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Familiarity Breeds Contempt

The LORD lived and knew people and learned to be a carpenter before His earthly ministry ever started.

The LORD lived and knew people and learned to be a carpenter before His earthly ministry ever started.

When He was thirty years old His Ministry began. He was familiar with the feelings we have and all of our infirmities.

Many people never speak about The Son of Man. Jesus experienced every temptation yet without sin.

Jesus knew what it meant to be human as we. Jesus identifies what it is like for us to be part of a personal and familiar family.

The majority did not receive him and His Calling and Purpose — even within his own brothers and sisters.

And something I failed to see in my study was…. where was Joseph? I always wondered about that.

When you are rejected and ignored this Christmas from family and friends, you must realize not all will accept you and they will speak against you.

The best thing you can do is to cast all your cares and family members and lay them on The Altar and give them to God. The best thing we can do is pray for them…. then release them.

Often times when people are too familiar with us, they remember all our mistakes and are sure to judge, because they think they know us.

Remember that Jesus (the Son of Man) too, was not well liked in his family and home town. You’re in good company beloved, and it was true with Jesus, as He couldn’t do many things there in his home town, because of those who knew him and rejected him in unbelief.

Jesus tried to reach his hometown, but the people were too familiar with Him, and He provoked a response that set their teeth on edge and they wanted to kill Him!

He tried to reach them, but the people wanted Him to do the same things He did elsewhere, and He said, “No prophet is ever welcomed in his hometown” and it made the people furious and drove him out to throw him off a cliff. (Luke 4:14-30)

That is contempt to the maximum. God wants us as well to realize we will also experience this in our hometowns and those who are too familiar.

Their plan to throw him down, Jesus simply walked away and escaped.

What made them so angry? Why did Jesus make a lot of people mad?

The people knew He was an apprentice of his father as carpenter, and they saw Him grow up and live, helping His father. So, He was very well known around town and He was ordinary, and His Greatness was kept hidden.

The people thought, “How dare He talk down to us!” When others are familiar with you, people begin to predict your behavior on past acts good or bad, and judge you and marginalize you.

Familiarity, causes a lack of respect and they dismiss and ignore you by their own opinions.

During this Christmas season, realize that you are in good company! If they did it to Jesus they will do it to you.

As you move on after this season, go to where you are accepted, go to wherever you are received and let the dust settle and release your peace everywhere you go and take dominion in the spirit realm, and silence the accuser and bless those you love and those who don’t love you, and forgive and do good and your Father in Heaven will see and honor you for your calm composure in The Name of Jesus!

“And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these parables, He withdrew from there. And having come into His own region, He was teaching them in their synagogue, so that they are astonished and are saying, “From where came to this One this wisdom and these miraculous powers? Is this not the son of the carpenter? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And are not all His sisters with us? Then from where came to this One all these things?”
And they were offended at Him.
But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in the hometown and in his own household.” And He did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.” Matthew 13:53-58 KJV

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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You Have Been Aiming Too Low

The LORD says, “How far has The Church strayed from the fullness of My Word!.”

“You have been aiming too low, slow, and under the mere measurement of man in the prospects and the goals that I want to grant you in this hour.

Your mind and thought patterns are true but has kept you limited too, based on your past.

You must think way beyond everything you ever thought on prior. You cannot imagine what shall be revealed, and if you think on these things you will miss the new that I will do!

Remember ye not the days of old. Do not base any future outreach from times gone by. Do not continue to preserve your experiences like some granite stone for a burial memorial.

The living must live on! You cannot resurrect a remembrance. You have memories but the substance of those experiences is like a shadow that has passed over.

For a remembrance in stone is honored, but it cannot live on. You must move on! You must LIVE and not die and declare My Works!

You must Live and decree, declare, and establish all that I shall be within you. You cannot fathom, measure, or compare what shall come in this hour. You must move on with the Glory Cloud no matter what you hear, feel, or see!

The things of the past were there to teach and train you. What you carry is not the work of an organized religious house and organization!

The Sadducees and Pharisees were fully trained in their craft and it matters not what degree you had or have. For I take the foolish things of the world to confound the so called wise.

With all that men aspired to by learning, yet they could not see the only perfect one among them.

The one they studied about came in to the temple, taught, spoke, overturned tables of money changers, and finally I wept over Jerusalem calling the temple the house of desolation!

All the energy and status the religious had blinded them fully and everyone that listened and followed them were as bound and blind as they.

They made their law appealing by adding every type of religious loophole that religious men of the past based all things on past events.

The religious demanding perfection and enforcing God’s law, made the people hopeless with doubt and then I went without the temple.

Only one became the perfect sacrifice, the payment of all sin was purchased with My own blood and broken body.

You must understand that the same condition exists in the religious world today in the form of the many religions, ‘Christian’ religious Church Houses and corporate organizations.

How far has The Church strayed from the fullness of My Word!

Beloved, eyes have not seen nor ears have heard what I shall do for those who carry My Word of evangelism for souls to the ends of the earth and as they preach The Word, remarkable demonstrations will take place as signs and wonders will fill the place as they follow!”

“Do not remember the former things, or ponder the things of the past. Listen carefully, I AM about to do a new thing, now it will spring forth; will you not be aware of it?” Isaiah 43:18-9 AMP.

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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The First Family

God reminds us in His Word, of His Mercy and Grace when He heard the prayers of Abraham.

Beloved, I will never try to make light, my dear readers, of what you have gone through and been going through during this past year.

For many this year have endured. Simply put, enduring this past year we have gone through something that has forever changed our lives.

If we are blessed to stand around a table this year with families, friends, or hosts of others, that are without a meal, we must remember beloved — we are never alone.

If when we sit down and partake, may we silence ourselves and reflect on all the goodness that God has done and to say with a sincere heart of faith and prayer for all who have lost so much.

In vision I saw an ear, and The LORD said, “You have My ear!”

The chaos is off the charts, because when a nation forgets God, God forgets.

Is God done with America?

I keep hearing many doors slamming shut. We who have God’s ear, are we really interceding as Abraham interceded for Sodom and Gomorrah? (Read Genesis 18)

God reminds us in His Word, of His Mercy and Grace when He heard the prayers of Abraham.

What better time for us, who have The LORD’s Ear to seek His Mind and ask for an outpouring of His Spirit in the midst of chaos and calamity?

Many have laid down. one by one, each piece of armor and weapon, being hit with blow after blow, driven by strong twisting head winds of a heart ripped by discouragement. For Hope deferred makes a heart sick.

Not even realizing in your weariness, you have been set up for what is right. Thinking all was undone, you came apart at the seams and senses.

The LORD knows the destiny even when its apparently spinning off course. Your pilot is still on The Throne, for The LORD reminds you in your natural, your supernatural fights for the side of Light and Right with a brighter future!

For as evil reigns unrestrained in our streets, It all begins with the Church Triumphant, as we must repent, and then stand in the gap for this Nation.

Craft especially your prayers, as The Holy Ghost leads. The LORD will give you insight to the answers, to unraveling plots and schemes of the destructive works of chaos and complete demonic disorder.

God is not the author of confusion — but of peace. Stand and pray for the ravaging, looting, lawlessness, and pandemonium.

God, having seen such unpredictable behavior, commands with great sensitivity to the smallest minute detail, bringing in swift changes of order to the disorder. God is a God of Order!

Can God change His Mind and repent of His Decision?

God said,

“If My People who are called by MY Name would humble themselves and pray and seek My Face and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” 1 Chronicles 7:14.

In the busiest season of the year, many — all over the world and especially in the USA this year — are having a very hard time in missing loved ones, and in feeling all-out attacks of depression and desolation.

I am not speaking of ‘the blues’, I am speaking of demonically inspired plans to keep you in a desolate state where you are.

In malls, as you walk along with screens blaring the sights and sounds of Christmases gone by, it is so easy with the things we hear and see, to be stressed out and distracted from our pure devotion we have with The LORD.

This is a time of true celebration of the virgin birth, yes! But with reflection on our own heart to see if we honor the virgin birth in a very humble way.

He came upon the scenes not with parades or great pomp and circumstance, but in a way, few could accept.

We rejoice in the birth of our Savior The LORD Jesus Christ! “He was born…” The meaning tends to become blurred with the traditions of the world.

Many of us know the tradition in our families, but there is a major change happening in the midst of great turmoil.

There is an emphasis of the humility of God in the form of our LORD Jesus Christ. He came for the atonement of our salvation, but his meaning is so much deeper, for He lived and died as we, yet without sin.

I marvel at His Lessons in life, in how He did things and how far “the so-called Church” has removed herself from it.

I will continue to rejoice, and I am thankful that The LORD Jesus was born into natural life, like how we were born, but He revealed how we could live a supernatural life, as He did.

He understands how people are, for He never committed Himself to man, for He knew the heart of man.

For those who are alone in this Christmas celebration, do you love Jesus? He became your first family!

The LORD lived and knew people before His earthly ministry ever started, when he was thirty.

He was familiar with the feeling of our infirmities. He knew what it meant to be part of a familiar family, of whom the majority did not receive Him, and He couldn’t do many things there in His home town, because of those who knew Him, and rejected him in unbelief.

More to come……

“And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these parables, He withdrew from there. And having come into His own region, He was teaching them in their synagogue, so that they are astonished and are saying, “From where came to this One this wisdom and these miraculous powers? Is this not the son of the carpenter? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? And are not all His sisters with us? T hen from where came to this One all these things?” And they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in the hometown and in his own household.” And He did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.” Matthew 13:53-58 KJV.

“But Jesus, for His part, did not entrust Himself to them, because He knew all people [and understood the superficiality and fickleness of human nature], and He did not need anyone to testify concerning man [and human nature], for He Himself knew what was in man [in their hearts — in the very core of their being].” John 2:24-25 AMP

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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At Ease in Zion

The LORD has been showing me an “upward spiraling out of control” as things continue to intensify in our Nation and around the globe.

“He that is called ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.” Job 12:5 KJV.

The LORD has been showing me an “upward spiraling out of control.”

As things continue to intensify in our Nation and around the globe, the true Church of The Living God must learn to deny self and press onward and upward into God more than ever before!

We must take as many people as possible with us that will hear our message of The Cross. The Church needs to be prepared for what is coming, and messages lulling people to ease, is a negligence on our part if we do not confront it.

What’s right is wrong and what is wrong is right! If we have not learned this by now, it is a necessity that we must learn that the only reprieve The Church will have in the coming days ahead is learning how to live and walk in The Spirit and dwelling in the presence of The LORD.

Our times of refreshing come from The Presence of The LORD.

I predict that home Churches will be where the spiritual and physical needs of the Church will be met.

When true Believers come together, we must help strengthen one another and teach the true Gospel Message as the days get darker.

We must be strong in The LORD and in the power of His Might! The Church must be strengthened with all might according to his glorious power unto all patience, longsuffering, with joyfulness!

We are to live this and teach The Body, that living the life for Christ biblically is our only hope and our greatest joy!

To have hope in this world is to be most miserable. We must present the truth of Scripture about the dying of the flesh so the Spirit may rise.

However, what if we are called and chosen by God to die for our faith in Christ?

Do we really think we could stand in the face of death for our faith?

We will suffer for the name of Christ, and everything Bible speaks about the believers who count it all loss for the case and cause for The Cross of Christ Jesus.

I have heard this; “Hasn’t God promised us a life of ease?”

No, He did not. In fact, he said quite the opposite, for in this world you shall have tribulation. (John 16:33)

We are negligent if we do not prepare the saints that there will be tough times ahead. The light is revealing the thought of him at ease, and it exposes a slippery path.

There will be times of heaviness through the battles we face that will thoroughly test our resolve. Yet we have a good, good, father who cares for our lives in every way.

Even as The Sword of The Spirit wields down to the division of our very own soul, spirit, joints, and marrow.

Do we ease or appease the nature of those who willfully conformed to sin?

Again, do we ease or appease the nature of those who willfully conform our nation at odds with God?

Are we at ease in Zion?

Do we pacify and appease all sorts of ungodly pressure groups so that they demand acceptance when it goes against our conscience and against God’s Will — which is His Word?

“Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border? Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; that chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music, like David; that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. Therefore, now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet them that stretched themselves shall be removed. The LORD GOD hath sworn by himself, saith The LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore, will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.” Amos 6:1-8 KJV

“Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon The LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us. Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.” Psalm 126:2-6 KJV

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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