Category: Christian Living

Regardless of our path in life, “we attract something to us!”  But that attraction can carry with it a heavy cost!  It can bring a blessing or cursing.

“I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing.  Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live, and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him.  For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”   Deuteronomy 30:19-20 BSB

Our lives are like a door.  Picture yourself as a door and realize that we should keep that door closed and locked, because we don’t want just anyone to gain access into every part of our lives.

Our life has many internal doors within that have consequences, and we all have a door with skeletons in our closets; a place where things of our past are kept that we would rather not have.

Our outer body is wasting away day by day, but regardless it is our home on this earth, but it has a very real door that we decide when to open it.

We must also be careful how we adorn our outer body/ door and how we present ourselves to our sphere of influence.  Sometimes a presentation can speak louder than words, and it can make or break us in any situation.

Try to visualize and see people as doors.  I am doing that a lot lately, because I know behind every door can be many things both good and evil.

You can love the external part of your life and others too, but we must be careful.  If we look close enough there will be indicators of what spirit is at work.

Not just anyone has faith, and the way things are nowadays, we must try diligently to become and remain sensitive to The Holy Spirit.

God’s Word is creative and powerful and sharper than a two-edged sword.  When we come into agreement with God’s Word and live by it, it will help create and bring God’s order and help into situations that need godly answers.

You can learn a lot about people by how they speak their words.  Most people live and die living a superficial life.

Many have gone the wide way that leads to destruction and living by the flesh, or the outer man never gets deep internally.

The outer life is so temporary, and we should never make decisions based on the flesh.  The place within us that is meant to be occupied by God, many try to stuff that place with imitations, but it never ultimately brings peace.

People who are lost find this life will be as good as it gets.  However, there is pleasure with sin for a season, but the cost is eternity.  But like Paul, if this life is as good as it gets, I would be of all most miserable.

Believers, God’s Word has every answer we need in this life, but we must decide if we will base ourselves by God’s Word or the flesh. Nothing good dwells in the flesh but when we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior, His Word is eternal, and heaven and earth will pass away, but God’s Word will NEVER pass away.

His Word is forever settled in heaven! Do you need a matter settled?  Seek God in His Word!

None of us have been perfect in our lives and in trying to live like we do, is to be a hypocrite.  That is not the witness I want to have.

When it comes to life and how to minister to the lost sinner, we need to look at our perfect example of outreach, which is Jesus Christ.

For those who have been forgiven of much, love much!  (Luke 7:47)

Our sphere of influence is found everywhere we go and everywhere our feet take us. (Joshua 1:3)  However, we must be readied by our own personal time with Jesus.

Spending time with God in prayer and in the Word is not an option.  If we are not sensitive in the Spirit realm, we cannot help anyone.

We must be disciplined to be a true disciple, and communication with the Holy Spirit is a two-way conversation.

Both prayer and getting quiet enough to listen to The Holy Spirit.  For only then can the Holy Spirit lead and guide us into all truth. (John 16:13)

Jesus Christ attracted a lot of people, both good, bad, and bad spirits.  Jesus went to where the hurt people were, and people were also attracted to Him.

There are some very hurt people that we come across, and to live as if we have attained perfection in the flesh is to lie.

We are supposed to press in towards the mark of the high calling in Christ. (Philippians 3:14-15) However, we are to meet people where they are.

I find that Jesus’ example wasn’t to wait on them to come to the synagogue, but He went out to find the lost sheep.

There are a lot of people who wouldn’t darken the door of a Church, because our methods are not as Jesus’ methods. He came to seek and save the lost.

Paul stated, “I became all things to all men that I might save some.”  That doesn’t mean Jesus and Paul did what the people did, they did not sin and partake in sin, but reached out to them that they might win them. (1 Corinthians 9:22)

We are to take up our Cross and follow Christ, but living in God’s Kingdom on this earth is a process, because our flesh isn’t glorified and will never be in the realm of the flesh.

Also, our soul is complex, it’s the part of us that makes us unique.  The soul is made up of the mind, will, intellect and emotions.  These things are where the battle truly lies, in the mind.

The battlefield of the mind is something we learn to choose as we allow our mind to become the mind of Christ.

However, it is a daily process as well that we can grow into as we grow in grace through consuming the Word of God daily.

Salvation is not going to an altar or wherever you speak the words, and you say you’re saved and even get baptized.

That could be part of a true conversion, but we must speak plainly; If a person is truly converted and saved there will eventually be evidence of the change outwardly.

The proof of our new beginning in Christ is that we learn to follow Him and that means discipleship in disciplined training and having a consistent prayer and Bible study life. Faith without works is dead.

Even in the church there are all types of Christians having all sorts of past that affect their presence and futures.

Being new in Christ for example, we hear the words that say the new has come and the old is gone! T hat is true for the Spirit and soul, but the soul and the flesh of a person is always under construction in this life.

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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Praying in The Spirit is to acknowledge that Jesus is with you 24/7 — and you have developed a greater awareness of His Presence, and He woos and wins you away with Him to sit at His Feet and to be still — and know He is God.

Practicing His Presence, is like a medical doctor practices medicine.  When we begin to practice His Presence daily, we are being taught by The Holy Spirit as we go about our day.  It is, on the job training.

Practicing His Presence, is when we have learned well where our hope comes from and his power to keep us and correct us.

This is my quest, to know Him as He is known!

I will remain in Him in Prayer, Worship and Word — and wherever I go, I talk to God out loud.

Maybe people think I am nuts, or too radical, but once you have tasted tasted The Realm of the Spirit and you partake of the good Word of God — and are changed by it — no one can talk you out of it, because it was between Him and you!

So let people talk.  Let them say whatever!  It only makes our heels dig deeper, which pushes Jesus higher!

We decrease and He increases!

What reputation are you looking for?  Be honest, who are trying to please or make an impression on?

Because, if our motive isn’t pure before God — that is a dead work.

We are supposed to be dead to the flesh and arise to newness of life.  When you are dead to the world’s view and religion’s view, death to these things produces growth in spiritual fortitude.

Who cares what they say when we have a close walk with our Yeshua?

He should be our total focus, and we need to ask Him what He Thinks, because what He Thinks of us, is eternal, and he has our best interests at heart.

We’ve got to count it all loss for the exceeding greatness of His Power in us!

So what?  Let them think what they may and you be free to be who you are!

Maybe people think I am too much, too radical and they want to tone me down.  I can only do what I see [hear] The Father say.

So who cares what people think or say?  I talk to him anyway.  They may think I have Bluetooth on and am conversing with another person — but I am talking all the time with The LORD.

Just as if He took my hand and is leading me, it is glorious to walk in The Spirit with that great awareness of His Presence — without pretense!

The more I seek Him, the more I find Him, and I wouldn’t trade anything in this world for what I have with The LORD!

I am walking through the aisles with Him in continual fellowship, and there are people everywhere.

Where’s your Divine Appointment made by God?  You will feel that inner prompting to connect to someone.

Go with the flow, and begin by loving them, for love covers a multitude of sin and iniquity!

“My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus Christ, my righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.

On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.,
All other ground is sinking sand.”
Edward Mote (1797-1874)

If you are going to be effective in Christ, part of the deal will be suffering rejection.

God gives everyone a free will and choice.  Even God won’t go against someones choice so we scatter seeds — but we know God will give the increase in His season.

I know in whom I have believed, and He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all I can ask or think, according to the power that works in me.

Beloved, I have long passed a point of no return.

He is my source, my strength, my quest.  I am enamored with him and I cannot get enough.

He is my everything and I have dedicated my life to full time ministry, but that means ministry to Him is first!

He takes pleasure from us and enjoys our time in intimacy.

He’s my husband, lover, and best friend and I hope and pray that I may always spread his message in life and in death.  That even from the grave I will have left my mark on humanity.

He is all to me — and how can I say no to him?

It is a great honor in humility, that He longs to dwell with me and communicate, and I live for each Word and to hear His Voice so clear, and I pray that maybe someone who reads this, will be sparked into a flame that never grows dim again.

Oh how I love Him so….

LORD store your lovingkindness within so that Repentance and Assurance abounds through us.

We will be sure to give you all the Honor, Praise and Glory in Jesus’ Name, I Decree and Declare these things according to Your Words — in Jesus’ Name!

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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“Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me; and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives the One who sent Me. Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward. And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”  Matthew 10:34-42 BSB

The more I seek God and the older I get, it is so apparent that truly my close relationships, friends and family are the authentic believers in Christ Jesus our LORD.

You may wonder, how can I know authentic believers?

The Bible is clear you shall know them by their fruits, i.e., their behaviors, their attitudes, their words and actions.

You Shall Fully Know Them by Their Fruits!  (Read Matthew 7)

Also, The Church is not a four-walled structure, it is the true people of God who develop, and form relationships, and you cannot know people unless you are around the other believers.

Actions speak louder than words.  How we live, how we speak there will be evidence who we serve.

YES, and serve is what we do, we follow Christ’s lead.  That takes commitment and accountability.

Just because you say you know God and maybe went to an altar and was baptized is no guarantee of your future.

Salvation was not the end of things; it was the beginning of a life committed to Christ and His Church.

There will be evidence of who we belong to.  The Bible tells us to judge those who are within — and by their fruits you shall fully know them. (Read Matthew 5:15-20)

“But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone “who claims to be a brother” but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? “  1 Corinthians 5:11-12 KJV

There is only one way to be saved, and salvation is not an ending but a new beginning.  Salvation at the Altar, is not Fire Insurance.

Coming to Christ at some Altar is not the ending, but the beginning.  Christianity is a life of daily denying the flesh, and picking up the cross and following The LORD, not practicing sin.

We all miss it, but the difference is we don’t stay in it!

To practice sin, is like a doctor who practices medicine.  What we truly are will come out of us, out of the abundance of the heart the mouths speak.  Also, we will be known by how we live and our actions.

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness.”  Romans 1:2

There are people who think they hold the truth of God, but they live unrighteous! God is very serious about deceivers that practice twisting the truth!

Read and Study Romans 1-3.

We do not make our own terms to reach God like the people did when they tried to build the tower of Babel.

God frustrated their plans and dispersed them all having different languages.  So, God stopped the building!

Man can accomplish many amazing feats that can spiral upward, but when God is trying to bring deliverance, He will stop us, and He knows how it is done!

It is nothing new, man has always wanted to be a god and make his own way to God and climb the highest height to say, “Look at me! See how I made myself so right with God!”

We cannot make ourselves right with God!  And to try and do it any other way makes us self-righteous and therefore, we cannot submit to the righteousness that comes by faith in Jesus Christ.  So, they make themselves a law unto themselves.

When we receive Jesus Christ as our personal LORD and Savior, His righteousness is imputed to us. (Imputed is to attribute and set to the account of.)

We cannot earn Salvation or somehow work for it, but sadly, many Churches continually practice legalism and religion.

Beloved, the religious are a constant adversary to freedom that we find in Christ our Messiah.  Through Faith is the ONLY WAY possible to please God, and we walk by Faith — but that doesn’t give us a free ticket to go back to sinning, for if we sow to the flesh and sin, we will reap the whirlwind.

Faith without corresponding works — is dead.

“So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. F or I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. You have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not murder’ and ‘Anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’”   Matthew 5:19-21 BSB

“Not everyone who says to Me ‘LORD, LORD,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.”   Read Matthew 7:21-23

Just because you said you got saved and baptized doesn’t mean you are truly a child of God.

How can a person hold unforgiveness and bitterness in their heart over things that happened years ago that are long gone?

How can you say you love Jesus and hold on to unforgiveness, bitterness, jealousy, envy, strife and contention and every evil work?

Whether we know it or not, the life of a public person is a fishbowl life and people watch us — the Believers — to see how they live and what they do.

A ‘Busybody’ is a term used when a person is too interested in the private lives of other people.  They think they can be in our business.

A busybody has way too much time on their hands.  A busybody is jealous, envious, and causes division.

A busybody belittles and is very negative, turning all their situations into the same way in life with all sorts of negativity. We reap what we sow.

Busybodies love to get up in your business.  It is sad because they are so miserable in life devoid of the Spirit of God.

They have no friends and seek to control family members and money.  They think of all kinds of ways to benefit themselves in selfishness and jealousy of what someone might get, and they weasel in and are critical of what others have or will have.

Busybodies are two faced and if they are given something, they will want it back because they don’t want nobody to be blessed.

They live a miserable life and hate people, yet they want others to be miserable too.  I have seen busybodies hold pure hatred, unforgiveness and bitterness as they try to hold grievances done from childhood.

They think that it is their right to hold and judge another for mistakes that happened long ago.  No one has the right to hold the sin of the past against you!  You have been forgiven — so move on!  Do not listen to them anymore!

“For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things”   Philippians 3:18-19 BSB

Why are they holding claims of things and circumstances that are long gone and forgiven for.  If Jesus forgives us, who are we not to forgive?

If we hold onto accusations, bitterness, unforgiveness and offensives in our heart, God will not hear us!

People who hold on to offenses, unforgiveness, bitterness, hatred etc. will rot from within, and will reap what they have sown.

If you sow to the flesh, you will reap corruption.  He who digs a pit for the righteous himself shall fall into it.

Remember Haman?  He built the gallows for Mordecai, a righteous man, and Haman was hung by his only folly. God calls it foolishness and calls such a one a fool!

If we regard iniquity in our heart The LORD will not hear us.  If we do not forgive and release all bitterness neither will Christ forgive you.

If you have these types of people in your life do not prove anything to them, do not even speak with them.

Forgive them, release them and let them go.  You stand for God faithfully and He will vindicate you publicly.

We are living in an hour when there is no longer a gray area.  Everyone must choose whom they will serve.

Satan has these types of people bound with yokes and chains of slavery around their neck and their whole body, yet while in the world they seem to have it all, but everything can be burnt up in a moment’s time and then where would they be?

We face eternity every day, for no one knows when we will pass away or be caught up.

The only thing that is lasting is our relationship with Jesus, He is eternal, and I know I will be with him forever!

Holding unforgiveness, jealousy, pride, and bitterness is so sad for these types of people.  May we all Pray and not say, so that maybe they might be saved!

“You are snared by the words of your mouth; You are taken by the words of your mouth.”   Proverbs 6:2 NKJV

We must Pray and not say, when we want to vindicate ourselves from these types of people.

A person who glories in the flesh and a deceiver are blunt, intimidating, rude and deeply deceived.

Do not dance their dance, it will only stir up the devil and they will turn on you!  The battle is The LORD’s!

One had better beware.  We reap what we sow, and touching God’s anointed people will carry a swift penalty — especially in the very near future.

We are living in perilous times in our nation.  A person who runs their mouth, sin is not lacking.

As believers and followers of Christ, we must guard what comes out of our mouths and hearts, and be careful with our words and our behaviors, because words have creative power to the positive and negative — and our behaviors speak for themselves!

“A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.”   Proverbs 18:7 BSB

“Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm”  1 Chronicles 16:22 KJV

“Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.”  Psalm 105:15 KJV

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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