Sermon Series: Determined Faith

Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Reflective Spaces Ministry's teaching today. I am Tammy Toney- Butler. Let's dive into the message that Father has for you today. Oh, Holy Spirit, come. Have your way in this time that we have together. Oh, let your will be done, Father. Let them see you, Lord Jesus, and not me. Let them dive into your truth and see it revealed before their eyes. Let them feast on the word that will transform and deliver them as they dissect the truth as it permeates bone and marrow and resonates deep in their heart. Where transformation and true deliverance and healing begin. It's having the heart, Christ, and the mind of Christ. And that's what this is about today. That I show them you and your truth. And give them your words that you've placed on my heart. In the mighty name of your precious son, Lord Jesus, we pray all things. Amen. Welcome to our viewers today. Everyone all over the world that's tuning in. Father wanted me to come on today and give you this message. I've been preparing it for a while now since I came back from being out of town with Hurricane Milton and attending a conference that I already had planned. While I was in my hotel room, probably wearing exactly what I'm wearing now or close to it, and you can find that video on our channel, we spoke to that storm through the lens faith and it broke down and caused less destruction because we joined and united as a church a body of believers through faith through faith we joined in agreement that that storm would not come and bring the devastation that originally was forecasted because we serve a mighty God, a mighty, mighty God, a God that will deliver us, transform us and heal us. All we need to do is ask. All we need to do is seek him in times of trouble, turmoil, uncertainty. He'll be our guiding light, our truth, our anchor in any storm. That's the God I serve, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our precious Lord Jesus. By faith, we can change the course of history because we are the living breathing working church we are the body of believers we are the gospel it is alive flowing in and through us to a lost dark and dying world what truth do you believe do you believe that negative diagnosis that the doctor gave you Do you believe that forecast from the meteorologist that says a category five storm is going to come and wreak havoc and total devastation? Or do you speak to that mountain in front of you and say, no, we serve a mighty God and I won't accept it. Cancer is not my portion. Sickness is not my portion. Complete annihilation and devastation from a storm is not my portion. That is not my portion. And by faith, I stand firm and strong in the middle of any storm, knowing that my God, the God I serve, will deliver me as he has delivered those in the past that served him. Let's dive in to the teaching today on determined faith that he has for you. So his truth Resonates in the heart and hearts of his people. May you see him and not me. May you have an unveiling so that you can see the truth. And any deception be gone, rebuked in the name of Jesus. Let me bring it up on to the stage. The message he has for you today. It's on determined faith. I'll be reading several scriptures that he has given me. The Holy Spirit inspired in order and his truth revealed as he revealed it to me. For who am I? A mere sinner that he set free. Someone that should not even be here ministering to you right now, according to the world standards. But he chose me. He anointed and appointed me for this hour to bring this truth and this message to a lost generation in need of a healing Savior, in need of a light in a dark world to guide them into all truth. So this is the message that he has for you prepared. So open your hearts to receive it. Spiritual eyes to see and ears to hear. And be transformed. by knowing that this is the way we're walking. This is the path. This is yummy word that he has prepared for you today. I'm going to dive in. We're going to be reading out of Isaiah, the New International Version, Isaiah, thirty twenty six. The moon will shine like the sun and the sunlight will be seven times brighter like the light of seven full days, when the Lord binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted. Don't miss that. Heal the wounds he inflicted. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. John three, sixteen, the ESV version. I think I changed it a little bit with the King James version. I think we all know that scripture by heart. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Let's dissect that for a moment. before we move forward. Father, Abba Father, sent his son to die for us. He loved us so much that he sent his son to die for us. Who does that? That's the God we serve. And Jesus was battered and bruised and suffered many, many wounds for us so that we could be delivered by his work on the cross. Mercy and grace, salvation freely given if you believe on the Son. You don't earn it. It's given to you. He came to give us abundant life. to set us free, to not condemn us, but to save us. That's the God I serve. That's Lord Jesus. Let's continue. Why would a just God bring adversity, wounds, trials, tests to his people or allow storms of judgment by removing his hedge of protections? Why would he do that? What do the storms of life teach us? What do they build in us? And what do they shed in us? Remember, we heal in layers. It's a layered process to achieve wholeness. Many of you know I'm a survivor of child sex trafficking. It was only when I wrote an article published in the National Library of Medicine on human trafficking did I truly understand that that was what happened to me and that my mother was the one that opened me up to being victimized. It was hard for me to know that truth, but it was still a truth. I had to endure that trial. I did not get to choose the family I was born into nor the circumstances. And I couldn't change them because I was a child. I didn't deserve the things that happened to me. Many of you have had things happen to you that you don't deserve. Paths that you're walking on that you don't deserve. That it's not your portion. It's not your portion. But God will see it through. He will see it through. Let's keep going. Transformation through adversity. Character and faith revealed. We're going to read the scriptures. But I will tell you, I've spent the past week, my husband David and I, or a week or so cleaning up after the storm. And we were so fortunate. God had his hand upon us because those horrible tornadoes were all around and we were protected. Now we had lots of debris everywhere that we were cleaning up. And I was riding the John Deere, the lawnmower and going around the fence line of our ten acres. And I was, you know, before that I was picking up debris and just the Holy spirit was talking to me and I was just fellowshipping with father and I was just dissecting. And he said, my people, they go through the storms and they wonder why I would not deliver them out of that affliction at that moment. Why did it come to their door? What were they to learn through it? We live in an evil fallen world where the god with a little g of this world tries to kill, steal, and destroy. He works through people, through storms, through many things. But what can we glean from these trials, from these conditions that we're forced to walk in. Many of you, especially in North Carolina and Tampa and other areas, you've lost everything. How do you justify that? What are you being taught through this process? What can these storms teach us if we stop focusing on the material possessions that we lost, even our homes? But if we look inward and say, what is God trying to show us? What or what are we to glean from this? Because remember, he can use evil for good. And he can deliver us through things that were sent to destroy us, but we persevered. So that's what the trials develop in us, this character of unwavering faith, determined faith, perseverance, endurance, patience, knowing this is the way walking. And he said to me, the Holy Spirit, you know, his father was whispering. I want them to see me. I want them to not put their trust in buildings, in structures, in material wealth or material possessions. I want them to put me back front and center in their lives. I want them to seek me every day. I want them to seek me. I want my children to seek their father. I want to whisper to them, guide them and protect them. As global warming happens, as many storms come, things that we can't change. We can't change outcomes. Many of you are worried about the election. Many of you are worried about so many things. We have to put our faith in God, our steadfast anchor. And he will deliver us no matter what we face, whether it's famine, whether it's death of a relative, whatever it is, he'll deliver us. Whether it's a little girl who lost everything, who was made a sex slave at a very early age, even before kindergarten. who endured so much, but yet he delivered her and sent her to give you a message, a message of hope and healing, knowing he's with you in the middle of your trial and he will supply everything you need. Not man, not the world. Seek him. Pull out your Bibles. Get alone with him. Because when you put him first, you realize nothing else matters. It all can go at a moment. Nothing matters but him, the gospel of truth, showing others the way to be delivered, to be healed, getting back to the true church that we saw in the Acts of the Apostles. Healing and deliverance is our portion. Community. Look how storms bring out a sense of community. People going out of their way to help others, stifling cheating and stifling those that would seek to prey upon the vulnerable, the marginalized and the lost. We as a community, as a body of believers, we rally around those that need us. Why are we not doing that every day? Why does it take a storm? Why does it take human trafficking awareness month, domestic violence awareness month to bring about true change? Every month should be that. Every day should be that. You have people in bondage all over the world, living in horrible conditions. We have to be the hand of God, the hand and feet of Jesus. We have to sow where he tells us to sow, pour into who he tells us to pour into. We have to be like Jesus. That's what storms can teach us. That we can endure any trial because we need to look to the creator. Even if we're in prison and bound, we can still sing praises to him knowing that in due season, he will deliver us out of Egypt. And everything the locust stole, the canker worm, the poma worm, we get it all back because that's the God I serve. And that's the God that loves you. who came for me to tell you, who gave this message for me today to tell you, have hope, trust in him. He will guide you into all truth. He will steer your boat in the direction you need to go. Maybe he was nudging you before to move out of the area that you were living in and you didn't heed the warnings. He warns us, but do we listen? He directs our steps and orders them. But do we yield? Do we surrender? Do we let him lead us? Or do we try to exert our own will and put ourselves on the throne of our life? Do we put ourselves and make ourselves gods? That's what we have to ask ourselves. He moved us to protect us. He showed me so many things I had to do. And he told me, you're going to go through storms. But I also root in him and know that I am protected because I'm where he placed me. I'm along that narrow path, walking in him. Him and I are one. And I have his promise of protection. That's what it says in his words, Psalm ninety one. He will protect me. He will protect you. Let's keep going. Isaiah, I'm reading out of the ESV. He chose this version. He chose these scriptures. He chose them in this order. For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem. You shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you. Isaiah thirty twenty. And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teacher will not hide himself anymore. But your eyes shall see your teacher. And your ears shall hear a word behind you saying this is the way walking it. When you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. Isaiah thirty twenty one. Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold plated metal images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, be gone. And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground and bread, the produce of the ground, which we rich in plenteous. In that day, your livestock will graze in large pastures. And the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with a shovel and fork. And on every lofty mountain and every high hill, there will be brooks running with water in the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall. Isaiah thirty twenty five. Moreover. The light of the moon will be as the light of the sun. And the light of the sun will be sevenfold as the light of seven days. In the day when the Lord binds up the brokenness of his people and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow. By his blow. We have to repent. We have to turn away. From the darkness and seek the light. Father is saying. This is the way walking it. Follow me. Choose the righteous path. Choose the light and not the dark. Do not call. Evil good and good evil. For there will be a day of recompense. There will be a day. We must turn to him. And he will deliver us out of all bondage. and protect his righteous, his faithful remnant, his purified bride. Now he wanted me to move into Mark, and I'm reading out of the NLT. This is showing us Jesus, his character, his ways, his love for all people, even sinners. Jesus calls Levi or Matthew. And Jesus went out to the lake shore again and taught the crowds that were coming to him. As he walked along, he saw Levi, son of Alphaeus, sitting at his tax collector's booth. Follow me and be my disciple, Jesus said to him. So Levi got up and followed him. Later, Levi invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners. There were many people of this kind among Jesus's followers. See that? There were many people of this kind among Jesus's followers. Mark two, sixteen says, reading out of the NLT. But when the teachers of religious law, who were Pharisees, saw him eating with tax collectors and other sinners, they asked his disciples, why does he eat with such scum? Can you believe that? Why does he eat with such scum? Filth. We're all filthy rags. Delivered Our Lord Jesus and his work on the cross. We're nothing without him. We need to see that and surrender to him and his will for our life, for our nation, for our world. When Jesus heard this, he told them, healthy people don't need a doctor, sick people do. I've come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners. See that? Jesus' love for those that others call scum, others call broken, His love, His choice to flow and use individuals who've sinned horribly. I've sinned horribly, but He delivered me from all of that. My trauma and coping through several addictions that He set me free from, led me down paths that were not righteous, past where I committed lots of sins. He delivered me from all, pulling me up out of the murk and mire and the darkness and showing me his marvelous light, bringing about total healing and transformation to where I can come to you now and speak to you and deliver you his truth, his unfiltered truth through the lens of loving faith. He loves you. I love you. Doesn't matter. You're never too dirty to seek him. Never too dirty. now he wanted me to go into joshua he gave me joshua too but I'm starting in joshua one one to kind of give some context and he chose the nlt the lord's charge to joshua after the death of moses the lord's servant the lord spoke to joshua's son of nun moses's assistant he said Moses, my servant is dead. Therefore, the time has come for you to lead these people, the Israelites across the Jordan River into the land I'm giving them. I promise you what I promised Moses. Wherever you set foot, you will be on land I have given you. from the Negev wilderness in the south to the Lebanon mountains in the north, from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, including all the land of the Hittites. No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live, for I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will not fail you or abandon you." That's a promise in God's word. We follow him when he orders our steps and we truly surrender to his will. He will not fail us or abandon us. He will never leave us nor forsake us. He's strong and courageous. For you are the one who will lead these people to possess all the land I swore to their ancestors I would give them. Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the instructions Moses gave you. Obedience is better than sacrifice. We have to obey his every instruction. Do not deviate from them, turning either to the right or to the left. Then you will be successful in everything you do. There is a narrow gate, a narrow path if you find it, but it will deliver us. It will bring hope where there's hopelessness. Freedom where there's bondage. Seek it out. Find it. Find that narrow gate and walk in his deliverance, his truth. Study this book of instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do. See that? We get to prosper And succeed in all we do. That's a promise in his word. And I'm grabbing hold of that promise. I don't know about you, but I'm taking it. But there was a stipulation. We can't walk in unforgiveness. We can't walk in bitterness. We can't walk in hate. We have to follow the narrow gate. His leading. The leading of the Holy Spirit. Where does he dwell? In the heart of Lord Jesus. Guiding us. We know Lord Jesus shows us the father and you can't get to the father, but through the son, we're all one. Jesus, spirit and truth. This is my command. Be strong and courageous. How many times have we heard that now? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. He is with you right now. Whether you've lost your home, whether you've lost your job, whether you have a cancer diagnosis, whatever it is, he is with you. Do not bow. Do not bow to Baal. Do not bow to this world. You walk in his truth. We don't cater to fear. There is no fear in perfect love. There is no fear. He delivers from fear and from bondage. We have the control. We get to walk in the power and the authority which he has given us as believers. And we can speak to any storm and say, break apart. Not in our country. Not in our world. Not in our nation. That is not our portion. I choose faith over fear. I choose to call what is unseen into the scene. I call it forth by faith. And I believe in it, knowing that he will deliver me and you out of bondage. Egypt even though I left Egypt sometimes Egypt was in me but God delivered me from me the greatest breakthrough I had was when he delivered me from me from myself from selfishness from self ambition I laid it all at the foot of the cross and said Abba Father what is your will for my life I will find you I will seek you I will go where you tell me to go nevertheless not my will be done but yours That's been in a pasture. That's been mucking stalls. That's been picking up debris. That's been cutting grass. That's been treading through floodwaters to get to those that I needed to attend to. Wherever he has sent me, I've gone because I've chosen by free will to follow him wherever he leads. To follow him wherever he leads. I don't get to choose the outcome. He chooses it. My job is to obey and go, to speak when he tells me to speak, to deliver his words of truth when he tells me to deliver them, to pray for total healing and deliverance for his people so that they too can be brought out of bondage, out of addiction, out of sickness, and into the portion that he has for us, which is abundant life in Christ Jesus. Joshua two, one out of the NLT. Now we are brought to where he originally took me to Rahab, where Rahab protects the spies. And remember, we learned that Jesus dined with tax collectors and sinners. He called those that the religious leaders called scum, but he didn't see that in them. He saw broken vessels in need of being shaped and molded into new creatures in Christ Jesus. He's the potter, the master potter, and we're the clay. He's shaping us into whom he's called us to be. So we can walk in that eternal purpose before darkness showed up at our door and trauma affected us. Changed our trajectory, our path. Now, back on the path that he has set forth. That's where I am now and you can be too. Then Joshua secretly sent out two spies from the Israelite camp at Acacia Grove. He instructed them, scout out the land on the other side of the Jordan River, especially around Jericho. So the two men set out and came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there that night. But someone told the king of Jericho, some Israelites have come here tonight to spy out the land. So the king of Jericho sent orders to Rahab, bring out the men who have come into your house, for they have come here to spy out the whole land. Rahab had hidden the two men, but she replied, yes, the men were here earlier, but I didn't know where they were from. They left the town at dusk as the gates were about to close. I don't know where they went. If you hurry, you can probably catch up with them. Actually, she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them beneath bundles of flax she had laid out. So the king's men went looking for the spies along the road leading to the shallow crossings of the Jordan River. And as soon as the king's men had left, the gate of Jericho was shut. Before the spies went to sleep that night, Rahab went up on the roof to talk with them. What courage! What courage that she, a prostitute, went up on the rooftop to talk to these men of power, these men of prestige even, these men of authority. She realized she too had power. You need to find your power. Many of your traffickers, your abusers, Gaslight of you have tried to take power from you. But you haven't, especially in Christ Jesus. I know the Lord has given you this land, she told them. We are all afraid of you. Everyone in the land is living in terror. For we have heard how the Lord made a dry path for you through the Red Sea when you left Egypt. And we know what you did to Sihon and Og, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan River, whose people you completely destroyed. No wonder our hearts have melted in fear. No one has the courage to fight after hearing such things. For the Lord your God is the supreme God of the heavens above and the earth below. The Lord your God is supreme. She knew where to put her trust. She had courage. She had faith. She trusted in the God that had delivered them. She had experiential knowledge. They'd heard of the great things that had been done, the miracles. Now the Lord wanted me to go to Ruth. So I'm taking you to Ruth. Ruth and Boaz marry. And we're starting at Ruth four, thirteen, reading out of the ESV. So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife and he went into her and the Lord gave her conception and she bore a son. Many of you are waiting to birth promises. You're laboring, laboring through adversity. He's placed something inside of you, a ministry, a calling. And it will come forth in due season and due time. Maybe that appointed time is now. Maybe it's time that you shed those layers you need to shed so you can step into all he has for you. Walk in that ordained purpose that he alone can bring. The freedom that he brings. Then the woman said to Naomi, blessed be the Lord who has not left you this day without a redeemer and may his name be renowned in Israel. See that? Then the woman said to Naomi, blessed be the Lord who has not left you this day without a redeemer and may his name be renowned in Israel. Even though she had walked through affliction and storms, she had faith and courage and knew her God would deliver her. out of everything she faced. He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him. Ruth four, fifteen, ESV. He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him. Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse. Ruth four, sixteen, ESV. And the woman of the neighborhood and the women of the neighborhood gave him a name saying, a son has been born to Naomi. They named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David. Let's look at that more closely. And I encourage all of you to read the book of Ruth. It's very short. Rahab had a healthy fear of and trust in the Lord for her protection and that of her family during a time of up people and turmoil. She was bold and courageous in the face of adversity. Rahab was an outsider by man's standards, but was used by God despite her past. Rahab was used to shape the character, faith, and godliness of a son named Boaz. And we just learned about Boaz. Boaz later rescued a young Moabite woman named Ruth. See that? Full circle. Naomi trusted God despite the famine, which drove her from her homeland, the loss of her husband and the deaths of her two sons. She remained in faith through adversity and trial after trial. Ruth's love and loyalty for Naomi and her God, despite the loss of her husband, Ruth too lost her husband, Naomi's son, demonstrated her character. Ruth was a Moabite outsider. Many didn't feel she should have been where she was and gleaning in the fields and having the kinsmen redeem her. Ruth's loyalty, devotion, perseverance, and boldness in the face of adversity led to the transformation of a nation through the lineage of David despite her past or upbringing. Rahab and Ruth are both included in Jesus' genealogy. Jesus descended from the line of David. Jesus' blood shed on Calvary transforms and gives life to all See how we learned about the afflictions of Rahab and then how Rahab was tied to Ruth and how that was tied to Jesus. There's a bigger picture, folks. Kingdom ways are higher than our ways. We are to obey. We may not even understand what we're doing or know the outcome, but it is about the kingdom of God and bringing it to earth as it is in heaven. It is about establishing Lord Jesus as Lord and Savior of all. Through him, true healing, freedom, and redemption and restoration lie. It is at the foot of the cross, Calvary. Even if you don't understand, pull yourself up. You may have lost everything, but you'll rise again stronger with power and be unified. We'll be unified as a nation, as a country, as a world. Unified as a body of believers around the cornerstone, the foundation, which is Christ. He's saying to you in this hour, seek me, seek my truth, seek my healing. I am the way, the truth, and the life. Sickness is not your portion. The wounds of yesterday are no match for the blood of Jesus. Let me say it again. The wounds of yesterday are no match for the blood of Jesus. He died so you could have abundant, abundant life. He wants you to be set free to walk in total, complete wholeness. Wholeness. I had to face my past and go back full circle to where it all began. It wasn't a path I chose, but I knew Father wanted me to do it. It was a brief trip, but I had to go back. I was already scheduled for a conference in Georgia. That's where it all happened. I was trafficked and learned about familiar human trafficking where what happened to me wasn't just multiple childhood sexual assaults. Losing my father to suicide when I was a teenager. We buried him on Father's Day. But I'd lost him to Vietnam, the war before that, and complex trauma. For so long, I feared going back to Georgia. I wouldn't go. I would not go. because I saw myself as filthy rags, prostitute even, not worthy. But then I realized his truth and I knew I had to go back. I knew there was a conference that I had to attend, a Joyce Meyer conference actually. And I'd already had it scheduled before Hurricane Milton decided to come in that little tropical wave thing before Milton hit Florida. My husband said I should go because I knew it wasn't a coincidence. It was exactly where I grew up, the roads I'd traveled, and he wanted me to drive. So I drove in between two storms to get up there. Left the ranch with my husband, David, who graciously took care of everything. But I had to leave my husband behind because I had to face the storm in front of me. I had to actually face the past so I could return victorious. There were places my Abba Father didn't have me go. He had me isolate. He had me get along with him. He had me drive through roads where I grew up as a child. He did not have me go back to my father's grave. I don't know why. He did not have me contact any remaining family members that were there. I don't know why. I just walk in obedience. He directed every one of my steps. He had me go to places and he showed me things. But I had to walk with him in faith and face the past to truly break into the future that he has for me. Recognizing that we have the power and authority that I've been set free by the blood of Jesus. Totally, completely. It no longer has any hold over me. The past, what happened to me, it doesn't define me any longer because I was completely reborn in Christ Jesus. That old broken vessel fragmented into so many broken, shattered pieces that it couldn't be put together. It wasn't supposed to be. I shed that the moment I accepted Lord Jesus as my savior and truly surrendered to his will and had the Holy Spirit come live inside of me, making me a new creature, transforming my mind, body, and spirit, shedding my sex addiction, my food addiction, my need for alcohol to soothe the aches, sleeping pills. I don't have any of that stuff anymore. I don't have any of that because I became a new creature completely. Resurrected anew. That broken vessel gone. And I was transformed into this new vessel, this new creature for his glory. That old person no longer exists. You can have abundant life. You're going to walk through adversity to get through it. And inside of you, you're going to do some inner healing. It's not going to be easy, but you'll do it. But you have to dig in and refuse to remain broken, refuse to remain in bondage. You have to choose life, abundant life, and know it's your portion. You have to choose faith. Even when you're facing a doctor's report that says the contrary, you look at that doctor's report and you say, cancer is not my portion. By his stripes, you were healed. That's past tense. Healing is your portion. We aren't to be sick. We aren't to walk in sickness. We aren't to walk in it. We aren't to walk in poverty. None of those things. We get to rebuke them. We get to call forth abundant life, wholeness, mind, body, and spirit. Remember, we're a spirit. We live in a body, and we have a soul, and our soul is our mind, will, and emotions. Father has renewed my mind, renewed my heart, so many things. I had to let go of unforgiveness. I had to let go of bitterness and hate. I had to let go of so many things. None of that was my portion. But through him, he delivered me out of Egypt and Egypt out of me. And he can do it for you. That's the message he has for you today. Stay in faith. Stay courageous. Persevere through hardship. Persevere through drought and famine knowing he will deliver you in due season. Some things we have to walk through because through lived experience we can pull others out after we've successfully gotten out ourselves. We can go back and get the others and bring them out because we're healed enough and whole now to where we can withstand the storm and carry someone else on our back. I want to carry you on my back. I want to pull you out of the darkness that you've been facing, whether it's depression, whether it's addiction, whatever it is, strap on to the hem of his garment and let him pull you out by faith. into that abundant life that he has for you. Storms are coming. They're inevitable. He spoke to me and he said to me, there was a particular storm that I prayed about for it to be broken apart and for it not to come. And it devastated a lot of people. And he whispered to me that that was judgment. That was judgment. There are some storms that there comes a point to where he will lift his hedge of protection if we do not repent and turn to him. And we will not be able to stop them. As believers, we'll be protected. As we root in him, he will steer us. He will tell us where to go, what to do to get out of the storm, how high to build our buildings. He'll prepare us. We have a choice. Do we follow him? Do we follow Baal? Do we follow the world? We have a choice as believers. What are we going to do in this hour? I'm asking you, he's asking you, what are you going to do? I choose him. I choose life. I choose abundant life. I choose Christ Jesus. And so through faith, he had me go on and pray for Hurricane Milton so it would break apart. And so it wouldn't be so strong when it hit. We have to approach each situation with faith. Not worried about the outcome. Believing it is our portion to be healed. It is our portion to be delivered. We have to put our trust in him. We have to hear the whisper of the Holy Spirit. That knowing that goes from following him, this is the way walking. He must order your steps in this season. He must. He must. Holy Spirit, I pray for all those watching that they have rest this season. Even if they're facing uncertainty, that they have rest in their spirit, a peace, a knowing. This is the way walking it. And that their faith will deliver them. It will deliver them out of financial hardship. It will deliver them out of the circumstances they're facing. Let them root deep into you. Let their roots of faith dig so tightly into that new soil, that cultivated soil. For this is a different season. for which to sow and reap. The harvest is bountiful. The labors are few. I call forth labors into the field. I call forth repentance for a nation. I call forth healing and wholeness in Christ Jesus. Let them know this is the way walking it. Let them know this is the way. Let them know this is the way. For their spirit will be their guide. The spirit of truth will guide them into all truth. As they travel in the light and escape the darkness in this season of revival in the hearts of your people, nation and Thank you, Father. Thank you, Lord Jesus. That's what he has for you today. Thank you, all of those who are watching. He sees you. I see you. May his love transform you as it did me and deliver you out of Egypt and Egypt out of you. In the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, we pray all things. We worship him in spirit and truth and we praise his holy name. Thank you, gracious Father. Thank you for delivering us, bringing us everything that we need in this season. As we root deeper into you, into faith, having that determined faith that will transform us, our nation, and our world. I'm Tammy Toney-Butler for Reflective Spaces Ministry. Like and subscribe to our channels. Reflective Hour with Tammy Toney- Butler. Check out our teachings, our sermons. Sow as he guides you to sow. There's Venmo, there's PayPal, so many ways. Check out our website. There's contact information, hotline information on our website, www.reflectivespacesministry.com. Walk in his truth. Let him deliver you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.