What Is It Going to Take?

This is just me y’all, I am sister Sherry Edwards Mackey and I call it like I see it.

I have had such frustration and such a weighty burden I have carried with me.  Yeah, people see me weeping and moaning and most people think I am just nuts, or attention seeking!  But when I go out and about and pray, I am serious about this, dead serious.

Many laughed at the prophets of old calling them crazy when they confronted the sin of their nation — but that’s okay, because I believe The LORD is trying to get this message out across the entire Nation, including out the congregations where we go and serve.

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attend unto the prayer that is made in this place. For now, have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there forever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them; Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to everyone that passed by it; so that he shall say, why hath The LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house? And it shall be answered, because they forsook The LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore, hath he brought all this evil upon them.”   2 Chronicles 7:14-22 KJV

Being raised in the military my whole life, I had a global view of things and that caused me to see many various groups of Christians in all parts of the globe.

Beloved, we have brothers and sisters today that are dying because they are making them choose to serve their god and renounce Jesus.

Most of the world is not Christian nations, and we hear of such suffering of our brothers and sisters, and it frustrates me, because here we are in America, fat, happy, and sassy and satisfied in our easy boy chairs with “a-little-dab’ll-do-you” Christianity.

Our nation it’s in a bad place and if we look back in history, we can see all sorts of nations that forgot God and what happened to them.

But for some reason, America seems to think that she’s not going to be held accountable for the apathy, the complacency, the laziness, the lethargy, the sleep and the slumber.

This may be like an old record to you but it’s just as clear to me as can be!  Anything that we put before God is an idol.

God is supposed to be first in our life and that means we must have a relationship with him.  We’ve got to talk to him and communicate with him!

But most of The Church struggle with our prayer lives, and we barely say anything to Jesus, as we leave our doors in the morning for our jobs.  Yes, people have secular jobs — and I’m not saying a secular job is wrong.

But the leadership in many Christian Churches in the last 40 years of our lives, took on a social agenda instead of a soul winning agenda, and not being led by leadership in corporate Prayer.

If we don’t fast, pray, and get serious with God, if it isn’t already too late, we will lose what we have left.

No one wants to think of our nation being taken over or bad inexplicable things happening, but my Spirit has been so grieved within.

Alone, we can help a little, but if we join in with group intercession round the clock for different people to take a 30-minute or hour-long prayer for our Nation and our Church.

It is only a matter of time that something is coming, and we could be that generation where we would see our nation fall.

Surely people have seen the ravages of the fall of America for we have been losing America a little at a time.  I expect something to happen anytime.

No one wants to see the changes that will happen for the worse, but we need to heed the warning to come together and earnestly fast and pray!

I heard one woman say, “Oh, none of these things are going to happen to us, because the rapture is going to take us out of it.”

I believe in the catching away of The Church, but I also believe in the reality of a global view of the world and our nation is slowly being taken over and it’s increasing exponentially day by day we’re being overrun, and it is happening much quicker than The Church wants to admit.

We are creatures of habit, and we don’t want to change, but ready or not change is coming!

Where are the leaders that are leading us to pray “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

Who is doing this?  When are we going to see the evidence and start praying!  What will it take for us to get focused on God?

We have our programs, we have our music we have our Sunday school, and we have our activities, but I want to know when the most important part of a church will begin urgent praying with the leadership leading, guiding, appointing people what’s going to happen if we don’t continue to pray for our nation?

Many nations in history and especially Israel didn’t want to think it could happen to them either.  Like in the book of Daniel the writing is on the wall.

How are we going to somehow escape being overrun, and you think that you’re sitting in your easy chair waiting for the rapture to happen.

All over the world there are brothers and sisters going through terrible things and they wait for the rapture too, but we are supposed to occupy until HE comes!

Our nation has been given much and much is acquired!  We have sinned as a church and our nation it’s turning Pagan.

Where are the leaders, where are the prayer leaders, where are the pastors that are going to help lead the flock of God back into fasting and prayer and giving up time and setting things in order.

We need some old-fashioned prayer meetings and I’m not talking about prayer requests; I’m talking about people coming in there with desperation in their heart and saying we got to have a change God we’ve got to have a change nationally!

What’s it going to take for you?  Will it take a bomb hitting somewhere in America?  Will it take a disaster happening before you run to church and say let’s pray!

We need to pray now that the signs are not good. God’s given us signs he’s a good God, but we’ve got to take those signs and apply them.

And pray for the leadership to get a hold of it and it’s not about women and men it’s about all of us we all need to pray.  What will it take to get us to pray?

I AM sounding a warning and the blast of the trumpet and voice of words that have caused them to hide, and I heard the Spirit of The LORD speak. “Do we continue our course towards destruction or do you rise up as believers and begin to become militant again.”

May The LORD have mercy on this nation, upon our heritage and may God bless America again before it is too late!

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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