Important Update and Request

SELAH MINISTRIES
Carla Reed
21200 E Country Vista Dr #L-104
Liberty Lake, WA 99019
Cells: 509-599-0433 or 605-376-0033
www.carlareed.com

Dearly Loved of the Father,

Blessings to each of you once again. It has been awhile since my last email letter, so I want to catch you up on all that has happened just in the last month or so. I never cease being amazed at the diversity of people, places, and events that can happen in a short period of time.

Many of us feel like we are in accelerated time, cramming more in a week or month than some people do in a year. I’m sure I’ve lived more than one lifetime already. I’ve certainly driven more miles than many people ever do in a lifetime.

So here goes… but first the “announcements.”

1. I’m resending the attachment for the new piano CD titled “Still Waters“. Some were not able to open it and I’m hoping that can be remedied. Those who have listened are enjoying it and I’m confident you will too. The CD’s are only $10. So order one for yourself and a friend. I know people copy CD’s (I’m guilty too), but I ask you to order for others as that is the way I make my living. Thanks for being sensitive. Also, get online and order any of the others that you do not have. The Mysteries of the Deep CD continues to be the most popular and I love hearing testimonies about it. Send me yours.

Remember, I can take checks, credit cards, or you can use Paypal. Call me. 509-599-0433

2. I’m hearing many fresh reports and concerns expressed about food shortages and the need to have resources on hand. As I hear about it, I’m compelled to once again encourage you to visit the website for Uri International. These are complete live organic whole foods that have been dehydrated, vacuum sealed, and packaged for optimum nutrition. All you need is water. What better way to get what you need! Visit the website to listen to the presentations and facts about our modern food supplies. The website is www.uriinternational.com/urisong. My member number is #24169. There is a one time $9.95 fee to sign up and you can order as much as you want every month without signing up. If you do, I strongly urge you get the one time - first time only package deals to fill your food reserves and make it part of your monthly food budget. I’m always amazed that people will spend $35 on one or two meals eating out and think it’s too expensive to buy a 30 day supply of optimum nutrition for the same amount. I have been absolutely amazed at how the products have revitalized my own health and to my surprise, changed a lot of my tastes. In fact if I try to put something in my mouth that isn’t necessarily good for me, I can hardly swallow it. My body is going: “Get that outta here!” I’ve even been able to lose several pounds ‘cause it’s so nutritionally satisfying without the calories and carbs. Give it a go.

The month of June was very busy. On June 6, I received an email in the evening concerning the death of a very special long time friend, Leslie Crevier, 58, in Elkton, SD. Leslie had bravely fought against a cancerous tumor and slipped into the arms of Jesus that morning. She had her husband, Marc, were mom and dad to my youngest son, Joshua, in the year 2001 when he stayed with them for several months while I made an extensive trip to the northwest. That trip positioned us for the following year, 2002, when we moved to Moses Lake, WA. Leslie was also my favorite hairdresser and no one could do hair like she did. For those of you who ever heard the story about my purple hair dream, she was the one who came to my rescue. Leslie had a way of working on your heart while she worked on your hair. She was a treasure to all who knew her.

I received word that evening at 8:00 pm and yearned deeply to be at her funeral, see all the Crevier family and many long time friends who would be there. Something about a funeral pulls us back together and puts things in perspective. At 9:00 pm, I closed up my computer and said, “I’m going.” With that I hurried back to my apartment, packed in record time and left the next morning at 7:00 am to begin the two day, 1300 mile drive to Sioux Falls, SD. Amazingly, my schedule was clear for about 10 days. There I was able to stay with my oldest son, Steven, and his family and able to attend the funeral on Monday, June 9 in Brookings, SD. While the reason for the trip was saddening, the scenery across Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota was breathtakingly beautiful and greenery at it’s finest. It was as if the Lord had laid out the green carpet across the vastness of the land. Due to all the rain, the landscapes were lush and dotted with wildflowers, trees, and bushes. It was exquisite to say the least.

Interestingly enough, I had been feeling very, very homesick for my family in SD. Because of the trip, I was able to see both my son and his family, my daughter and her family, both my mom and dad. All in different places about 150 miles apart. All in all, I was blessed to see 8 of my 11 grandchildren who live in SD and find out that #12 is on the way. I’m delighted and my grandma quiver is getting full.

My mother is living near my youngest brother in Neligh, NE. I was with her the night the tornado ripped thru a boy scout campground about 100 miles away in Iowa, across the river from Omaha, NE. Still too close for comfort. How fragile our lives seem to be. Let us celebrate life, friendships, and family as much as possible!! Truly, I celebrate each of you and how blessed and honored I am to have you in my life and know that the Lord has truly graced us to enjoy our days on earth together.

I returned on June 15, with a few days to regain my momentum, when I was blessed to host two wonderful Christian men from New Jersey, Pastor Jim Mandel and his delightful sidekick, Sam. They had desired to visit the Spokane area to meet with several people and leaders and see the beautiful northwest. I drove them across the state of Washington for a meeting in the Seattle area and we came back thru part of the beautiful Cascade mountain range and lush forests. Sam was sure beauty like this was only on postcards. I hope I’m enticing you to come out as well.

It was my delight to be with three wonderful New Jersey churches and their pastors in February and we began to see some wonderful manifestations in the Glory of the Lord’s Presence. You can access some excellent pictures at www.Glorytothenations.org. Be sure and look at all the pictures. One of them was taken of me as I prayed for people and a beautiful circle of light is at my side. Many feel that digital photography is capturing angelic presence and this is certainly an amazing picture.

This weekend, I am headed back to the Seattle area to some meetings that were scheduled earlier. I will once again drive I-90 across the state, praying as I go and enjoying the beauty of our Creator. To date, I think I have driven every mile of I-90 from Seattle, WA to Boston, MA. I like to think of Psalms 90 when I consider this major interstate ribbon across America.

Speaking of America, I must tell you I grieve over the insanity and foolishness of our government, judges, politicians, and media. But that is not truly the land of America, the Beautiful. We have arrogant men and women who have usurped, corrupted, and manipulated their way into leadership and who have lost touch with common people. I consider them trespassers and traitors, and I have never witnessed such fear mongering and tragedy across our country. I'm grateful for Godly leaders at such a time as this.


With that thought, I need to share something VERY IMPORTANT!!

Please bear with me to the end.

Beloved friends, I have an important prayer request. I’m asking you to pray and intercede for me as I consider making another cross country trip to the far northeast this fall. Ever since my trip to Florida and the east coast in Jan, Feb, and March, I have been stirred in my spirit about our nation. You may recall I was able to drive to Key West, Fl to stand and pray at the southernmost point of America. Those amazing pictures are available on my website: www.carlareed.com.

While there in Key West, the Lord reaffirmed my call to intercede and cover this land in prayer. He once told me I’d go to all 50 states, and I now have stood in 48 of the 50, with only Alaska and Hawaii remaining. Also, I have stood to pray in three corners of America. Joshua and I went to Neah Bay, WA, the far northwest tip of Washington state in 2002. In 2006, on a trip to southern California, I linked up with key leadership and stepped into our border waters at Imperial Beach, south of San Diego. At that time, we also prayed at Mt Solidad, the site of the huge cross that has since been covered up because it offends the ACLU. How ridiculous! In all three corners, I have poured out the waters (your waters) of America praying for our great nation.

At present, the only corner missing is northern Maine. I have been to Maine twice already in past trips, but not the far northwest region on the Atlantic Ocean. Since returning from the east coast in March, I keep feeling the need to wrap things up and get in that fourth corner. I’m not sure I understand completely why, but I know the Lord makes many things known as we go in faith. HE loves America too.

Today, as I contemplated the trip, I’m overwhelmed with the enormity and expense of another cross country trip, but also with the enormity of the honor and blessing to represent the Lord’s heart over this nation. I have tried to dismiss it in my mind as unnecessary, but it keeps surfacing in my spirit like a Divine indigestion. Just doesn’t seem to go away.

Also today, the Lord reminded me of the vision of Peter on the roof top of Joppa in Acts 10:8-20. Be sure and read it. He had a vision of a sheet let down from heaven with many unclean creatures in it. Then he was commanded three times to kill and eat. After steadfastly refusing to eat the unclean meat, the Lord spoke to him: “ What God has cleansed and pronounced clean, do not you defile and profane by regarding and calling common and unhallowed or unclean.”

I see America. It is a sheet full of unclean animals and people. Typically a sheet has four corners. I have a large map of the United States on my wall above my desk. It is full of pins where I have traveled. As I look up and pray over our country, I grieve over the terrible atrocities of abortion, pornography, immorality, drug and alcohol addictions, however, I’m reminded He still has a purpose and a plan. He sends us to those we call unclean and unholy. He wants to visit them too.

A few years ago I had another similar vision. I was sitting in a church meeting in Framingham, MA, where I had just met John Paul Jackson of Streams Ministries who was pastoring a new work there called The Bridge. Another lovely couple, Joe and Julie, had arranged for me to come and I was quite mystified how it came about. That was the year in 2004 when I flew into Boston to pray at Plymouth Rock and visit the Boston Statehouse. As I sat in worship, I saw another map of the United States. This time it was like America was hanging on a clothesline with the clothespins on Washington and Maine. At that time, I had not even considered going to Maine. Surely, America has been hung out to dry.

Within moments the thought went thru my head that I wanted to go to Maine. In fact, I specifically thought of Portland, ME as I had already been to Portland, OR. I seem to do many things in doubles. With that a desire rose up in me, altho’ I had no idea how it might happen.

After the meeting, a precious lady named Rainie came up to me. She mentioned she had heard what I did with water. She was from the coast of Maine and her family once had the purest water in the region, bottling it to send it all over. She handed me a sample of it. She wondered if I had any interest in going to Maine while I was in the area. Well, you could have blown me over. “I just thought of it“, I exclaimed!

She wondered if and when I could go. I said tomorrow is open and within 24 hours of my vision of the map of America on a clothesline, I was on my way to Portland, Maine and beyond. Rainie introduced me to my first Maine lobster on that trip and we prayed at the very springs her family had owned at Falmouth on Casco Bay. I marveled then at the ways the Lord speaks His directives to us.

The very next summer in 2005, I had driven to the east coast again. This time, I was blessed to visit Rainie, The Bridge, and many new friends in Massachusetts and also to drive up to Maine in the Glory Van to a conference held in Waterville (of course). At that time, connections were made in the Spirit from Washington to Maine once again, what I called the clothespin states.

This will be my third trip and far more extensive. I have always said if I go to the northeast again, I’d like to do it in the fall when the leaves change color. I guess that means change!!! I’m sensing this is my year to go. With gas prices continuing to rise, it doesn’t seem like a good time, but I doubt they’ll come down anytime soon and some predict continuing rising prices. I can’t seem to get rid of the nagging feeling that the time is NOW and ASAP. I would plan to be there before the elections. This might be one of the "maine" reasons I'm going.

The reason I drive instead of flying is simply this… the Glory Van is (tire)treading the land and every place I put my feet and my tires allows me to connect people, places, and prayers. We are linking hearts and hands across America and if you could see what I see, you would be so excited at how the Lord is laying such a vast network of His Divine connections. I wish I could take you all with me and I do in spirit.

I would not go unless I felt I was being sent. Peter in the vision was being sent to those he considered unclean and common. Three men from the house of Cornelius were waiting for him to accompany them back to Caesarea and there the Holy Spirit fell in unprecedented ways on the unlikely ones. By the way, I’m sure we’ve all noticed by now that the revival in Lakeland, FL, controversy and all, is being poured out on the unlikely ones.

Believe me, it is not easy to consider a trip of this magnitude in miles, expense, and mission. I’m asking you to pray about it with me and see what the Lord would have you do to help send me to this strategic fourth corner of America. At present, I’m anticipating leaving about mid-September and working my way across the country. I would be making many stops and setting up meetings to help defray the expenses of gas, travel, and keep the home fires burning. That means I will be driving mainly I-90 across the country with stops within reasonable distances of it. If you are en-route, get in touch with me. I can’t help but feel this might be one of the most important trips I’ve ever made and would ask you to stand with me in prayer and finances. Maybe your church would consider taking a special home missions offering.

In closing, thank you for your friendship, support, generosity and faith in me when I lose heart and hope. You are the wind in my sails and I need to hear from you. Please be praying about monthly support and being part of an intercessory prayer covering. I’m just me and I make no claims to fame, except I want to be obedient to His call:


“ Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send and who will go for Us? Then said I, Here am I, send me.” Isaiah 6:8

With love to all,

Carla

21200 E Country Vista DR #L-104
Liberty Lake, WA 99019
Cells: 509-599-0433 or 605-376-0033





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