God has taught me the most powerful lesson of my life — that to live unto Christ and to die — is gain.

“For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Philippians 1:21 NKJV.

“For to me, to live is Christ [He is my source of joy, my reason to live] and to die is gain [for I will be with Him in eternity].” Philippians 1:21 AMPC.

Not only death when we go to heaven, but to really “die to the deeds of the flesh“, so that we can walk in The Spirit and that the fruit of The Spirit and the Gifts of The Spirit can manifest in 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 a negative past life and disappointment will keep us bound from going forward into new beginnings. We who live unto The LORD are to be living epistles seen and read of all men.

Living a ‘fish bowl’ life is actually liberating, because we have nothing to hide!

Let them read us, let them judge us and talk about us! Why should we care, if we have nothing to hide? We are to be “free indeed”^* and 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 that 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 crying over Saul and move on. (2 Samuel 16:1)

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 have to keep in step with Him as we walk in the Spirit!

Remember — we “die to the flesh” so The 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. (Exodus 13:21-22)

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

We have prayed for the fervency of The Book of Acts to come again. 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. (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 is the time for The True Church of The Living God to stand and be counted! And 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. (Matthew 25:1-13)

However, in The LORD, we are bold and we shall run through a troop and leap over the wall for great is the army that carries out His Word.

The LORD utters His Voice before His Army to blow the trumpet in Zion and sound the alarm! (Joel 2, Acts 2)

“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. 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 only those things that cannot be shaken, will remain.

The enemy is furious and has infiltrated the United States of America, and it all is being thwarted — and even missiles are being thrown down like it was in Elijah’s day — and all types of Elijahs sent, are confronting Baal’s idols, and great harvest shall be in the midst of calamity.

Not only in the United States, but also The Nations.

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 feel the increase from the many lessons learned from the past death experiences.

So learn to die so that you really begin to live as we advance The Kingdom of God on each and every level and another Season begins!

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, and continue on in God’s ways.

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! (Galatians 2:20)

Your life is like a fish bowl for all to see, 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 (1 Corinthians 13:12) and when a ministry functions as a Five-fold Ministry, (Ephesians 4) we cannot avoid it and we must have personal accountability for ALL of us!

That means correction when needed, and orders from The LORD, as God will confirm His Word out of the mouth of two or three witnesses. (2 Corinthians 13:1)

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

When prophets are in league and united within the structure that The LORD laid out, it will be a ‘fishbowl’ existence.

But we don’t mind, we won’t hide, nor be able to hide anymore — because, when you walk into the midst of end-time planned revelatory Words from the living God, you will feel naked, until you realize it is for the sake of each person.

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! I wouldn’t want it any other way!

“So how am I to respond? I’ve decided that I really don’t care about their motives, whether mixed, bad, or indifferent. Every time one of them opens his mouth, Christ is proclaimed, so I just cheer them on!
And I’m going to keep that celebration going because I know how it’s going to turn out. Through your faithful prayers and the generous response of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, everything he wants to do in and through me will be done. I can hardly wait to continue on my course. I don’t expect to be embarrassed in the least. On the contrary, everything happening to me in this jail only serves to make Christ more accurately known, regardless of whether I live or die. They didn’t shut me up; they gave me a platform! Alive, I’m Christ’s messenger; dead, I’m his prize. Life versus even more life! I can’t lose.” Philippians 1:18-21 MSG.

^*“Jesus said, “I tell you most solemnly that anyone who chooses a life of sin is trapped in a dead-end life and is, in fact, a slave. A slave can’t come and go at will. The Son, though, has an established position, the run of the house. So if the Son sets you free, you are free through and through. I know you are Abraham’s descendants. But I also know that you are trying to kill me because my message hasn’t yet penetrated your thick skulls. I’m talking about things I have seen while keeping company with the Father, and you just go on doing what you have heard from your father.”“ John 8:36-38 emphasis added.

“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20.

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In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey

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Sherry Edwards Mackey
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