Category: Christian Living

Cracked, Broken and Beyond Repair?

I will continue to declare your year of release and reversals!  We declare that the favor of God is upon us, now is the set time.  The set time has come.

This was written in 2011 and I was prompted by God to edit and continue to speak to us about getting to the root and heart of the matter.  May God illuminate as his presence abides in us.  Open the eyes of our heart God!

 

Cracked, Broken and Beyond Repair…
There is Hope For Your Future!

I received three visions all pertaining to releases, advances, and not looking back.

I will continue to declare your year of release and reversals!  We declare that the favor of God is upon us, now is the set time.  The set time has come.

I have gone through so much I wonder why and how I am still alive.  I lost everything, and you know how people love to talk, when they hear things like you are sick, have no money or disabled etc.

People, especially those with the Christian label, love to judge us.  These judge us for the very suffering that prepares us to carry the light into the world.

The only thing I know is, I am a broken cracked vessel and that is all.  Being somewhat in a remote region and having very few who are here or near has been hard.  I am just waiting for God to be established soon.

When we wonder about suffering we need to remember the prophets of old.  The Bible is our example of suffering.

Seriously, who has prayed for us all this time we experienced?

What is the LORD’s will in our lives?

When ALL seemingly have forsaken us and through blinding tears in mustard seed faith we speak, God says, HE will lift us up!

You know even when a brother sins, we should be mindful of God’s grace.  In understanding the story of Noah when his two sons covered up his nakedness, only two of them were respectful and covered him.  One son disrespected their passed-out drunk father.  That speaks volumes to me.  (Read Genesis 9.)

Where is the respect toward the people of God?

We all are part of the body and each need to be in our part.  Why isn’t there respect even when leaders fail and life eats away at all of us?

We have learned to hide and keep everything to ourselves.  We have learned to put on our religious masks and live in hypocrisy and pride.

Life has a way of stripping us to reveal the real deal.  Religion is not Christianity.  Religion is a return to bondage.  We find the real life of a believer in God’s Word.  There are many examples of life and failure in there.

I seemingly have wandered aimlessly many years, and as serious as I can be, I would rather have died than to have gone on being aimless.  God knows our hearts, and we don’t even know that about our own self!

The LORD’s releases and reversals are not dependent on our spiritual activity, or lack of, but on HIM who mapped the way for our feet to go.  He has gone on before us.

What I have found evident in my own life, has been suffering.  Why is this part of service to the LORD hidden and so despised and embarrassed?

We ALL go through this process.  He takes broken vessels and uses them!

We all go through hard things and the process of being broken is used for our good.  These things are known by God and when we are placed in the wine press, the precious juice is taken from the vine and then processed through time into a vintage only the master knows when to unveil.

I am alarmed with the rising of cults, new agers, those who have a flowery image of the walk of faith.  They say God is love, so eat and drink be merry.

They do not believe in hell, and they state that we are trouble makers and of the old order, and they are new order.  They believe in NO negatives.  This doctrine is in many churches, even spirit filled churches.

Sin is still sin and God’s Word is still HIS Word!  God has not changed!

There is such mixture in beliefs that are contrary to the Holy Bible.  We need to know for ourselves!  We cannot depend, or trust anyone!

That means ministers, friends, feelings or signs, wonders and all sorts of feelings including those that seem so real.  God’s word is the final authority.

False prophets manipulate and control feelings!  You must beware of feelings like anointings that seem real.  Feelings are deceitful!

If we don’t base our salvation in Jesus Christ only we are in deep trouble.  To have God in our lives is to have a personal relationship with him.

We must KNOW GOD’s WORD for ourselves!  We must discern and understand ourselves!  I don’t care how it feels or sounds.

This is life and death beloved!  I cannot compromise!  We must cleave to God’s Word like it is our life preserver because it is!

We must learn and read the BIBLE ourselves.  Why am I so adamant?

Why am I so animated and serious?

Why?  When we die we will each stand before God to see if we accepted Jesus as our savior or rejected him.

Do not trust or depend on another person’s experience of salvation regardless if they are a minister or famous!  We must cast all of our cares on the LORD and ask Him to lead us into truth.

Ephesians 4 Five-fold ministers!  Listen!  How are leaders to prepare the flock of this condition and generation?

How do we protect the spiritual babies and the adolescents we are responsible and accountable for?

We must prepare these with the utmost degree of care and love for we will answer for their souls.  These young ones are under subjection until they are of full age to understand.  As leaders we will give account to God for these things.

Personally what I find shocking, is how deceptive and smooth are the false ministers.  Also the degree of pseudo anointing on them! In our day the scriptures are being fulfilled and applicable now!

New age is so deceptive!  It feels and loves like God and those who trust in what they feel will miss truth.  Faith in God is ONLY through receiving Jesus Christ our LORD period.

“In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them,”   2 Corinthians 4:4.

“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,”   2 Corinthians 4:17.

“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath with darkness?
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.  Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works,”   2 Corinthians 11:12-15.

It will cost something for those who believe in Christ.  There is a day coming to America where we will have to take a stand, and it will cost us our lives.

When I read my Bible, it speaks of everyone who desires to walk with God will suffer persecution and will go through fire after fire.

I don’t know how I survived so much, but this I do know, I don’t claim to be some sort of high ranking prophet, minister or anything.

Why do I shy away?  Because the more I see, the less I want to do or say.  I have acquired through suffering and trial the ability of being very quiet. We must study to be quiet and allow the LORD to temper us.

It takes effort and God will sure give us many opportunities to tame our tongue and the heart issues.  I can see the price. It’s one thing to see it at a distance and quite another to know it intimately.

I would rather be empty of everything, cracked and broken, than to be standing in some lofty title and position of man.  I don’t want to say a thing unless it is God.  Because God gets ALL the glory!

We must learn to stay in the flow, even though we feel alone and seem to be a weirdo swimming up stream.  We like salmon must press and press forward to spawn new life in the land of our ancestors.

Such suffering in life is our press, purpose, plan and timing. Once we arrive, we spawn and it is finished.

We must decide we will continue going upward against the currents.  There are those currents that are demonic, we get them from people and obstacles in our flow.

We must see to be able to say a correct word in season to ourselves and others, in Jesus’ Name!

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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The Snare of the Fowler

I saw an eagle soaring way up high and as I watched, I noticed the eagle circling and finally diving down, headed to capture prey.

 

Vision:

I saw an eagle soaring way up high and as I watched, I noticed the eagle circling and finally diving down, headed to capture prey.

What the eagle didn’t know, was a plan was set in motion to capture that eagle.  There was set a snare of the fowler.

“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.  Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.  He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler,”   Psalm 91:1-4 KJV.

The most dangerous place for eagles is if they are earth bound.  Eagles are meant to remain in the high places soaring and nesting in high mountain crags and only earth bound for prey briefly.  There is a danger for eagles though.

One of the main tactics to capture an eagle is to set a trap with a net covered by brush with appealing bait in the middle.  The net is hidden from view around the trap site.

We beloved are to be like the eagle!  We must come to understand the tactic of the enemy.  The enemies goal is to keep us earth bound because that is the most vulnerable state to be in.

Why?  We are to be like the eagle!  We are to mount up on wings as eagles, to soar on the wind currents of HIS Word and to see with vision the panoramic view the LORD gives us when we soar.

“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint,”   Isaiah 40:31 KJV.

The enemy sets traps or snares of the fowler. His tactic is to catch men in his net.  The enemy plans way in advance as he covers the trap and net putting luring bait out for its banqueting.

However, what is happening behind the scenes is this, the enemy is really there for the believers enticement and destruction.

The secret of the fowler is that he adapts snares because he knows the eagle is well adaptable to knowing his bait; this is due to quickly adapting his snare to the condition of the eagle.

Believers!  The enemy knows our weak points.  Be well conditioned by God!

The enemy uses all sorts of decoys, deceit and craftiness to capture the bird.  Then once the eagle is caught, the enemy puts it in a cage for decoration to celebrate for all to gaze and revel like the Philistines did when they reveled at Samson’s capture,  (Judges 16:25 KJV).

The LORD wants us to know our enemies and their tactics.  Realize the enemy goes for the weak areas to entice and if we respond we might end up in a type of cage for all to see our mistakes and failures.

Vision:

I saw an eagle way up high, and then it came down to where it would circle, and I noticed this was no ordinary eagle.

The eagle looked like it was on fire!  The traps were set below by the enemy and they waited, yet this eagle looked extremely confident and had no doubts or fears.

The eagle swooped down at alarming speed and captured the prey and the net wrapped up, and it appeared they had caught the eagle, but this eagle was no ordinary eagle!

This eagle was on fire and it burnt up all the net that touched it and soon, with prey in claw, the eagle began to mount up again out of range of the enemy.

Beloved, this is but a healthy reminder to know your enemy and get prepared by spending quality time with the LORD through prayer, worship and HIS Word.

We are to be continually seeking to be filled with the Holy Spirit.  By doing these things, it will prepare us for whatever comes.

We are not blind, but the enemy would like to damage your vision and destroy the things you do for God.

The enemy hates us and he is not playing games.  This is not the time to lay down your armour and weapons or to be lax in prayer and study of God’s Word.

If you find you are in such a place, put on some worship and begin to seek the LORD and watch how HE equips you to destroy the works of the devil!

“Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.  Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.  Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth,”   Psalm 124:6-8 KJV

“The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah,”   Psalm 140:5 KJV.

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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Leaving Behind a Kingly Legacy

Dearly beloved in all our learning, we must learn to protect the gift of the King within. Being stewards of gifts, requires faithfulness.

Dearly beloved in all our learning, we must learn to protect the gift of the King within.

Being stewards of gifts, requires faithfulness.  We cannot allow anyone or anything to keep us from defending and protecting those Kingly treasures!  Guarding and stewarding the gift is our responsibility and our trust.

Only God can tell us who we are and what we have.  There will be those who try to latch and attach to the person to get to the treasures they perceive they have.

Guard your heart for out of it come the issues of life.  Don’t give out or reveal your precious treasures to just anyone.  Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

“But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.  We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body of the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body,”   2 Corinthians 4:7-10 KJV.

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also,”   Matthew 6:21 KJV.

“A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh,”   Luke 6:45 KJV.

The Word says, that a double minded man is unstable in ALL his ways, (James 1:8). These type of people cannot be trusted no matter what gift they say they have.  We are supposed to judge and weigh things by the fruit of the Spirit and righteous scales of integrity.

As you watch these people over time, you will begin to see things that bring instability that is uncovered.  Are they honest and real?  If their consistency of walk produces rotten fruit you need to walk away.

People will try and perceive to gain access in your life because of the gifts.  These see true anointing and gifting; these secretly covet and fully expect to gain access and attain it! I call this prostituting the gifts and one way a Jezebel spirit works in spinning her web.

Satan seeks to gain authority over you and attempts to destroy as much as possible in your life.  Beloved, this type of thing is so demonic and seeks even a larger audience if not stopped.

Whoever is being used demonically, for their sake need to be confronted and prayed for in hope of deliverance.  However in most cases you must walk away.

It is sad, because Jesus has much for all his children.  Believers shouldn’t be jealous of what we have, we all are unique and diverse.  Each part is so important.

I know this grieves the Holy Spirit.  I have seen those who have unholy motives and they feel this is their quick ticket to greatness.  Instead of going through the process, “we decrease and He increases” these assume a worldly agenda.  From such turn away.  You must guard your heart, mind and treasure.

We want to leave behind us a Spiritual Legacy with God and his people.  It all boils down to relationship.  Developing a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

There are no short cuts; this is the path.  We seek Him until we find Him!  Then we grow to fall deeper and deeper in love with Jesus.  This is how we all find HIM; we develop our personal relationship with Him.

God will make room for His gifts in you.  Just realize tests come and there are important reasons why the LORD allows them!

As you watch and pray realize this is a test of silence for you!  He wants you to be confident in silence.  Seeking titles and speaking titles, always speak of immaturity.

Let God be God and let Him make room for your gifts.  Only He can prepare you for what’s ahead.

You don’t seek out ministers to become a minister!  You never promote yourself!  God does the promoting to service in His Kingdom.  Promotion comes from the LORD and when the time comes, everyone will know it!

Amen?

“Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.  For promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west, nor from the south.  But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.  For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.  But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob,”   Psalms 75:5-9 KJV.

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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Secrets Unfold ~ Destiny Untold

People want all the benefits of what they perceive are your gifts and calling.  However, they know not what happens behind the scenes.

 

. . . . . Sure, people want all the benefits of what they perceive are your gifts and calling.  However, they know not what happens behind the scenes.

Many don’t want to pay the price and take the test and training of time.  If we are sold out to Jesus, HE will create the training, and that can take a lifetime.

When the LORD Jesus calls us to attention, we must move.  Were in God’s army now.  My life is not my own and my life is hidden in Christ.

There are people who want YOU!  They also want what you have.  They measure themselves against you as they compare themselves.  Their goal is to be like you!

Once deceived to their tactics, Jezebel becomes very evident seeking access to the prophet and render them of no use anymore.  They suck the life out of you.  Cut off all access to sucker shoots and cut away the leeches.

Understand this… in a lot of cases, the person whom the spirit uses, doesn’t realize it.

However, the motive behind that Jezebel spirit, seeks the destruction of soul.  Once they find out they cannot control and manipulate them, they begin publicly assaulting the credibility of the man or woman of God with a smear campaign.

Take notice, that spirit will manifest once it is kicked out.  It will spread venom to others in order to cause division and contamination throughout the body.

“For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves; but they measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise,”   2 Corinthians 10:12 KJV.

At no time, does God expect you to look to man.

ATTENTION: Those who covet and desire your gift within, have a hidden desire to have all you have!  Once they get what they want, they leave you in a heap, rolled up like a ball.  You shall see this, and you must not be moved by anything but God.

Typically, this is a type of Jezebel spirit that seeks control and manipulation, with sappy sweet words seem so nice.  However, you can hardly get a word in when you communicate and they seek to dominate the entire long conversations.

Watch!  Open your eyes!  Don’t allow a spirit to control or manipulate you into comparing yourself with the other person for the sake of domination.

You cannot avoid the times and seasons that we go through.  You cannot understand it, but know that God is leading you to where you need to be.

You cannot put your trust in man…..EVER!  No matter how good they are or how perfect they seem, to idolize them brings no benefit.  Those who seek their own glory will get into trouble.

We all have been called by God, and we must seek him for what attachments try to come. You must decide to keep your focus and ALWAYS point them to Jesus.

At a moments notice, we receive orders from God to move on to our next assignment.  It may seem abrupt and rash but those who are warriors must keep their sword sharp and move on.

You may be going through something like this.  Yes, it is a hard thing physically and emotionally but when the LORD cuts using one stroke, we heal quickly and powerfully.

The LORD leaves no jagged edge as the LORD does surgery on us.  However when we linger and hold on to attachments, it invariably rips and tears leaving a wound that needs tending to by others who understand the process.

We must never be moved by the needs of people.  Only by the Spirit of God.

We need to watch symptoms of these things.  Needy people can destroy us.  Jezebel is about putting guilt on us but we must remain firm on task with people and maintain Godly boundaries.

We must allow the LORD to choose and allow those within our circle of confidants.  Otherwise the enemy sends attachments like spiritual leeches to drain us.  We are nobody’s doormat.  We should work at keeping our spiritual house clean.

Never try to prove yourselves to man.  Let God make room for your gifts and keep it between God and you.  He will make room!  Just focus on the LORD.

The LORD will draw the hearts that he has prepared to hear, but not anyone can carry our purpose.  We are all unique.  The old is passing away and a new beginning for all who reads this.  We are the sons of God but we ever live to serve one another in this world.

“For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.  For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.  But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.  We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body of the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.  For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.  So then death worketh in us, but life in you. We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. For all things are for your sake’s, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.  For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.  For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.  While we look not at the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal,”   2 Corinthians 4:5-18 KJV.

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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