Encouragement

For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.” – Deuteronomy 20:4

The sound of joyful shouting and salvation is in the tents of the righteous: The right hand of the Lord does valiantly. – Psalm 118:15

Years ago my daughter Hannah passed through a dry time while in college in Tuscaloosa. I was ministering to a house group in a town not far away. I received a call from her from her just before the meeting. When I answered the phone I heard her shouting, “Dad I got my shout back, I got my shout back, I got my shout back! Dad, shout to the Lord with a voice of triumph!” The sound of victory coming from her innermost being was full of joy and worthy of the Lord her King. The Holy Ghost spoke to me: “Where is your shout?” Just a couple of hours later she showed up at the meeting, washed my feet, and prayed for me to get my shout back. I got it back!

Ever since then, when God answers my prayer or gives victory, I shout. In worship I shout, when others have victory, I shout, when the devil is cast out, I shout. According to the word of God, shouting and joy are expressions of one another. Joy is not something that cannot be contained, it is shouted from the housetops, unto the Lord.

Last week, there was a spiritual battle in the heavenlies for this nation.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. – Ephesians‬ ‭6‬:‭12‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

A battle of principalities and powers in high places. Rulers of darkness in our time and the spirits of wickedness in heavenly places, where the Prince of the Power of the Air resides. Positioned between heaven and earth. The battleground in the Spirit. Politics and these spirits wanted to make it about flesh and blood. Two personalities and two parties — red and blue — and grievous to the Holy Ghost, righteous and unrighteous, among God’s children.

Already the balance police in the body of Christ began to preach to those who are celebrating victory. To tone it down, be humble, do not gloat, do not boast, and not to offend. These voices are quenching the Holy Ghost and robbing those who have been crying out to God on behalf of the millions of babies who have been murdered on the lie of reproduction rights. So many believers were praying, fasting, beseeching, meeting, and calling on God to have mercy on this nation and bring us back to our Judeo-Christian roots. The foundation it was built on.  As God told Israel, “Choose life this day.”

There were two joys at stake as well: the joy of the Lord and a joy which was temporal and based in humanism and emotions. Joy, for the believer, is vital to our relationship with the Lord. So vital that Paul writes, “rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice.” It is where His strength comes from.

Yes, for those who see victory, do not let anyone quench your shout of victory and joy. Shout to the Lord give Him glory and strength. For this joyous victory will be required to get about the Father’s business and the increase of His Kingdom. For the Kingdom of God IS righteous, peace, and JOY, in the Holy Ghost!

So shout unto God with a voice of triumph! HALLELUJAH!!!

-Keith Curlee

“I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.” – Deuteronomy‬ ‭30‬:‭19‬-‭20‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

The word of the Lord is not complicated when it comes to communicating with His children. These two verses are clear when it comes to how we shall live.

First, He calls His children to know they have choices to make in their new life; no longer slaves, but free. He says, “Choose.” In fact, He is calling on them to do so, and both Heaven and Earth are taking notice—they are witnessing.

Secondly, the choices are simple: life and death and blessing and cursing.

Thirdly, the consequences of these choices directly affect not only the chooser and his children but also their children’s children.

Next, He tells us that His choice is life, not death, blessing and not cursing. He gives us daily life and eternal life. This is His desire for His children. So demonstrative: Life! Jesus, when He came, clearly “Amens” this choice.

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. – John‬ ‭10‬:‭10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Choosing life and blessing is choosing God, the giver of all life and blessing. We are His children, those who put their trust in Him.

Finally, the land we live in will be a place of blessing for the length of our days and we will be made strong.

Thus His will is for life and blessing. The question for me is, “Does my will surrender by choice to His will?” Every day I will, by His grace and mercy, choose Him and His life and blessing. To love Him, obey Him, and cling to Him these days and in every day. Blessed be the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever Amen!

– Keith Curlee

For indeed, as soon as the voice of your greeting sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy. – ‭‭Luke‬ ‭1‬:‭44‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

If elected, Kamala, the candidate of joy, will not bring joy to the womb of many women and babies. No joy for so many babies. Only a violent invasion and terror to their life. Remeber Mary and Elizabeth sharing real joy, which is spirit to spirit. Some two years later the government of that day sought to murder children in Bethlehem under the age of two and the unborn.

Biden/Harris policy is the policy of death. Why can’t we see that Satan is always looking to destroy children in every generation?

His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born. – Revelation‬ ‭12‬:‭4‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Whenever a deliverer was to come there was murder of a generation. Jesus is coming again and Satan is loosed on the children of this day through abortion and the transgender abomination that has been accelerated by the Biden/Harris administration. President Biden has made clear that the only way to secure a woman’s right to choose is for Congress to restore the protections of Roe as federal law. Until then, he has committed to doing everything in his power to defend reproductive rights and protect access to safe and legal abortion.

Is it Wake up or Woke up? We are at a major crossroads. Yes, Jesus is and forever on the throne of God. Seek His Kingdom and, yes, also His righteousness. His righteous shall shine.

The Lord tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates. – Psalms‬ ‭11‬:‭5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬‬‬

-Keith Curlee

Photo by Helena Lopes

The Consequences of Roe vs Wade: 63,459,781. Running total of abortions since 1973.

Since Roe vs Wade was made into law, these numbers cannot be denied nor refuted.

Based on numbers reported by the Guttmacher Institute 1973-2017, with 3% added for GI estimated possible 3-5% undercount for 1973-2014. Another 12,000 per year added for 2015-2021 for abortions from “providers” GI says it may have missed in 2015-2017 counts.

Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court. – Psalm 127:3-5

For You created my innermost parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, because I am awesomely and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. – Psalm‬ ‭139‬:‭13‬-‭14‬

The consequences of Roe v. Wade can no longer be continued without our nation falling short of the grace of God. One of our nation’s anthems sung at many events is, “America the Beautiful.” The second verse goes like this:

“America! America! God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.”

The reversal of Roe versus Wade may have kept the crown of brotherhood from being taken away and our nation becoming irrelevant in the most prophetic and historic times ever. For we as believers know one of our rewards to receive from Jesus is a crown of life.  

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. – James 1:12

I would contend that our choice of life is clearly before us. One of the first choices God gave Israel was:

You may choose life or death. You may choose the Lord to bless you or to curse you. Choose life today, so that you and your descendants will live! – Deuteronomy 30:19

The choosing of death in 1973, Roe vs Wade, has brought about the rejection of God’s blessing and the grace of God not continuing to be shed on us as a nation. 63,000,000 plus children being annihilated has seared the conscience of this nation. This abomination has been veiled by making it a political debate, a civil rights issue, and a redefining of abortion as reproductive rights.

As believers, we constantly pray and ask for God’s blessing in our lives. To think that God’s judgment on a nation is not going to affect its people as a whole is the height of naivety and deception. God will always take care of His own, and He is faithful and good. But, as with Israel, when they went into captivity as a nation, Daniel, Shadrack, Meshack, and Abedigo also went and even faced death.

For me, I choose life and I will demonstrate it unashamedly by my vote, my choice, for my soul knows it well.

The rejection of children is a rejection of God’s blessings and the choosing of the curse—for any nation. To think that the evolution of abortion has come to invading the security of a woman’s womb, in the last trimester much less in the first, is unconscionable and godless. May God’s grace and mercy—the crown of brotherhood bestowed on this nation—be lifted from our heads as a people.

In closing, this is where the division of this nation began, not these last few years. This was the beginning of the tearing apart of the fabric of our nation, and our downfall.

Blessings. – Keith Curlee