Kingdom Protection

Good morning or good evening, considering where you're tuning in to us from all over the world. I'm Tammy Toney-Butler, Healing Evangelist and host of this show of the Reflective Spaces Ministry podcast. But it's more than a show. It's a gathering. It's a community, a community of believers, a faithful remnant that just want to hear, well done, my good and faithful servant. We fought the good fight of faith. And that's what this is. This is a place to edify, to build up. It's a place of teaching. It's a place of restoration, of healing. It's a place of redemption. It's a place where you belong. It's a community of believers. It's where you can come and be yoked with like-minded kingdom people, believers in the kingdom of God, helping to bring the kingdom of God to earth as it is in heaven. This is your day. Today's the day that God has made and you're to rejoice in it. And so today is our day. Holy Spirit, come, have your way in this time that we have together. May they hear you and not me, see you and not me, and may the spirit of truth speak through me on the behalf of all those that are listening, Lord, so that they can glean from you, God. May they see you and not me, and may they not remember me, Lord, but they remember you, that they know you, God, and that if nothing else, they remember Jesus throughout this broadcast. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. It's all about Jesus. All that he is is in his name. All that he is is in his name. Remember to like, subscribe, share. Join us on our other YouTube channel, Reflective Hour. Like and subscribe and share. And the Reflective Spaces Ministry podcast. This gets this information out to more viewers, more listeners. And more people can glean and be edified and built up. And we can unify as a body of believers in Yeshua, in our Messiah, in our Lord, in our Lord, in our Lord. And these teachings can go forth and bring wisdom and understanding and insight, kingdom insight, kingdom knowledge. And that's my prayer for all of you listening is that you glean from this field and you get knowledge and wisdom and understanding and understanding. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Today's message is one that he placed on me. And it's on kingdom protection. Kingdom protection. Places of refuge from the storms of life. Kingdom protection. He is our protection. He is our protector. And Jesus was our kinsman redeemer. Jesus, our deliverer. Jesus, all that he is. is in his name. And so today's message, we're going to look at Psalm eleven, Ruth two, Isaiah fourteen, and first Corinthians two. I'll be reading out of the ESV, and I'll be reading out of the complete Jewish Bible. Complete Jewish Bible, English Standard Version, the ESV, Psalm eleven, Ruth two, Isaiah fourteen, and first Corinthians two. Today, we're going to talk about how to get under the protection of God, to have that kingdom of protection, to have a place of refuge. No matter what storm you're facing in your life, you know that God is your protector and no harm shall come nigh thy dwelling. You won't even dash your foot against a stone because you're protected by the almighty God. The hand of God is upon you. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The God of our precious Lord Jesus Christ. All that he is is in his name. So we're going to start reading. And he put on me Psalm Psalm eleven. In Adonai, I find refuge. That's a promise. So how can you say to me, flee like a bird to the mountains, see how the wicked are drawing their bows and setting their arrows on the stream to shoot from the shadows of honest men? If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? Adonai is in his holy temple. Adonai, his throne is in heaven. His eyes see and test humankind. Have you gone through a testing season? Are you currently being tested? Seek first the kingdom of God and you will find the answers that you seek. Adonai tests the righteous, but he hates the wicked and the lover of violence. He will rain hot coals down on the wicked, fire sulfur and a scorching wind. will be what they get to drink. For Adonai is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright will see his face. The upright will see his face. And next he wanted me to go to Ruth too. And remember, Psalm eleven spoke of refuge. It also spoke of a scorching wind or the wrath of God, destruction that can come from God. And remember, he can send a wind. He can send a wind to blow out those things in your life that no longer serve the kingdom of God that need to go. an east wind can come and purge out those things that no longer serve you this season. but you have to surrender and let go. Put it under the blood of Jesus and recognize that he is our deliverer. He is our kinsman redeemer. All that he is, is in his name. And he is our place of refuge from the storms of life. When Jesus is in your boat, you will not sink. You will not fail. You have assured victory. When Jesus is with you, Lord and Savior of your life, and you've surrendered to his will and not your own. And you know that his spirit, the spirit of Messiah lives inside of you and is directing your steps, your words, your actions, your deeds. Glory be to Jesus. Glory be to Jesus. Holy Spirit, help me. Help me to say this the way you want me to say this. And for them to glean From your spirit of truth. Help them to have spiritual ears to hear and spiritual eyes to see. And they be ever set free by the truth. Now we're looking at Ruth two. And I'm reading out of the complete Jewish Bible. Naomi had a relative on her husband's side. a prominent and wealthy member of the Elmcliffe clan, whose name was Boaz. Ruth, the woman from Moab, said to Naomi, let me go into the field and glean ears of grain behind anyone who will allow me to. She answered her, go my daughter. So she set out, arrived at the field and gleaned behind the reapers. So Ruth set out to do work. She went out into the field by faith. Faith in action. She went after what God had for her. Whether it was a knowing, whatever it was, she got up, stepped out, and had the promise. Delivered to her. How many of you are afraid to step out? How many of you are afraid to start walking? How many of you are afraid to go into the harvest field? God will meet you when you step out in faith and he will provide for you. But are you stepping? Are you trusting? Are you relying on God or man? to fulfill those promises He spoke over your life. Rely on God and watch what He does. She happened to be in the part of the field that belonged to Boaz from Amalekin's clan. She happened to be. No, that's God's perfect timing. She was exactly where she knew she should be because she had the courage to step out and start walking and god met her in the field in the mess in the middle of her need and he's waiting to meet you now When Boaz arrived from Bethlehem, he said to the reapers, Adonai, be with you. And they answered him, Adonai, bless you. Then Boaz asked his servant, supervising the reapers, whose girl is this? The servant supervising the reapers answered, she's a girl from Moab who returned with Naomi from the plain of Moab, she said. Please let me glean and gather what falls. from the sheaves behind the reapers. So she went and has kept at it from morning until now, except for a little rest in the shelter. She had endurance. She had strength. And she also had the courage to say, please let me glean and gather here. She had the courage to speak. And God will give you the courage to speak by way of his Holy Spirit when the time comes. And you need to speak into that area of your life that needs changing. You need to speak life over that situation. Boaz said to Ruth, did you hear that my daughter? Don't go glean in another field. Don't leave this place, but stick here with my working girls. Keep your eyes on whichever field the reapers are working in and follow the girls. I've ordered the young men not to bother you. Whenever you get thirsty, go and drink from the water jars the young men have filled. Boaz was Ruth's kinsman redeemer. And Jesus was our redeemer. We have the ministry of reconciliation because of his work on the cross. He reconciled us to where we can have such an intimate relationship with Father. The veil was torn. There's no longer a breach. He's the repairer of the breach. We have to look to him for salvation, look to him for deliverance. And you see there, there's so much packed in here. where it says here, Boaz said to her, so Boaz is basically her Lord. So we're to look at him as a redeemer. It's kind of showing us what's to come with Christ. Did you hear that, my daughter? Don't go to glean in another field. Don't leave this place. Don't leave the kingdom of God. Don't leave the kingdom of light. Glean from the field of joy, of peace, of love. Put first the kingdom of God and all else shall be given unto you. Remember the kingdom protection. Kingdom protection. Narrow is the gate. Are you knocking on the door? Are you seeking? The only way to get into that kingdom protection, the only way to walk through that door, to walk through that door to the light and truth is the way. And the only way is through the Lord Jesus, through the gospel of truth, because he is the way, the truth, and the life. And it says here, keep your eyes on whichever field the reapers are working in. Basically, keep your eyes on Jesus. And I've ordered the young men not to bother you. That speaks of protection. Whenever you get thirsty, remember, Jesus was our living water, is our living water. And when you drink from his well, you never thirst again. Whenever you... Get thirsty, go and drink from the water jars the young men have filled. That speaks of abundance, of protection. You'll never go hungry. You'll never thirst. Put your eyes, fix your eyes on Jesus, on the cross, on the work done on Calvary, on the reconciliation, on the freedom, the redemption, our deliverer, our kinsman, redeemer. She fell on her face prostrating herself and said to him, see that she fell on her face. She prostrated herself. She got in the right posture to receive the promise, to receive the blessing. Are you prostrating yourself before the Lord? Are you honoring his Lordship? Are you getting yourself positioned to receive the blessings, the promises? Are you humbling yourself, coming under his lordship, ready to get in his feet and surrender it all, rather than get face down on the floor and say, nevertheless, not my will be done, but yours, oh God. Why are you showing me such favor? Why are you paying attention to me? After all, I'm only a foreigner. But he saw her. He saw her. He looked on the inward most parts of her heart. And that's what God does. That's what the Lord Jesus does. He looks on the inner man. Man looks on the outward appearance. Why are you paying attention to me? But you see that Boaz was looking through the spiritual eyesight. He looked inward. When I've heard the whole story, everything you've done for your mother-in-law since your husband died, including how you left your father and mother and the land you were born in to come to a people with who you knew nothing beforehand. See that that took faith for her to go to follow Naomi. She walked in blind obedience, knowing that was where she needed to go and she needed to serve Naomi and stay with Naomi. Are you serving? What field has he called you to serve in? Are you willing to go? Or does it look too much like hard work? Are you ready to get dirty and messy and go glean in the field that's ripe for harvest, even though it doesn't look like where you believe you should be at? Maybe it's not the platform you chose. But it's the platform he has for you to where there's the greatest harvest and the greatest impact for the kingdom of God. Are you going where he's called you to do and have that surrendered posture, that blind obedience, walking by faith and not by sight that Ruth had? May Adonai reward you for what you've done. May you be rewarded in full by Adonai, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge. And we have protection under his wings. She said, my Lord, I hope I continue pleasing you. You have comforted and encouraged me, even though I'm not one of your servants. But it didn't matter. She found refuge. She found refuge. Refuge. And she prostrated herself and got in the right posture of humility, surrendered obedience to say, I'm coming under your lordship. But it was that mirroring of what was coming with Christ and that we're to come under His Lordship. We're to surrender. We're to go and obey His instructions and let Him be Lord and Savior, recognizing His ways are higher than our ways. And that He is the way. He is the truth. He is the way to life, to abundant life. But do we see it? Do we yield? Do we get our flesh out of the way? Do we surrender it all? Do we surrender it all? Or do we try to hold on to this world, to the world's value systems, to our flesh, to the way we think things should be, the way things should look? We already had it all planned out the way it should be, but we never invited God into our plans. We put ourselves on the throne, made ourselves a God. We actually made ourself an idol, wanting to have fame or put pride and ego out there above the call that God had placed on our life. We wanted it to look one way, but God said, no, no, no. This is the way to abundance. This is the way to exceedingly abundantly more than you can ask, think, or imagine. Put first the kingdom of God, not what I, Tammy Tony Butler, wants. Not what you want. Put first the kingdom of God. And that means that we have to honor the king, the Lord Jesus Christ, who God gave the keys to the kingdom to, and he gave it to us, the church, the bride, his bride. We have the keys. to open the door, to walk through it. But do we seek? Do we knock? Do we glean where he wants us to glean? Do we surrender? And now we're going to move to Isaiah fourteen. You know, for some reason, I opened up the Ruth two out of the ESV, out of the ESV. And I just want to look here to see if there's a little bit different. There's something he wanted me to see here. So I'm just bear with me one second. just wanted to see here. Okay. Then Boaz said to Ruth, now listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women. Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go to vessels and drink what the young men have drawn. Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground and said to him, why have you, why have I found favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me since I am a foreigner? But Boaz answered her, all that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before. God, God is working and the Holy Spirit will speak to the spirit of that's in that person, that destiny helper, that person that's called to help you, like Boaz. And Boaz knew that he was to help. He knew that he had to help. And God will speak on your behalf. You only need to be still. You don't have to try to open a door. You don't have to try to make something happen. You just have to surrender, come under his lordship, sit in peace in that knowing that he's working on your behalf and he will speak or have someone speak the truth into someone's ear. That's going to help you. You don't have to try to open that door yourself. You just have to trust, speak life over yourself, start walking, start believing, step out in faith like Ruth. And know that door will open when you need it to open. When you need it to open, it will open. It will open. Now let's go to Isaiah fourteen. Isaiah fourteen. And in Isaiah fourteen, It says for Adonai will have compassion on Jacob. He will once again choose Israel and resettle them in their own land where foreigners will join them, attaching themselves to the house of Jacob. Peoples will take and escort them to their homeland and the house of Israel will possess them in the land of Adonai as male and female slaves. They will take their captors captive and rule over their oppressors. Then when Adonai gives you rest from your suffering and trouble and from the hard service imposed on you, you will take up this taught song against the king of Babel. And this goes on to talk about, I will rise against them, says Adonai Zebit. I will cut off from Babel name and remnant, offshoot an offspring, says Adonai. And he goes on talking about, I will sweep it with the broom of destruction. And all of this, this talks about in Isaiah, Isaiah, uh, your pride has brought you down to show your pride. And and then it says here in in sixteen, those who see you will stare at you, reflecting on what is becoming you. Is this the man who shook the earth, who made kingdoms tremble, who made the world a desert, who destroyed the cities and who will not set his prisoners free, not set his prisoners free? And then we skip down to thirty two. And what is one to answer the messengers of the nation that Adonai founded Zion and there the poor of his people will find refuge. There's that word again. Refuge is found by putting your trust in God, not in man, not in man. And remember, he is he is. the repairer of the breach, Jesus is. God is our judge. We aren't to seek revenge. That's why we're to forgive. That's why we are to let go. We're not to carry bitterness and anger and hate inside of us because that could lead to us wanting revenge. And that allows darkness to enter in. And that actually opens up a door to the kingdom of darkness. And we don't want a door open to the kingdom of darkness. We want a door open to the kingdom of light, to the protection from the almighty God. So we need to make sure that we aren't letting those weeds, those tears get in the wheat. And it's destroying our witness for God. And It's affecting how we minister to others. We can't hold any revenge in our heart. We have to let it all go. We have to say, forgive them, Father. They know not what they do. And we have to just lay it at Father's feet and let Father be the God that it says here that he is, that he sends the scorching wind. He sends the broom. He will speak on our behalf. He will destroy the locusts in our life. All those that are trying to come against us and against our witness for Christ. All those that are trying to come against our ministries. God is in charge and he will strike down the snare and the fowler. He will deliver us from evil. He will deliver us from the hand of the oppressor. From the oppressor's grasp. But we have to believe it. We have to walk in kingdom mentality. We have to know whose we are in Christ Jesus. We have to put on our body armor that it says in Ephesians six. We have to understand that we don't wrestle against flesh. We have to speak life. We have to speak truth. We have to speak words that edify, that build up. We have to join together as a community of believers, as a faithful remnant, unify under God almighty, under his son, the Lord Jesus Christ. We have to unify. We have to come together. We have to let go of the things that no longer serve us. We have to let go and let God. Let go and let God. Let go and let God. We have to let go and let God. Let's go to First Corinthians two. First Corinthians two. And this talks about us having the mind of Christ, the mind of Christ. The mind of Christ. The mind of Christ. As for me, brothers. When I arrived among you, it was not with surpassing eloquence or wisdom that I came announcing to you the previously concealed truth about God. For I had decided that while I was with you, I would forget everything except Yeshua the Messiah and even him only as someone who had been executed on a stake as a criminal. You had a death sentence. I had a death sentence because of what happened in the Garden of Eden. But Jesus, but Jesus. He died on my behalf. So I was pardoned of my death sentence. And he took the death penalty for me. He took my death sentence and said, I'm going to die on your behalf. I love you. I love you so much. And God sent his only begotten son, though whoever believeth on him shall everlasting life. He sent his only son to die on the cross. so that we could be set free, redeemed, restored. Jesus was our kinsman, redeemer, our deliverer. He's still delivering us now. He's delivering us from every affliction. By his stripes, you were healed. You've been healed. You're made whole. That is your portion. Healing is your portion. Healing is your portion. Also, I myself was with you as somebody weak, nervous, and shaking all over from fear. And neither the delivery nor the content of my message relied on compelling words of wisdom, but on a demonstration of the power of the Spirit, so that your trust might not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power. Yet there is a wisdom that we are speaking to those who are mature enough for it." But it is not the wisdom of this world or of the world's leaders who are in the process of passing away. Remember, everything's in the process of passing away. The only thing is heaven. Heaven is eternal. The spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, the spirit of God, the spirit of Messiah that's living inside us, it gives us eternal life. Everything else is dung. Everything else is passing away. This is not our home. Heaven is our home. We're to let go of the things of this world. We are to let go of material possessions. We're to only want to be invaded by the love of Christ. We want to have this Holy Spirit invasion so that we have the heart of Christ in the mind of Christ and we have joy. and we have peace and we have abundant love to get to give out to to to show to others to show them the heart and mind of christ to show them the love and light of the lord jesus christ to where our love is not transactional our faith is not transactional we're going to show them the grace and mercy that god almighty showed us that lord jesus showed that he died on the cross so that we could be set free so that we can be set free. We have life because of his sacrifice. He was and is our redeemer. But are we choosing life? Are we choosing the right door? Are we walking through the right door? Are we surrendering to the process, to being changed, to becoming like Christ? Are we saying, get the world out of me, get anything out of me that's not of Christ? I don't want to look like the world. I want to resemble Jesus. I want to have a bold witness for Christ. I want to have a bold witness. I want to have a bold witness. I want to step out in the faith. Like even Naomi, like Ruth, I want to step out and I know my Boaz is waiting on me. I know that my miracle is there. I know that my miracle of healing, I know that the provision, I know that it's coming. I trust God. I trust my deliverer. I put my faith in the work done on the cross. I put my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He will never fail. He will never leave me. He will never forsake me. That's the God I choose to serve. That's the God I love. That's the God I humble myself. That's the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That's the God that's the deliverer. That's the God that's the repairer of the breach. That's the one that is restoring everything the locust stole, the canker worm and the palmer worm. but do you believe it do you walk in and do you trust him do you surrender do you surrender to the fire of god that should be in every pulpit in america are we showing the fire of god off to the world is his power shining forth like it speaks here is his power coming forth in our witness it is the power of god speaking on our behalf is the power of god speaking on our behalf have we tapped into the kingdom of god to the kingdom of life Or have we tapped into the kingdom of darkness? What are we spreading? Are we sowing words that edify, that build? Or are we destroying? Are we building or are we destroying? Are we building or are we destroying? What are we doing as believers in Yeshua, as the faithful remnant? Can they tell us apart from the world? Can they see Jesus in you and in your witness? Or is everything you do transactional, wanting something in return for what he so freely gave us for free? Healing is our portion. Wholeness, restoration, redemption, restoration, redemption, restoration, redemption, restoration, redemption, restoration, redemption. No eye has seen nor ear has heard and no one's heart has imagined all the things that God has prepared for those who love him, for those who love him, for those who love him, for those who love him, for those who love him, for those who love him, for those who love him, for those who love him. He sees you. He sees you. He's meeting you right now in your infirmary. And if you don't know that Jesus, I invite you now to make Lord Jesus, Lord and Savior of your heart. Say, Holy Spirit. Oh, Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit. Oh, Holy Spirit, help me. Say, I want you to pray this prayer. If you don't know Jesus, I want you to pray this prayer. I want you to say, Lord Jesus, I repent. I repent of all my sins. I repent. I know I've missed it. I know I've failed. Maybe I've been far away from you and I'm coming back. I've missed it. I've missed it. I repent. I don't want the ways of the world. I don't want the ways of the world. I want to walk through that door. I want to go that way i only want that way i want you to be lord and savior of my life i want you to come into my heart i want you to invade my heart help me to have the heart and mind of christ i want you to transform me layer by layer by layer by layer I want you to come into my heart. I invite you into my heart. Be Lord and Savior in my life. And with this prayer, I believe that I've been saved. I believe that I'm a daughter or son of the Most High King. I am now a citizen of the kingdom of heaven. I have the right to walk through that door. I'm covered by the God Almighty. I'm under kingdom protection. I'm under the blood of Jesus. Jesus, I believe that you died on the cross, that you were the Son of God. that you died, that you rose again on the third day, that you're seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. I believe all that in my heart, that you're my deliverer. I believe it, I believe it, I believe it. And because I believe it and I believe it by faith, I also believe that the Holy Spirit that fell at Pentecost, the Holy Spirit is inside of me, changing me, making me fresh and new, making me fresh and new. I believe, Holy Spirit, that you're living inside of me. I invite you to invade me. I want your Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus, to live in me, to dwell in me, to make me fresh and new so that I have the heart and mind of Christ, the heart and mind of Christ, so that I'm renewed each morning, that I know the way, that I walk in it. that I have the strength because the Holy Spirit lives inside of me now to lay down addiction, to lay down depression, to lay down that spirit of infirmary. I rebuke it. I rebuke addiction. I rebuke the spirit of infirmary. I plead the blood of Jesus over their roots. And I call forth deliverance and healing and restoration as you look to the kinsman redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ, as you look on him, as you look on Calvary, as you see the blood of Jesus, as you see the son, knowing you're protected under the Psalm ninety one prayers of protection. You're protected by the wing of the almighty God. You're ambassadors now for the kingdom of light. You're part of the kingdom of heaven. Welcome to the family. We love you. We see you. May God bless you. May his light shine upon you. If you prayed that prayer and you've just entered into the kingdom of God, make sure you email us at info at reflective spaces ministry dot com. We'll make sure you have literature. We'll make sure you get what you need. It's time for you to come on in. It's time for the prodigals to come home. Jesus is coming for his bride. It's time for us to gather from the north, the south, the east, and the west. It's time for us to gather. Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. That's all he has for you today. God bless you. God keep you. May his light shine upon you. Glory be to Jesus. Glory be to Jesus. Glory be to Jesus.