Month: December 2023

While in prayer, all the sudden I saw a Vision and it was like a comic strip in the newspaper, but I will describe what it looked like, and I will attempt to relate what it means…  I heard, “Tug of War!”

I must say, when I first saw this Vision, it was comical to view, because to me it seemed like an easy remedy.

However, the man at the knotted-in strained to keep hold and control of the task.  The man dug in his heels by his sheer determination, and the more he pulled, the stronger the resistance became.

We all know nothing can exist and be blessed by the fleshly and human intervention, as do others, but to do so would end with disaster — so that no flesh can glory in God’s Presence.

At the other end of the rope was a great root-ball, something like you see when a tree is uprooted and chopped back, and then rooted out of the ground in preparation to move.

But in this Vision, there was strong resistance, because of the destiny of that root-ball.

The destiny was solid, so that the more the pull, it could not possibly be moved.  But the root-ball remained strong and firm, and the rope kept the entwined mind of alignment to The Mind of Christ.

The closer I got, I could see the people’s faces all entwined together within the root-ball — all wrapped up in rope — yet tightly entwined together as one.

I knew that the root-ball must be planted deeply again, so that each part of the genetic plan from God above, could be planted once again, and go deeper still, and so that it would spur growth upward and onward towards the sun.

“But, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”   Ephesians 4:15-16 NKJV

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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As I was praying and watching, I saw a straight line on a page, then a graph, then after a time I heard — “Plumbline!”

On this line I saw various ups and down’s in tracking the movement, but the center line never changed — because it is God’s Measurement — it is The Plumbline of God…His Word!

God was reminding me that we need to realize that there are many in the mix of troubles within The Church.

When we come among The Body of Christ and everywhere we go there are hurting people — and just maybe you are aligned to that measurement for the person you see?

How we approach someone can cause a lot of damage when we have an inflated opinion of ourselves.

We must remember that pride in us must be deflated and humbled, for then we can correctly see everyone as so vital to the mission of God.

Pride goes before a fall and a haughty spirit before destruction.  (Proverbs 16:18)

For those who have been given much, much is required (Luke 12:48 ).

When we want others to see our ‘elevated necessity’ and attempt to profess perfection, we are in slippery steps for a terrible fall.

When we have opened the door for the enemy by our pride, it causes us to abuse and to judge others!

In our perfection of works and lofty prideful thoughts, they attempt to hide our humanity from others and even ourselves!

We have fallen into living by works and our glory is our shame because we make ourselves out to be someone that we are not.

All of us in The Kingdom of God have the capability to elevate our self-rising image unto the heights of glory, perfection, and religion.

The only one perfect who was the sacrifice of it paid for it all, and that is how we are measured by.

The life of the Grace in Christ is from the beginning and until the end — PAID FOR!

The LORD paid it all, so all might live as He lives!

We are to remember that we measure all things in this life by how we obey The LORD.  We stand against that Plumbline and build and align accordingly to it.

It is not that we are perfected by our own estimation, but by knowing and living by the Word of God.

As we align ourselves against God’s Word, what do we have to hide?

Why do we perform in front of people, or put on airs when we are doing well, when we are not?

Why do people say they are okay — when they are not?

Why are we attempting to profess our pride, comfort, and when we ache inside?

Where are the real believers that LIVE the Life that Christ taught us to live?  Selah …..

“This is what He showed me:  Behold, The LORD was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand. “Amos, what do you see?” asked The LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said The LORD, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”   Amos 7:7-8

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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There is an Evil Net Working, spreading and getting very tech savvy and dangerous.

I don’t know how long it will take when they violate all our privacy and steal from us in many ways.  It is a pertinent time to bring what is the Spiritual into the natural.  We need to live what we truly believe.

The true Church needs to come out of her closet and be separate from the things of this world.  The Bride of Christ is pure, and Holy without spot, wrinkle, or any blemish.

A lot of people think if they are in a Church Organization that having trust in that place gives them hope.  But that is not true because we cannot go back to what we were.

We continue to move forward trusting God regardless of who stays in that place.

The Church continues to move forward, even if we sit down and decide to rebel.

The Church will continue moving, but The LORD will not stop because we are all moving towards the event of all time.  The Marriage Supper of The Lamb and The Bride had made herself ready!

The Church must realize that our presentation to this world communicates volumes to many around us.  At any time, you can strike up a conversation, or be somewhere at just the right time and ‘boom’ The LORD has prepared us! It is in that kairos moment that we realize we are literally set up for this encounter, because nothing is in vain and we must ask The LORD to show us so we offer at what stage a person is in.

He may be ready to receive The LORD, or maybe just share some words.  We do not know where we are in His timeline.

If we offer Jesus to people they have been ready to hear The Truth.  God is not wasteful and never waste one moment in time, as it is all laid out by our maker.

Signs and Wonders are to follow the believer, but who is thinking this?  “I don’t know LORD — I don’t feel like I’m doing anything.”

We all should long in our lives to be just, pure, and holy.  And in the eyes of The LORD, He sees you as you are in Spirit that has been crafted by His own Hand and forged in the hottest fire imaginable — and in the most delicate process, He facets you like a diamond as fit for a crown.

We are representing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in us.  He lives in us doing good wherever we go!

Will we be known by the company we keep and our actions and how we present ourselves in our world?  We are accountable to The LORD!

If we are around long enough, people will know us by our actions, reactions, and mistakes which are many, but the difference is that you get back up again.

Can a leopard change his spots?  Do not measure yourself against any man!  Be whom God wants you to be because that is your destiny!

We stand with Christ and by Christ.  We already have our Messiah Christ who came to us over 2000 years ago.

However, there are many people who want to put on another gospel, and their whole motive is to deceive and hinder the truth in your walk with Christ Jesus.

They want to pretend with deceit in their hearts, but God who knows the heart of all men knows all our motives.

“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.?”   Jeremiah 13:23

God will use us when an event arises within our circumstances to be instant in season and out of season.

We must live as a Sign and Wonder to many!  A Sign always points to Jesus and not ourselves.  A Wonder is when Christ manifests beyond our understanding that cannot be explained as a wonder or miracle.

God is wanting to show himself strong on behalf of those who diligently seek Him.

May God arise and His enemies be scattered!  We must live the Word, walk in the Word, eat, drink, and sleep in The Word.

The Word must become flesh in us, for when we do, The LORD has crafted the cross we each carry.

God promised that He will never give us more than we can bear.  We wonder sometimes in the thick of it. It is in those moments where the tests of our maturity are formed.

For in Christ, we do valiantly the horse and rider in the sea.

Are we content in our own little world?  Do we think of ourselves and measure ourselves by one another?

That mindset is not wise.  Our total focus is to be measured against God’s Word.  The Word is forever settled in heaven and on earth.  For in Him, he made the Word greater than his name.

We are living in the realm of a parallel world of keeping Him first and we are to be flowing side by side.  For too long the natural world has governed the network and we have followed it for a time.

Believers in Christ, the Spirit realm has always been first, because the Spirit world has always been eternal.

Satan is keeping up appearances showing his followers the debauchery and deception of sin and of those followers that flow with them.

These times are the best of times and the worst of times, but Jesus has prepared us for such a time as this!

You have got the goods, you are equipped and continuing to be equipped with more as the days approach.

We are not neglected children abandoned on a park bench.  God is our Father and has a reason for everything.

We must not blame God but seek God for His answers — because He has ALL the answers!

Seek The LORD and find HIM and make HIM your most, greatest aim on your quest to destiny.  We are to take the message to the streets and avenues of our world.

Realize that those following the ways of this world attempt to make it appeasing to the flesh and of course counterfeit in making it parallel with our world.

“I will worship toward thy holy temple and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.”   Psalm 138:2

“Give us help from trouble, for the help of man is useless, Though God will will do valiantly, for it is HE who shall tread down our enemies”   Psalm 60:11-12

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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When you know it’s done — many may say it sounds harsh — but nobody knows it as well as you, and have lived it day by day and year.

You know the manipulation, you know the control, and all the training in season taught you ever so well!!

You have graduated from hard knocks!  You have submitted to ‘kneeology’ and have lived and learned the lessons of life well about those who want you to be their savior and source.

You cannot fix the brokenhearted, the self-pity, pride, rejection, manipulation, and control etc.  Only God can fix this.

When you know it is done, the webs that bound you and shrouded your vision. melt away like the weaves and conspiracy of a black widow spider to suck the life out of her victim.

Look not to man to care for your soul, or put your trust in a man, for it will pierce your hand.  Man will always let you down, that is why your focus is to be on Jesus first — then he uses others to move on your behalf!

God is the only one Who can bind up the broken hearted.

We are not God, and we cannot do what only He can do, or we become an idol to them.  Let no spiritual lazy person latch on you and hold you captive by using your Christianity against you, to manipulate you!

When you know it is done, you can finally let go and move forward, giving total surrender to God!

Why?  Because you’re not God, and if you allow people to depend on you, they will never become accountable to God to get right with God.

We can stand in the way of God when we allow this to happen!

People can latch on to the Anointing or Gifting in your life without paying the price and flow leisurely on someone else’s flow in God.

Leeches dwell around the beloved of God, and that is how people can steal, or prostitute the Anointing!

Remember Simon the sorcerer in The Book of Acts?  They want the power without the price! (Acts 8:9-13)

I am done.

When you know it is done, the tears have vanished, finished, washed away, and the page turns to a new chapter as we cannot go back to relive a thing, only reflect on the history we have learned.

Doing something over and over again when it doesn’t work leads to insanity!  History is just that, and you can’t change or relive history!

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”
Attributed to Albert Einstein

But you have the free will and choice and can stop and just exist or give up and give in to being miserable.

No matter how hard we pray or try, when it is said and done it is finished!

Like Jesus said when He cried out on that Cross:  “It is finished!”

That moment was locked into history in the pages of text in The Holy Bible.  We cannot relive those days — but we learn from them through our history.

When you know it is done, is when you have finally released the weight of a burden that has been a heavy load on your back and neck keeping you bound to others own disobedience!

Therefore, keeping you from the fullness of seeing your obedience fulfilled.  No man is to take the place of Jesus!  We are to depend on Him and keep our focus on Him and His Will.

When you are done, you are fed up, your prayed up, fasted up, and sought God so long that it became too long!

When God says it is done, He takes His Sword and slices it right down the middle, and it cauterizes the wound immediately.

For the work of The Spirit of The LORD is powerful!  For His Word is quick and powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing and even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the very thoughts and intents of the heart! (Hebrews 4:12)

God knows the motives of the heart and mind, therefore we should learn how to know God’s mind.

How?  By knowing His Word and reading The Bible and being obedient to His Word.

When you know it is done, you have no remorse or recourse to follow in cleaning up.

Sure, we hate that folks go through things, and we hate to hear about suffering and discipline — but God is moving people according to His Plan — not man’s!

It is not wise to stand when God has said to move!  Should we stay — or obey?  That should be your question.

When you know it is done, you no longer take responsibility for something that isn’t yours.  Each person must learn to take responsibility for themselves, and no longer lean on the flesh of man.

We know we are done, we realize we are part of a body that internally is perfect, but outwardly fleshly not.

We must be accountable and obedient to God, and we cannot blame The Church for actions and reactions — when each person must face himself!

The Church is composed of many flawed people who are failures — but are saved by Grace, and they understand when they fall, they get back up again.

When we know we are done, God takes people who fail and uses them to bless others.

Church is not about perfection, but we are a forward — always moving — Church, and we do our best to obey!

We strive not to get stuck or backslidden, but in our heart, we want obedience and excellence in Christ, and to be on the go and ready as The Glory Cloud moves, we want to move with him!!

The Church is a unit of flawed people who come together as they are, to gather and worship The LORD!

Also, within The Church, is a place made to provide rest to them that are weary, and to bind up the brokenhearted and to strengthen the blind, lame and them who are bruised and wounded from this life.

When The Church gathers, it is powerful, because when we are many, we are a force to be reckoned with and are safe!

When we are alone and isolated, the enemy will batter us and keep us bound to demonic chains and regulations of bondage.

It is a nest for new Believers, safety from the storm, and discipleship to follow in our LORD’s steps.

Do we fail?  Yes — but we want to be free from sin to get right and to flow with Christ again.

Within The Church there are challenges on every level — with relationships, and illness, various events in outreach to reach the world.

When we know we are done — when repentance comes — we turn away from the sin that that so easily besets us.  If we fail many times in a day, we can always bend our knee and ask The LORD to forgive us again!

Dear Reader, self-hatred is a war within your world and Jesus is so concerned for you.

Jesus reached out His Hands on that Cross — once and for all — giving us a new and living way!

Each day, and in every moment, when we fail and fall, we can begin again!

It is never too late to begin again in Jesus!

But how can we love anyone else if we cannot love ourselves?

Jesus loves us so much, and it pains him when we hate ourselves.

We are to love The LORD with all our heart, our soul, and with all our mind and to love our neighbor as we love ourselves.

God is the only one who can mend a broken heart.

The Sorcerer’s Profession of Faith
“But there was a certain man called Simon, who previously practiced [a]sorcery in the city and astonished the people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great, to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the great power of God.”  And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorceries for a long time.  But when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.  Then Simon himself also believed; and when he was baptized he continued with Philip, and was amazed, seeing the miracles and signs which were done.”   Acts 8:9-13

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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