Category: Prophecy

 

God is dealing with mixture and confusion.  It is actually no different than mud slingers.

These types of ministries thrive on confusion and mixture, keeping people dependent on them, instead of Christ.

May God help those prophets who are sent in, not run away, but to deal with the problems head on.

One such prophet would remain hidden until he was near enough to give the King the prophecy he carried in secret.  Now how many of those have you seen lately?  Do they still exists?

READ  1 Kings chapter 13.

A lot of people have their thinking wrong.  Had I not chosen God and His plan – knowing what I know now – I would have run from my call.

It has not been easy at all.  I will say this much about my life; to follow Christ has cost me everything and I mean everything I ever loved, had or wanted.

I loved HIM more.  There was a heavy price, and I say this in great humility that HE will continue to strip me until none of Sherry is left as HE remains the refiner’s fire.  You really don’t know a person until you walk in their shoes.  Humble pie has been my entree for many years.

Being in ministry is not some fashion show and who’s got the best car and the things they acquire.  Or, “I was JUST looking at women” while inside you’re lusting!

Where is holiness and obedience to the faith?  Look into history!  Look and read the Bible and see what HE shows you.

If you have a heart to seek the LORD, He will oblige you to find Him.  When you read the Bible you see what types of people are in there and what they went through and how they believed.

Beloved, do not put your faith in preachers, it is dangerous to trust in man.  Ask the Holy Spirit

I see so many making all sorts of plans saying Jesus is the head of this and that, when all I see is a mannequin that has a white robe and crown of thorns with red paint, and it was placed in a window for all those who passed by to see.

You can try to pretend he is being viewed through your life to all who pass by.  You can really deceive yourselves thinking yourself to be right, when many are intentionally wrong and fake.

Some of you have fell into the focus of man instead of Jesus.  Familiarity breeds contempt.  You have wanted to fit so much and open so wide and swallow deep, yet it did not orginalte with the LORD.

It caused you to deny what HE taught you, to compromise and run in to get a flow when It goes against God’s flow for you.

We must STOP measuring ourselves among our peers, or those who are so loved by us.  Put no trust in man, EVER!  No matter how good these are or how perfect they seem.

To idolize them brings no benefit to you and could cause eventual death to that person by your idolatry.  God is a jealous God.  We should always remind them to give all praise to God and tell them to get back to seeking God for themselves.  Point them to Jesus always.

We beloved, must be careful of what you allow in your mind and heart.  When those of us in leadership fail to see what is wrong, there is something VERY wrong.

Time is something we don’t gain back and it is so important to listen to the LORD.  If anything or anyone takes us away from our devotion to God, we have missed the whole deal in ministry.

We must urge the people of God to return to their first love.  Our heart yielding to Him and getting back to the foundations of our faith.

Does it bother you when God reveals what is going on for prayer purposes and then you take that information to a group when you asked it to be private?  What is the motive beloved.  Many judge others when they need help spiritually, physically or emotionally.

So many don’t open up because they cannot trust that group.  Many are like wounded animals being pressed into a corner and lashing out.  Beloved, no no no…. We are to approach them the way Jesus would, with love, grace and mercy.

Judgment must begin in God’s house, and that first means leadership.  When was the last time you repented and sought God with all your heart and on your face until you felt a release?  How long?

When have we got so serious to organize prayer and warfare for winning souls?  God will not plead with you no more.  You know the word!

You fail to allow the church to grow into something unmanageable as far as your experience.  You fear revival because you cannot control it.  Any other person who comes in to minister becomes a threat.

A true prophet sent by God walks in a church and ALL the demons see the prophet and devise a quick scheme to shut the mouth or move of the prophet for that house.  Even lying accusations.

“Oh leader, in the past you have known My Word and now you refuse to allow My servants the prophets to come with My messages and bring change.  

How I have longed for you to yield to Me, to fall in love again with Me but you rejected My messengers and prophets I sent to you!  You rejected them, when you really rejected Me, Says the LORD.”

Understand this, the demons of that spiritual house know the prophet by name.  What is sad, is that God is righteous and never says something He doesn’t mean.

So many houses will be left with vultures of depression.  In their experiences with God, these will only reach the limitation of the boxed in ceiling.

That is as far as many will go.  These will say, “I remember when God moved this way and that way and oh what revival we had!”

Understand this, if you do not heed the warnings, Churches will slip away and a very slippery slope shall the enemy take over while using his deceptive spiritual slimy feelings of Jezebel AND all of her idol’s to mimic the anointing when it will actually be of demonic origin to make people “feel” OK

Leaders should create an atmosphere of peace, assurance and love.  Trust is earned beloved and that takes time, and when trust has been violated it really has to be handled with grace, mercy and love.

Leader’s are you leading by example of Christ in us the hope of glory?  Check your motives.  Are you a caretaker or caregiver?

According to the Cambridge English Dictionary:

• 1: A caretaker: A person employed to look after a building, house, land etc. at the owner’s expense.
• 2: A caregiver: A person who takes care of a person who is young, old or sick.

Have you ever been in so-called ministry and the leadership doesn’t know you exist?

When you confessed being a member and everything seems good for a time, then you have trauma or something is wrong and you need your ministry backing you up.  Have you ever wondered, “Why won’t they check on me?  Do they care?  I am talking about those who are in that ministry that committed to it?

There are shepherds, false shepherds, hirelings, wolves in sheep’s clothing and angels of light. It is all out there and we are in a battle and yes, Jesus has already won.

However, we need to reach out to the lost and the backsliders.  There will be many in that day that will say, I thought I was saved, I thought I did the right thing.

The demons even know who you are and that is why it is hard for you to read this.  One demon said this; “Jesus I know,  Paul I know, but who are you?”

“Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the LORD Jesus, saying, we adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preacheth.  And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priest, which did so.  And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?  And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded,”   Acts 19:13-16 KJV

There is such confusion and mixture even in famous spirit filled types of ministry.  There are main line denominations and famous TV programs and other types of New Age etc. are all out there with their tainted bait to capture the minds of the people.

These so called poised, false holiness Ministers do not measure up to God’s Word.  God’s Word is our final authority.  We line up to God’s Word or we are not of God period.

God is dealing with mixture and confusion.  It is actually no different than mud slingers. These type of ministries thrive on confusion and mixture, it keeps people dependent on them instead of Christ.

Ministers of Christ are servants not celebrities.  People should not be afraid to ask questions when looking for a church or fellowship or questions later too.

The times we are living in are going to get a lot worse and we need to be ready.  The blood bought Church of the Living God shall arise in the midst of deep dark mire as she rises out of her grave, it will helplessly fall off her and she shall arise and shine for her light has come and the glory of the LORD has risen on her.

The LORD is urging me strongly to call his people back to our first love!  No compromise.  No more profiteering prophets or ungodly prosperity teaching about a very old story called the love of money being the root of all evil.

The Holy Spirit is calling us back to the basics of our foundation.

Nobody wants to go through the price of our high calling.  Instead of holiness there is worldliness.  We need to get back to travailing till we get breakthroughs.

Holiness is a word many don’t think it applies anymore.  More and more we are losing the gospel message.  The LORD meant it to be simple that a child could understand.

Our plain message of the cross and each day goes by that we are giving our liberty over to religion that has no foundation in Christ anymore.

Those who love Jesus will be like him.  Those that love him prove so by obedience to His Word. My heart is so grieved…

“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world,”   1 John 2:16 KJV.

“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows,”   1 Timothy 6:10 KJV

“But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money,”   Acts 8:20 KJV.

“And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness,”   Ephesians 4:24 KJV.

We are in a sad time in history when you cannot see the real church anymore.  There is such mixture and lies being promoted that do not line up with the Holy Scriptures; especially the New Covenant seal of blood between Christ and the true church.  We have left our first love and unless we yield to him in sincerity, we will suffer immensely.

What is happening?  It is about each one of us being tested and singled out before God.

We are head to head advancing to the line of scrimmage, each in their position, both sides head to head.  As the play is called, attacks are colliding against us and many of us that thought we were ready for this, are getting the wind knocked out of us, and sidelined and out of the the game.

This describes a game, but this also is true of life against the darkness of this world.  This is a real battle and the angels and saints are watching over the banisters of heaven to watch what we will do.

This is not playtime.  It is time to prepare yourself to yield for your host to takeover.  Jesus is supposed to be within us as we host him on the throne of our heart.

Do others see him, do you see him or evidence of him in you?  It is time to test ourselves; time to see if we truly have the faith.

Not long ago people would die for their faith, look at history and it teaches us how Christianity really is.  We are spoiled in America, no one wants to know this, so many blindly go on depending on their preaching to save them every Sunday, but come Monday there is no evidence of Christ in our lives?  Is this true?  It is time to check and to continue checking.

Pardon us LORD, especially for rebellion in slinging mud at your true prophets and leaders.  Father WE have sinned and we seek your mercy and forgiveness.  Help us LORD and may we find your favor again…  we want communion.

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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While I was in prayer I saw adolescent children outside playing jump rope.

One of the girls started jumping, and did so for some time and another girl joined her and then another.  Soon two girls were holding two end parts to two ropes and then they started to swing the ropes so that a person could jump in and keep within the various distances from each rope.

Soon there were teams of girls making it very difficult.  The girls that jumped could only do it for a short time as it became harder and they lost the fun or joy of it.  The leaders then, whisked them away without giving them any explanation or time to rest.

Yes the girls started off as children having exercise and fun and it turned from fun to disappointment.  These could not keep up with the goals being set in motion. As the team grew, those who became captains within the team began to add rules and constraints that kept the team in turmoil.

The tag team eventually couldn’t keep up with the demands either.  Many of them began to fall out.  The captains and powers that be, were intolerant of those who couldn’t meet the requirements.  It was no longer fun and something they did for the joy it brought.

I heard the phrase, “Jump through hoops” and God said, “Guard against, pride, being driven, legalism and blind submission.”

We must please God and not men.  God will always be first. Pride, legalism and demanding perfection comes from fleshly mindsets.

It happens subtly and in innocence.  First we start off trusting God but through the works of the flesh we evolve into depending on ourselves and others;  as we compare ourselves to others.

“For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves; but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise,”   2 Corinthians.10:12 KJV.

If there were a way to be perfect we would not need to rely on the sacrifice of God’s dear son;  who is Christ son of the living God, and he finished the work once and for all!

If people would be honest they would admit that they can no longer keep up that pace of being driven.

Many will fall aside unable to keep up while the others judge, condemn and despise the fallen in their heart. Pride keeps a person from mentioning of it.  These don’t want the others to think they are not in step with the leaders agenda.

Being performance driven also causes disillusionment and a fall.  However, in reality, it is actually very good news for that believer when the revelation comes!

When a person comes to the end of self by running out of their own power, they become open to God’s power and purpose through the righteousness that only comes through faith in Christ alone.

These surrender!  These come face to face with the truth and revelation of God’s amazing Grace!

It is actually good news for our fallen comrade!  We meet them where they are. It is then that good Samaritans show up to pour in the oil and the wine (as the religious cross the road to avoid them).

God sends you a personal good Samaritan!  God sent you an outcast too, to teach you and to minister God’s amazing grace!  Wow huh?  His grace is so amazing!  Considered by the Jews to be outcast and half breeds, God sends you help from those who understand what it means to be rejected and hated.

Never forget where you came from or how you started.  Your testimony will reach so many who need to see your works in action by meeting their greatest need, just as they are, you go into the highways and byways and compel them to come in.

“And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.  And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.  And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.  But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in the oil and wine and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.  And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was a neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?  And he said, He that shewed mercy on him.  Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise,”   Luke 10:30-37 KJV.

Those who have been through life’s most hard, desperate and stinging experiences are the choicest counselors that God can use.

Being spiritually wore out also opens the door to so much confusion and disorder.  And what is worse, as you fall by the wayside, those you thought were for you now pass you up on the other side and say see ya!

NEVER put any confidence in man, even if it is in a friend.  God is to remain first in our lives.  As you watch others go upstream passing you by, say a prayer for them because these will eventually be tested and suffer burnout.

We cannot burn the candle at both ends.  We are created to host the presence of God on the throne of our hearts.  We yield our bodies unto Him and his word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.

Hypocrisy knows no bounds and it is alive and well with those who trust in themselves.  Then as the course goes, being driven brings disillusionment and a fall.

It is sad though.  I have seen how the person hides the situation from others to attempt to keep up appearances, but they never ultimately will.

Being driven happens when we trust in our own self righteousness.  The strong man is pride.  It says “we must perform to be accepted by man’s standards.”  We become self righteous and when we neglect the righteousness that only comes from Christ there is no more sacrifice for sins.

We are to be forever centered on Christ’s finished work on Calvary.  God graces us to fullfil his work in the earth, but not all are graced to do it your way.  We each carry within us DNA spiritually and physically.

To be self righteous is to do works to make oneself seemingly righteousness without relying on the one who made us righteous who is Christ the redeemer!

To have balance and order in God, brings peace, hope and joy.  We are to serve the LORD with gladness!

“Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.  For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.  For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world,”   Hebrews 4:1-3 KJV.

Can we keep going at that level?

Were striving, being driven and performance driven, Why?

All of these issues wear you down to create burn out.  When we are preaching and practicing a performance based religion, people will begin to fall out or pretend they are doing what is being said but they really know the truth about themselves.

These give lip service but they know the truth.  These want to fit so bad they accept religious abuse.

My prayer for myself and others is that God will bring us to the end of self (righteous) and that HE will remove us from any abusive, religious bondage.

All works that are not done through God’s grace will eventually produce burnout. It will wear you out physically, emotionally and spiritually.

The 23rd Psalm shows us the picture of how our Chief Shepherd cares for his flock.  God is very concerned with his precious sheep and lambs.  Look at a sheep and lambs.

Can you imagine them being driven?  Cattle are driven.  Jesus is our chief shepherd he laid down his life for His sheep.

Sheep are gently led by the Shepherd and if one has strayed, the shepherd leaves the ninety nine and find the one to restore back to the fold. In the night seasons, the Shepherd will lead his flock to a sheep fold.

It is a rock enclosure where there is one entrance and the Chief Shepherd makes sure all of the sheep and lambs are in there.  Once the sheep and lambs are in the fold and cared for, the shepherd lays down his life at the entrance and guards the flock that no wild beast can gain access.

Sheep and lambs cannot be driven.  A godly shepherd is one who personally leads the flock to lush green pastures, still waters yes, and even makes them lay down, restoring their soul not driving them to insanity!

I thank God for his example to us of how true shepherds are.  Sheep are gently led, cattle are driven.

Many have no idea what’s it like to receive true encouragement from the LORD and his people.  Be careful who you receive from for all are not for you.

There is such aggression in the body, and it is all about who’s who and what is what, and who you know.

Instead, the gentle lead of the shepherd knows your name. It’s not about whose ordination and who you know. It’s about how he knows you!

When Christ is saying come away with me beloved, I want to hold you and comfort you. Man can minister to a certain point, but we must teach others that we each must have a deep relationship with the LORD in our own lives.

It is nice to have positive validation from those who know your life and the condition of our lives.  Our greatest ally is one who understands the life you live, sees the positive and negative parts of our own existence but choose to love, pray and accept our full self.

Beloved, that is unconditional love and the love I desire to give.

There is spiritual abuse in the body.  This affects our total being, and God doesn’t want us to accept that and it should not be tolerated.

In closing, anytime there is a course of corruption, God must bring a change in motion.  For those of you who have been analyzed by others; realize that rebellion and Jezebel spirits will try to revert to analyzing you because they know who you are and will try to intimidate you to shut up.

These spirits love to use Christian brothers and sisters to shake your faith and accuse you of all sorts of things in the name of Jesus.  You need to politely let them know that you are not in agreement with their words and do not receive them.

Saints, if you get addressed with such spirits, let them know they have no authority over you and that you are the beloved of God, in Jesus name.

Realize this!  The enemy knows who you are, and is desperately trying to shut you down.

May God shake us so much to change our motion to devotion to Christ the Messiah!  Forgive them, release them and let them go!  Amen?

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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