same ole stale hallelujah offered from week to week and month to month in the lives of many ministers.  No, this is the type of glorious praise that binds kings with chains and the so-called “noble” with fetters of iron and stops every plan, plot, and snare in advance.  This is fresh glory!  Fresh glory is victorious; it’s the type of glory that causes Elohim (God) to rebuke kings for your sake.  It’s the time of glory that turns the counsel of the ungodly to be of no effect.  You better get you some; some what?  Some fresh glory!  Go here (Psalm 33:10-11, Psalm 149:-6-9, and 1 Chronicles 16:21).

Written with fresh glory on me,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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I’m often asked by ministers of the gospel, “How do you do it all?”  Well, first it’s Him working through me.  I can do nothing without Him, and truly it is not by my power or might, but by Ruach haKodesh  (His Holy Spirit).  This isn’t false humility.  It’s truly humility.  I’ve learned to lean my entire personality, person, talents, gifts, and abilities on Him.  I allow Him to infuse me with the strength I need to do what He’s assigned my hands.  With all this being said, there is one key above all this that is very instrumental in doing it all, and it’s this:  I allow Him to wake up the glory on the inside of me so I can do His work as the  scripture says, and it’s that’s simple.  So the next time you’re struggling with all He’s assigned your hands to do simply say to yourself, “Wake up my glory, you’ve got work to do!”

Focused on glory,

Prophetess Karen M. Pina

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There are so many ministers who couldn’t effectively answer this question.  Some answers might be:  To pray for others, visit the sick in the hospital, study and prepare to preach, learn how to preach better, etc. This is not the real work of the ministry.  There is nothing wrong with these things in and of themselves, but there is a prerequisite that many ministers miss.  They mistake these things for the “real work” and neglect the “real work” we are called to.  So, what’s the real work?  Look below:

So David left Asaph and his brethren before the ark of the covenant of the Lord to minister before the ark continually, as each day’s work required – 1 Chronicles 16:37

The real work is to minister before Adonai (the LORD) as He requires daily!  Acts 6 backs this premise up.  We see the apostles being led by Ruach haKodesh (Holy Spirit) to appoint men to administrate, tend to widows, etc. so they could do the work of the ministry before Adonai (the LORD).  What do you have to feed with if you haven’t received the bread of heaven first?  I submit to you nothing, and sadly, this is exactly what many dispense daily; nothing!

My prayer is that you don’t fall into the trap of deceptive ministry work and that you purpose in your heart and make up your mind that your first priority is to minister to Him continually no matter what else you find yourself doing.  As you go about all the tasks in ministry, continually  minister to Him.  The ark that you are carrying must be mobile.  You can’t afford to lay prostrate before Him all day.  You have to be able to carry the glory with you and stay in it as you complete the tasks of the day.  This is my prayer for you today, mentee.  It’s time to do the real work so the captives can be set free by His glory!

Hungry for 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

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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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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