I just can't take life very seriously - especially my own.  I am an absolute testimony of God's ability to "find us" when we didn't even know we were lost.  I had never really thought of it until one day a good minister friend of mine was really "going through it".  I was talking to our long time, mutual friend & Intercessor, J.R. Miller and voicing my concern. He said, "I am not concerned.  God will finish this work".  PERIOD.  END OF HIS SENTENCE.  Like he didn't even hear what I was telling him.

I waited for him to explain his "great faith".

He continued, "Karie, I know two people who bring the presence of God with them when they come in to a meeting- that is you and Sandy Brown.  Neither of you were looking for God; God found YOU and picked YOU out of a pit to walk in this life and anointing.  He called you.  It is His responsibility to finish the work He chose you to do."

I am glad to report that both Sandy and I are "still at it" and He is indeed "finishing the work" in us.  LOL.
Sandy Brown Glassford - Still ROCKIN IT!

Well, that was that.  JR really got me to thinking.  It was true but I thought it was true for everyone.  God chose them.  It is true, you know- but some of us get it.  Other folks still feel they "found God" - which is also true - but I can say with a whole heart that Jesus found me and when I saw Him - that was it!  He has been the love of my life and my "Man" since 1986.  Praise the Lord for a great husband etc... but there is no one like Jesus.  "smile"!


So - Here goes...
We ALL have a Sob Story of WHY we can't "do it" like other folks... Here is mine... LOL!


I was raised in Minnesota, USA, a small farming village of about 200 people up by the Canadian border- COLD country. My family was the fourth generation there. Needless to say EVERYONE knew EVERYONE'S BUSINESS!

My Mother was the main caretaker as my father was an over the road truck driver. She was a generational alcoholic raising 6 kids on her own... you can write the story from there.  Challenging.  Praise the Lord we can do mother daughter meetings now and show the real power of God to restore lives and families.  Amen.

I was molested by my babysitter - a woman for a period of a few years when I was quite small which really messed me up – broken trust, sexual issues & stuff at a young age throughout the time until the Lord came to me in my mid-twenties etc…

In America during my early years, it was the feminist "bra burning" and Civil Rights Era- pretty crazy time- I loved it! RADICAL.

I was a real trouble maker- though I was also a cheerleader, honor student, captain of basketball/track, drama etc... over-achiever type.

Anyway, I got in to so much trouble and kicked out of school various times that my family moved to Nevada - there were other reasons I see now - the hand of the Lord

Anyway - I graduated from Nevada, went up to college in Utah for a year, met a man while I was out partying (one of many, many actually), God pregnant, got marred, but when my daughter, Tawnie was born- the partying didn't seem as fun- something changed in me- So my husband continued in the drug/party scene and after some hairy calls with guns, drugs, etc... I left.


Adultery, Las Vegas and a PARTY!
I thought men were for two things - SEX & MONEY

I was 21 at the time- so I was old enough to run cocktails and tend bar in a casino (I still continued the "party life" - that is where you can make some money - so I did that. Eventually I ended up having an affair with my Casino "New Yorker" manager - he was twenty years my senior and he and his New Yorker friends ("collectors" for Caesars Palace in Las Vegas or something like that) were kind of scary sometimes - but "he was a good guy"! LOL

My folks got saved somewhere in this time - not sure when as I had very little contact with them- but they did and started to pray. (Needless to say, after I received Christ- it took awhile for me to understand the "forgiveness" element! Now it is amazing and God had blessed the generations of my family).

Anyway - I went to work at another place in Vegas when I was around 24 or so and there was a Christian lady there- I hated her and did every thing I could to make her mad, but it was no use.

One day she invited me to her father's house for HER birthday party and for some reason, I went. When I got there (in my tiny clothes - no under clothes- smoking my cigarette and cussing like a sailor - as was my style), it was a men's street ministry. Most of the men were under 30 and had just lost all their money gambling and had no where to go.

Let me back up a little... GOD ALWAYS SPOKE TO ME; as a child and a "sinner"... bad doctrine...LOL!

Anyway - to back up a little - I had always had dreams from God and heard his voice - I used to hide in the local church when my mother was on a rampage and it was 20 degrees below zero and I would talk with him. I always wondered where the heck he was when there was a "church meeting" going on". Anyway...

back to the Birthday party...

Suddenly -here was one of the men on the floor with his eyeballs popping out of his head while growling and frothing at the mouth. I knew it was a demon - since I had been into every type of spiritual junk you could imagine -I just always thought the devil was bigger than God cuz "Christians" always seemed afraid of "sinners" like me - show them a little cleavage, blow a little cigarette smoke their way ...and they go running! Anyway, to my shock and amazement -

"Christian Repellant"

THESE Christians were not at all afraid.  In fact, all the people were gathered around him praying in what I thought was "German". I had never heard of tongues before, but I knew this family was once stationed in Germany ...

EXORCISM ANYONE???

So- I was sitting watching what was happening and all of a sudden I heard the voice of Jesus - he said "tell James to pack up his stuff and get out of this house - he is ripping these people off and I have exposed him. The demon is not going to leave - he likes it.".... so I waded into the midst of those tongue talking people (although I thought they were speaking German) with a cigarette in my hand and told "James" exactly what the Lord had said- so after a little scuffle - he packed his bags and got out of that house.

So- I had to leave for work and they had finally cut the birthday cake - on my way out the door - I asked my co-worker, about her speaking in German. She said it wasn't German, it was tongues. I asked what that was - she said it was when the Holy Spirit prays through you because you don't know what to pray. That made perfect sense to me... so I got in my car and headed home to change for work.

What is a TONGUE?  If it is ever boring- I QUIT!

On the way home, I told God- I will follow you as long as it is a good time and I don't have to become one of those "lemon sucking" Christians- and if it is ever boring, I quit....and then I said, "If that Holy Ghost thing is from you - I am going to open my mouth and you fill it". So I did and he filled me with the Holy Ghost.


Jesus is a risen - living savior and warrior - it is his power over evil that gives freedom & life.  Satan has no power over our lord.

I was driving around this two mile block speaking in tongues and then suddenly I started to growl- I saw Jesus in the seat next to me- He said "keep praying"- so I did and he began break strongholds in me - lust , anger, rage, violence, etc... Suddenly the sweet presence of God filled my car and I began to sing in other tongues and then in English. I thought the English was just another tongue and I was just "speaking in tongues- in English".
Since that day - the power of the Holy Spirit in my life has been ever present and ever ready to touch not just my life, but the lives of those around me.  Jesus is always ready to bless, heal, save and encourage.  He is a good God.

I had no bible background about the Power of the Holy Spirit and no real church experience-

Anyway - it is a long story , I began to witness on the streets of Vegas with my short shorts, cut off t shirt and a cigarette hanging out of my mouth - most guys stopped cuz they thought I was a hooker. Hilarious! I would just stand until the lord would give me a "word of knowledge" that was specific for someone walking by - then I would tell them - they would get saved and filled with the Holy Spirit and I would move on to the next one!

Can you imagine what my co-worker thought when all that chaos happened at her birthday party? So many of us worry about "what people will think" if we invite them to a meeting, party, dinner etc… I never worry – look at me! One day- the co worker realized I had received the Lord as my savior because I was telling other people about it and asked me, "how?"- And "where was I going to church" - "church?" "Why would I go to church", I asked her? .... And that is where my church life began. Getting used to "Church" is a whole story in itself for another time!



So my dear, I GOT SAVED AT AN EXORCISM!
So don't worry about what people will think when they come to a meeting
-God knows what they need-

 

I JUST NEEDED TO SEE THE DEVIL GET HIS BACKSIDE KICKED BY CHRISTIANS WO WERE NOT AFRAID OF HIM! AMEN!