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Spiritual Positioning and Understanding:
My Perspective in 2011
By Kim Rekedal
Watchmen:
In my life, I have from the time I was a toddler
had many questions about the supernatural and maybe more so about the
continuing battle in what today I know as the Spiritual Realm. I was likely around 2 when I first saw things
in the spiritual realm that I quickly learnt others did not see and I also
think the first time I met Jesus was around the age of 2, although, I didn’t
know who he was and not growing up in a Christian family hadn’t heard of
Jesus.
My oldest sister Jan became a Christian at a summer
camp when she was around 12 and started going to an Anglican Church she wanted
to be confirmed an so we started going to church for a brief time and were
baptized into the Anglican Church. We didn’t go long I don’t remember anything
except that I tried out for the choir and was told to sit with these 3 ladies
at the front who I thought were called the awful singers (Today I realize they
were the alto singers but what did I know.) I remember the baptism because my
Aunt Proxy and Uncle Gordie were there and became my God parents, alright they
weren’t my aunt and uncle but rather cousins and her name was Pearl and not
Proxy(A nick name my dad gave her) but still they were my God parents that
sounded nice. We moved to the country
which I hated when I was 12 and shortly after that a lady took me to Sunday
school which was with people and I loved being with people. I asked my parents
for a Bible for my birthday and got it I started to read it over and over again
I don’t know how many times. Looking back I think I had some pretty decent
understanding of things considering having really no teaching in it at all.
I got into satanic things and was getting further and
further in. I was taking Social Studies in school and we were to do a
presentation on things that affect the world and our community we were to try
to get people from the community to speak to the class. I had asked to bring
the leader of a occult group that I had been meeting with my teacher said it
would have to get approval from the principal for that to happen. Then one
night I was laying on my bed and I could see this serpent coming closer and
closer I remember being terrified but unable to move it slowly start to wind
around me until I could not take a full breath I remember at that time crying
out Jesus if you are here help me now!
Everything stopped, silence peace and it scared me almost as much as the
serpent.
The next day my Teacher Mr. Stone told me that the
school board had said no to the Satanist coming in to the class, he suggested
that I do a report on The “Jesus People”
I had heard of them just once. A girlfriend that was older then I, and
lived across the road from me in the country this is a big deal. She said “don’t become one of those crazy
Jesus people”. Then she moved away got
married and that was the extent of my knowledge. Mr. Stone told me I could show how their
beliefs were ridiculous and a cult. So that is what I did.
I went to a Coffee house in 1975 held by Peoples Church. It was an event like I had never
seen and right from the start thought this is a crazy place. When I got there it was set for the coffee
house, but there wasn’t anyone around. I
walked around and looked at things, when this girl Sharon ran upstairs from the
basement hair in pig tails, wearing blue jeans rolled up to her knees sweating
and panting “the basement has flooded I can’t stay up just make yourself at
home the others will be back right away, see ya” and she was gone. The others
did come back with a bang they told me they had been out witnessing and it was
all going to start right away. People
got up and started playing music everyone was so happy and it was really
different. I did find some people that I
knew somewhat, they ate lunch at school in the same room I did but they sat in
one corner away from the rest of us. I
had called ahead about doing a report on them and so I got to interview a lady
called Marj Mullen. Here is how it went,
Me: How long
has this Church been here?
Marj: pulled out a napkin and drew a cross and
said: there are 2 kingdoms one the
kingdom of Darkness and the other the Kingdom of light.
Me: does it have a Pastor?
Marj: in the kingdom of darkness there are sins,
like stealing, lying, murder, hate, free love “Sex outside of marriage” and so
on.
Me: what do people have to do to belong to this
Church?
Marj: on the other side is the Kingdom of Light
where …. While I never got one answer to any of my questions. Then this very weird man got up to speak at
the end of the Coffee house he talked about something I have no idea what, but
at the end he said if you want to meet Jesus come up here right now. So up I went I really wanted to meet this
Jesus. I expected to meet a person, not
to ask Him into my life but I did meet Jesus but it was on the inside and not
the outside. I can’t tell you how or
exactly what happened but I knew it had happened. Marj and Karen a girl from school took me
into this small nursery later and read more scriptures and started to pray in
tongues and so did I, I loved it! The
next day and the first event I went to at the Church after that was a
funeral. The funeral was amazing this
woman who had died was the mother of a boy I went to school with, but they
weren’t mourning her they were celebrating her first day in Heaven, that blew
my mind. Two days after the funeral I
went to church for the first time, a girl from school met me at the door and
took me to sit with her she got down on her knees towards her chair and she
told me it was time to pray so I did what she did and I prayed. I liked prayer
it felt good and right it was not hard and so it went. I looked at these people
and wanted to have everything they had and do everything there was to do.
Pastor Mel Mullen and some other people came to my
class and Pastor Mel before they left asked me to stand up and give my
testimony as to what God had done in me.
A week before everyone knew that I mostly talked about Satan today what
a shock. I got an A+ for the presentation but failed the course because I
dropped out of school, moved into a girl’s house with the Church and started
working. In hind sight maybe not the smartest move but God made it work well.
The first
big thing I did after becoming a Christian was to do a 30 day fast, well
actually I only made it 26 days because I got very sick and couldn’t keep
working. The other thing that confused me was how many rules people told me
about fasting. You were not allowed to
tell anyone, you weren’t to brush your teeth because toothpaste was food you
had to get mental crystals and just suck on them. You had to pray so many hours and anytime you
would have been eating you were supposed to be praying or it wasn’t a real
fast. Today I think it was really quite
comical but back then I think it is part of what made me sick. Prayer was the one thing I totally got. Through the years and many more times reading
my Bible and listening to sermons and some of the best preachers in the world,
I learnt more and more.
There were a few things in the Bible that I thought
we don’t seem to understand very well.
One was the scripture from:
2 Corinthians nkjv
3 for though we walk in
the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for
pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing
that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into
captivity to the obedience of Christ, 6 and being ready to
punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
Our “weapons of warfare are not carnal” this
scripture I did not understand. I
remember asking our prayer leader at the time what this meant he told me it
meant like machine guns and knives etc. but I was not satisfied with that
meaning. Today we understand this
better, I think now we have had so much teaching that we almost don’t want to
hear about it. We have had many prayer
meetings that had no fruit, and maybe did more harm then good, that we are
reluctant to even have them anymore.
Carnal defined is: Things
related to the needs of the physical body rather than the spiritual body or of
the flesh and physical world as in a desire for food, sexual gratification and
material possessions.
Back in the late 70 early 80’s the definition from
Webster’s dictionary was much simpler: things that pertain only to the earthly
world and not agreed to by the spiritual world. It later added the meaning of
Carnal knowledge as inappropriate sexual activity that went against the Bible
and its doctrines.
The way the world fights is with law suits and protest, with angry words and control and power but we fight with The Blood of the Lamb the Word of our testimony and loving not our lives even unto death. Christ's Blood is what wins our battles. We exercise that Blood by Praying and declaring and Praise and worship etc.
This is the beginning of a long and sometime
tedious and unpopular understanding of the scriptures. I started to study strongholds and became to
see them like a castle or a fort with watchtowers, fighting holes, Gatekeepers
and doorkeepers, an army with a king or commander that kept all safe. This in the Bible seemed to apply to both
good and bad. The above scripture shows
us of course that God wants us to pull down strongholds that do not conform to
the knowledge of God. Sometime in the early 90’s I had what we call Presbytery
where we brought in two men that were like our Church’s Grandfathers One thing
spoken over my life was that demons would fear and tremble when I spoke. This led me on a journey of studying on this
thing we know as spiritual warfare. I knew that were I was there I had some
authority but was no where near what I thought would cause demons to fear and
tremble when I spoke, but the attack that came that very same day let me know
that I would have to earn that gifting.
Over the past 37 years I’ve have had maybe some of
the best teaching on prayer, warfare, spiritual mapping, intercession, claiming
territory, breaking curses and so on…. While I think we were so inundated in it
which became overwhelming and even distorted so that we are reluctant to even
talk about it. Today though I think we are entering into a time of “Strategic”
warfare when all that we learnt in the past that was good it is time to put
towards getting strategic in reaching our world and advancing the Kingdom of God.
Today I love to spend time in Prayer, In worship,
In praise and in Spiritual warfare. They
all are meant towards an end THE KINGDOM OF GOD. My gifting in life is that I
am a teacher. That is why I God has called me to write this blog it is just
including you in my Journey. I have
spent almost 18 years working through the bugs in a prayer network that I
believe is a pattern God showed Ezekiel in a Vision. It is I believe what we need to do to see the
Spirit of God poured out to the entire world.
So from here on you are invited to enjoy my Journey
with me.
Please note unless
otherwise noted all definitions come from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
and all scriptures are posted from http://www.Biblegateway.com and are from the New King James version all
Greek Hebrew and Chaldea definition will be
from the Strong Exhaustive Concordance
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