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Birds of the Air

You dear one, are of more worth and value to God than the tiniest sparrow that falls.

Yesterday a baby bird fell into a trash can of water, and I saw it and gently picked it up and held it in my hand.

The baby bird was so little and shivered with cold and I gently cupped the bird in my hand and began to blow my breath into my hand, and soon the baby bird stopped shivering and was warm.

I checked her feathers and knew they were still wet and there was only a small area of fuzz left on the baby’s head, and I thought this must have been the baby bird’s first flight.

I continued to blow my breath into my hand and the baby put her head out of my hand and peeped. Soon I took the bird outside on my deck and as I sat in silence and the feathers continued to dry, I began to hear all the sounds of birds of the air and the baby continued to peep without reacting to any sound.

I sat the baby bird on my finger, and she fluffed herself up and she continued to make her sounds. Then suddenly a certain sound came, and the baby bird looked all around, and the mother bird flew over and the baby kept looking in the direction of that sound.

The baby bird preening its feathers and fluffed up again and took to flight and flew to a tree being reunited in nature’s breeze.

“Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; therefore, you are of more value than many sparrows.” Matthew 10:29-31 NKJV.

You dear one, are of more worth and value to God than the tiniest sparrow that falls.

Beloved of God, He sees every minute detail of your life! How can you possibly know the number of hairs on your head or the number of cells in your body?

The LORD our Father knows it all and that is how intimately our Father in Heaven knows every detail of our life.

Even when we fall into insurmountable odds and circumstances and there is absolutely no way possible, we can recover, our loving Father God cares for us so much and ever rescues us while keeping us in the palm of His hand where nothing can pluck us out. And all the while giving us life and breath continuing to restore us as we are hidden in The Palm of His Hand.

No eye can see, or ear can hear the things that God has prepared for you! But He shall reveal it by His Spirit, for The Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

God restores us, renews, and revives us in so many ways. For destiny calls in the wings of the winds for you were created to fly and your destiny awaits, and you have been created for such a time as this.

Be not afraid for our loving Father who sits on The Throne, knows it all, and there is no where He is not.

There is a time to be hidden, then a time to be revealed and He knows exactly what all that means.

If this little message has spoken to your heart today, take time, not make time, to be still, quiet, and listen and you will begin again to hear anew and know He is God.

He will rescue and He will save for He Delights in you beloved!

“Even the birds of the air know the signs of the times, but My People do not,” says The LORD. “Learn, I say, learn of the birds.”

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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Enough Is Enough!

While seeking The LORD He said, “Daughter of Zion, declare all that I say; “Enough if enough!” I have sent My impending Warning Judgements!”

While seeking The LORD He said, “Daughter of Zion, declare all that I say; “Enough if enough!” I have sent My impending Warning Judgements!”

It is hard to describe my experience… the absolute heat, sensing wrath, and his heavy presence on my body like I cannot contain it.

It can be no clearer to say that His Spirit is done striving with man about this Judgment, and no matter how much Intercession is made, none can stop His Purpose in all of this.

Be advised, not to stand in the way of His method of discipline, for you might be found fighting against God. There is no more care or concern what man says, He has brought me, close to Himself.

God is in control regardless of what happens. God uses many various ways of Discipline and Judgments to make His point.

The LORD said, “You MUST prepare My People for the great darkness that comes to that city and will forever change the world, for in one hour, My Judgment shall come.

This is an hour of great shaking, darkness, and dead silence that shall shock the city, nation, and the world. The fallout on that city and the atmosphere will be silent, dark, and gloom.

It will come to pass that the nations that were made rich by her, shall weep and wail for the judgments that I decreed for her!

They shall see the smoke of her burning in one hour worldwide, for she is made absolutely desolate in dust and ash of this nuclear event and the poison that will be experienced will prevail and be seen all over the world.

Fear The LORD and listen to His Prophets! Fear The LORD and live!

People think this Judgment is for another time, and not now! Many do not want to accept it, so they declare that first revival must come!”

I saw a Golden Calf grow up into a Golden Bull with horns! Then I heard, “Since you did not take the Bull by the horns and conquer it, it has conquered you and all those who loved the stock, and the idolatry shall be brought down to ashes.”

I heard, “The New York Stock Exchange, Wall Street Corporations.”

For as the Israelites danced and worshiped the golden calf and it was written for warnings for future generations that the worship of wealth is a vile act of apostasy and rejection of God.

For the Egyptian idol of the bull god of Apis is the modern idol of worship of wealth and the idol of the love of money which is the root of ALL evil.

I see the tree stock and roots of the red Apple, suddenly be consumed in an instant.

“All is dark, the city is left desolate, and the land is cursed and ruined, and all the gates are destroyed . Babylon the great is ruined, ruined as her heart, veins and structure that gave strength to the nation and the world is no more. She no longer exists for the commerce in the world, for she is ruined, greatly ruined!

Just as My anger is kindled against this city and nation, and I shall strike the heart and she shall shake, and the earth will shake for her veins convulse and the seize of her blood flow nationally and internationally.

My anger is kindled against the Church Leaders, who not only allowed this, but were partakers of this idolatry!

This will be a very serious time for The Church, for holding false doctrine, and false ministers will be plainly exposed for who they are and held responsible for these practices of the love of money and tolerating this sin of idolatry.

The stir of the water is stagnant and polluted! You have dammed up and polluted what was pure!

I shall push and the dam shall break and everything that depends on that source of pollution shall be flattened and My Purity and My Source of The River of Life shall come back to her banks and her flow of My Source of Provision and the Well Head shall once again be a Pulpit of Truth and Purity.

Though weary and weighed down, disaster and the ecological and economical will be going deeper in the desert with no clear path.

The collapse of many decades past will make the heart sick, but shall course a deeper path to The Lamb and into the dead dry valley in hopes of clarity in the remote.

For who shall know the mind of The LORD in those days? For in famine, many shall seek the true Word of The LORD. Polluted mixture meetings and groups will become a thing of historic past, and true and pure worship shall care for the poor and needy.

So called good and pious men accommodate sin and ease. You must beware of people who accommodate the gospel of ambition, prosperity, recognition, biggest crowds, biggest churches and the sin of patterning Church by success, business models and other worldly notions.

Comfort sermons ease the mind. We cannot have an accommodating gospel. We have a polluted gospel from polluted pulpits.

You must take an open stand on sin, because Love will not cover a multitude of sin and iniquity, unless a person totally repents of the sin and radically turns away from it.”

There is no compromise, no apology that can stand! Only true and total repentance then forgiveness can come by His Hand.

To prepare The Church for what is coming is imminent, The LORD said, “Prepare My People for what’s ahead. All the judgments so far have been like slaps on the hand and the Christians have adapted.”

The people adapted when the Twin Towers fell, and after each judgmental succession we have adapted. The Church does not want to believe these things were judgments.

We are to represent Christ to this world, and since The Church adapted, so has the Nation and the World. But now, God has said, “They do err in their hearts, so now We must bring serious judgment to the city and the Church who made them forget.”

God is going to cause sudden destruction . The olive tree will be shaken, and the idols will come down. After the destruction and shaking, true change will come to this nation and the church.

Revival will come in the midst of the calamity. The Church will rise in the midst of the dust and destruction of what is left.

In the Circus and cotton candy atmosphere of The Church, no one sees the need to get serious with God. But WATCH!

When these Judgments, upheavals, persecutions, trials, tribulations and chaos are here then the people will get serious and seek God, and seek out His True Prophets and Ministers.

Revival will come on the heels of great Judgments!

In the view of much dust, will be seen those leaning on the one they love, our LORD Jesus.

To the obedient believer in Jesus, The LORD does not want you to live in fear, beloveds.

We must develop the attitude that ,regardless of if we live or die, we are The LORD’s! Be ready to face death every day and say, “God is all I have and all that I need.”

And in all the magnitude of circumstances we face, we must remember, God has everything under control! It is an amazing time to be alive, to see what The LORD will do!

Amen? Amen!

“Look! The days are coming, declares The LORD God, when I will send a famine throughout the land not a famine of food or a thirst for water but rather a famine of hearing the words of The LORD.” Amos 8:11.

“After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird! For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury. And I heard another voice from heaven saying, come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Render to her just as she rendered to you and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her. In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow. ’ Therefore, her plagues will come in one day — death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is The LORD God who judges her. The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning, standing at a distance for fear of her torment, saying, ‘Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come. ‘And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore: merchandise of gold and silver, precious stones and pearls, fine linen and purple, silk and scarlet, every kind of citron wood, every kind of object of ivory, every kind of object of most precious wood, bronze, iron, and marble; and cinnamon and incense, fragrant oil and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and bodies and souls of men. The fruit that your soul longed for has gone from you, and all the things which are rich and splendid have gone from you, and you shall find them no more at all. The merchants of these things, who became rich by her, will stand at a distance for fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, and saying, ‘Alas, alas, that great city that was clothed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls! For in one hour such great riches came to nothing.’ Every shipmaster, all who travel by ship, sailors, and as many as trade on the sea, stood at a distance and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What is like this great city?’ They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying, ‘Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she is made desolate. Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on her!” Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down, and shall not be found anymore. The sound of harpists, musicians, flutists, and trumpeters shall not be heard in you anymore. No craftsman of any craft shall be found in you anymore, and the sound of a millstone shall not be heard in you anymore. The light of a lamp shall not shine in you anymore, and the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you anymore. For your merchants were the great men of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations were deceived. And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth.” Revelation 18:1-24.

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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What Is Spiritual Grooming?

Spiritual “grooming” is a form of manipulation and control that takes place when someone who seemingly has authority over people.

“Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also, of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.” Acts 20:26-30 KJV

God Wants to Expose What Spiritual Grooming Is….

Spiritual “grooming” is a form of manipulation and control that takes place when someone who seemingly has authority (their own authority not God’s) over people.

These manipulators lead you into doing something or performing an action you would not normally do, and you find it very uneasy and uncomfortable.

Then if you feel pressured and uncomfortable about it and wish to not do it, then you will be made to feel that you are rebellious and disobedient to the man or woman of God!

Word Check : Does not The Word of God say, “Out of the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established?” (2 Corinthians 13:1)

Would it make sense that if God expected you to do what a spiritual leader said, would not God confirm it to you first?

You no longer answer a priest, prophet, pastor, bishop, apostle, or a title of doctor in the front of a title, or whatever they say they are.

You answer to God first and foremost. You do not follow them. Paul said, “Follow me as I follow Christ.” (i Corinthians 11:1)

A Spiritual Groomer is a deceiver, who also manipulates and withholds approval of you if you resist something that they want from you, when you are not comfortable with the act.

The goal of these manipulative people is to break down your own supernatural resistance and brain God gave you, so they gain personal advantages in your life. Put NO trust in man!

This Is a Very Scary Time to Be Alive and Not Know the Truth in the Scriptures

True men and women of God speak for Him. False men and women, who claim they are God’s ministers, speak and do what will ultimately be best for themselves.

They promote their own causes, and they cause divisiveness with those they have trapped in their web of deceit.

For example, I have even seen where false ministers cause division between marriages, for example, and they demand loyalty of them regardless of the contention they cause in their home, because the false ministers make themselves God’s equivalent.

They want you under their influence. They want you and everything that ‘YOU’ means!

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” 1 John 4:1.

Those who operate under a false ministry, appeal to your needs, and once they meet those needs, you are now obligated to them.

Once they invest in you, their motive in meeting temporal needs, is to meet that leader’s objective; which is to become part of them and their brand of Christianity, so they can control and manipulate you into serving them, instead of serving Christ freely.

“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides. of the north, I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.” Isaiah 14:12-14 KJV.

God is raising up truth and fruit producers; people who are uncompromisingly right with their words and actions. However, what makes them different is their great transparency, integrity, and honesty before The Body of Christ, and if need be, the world.

Important Point : When these precious truth producers miss it, they are quick to repent to The Body. If there are none who repent, that is your warning to get out of that place!

There are many who run to and fro, who major on titles and lofty positions in Church and religious organizations, announcing “I am Prophet so and so”, and “I am Apostle that”.

They also demand that you call them by these titles too! Like “Bishop this” and “Scribe that.”

They purchase lofty titles even in magazines, internet and television, they have said, “I will ascend the mountain into heaven and exalt myself and my Throne of Authority!”

Beloved of God, They Will Bewitch You!

“O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?” Galatians 3:1 KJV

These deceivers say that God promoted them to high levels of religious prominence, even in some spirit filled organizations.

They are even found among non-denominational spirit filled assemblies and found on Christian television, having multitudes of videos without end.

Those who promote themselves do not realize that every word they speak or write, is being judged by God Almighty.

These pride-filled, head-stomping, title-seeking, ladder-climbing, pew-jumping deceivers will find out there is nothing spirit-filled at the top of man’s pursuits, except for ministry organizations that are led and full of evil spirits.

Serving Christ and His people has nothing to do with anything like a political campaign to win the lofty seats in towers and castle walls.

Obtaining positions in religious Church organizations and businesses is a dog-eat-dog world. This is not the way that The Church of The Living God began, nor how it is now or will end!

Being an apostle, prophet, or any type of leader in the Church is a life of loving servitude. As we mature, we must find the way of laying down our life, the way Jesus laid down His Life for His Friends.

The true Church of Jesus Christ is a spirit-fed; spirit-led life of surrender to the Cross, as we pick it up daily.

We must take ownership of our condition and the words and oaths and the effects of what they have done in our lives. Until we admit our sin and take ownership of our condition, we can never be set free!

Own your words and be responsible and accountable with them. If you say you are going to do something, you better back up your words with your life and actions, or no one will believe you!

Living this way will always cause a superficial life of skimming the surface with people and there will be no lasting fruit. Your ministry will never go further than those limits because we live a life of words.

Stick to your words and back them up with your life, or you will never be taken seriously. Chicken scratching, trying to be the early bird with the worm, not realizing you cannot fly and you are stuck in the limits of the coop.

With the Eagle, it is not so, because when we learn to mount up in prayer, worship, and study and we will soar on the wings of the wind of The Word of God!

If we don’t back up our word and live a life of integrity, honesty and loyalty. we will live superficial lives.

If our word is not our bond, no one can trust us. When we sign an agreement that we will pay so much for a service or item, and we don’t pay it, no creditor can trust us. What is worse, is God cannot trust us.

Important Note : I cannot, nor can you, help anyone if they think they know everything. I can only do what The LORD says, and once I have done everything He said, my job is over.

I am not responsible if the person rebels, The LORD removes me from that situation.

Our conversations or WORDS, not only speak, but are written in the way we present ourselves.

We also speak with our body language, mannerisms, and experiences. It is The Will of God to be holy with every word and in all our conversations dealing with mankind, business, and the world.

Important Note : When truth producers miss it, they are quick to repent to The Body. If there is supposedly leadership and they sin, make mistakes and blunders and never publicly repent, that is a sure sign of the timing with the warning to get out of that place! It will not get any better!

As I close, the things I have written are things I have experienced in my life personally and I am not writing about some theory, or some schools teaching or book, or someone else’s experience.

My teaching and writing came directly from my prayer life as I abide, and I listen, in Jesus’ Name.

And as I study The Word of God, I remain in obedience. For His Word is forever settled in heaven and on earth by Christ Jesus.

Amen and amen!
 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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The Seriousness of Words, Vows and Business

God has been reminding me and teaching me a lot lately concerning the power of the words.

“But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; that ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.” 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12 NKJV

God has been reminding me and teaching me a lot lately concerning the power of the words.

Words originate out of the abundance of our heart and mind and then the power of the words that are spoken, are crafted by using the tongue.

The tongue is a world of iniquity in our members and is a constant fleshly pursuit to conquer, or it will conquer you!

The actions and effects of words can cause lasting change for a lifetime and choices we speak eternally!

God’s Words are forever settled in heaven and on earth. Words are very powerful and are active seeds and once spoken into our atmosphere can cause change, both blessings and cursings.

As The Army of The LORD advances and takes the land, we must acquire and continue to learn the vocabulary of Heaven.

I often hear this verse of The Bible;

“Study to be quiet and do your own business, and to work with your own hands.” 1 Thessalonians 4:11.

Learning to become quiet and taking time to really think about how we conduct our lives, will guide us through tough times.

For it is through our conversations, oaths, vows and business dealings with others that we must display our integrity and master these things to become a further fruitful work of maturity in The Kingdom of God, to press on and upward!

Whether we believe it or not, people are watching us and how we deal with each other and how we deal with the lost, and how we conduct our business in this world like paying what we owe.

Financial mismanagement is rampant in the organized religious Church. When we do not pay our bills or pay what we owe, we are actually stealing! (Exodus 20)

People are watching us in all our business dealings. I have seen and witnessed such financial mismanagement and lying, exaggerating, stealing, not paying bills that it made me literally sick to my stomach.

I have witnessed such mismanagement in so-called Churches that is pure fraud. I have seen examples of minister’s stealing money from a prophet who was supposed to get that offering.

If we make a contract with someone or some business to buy a thing over time, we are supposed to pay them, as we are supposed to do all things as unto The LORD.

I know a woman who takes her whole paycheck and gives it to a Woman’s Ministry and chooses not to pay her bills.

I have seen that same family go from house to house after foreclosure. That minister will be held accountable for not correcting the woman for not paying her bills — and stealing.

These are supposedly Christians. We need to take a close look at those ministers, to see what they are.

In my past, I have learned not to do business with many so-called Christians, for they are the worst kind to do business with! Does this resonate with you?

I also have witnessed stealing words from other prophets and stealing other prophets’ experiences and claiming those experiences as theirs.

“Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says The LORD, “who steal My words everyone from his neighbor. Behold, I am against the prophets,” says The LORD, “who use their tongues and say, ‘He says.’ Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” says The LORD, “and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore, they shall not profit this people at all,” says The LORD. Jeremiah 23:30-32 KJV.

Stick To Your Word; Back It Up With Your Life!

Integrity, Honesty and Loyalty,are outstanding and upstanding character traits!

Having work ethics, sound judgment, dependability, paying what you owe and doing the right thing through our words, actions and beliefs is uncompromising!

It is not what you do in public that measures you, it is what you do especially when no one is watching. That is where the rubber meets the road!

“In the multitude of words sin is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is wise.” Proverbs 10:19 NKJV.

Anyone having been in The Kingdom of God for very long, knows the importance of our words and how weighty they are, both in the positive and the negative.

The Bible talks about not being quick with our words, not using our mouth like a garbage can.

Searching the scriptures reveals the source of all life, and in the earliest stages of all life is the tongue and the power it uses to form the words that come out from our own heart past our lips is what creates good and evil. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. (Matthew 12:34)

There was a woman in San Antonio Texas in the 80’s whom I met at a Church, and we knew each other the entire seven years that I lived there.

During that time, I got to know her very well and maybe you can identify with her life. She started coming over to our home and began taking advantage of our generosity, and she would always control all the conversations.

I asked God if he wanted me involved with this woman and his answer was, “Yes!”

As I prayed for her, The LORD began to show me things, then suddenly, she started regressing and staying away.

That did not surprise me, because I knew I was dealing with demonic forces that had been within her for a long time.

NB: I cannot, nor can you, help anyone if they think they know everything.

I can only do what The LORD says, and once I have done everything He says, my job is over.

I am not responsible if the person rebels. The LORD removes me from that situation.

Then there were times he brought me back into her life, when she was willing and obedient to hear from The LORD.

We had services in our house and every month we would celebrate whoever had a birthday. The Church would celebrate birthdays one Friday of each month.

I remember her coming in that night and she was non stop talking even through the service. There were three people who had a birthday, and she was one of them.

The ministry had gotten a cake and she happened to be in a good mood and came in for service after being away for some time. After service, everyone came in and we cut the cake and shared it with the entire ministry.

She bluntly came in running her mouth and said she had to go, then shockingly she proceeded to take the entire cake home with her!

I said, “Wait a minute that cake is for everyone that has a birthday.” She did not take the cake home.

I know this was an extreme example but isn’t this like most of the so-called Church? This woman had some really big issues with the love of money (everyone else’s money), entitlements, and proper social interactions.

I continued to pray as to why God wanted me in her life as she seemed bent on trying to discredit, slander me, and curse me but The LORD would not release me.

I once again would forgive asking others to forgive as well and remain patient with her.

The LORD taught me so much about his never-ending Grace and Mercy through her love-hate relationship with me. He would lead me at times, when I was the last person she wanted to see me, lead in with a smile of compassion and kindness, while I remained silent.

She continued to spin and spin with words until she finally sat down to listen. Yet God, in His Mercy would speak to her need and He never missed it.

God puts up with a lot in our lives, but He never releases us from His Care. Isn’t it comforting to know that no matter how messed up our lives are, that we are never too far from His loving kindness that leads us to repentance?

There are people just like her in The Body who need deliverance. Those who don’t know what to do with their own wrecked life.

She took liberties and would just show up at my house at any time without calling, asking, or doing what’s normal for people to do to be polite.

Her son was my son’s age, and they would play. I remember she would always talk, and she would always gossip, slander, and blame everyone else for her problems.

It was hard to get a word in edgewise with her. However, I learned a whole lot about her by listening to every word and watching her actions.

God continued to have me pray, fast, and minister to her, even when she would get angry with me and go away.

The LORD never cut off the relationship until we left the state. I look back on that time and think how wonderful it was that The LORD taught me so much through her.

I did not rejoice in what she went through, but I thanked God for teaching me through her life. For her, it was a love-hate relationship that we had, because she had deep rooted issues that dealt with abuse. She suffered physical, emotional, and horrible spiritual abuse.

She was molested by her father, who was a Baptist Minister, and she had horrible trust issues with spiritual leaders.

It took time getting to know her, but I saw the woman and I also saw the child that never was healed from all that happened.

I remained faithful to what God said, and I tried through the years to help her understand the importance of words and how curses must be broken, especially generational curses.

But on top of all of that, having her own biological father, who was the minister in the Church, sexually abuse her over and over, she could not get beyond that point.

I knew it was horrible and I do not know what I would do in that situation. Yet, through it all, I saw the Grace and Mercy of God in how He approached her, because her mind at many times was driven to insanity.

To imagine one’s own father doing such a thing would be very hard to process. Yet, to be honest, I do not know who could process and be healed of such a thing, unless The LORD himself performed a sovereign work of healing from the inside out.

I was able to minister to her while I was there, and she did get some deliverance ,and I trusted that The LORD would continue, since we had orders in the military to leave the state.

But true to form, she got very angry with me for having to leave. But these traumatized precious ones are the type of people that need the true Church, with the true liberating Power of Deliverance!

The religious Church world and Babylon System are not ready for people like this. People in organized religion expect people to come to the Church who are already refined and defined in life.

But that is not how it is! And there are a lot of people who are self-medicating in various ways to cope, because of trauma that they suffered.

Many suffer in silence, thinking they are too messed up to be helped. However, in the eyes of The LORD, this treatment of people is the worst.

In fact, religious or spiritual abuse in my opinion is the very worst. When will the true Church arise and shine? When will we become the hospital? A place of healing and restoration?

As we mature in The LORD, He expects us to be holy in every appearance. Not only the way we present ourselves, but in our mannerisms.

It is The Will of God to be Holy with every word, and in all our conversations dealing with mankind and business. For The Bible says “be holy — for I AM Holy.” (1 Peter 1:16, Leviticus 11:44)

I know that holiness is right, and that especially applies to the way we communicate with people. I will warn you of this, that there are those who run to and fro, who major on titles and lofty positions saying, “I am prophet this…” and “I am Apostle that….”

Oh, and let me not forget, that they demand that you call them these titles too! Like “Bishop this’…” and “Scribe that…” They purchased lofty titles; they promoted themselves to high levels of religious prominence, even in some spirit-filled organizations.

They are even found among nondenominational spirit-filled assemblies and found on Christian Television having multitudes of videos without end. Those who promote themselves, do not realize that every word they speak or write — is being judged.

These pride-filled, head-stomping, title-seeking, ladder-climbing, jumping deceivers will find out there is nothing spirit filled at the top of man’s pursuits, only evil spirits.

Serving Christ is nothing like a political campaign to win the lofty towers and castle walls. Obtaining positions in religious organizations and businesses is a dog-eat-dog world. This is not the Church of the living God, and what Christ began!

Being an apostle, prophet, or any leader in the Church, is a life of loving servitude. As we mature, we must find the way of laying down our life the way Jesus laid down his life for his friends. It is a spirit-fed spirit-led life of surrender to the Cross, as we pick it up daily.

I remember a long time ago when I thought I knew everything and had so much to give! I will never forget what happened to me!

I came into a meeting and I brought my concordance, and I brought my books thinking, I have got all the help I would need for these poor dear people who needed me!

So, I walked into this group with my inflated pride and as I walked in, I heard The Holy Spirit say, “Sit down and learn! You don’t know as much as you think you know!”

Well, that was my New Beginning of Learning what it meant to be truly promoted in The Kingdom. The last is first and to be first is last.

Learning through the years, the humbling trials and tribulations to process the fruit of the vine of being prepared as His divinely processed vessel. Cheers! (Acts 2)

If it were me dear reader, I would have you spared from such things, but I am not God, and He knows best.

But actually, it depends on you to a certain degree, in how long it takes for a horse or mule that must be bit, bridled, and broken.

To live a life of brokenness, is to depend on The LORD and pray, “God, how is my heart before You today? Are you still my top priority and in the place where you should be?”

Then seek to love Him first and foremost, and then all the other things will fall into their proper place. (Matthew 6:33)

Not so long ago, it was an honorable thing to agree about a thing and shake hands. Shaking hands was as good as your word or bond.

God has been showing me how vital it is to be honest and speak rightly about all things. Once we speak our words, we must own our words and what those words produce. The results of our circumstances are greatly dependent on what our confession is.

You say what you mean and mean what you say, study to be quiet and weigh every word before you speak.

Also learn to become a listener and learn to possess your soul and do not blurt out everything before you can speak and back it up.

The words that we speak originate out of our hearts. For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Study to be quiet and you can learn a lot about a person by listening to their words and conversations. Our words are our bond even when it is difficult or inconvenient.

Words of an oath are so important, because there are spiritual forces that have witnessed what we said under oath. For example, when a person comes into a marriage and exchanges vows is what places authority on their covenant together.

Whatever oath, covenant, and words we speak, speaks volumes like an open book.

I would be amiss if I did not say this; If oaths are broken, it attracts the demonic and causes an open invitation for curses that follow the violator.

I am not saying that this sin and situation cannot be repented of, but we must take ownership of our condition and the words and oaths and the effects of what they have done in our lives.

Until we admit our sin and take ownership of our condition, we can never be set free. Once we confess our sin and take the ownership of blame, then true repentance can come bringing with it lasting change and deliverance.

May we all open our hearts so that we learn the lessons to become victorious in our lives in all respects, in Jesus’ Name!

“Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill to The LORD the vows you have made.’ But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.” Matthew 5:33-37 KJV.

We have a greater level of personal responsibility and accountability to make sure we are living in alignment with the words of The LORD.

We are being held to a higher standard and those who read these words are witnessing this!

Our words, promises, covenants, oaths, and vows we made to God when we received Jesus Christ as Lord! AND a personal responsibility to guard our heart, put a watch before our tongue and mouth, keep our vows to God and man especially in marriage, and in all our business’s dealings with the world and the Church.

We must remember to live our lives above reproach!

Let your yes be yes and your no, be no!

Realize that what we do in secret is openly displayed, nothing is hidden from God, and we must remember to do ALL things as unto The LORD and serve and prefer one another in the name of Jesus Christ our Savior and LORD!

Glory Hallelujah! To Him who sits on The Throne and unto The Lamb.

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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