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While in prayer today, I realized something; I saw an abundant number of words swirling about my head — and they were words that were not true — but at the time I believed them for a while!

I wasn’t getting it yet, because the reason those words were there, was because I allowed them to stay!

Words are everlasting, they are eternal, creative, and very important.  That is why there is so much Scripture that speaks of Words.

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us!  The Word has creative power when we are in alignment with The LORD.

Even when you pass over, the words you spoke continue to move forward in your family.

For example, there are those who hate me, and they believe things about me that happened twenty-four years or more ago — and are stuck — and cannot get past that.

I was enlightened today by several people whom I trust.

I repented for believing the lies that were spoken against me. (My “Door”!)  The Door represents what I allow into my life — an entrance, or exit.

While praying, I saw a person saying all sorts of words about people, and those words afterwards were swirling around them, and because there was never repentance and turning away from that sin and forgiving, the words were linked together like a long chain that they pulled behind them.

If we never repent of all sin, that sin will continue to follow and you….

I failed to remember how the words of man can be sappy sweet but laced with a curse.

I failed to remember that God so graciously had others pray and contact me with almost verbatim answers, who did not know the other friends!

However, since I was enlightened by several people I trust today, I did repent for believing those lying words.

Yes, we must repent for those lying words!

God doesn’t lie and he didn’t send them.

We can be our worst enemy and agree with demons!  We must know who we are and be at peace with ourselves.

You have got to know and believe who you are, or others will try to tell you their version of who you are!

It is so important who is in your inner circle.  There is either good or evil, the gray area does not apply anymore.  Let your yes be yes — and your no be no!

“But as God is faithful, our word to you was not Yes and No.  For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us — by me, Silvanus, and Timothy — was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes.  For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.”   2 Corinthians 1:18-20 KJV.

Whoever digs a pit for the righteous, himself shall fall into it. In the hour that we live in, we are going to begin to see the word quickly respond to the effect.  (Proverbs 26:27)

Vision:

While I was in prayer, I suddenly saw a person who had a long wagging tongue and it seemed animated.

This person was all over the place like drunk, but finally came to the door, cursing at God’s people at the door!  The person tried to open the door to get in while they were cursing!

At the door, I suddenly saw an arrow hit the person’s tongue, that was suddenly slammed into the door!

But wow, the door is old wood and has a half-crescent top.  When the tongue was shot with the arrow, I saw up close what seemed to be the same kind of wood as the arrow.

It was a message from God that he is not happy about those words.

I heard The LORD remind me of the day we live in — how people will be in love with themselves.

The person at the door I witnessed had a long red tongue, and it was attached to the door with the arrow, and I saw and heard all the words that were spoken from this person.

God revealed to me also that the words were written on their heart, but blasted out of their mouth on the door.  For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.  (Matthew 12:34)

There are words that go on and on and on for they are creative; good and evil!  That person’s tongue was stuck at that place, and it was why they never could go further in God.

A lot of people don’t understand that we can get stuck from an offense or grudge, by harboring those sins in our heart, and won’t repent from the sin and they ensnare us even if they originated from another person.

Satan only needs us to receive an offense or grudge in our heart.  He knows, instead of forgiving; they will keep adding more and more and the same tongue got longer, but it was never released from that arrow, for there was never any forgiveness and repentance.

Do you realize that the person never went any further, because of those words and became stuck and locked into a moment in history when you could not forgive or repent. In one offense we can ruin our lives and go no further?

Words are powerful and can be weapons, but the weapons can turn on them — for whoever speaks words against a child of God are judged by what they say, express.

And just as we had to learn from our parents not to touch the hot stove, we MUST realize how serious it is if we hurt a person, physically, soul and emotions.

Paul learned not to touch an anointed vessel of God. (Acts 9:1-6)

God created the earth with HIS Words. The Bible says that death and life are in the power of the tongue.  (Proverbs 18:21)

“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power.  And from such people turn away!”   2 Timothy 3:1-5 KJV

I saw one person who repented and their tongue, it was long, but The LORD redeemed him and when his tongue rolled out on what looked to be a Red Carpet, the tongue began going long distances with words that are not pleasing to God.

The LORD wanted the pure Word of The LORD written there.

Then I saw what the tongue turned into, and it rolled out and as far as the eye could see, was the White Scroll, as far as looking at the horizon, as far as the eye could see — but it went even beyond our lives.

The pure Word of The LORD!

I could see the words becoming flesh and I began to walk out the pure Word of The LORD.

Our words are not just idle sounds we make.

Our words are powerful, but it depends on what the words do.

As believers we want to follow The LORD and speak things that be not as though they are.

“Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!  And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.”  James 3:5-12 KJV.

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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We all go through memories in the library of the mind and the quick snapshots of photos taken back to remind us of days gone by and all that had lasting effects.

For some it is gut-wrenching pain, for others it’s just another snapshot to keep them hammering the nails into the coffin they are building.

How can you be forgiven if you will not forgive?  There is nothing left for you!

“Then his master, having called him, says to him, ‘Evil servant, I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. Did it not behoove you also to have pitied your fellow servant, as I also had pitied you?’  And having been angry, his master delivered him to the jailers, until that he should pay all being owed to him Thus also My Heavenly Father will do to you, unless each of you forgives his brother from your heart.”   Matthew 18:32-34.

You are building a casket made with every word and action you speak and do.

You hold that hammer, and you keep building that coffin with the root of pride, bitterness, hatred, malice, cares of this life, the love of money and all that it buys, nothing no nothing fulfills you!

You think you are so right that you have elevated yourself to the same status as God, who knows all good and evil! You think you have joined with God to gossip, slander, curse, while doing so you are releasing a hail of all sorts of arrows, but what you don’t realize is the more you say, the coffin gets deeper, and it is almost closed just waiting for the author of the words….

For with each nail, and every word has prepared for death. If we don’t repent, what we build with our words will shroud us and encase us in the coffin of our own words and actions.

The deepest roots of pride and bitterness doesn’t only destroy you, but the root of bitterness defiles many and those who hear it over and over, you are building it into those others you like or love, and you are there and there is no immunity for what you carry, no shot to take.

You defile them, and they catch your words, and they are now infected.

Nothing will satisfy ultimately, and idolatry is alive and well in this ME, MYSELF, AND I generation.

The more dissatisfied you become the more desperate you try to find something to point at or you twist the language to make it mean something that it is not.

Your case against this person’s life became a judgement over the same case from many years ago!

You have been spiritually stuck and the more you fight and fit and try to find substance to play with toys but you cannot find relief!

You are bored, so you must find something else wrong with this person.  Or another person!  Perfection in this life?

Oh, mistakes are made over and events that had Satan laughing with glee cause he knows he’s got you!

You do not realize you are the person this speaks of for you prophesied your own case and nothing ever changes, you have all the time you want and every toy and everything money can buy but yet you’re miserable!  Oh, how a little fire kindled!

You take upon yourself to instill fear of your absolute power and control, manipulation, and you are the true essence of a true male Jezebel, and you seek to intimidate those who are afraid of you!

I tell you this day I will speak and yes you shall hear me!  And YES, I AM able to debase!

You are just like my adversary that I cast out of heaven with a third of the angels in rebellion and idolatry.  For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is as idolatry (1 Samuel 13:23).

“The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in Your name.” So He told them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.  Behold, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will harm you.…”   Luke 10:18-19.

So, you use your tongue as a weapon and oh what a little member in our body but boy what a fire it kindles!

A person who is consumed with bringing another person down, is assumed as a judge, jury, but no advocate but themselves.

Because of every scheme, conspiracy, every plot, plan you blatantly speak and every word, action, every curse you speak about the snapshot of this person’s life, you have judged forever what that person did in one snapshot of a photograph.

It stirs your demonized mind to think of how you will present this person in the casket of wood, hay, and stubble.

It is a dangerous place to be when we take a snapshot of a person and for the rest of their life and you consider them null and void and shouldn’t live!

You are guilty of judging another man’s servant?  YES, God’s servant!

You measure everything by what happened many years ago and that person has moved on and started their life over with a NEW BEGINNING!  And you are left behind!

In God’s eyes they are loved and living the life given to them by God with all they are and all they have! For when you have been forgiven of much you love much!

Did you know that when we earnestly pray for those that are jealous and hate us and wish for our death and if we refuse to forgive them, it isn’t on them… IT IS ON US!!!

Do you realize that if you hate and hold unforgiveness and will not forgive do you think your opinion is the only one that counts, you are highly mistaken.

God sits on His throne, and He is the only righteous judge that has the power to give life.  And you are on borrowed time, tomorrow may never happen.

We cannot go back through the pictures and they are so vivid.  Going through life with its ups and downs can make for a very curvy and untimely route.

However, it is much better to go through than to camp out in the spot of offense that breeds conflict of hatred held for a very long time.

If we think we will advance in God with a spirit of offense, hate, bitterness, jealousy, malice, pride, we have departed from the will of The LORD.

A snapshot in time of what we call happiness has segments missing that can only bring pain to the heart.

God knew the root of everything, why things were passed down.  He knew why the thief was able to steal your most precious memories

. I thank God that I survived to see this day though I made some bad decisions and I thank God he knew the reasons and why.

Beloved, God knows why we had to go through such hard things in our lives.   Why?  Because just like Joseph was carried away from his family sold to the Egyptians by all his jealous brothers, it wasn’t the end of the story.

The original plan was to murder their brother but the eldest said NO, let us sell him.  Can you imagine how deceitful the lies the brothers came to their father to break his heart!

They willingly wanted his memory of Joseph to be dead and gone!

Jealousy is a wicked spirit, and the bible says it’s as cruel as a grave! Jealousy leads to death, and it is good to catch it now and truly repent from your sin!

SOS 6:8 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; For love is as strong as death, Jealousy as cruel as the grave; Its flames are flames of fire, a most vehement flame.

So, Joseph’s brothers conspired, and they were jealous, full of hate, murder in their heart but God had a plan!

Even after they took his coat of many colors and sold him, they conjured up a lie to be kept within the brothers.

For their father to believe, they had to lie and make it look real, so they dipped it in the blood of an animal to take to his father’s house and it broke his father’s heart when he was told Joseph was dead.  Giving him the coat dipped in blood.

I sense there are many now that are reading this, and you have been in limbo for a long time.

I thank God for what I have, and I cherish all the days and segments I have been given, and I hope to experience much more now.

If you have lost much time with those you really love, God can redeem the time.  Ephesians 5:16 says, “redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”

But not all snapshots in the lives of God’s children are often happy.  God has given us allotted space of time but also given us our free will and choice.

I thank The LORD though I missed some very precious time, I am thankful of what time I did have, and I appreciate it so much more.

Life is short, why hang on to petty, childish, jealousy behaviors? Why do we hold on to things that bear no lasting value and only seek to bring division and hurt. The Bible says that wherever there is strife and contention there is every evil work.

“For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.”   James 3:16.

“Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.  It is better to be lowly in spirit among the humble than to divide the spoil with the proud.…”   Proverbs 16:18-19.

In closing, God used a special son with a coat of many colors to speak out the visions and his ministry was responded to with jealousy, hatred and ultimately the desire of murder.

Yet everything that Joseph went through prepared him to rule and reign over Egypt only second to Pharaoh.

God indeed turned it all around for His good.

When his family came, he wept openly as he said what God wanted is here.  Joseph forgave all of them and there was restoration of his entire family.

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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Serving Christ is not popular, not self-seeking, and not self-serving.

We all have this in common as believers in Christ — we must learn to communicate with The LORD through Prayer.  We must learn to be still — and know HE is God!

A very important part of Prayer is listening in total silence.

Getting to know The LORD is the most important part of your day.  We find our place of humility in our Secret Place.

This place is an activity of making ourselves be still and know HE is God.  When we find that close presence and a richness in our walk with The LORD that makes it all worthwhile.

I relish silence, presence, peace, kindness, and love; these are only some of my rewards for each day.

If we are rebellious or don’t want to repent, change, or do what God says.  It is kind of how The LORD sent a message to David then within each message God sends and if we do not heed, HE will have to discipline us for we are His children.

For David to repent, God had to send a prophet to the Kings palace.  Please study 2 Samuel.

Nathan the prophet was in anguish over what David had done for months.

How many times has God tried to reach us?  How long?

David was human — like we are — and a man after the heart of God.

I know God tried to reach David, but David wanted the sin to remain hidden.  For this could not be resolved by a cover up, hiding, and hoping it would have never happened.

Another tangled web was that He loved Bathsheba, and the King sent her husband Uriah the Hittite, (one of David’s mighty men) to the front of the battle so he would die.

Nathan’s message wasn’t flattering words of a riddle.  God had a plan and a method on how to continue to confront the King’s sins of adultery, murder, deceit, and preconceived evil intent, as David willingly tried to hide it all.

Nathan confronted David for what he did and tried to hide.  He even predicted the child would die.

From that time on the King suffered greatly having anguish for his actions and His own consequences in his own family.  Because of these sins, the baby David and Bathsheba bore would die.

Sometimes God will ask us to go to a brother that we offended, even if we perceive no offense!

A lot of times people think we have offense with them when we do not.  We all deal with faulty people like me! It’s best to say it!

It’s alright you’re going to make it.  You are so loved and God has your plan in His hand.

We need to remember people are insecure and we learn to trust HIM.  Even if they did or didn’t offend.

We are in a family, the family of God.  And in God’s best family no one throws out brother, sister cousins and aunts and uncles out!

God loves all of us and wants peace in the house.  We obey because God sees it all.

May we repent, heal, and repair the links of what we have done Knowingly and unknowingly.

It begins by communications to God first so that HIS lines of communication and connections are repaired.

We are all tested by The LORD to see if we are dead to our flesh and to ask for forgiveness or to give forgiveness.

Sometimes that is very difficult, because if we aren’t dead to our flesh, pride will come in.

You have seen it, a nose up at you who cannot forgive.  Pride has a very high price tag and if not dealt with, we will be chained to our pride and our lives to mediocrity.

Yes, being stuck and held captive in the midst of seemingly comfort and peace?

Many churches are this way and have rejected the Word of The LORD and the conviction of the Holy Spirit.

Many have chosen that road and such damage to themselves and others.

God has given us the weapon of HIS WORD. And he has released us but sometimes we linger where we are comfortable.

God does give us R&R as His soldiers and MAKES us lay down by the streams of water, He restores our soul!

All these things are important in our walk with God.  However, remaining in that place can become bondage.

There are some who have adapted to their shackles, chains, and limitations and because they don’t realize that God wants them set free!

The honest reality?  There are people who really choose to remain there because it is comfortable.  There are Churches that want that comfort too.

There is a gathering together with those of like heart and like mind, and like Spirit.

It is important that we must be under the right spirit.  We all must have our own relationship with God and not depend on a leader in any form.

He or she is just one person and there is no way that one can do everything.

There’s bondage in The Church!  People adapt to bondage, but God’s Word is not bound.

When we remove those shackles and chains and get uncomfortable and begin to walk in a new and living way, we will follow in the steps of The LORD whose love is higher than the highest mountain, and deeper than the deepest sea.

He sees you right where you are!

Some people like the limitations of the chain or shackles and it makes them appear as something of worth when all it does is keep you comfortable in mediocrity and false humility.

We must remember that when we feel so alone that we are not alone. We are connected to a larger network called the Church. How we respond to the people in the world we deal with daily can make or break us. It can ruin our witness or break us.

When we are offended God forgives us but with man it is never the same.

However, in Christ I do believe a child of God can forgive and forget.  But it takes time, a lot of patience, work, and love.

Remember the life of King David and the consequences he endured in his family till his dying day.

We must move on regardless.  Yes, there is sorrow, heaviness, and we grieve over a relationship; but God says don’t look back.

When God reveals a sin in us, or others, whom we offended, we are accountable to work on rebuilding ourselves and others.

We are accountable for what we speak and what we let grow in our heart.  We are those lively stones being built into a spiritual house.

We are accountable for what we speak, and it can damage what God wants us to know.

“To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, an precious yes, also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.”   1 Peter 2:4-6 KJV

By our surrender to God and for His help, God can take everything and turn it around for good.

God is merciful but people on the other hand are not.  Pride comes before a fall and a haughty spirit before destruction.

We remember the battles to keep the victories.  There are always reminders when we forget we are headed down a slippery slope.  Our past experiences should teach us and others we know.

Sometimes we are the one the finger is pointed at.  I know for me it is time to do some soul searching for my own life!

Nathan did not enjoy his job, he works for God and his reward for his obedience is to walk closely with The LORD.

Whoever can rejoice over a brother or sister being disciplined is not wise, we need to turn our head away or we can end up the same way of the whipping stick.

The prophet Nathan had to show the King because the King was not listening.

There was now a very heavy price tag attached to his willful sin.

God will let us take charge over our lives and let us experience the consequences of our sin.

Our willful disobedience to God would cause our discipline.  None of us are without sin and especially willful sin.
 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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