The Rose — God’s Plan!

As I was meditating on The LORD, He reminded me of how we all are like plants in the breeze, some come up seasonally some for longer or shorter seasons.

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“The wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose,”   Isaiah 35:1 NKJV.

As I was meditating on The LORD, He reminded me of how we all are like plants in the breeze, some come up seasonally some for longer or shorter seasons.

But everything is in harmony from the times we know not, yet we are well known by God.  For many are the plans in a man’s mind but it is The LORD’s purpose that shall stand.

As I was praying, I saw a beautiful plant, but The LORD began to show me the progression of the planting, starting from a seed and placed in proven fertile rich soil.

As it grew through the tough times the plant continued its trek towards the sun.  Soon leaves and branches grew, and in season was pruned to remove the excess so as not to hinder the fullness of the master’s garden of delight.

In season the time of the spring of life comes with all the growth, enduring even the pruning of what was not profitable for the plan of God.

God sees each phase with eager eyes wondering if the plant would become what was exquisite and precious.

Life has many setbacks but beloved in the eyes of God, we need to change our mindset.  It is during the set ups that we learn to realize our whole life has God’s plan engrafted into our very souls.

I began to see how the plant continued to be tended and grew and soon thorns grew on the branches of the plant.

Often as we are growing, the thorns of life and cares of life make us touchy and intimidate others from coming too close.

Yet the Master gardener knew the plan and soon the bulb appeared and began to emerge into beautiful layers of crimson red petals.

The plan that God has is to showcase the beauty of The LORD in holiness and to inquire in His temple.

Each stage of the tended rose bush offers the crème of the crème, but only the Master waits for the one to be taken from the bush to be displayed.

The glory of The LORD is proven when the branch is clipped, held, and prepared to showcase those who would witness this glorious sight.

That bush and the branch displayed carried an enduring promise that though we are seemingly clipped, we were handled with care as the most beautiful rose produced among sharp tongued thorns.

The fullness of the flower rested as the aroma was captivating.  Then as time progressed the petals began to fall, one by one and the stem bent over in sequence. It was all to fulfill and display the Master gardeners work to enjoy His creation as our scent has risen to Him as a sweet-smelling savor.

Nothing has been in vain, nothing missing or broken just the progression of how the Master tends His garden in hopes of finding that rose He enjoys so much.

Beloved, never underestimate how far The LORD will go to prepare you to display His works and glory!

For The Glory of The LORD shall be revealed all flesh will see it together for the mouth of The LORD has spoken it…

Many of The LORD’s plans and deeds are clearly described to further understand His dealings with His beloved heritage.

Only God knows what plan he has for your life!  When He sewed His love and planted you into the womb, only the Father understood how protective His plan and seeds would become.

God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost had a PLAN!

The triune God invaded the earth by first the announcement to a precious virgin to bring to fruition the vision of God’s purpose of Messiah into the earth.

Mary pondered all that was said in her heart, yet she carried what was Holy and divine into silence as the enemy tried to figure out how to stop it.

Yet through Mary this young virgin mother birthed a brand-new beginning that would bring hope to the whole world.

The divine touched man to identify with mankind. Messiah came with the plan of the ancients, and HE was every bit human as the ‘Son of Man yet without sin.’

He came with no fanfare, only revealed to a select few as a witness as the angels sang but He was lowly found in a manger not in bringing attention but in keeping the vision and plan concealed in secret.

It is important to know what to reveal and when to be silent and ponder it all in our hearts as Mary did.

What is within your spiritual womb is so precious to The LORD and so important to protect.

“And suddenly there appeared with the angel a great multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests!” When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which The LORD has made known to us.”   Luke 2:13-15.

GOD HAS A PLAN!

The LORD doesn’t ramble and speak out of timing as His Word is forever settled in heaven.

However, His timing and will for you are precious, holy, precise, and when He reveals secrets in us to His beloved Church we must often refrain and pray as we His people must become careful of what we carry in our bellies and carry in our arms.

He called us loved, worthy, and valuable, and furthermore prophesied of how we would glorify God in the measure HE gave to us!

“No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified The LORD of glory.”   1 Corinthians 2:7-8.

Some of you have lost hope, but beloved He gives us hope!

Hope maketh not ashamed and hope deferred makes the heart sick.

Beloved, The LORD has been working all through your life, but often we don’t see the greater picture due to the mundane.

For He uses everything in our lives for His purposes, even all the mistakes, sin, shame, guilt, and condemnation even though we sink into self-hatred and depression, we can repent now in Jesus’ name!

God knows the plans HE has for us!

“For He Himself knows our form; He is mindful that we are nothing but dust.  As for man, his days are like grass; Like a flower of the field, so he flourishes.  When the wind has passed over it, it is no more, and its place no longer knows about it.  But the mercy of The LORD is from everlasting to everlasting for those who fear Him, and His justice to the children’s children, to those who keep His covenant and remember His precepts, so as to do them.”   Psalm 103:14-18 KJV.

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In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey


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God’s Reach or Ability is Not Diminished in You!

My security is in God’s Presence alone! In solitude I have learned to be still and to be silent from the world. As I do this it creates space to walk forward. 

My security is in God’s Presence alone!

In solitude I have learned to be still and to be silent from the world.

As I do this it creates space to walk forward.  I don’t need to look around to others for I stay focused on God.

My trust in God isn’t selective.  I pray for Wisdom as my relationship with Jesus is my foundation.

I am The LORD’s servant, and may the word be fulfilled as I have put all my trust in God.

I shall move in Faith with or without another opinion.

I walk forward with the still, small, voice of faith filled with confidence even though many doubt me and at times I doubt myself.

Regardless, I shall trust in God’s guidance moving me in Faith!

One of the hardest things I had to learn is that regression wasn’t lost time.  God’s Will and Word was proven through difficulty.  We always learn to regress before we ever progress.

We must understand that our whole life is plain before God.  Nothing hidden or broken can be kept from his loving care.

Mary carried the Messiah within her womb, yet she pondered it all in her heart.  Silence and hiddenness are just as important in the plan of The LORD that we cannot see.

Not everyone has a public ministry.  Mary gave birth to Christ the Son of the living God!

We cannot underestimate how God wants to work or how he uses others.  We are to look at others in the kingdom, even those hidden parts of the body with respect and honor.  What Mary birthed would provide redemption to the whole world!

The prophetic and exponentially destiny of the whole worldwide ministry was in her womb!  We are all part of each other regardless of what we see, feel, or hear.

“Don’t be discouraged, beloved, I have been with you a long time, I AM teaching you to become real yet supernatural in all your ways.

it’s not about public ministry but about what you do in secret!”

God does His best often when He works in secret.

We must realize and be content in the places of seemingly conquest.

You cannot see faith naturally, but you can see the results of faith if The LORD opens your eyes.  But that doesn’t diminish God’s reach or ability in you.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen — to believe what you can’t see or hear is placing faith to stand with God’s word supernaturally.  To stand and believe what God has said is having Faith.

For there is a secret…  and only God knows The Plan.

Unless a grain of wheat falls and dies in the ground, it remains alone.  God isn’t only using those who are popular or the various modes of doctrine and theology — there are many who will never be known this side of glory, but their role is so valid and important.

Don’t look at the mouth, listen for what is coming out of that mouth.

To have such faith as Elisha had not been learned from books; no, they progressed hidden yet what a ministry Elisha had! Elisha was trained and prepared by God through Elijah.

The majority of all the prophets were kept aside for a reason. Prophets had to be accurate and prepared alone to hear and obey the voice of The LORD.

To follow Christ and the prophets takes Faith.

True prophets are prepared alone in silence, trusting that we need not the approval of man because it is fleeting.

Trust HIM even in silence and being hidden away. However, all who put trust in God in the midst of solitude and silence will defuse the results of many criticisms.

“And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And The LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.”   2 Kings 6-17.

“Many shall try to gain access and attempt to walk your path.

However, many attempts to gain access to your flesh shall slip but they shall fully know that I have blessed you and I have anointed you.

Never underestimate the power of silence and solitude for It is what I do in secret that makes great gains in the path of My Chosen….

Be encouraged, beloved, My reach or ability isn’t diminished in you!”

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey


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The Enemy’s Bedchamber

We are taking the land and taking back everything that was stolen from us and The Kingdom of God.

We are taking the land and taking back everything that was stolen from us and The Kingdom of God.

The enemy panics, as they are revealed and manifest due to the light you carry!

This is a good thing, because they have no choice but to let go, because The Anointing breaks every yoke.

Once you realize that this spiritual battle is taking back what was stolen from you and God’s Kingdom, you will gain spiritual fortitude!

However, we must know who we are in Christ, because we face real evil and never underestimate the enemy!

When the light reveals them, they will do anything to be covered, but they can’t so give no place to them to hide and don’t allow them to speak, tell them by name to go back to the pit — in Jesus’ name!

“No weapon formed against you will prosper and every tongue that rises up against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is from Me,” Says the LORD.”   Isaiah 54:17 NKJV

Words are powerful both good and bad!

We must realize, to be sensitive to The Spirit of God, we must take time to be still and quiet to listen to God.

When many words are spoken, sin is not lacking.

Satan and his demons will attempt a strategy planned at the planning stages of the enemy’s bedchamber to ensnare.

His bedchamber has sired countless strategies against God’s people to steal, kill, destroy, discredit, intimidate, distract, hinder, trap, maim, ruin and take you down in shame and guilt, God’s beloved!

Satan and his demons will attempt to overtake you!!

When they manifest, don’t be intimidated, or afraid, do not grieve, or allow rejection when they manifest, realize what they are, and their objective is to ruin your life, and they are hated by God!

There are evil spirits that were thrown to the earth and cursed by God long ago.

Jesus said, “Behold I saw Satan as lightning fell from heaven.

I have given you power over all the power of the enemy and whatever you bind on earth is bound in heaven and what you lose on earth you lose in heaven.”

“Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”   Luke 10:19.

Don’t believe everything you hear!

There are entities that seek to use your mind and speech.  Beloved, there are demons at work to intimidate you to stop speaking!

The devil knows that when we know who we are and know God’s Word and use it as the sword of the Spirit they don’t have a rock to stand on.

Your Spirit is provoked, and to be provoked causes a reaction to action!  A provoking will reveal your true identity and words and others who communicate to you.

If God is for you, who can be against you!

God knows your heart, but God wants YOU to know your own heart!

Once you know they are provoked in their spirit, soul, and body you can easily tell them to go in Jesus’ name.

Why?  There was a collision between light and darkness, and it went BOOM!  Stand still and see the salvation of God!

“And Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Standstill, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever.”   Exodus 14:13.

“Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”   Luke 10:19.

Don’t believe everything you hear!

There are entities that seek to use your mind and speech.

Beloved, there are demons at work to intimidate you to stop speaking!

The devil knows that when we know who we are and know God’s Word and use it as the sword of the Spirit they don’t have a rock to stand on.

Reader, you may be feeling this?  Your Spirit is provoked, and to be provoked causes a reaction to action!

A provoking will reveal your true identity and words and others who communicate to you.  If God is for you, who can be against you!

God knows your heart, but God wants YOU to know your own heart!

Once you know they are provoked in their spirit, soul, and body you can easily tell evil spirits to go in Jesus’ name.

Why?  There was a collision between light and darkness, and it went BOOM!  Stand still and see the salvation of God!

“And Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Standstill, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever.”   Exodus 14:13.

So now as I close, we must not causally put up with words and actions that are not of God.

We must counter suit with, “Thus say The LORD!”

We are held accountable for the words and actions we do that pull people into sin.

The light we carry illuminates and exposes evil and they scramble to bring distractions to cover up the plans of darkness in motion.

In the presence of light everything is revealed.  Satan knows you by name, “Paul I know, and Jesus I know, but WHO are you?!”
 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey


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Taking Spoils of Victory

Our Commander and Chief are pursuing every lost soul and giving them help to see and choose life or death, blessing or cursing.

There are many people and destinies to be loosed!  Realize this!

Our Commander and Chief are pursuing every lost soul and giving them help to see and choose life or death, blessing or cursing.

God told the man to cultivate the earth and told him to occupy till He comes.  So, there are some very ancient spirits on the ancient path that we must engage in.

We must realize when we engage in spiritual warfare, we are not playing pat-a-cake with demons — but are engaging with ancient evil spirits that are beyond smart and have learned human behavior well, practicing on many.

However, for the enemy to do the most damage he must find a host to live.

A person who hosts the enemy, gives him total possession.  Even Christians can be obsessed in their thoughts that troubles their mind, but a Christian cannot be possessed.

But a Christian can be bombarded in their thoughts that keeps them perplexed and obsessed.

This is a war zone for the oppressed to keep you pressed down so that you can’t lift your head.

Who gives the devil authority to come in and beat us down?  As a Christian the only person who can empower the devil is YOU!

“My people perish for lack of knowledge”   Hosea 4:6.

We must develop our spiritual vision.  God has been preparing you.  But you are only one for now in time.

The LORD knows we are like sheep.  Isn’t it wonderful that God knows our frame and realizes that we are like a flock of sheep looking for the shepherd?

Sheep are not very smart and depend on the Shepherd for everything.  As sheep in all their limitations, God has chosen to call us the sheep of His pasture.

The enemy tries to keep us blind.  The only way to protect his controlled assets of each soul is that he keeps you ignorant and he manipulates the person to keep his rights hidden.

The devil cannot torment a soul, unless there is agreement with the will of man.  Thus, evil incorporates the soul, body, and ALL the spoils!

In this season as we go forward the enemy is highly active because he knows his time is short.

His objective is to take down and destroy as many as possible.  He is trying to wear out the saints, but we must realize that God has a plan, and he is not saying much as to give the enemy insight and strategy.

Beloved we must understand, as we march forward to win souls, we must remember to take the land and not to forget to TAKE BACK the spoils!

You are to take back all the spiritual spoils and natural spoils you can see with your eyes.

Everything that Satan had stolen, began to command that they be released, especially precious people we labor over.

Look at movements both good and evil and they have been around a very long time.

Let me illustrate, when a city is invaded and you are about to lose your home there is a desperation that takes over, for the enemy is stealing what God gave to you!

Now, instead of you running away, begin to run towards the front-line battle!  Give him no more room and take back everything he has stolen from you!

The predestined land is coming into your purpose!

Once the person that you minister to has received Deliverance, not only is the soul set free of evil, but you are taking the land where that evil spirit occupied!

It becomes ground gained in the Kingdom of God and in the great body of believers!

Jesus speaks that we are to occupy till He comes!

We are taking the land and taking back everything that was stolen from the Kingdom of God.  The enemy wants to flee but they manifest due to the light you carry!

This is good because they have no choice but to let go.  Once you realize the spiritual battle is taking ground back to God, do not grieve, or allow rejection when they manifest, realize it is demons at work to intimidate you to leave or stop speaking.

They are provoked in their spirit, soul, and body.  The light you carry illuminates and exposes them and they scramble for distractions to cover up the plans of darkness. In the presence of light everything is revealed.

Everything borrowed must go back into the hands of the righteous, just like when judgment was on the Egyptians, they realized they must give the gold of the monetary system of Egypt.

When God told Moses the strategy, the Israelites were told to flee by Moses and their hands were not empty.

It is normal in spiritual warfare to expedite and expect the spoils of war individually as well as corporately.

Even the things lost, buried, forgotten are clearly seen by God.  The LORD knows each bloodline; He knows the promises He made, and He hasn’t forgotten you.

For those who have been tested in the monetary system for faithfulness and integrity, the Master Builder has seen that you are above reproach, and He will do what He promised.  You’re valuable and worth more than any gold, silver, and precious stones that perishes.

Remember when the axe head fell into the water, it floated at the word of the Prophet.  God is uncovering things impossible to find. But what is impossible for man, God will show his hand of blessing by bringing things back to the surface to recover it.  Even those things that have been long forgotten and buried away.

“So, Elisha went with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they began to cut down some trees. As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. “Oh, my master,” he cried out, “it was borrowed!” “Where did it fall?” asked the man of God. And when he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float. “Lift it out,” he said, and the man reached out his hand and took it.“   2 Kings 2:4-6.

The passage above tells me of the grace of God’s power, the anointing and enabling of the Holy Spirit without which all service would be ineffective.

Nothing hidden, nothing broken and all things known by God even those things lost or stolen.

God has not forgotten your labor in love with the saints, and there will be many inheritances and endless supply for the saints as they possess the land of their heritage.

Great joy shall abound, and people will fall out in the streets as the lands are taken back to be one nation unto God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

During this process I had a Vision.  I saw numerous Balances before my face, and they were very many and he expressed to me that these represent those being tested right now.

Those meanings, those being weighed in the balance now.

The Bible uses the metaphor of weights and balances to convey the idea of rewards of righteousness, repentance, and the rewards of living a balanced life.

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey


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