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The Passionate Call of Intimacy

The one thing I boast in The LORD for, and in my journey, is that I hold HIM in highest regard!

The one thing I boast in The LORD for, and in my journey, is that I hold HIM in highest regard!

Have I been perfect?  No, it was a process of growth in discipleship.

However, I have sought to follow The LORD all the days of my life and to behold His beauty and His amazing love and how absolutely majestic He is.

In my childlike ignorance, it is hard to fathom how God, The Creator of the universe and everything else in it!  Just imagine The LORD wanting to be intimately involved and have a personal relationship with me!

Have you ever laid down in the grass in the summer when it is dark and looked up at the stars?  Wow, when you see that majesty of creation, it amazes me sometimes to the point where I cannot even talk.

Being a humble childlike soul is the highest rank in God’s order of things.

The LORD’s Church is not a competition or corporation where people politically vie for positions to step up on others’ heads to get to the top.

The Church is not political, it is a gathering of the people of God who serve Him and obey Jesus Christ.

It is a life of discipleship and service learning to lay everything down like pride, selfishness, ego, religion, jealousy, envy, hatred, malice and traditions are only a few, and He wants the fruits of His Spirit to be active within and without all of dealings with man.

“So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking, and envying one another.”  Galatians 5:16-26

Service to God is not a religious practice, nor service to His People for Kingdom ‘brownie points’.

Being a Servant and Offering Service is not rank and order according to the row of pews or chairs or who has the most money, materialism or the nicest car, clothes and has the most popular vote to name a few.

For some see service as this, they do menial tasks to be seen and heard.  But behind the scenes they curse their neighbor, and they are insanely jealous of them!

But God sees it all! God vindicates the righteous, as we turn evil for good.

God is looking for the motives of the heart and soul!

When the prophet Ezekiel was able to see behind the walls of the temple, he saw the idolatry, strife, contention, jealousy, division, and envy (Read Ezekiel).

God is revealing what is hidden from the walls of the motive of people’s hearts.

Religion works for their own benefit to seek out who’s who, and those in authority to puff up and work flattery.  A flattering mouth works ruin!

We are no different from the disciples that thought they were going to be elevated to a place of honor and pride.

Service to God and His People, is first you and your prayer life.

We must develop like a child in our Christian trek through life.  Communication (Prayer) is foundational in discipleship.  Why aren’t we Praying?

Prayer is foundational in our walk with Christ and in front and behind of others too.  What we do behind the scenes is what God judges.

We can hide from people but there is nowhere to hide from God.  God sees our motive and fruit.

Learning to become discerning takes a lot of time to develop.  I AM convinced that much of what people say is discernment is actually suspicion and accusation.  We must learn how to die to our wicked flesh and learn humility and respect.

After Salvation, Prayer is the number one requirement for walking with The LORD in The Spirit.

The LORD’s Desire is to educate us in simplicity in knowing Him.  In His Presence, Prayer Time and The Word, is where He instructs us in the way we should go.

We speak of intimacy as a bride is with her groom, but Jesus always parallels a Spiritual Truth to a natural way to understand.

There is nothing in this world to offer that satisfies my soul and life like my Jesus can!  I long for Him, I desire Him, and I am lovesick over Him, and I cannot get enough.

Does this sound strange to you?  Beloved, there are places in God that so satisfy you and where you cannot get enough, and it makes you want to come back for more and more!

There are places deep in prayer where you get lost in The Spirit and in The Word of God and you lose all track of time.  I love it!

Beloved reader, there is such a depth of Passionate Love and Fulfillment that once you tap into this type of relationship and fellowship with The LORD, it will radically change you and you will never be the same again!

This type of relational prayer is no longer a discipline, but a joy unspeakable and full of Glory!

Praying without ceasing is not impossible, it becomes simply walking beside Him, because you have learned how to walk in The Spirit with Jesus through everything, everyone, and everywhere you go.

Also, you have developed a constant awareness of His presence in you, with you and you talk to him as you go about your day and night.

You come to realize in truth that you are the betrothed Bride of Christ and a wise virgin who keeps oil in her lamp.

She is wise because of Jesus, and she does not pour out her oil to everyone because she knows the time has come and she is excited because she heard the call!

She also guards her oil and keeps her wick trimmed. (Matthew 25:1-13, 1 Peter 1:8)

If we say we know Jesus and do not obey, pray, or communicate with The LORD what is that?

Prayerlessness shows carelessness — and it also shows evidence that there is religion and not Relationship.

It is a sure way of knowing a person’s life and the Revelation can be quite shocking when revealed.

A living Relationship has Communication, and we can learn a lot about a person by how they speak in front of you and behind your back.

Words are powerful and that is why we must prepare daily in prayer to have our armor on, our robe of righteousness, Sword of The Spirit!

There will be evidence of whether we are saved or not.  The just shall live by Faith — and Faith without works is dead.

Having a relationship with Jesus is more real to me than any other relationship!  I have a living, walking, talking, breathing, eating, sleeping, and everything I do is in The Spirit!

No one satisfies my entire life — except my Jesus!

For example, imagine the most intimate, loving, fulfilling marriage that is so kindred.  A marriage like that makes both one and even if you are away from each other physically you know what is happening.

Having a wonderful fulfilling marriage in this life is a gift, but it is only a shadow of what is available with your relationship and fellowship with the Creator of the Universe!

Oh beloved, oh how he loves you and desires for you to come close and sit at his feet and silence your mind and activity and be still and know HIM.

Everything and I mean everything that is fulfilling in Jesus and in Ministry comes from this place of intimacy and prayer with Jesus.

In our Passion and Intimacy with our Master and LORD, that place of fellowship impregnates us with vision.

Everything in The Kingdom of God is brought forth from intimate Prayer — just as Zion travailed and brought forth her children.  When we find that hidden Secret Place, we tap into a well spring of life!

“Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children.”   Isaiah 66:8 NKJV

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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She’s Coming, Leaning on Her Beloved

There are a Remnant People who have been prepared by God and for those, the silence at times is deafening. 

There are a Remnant People who have been prepared by God.

For those, the silence at times is deafening.  Through the many years of wilderness walkers, they were taught to listen and obey God.

It was not the ten suggestions, but the Ten Commandments that Moses brought back from Mount Horeb.

Those who were found to be believers in the promise and plan of Canaan, learned to hang on to one simple word… “faith.”

However, not all endured the preparations to cross over into Canaan.  Not all found faith simple.  It was through the testing, the way they lived and the roaming in the wilderness, but many could not cross over because they displeased The LORD, even Moses.

During the trek of our own ‘wilderness walker faith’ is where we find our own revelation that is no ordinary element.  However, will in gradient sway away to what is not ordinary at all.

The LORD is leading the remnant out of hidden security through obscurity, by leaning on their lover Jesus Christ, and they are coming forward out of hiding into the light of day.

“Who is this coming up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved?”   Song of Songs 8:5a

This is the remnant that The LORD himself has ordained and licensed and known from the very beginning.

Many wonder, “Why the silence?”

When God speaks, He does not speak to hear Himself speak — and it is not happenstance.

When God speaks, it matters, it happens, and it is always what He wants revealed for that time, or in times to come, for He will do nothing until He reveals His Plans to His Servants the prophets. (Amos 3:7)

God knows everything the enemy is doing; however, the enemy does not know everything that God is doing!

We, The Remnant, are not going down, we are going over!

Satan and the fallen angels are shaking in their boots for what they sense God is up to in the atmosphere!

God Has Got a People!

“Who is she who looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, awesome as an army with banners?”   Song of Songs 5:10

The Remnant has been through lessons of fire that utterly burns away all chaff and refines all the dross, and although these times may be hard, it is these very lessons that truly teach that the cares of this natural life and the deceitfulness of riches have nothing to offer or compare to what God has for you!

Through the wilderness years, we have learned from experience as the remnant that our beloved is all we need, and we can lean hard against Him!

Beloved of God, He loves it when we lean hard against Him.  He gives us everything we need for strength, hope, courage, comfort, naming just a few, and from His blessed presence alone He does wonders making our hearts and minds joyful in and with Him!

Did you know that Jesus Christ is filled with joy because of you?  For our fellowship and relationship with Him is twofold…. It brings Him fulfillment and pleasure too! He longs for our time before Him in the secret place. (Mark 4:19)

But inwardly what is not seen defies natural logic.  Because He takes what is seemingly foolish and the base things of this world to defy logic. (1 Corinthians 1:28)

The LORD waited at the marriage of Cana, knowing the exact time when He would perform the miracle.

Jesus made a point to wait until all the old wine was gone to refer to the displays of the purity and maturity of the latter wine, for he saved the best for last!

Jesus knew exactly when to release the Fathers meaning that had been hidden.  He knew when the debut and display of his victorious new wine vintage would soon be supernaturally poured out on all flesh!  (John 2:1-12, Acts 2, Joel 2)

You cannot pour new wine into old wineskins or the old will burst.  We must be transformed from the old skin of religiosity and legalism to conforming to the freedom we now have in Christ.

When we are saved and living for The LORD, we should receive Power when we experience the Baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire. (Acts 1-2)

The infilling of The Holy Ghost should be a daily refilling as we plug into The LORD daily in intimacy and in our individual prayer life. (Matthew 3:7-17)

As we learn the scriptures Paul said, “I die daily.” (1 Corinthians 15:31)

If we have put to death the deeds of the flesh, we will rise in newness of life.  However, just because you spoke a few words at an altar and there is no evidence of a changed life, you need to ask for help and ask questions in understanding the New Birth.

You shall receive Power when the Holy Ghost comes on you and you will be witnesses unto Jerusalem, all Judea, and in Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the earth.

The Power of the Holy Ghost released in us is what gives us the ability to win cities, win souls, conquer areas and demonic strongholds, and do exploits, for we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us! It is The Holy Ghost Baptism of fire that gives us the power of His Spirit working in us mightily!  (Acts 1:8)

We must understand that having a daily life and walking with The LORD is like being in the best marital relationship you could ever imagine.

Walking with Jesus is the epitome of the fulfillment of the Groom and His Bride.  Nothing else matters when you keep Him first, and when He knows you are true to Him, he will bless you beyond anything you could possibly imagine!

“Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved.  For The LORD will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality.” It is just as Isaiah said previously: “Unless The LORD Almighty had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.”   Romans 9:27-29 BSB

God actively pursues a man or woman who are after the heart of God!  What better lover can measure after Him.

As I close this message, I want to encourage you in your trek with Jesus Christ, let him woo and win you over and over, it is never too much or too late beloved!  You can always begin again in Jesus!  You are loved dearly!

“Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all. Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.”   Song of Songs 8:6-7

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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Recognizing the Remnant and Her Seed

Those of you who believe you are in Christ — but are secretly caught up and enjoy the cares of this temporal life and everything it offers — have already been deceived.

“Always carrying about in the body the dying of The LORD Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So, then death is working in us, but life in you.”   2 Corinthians 4:10-12 NKJV

Those of you who believe you are in Christ — but are secretly caught up and enjoy the cares of this temporal life and everything it offers — have already been deceived, believing Christians cannot help being impacted by various onslaughts swung at them in the world!

A true Christian will cringe at the things that grieve the heart of God.  For we shall fully know them by their fruits.

People say, “Do not judge!” but I say, you better judge them by their fruits!

There will be evidence in our lives that we belong to Christ.  You cannot say you love Christ and practice sin. (James 2 14-26)

However, and not limited to also things that go on in school, sexual immorality, a lot of what is taught in colleges what you watch on television, pornography, what type of music you listen to, idolatry, rebellion, but these are only some, there are so many ways that Satan especially targets Christians!

Why?  Because you are ‘marked’ for The Kingdom of God.

You threaten the works of darkness, because those who walk in the light expose the darkness.  Walking in the Spirit of God gives you Authority over all the powers of darkness.

That is why the enemy uses everything he can to douse your light and to captivate you so that he covers you to put your light out!

Every evil plot, scheme, conspiracy, and every evil entity recognizes you as a threat if you have received Christ within your heart and live for God!

You may wonder why, since you decided to follow Christ, that all of the sudden all sorts of vile information and things are being thrown in your face on social media, on television, games etc. — and even so-called ‘friends’ try to get you involved.

Beloved, this is an invasion tactic to gain access as much as possible to contaminate and get you to compromise the good news of Jesus Christ!  Their desire is to corrupt your pure sincere heart of love for God.

Those who love God do what He says.  That is how we know one another in The Kingdom, for those who are our true mother, sister, brother, mother-in-law etc.  These are they who hear The Word of God, and do it that is our eternal family.

Beloved, we need one another, and especially when we see these things are happening.  And we see the things happening on the earth that were foretold by Jesus Christ.

The LORD is returning soon and there is power released when we are counted as one in unity!  But we have got to be fruit watchers.

We are going to need each other more and more than we expected, things in this world are going to be extremely chaotic, insane, and great darkness shall cover the earth, but we, the people of light, need to find our place and we need to know those who labor among us.  As we gather, there shall be greater Light.

We are in a war — but there are many battles!

The life we are to live is for Christ.  There are people who believe there is no battle for the Christian any longer once they accept Christ, and they believe you can live anyway you want — and still make it to heaven!

We must stand for Truth.  Faith without works is dead.  (Study the doctrine of the Nicolaitans)

But if that were true, why did God give us weapons, armor, and the Word of God?  Our battles are not against flesh or blood, but against principalities, powers, rulers of darkness and spiritual wickedness in high places.  This is truly Spiritual Warfare.  (Ephesians 6:10-20)

Beloved, we must begin to believe God over man’s opinions.  If it isn’t in The Bible, reject it!

Of course, Satan doesn’t want to be believed, he had done a lot of work in stealth mode but now he is coming out in the open!

Satan is targeting backsliders, the lost and leadership!  Ministers in all corners of the globe need to stand for the truth instead of what promotes man, or what feels good with its many distractions, temporal pleasures, ups and downs, forever acquiring but never really understanding the knowledge of the truth.

You see that the world wants you to compromise the whole Truth found in The Holy Bible and many are peddling a gospel that is not the gospel.  Nothing this world has to offer can even touch what God has offered you, with Him forever in Glory!

You find yourself on a balance of declining insight and end up floundering at every event, because it always proves a dead end.

You may be reading this, and it is speaking deeply to your spirit, and it is telling you have only scratched the surface of what God in Christ has for you!

There is absolutely nothing in this life, no relationship, no material possession, or an important appointed possession, or any of the positions of this world!

Why?  Because many that put all their confidence in an organization, even within some churches, are being made and challenged to live their lives as the government dictates.  It is coming beloved, it is just a matter of time.

Yes, we are living in a world that is teetering on its axis in more ways than one.  What the true believer has is a much greater offer of eternal value!  But The LORD said that the servant is not greater than his master.

Jesus became the Son of Man to live his life as a man to identify with our lives and become our Living sacrifice without spot or blemish.

What He did was he gave himself up willingly and he was tempted in all points yet without sin.  Jesus understands our struggle and is familiar with the feeling of our infirmities’.

We must discern the remnant church and recognize believers that need discipleship and prayer.

There is much to do, but we need to think out of the religious box and begin to look inward and then outward. Amen?

Amen!

“For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”   Hebrews 4:15-16 NKJV

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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Pressing, Process, and Promise

Grieving is something we all must face.  There can be grieving for many things.  Not limited to, maybe a death in the family, a relationship, or a failed job…

“Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house at Gibeah of Saul. And Samuel went no more to see Saul until the day of his death. Nevertheless, Samuel mourned for Saul, and The LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.”   1 Samuel 15:34-35 NKJV

“Now The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons.”   2 Samuel 16:1 NKJV

Grieving is something we all must face. 

There can be grieving for many things.  Not limited to, maybe a death in the family, a relationship, or a failed job, or grief over a wayward child, grief over our nation, or like our text read that Samuel grieved over Saul when God rejected him as King.

When the children of Israel were in the desert they would only move when the glory cloud moved.  It is important to know that when God moves on, we too must move with him.

There are various lengths of time for grief with each person.  However, when God says it is time to stop grieving, then we must abide by His leading and move forward to push through the pain into the promise.

“Then the cloud [the Shekinah, God’s visible, dwelling presence] covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory and brilliance of The LORD filled the tabernacle. Moses was not able to enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud remained on it, and the glory and brilliance of The LORD filled the tabernacle. In all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out; but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not journey on until the day when it was taken up. For throughout all their journeys, the cloud of The LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.”   Exodus 40:34-38 AMP

When God moves you into a new location spiritually or physically, regardless of how far, wide, or deep it may be, the pressure to push through can be described like the travail or a birthing process into a new place.

When God takes us through an open Door, there is a process that prepares you to walk through that Door.

Everything that is seen on earth has a beginning in the Spirit realm.  Once God spoke it, it happened in His season. It takes blind faith, trust, and walking it out as if it has already happened.

God works from the inside out.  Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)

If you are in a new environment and feel like you are walking blind and feeling out the new realm you are in, realize God would have never led you there until you were prepared for that place.

But for certain, you know something has happened and it is new!

You cannot see or hold a child until the process of months with travail and pain comes with breakthrough.  But before it manifests into the natural world the process can be very difficult.

However, once you have moved on and pressed through the process, then comes a breakthrough, and you will see the promise. (John 16:21-23, Romans 8:22)

Spiritual travail is burdensome and has intensity by the Holy Spirit to bring to pass through prayer and spiritual warfare not only what happens with people but the results can produce a promise, an oath, or prophetic insight with the Holy Spirit Illumination that is needed to be revealed in a person, church, place, or thing.

Many things are birthed in the kingdom of God, even wars are won when spiritual warfare is waged. (2 Chronicles 20:1-30)

Our walk with Christ is often used as a life lesson or like an open book that is seen and read of all men.  There is nothing wasted, even what we perceive to be the worst experiences that we would rather not use.

However, when it is used for helping others in the body of Christ, we are supposed to be dead to the deeds of the flesh and this world and alive unto God.  We die daily.  We put to death the deeds of the flesh so the Spirit man will rise!

We must remember we are only passing through this life and these bodies are mere shells that contain what is precious and valuable to God.  The outer man is wasting away but our inner man is renewed day by day. (2 Corinthians 4:16)

Our flesh is not our friend.  Did you know that you live with an adversary every day and every moment?

Our flesh is an adversary that we must be aware of daily!

Our fight with our flesh and the enemy is a daily event.  The flesh and Satan seek to gain the preeminence.

Incorporating fasting and prayer together with the study of God’s Word, is a powerful way to take authority over our flesh and the devil’s tactics and onslaughts.  Living a fasted lifestyle of self-control has many benefits.

So, remember we must not dawdle when God’s glory cloud moves.  We must press through the grief, sorrow, and all the onslaughts of darkness.

Why?  Because there are forces at work that are always seeking ways to keep us down and out of range of our chief Shepherd.

May your prayer be as mine; LORD, please keep me in the center of your will and keep me centered in your heart.

When we see someone that we love going through grief, sorrow, and sickness that has kept them down a long time, we must pray and ask The LORD to intervene.

Don’t be surprised, God may choose you to be an intercessory prayer warrior or even physically intervene in some way.

We are all part of the same body of Christ and when one suffers, we all suffer.  When you go to Church, start looking around you.  If you see people missing, be that person who steps up to the line and salutes to Jesus and becomes radical and militant!

This is not a time to be idle, lazy, self-centered!

Begin to pray and fast for them or others, so that they do not fall through the cracks. It is not the pastor’s job to do all of the shepherding, we all have a purpose within the body of Christ.

Find your fit and stay there!

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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