Category: Christian Living

“No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies,”   Job 28:18 KJV.

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.  Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away,”   Matthew 13:45-48 KJV.

“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you,”   Matthew 7:6 KJV.

A pearl of wisdom: Just because there is a need doesn’t mean we are to fill the need.  We are better aimed like a bow and arrow to hit the target, when we are rested and anointed.

We still live in a human body and we also must live in constraints due to that. May the Holy Spiirt bear witness with your spirit that these are the words of God in Jesus name!

I just wanted through cyberspace to bless you and pray that you have a blessed day and that you will be able to pray without ceasing in the Spirit as you are led.  May you have peace in the midst of the ungodly, having the mind of Christ and be blessed with peaceful rest in your heart, soul and body.

Every minister cannot possibly do everything people need, but God told me to obey what he leads me to do.  The enemy will use bad circumstances, needy people who satan is using to wear you out.

You can only give out what you have.  Don’t burn out from these people. AND these people who do this, are not applying what you say anyway. They want YOU and your time.  If they don’t listen, don’t waste Gods time anymore, commit them to God and move on.

They must be pointed to the cross and Jesus Christ.  You belong to Christ and you can only do as he says.  To gain entrance for the wrong reasons steals your time and God’s plan for you.

These types of people don’t realize that they come in the form of manipulation, control, and Jezebel.  They want YOU! Beloved, point them to Jesus and the Word of God!

You work with those whom God has given the strength to obey.  However you cannot possibly answer all requests.  God knows what is best for them and for you.

It is part of growing in the ministry and especially the prophetic.  I hope you are still with me.  You have a lot on your plate people will all tug at you, but YOU ask God who you can help.  Make sure you are not doing it out of obligation.

We can never reach everyone but we will reach those we have the God given energy to do so.

So it is just like the oxygen warning on a airplane and mask.  You need to put your mask on first since you are older and wiser.

If we don’t take care of us first, the enemy will make sure to send you all sorts of distractions.  To wear you out.  You prepare for you first and then listen to the LORD for others.

Our first ministry is to GOD, then to caring for our temple, take care of your body and guard your body, spirit and soul, for out of it comes the issues of life.  I have been praying and will continue.

I am seriously wanting you to be all that He wants you to be.

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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As Christians, it can be challenging being among God’s people.  We all must learn to grow up and take the first responsibility, to care for ourselves!

None of us have met that challenge for ourselves and never will in this life.  So why do we expect perfection in this life from others when we can’t do it ourselves?  That is called Hypocrisy.

Then when God promotes us to secular jobs, ministry, in the job force, or even being a dad or mom, being a child and in school etc., God wants us to be nurtured, taught and cared for.  God wants us to all be prepared.  None of us get there on their own.

Those in ministry have people to nurture and care for.  This is so true!  Especially like the care for the flock of God.  Even when we do our best, we still fail, and fall short!

Yes, we must learn by life and choices; Why?  Because life, choices and time are our best teachers.  You must learn that choice is a gift.  God will NOT take choice away.

Did you know that Jesus grieved over Jerusalem?  He hurts when people reject him especially those who openly reject him.  He was sent to His own and his own knew him not.

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest then that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!  Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord,”   Luke 13:34-35 KJV.

Why would the God we love and respect, have others there in his kingdom who have no love to serve him or want him?  How would it be, to be eternally together with those who reject and despise him?  Yeah he could make more angels, but he didn’t want more angels.

He wanted a new breed!  He wanted someone with choice, choose to love him!  Isn’t that a marvel?  He weeps for the lost, but weeps more for those who chose to walk away from Him.

I know so many that are not ready and staying too close to the edge of the field of the shepherd.  We must learn to remain as he is, stay close in prayer, fellowship and intimacy.

Oh how he loves his Bride!  She has made herself ready.  The Lord knows who is for him and who is against him.  He has given everyone that choice.  He will never alter our choices in life.

Oh how he want’s to commune with You!  His desire for you is to know His love, receive it, know it and walk on in it!  Wow think of this, the God of ALL the universe wants to commune with you!

He wants to walk in the garden in the cool of the day, as we get down on our knees to pray.  He longs for someone who would choose to talk and commune with.

He is so touching you even now, because he is the only one who truly loves you.  God cannot go against his word, he is faithful who promised, but it grieves him to see how many hate him and his people.

This is the time to search your heart to find out who you stand with and remain.  We don’t have the time like our ancestors did.  Jesus is coming back in power and great glory!

He doesn’t want puppets on strings that serve him.  He wants free moral agents that recognize their condition so they can receive God’s love and through his loving kindness he leads us to repentance.

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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• Do not engage with the enemy on his level.  

His strategy is to keep us bound on a level we were never meant to stay on.  Walk on and give it no more place.  Instead go on ahead.  Be not stationed with it, but growing out of it.

• Learn from mistakes, forgive, let it go and move on.

You are not able to change others, you forgive and move on; forgive yourself and refocus on the Lord and His Word.

We can’t change our mistakes but we can learn from them.  God uses all of our lives and even our mistakes as well.  Those of our own house will be our worse enemies.

God gives His solution by releasing pearls of great wisdom.

• Beloved, we are not alone!  NEVER!

Even though we feel alone and it feels like our life has past us by.

The enemy says, “the best times are over and have become a fading memory”.

You feel like the old grey mule she ain’t what she use to be and you feel like you have been turned out to pasture.

• Know this, that your life is not over.

There has not been one wasted moment.   Although there has been one lie after another, we need to remember we don’t see behind the scenes.

God will encourage us, even though we are seemingly passed by.

• Our worth is so precious to God and He validates us and He will defend us.

He is our advocate, and judge all at the same time.  Entrust your tears to Him.

He places each one in a bottle and he knows the feelings of our infirmities physically, and emotionally.

• Yes, Jesus is familiar with physical pain and knows our heart pain.

He suffered when he knew what it felt like to be totally rejected.  He understand hurt and betrayal.

He knows what is it like when man totally alienates us, and we alienate ourselves and hide away.

Jesus knows and he is familiar with our path and pain, and he is with us the whole way.

Though you feel far from Him, he is as closer than our very breath.  Closer than we we first believed.

• The enemy drives us to hide, withdraw and to condemn ourselves.

The devil is very adept to isolate us.  When we are wounded, he brings all sorts of things to provide crutches in all forms.

He uses real things like addictions, alcohol, the wrong people etc.  Because of pain in our gaping woundedness we feel so alone even among people.

The enemy seeks to destroy us once we are down.  God knows it all, and like Job, he remained true to God through the loss of all things.

• The devil thrives in planning things for months and even years to get us to self destruct.

Once he gets us to trust the lie, He will work at a rapid pace to destroy us. The thief comes to kill, steal and destroy, but Jesus came that we have life and that more abundantly.

However, God knows how much we can bear and he will provide a way of escape to avoid all of the devil’s traps.  When we are weak, he is strong!

We must learn ourselves to walk on.  Even if you see others passing by.

Many people have no clue what you are going through, and they will bring religious spirits with condemnation.  Be still, quiet and know you have nothing to say, and keep it from those who would cast your pearls before swine.

When you come through all of this, you will be so much stronger and able to understand compassion, and grace in a greater depth.

Your peace shall abide through all of the turmoil.  Bless these and do not curse.  Let God vindicate you and make room for your gifts.

I see new people coming into your lives.  I see transitioning and going among other people that will be strength to you and divine counsel!

Stay close to the Lord and those who are his beloved.  We must learn ourselves to walk on.  Even if you see others who knew you and betrayed you by judging you, bless and do not curse.

Give no place to the enemy.  The Lord shall rise with healing in His wings.

“For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.  But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.  And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts,”   Malachi 4:1-3 KJV.

“And he said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich,”  Ruth 3:10 KJV.

“So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses,”   Job 42:12 KJV.

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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