I stood before a man of God who was silent. Suddenly he jolted and pointed to me and said, “Die!”
That word hit me like a Prophetic Arrow and I knew immediately what it meant, as The LORD had been dealing with me awhile.
God has taught me the most powerful lesson in my life is to live unto Christ and to die is gain. (Philippians 1:21)
Not only death when we go to heaven, but to really die to the deeds of the flesh so that we can learn to continually walk in The Spirit and that the fruit of The Spirit and the gifts of The Spirit can manifest through our earthly lives!
We who die to the flesh, rise in newness of life and it takes effort to keep our old life, old man and nature in the grave and stop looking back to what keeps us bound to the past.
If we don’t learn to die to the flesh, it will stop our growth keeping us earthly instead of spiritually minded and spiritually led.
We must learn that forgetting what is behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before causes us to press towards the mark of the high calling in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3)
The many events of negative past life events and disappointments will keep us bound from going forward into new beginnings unless we strive to learn to forgive, forget, and move forward.
We who live unto The LORD are to be living epistles seen and read of all men.
So, living the life of Christ should witness his teachings and others will notice!
In this illustration, living in a fish bowl life is actually a liberating place to be, because we have nothing to hide.
Let them look, read us, let them judge us and talk about us, write about us and hate us!
Why should we care if we have nothing to hide?
We are to master these things and deaden them in our flesh for being free indeed means the past has no hold on us anymore!
Sometimes God moves us on when we have gone full circle, especially with others he has cut out of our lives.
There are some of us who are still struggling and mourning over failed relationships when God has said move on.
Samuel understood the heartache of a failed relationship and struggled and mourned over Saul.
Samuel was human and The LORD had to rebuke him to stop mourning and crying over Saul and move on.
“And The LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.” 1 Samuel 16:1 KJV.
Learning to take command of the flesh is the most powerful lesson that we MUST learn.
Why? So that we will be able to advance and keep in sync with The LORD of Glory.
When we learn to live in sync we will be prepared and covered by God’s Cloud of Glory during the coming chaotic storms and upsets!
If you miss this qualification you will not be able to keep up when God’s glory moves on and we got to keep in step with Him walking in the Spirit!
Remember we die to the flesh so that God’s Spirit in us will rise and be readied for anything that comes.
Remember Moses and the Exodus?
Moses knew God’s will and timing and the people were told exactly what to do and what would happen.
They had the Cloud by day and the Fire by night.
Leaders are held more responsible and held at a greater standard of authority and accountability to the body of Christ.
We have prayed for the fervency of the book of Acts to come again. But are we really serious?
In the coming days you will not be able to mistake a true Five-fold Minister at work. (Ephesians 4)
Out of the mouth of two or three witnesses let it all be established. (Deuteronomy 19:15, 2 Corinthians 13:1)
The seriousness of how the believers lived their daily lives in The Book of Acts were consumed by The Holy Spirit and The Church grew! It will cost us everything!
There are so many people who are not ready and I would get in big trouble if I didn’t say this.
We must put all our hope and trust in The LORD and get prepared and stay prepared as wise virgins.
“For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?” Luke 23:31.
The LORD showed me that I must decrease and he will increase. (John 3:30-35)
To really live life abundantly is to die!
We cannot afford to miss God and we must come into league, alignment, and alliances with those of like heart, mind, and spirit.
We must guard ourselves from unholy alliances.
We have to KNOW those who labor among us. That takes time and experience!
How can we trust and do for God when there’s rebellion and stubbornness among the leadership?
God is doing a powerful work in The Body [of Christ] and He is shaking everything that can be shaken, so that those things that cannot be shaken will remain.
The enemy is furious and has infiltrated The Church — especially in The USA — and it all is being thwarted and even missiles are being thrown down like it was in Elijah’s day and all Elijah types are sent are confronting Baal’s idols and great harvest shall be in the midst of calamity. Not only in The USA — but also the Nations of the world!
Satan cannot stop The Harvest. But we can — through disobedience!
We must put to death the deeds of the flesh, so that will keep us usable and stable.
Once we come through the many deaths of the flesh we will encounter, we will find ourselves in a brand new season, and we will know the many lessons learned in death experiences.
So in learning to die, you really begin to live!
Once we die to self and remain dead that is when true power comes and it will remain as long as we continue to seek God, repent, live a fasted lifestyle, pray, obey God’s Word.
The Word becomes flesh in us when we die daily, dead to the flesh alive unto God.
it’s not I who live, but Christ in us the hope of Glory!
Your life is like a fish bowl for all to see.
Growing and becoming transparent takes time but once you attain that place of ‘dead men walking’ there is a freedom and liberation that comes and you have no problem being obedient to God, because you have a greater awareness of God’s presence and His Purpose.
None of us know it all. We all see through a glass darkly and when a ministry functions as a Five-fold Ministry (Ephesians 4).
we cannot avoid it and we must have personal responsibility, accountability, under authority for ALL of us!
That means correction when needed from The LORD as God will confirm His Word out of the mouth of two or three witnesses.
Things are escalating exponentially and God is doing a quick and thorough work.
When prophets and other five-fold ministers (Ephesians 4:11-12) are in league and united within the structure that The LORD laid out, it will be as a fishbowl existence.
It is not the time to hide anymore living in the flesh with no victory over your daily life.
When we walk into the midst of end-time planned revelatory Words from The Living God, you will feel naked.
God is reaching out through us!
Now, that is safe and there is power with great humility.
God is currently taking what was a circle and making it an even smaller circle of those who are connected and accountable to it.
Being in a fishbowl is liberating!
May we all strive for the mark of the high calling in Christ!
In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey
