Category: Christian Living

When The Brook Dries Up

What I have learned in my life is that when The Brook dries up and the bread and meat stop coming, it is time to seek The LORD about where to go.

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Good Saturday, beloved of God!

I have an important prayer request and issues we need to know by God.

The LORD taught me this principal along time ago.  Do you recall in the Bible when there was a drought and famine in the land?

In this story, God led Elijah to prophesy about the drought and famine. and how, afterwards The LORD led Elijah to The Brook Cherith and God would sustain him there.

“During a time of drought, the word of The LORD directed Elijah to camp by The Brook Cherith where the ravens would bring him bread and meat twice a day and he could drink from The Brook,”   1 Kings 17:4.

I am encouraged by this scripture that The LORD always takes care of His prophets and other prophetic voices and ministers who must speak the truth, regardless of the threats, actions, and rejections that come.

The Prophet came and announced God had to get the people’s attention and to understand why this type of message, because God is very concerned by the overall condition of the people and the land.

The people were following King Ahab and there’s no greater method to get a hold of people and the evil King but to cut off the supply of rain and sustenance.

Well, The LORD took care of Elijah and told him to camp out by The Brook.  The LORD told him to stay there, and the ravens of the air brought him bread and meat, twice a day.

It encourages me that when things get hard, that if I am walking closely with The LORD, HE will sustain me with ALL my needs even if others are not.

God led Elijah away from the people of the land and Elijah communed with The LORD. Therefore, God took care of Elijah.  It was just him and God.

I wanted to post this and see if anyone could relate to my thoughts I’ve had.

I have had various people in the past and recent tell me that when the provincial is far away from Gods Word, we must trust that when we seek God and follow HIM and live under God’s provision.

“Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, a said to Ahab, “As surely as The LORD lives — the God of Israel before whom I stand — there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
Then a revelation from The LORD came to Elijah:  “Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by The Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan and you are to drink from The Brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
So Elijah did what The LORD had told him, and he went and lived by The Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.  The ravens would bring him bread and meat in the morning and evening, and he would drink from The Brook.  Sometime later, however, The Brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.”   1 Kings 17:1-7.

What I have learned in my life is that when The Brook dries up and the bread and meat stop coming, it is time to seek The LORD about where to go.

Whatever is happening in your life, if things are changing dramatically and things are closing or pointing to a new direction, that is what I sense The LORD is trying to get my attention to make an informed decision.

I am feeling this right now for me so could you pray?

I am sensing I will be leaving eventually — but I will remain in this region.

However, right now, I think He is showing me about taking a Spiritual major step for me to go on a podcast or some type of platform to speak, so that I can have free speech to say or have others say what God wants.

For those who know me, and God is showing you things towards me, please let me know in my private message [Facebook Messenger].

I have no idea of what all that means, so I will need someone to help me and teach me how to get established.

I sense this like it was in 1989 when God told me I would go on the internet and that I would have a website and that I would publish HIS Words to the people.  (There is a vision if you are interested about this)

Again, He asked me to do something I had no idea about, but I was willing.  The LORD told me it would be up in a month, and I would know what to do.

God moved on Bill and Marsha Burns, and a lot of prophecy happened, and I worked with their tech there at Faith Tabernacle helped me so much and not only was I up before a month, but I was also up in 7 days and I was taught how to do the basics of creating a website and to write, upload and publish.

It was so amazing, because I was never interested in the internet, and I didn’t know how to start.

I will always thank God for that coming together, it was like a Spiritual collision (that went boom!) that took place between us and it was the beginning of many prophets being raised up in the latter 1980’s.

I am sensing this here too the same kind of thing just a different platform.

Would you pray for me please and if The LORD shows you anything pertinent to this vision let me know?

I will still be writing too as He leads me, he is just saying that I will be live.

I am very intimidated by this.  I would rather not do this, but I will obey the Word of The LORD.

Whoever connects with this will know if it is true for you, and what needs to happen, spiritually, physically and financially to set it up and running.

If you cannot help, please pray for me and the acquisition of the type of equipment I will need.

I need to know what platform; I do not believe I will be on Facebook much longer or will have a limited influence there.

In closing I believe there is a spiritual famine and drought and I believe it is my time to live in a widow’s house and serve The LORD and he will provide all the pieces, resources, and bring everything together.

“The days are coming, declares The LORD GOD, when I will send a famine on the land — not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of The LORD.“   Amos 8:11.

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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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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