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The Process of Brokenness and Change!

The LORD says: “I AM closing this last chapter in this season, as the set time has come and you have been made ready.”

Vision, Interpretations and Prophecy:

I saw a pick and a axe among a lot of tools and they were leaning against the opening of a mine.

It looked to be a deep coal mine.  It wasn’t a big mine, but a very safe looking mine that had given a fair amount of yield with the “VEIN” excavated.

The vein supplied energy for such a time but it made so sense and I wondered why everything was so clean.

You wouldn’t surrender to the process of being finished because of preexisting thought patterns and doctrines that kept you bound to keep working even though the mine was totally excavated and so clean!

I couldn’t imagine what it took to make it so clean that it shined pristinely!  You didn’t stop but continued working to make that mine “perfect.”

Even though you gained all the coal in that vein, and I could see the length of Spiritual time and fortitude it took, spent going around and around and I was wondering why.

I could see you standing alone having these thoughts and now you began to understand that you had gone as far as you could go in these parameters.

You had checked and rechecked everything so many times you had it memorized from the sheer repetition of knowing each square inch of the mine.

I could sense the frustration because you mined out all you could in this vein.  The mine, for a season of time, provided enough coal to heat and give energy and care for the needs of the current Spiritual season and location.

However, there are many who are not ready to move from that known location to an unknown one.  Change is inevitable and it can be very hard for some.

Yes, there are some who have rooted themselves in that place, and to think of change has caused much confusion and anxiety.

You kept the mine in very meticulous order and has shown great attention to every detail.  Though the ceiling, walls, and floor were very black it was thoroughly spic and span.

This mine was unlike any other mine I had ever heard of or seen! It looked so clean that people doubted the condition and held to their unbelief.

There were many who took a white cloth and wiped the walls and floors and it was perfectly all clean, to their disbelief!

I could see too that each timber was set perfectly and the mine was very stable. However, once the mine was excavated you became frustrated and there was such silence and you would not move.

The LORD impressed upon me, that through the years, you held on to what you believe, but in your quest for more in depth of substance, perfection, and experiences with the Lord only led to more deep mine questions.

You are an aggressive, loyal type of person concerning depth, desires, and commitment and you are not afraid of hard work and won’t quit!  Such noble qualities and feats in your past caused you to learn well by experience, especially with difficult people.

“I AM closing this last chapter in this season, as the set time has come and you have been “made ready.” 

The past is behind, however what things I taught and stripped away are sealed, much like the memory of the five smooth stones.  Reminiscent by the bear and the lion,”  says the LORD.

“I have given you secret glimpses and previews of future things to come; pieces to chew on.  Because of impatience, and at times, great discouragement, you forgot the path of promise.

I wanted you to know that nothing can stop the travail of soul when the time of birth has come!  You had given up hope for the promise I made to you.  Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

The shift preview has taught you new things that have demanded you to unlearn things that were taught as religious things.

Remember when Peter was on the roof and I gave him a vision and I commanded him to rise and eat of unclean animals!  Do not what I call clean unclean any longer.

Now in MY destiny challenge for you, the compass has shifted and directionally by faith giving you alignment so that you won’t feel that you are spinning out of control into the unknown.

Know this!  You may feel unknown and where I AM leading you feels unknown, but I have gone before you and I have set your mind at ease and to understand, for I the LORD have liberated you!

Are you ready as My creation to be recreated?  My Holy Spirit is upon you to be open to learn! 

That is why My grace is moving and you will find great hope and passion in these new days to come.  Don’t be afraid as you have watched the stream dry up and the ravens stopped bringing flesh to eat.

You are being sent!  Don’t hold on to the old, for it has been excavated, do not hold to the consistency of the brook and the ravens!

You are new transplants!  Are you ready and enduring My promises with new passion!

Can you perceive it? Transformation and transitioning evolve into great passion!

What grace you had for this past season is dead and gone!  It is time to look ahead for you have never gone this way before.  However, you were prepared for such a time as this!

In the back of your mind, in the silence of yourself, in this new environment you are feeling mighty low and alone.

There is no common ground, there is no perfect box in the Kingdom, and many have let you down!

You must forgive all of those you have blamed and realize that through it all, I AM the same and I remain the same.  I AM bringing you into My Fullness!

I AM removing your false ceiling, walls, and floor.  I AM going to teach you new things and revelations that will astound the people!

Prepare to be misunderstood!  You continued to remain, but now you wondered and questioned what it all was for.  The journey is changing!

You have put out so much effort, but why isn’t it yielding more?

You have felt exhausted and have felt like you are spinning, like a hamster wheel.  Why did you continue year after year and seemingly end up facing the same questions?

You continued to push down every question and pushed on to continue your trek.  But now can you see a new thing?

A great awakening?  Fresh revelations?  Can’t you perceive it?

It is like rivers in the desert that gives water in the wilderness, to give drink to God’s People, My Chosen.

I can see you in times past, you carried a big canteen filled with water from your own individual well you dug in the wilderness to supply your need. 

As you wandered in the wilderness, you would find people along the trek, that were tired, wounded and near death and you would supply their need until they had to go their own way and trust Me.”

However, I saw a great light descend upon you, and HE reminds me of the great light that knocked Paul off his horse and yes, I hear, you too will begin to move into the vein and a road less traveled.
 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey


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Foundations of Our Faith Series – Pt. 2

Christian believer!  God does NOT put you into cringing, scared to death, insecurity, worry, and fear!

 

Part 2 – Continuation of “Repentance from Dead Works.”

“Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection (maturity), not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment,”   Hebrews 6:1-2 NKJV.

1:  The first foundational doctrinal truth is the “Repentance from Dead Works.”

Before I start, I would challenge each of you to follow up on what is presented and do a word study on the word “perfect” throughout the Holy Bible.

You will find various meanings for the word “perfect, perfection or perfected.”

Correct meaning and understanding happens only when we are in the context to the entire Holy Scriptures!

Only then can we rightly divide the word of truth and understand its meaning.

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth,”   2 Timothy 2:15 KJV.

When you read the word “perfect” in this teaching, you need to look up the original meaning in context to all the base point passages of scripture.

While Paul calls us not only to imitate God (Ephesians 5:1 KJV), but also to imitate him (1 Corinthians 4:16, 11:1 & 2 Thessalonians 3:7).  Paul denies that he is perfect (Philippians 3:12 KJV).

Yet, Paul calls the believers to share the excellence of life that Christ bestows on us, (Colossians 1:28, 3:14 KJV).

Hebrews speaks of the perfection of God’s children, stressing that it is the result of Christ’s death on their behalf.

“By one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy,”  (Hebrews 10:14 and cross reference Hebrews 11:40, 12:23 KJV).

A key New Testament verse for understanding perfection in the Christian life, is found in (Corinthians 12:9).

“But he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made ‘perfect’ in weakness.”

Believers are made perfect if they have received the gift of God’s grace in and through Christ.

Christ came to earth with THE eternal mission of love.  He chose and willingly suffered an unimaginable, horrible death, becoming THE pure spotless Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!  He is our peace and has broken down the middle wall that divided us from God.

The 18-inch curtain that separated us from God, was ripped from the top to the bottom when he died.

Thus, making the way open for us to come into the holy of holies by a new and living way through the veil of His flesh! His death opened the way for all those who call Him LORD.

He is the author of our soul salvation and in His ‘perfection,’ he exchanged with us, what we could never do!

By receiving Jesus Christ as Lord, He made us right with God once and for all! When we received Him as Lord and savior we inherited His many benefits.

“Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.  Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah,”   Psalms 68:18-19 KJV.

When we understood our hopeless condition and the revelation of our total alienation and sinful life from God, we cried out to God to save us!

That beloved was the most amazing revelation we could imagine or ever understand!
Jesus Christ took our place!

We should have been totally separated from God!  But God!  Beloved of God, there was an exchange that took place at that very moment when you cried out to God!

Jesus Christ finished our payment of sin through the travail of HIS soul, being perfectly spotless, sinless, and totally righteous!

He gave and exchanged his perfect life ‘once and for all’ for all those who have received Him as LORD!

When we received the ‘Gift of Salvation,’ that paid and totally covered all the righteous decrees and demands of the law, once and for all, with His willing sacrifice on Calvary! Beloved, He took our place!

Jesus did for us what we could not do, and all to him we owe!  Through Jesus’ abiding “perfection,” He continues to make the way open for us and he ‘perfected’ that which concerns us!

Beloved, the Law, Religion, and Tradition are not our friends!  These influences will continue to send onslaughts against you.

Why?  Because they are on a serious quest to keep you from freedom and the simplicity in Christ!

The opposite of trusting faith is fear!  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom!  That is where we start; at the beginning!

To receive wisdom, we reverence God!  As Children, we can understand that Abba God loves and teaches us, and only wants what is best for us.

God is the perfect parent!  He is a good Father and He doesn’t make mistakes in our rearing!  God is not like earthly minded imperfect parents.

Satan doesn’t want you to see or know that the highest rank and power in the Kingdom of God, is that of a little child!

All of heaven backs up “A Child of God!” Especially one who knows who they are in Christ!

Satan wants to twist God’s Word and His nature and character to that of an angry parent that you can never please or measure up to!

Satan wants to keep you from developing as a Child of God, so he twists the scriptures and uses all sorts of false religious doctrines, and fear tactics, to misrepresent who God is!

Christian believer!  God does NOT put you into cringing, scared to death, insecurity, worry, and fear!

We are to reverence God and respect, and honor him as our Father!  Faith and fear cannot abide together!  One will cancel out the other!

When we get into trouble, Father God disciplines us for our good that we partakers of His holiness.

What good Father doesn’t discipline his child?  His Love and devotion toward us is always motivated to do what is best for us!

Yes, even when he must correct us, it is always for our good!  God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind!

Perfect love cast out all fear for fear hath torment, those who fear have not been made perfect in love.  Being perfected in love is when we understand that God is not against us, He is for us from beginning to end!

Child of God; God’s perfect love toward us liberates us and we finally comprehend that we have life and peace in knowing Abba God’s nature, and character, and His amazing love for us!

Read Hebrews 12:7-13….

“If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. 11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
12 Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed,”
   Hebrews 12:7-13.

“And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love,”   1 John:4:16-18 KJV.

Satan wants you to believe the lie.  That God isn’t good, that he doesn’t love you, that he is out to get you, and that you will never be good enough to measure up!

Well part of that is true; You will never measure up to God’s standards in your own strength and power!

Satan doesn’t want you to know about the goodness of God’s liberating power and the simplicity that is in Christ!

Do you remember when you were first saved, and how wonderful, powerful, and liberating it truly was to be free indeed?

If the enemy cannot stop us from receiving salvation, he will come at you to twist the scriptures about every promise Christ has done and provided for us.

The devil will go after us with a Religious spirit to bring us back into bondage and under a yoke of slavery!

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage,”   Galatians 5:1 KJV.

As I close this portion of teaching, I will leave you with this preview.  There are many religions and denominations in Christendom that teach that you must follow Jesus AND obey the Law.

These two cannot coexist!  It is like a magnetic force that pushes against each other; These cannot come together; It is impossible!

There is an ongoing war of darkness, and their mission is, to spy out our liberty we have in Christ in how he set us free and their motive is to bring us into bondage!

What Jesus Christ accomplished for us is so amazing, and so wondrous!  Many people, including Christians struggle saying it can’t be that easy!

But beloved of God, God meant for it to be so simple that a child can understand!

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey


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Foundations of Our Faith

The doctrine of repentance from dead works is absolutely foundational to our faith.  All of us have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God.

 

“Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection (maturity), not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment,”   Hebrews 6:1-2 NKJV.

The first foundational doctrinal truth is the “Repentance from Dead Works.”

The doctrine of repentance from dead works is absolutely foundational to our faith.  All of us have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God.

All of our works in the flesh, past, present, and future can never make us perfect in our flesh and behaviors to have right standing or security with God,  (Romans 3:23).

Regardless of our activity, works, actions, and behavior; we can NEVER attain the ability to measure up to what Christ paid for us on Calvary!

Christ Jesus did it once and for all! How can we think we could be perfect enough in our flesh by making ourselves right with God apart from Christ?

Christ Jesus paid for us in full and we cannot add to that nor can we take anything away from it.

It is HIS Paid free gift to us!  He paid a horrible price for ALL our sins, past, present and future when we accept HIS free gift to us!

The bottom line question is: Can we be perfect enough in our flesh and behaviors to measure up to what Christ perfectly did?

NO!  If we think we can be perfect enough by the law, then we must do ALL the law perfectly,  (Romans 10:5).

You can attempt over and over to live the “perfect life” your best shot!  However, when we try to be perfect in our flesh, it will only lead you to insanity, and burnout!

NO ONE CAN DO IT!  You will be like the runaway train!

Can anyone become perfected by the law in performance in their behaviors?

If so, then Christ’s death was in vain for them.  Our choice beloved is; Do we live by the letter of the law, or by the hearing of faith in Christ?

If we choose to live by the law then the payment of Christ’s sacrifice was in vain for you.

All of our acts of righteousness are as filthy rags in God’s eyes!  The Father has commanded all men everywhere to repent of their wicked ways.

This belief that we are perfect in our flesh is a wicked way!

“And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.  Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.  But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.  For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.  And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.  But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?  We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.  But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin?  God forbid.  For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.  For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.  I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain,”   Galatians 2:9-20.

“Now we know that what things so ever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.  Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.  Where is boasting then?  It is excluded.  By what law? of works?  Nay: but by the law of faith.  Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.  Is he the God of the Jews only?  is he not also of the Gentiles?  Yes, of the Gentiles also: seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.  Do we then make void the law through faith?  God forbid: yea, we establish the law,”   
Romans 3:19-31 KJV.

We cannot master the law, or we would have been the master.  Do we think more of ourselves or above God?  Perfection means maturity!  We would never be perfect in our flesh in this life.

Extreme teaching, is rooted in pride and it opens the door to dabbling with the fallen angels that come as angels of light!

They are very cunning and crafty, very expert in knowing how to present themselves and to twist the word of God.

These fallen angels of hell can manifest as glorious looking creatures, such as angels of light with beauty.  These fallen angels have studied man a long time!  They have studied YOU!

They know if they can’t get you coming, they will get you going!  These fallen angels’ mission is in drawing us further and further away from the truth!

Balance is so important! We must return to our foundations and see where we got off.  When we get off balance and off center, this is the time to pull away from anything and everyone and regroup with God!

When we refocus, and get centered back on God and His Word, He will pull us back into focus, balance, and to be centered!  Then He will cause us to be in sync with His order of things!

We must have our foundation settled because if we build anything on a faulty foundation when the winds blow, everything that isn’t built according to Christ righteousness will be blown away!

Our foundation is always Christ in what He did, not what we did!

“Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection (maturity), not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment,”   Hebrews 6:1-2 NKJV.

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey


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The God Who Pines for You!

Our first ministry is the same for every Christian.  Our first ministry is developing our love relationship and walk in knowing the LORD.

Beloved in all seriousness, we must aggressively “TAKE” our time to pray, not just MAKE time.

Our first ministry is the same for every Christian.  Our first ministry is developing our love relationship and walk in knowing the LORD.

We have a Living God that pines away in hopes that we will choose to love him and choose to give him our full attention.  Our first ministry is always HIM and He is not far from us.

To “make time instead of take time” has a connotation that prayer isn’t as serious in our life as it should be.  What takes up so much of our day that we cannot sit still before the LORD and speak and listen to our LORD?

God wants an intimate relationship with us.  God didn’t create us like the angels. God wanted to make man in His image giving him free will and free choice.

God CANNOT make you love him or make you choose him.  We are free moral agents knowing right from wrong.  All heaven and earth reveal there is a God and we are without excuse.

“God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is LORD of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; that they should seek the LORD, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.  Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.  And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhereto repent: because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead,”   Acts 17:24-31 KJV.

God wanted fellowship with man that was created “like him” where he could communicate and spend time away with us from our busy day.

God longs for a man that will choose to love him and walk with him in the cool of the day.

That no matter how we deviate in our plans and path, we are to be tuned in to hear him ‘but whisper our name’ from behind the lattice to come away with Him.  He longs for our cohabitation, abiding and delighting in Him.

We are created for His pleasure, but He won’t make us love him or choose him.  He will not and cannot make you choose to love him.

We are to never deviate from our first love relationship.  Relationship with the LORD is foundational.  You never grow up to grow away from that first love relationship.

We can never deviate from that place and expect to build anything else on that foundation that will last.

The storms of life will come and what we have built excluding the LORD’s solid foundation will be blown away!

If we are not solid on our foundation in Christ we build on a faulty foundation of cracks and holes.

God cannot lie but there is another truth that we must understand too.  The other thing God cannot do is go against our free will and choice.

Free will and free choice is the only thing in this life that we fully own.  Free will and free choice will fully cost us something.

When we die and leave this world, we take nothing earthly with us except the choice we made of where we will reside for all eternity.

We choose this day whom we will serve.  When we were born into this world all mankind received the free gift of choice.

When we received Jesus Christ as LORD, we then offered our will by choosing to remain in his house forever. He is not about making us choose Him.

We are free to do with our life anything we wish.  However, when He knocked on the door of our heart, we chose to open the door and let him in.

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me,”   Revelations 3:20 KJV.

There will be no one in heaven that didn’t choose to be there.  When He knocks, it is our choice to open up and let him in.

God will not coerce, manipulate or push His way in.  That is why it is so important to “offer up ourselves to God as living sacrifices holy and acceptable which is our reasonable service,”  (Roman 12:1 KJV)  We must choose to be chosen.

“And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him forever,”   Exodus 21:5-6 KJV.

It is so easy to drift away into the cares of this life and forget where our life stems from.  In the busyness of our lives, so many needs, wants, and other important things crowd our day.

Most of the time as Christians what is sacrificed is our personal, intimate time, with groom in intimacy.

Oh beloved!  How He longingly waits for us to desire to sit with Him and commune with Him.

We are living in such critical times and so very serious that we must maintain a strong connection in our relationship with God.

Prayer, Bible reading, study, worship and obedience to God is not an option.  Neglecting our care for God will carry a severe cost in our intimacy and relationship with the LORD.

Loosing those times and moments cannot be regained.  The enemy will be sure of that by keeping us bound to the cares of this life.

In closing; we Christians have a Living God that pines away in hopes that we will choose to love him and choose to give him our full attention.

Our LORD, King Jesus loves to abide with us, and loves it when we “Take Time,” not “Make Time” for Him.

No matter how far we go in our ministry and growth, our first ministry will always be HIM and He is not very far from us!

Can’t you perceive Him now?

He is closer than your very breath!

 

In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey


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