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To Die is Death

I stood before a man of God who was silent.  Suddenly he jolted and pointed to me and said, “Die!”

I stood before a man of God who was silent.  Suddenly he jolted and pointed to me and said, “Die!”

That word hit me like a Prophetic Arrow and I knew immediately what it meant, as The LORD had been dealing with me awhile.

God has taught me the most powerful lesson in my life is to live unto Christ and to die is gain.  (Philippians 1:21)

Not only death when we go to heaven, but to really die to the deeds of the flesh so that we can learn to continually walk in The Spirit and that the fruit of The Spirit and the gifts of The Spirit can manifest through our earthly lives!

We who die to the flesh, rise in newness of life and it takes effort to keep our old life, old man and nature in the grave and stop looking back to what keeps us bound to the past.

If we don’t learn to die to the flesh, it will stop our growth keeping us earthly instead of spiritually minded and spiritually led.

We must learn that forgetting what is behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before causes us to press towards the mark of the high calling in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3)

The many events of negative past life events and disappointments will keep us bound from going forward into new beginnings unless we strive to learn to forgive, forget, and move forward.

We who live unto The LORD are to be living epistles seen and read of all men.

So, living the life of Christ should witness his teachings and others will notice!

fish in bowl image

In this illustration, living in a fish bowl life is actually a liberating place to be, because we have nothing to hide.

Let them look, read us, let them judge us and talk about us, write about us and hate us!

Why should we care if we have nothing to hide?

We are to master these things and deaden them in our flesh for being free indeed means the past has no hold on us anymore!

Sometimes God moves us on when we have gone full circle, especially with others he has cut out of our lives.

There are some of us who are still struggling and mourning over failed relationships when God has said move on.

Samuel understood the heartache of a failed relationship and struggled and mourned over Saul.

Samuel was human and The LORD had to rebuke him to stop mourning and crying over Saul and move on.

“And The LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.”   1 Samuel 16:1 KJV.

Learning to take command of the flesh is the most powerful lesson that we MUST learn.

Why?  So that we will be able to advance and keep in sync with The LORD of Glory.

When we learn to live in sync we will be prepared and covered by God’s Cloud of Glory during the coming chaotic storms and upsets!

If you miss this qualification you will not be able to keep up when God’s glory moves on and we got to keep in step with Him walking in the Spirit!

Remember we die to the flesh so that God’s Spirit in us will rise and be readied for anything that comes.

Remember Moses and the Exodus?

Moses knew God’s will and timing and the people were told exactly what to do and what would happen.

They had the Cloud by day and the Fire by night.

Leaders are held more responsible and held at a greater standard of authority and accountability to the body of Christ.

We have prayed for the fervency of the book of Acts to come again.  But are we really serious?

In the coming days you will not be able to mistake a true Five-fold Minister at work. (Ephesians 4)

Out of the mouth of two or three witnesses let it all be established.  (Deuteronomy 19:15, 2 Corinthians 13:1)

The seriousness of how the believers lived their daily lives in The Book of Acts were consumed by The Holy Spirit and The Church grew!  It will cost us everything!

There are so many people who are not ready and I would get in big trouble if I didn’t say this.

We must put all our hope and trust in The LORD and get prepared and stay prepared as wise virgins.

“For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?”   Luke 23:31.

The LORD showed me that I must decrease and he will increase.  (John 3:30-35)

To really live life abundantly is to die!

We cannot afford to miss God and we must come into league, alignment, and alliances with those of like heart, mind, and spirit.

We must guard ourselves from unholy alliances.

We have to KNOW those who labor among us.  That takes time and experience!

How can we trust and do for God when there’s rebellion and stubbornness among the leadership?

God is doing a powerful work in The Body [of Christ] and He is shaking everything that can be shaken, so that those things that cannot be shaken will remain.

The enemy is furious and has infiltrated The Church — especially in The USA — and it all is being thwarted and even missiles are being thrown down like it was in Elijah’s day and all Elijah types are sent are confronting Baal’s idols and great harvest shall be in the midst of calamity.  Not only in The USA — but also the Nations of the world!

Satan cannot stop The Harvest.  But we can — through disobedience!

We must put to death the deeds of the flesh, so that will keep us usable and stable.

Once we come through the many deaths of the flesh we will encounter, we will find ourselves in a brand new season, and we will know the many lessons learned in death experiences.

So in learning to die, you really begin to live!

Once we die to self and remain dead that is when true power comes and it will remain as long as we continue to seek God, repent, live a fasted lifestyle, pray, obey God’s Word.

The Word becomes flesh in us when we die daily, dead to the flesh alive unto God.

it’s not I who live, but Christ in us the hope of Glory!

Your life is like a fish bowl for all to see.

Growing and becoming transparent takes time but once you attain that place of ‘dead men walking’ there is a freedom and liberation that comes and you have no problem being obedient to God, because you have a greater awareness of God’s presence and His Purpose.

None of us know it all.  We all see through a glass darkly and when a ministry functions as a Five-fold Ministry (Ephesians 4).

we cannot avoid it and we must have personal responsibility, accountability, under authority for ALL of us!

That means correction when needed from The LORD as God will confirm His Word out of the mouth of two or three witnesses.

Things are escalating exponentially and God is doing a quick and thorough work.

When prophets and other five-fold ministers (Ephesians 4:11-12) are in league and united within the structure that The LORD laid out, it will be as a fishbowl existence.

It is not the time to hide anymore living in the flesh with no victory over your daily life.

When we walk into the midst of end-time planned revelatory Words from The Living God, you will feel naked.

God is reaching out through us!

Now, that is safe and there is power with great humility.

God is currently taking what was a circle and making it an even smaller circle of those who are connected and accountable to it.

Being in a fishbowl is liberating!

May we all strive for the mark of the high calling in Christ!

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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His Masterpiece

God gives us the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ and the Son of Man to be able to comprehend the length, width, height and depth Of His love for us.

God is so AMAZING!

God gives us the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ and the Son of Man to be able to comprehend the length, width, height and depth Of His love for us.

He created us in His Image, the hallmark and undeniable proof of His workmanship is that we are set apart to do good works and they (our works) have become a living sign of Him.

We are “His Masterpiece,” — His Highest Prize!

Just like a bride has been prepared to walk down the aisle and to meet her groom, He eagerly awaits His Prize, having been prepared for that day, and the Bride hath made herself ready.

The angels and angelic host are beings, but they are creative, and created beings that were made to serve God and His People in the Kingdom of God.

The Prophets longed to see the things we are going to see.  God made them have different tasks.

Some Angels are protective, some are messengers, others of comfort heard him; and others He saved from all his troubles.  Angels are a long study…

The Old Testament Prophets searched carefully about the Grace and sufferings of Christ, and notes that these are things “into which angels long to look,”  (1 Peter 1:10–12)

“The Angel of The LORD encamps around those who fear Him, and He delivers them,”   Psalm 34:7.

The LORD longed, and He waited for that perfect point in time when you and I would be displayed as “His Masterpiece” divine.  An eternal soul that lives in Him and for Him.  A creation unlike any other.

“A Masterpiece,” one who serves GOD — but you are unique — having a creative free will, free choice and to be able to choose to love God over all the cares of this life, is how a “Masterpiece” begins and grows!

And what is magnificently more is, He gave us the power to become a living soul and that is where our supernatural life begins, evolves, and ends.

Yes, you live within a body that is faulty, however, it is called “the flesh” and that is the part of us that we must learn to bring under subjection to the Spirit.

The Spirit is where the life-giving power is given by God is within us.  It is where the spirit man abides — but the soul is the invisible core part of our personality, compassing the mind, will, emotions, and intellect.

The soul is the other part of a person who lives forever combined with The Holy Spirit and we will recognize each other and reign in this life and the life to come.

It is our soul and spirit that will live forever.

But God has given us free will and free choice.  The Angels and Prophets of old longed to look into these things.

We choose where we are to live eternally.  We choose Heaven or hell.  It is within the soul where battles are fought and won.

Isn’t it something that here we are together NOW people in various places with all sorts of problems and trials but we connect right now to say that you are “HIS MASTERPIECE.”  You are fearfully and wonderfully made!

The LORD wants you to begin as in developing as a friend of God, when The Holy Spirit and you will desire to evolve into maturity in becoming The Bride of Christ.  (Ephesians 4)

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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Are You Eternal?

God is a good God and He is Faithful according to all His Promises.  All of them, every promise in His Word is available for you.

Jesus at a door knocking

God is a good God and He is Faithful according to all His Promises.

All of them, every promise in His Word is available for you — but you have to take possession of them, begin to speak them out of your mouth into the atmosphere in Jesus’ Name and keep on daily doing it — and it will happen.

God is Faithful, never doubt if He said it, “He will do it…..” in Jesus’ Name!

I Decree and Declare that your promises are yes and amen!

God is going to reveal and use some of the most unlikely people — but The Power of God will be on them and can’t deny it.

We are physical human beings with a soul and spirit.  What makes us different from others is that we have received The LORD into our lives and live for Him.

There will be evidence of true Salvation in us, because you will want to obey God — and you will do it!

The LORD God Almighty has always been, even before time began do you realize that when God said,  “Let there be light — and it was!”  (Genesis 1:3)

With the Earthly Realm it brought time and history.

Our Creator, The LORD God, desired beings made in His Image to have Fellowship and a Relationship with.

When He Created us, He wasn’t going to make us want or love Him, that Love, had to come from our free will.

You can’t make someone love you, it has to come from the heart.

Angels are ministering spirits sent to minister unto the people of God.  But what we have now in time is so amazing that even the Angels and people long ago, wondered about and longed to see what we are now beginning to see.

We are a peculiar people!

“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.”   1 Peter 2:9-12.

This earthly life is limited and time is so precious.  It is the day of a New Beginning.

It is the time to obey and do not put it off, because you may never have a chance again.

When Jesus knocks at the door of your heart, don’t tell Him you’re not ready.  Please don’t look at this old temporary world and gamble with time.

Heaven and earth shall pass away — but His Word will never pass away!

If we are earthly minded, we stand bound.  But when we receive The LORD, we become spiritually minded.

The Spiritual is forever, however in time, there is no eternity.

When you accept The LORD, you become as God, in that you are eternal and made in His Image.

The earth has history and time, but God is eternal and Spirit, and is forever and ever.

If you belong to Christ, you too are forever, and you have an eternal address.

Who cares about fancy homes and earthly desires, when Jesus said went back to Glory to prepare a place for us!  (John 14:3)

If you love The LORD, you are not of this world!

When you receive The LORD as Savior, He saves you from sin and the cares of this temporary life.

He loves you so much, He reaches out to you today.

Please do not harden your heart, as none of us are guaranteed another earth day.

But when we belong to The LORD, He Guarantees life everlasting, eternal, and perfect as long as we walk with Him and He in us.

We must choose — and everyone is given the chance to choose The LORD.

The LORD weeps for those who reject Him, but He cannot go against His Own Word.

It hurts The LORD Jesus — but He can’t make a person love Him!

Think about rejection.  All of us have felt it in some way.

When Jesus feels and knows rejection, it hurts him deeply.

You see, we are all born into this world with a free will to choose to love Him, and it is up to us how we respond to Him.

Jesus weeps for you!  Come back to Him!  Receive His Lovingkindness that leads us to Repentance.

Living for The LORD has evidence as we are to be living epistles seen and read of all men.  (2 Corinthians 3:2)

This is a lifestyle, day by day walking with The LORD.

Do you know The LORD Jesus hung on The Cross for you, to give His Life and Blood to purchase your redemption.  Oh He loves you!

When you are a Christian, you are in a Kingdom of Words, and we learn about The LORD in reading and studying The Holy Bible.

God holds us accountable by His Word.  Communication is by words that we speak or read and God wants you to know Him, and to know others by communication to you by His Word — The Bible.

There’s no weapon forged against us that shall prosper and every tongue that rises us against us!

“No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises 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.

God is so good — but I close with this;  Don’t put off the decision to serve The LORD and walk in His ways!

You may not have the time to do this, but this is where we must choose.

Choose this day, life, and He will come in and be with you and you with Him.

Amen?

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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Mission Possible and The Appalachian Call!

There is power in The Name of Jesus, and it is released in a spirit-filled believer as we begin to grow deeper and desire more of The LORD in us.

There is power in The Name of Jesus, and it is released in a spirit-filled believer as we begin to grow deeper and desire more of The LORD in us, so that we press into God and begin speaking God’s Word out loud into the atmosphere..

Why?  First, it is in our heart, mouth, and in how we speak God’s Word to whatever situations arise.

“My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.  For we all stumble on many things. If anyone does not stumble in words, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.  Indeed, we put bits in horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we turn their whole body.  Look also at ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are turned by a very small rudder wherever the pilot desires.  Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things.  See how great a forest a little fire kindles!  And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity.  The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.  For every kind of beast and bird, reptile and creature of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.  But no man can tame the tongue.  It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.  With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.  Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.  Does a spring send forth fresh water and bitter from the same opening?  Can a fig tree, my brethren, bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs?  Thus no spring yields both saltwater and fresh.”   James 3:1-12.

The world was created by God speaking it out.

He said, “Let there be light — and it was….”

We are made in His Image and like Him we can speak into our world using God’s Word to build and minister to transform our lives and others.

God’s Word is eternal and so deep it cannot be fathomed.

There’s The Sword of The Spirit — which is The Word of God.

Iron sharpens iron and it is good to stay sharp with that Sword, and to sharpen others in sparring.  We all build on each other.

Haven’t you noticed before, that if we can just make it to The House of God, it will be alright?

You know, I find this to be true a lot because of the times we live in.

There is definitely increased Spiritual Warfare — exponentially — unlike we have ever witnessed.

This is not the time to put things off in The LORD — you might just miss it……!

We need each other, and it provides protection and also causes others to come together to pray for a stronger effect.

While we gather and assemble together we each strengthen each other.

We are created to be the body of Christ and scripture after scripture proves it and each part of the body is just as important.

The Sword of the Spirit can also be used for deep spiritual trauma and surgery to heal and mend wounds.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but God’s Word will never pass away!

“For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”   Hebrews 4:12.

When releasing the Word of God into the atmosphere by speaking, it is a powerful way to pray and live.

When God deals with us, He is wanting us to change and we must be sincere.

For everything God has for us is out of His great Love towards us.

Even when it is for corrections that seems hard at times, but it’s for our best.

God is our creator and Father and He loves us dearly.  He has invested it ALL for YOU!

He died so you might live!

I am a firm believer in being transparent, so nothing can hide in my life.

Also we need to confess some things to trustworthy people who know our lives and theirs.

Plus we must know their character.

We all need accountability, but especially leadership.

We must have mutual accountability so that we don’t suffer in silence.

We must be careful who we can trust to pray or speak into our lives.

Judgemental people come in all forms to say their opinions, but if we know who we are in Christ, who can stand before HIM?

Let them talk and complain!

You must be doing something right to have such words said about or against you.  Christians are the worst when we wag our tongue.

The LORD knows the whole story and realizes He has it all under his control.  He is not a God far off, but He is in us abiding in us as we abide in Him.

If you are accused or people are gossiping about you, don’t go behind them and try to vindicate yourself, for it is the foxes that spoil the vine — and I am not talking about the furry kind.

God has it all under control, but Satan wants you to engage where no one wins, as the thief comes to steal time and peace.

I have seen this and experienced this over and over.  Let them talk and leave them in the hands of God.

God is very capable of working and doing what needs to happen.

Walk in your peace and joy and continue to move forward and avoid trying to fix things in the flesh.

It just stirs up more problems.  Forgive, release them and let them go and get out of the way of The LORD’s hand of correction.  Stay out of it!

Again simply forgive, release them and let it go! It has no power over us unless we open the door and let it in.  Don’t engage with the devil.

Those who are mature know that God is with us and He is the one who establishes us and wins for us! We are His children and he loves it when we grow in knowing Him. He is a Very Good Father!

I confess daily that I am praying to live a fasted lifestyle so I can stay so very close and sharp like a sword for The LORD.

We all need a Spiritual Covering in a Church/Ministry where God has led us to be rooted and grounded.

These leadership teams are there to protect and guard over us.  These will be those who love us and watch out for our souls.

We confess in agreement for mutual accountability with all leadership where God has placed us.

First, we must seek His Purpose or Mission and wait on God to reveal it to us.

Then once we do that, we must Confess to be obedient and yield to His Mission.

Mission Peoples — Hear Me!

There are places in the USA that are hidden, and when you come to one it is shocking to see the condition and culture being like a third world country!

There are still many places to work for The LORD in The Mission Field in the USA!  Especially in the Appalachian Mountain region.

We must confess our faults one to the other in The Fear of God, and pray for one another to be healed.

  • All hindrances and habits that stop the flow and purposes God intended for you, I take authority over all the plans of darkness that seek to keep you bound to earth life instead of Spiritual life.

The Spiritual has always been and the earth has history, but with God, He is eternal and so are we if we receive him as LORD and Savior.

I thank you LORD that I already own a mansion in The Kingdom of God in heaven!

You can have a mansion also, if you give your life to Jesus Christ.  It is our eternal address and home!

Search your own heart and see if you are in the Faith.

I pray God keeps us humble, broken and lowly of heart so that no pride, arrogance, or haughtiness be in our lives.

Surrender your pride and humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God that he might exalt you in due time.

Prayer

LORD, we know there will always be people who will judge us for various reasons! 

But help us keep in mind how much you have promised us and have kept us hidden in the shadow of Your Wings.

As we mature LORD, being no more like children tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine…. may we learn and live according to The Word of The Living GOD!

If this message has witnessed to your Spirit or has somehow touched your heart, I want you to agree and speak this Prayer into the atmosphere over yourselves, your families and ministries.

Say this,

LORD, we don’t want to bring reproach to You or Your Church.

We recognize You are holding us accountable for more now and we ask that You help us LORD, for we are being held to a higher standard because of the hour we live in.

This higher path is actually the lower one, for we must increase and we must decrease and humble ourselves and “die to the flesh.”

We must allow You LORD to strip away the deeds of our flesh and help us learn to die daily.

And in NO way we will not attempt to elevate self, or selfish ambition.

You are everything to us, in Jesus’ Name!

We love you LORD!

“Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.  Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of The LORD: and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and The LORD shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.  Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.  Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.  And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.  Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.”   James 5:13-20.

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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