Month: November 2016

The Formation of Catch of the Day

By land or by sea, we are to be catchers of men aren’t we. For Jesus Christ came to set the captive free. He also came to destroy the works of the devil.

By land or by sea, we are to be catchers of men aren’t we.  For Jesus Christ came to set the captive free.

He also came to destroy the works of the devil.  Many cannot come to Christ until the devil is mastered and his works are destroyed.

“And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon’s, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land.  And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship.  Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.  And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.  And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.  When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying,  “Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.” For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken: and so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon.  And Jesus said unto Simon, “Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men,””   Luke 5:3-10 KJV”

Vision:

I saw myself in a big boat out in the deep and I had a large rod and reel.  I cast out all sorts of bait and once I felt a tug, I knew this one would be a big catch!  It took a long time to wear out the large fish, but once I did, I was able to bring the large catch to the boat.

The fish looked nothing like anything I ever seen.  One of its characteristics was that it was very swollen, like pregnant, however it looked beyond pregnant.

Once this heavy fish was raised up to weigh and cut open, suddenly fish came out of the opening of the big fish, and they hit the floor!  The fish were alive!  There were all sorts and sizes that came out of the big fish.  These fish that came out were many different types of fish.  We were amazed at the size of the original fish caught, and what was kept hidden within.

Just imagine, to see so many various types of fish that represented saints.  It kinda reminded me of Jonah when he was in the midst of the great fish alive.  Can you imagine being pregnant with so many souls?  This vision still boggles my mind.

Have you ever felt like you were bait that God was using to catch fish (the saints)?

Have you ever felt “like bait” to catch demonic spirits and deal with them by the blood of Jesus name?

We have been given all power and all authority over all the power of the enemy.  Whatever we bind on earth is bound in heaven and whatever we loose on earth is loosed in heaven.  We possess that power in Jesus name!

All through my spiritual life there have been times that God uses me as bait.  One time was this:

I was at a women’s conference to speak and so much happened that was amazingly wonderful!  We all were filled and enjoying the blessings of God.

Towards the end of the meeting, there were other speakers who prophesied over me and I ended up laying on the floor.  I was basking in the intoxicating presence of God on the floor; letting the Lord minister to me.

Suddenly, a woman who I did not know, nor had any idea what she was doing, came to me.  While I was in the intoxicating presence of the Holy Spirit on the floor, she bent down to my head and begin to speak curses and not in accordance to God’s Word.

This woman laid hands on me and I immediately knew what she said was saying was not of God.  No one stopped her touching me on the floor and we all learned a lot from that experience.  Especially me!

I remained on the floor, but did not receive anything she said.  For some reason, I knew it wasn’t over between her and I.  I assumed it would be taken care of between her and I during the end of the conference but it never happened.

I finally came to the conclusion that what I have with God, pulls in fish (souls) and it also draws demons out of people, to try and dispute what God had said.  I pretty much put that whole encounter on a shelf after that.  I had a knowing deep within that somewhere down the line I would have dealings with her again.

I was involved with three ministries in outreach and those who could, were invited to come and fast and pray for the city and also in preparation for a seven day tent revival that would be in another state.

For the fasting and prayer, we met in a old civil war historic facility.  The fast and prayer went on the full thirty days in preparation for revival.

One day while praying, I kept seeing a rod and reel with line and hook and I saw bait.  Then God began to tell me HE was going to send me as bait to draw the devil out of various situation’s.  Well, I was not in the best frame of mind after that.  I argued, thinking it was something the devil authored or something my own mind authored.

I shared it with several others that were with me who thought it was comical, but I couldn’t shake it.  I kept seeing myself like a worm, and instead of being hooked to the hook I just held on to the hook and sat there.

It seemed comical to others who knew, but it wasn’t comical to me! I saw my face on the worm and I prayed and prayed that it wouldn’t go away.  God even gave me scripture in Isaiah 41:14 KJV,

“Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.”

The same day, my overseer came to see me and she shared with me that I needed to be prepared to go into another city the next day.  I would be going in her place to another women’s meeting.  As soon as she said it out of her mouth, I knew this was confirmation on the worm.

Oh my LORD!  I begged him not to allow this.  I spoke with my overseer many times that day and told her what the LORD revealed, but it didn’t change her mind.  I had to go in obedience to the LORD and His authority in my life.

I knew I was ready, but nervous due to knowing “I was like a worm on a hook.  BAIT!”  I knew I was being set up by God.

So off we went the next day, I myself and four others went with me to this women’s meeting.

Well, the main speaker wanted me to help handle the music up front where I did not want to be!  Being bait, I was thinking, I should sit in the back, but the person in charge told me to be up front.  All I could do was sit quietly and pray.

While we were in worship, I saw a couple more women come in, and I say this before God; one of them looked like a cobra.  Her headdress was in the shape of a cobra when they fan out.  Not only that, all the colors and markings spoke snake to me.

I told myself, oh NO!  Also what was worse, she was the exact woman who laid hands on me many months before, in that last conference.

Well, after worship, the woman of God ministered and I just stayed as quiet and prayerful as possible.  I thought after awhile, I was going to get out of being bait because it appeared the meeting was nearly over.

Then while everyone was praying, the woman of God came over to me and took me by my hand and walked me slowly around the front.  In my mind, I said, “This is it, I know it!”

The woman of God said all sorts of nice things about my ministry, but she knew another woman had a word for me.  Another woman did get up and prophesied a confirmed word and blessed me.  In my mind, I was saying here we go….

Then the woman of God continued walking me around by hand.  All of the sudden that cobra woman, started speaking ungodly words of poison and before I even thought to do anything, I WAS THERE!

I was in her face with my index finger pointing to her face telling her, “Touch not God’s anointed do his prophets no harm!”  I was so shocked that I moved so quick.  My head had to catch up with my Spirit!  While in front of the woman, she fell back immediately, shaking violently at the Word of the LORD!

The main speaker and woman of God told me, she said, “Sherry when you said and did that, I saw a legion of demons fall on their face at once.”

The part that really shocked me was, when I was standing with the woman of God who had my hand; suddenly I was in the cobra’s face!  So lightening fast!  It was like, I was there before I thought it.  A bit hard to explain, but I knew My body and Spirit were there before my thoughts were.

Well, I was just glad all was over for me.  I got everything ready to go and we left.  I understood later others tried to minister to the woman with the cobra headdress.  I knew my job was over, thank God!  Being bait for God can be a bit scary, but HE always shows up!

Does God still use me for bait?  Yes, at times.  He also uses me to catch souls on land and sea for the kingdom.  I know for a fact, if the HOLY SPIRIT does use me as bait again, HE will certainly harvest His “Catch Of The Day!  Amen?  So be it Lord!

“Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.  Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.  For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, ‘Fear not; I will help thee.  Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee,’ saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.  Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.  Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel,”   Isaiah 41:11-16 KJV.

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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Spiritual Metamorphosis

Once in time, an ugly caterpillar an in her limitations from all states of existence, not knowing who or what she was, went on in blindness, thinking her best days were behind her.  

She went on in the dry weariness of soul and longed to find her total rest in yielded death.  Death to so many limits, death to all of whom she had been.

In her weariness, she finally yielded to her eternal rest, not realizing the process she was in, that was kept her hidden even from her own heart and mind.  As a caterpillar, she did not realize the Spiritual DNA that was formed within her heart, was forever sealed.

Hidden in time, lost in love divine, yet her heart so tenderly wandered and grieved, wanting to be clothed upon in eternal bliss and stay before HIS throne forever.

She didn’t realize what was planted in her heart was eternally blessed and redeemed.  In her own experience, she didn’t understand the timing of her Spiritual DNA, that was planted into her heart by the Master and God of all creation.  Nor did she comprehend what was to become of her limited life.

In the darkness of her experience, she wailed her youth and all of what she had envisioned.  She mourned her own life and death.

Years of process kept hidden in the darkness as development continued on for many years.  Only God knew the type of creature she would become.

Knowing His creation from the beginning, she slowly wandered from tree to tree seeking out a place of eternal rest and acceptance.  Weary of all her efforts, she began to spin and weave threads into a cocoon, wrapping and self in a shroud.

She was hidden by the Master and her own efforts, thinking all was lost.  She surrendered and yielded to the process, completely dying to what she was.

Her last work being the completion of the cocoon, she must now die.  As she stretched in shroud, giving her last words to God, would she ever live again?

As the Metamorphosis of the caterpillar in a cocoon kept hidden, she finally finished the struggle of life within the cocoon.  She entered into perpetual rest.

What she was from her first existence will not look or be the same.  The struggle ensues and she finds she doesn’t fit this shroud.  Not understanding the process, she continues to stretch until she breaks free of all the restraints.  She won’t be recognizable by the past efforts and those who tried to destroy her fragile life.

The golden silky creature breaking completely free into this new life and symphony.  Unrecognizable from what she was, she stretches so effortlessly and in symphony with the Angels of heaven; Her movements synchronize with each sound.

Her wings of various streaks of gold beaming from the sun, move in time with heavens sounds.  She begins to take flight into her realms of Spiritual sight.  Nothing of past things in sight, only newness of life.

As she is flying into what God kept hidden from view, she is new and only the limited memories of days gone by remain.

All the days of her life were hidden in death within the cocoon.  She developed into what was, what is, and what is to come.

She breaks forth in flight as the sun shines upon her new golden wings in newness of sight and sound.  She dances on the currents of the winds and breaks forth into New life and New beginning of a New Beginning.  Selah.

“For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.  For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life,”   2 Corinthians 5:2-4 KJV.

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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Precise Illumination

My prophetic voice shall give precise illumination in this hour.

I AM searching and waking up those who are sleepy, like one who would be awakened out of a deep, sound sleep.

It is not the time to be lulled back into complacency. It is the time to continue pressing and moving closer to the flame. Pressing into Me is an effort against the current condition of many hearts.

It is the heart of a person that proves the evidence of fire and passion for Me says the LORD.

The flickers of light in the night, are growing dim and the light thereof is fading quickly. That night is far spent and the oil decreased, that darkness becomes gross darkness for many.

I have set My candlestick with My seven lamps. They shall have an unceasingly supply of oil that shall never run dry. For from the same source, they burn, they illuminate My house with light, that shall ever burn bright against that day.
For My day, who can stand?  Who can abiding when I appear?  My illuminating eyes shall see and walk among the candlesticks.

I will visit My house, to see if I AM welcome.  Many will see Me and there will be many that will close their door to Me.  For I came to My own and My own did not recognize Me.  The day and year has not changed that fact.  Timing comes from Me says the LORD.

It is not by man’s inventions or great plans that a war is waged.  But it is by My Power, My might and My illuminating eyes that I shall see and come through individuals in seemingly insignificant ways.  Not with pomp or great honor, but as a humble servant.  As a lamb led to slaughter.

I shall lead those who are My eyes to see into the walls of the structures, into the innermost chambers and hidden places of thoughts, hearts and motives.

There is coming soon, a day of great reckoning, for wickedness shall be revealed and a choice made.  To repentance or for the wickedness to be set on it’s own base and established.  Each will have their choice of their own accord.  The day shall come, and I will close the door.

I have laid the foundation of MY house and I will finish it.  Faulty structure will be removed, to make room for MY Solid rock.  MY house shall be solid. It will not be fragmented.

My prophetic voice shall give precise illumination in this hour.

Arise to the greater light of My combined effort.  This light shall weave and crisscross all over the nations and shall make a great blanket of illumination and direction for the battle.  The warmth from this blanket shall comfort those, who have sought My complete covering.  If you have ears to hear, hear what I say to you, says your God.

“Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.  And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.  They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them;  but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.  While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept,”   Matthew 25:1-5 KJV.

“Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.  Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.  Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?  But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us,”   Zechariah 1:3-6 KJV.

“For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her,”   Zechariah 2:5 KJV.

“And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep, and said unto me,  What seest thou?  And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof: And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.  So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying,  What are these, my LORD?  Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be?  And I said, No, my LORD.  Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts,”   Zechariah 4:1-6 KJV.

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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The Sleeping Giant

When in prayer, I had an impression of a sleeping giant.  I remember a novel called “Gulliver’s Travels.”   It reminded me of what I saw.

There were so many little demons scurrying around the body trying to tie down the giant with ropes.  As the giant slept, the demons were happy to have this huge giant restrained.

Then the giant began to wake up, and all of the ropes snapped off.  It was sheer terror to the demons for they thought they had it all covered.  They worried and they know they made a big mistake.

It amazes me that we ALL tend to forget and feel so overwhelmed at times when we go through test, trials, and tribulations.  We tend to forget who we are and who is in us abiding there in the temple of our being.  However, we gain POWER under pressure.

All the cycles we go through, the test, tribulations and the trials are all working a greater plan that God gives us glimpses of.  These times pack on spiritual muscle because the pressures we go through work a greater plan in the destiny of man and the Church.

“What?  Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”  1 Corinthians 6:19.

Christ in us the hope of Glory!  Realize that giant lives in every born again believer.  It gives a good perspective, when you see your enemy so small.

The true church is waking up and the devil is running for cover.  He knows if we know who we are and know who lives in us he has no authority.

The only authority the devil has in our lives is what we give him.  God didn’t leave us helpless, he sent the Holy Spirit to us to give us POWER over all the power of the Devil.

GOD is waking the CHURCH up!  Set the trumpet to your lips and blow the trumpet in Zion!  Big Revival is coming on a national, local and personal level.  Watch and see what the Lord does.

The Sleeping GIANT is Waking up!

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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