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In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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“For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.  Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant…
I can tell you assuredly that EVERYTHING I have suffered both willingly by choice and through other means has been used as a testimony for others.  The fruits of the Spirit are growing within as the pruning takes place and more grafts come into the vine bringing fullness to others,”   Job 14:7-9.

Some of you are wondering and wandering, “Why am I here or there?”  You feel cut off, you feel pruned, you wonder.  That pruning process isn’t just to cut away dead wood, it is also to cut away live shoots and can be grafted into another tree to aide it in producing more fruit.

I have seen many splits but not all of them were bad.  If you read the book of Acts you will find that Paul and Barnabus had a SHARP disagreement and they parted company.  Yet they still advanced the gospel and it continued to grow.

So in the midst of death of VISION, GOD brings a New Beginning and the gospel will go on. We got to move on and learn from it all.

When God puts you somewhere, you will feel that you fit there.  When God is working on moving people out of a church or ministry, often people do not understand the fullness of it, yet they know God is telling them to go.

We all go through various stages of growth and once we acquire what the Lord has us learn often he will lead us out unless HE keeps us there to help make disciples and help that local body of believers. It’s all about souls.

A reminder; In the place God puts you, there will be agreement as it is so important to have a protected sheep fold where people can come in and learn from the Great Shepherd of our souls.

Other types of splits can result from unrepented sin, especially in the financial realm, integrity, honesty, loyalty etc.  I don’t believe in a board, I believe in a circle of advisors.  “For in the multitude of advisors there is safety”.

It scares me sometimes the way some in the body only want YES men.  I would rather have 7 people around me that know my good points and bad, know all my faults yet they love me and pray for me.  That is safety, that is comfort because God has tested them, and proven to me their faithfulness to God and to me.  I am now seeing God set things up for me.  I am seeing signs and God is revealing people to me who will be a part of ministry.

Whatever we come under, we become. It is a dangerous thing also to hide behind facades.  I know also that I am human and I cannot do ministry alone.  It is dangerous to seek after only yes men and only listen to what we want to hear . Yes ultimately, I have to make decisions based on prayer and the bottom line is, we all need accountability with our responsibility.  I KNOW I can’t do it all and I know how to delegate and I want God to prune me and keep me in a place of light.

So here I am again, asking for your prayers and I hope as you read this something in you is stirred because I am stirring up the prophetic pot and the dregs got to come to the top.  Yes I am prophetically releasing words into your soul and spirit to be stirred up, “Not by might nor by power but by MY SPIRIT says the LORD”.  Woe be unto me if I am not transparent because if I died with him, I was dead, buried and resurrected to live in newness of life. If I died with him I will reign with HIM.

What is defamation of character or reputation, or accusations?  Dead men don’t talk.  So I am sorry if my humility offends you, it is meant to.  God break us until we are what you called and ordained each of us to be…..  I don’t seek great things for myself. I don’t seek to be known except to be well known by the Lord.  I could care less if I ever preach, teach or prophecy.  I just don’t care anymore.  I want Jesus.  “IF your life is hid in God, seek those things which are above”.

In this current season and beyond, as you develop your ability to become more transparent in the Lord be prepared to be visited by angels that will bring divine strategies’.  Prepare to be visited by prophets and apostles who will come in ways that God will test your devotion to Christ.

These who are being sent who have been brutally broken through trial to the point of despair will portray the meekness, grace and mercy of the Lord.  Many of these sent ones have lost everything and gave it all for the Lord.  These who are being sent with a mandate to establish, confirm and settle matters will come with such anointing, many of the religious will miss out because of the mindset of lumping together the false and true.

God will be testing many leaders in these days.

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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None of us has all of the gifts or all the knowledge, else we wouldn’t need the Holy Ghost, Jesus or each other.

We are but pieces, like remnants of cloth; all different colors and sizes, yet the Father knew He would sew us together in unity, knowing that as we are joined as one (laying down our differences) that we become much more.

As I prayed, I saw a huge bag of rags and pieces of cloth and the Masters’ hands took the remnant pieces of cloth and sewed them together and it formed into a beautiful multicolored quilt.

I could see the seams where once were differences fall away to become one and thus the remnant became a quilt covering the world to bring the warmth of Christ to a lost and dying world.

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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Thinkest thou knowest a fair maiden in the flower of her youth, and hath ye not understood natures glorious truth?

Even the fruit of the vine must process through times and times again, pressing and squeezing out a substance and poured into vats and into more vats where the lee’s are skimmed time after time.

Yet while in sunshine and the process of containing the delight, shall this be the finished product, Master wanted at last?  Nay I say!

Yet many did not know the Masters ultimate goal and could only see physical satisfaction of new wine yet Master had great patience too.  For when one is young, the newness of grape doth penetrate those whom seek not any higher state.

Most never know where the glorious truth is contained and the processing deep within a chamber low where no light can ever go.  A place so dark and kept secret for many years of bubbling and fermenting.  Yet for what the Master chose in his divine plan is in his hand and timing.

It is in this place of cold dark cellar life that one finds who they are without any need for others or stars. The Master takes each bottle checking it throughout the years, wondering and hoping is this the time when His prize will be kept in place or taken as dear.

For the Master knows how long the process waits yet when he visits and those bottles that are dusty and dirty too from seemingly years of neglect, The Master knowing instinctively as a clock chimes what he awaits.

The Master anxiously processed such delicate vessels kept in bottles for such an time as this. His lamp is in his hand and he walks to where his precious kept ones are for many a year had they been kept in such obscurity.  He shines the lamp near the eldest of quality and takes a white linen cloth and wraps the dusty, dirty bottle examining the label written by His hand long ago.  As the Master cleanses the dust and dirt off the bottle and top, He sees the vintage year and cannot help but uncork.

As the Master allows the bottle to breathe, he takes a glass and pours ever so carefully in.  As he swirls the glass, looking at the color and the scent, alas he smells and then taste ever so slightly, moving it about his tongue not wanting to miss a taste of graciousness.  The Master of the vineyard realized that truly waiting for maturity doth indeed bring delectable taste and to breathe the fragrance emerged him in a memory of time gone by.

The Master indeed was glad to know in his process and patience that the juice from years ago took on a heavenly process and changed into a divine creation that HE had in mind.

The Master so satisfied with his work, washed the dirt and dust off his prize and covered the bottle as he watched with his piercing eyes.  The Master took spotless linen and wrapped it ever so tightly taking it l from the darkness of obscurity into the time of His favor.  For indeed, the Master wanted to show case his prize, and He saved HIS best wine for last.

Selah and Selah.

“His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
And there were set there six waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.
Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.
And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it.
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now,”    John 2:5-10.

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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