A Letter from Christ

Welcome to today's message for Reflective Spaces Ministry. I'm Tammy Toney-Butler, Healing Evangelist, author, and your host. The Lord wanted me to come today live and give you a message, a message. And the message is entitled, A Letter from Christ. A letter from Christ. Powerful, powerful symbolism. When we understand that Christ, by his work done on Calvary, was a letter mailed by God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, The God of our precious Lord Jesus mailed a love letter from our Father, Abba Father, who sent his only begotten Son, the whosoever believed in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. He sent his Son as a love offering for us, his sheep, to show us his profound love for his children, us, even though we're sinners and fall short of the glory of the Lord and fall short of the glory of the Lord. But I ask you this question. He does. Are you a letter for Christ? If God mailed you to a homeless camp, would you go? Would you question where you were mailed to or sent? What about your packaging? Would you question the envelope God used to send you out and deliver you to his people? Would you deliver the full message, the fullness of the gospel of his words, the gospel of truth to the letter, in the letter, as the sender intended? Or would you compromise the message? Are we not all letters for Christ as a believer? What does second Corinthians three teach us? We're going to dive into that in just a minute. Do we have the truth of the gospel written on the tablet of our heart? Can we surrender enough to not care the destination or the packaging, but just say, yes, Lord, here I am. Send me like it says in Isaiah six, eight. Do we question God and try to change his mind regarding our destination? Are we trying to play gone, put ourselves on the throne maybe? Second Corinthians three teaches us the truth of the gospel. Once heard and received, one can never be the same. We become a letter from Christ written by the spirit of the living God, a letter that's alive and has the power to change you. if you only receive the truth, the truth in the words written on the letter. Will you do that today and accept the letter I'm sending you? Can you do that today and accept the Lord Jesus into your heart if you haven't? Can you become a letter for Christ? Better yet, If you've already given your life to Christ and the Holy Spirit dwells in you, have you allowed the Holy Spirit to transform you layer by layer to where you no longer go by feelings or flesh, but you go by the Spirit's leading, the Spirit's teaching so that you can know the perfect will of God? Are you surrendered enough to God's leading to allow Him to work in and through you and out to others? Or are you afraid? Afraid of what others will think of you? If you go boldly for Jesus, if you step out boldly for Jesus, if you step out boldly as a witness for the gospel of truth, do you wonder what people will say about you? They'll call you maybe a Jesus freak. Is that compromising your message? Is your witness compromised? Are you afraid that people will see you that knew you in the past and say, how dare you? I know what you've done. Do you believe that lie? Because Christ set you free. You're not under the condemnation of the law any longer. You repented. You turned, you changed your way of life, but do you believe it? Do you rebuke that spirit of fear and instead have a healthy fear of the Lord to where you're fully surrendered to his obedient ear leading? You have that obedient ear of faith like Abraham. Are you allowing God to truly lead you Or are you worried about what others think of you? The naysayers. The ones that tell you you can't do it. You don't matter. You'll never make it. Remember, even Jesus' own family had an issue with what Jesus was doing. When God calls us, it's often not a conference call. It's a solo call. And our heart Once he changes it into the heart of Christ and we have the mind of Christ and we are fully surrendered, we no longer worry about what man the world thinks of us. We focus on being obedient to our commander in chief, God Almighty. We focus on being an obedient soldier doing what we're called to do. We must obey God. And we let the peace of the Lord be our guide. If there's no peace, it's not of God. If there's confusion, rushing, it's not of God. God is a God of order. He's a God of perfect timing. And God's will be done. in and through us and out to others. As we step out in faith, fully surrendered as obedient soldiers, ready to go to war for the kingdom of God. Remember, we're in a spiritual battle and you're called to fight. And the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty for pulling down of strongholds. Look what it says in Ephesians. Is your body armor on? Do you realize that we don't wrestle against flesh? But it's a spiritual battle and we need the word of God as our sword. Remember that Jesus, when tempted in the wilderness by Satan, said, it is written, he used scripture. Are you using scripture? Are you fighting with your tools? Are you rebuking Satan? Are you partnering up actually with Him? When someone tries to talk you out of doing what God has called you to do, do you refuse to follow their ideal of what your ministry should look like? Do you birth the ministry that God has called you to birth, has birthed inside of you? Do you refuse to let others talk you out of it and step out boldly for Christ? Even if you step out alone, even if you're out there serving alone on a street corner in a park, but you have the guts enough to do it, the courage enough to do it, the strength enough to do it because you know God sent you, God Almighty. Maybe he sent you into the marketplace. Maybe he's telling you and calling you to go back to work so that you can transform that corporation that he's placed in your heart. Everyone's mission field is not the same. Some of us are called back in to the marketplace. Some of us are called to the streets. Where are you called to? Where's he mailing you to as your life as a believer should be a written letter from Christ resonating, impacting, transforming and changing generations to come. Let me read second Corinthians. And I'm going to be reading it out of the English Standard Version. I'm going to be reading Second Corinthians two. I'm sorry, Second Corinthians three ministers of the new covenant. Are we beginning to command to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you or from you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts to be known and read by all. And you show that you are a letter from Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts. such is the confidence that we have through christ toward god not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us but our sufficiency is from god who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter kills but the spirit gives life and there is talking about um the law Now, if the ministry of death carved in letters on stone came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses's face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, will not the ministry of the spirit have even more glory? For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceeded in glory. Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all because of the glory that surpasses it. For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory. Since we have such hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. but their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, the same veil remains unlifted because only through Christ is it taken away. Yes, to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts, but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord, who is Spirit. Now I want to read the same out of the complete Jewish Bible. And this, it just kind of really spoke to me. Again, Second Corinthians three. Are we starting to recommend ourselves again or do we like some need letters of recommendation either to you or from you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. Now, this this really got me. You make it clear. that you are a letter from the Messiah placed in our care, written not with ink, but by the spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets, but on human hearts. And when we go on a little bit further, And we move down. He has even made us competent to be workers serving a new covenant, the essence of which is not written text, but the spirit. For the written text brings death, but the spirit gives life. The spirit gives life. And we move on down and it says, yes, till today, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart. But says the Torah, whenever someone turns to Adonai, the veil is taken away. Now, Adonai in this text means the spirit. And where the spirit of Adonai is, there is life. freedom. So all of us with faces unveiled see as in a mirror of glory the Lord and we are being changed into his very image from one degree of glory to the next by Adonai the Spirit. Our lives should be letters. We should really truly be a letter. Just look at it like an audible letter. And God is mailing you. Maybe he's mailing you into a homeless camp. Maybe he's mailing you into addiction recovery ministry. Maybe he's mailing you to another state. Maybe he's mailing you to a jail ministry. And when you get there, as an ambassador of Christ, as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, Yeshua, who died on the cross, rose again, rose again and is seated in heavenly places to the right of the Father. When you believe on Jesus and you take that belief with the boldness and power and authority that the name of the Lord Jesus Christ brings, when you take that into a city, into a nation, into a world, then you transform it. And the kingdom of God truly comes to earth as it is in heaven. Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Father will supply all your needs. You merely need to obey, not worry about the destination, the packaging, the transport method he uses to send you. Maybe the transporter, a destiny helper, might not be the one that you would typically choose. But it's the one God has chosen to catapult you into that worldwide ministry. Because of their boldness and their courage to do something that no one else would even dare do. But they followed God. And they put you and your ministry, God's ministry through you that's going to transform a nation and transform a world. They put it first over their own selfish ambition, over their own selfish intentions. Because they truly died to self and stepped out in faith. And empowered you to become all God had called you to be. Who are you saying no to that's your destiny helper? Who are you judging and condemning because of their past? Or who are you looking to join forces with, to unite? Because where two or three are gathered in my name, there shall I be, and something shall be established. Are you entering into the community he has for you? Are you fully surrendered? Are you obedient? Are you willing to be a letter from Christ to others? Are you willing to be an answer to someone's prayer? Are you willing to step out boldly and go where God's calling you to go and do what he's calling you to do? Are you willing to step out? Here I am, send me Lord, like Isaiah six, eight says. Ask yourself these questions. Are you truly surrendered to the Holy Spirit's leading? Are you in charge of your life? It's time to separate the chaff and the wheat. It's time for you to make a choice. I'm going to be all in for God, fully surrendered. I'm not going to compromise my witness. I'm not going to worry about who's in the room or who's around me. I'm going to share my testimony and go bold for Jesus. In the public assembly, it's time to choose a path. And that's the message he asked for you today. That's the message he asked for you today. Now I want you to scan the barcode. That's on the thumbnail. And that takes you to purchase to Amazon to purchase my latest book, his book. I don't do anything. These are Holy Spirit inspired creative works. And I want you to purchase his book fresh off the shelf. His beautiful book, beautiful cover, large print, easy to read. And this one is the rest of God. Obedience is the key to spiritual rest. You may also want to check out the Olive Press of Affliction Crushing Season Field Guide. Both of these are by me, Tammy Tony Butler, healing evangelist. But again, Holy Spirit inspired, created, downloaded works. I was merely the scribe. These books are powerful. I invite you to purchase those, give those as gifts. And realize that every one that you purchase helps us give out our curriculum. These books, seven books total and an eighth, which is a journal, are free to addiction recovery centers. Safe houses, domestic violence shelters. This is our healing curriculum. And every book you purchase and in every way that you pay it forward, it helps me to continue to minister and free of charge and to go out and spread the good news of the gospel to those that need it the most. And so I thank you for those that have paid it forward. I thank you to those who are going to pay it forward. May God bless you. May he keep you. May his light shine upon you. Holy Spirit, guide them, strengthen them. Give them the ability. Give them the strength they need to fully surrender to you and to your leading this season. For them to be pruned, to be able to bear more fruit for the kingdom of God. Help them to cooperate with the pruning process. and to draw strength from you, like it says in Isaiah, and to allow you to do the work in them that's going to transform them layer by layer so that they can step into all you have for them this season. Help them, God. Strengthen them, God. Bring your peace, O God, and fresh oil for all those that need a fresh feeling of your spirit. Strengthen them, O God. Guide them and keep them. It's dark out there, but you're the light. And I invite you to step out and be the light and be that letter that's mailed out to everyone. Because remember, Abba, Father, sent Jesus the love letter for us all. And he loved us so much, God did, that he allowed his only begotten son to die so we could have abundant life. And if you don't know that Jesus, I invite you to know that Jesus. I invite you to say this prayer with me. Jesus, I know you died on the cross. I know you were fully man, fully God, that you rose again on the third day and you're seated in heavenly places to the right of the Father. And I know that you died so I could have life. I ask you to forgive me of all my sins. I want you to forgive me. I want you to come into my heart and live inside of me. I want to surrender to your Lordship. I want you to be Lord and Savior for my life. And with this prayer, I believe that I've been saved, that I'm no longer part of the kingdom of darkness, but I've been translated into the kingdom of light, that I'm a part of the kingdom, that I'm a daughter or son of the king, an heir, that I have a spiritual family now, a body of believers. And I'm ready to be that letter. I'm ready to be mailed out so others can be set free. And if you said that prayer and you believe, on Jesus, his birth, his death, that he was fully God, fully man. If you believe that in your heart, the same prayer that you just prayed to receive him into your heart by faith, then you say that, then you receive the Holy Spirit, his spirit, the spirit of life, the spirit of truth to dwell in you. Say, Lord Jesus, I want your spirit, the Holy Spirit to dwell inside of me, to make me fresh anew, to lead me. I want to be led by the Holy Spirit. not by my human spirit, but by the Holy Spirit. Lead me, guide me, strengthen me. And with this prayer, I believe that, that I've surrendered to you, to your leading. Holy Spirit, change me. Make me a new creature to where I have the heart of Christ and the mind of Christ. Don't hesitate to reach out to us at info at reflectivespacesministry.com if you prayed that prayer. We'll be happy to send you out some resource materials. God bless you. God keep you. May his light shine upon you this day and every day. Thank you to all those that are watching us from all over the world. I see you and he sees you. God bless you. God keep you. May he strengthen you and guide you. But most of all, may an unveiling occur. to where you're no longer veiled, but you know the truth and the truth has set you free and you step into all God has for you this season. You are not what they said you were. You've been transformed, renewed in mind, body, and spirit. And you're an ambassador for Christ. Step out in faith. Take that territory for the kingdom of God. He's waiting. He's waiting. He's waiting. Glory be to Jesus. Glory be to Jesus. Glory be to Jesus. And that's what he has for you today.