Category: Christian Living

The Time to Favor Her Has Come

None of us are without formidable foes in life, but God has given us promises that He, GOD, will never know never, let us go!

“You will arise and have mercy on Zion; For the time to favor her, Yes, the set time, has come.”   Psalm 102:13.

None of us are without formidable foes in life, but God has given us promises that He, GOD, will never know never, let us go!

Even through unbearable odds you found that Faith constrains you.

God had given you as a beacon and hope.

“Stop defending yourself and let Me deal with those who curse you, for it is I Whom they are cursing!”

I see a lighthouse on the coast and I see “men” have put tarps over the light on the top, attempting to quench the light.

Then I saw mighty winds blowing against the coastal trees, and all of those who were used to keep us from shining bright have been blown away — and their coverings too!

“The works of man shall not stand nor the quenching of My Light, for My Light is a shining beacon of hope!  Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

Beloved, stop trying to validate yourself and proving your innocence!

Give room and stay out of the situation; through word, deed, plan, scheme, manipulation, control, having doubt and unbelief!

Trust and allow Me to Approve!

I Have Validated you.  I HAVE APPROVED and NOW your Vindication has come.

Allow Me to make things clearly known.  For I will vindicate you even in every realm of Spirit, Soul, and Body — you and all those who see your rising including siblings and family members and all those who despise you will be shocked by what they see!  They will know that I Love you!

Those jealous with hateful words they released against you are recorded in My Presence, yet they have no fear?

Their curses and stanch words are numbered and destructive thoughts to Him Who sits on The Throne!

Yes, they have been weighed in the balance and found wanting!

Yes, I hear it, I hear it all!!

Little do they realize that what they speak comes right back to them!

Happiness and pleasure are temporal and only found in Me!” says The LORD.

“The time to favor her has come, the set time has come!

I AM releasing those I have prepared for this hour!

I AM WARNING YOU!

It’s not wise to speak against or act against My Will on the earth — and especially judge those who carry My Anointing!

For if you are set against Me, your words and acts are written and repeated before Me!

It is wisdom to repent and be chastened for unless you truly repent and turn away from your sin, you will swiftly eat your own words — especially now in this season and will continue.

NO LONGER, CAST YOUR PEARLS BEFORE SWINE!

I have heard every word, “Oh, how they wished you would just go away and die!””

This type of behavior carries a heavy weight of accountability and responsibility.

We reap what we sow.  By our words we are justified and by our words we are condemned.

You have been warned!

“TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting”   Daniel 5:27.

“For I have looked their way with a mere glance, and had they not been your siblings and family that you actively prayed for, I would have destroyed them at once.

Their ignorance, and foolishness has kept them in tow due to their jealousy of what they don’t understand and cannot know or fathom.

One day they will see and understand; for your prayers have been heard.”

Who is listening to your words?  God hears them all — and by our words we are justified by our words we are condemned.

Beloved, there is no fear in love, for The Fear of The LORD is Wisdom.

Carry these gifts of Wisdom and Favor, for this is your NEW DAY — and the final hour of your NEW BEGINNING!

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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The Fork in the Road

The Fork in the Road —vs— Choose This Day Whom You Serve! I am only a part of The Remnant Church, and I am not perfect but this I do; I do my best to be responsible!

Forked road in snow in forest by Oliver Roos

The Fork in the Road — Versus — Choose This Day Whom You Serve!

I am only a part of The Remnant Church, and I am not perfect but this I do; I do my best to be responsible with my own life and I make it my choice to make decisions that would please The LORD.
We have The Bible to guide us, if we will only seek The Author of The Book — The LORD.

No one can blame The Church for his or her actions.  Each person must face The LORD themselves and that is hard for many to do.

Facing ‘US’ requires introspection.  Like soul-searching, self-reflection, self-examination, self-scrutiny, self-questioning, etc..

The Remnant Church is composed of flawed, screwed-up people who are failures but are saved by Grace.

When The Remnant Church falls down they get back up again.

God takes people who are failures, and uses them to bless others.

The Church is not perfect in the here and now.

The Remnant Church are the people who are saved by Grace and they obey The LORD the best they can.

God will honor you as the prodigal when you return, because you have NO idea what The Father thinks of you!

He watches for you in the distance to see His precious son or daughter returning, and at just one glimpse He starts Running towards you!

God will honor his Word to perform it — and His Love never fails!

E — is for Effort.  You can do it!

Begin again today, your New Beginning begins today.

Begin to move towards what your heart yearns for and what you have hoped for!  It’s happening!

It really is happening Beloved!  Come home to the Father for He has much in store for you, and much to show you and bless you.

The comforter wants to hold you and blanket you in His Peace and give you sweet relief…

Yes, you are marked for the Father and He has marked you as His.

All you have to do now is ask Him to forgive you, and you shall have a new beginning to move again!  The heart of the Father yearns for you beloved, come home, come home.

Those that Love The LORD must agree to follow the Bible.  He desires you to have a one on one relationship with The LORD.

God is the only one that can mend a shattered and broken heart.

It isn’t easy to walk on….  But walk on…

I know how hard it is as it’s tough with many tears.  God gives all of us choice and free will.

God will not take back the freedom of Choice and Free will that we have.  However, each of us that are accountable to The LORD must obey HIS Commandments.

There is a fork in the road for many now it is the way that leads to destruction and on the other is the narrow way where few find it.

We must choose.  Choose this day whom you will serve!

God gave everything for our redemption and when he died IT IS FINISHED!

So now everything God has given us is paid in full — and to the sinner and backslider He is as close as your very breath and just like receiving The LORD, He reaches out to you but you have to receive Him.

Come home to The LORD, He knows you and wants you to reach out to Him. In Jesus’ Name!

Image ©  Oliver Roos – Unsplash

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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The Great Cover-up

We all have this in common as believers in Christ — we must learn to communicate with The LORD through prayer

Serving Christ is not popular, not self-seeking, and not self-serving.

We all have this in common as believers in Christ — we must learn to communicate with The LORD through Prayer.  We must learn to be still — and know HE is God!

A very important part of Prayer is listening in total silence.

Getting to know The LORD is the most important part of your day.  We find our place of humility in our Secret Place.

This place is an activity of making ourselves be still and know HE is God.  When we find that close presence and a richness in our walk with The LORD that makes it all worthwhile.

I relish silence, presence, peace, kindness, and love; these are only some of my rewards for each day.

If we are rebellious or don’t want to repent, change, or do what God says.  It is kind of how The LORD sent a message to David then within each message God sends and if we do not heed, HE will have to discipline us for we are His children.

For David to repent, God had to send a prophet to the Kings palace.  Please study 2 Samuel.

Nathan the prophet was in anguish over what David had done for months.

How many times has God tried to reach us?  How long?

David was human — like we are — and a man after the heart of God.

I know God tried to reach David, but David wanted the sin to remain hidden.  For this could not be resolved by a cover up, hiding, and hoping it would have never happened.

Another tangled web was that He loved Bathsheba, and the King sent her husband Uriah the Hittite, (one of David’s mighty men) to the front of the battle so he would die.

Nathan’s message wasn’t flattering words of a riddle.  God had a plan and a method on how to continue to confront the King’s sins of adultery, murder, deceit, and preconceived evil intent, as David willingly tried to hide it all.

Nathan confronted David for what he did and tried to hide.  He even predicted the child would die.

From that time on the King suffered greatly having anguish for his actions and His own consequences in his own family.  Because of these sins, the baby David and Bathsheba bore would die.

Sometimes God will ask us to go to a brother that we offended, even if we perceive no offense!

A lot of times people think we have offense with them when we do not.  We all deal with faulty people like me! It’s best to say it!

It’s alright you’re going to make it.  You are so loved and God has your plan in His hand.

We need to remember people are insecure and we learn to trust HIM.  Even if they did or didn’t offend.

We are in a family, the family of God.  And in God’s best family no one throws out brother, sister cousins and aunts and uncles out!

God loves all of us and wants peace in the house.  We obey because God sees it all.

May we repent, heal, and repair the links of what we have done Knowingly and unknowingly.

It begins by communications to God first so that HIS lines of communication and connections are repaired.

We are all tested by The LORD to see if we are dead to our flesh and to ask for forgiveness or to give forgiveness.

Sometimes that is very difficult, because if we aren’t dead to our flesh, pride will come in.

You have seen it, a nose up at you who cannot forgive.  Pride has a very high price tag and if not dealt with, we will be chained to our pride and our lives to mediocrity.

Yes, being stuck and held captive in the midst of seemingly comfort and peace?

Many churches are this way and have rejected the Word of The LORD and the conviction of the Holy Spirit.

Many have chosen that road and such damage to themselves and others.

God has given us the weapon of HIS WORD. And he has released us but sometimes we linger where we are comfortable.

God does give us R&R as His soldiers and MAKES us lay down by the streams of water, He restores our soul!

All these things are important in our walk with God.  However, remaining in that place can become bondage.

There are some who have adapted to their shackles, chains, and limitations and because they don’t realize that God wants them set free!

The honest reality?  There are people who really choose to remain there because it is comfortable.  There are Churches that want that comfort too.

There is a gathering together with those of like heart and like mind, and like Spirit.

It is important that we must be under the right spirit.  We all must have our own relationship with God and not depend on a leader in any form.

He or she is just one person and there is no way that one can do everything.

There’s bondage in The Church!  People adapt to bondage, but God’s Word is not bound.

When we remove those shackles and chains and get uncomfortable and begin to walk in a new and living way, we will follow in the steps of The LORD whose love is higher than the highest mountain, and deeper than the deepest sea.

He sees you right where you are!

Some people like the limitations of the chain or shackles and it makes them appear as something of worth when all it does is keep you comfortable in mediocrity and false humility.

We must remember that when we feel so alone that we are not alone. We are connected to a larger network called the Church. How we respond to the people in the world we deal with daily can make or break us. It can ruin our witness or break us.

When we are offended God forgives us but with man it is never the same.

However, in Christ I do believe a child of God can forgive and forget.  But it takes time, a lot of patience, work, and love.

Remember the life of King David and the consequences he endured in his family till his dying day.

We must move on regardless.  Yes, there is sorrow, heaviness, and we grieve over a relationship; but God says don’t look back.

When God reveals a sin in us, or others, whom we offended, we are accountable to work on rebuilding ourselves and others.

We are accountable for what we speak and what we let grow in our heart.  We are those lively stones being built into a spiritual house.

We are accountable for what we speak, and it can damage what God wants us to know.

“To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, an precious yes, also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.”   1 Peter 2:4-6 KJV

By our surrender to God and for His help, God can take everything and turn it around for good.

God is merciful but people on the other hand are not.  Pride comes before a fall and a haughty spirit before destruction.

We remember the battles to keep the victories.  There are always reminders when we forget we are headed down a slippery slope.  Our past experiences should teach us and others we know.

Sometimes we are the one the finger is pointed at.  I know for me it is time to do some soul searching for my own life!

Nathan did not enjoy his job, he works for God and his reward for his obedience is to walk closely with The LORD.

Whoever can rejoice over a brother or sister being disciplined is not wise, we need to turn our head away or we can end up the same way of the whipping stick.

The prophet Nathan had to show the King because the King was not listening.

There was now a very heavy price tag attached to his willful sin.

God will let us take charge over our lives and let us experience the consequences of our sin.

Our willful disobedience to God would cause our discipline.  None of us are without sin and especially willful sin.
 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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The Answer to All Things

During intimate time with The LORD, He made it plain to me and said that He didn’t want me to go to Bible College but that He wanted to teach me personally.

“To be still and know HE is God…”   Psalms 46:10 

This is one of the first things I learned by The Holy Spirit.

I was in church as a child, but I didn’t understand the scriptures until I was amazedly filled with The Holy Spirit, and it changed my life forever.

However, it was a process of getting to know The LORD through His Word and spending a lot of time in prayer and intimacy with The LORD.

During intimate time with The LORD, He made it plain to me and said that He didn’t want me to go to Bible College but that He wanted to teach me personally.

Before I go any further, I tried to go to College, but it was frustrated each time.

Also, I want to clarify that I don’t know it all.  I am teachable, humble, and broken.  Serving and being obedient with Christ over the years has cost my entire life.

However, what I do know has branded me that I cannot doubt.  There are a lot of things that I can compromise for peace and unity, however, I am accountable for what He revealed to me, especially the foundations of our faith etc.

I was so hungry and still hunger for the Word.  None of us have everything or know all things, we are taught through our personal time with HIM and our study and where we fellowship.

I do NOT have all the understanding or knowledge of scripture, but I am teachable as I am led.

Some people think that is a prideful stance and believe me it isn’t. I know what I know, and I am accountable for each word or act that I do.

If people could walk through my mind and the price that it cost me they would run!  If I boasted in thinking I knew everything, I wouldn’t need The Holy Spirit, The LORD, or His People or The Church etc.

During my prayer time today once again in The Spirit I saw a male peacock and the feathers were not fanned out.

Through the years in prayer and the scriptures, God taught me during my prayer times, and he gave me visions and confirmed it with scripture.

For my gifting, he will show me a picture, and he has me describe it by what it means.  The Hebrew language is a language of pictures.

For example, every time I see a peacock, its meaning is “pride” and before I looked outwardly, I have learned quickly to look inwardly to my own heart first.

If we teach, or preach, or prophesy, we must realize we have to live it first or we are a hypocrite.

Pride is a wicked spirit that manifests in man. Pride seeks to manipulate and control any perceived high place especially in the churches and government. Satan’s mutiny caused a war in heaven and cost him his place in heaven and 1/3 of the angels were cast out with him. (Luke 10:18) Satan and his imps are always looking to be in high-ranking places of authority.

We all must guard our hearts and check them often!  Sometimes we may have it and not know it.

Daily prayer is so important to keep us judging ourselves and being transparent before God.  Even Satan fell from heaven due to prideful mutiny and thought he could be as God.

I believe this with all my heart, I pray daily to The LORD to keep me humble, broken, and lowly of heart, and I ask that He not allow pride to have dominion over me.

I desire transparency with a pure heart before God, I want it all! Everything He has for me is my portion, His shield, and my exceeding great reward.

“Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou were upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.”   Ezekiel 2814 KJV (Important Study Ezekiel 28)

“After these things the word of The LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. The LORD is my exceedingly great reward “   Genesis 15:1 KJV

“Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Better it is to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.”   Proverbs 16:18-19 KJV

“All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but The LORD weigheth the spirits. Commit thy works unto The LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to The LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished. By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of The LORD men depart from evil.”   Proverbs 16:2-6 KJV

During an encounter with God, I was so serious and humbled myself before The LORD.

I sought The LORD in the scriptures, and that is how he would teach me.  Everything we acquire in God comes from that intimate place of prayer with our groom.

He impregnates us with Visions, Dreams, and goals; reveals destiny too.  There are no shortcuts in becoming mature in the faith.

Everything You Need or Desire Will Come Through Your Intimate Prayer Life

I must say that The LORD has always “stretched me out beyond my understanding” and I understand the wisdom of that so that my Faith remains with God and not myself.

All of us have had times when we are stretched out on the edge of what seemed like disaster, but then He swooped in!

I would suddenly understand and then He would teach me and show me the meaning of my encounter in scripture.  That has been His method with me for many decades.

I have never stopped being a little girl with ABBA and it is my destiny to remain a childlike, not childish but a lover of Jesus.

No matter how big or small, it doesn’t matter because I am so free with Jesus! I never get enough, and I always want more of Him.

Do you know God has enough of everything to go around?  He never runs out, and He loves us all the same!

No matter how mature or old I get it can be something so small, and so insignificant that people wonder why I cry because Big or Small The LORD gave it all, so I am as a childlike and innocent soul.

He wants us to have and live a supernatural spiritual life!  He is alive and He wants us to live with Him and be about His business!

When we discover our growth, we become totally shocked at the revelation of His Presence and purpose backed up with scripture.

Learning as He reveals the Word of God and learning to be still, quiet, sit, and listen is so important to God.  If my topic is often on prayer, and intimacy to teach, you can never learn enough about prayer and intimacy!

Time with The LORD has kept me on the path for decades.  I try my best to seek The LORD in prayer and study His Word and obey what He reveals to me.

Often if a topic keeps popping up a lot, I have learned God is emphasizing, tells me that I need to keep seeking Him in prayer and The Word and teaching it.

The LORD has taught me that beyond salvation the most important part of our relationship is communication.

If I don’t communicate how can I know Him and His Word?  Having a relationship with Christ is the most vital part of your life and communication.

I won’t lie, it has been a difficult life, and it has been costly, but The LORD has remained faithful and walked with me.

I was Baptized in The Holy Spirit and fire and pastored two churches from 1990-2000.  He told me I would write and others confirmed it supernaturally, and this has been true since 1998.

God is no respecter of persons, and He wants all of us to have spiritual encounters of our own with Him.  This isn’t the life of a shallow person, but you must want The LORD with all your heart because going deep with Him causes our roots to take hold.

However it has been a lonesome walk (from having people close).

However, I know that I have encountered something new.  I don’t know what it is yet, but I want Him to stretch me as I pursue Him like a newly married woman and passionately.

I want a pure, passionately loving, transparent heart, and I want it all. He is the only one who has my heart, and He knows how much I can handle: I want Him.

I cannot compromise or sugar coat what He gives me.

I shall forever ask The LORD for a pure and transparent heart, and that I will be a woman after God’s own heart.

I long for the times when The LORD woos me deeper still and gives me deeper realms in The Word, revelations, and mysteries for such a time as this.

Growing in maturity you can’t cut corners, becoming the best you can be, takes time, discipline, and obedience. It is by HIS nature and character that He desires us to grow into strength of character and His nature.

The LORD gets ALL the Glory and aren’t you glad you are alive to witness what He is doing and going to do!

We give you all the praise and Glory Lord!

In Jesus’ Name I decree, declare, and establish it as so!  Amen and Amen!

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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