The Powerlessness of Poverty

The Powerlessness of Poverty can lead one to feel shame, inadequate, desperate, and bound. Let's learn how to break the yoke of bondage off your life.

Listen to this episode of Reflective Spaces Ministry's Podcast with Tammy Toney-Butler, Healing Evangelist, and glean a harvest of knowledge that empowers and uplifts. 

A Spirit-Filled Believer's Guide to Financial Wholeness—One Layer at a Time. 

References: King James Life Application Study Bible Version, Complete Jewish Bible, New Living Translation. 

Book Referenced: Prayers that Rout Demons by John Eckhardt.  (https://www.amazon.com/Prayers-That-Rout-Demons-Overthrowing/dp/159979246X) 

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Transcript

Welcome to today's episode and teaching for Reflective Spaces Ministry. I'm Tammy Toney-Butler, Healing Evangelist. But we all know who is the host of this show or anything that we do, the words that we speak, and that's the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit dwelling and flowing in and through like living water. Holy Spirit, have your way in this time that we have together. May they see you and not me. May they hear you and not me. May there be an unveiling of the truth today and that any deception be broken in the name of Jesus. Strengthen them, O God, as they tune in Cover them with your blood of protection and under the shadow of your almighty wing. Oh, God, we worship you. We praise your holy name. And we thank you for the opportunity to spread your word of truth to all who are listening. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. In your mighty name, we pray. Amen. Today's teaching is going to be on the powerlessness of poverty. The powerlessness of poverty. Those past due notices that keep stacking up. The bills that you haven't even opened the envelope because you know what it's going to say. Maybe you're facing foreclosure. You're uncertain. You're desperate, hopeless, full of despair. You pray, yet you have no answers. You're knocking and seeking, but yet you're waiting. You find yourself in a season of waiting. A season of lack. So what do you do? Do you stay in faith? Do you wait on the promise to be fulfilled? Or do you turn to the world for answers? What is it God's telling you to do? Why the drought? Why the famine? and your finances. You're following God, right? And He supplies all your needs. He gives you exceedingly abundantly more than you can ask for, think or imagine. But yet, why is your well dry? Your checking account low? Your ministry account? Why is it that you struggle? pay the bills, to feed your children, to clothe them. You go to church. You put God first. What's he saying to you in this season of waiting and wondering and hoping? Is it that he's trying to build something in you? A strong foundation? a root of faith that's going to produce a large tree of harvest with much fruit. You have to trust God in these seasons. That's what faith is. Faith is trust. It says, I may not see it, My circumstances are speaking differently, but I trust you, God. I won't complain. I won't be critical. I will stand firmly on the foundation of truth. And I know that my God shall supply all my needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. But I consider it all dung, but having Christ. When you realize that when you have Jesus, you have life, you have everything. He's the bread of life. He sustains you. He's your restorer, your redeemer. And you have everything. Then you wait in trustful obedience on the answer to come. And it's in the waiting that you grow strong and ready for the appointed time that the promise is fulfilled. The kairos moment when all of eternity aligns in your life because you found it. You're in spiritual alignment. Maybe the famine, the drought in your finances, is because you're not where God has you, where He wants you to be. Maybe you're not in the center of His will. Maybe you're not in alignment for the assignment that He has for your life. Maybe you're not. It is only when we are in spiritual alignment and we call out to God that we get our answers. We get our promises because he's a good father. And if you're in a place he didn't plant you and he doesn't want you to be, and the only thing causing you to move is the drought and the famine or to look for a new way, a better way to seek him, to humble yourself before him, to surrender it all at the cross, to get on your knees and ask God, Why, why, why? It brings you to a place of humility. And in that moment, you trust, you truly surrender, and you say, okay, God, I'm listening. I'm listening with the ear of faith, the heart of faith. What do you have for me, God? Whisper it to me. Get me out of this drought. Get me out of this dry place. Put me in position, God. Put me in position, God. It's a bold prayer. It takes faith. But when he whispers, you must go. Even if you don't understand. Even if he tells you to get on a plane and fly to a city and get off and go to a bus station and sit there. It's not going to make sense what he's asking you to do. But do you trust him? to go with you, to be there with you. He's already gone before and prepared the way. You just have to step out in faith. The man with the withered hand had to reach out. The woman with the issue of blood had to reach out. We have to reach out and trust. But why would he bless you with abundant blessings, financial breakthrough that's so extreme If you're in the wrong place or you have the wrong motive in your heart, do you want financial blessings, money for your ministry so you can build a big church, a million dollar church? Who's that going to help? What's that going to do? Or should you just put up a tent and go out and feed and clothe and take care of the homeless, the widows and the orphans, and move the gospel to the streets, evangelize. Move the church to the streets, spread the gospel to the lost, the hurting, the dying. They're not going into the churches. I don't know who this word is for, but he has a word today. I'm speaking it. Are you in alignment? What would you do with the money, the funds, the financial blessings once you receive them? Will you buy a Porsche, a sailboat, pay for a fifty million dollar wedding? Will you do those things? Or will you use it for the sheep of his pasture? Your brother, your sister in Christ, who's facing foreclosure, yet they've done everything. How many people could you bless with all that money? What would you do with the kingdom wealth that you keep begging him for? And will he give it to you if you are not in position? Or if you are surrounded by spiritual leeches, that will drain you dry in the ministry account if he gives it to you. Perhaps the drought is bringing you to a place to where you hear him like never before. You're in a relationship with him like never before. A place of humility, surrender, trust, to where when he says to you, leave New York and move to Florida, you will. leave Texas and go to Tennessee, whatever he's saying to you, because he's a good father. He'll keep you safe. But you may have to be like Abraham and others that have to just go. You may have to build an ark on trust. And yes, the whole world may think you're crazy, but we're not to resemble the world. We're not part of the world. We're to resemble Christ. as he works in and through us to deliver his people out of bondage. Because even though they leave Egypt, Egypt is still in them. Yes, there's a great awakening. Yes, there's a harvest. It's here. But where is it going to be found? Where do we have to go? What do we have to do? We have to be united as a body of believers and trust God. that God will guide us and see us through. And even in your time of lack, even in your time of past due notices, maybe you're facing foreclosure. You're wondering where your next meal will come from. When you put your trust in God, he will deliver every time. He will never see the righteous forsaken or their children begging for bread. He is a good father. Sometimes storms come to position us in such a place that we can finally get into alignment. Because that's what it's about. It's about spiritual alignment. It is about being in position. Because remember, we are part of a kingdom. There is a war waging in the heavenlies. We must be in position. on the battlefield of change. We must be in position and in alignment. My path is not your path. The people I'm called to minister to, the population that may not be your population, we all have our spot. We all fit perfectly into the puzzle piece of the kingdom. But we have to make sure we're not trying to force ourself when we don't fit. I know you've put a puzzle together before and you've tried to force it and it doesn't fit because you just want to be done, right? You can't force it. You have to wait on God's timing. And while you're waiting, have you done everything? And it may be that you have, it may be like Joe. He didn't do anything wrong, but it was just about timing and waiting and trust. and building such a strong muscle of faith, a faith muscle. And sometimes that's what storms do. They teach you to rely on Jesus like never before. And with what's coming in this great season we have before us, you need to rely on Jesus like never before. You need a relationship. You need to be able to hear the whisper. You need to be able to follow, to obey when he says, move. Leave that church. Leave that state. Leave that city. Move here. Quit that job. Do this. You have to be ready. Pick up your mat and follow me. Are you ready? Are you ready to see what God has for you? Let's look at scripture, his word, his word of truth to guide us today. He's laid several passages of scripture before me to present to you as evidence of his word and that his way is the best way. Lean not on your own understanding, but trust in God with everything. Trust with your whole heart. I'm going to be reading out of the complete Jewish Bible. I'm going to be reading out of the King James Version and the New International Version. Why? I don't question. I just obey. That's what he told me to do. And that's what I'm doing. So we're going to start with Let me not grab the wrong Bible because I have three opened in front of me. Let me make sure that I get it correct. I'm going to be reading out of the complete Jewish Bible. And I'm going to be reading Isaiah. Isaiah. Isaiah. Send lands for the ruler of the land, from the crags toward the desert, to the mountain of the daughter Zion, the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon, and like fluttering birds, push from the nest. Give us counsel. Decide to help. Make your shadow over us, like night in the middle of noonday. Hide our outcast. Don't betray our fugitives. Let our outcasts live with you. Protect Moe from the attacks of robbers. For when the extorting ends, the spoiling ceases, and those trampling on the land are destroyed, a throne will be set up by grace and on it in the tent of David will sit an honest judge seeking justice and pursuing righteousness. Wow. The next set of scripture that he gave me out of the complete Jewish Bible is Mark two, one through five, Mark two, one through five. After a while, Yeshua Returned to Kipnakum, the word spread that he was back, and so many people gathered around the house that there was no longer any room, not even in front of the door. While he was preaching the message to them, four men came to him carrying a paralyzed man. They could not get near Yeshua because of the crowd, so they stripped the roof over the place where he was. made an opening and lowered the stretcher with a paralytic line on it. Seeing their trust, their faith, seeing their trust, their faith, Yeshua said to the paralyzed man, son, your sins are forgiven. Son, your sins are forgiven. And now the next part of scripture says, And this one, the New Living Translation. And this one is James three, making sure I'm giving them to you in the order in which I was giving them, receiving them, I should say. Now this starts by talking about controlling the tongue and the next section is drawing close to God, but we're just going to start with three. I'm sorry. Controlling the tongue and the next section is true wisdom comes from God. Dear brothers and sisters, not many of you should become teachers in the church for we who teach will be judged more strictly. Indeed, we all make many mistakes, for if we could control our tongues, we would be perfect and could also control ourselves in every other way. We can make a large horse go wherever we want by means of a small bit in its mouth. And a small rudder makes a huge ship turn wherever the pilot chooses to go, even though the winds are strong. In the same way, the tongue is a small thing that makes grand speeches. But a tiny spark can set a great forest on fire. And among all the parts of the body, The tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by hell itself. Wow. People can tame all kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and fish, but no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison. Sometimes it praises our Lord and Father, and sometimes it curses those who have been made in the image of God. Are you calling anything unclean that he's made clean? Are you cursing our fellow brethren, isolating them, putting them in prisons and swamps? We're called to protect the brethren. Those that are made in the image of God? Are we all not our brother's keeper? And so blessing and cursing come pouring out of the same mouth. Surely my brothers and sisters, this is not right. Does a spring of water bubble out with both fresh water and bitter water? Does a fig tree produce olives or a grapevine produce figs? No, and you can't draw fresh water from a salty spring. True wisdom comes from God. That's the next section. We're starting in James three. Now this is thirteen. If you are wise and understand God's ways, prove it by living an honorable life. Doing good works with a humility that comes from wisdom. But if you are bitterly jealous and there is a selfish ambition in your heart, don't cover up the truth with boasting and lying. For jealousy and selfishness are not God's kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind. But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace-loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and the fruit of good deeds. What are you producing with your life? and with your tongue. It shows no favoritism and is always sincere. And those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness. And then the last that Father wanted me to read, this is out of the Life Application Study Bible, the King James Version. And I'm going to be reading Psalm twenty nine, Psalm twenty nine. And the theme of this is God reveals his great power in nature. We can trust God to give us both the peace and strength to weather the storms of life. Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name. Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. The voice of the Lord is upon the waters. The God of glory thundereth. The Lord is upon many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful and the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars, yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. He maketh them also to skip like a calf, Lebanon and Syria, like a young unicorn. The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire. The voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness. The Lord shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh. The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calve and discovereth the forest and in his temple doeth everyone speak of his glory. The Lord sitteth upon the flood. Yea, the Lord sitteth king forever. The Lord will give strength unto his people. The Lord will bless his people with peace. With peace. Wow. And then the next thing that he wanted me to read, and this goes in line with spirits of poverty and lack that can be plaguing your life, any root of unforgiveness. any root of bitterness. There's so many things that can block the flow of blessing in your life. And I personally, over these past many years, have had to take a spiritual inventory and truly get with God and be raw and real and say, where am I missing it? What am I doing that you don't want me to do? I had to shed a lot of pride and ego and selfish ambition. And I had to get rid of self and become selfless. And I had to put others and their walk with God in perspective and realize that my calling may not be their calling and my field may not be their field, but they are my brother and my sister. And we need to lift each other up and be in unity because we're one body under the head, which is Christ. And it is a time where we must be unified. We have to understand that spiritual warfare is real. And there are prayers that we can pray and scriptures that we can pray and use our sword of truth to cut through the lies of the enemy. So when you hear the voice of deception knocking at your door, what do you do? You answer back. as Jesus did in the wilderness with scripture. It is written. It is written. It is written. Now we'll equip you with some scriptures today for your spiritual journey. Because as you get into alignment and you are flowing with milk and honey, spiritual warfare will visit your door. It always does. When you're following the path that Jesus has placed you on, and you're following the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit of Truth, there will be trouble, but take heart. Remember, He overcame the world. But learn how to use your sword. Recognize that we don't fight against flesh. as it says in Ephesians, that there is a whole spiritual realm that's affecting this realm. God's in charge. Jesus sits on the throne and we are in a position of authority because Jesus gave the keys to the kingdom to us, his bride, his church. We must be pure without spot or blemish for he's coming for his bride. We have to be ready, equipped, stand firm on the promises of his word. And even if we don't see a change in our earthly circumstances, we must never bow to Baal, to the world, to the materialism of the world, the culture of the world. We must only have a kingdom mindset and trust in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We have to endure during times of trouble and refuse to step off our rock of protection. God Almighty Adonai, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our precious Lord Jesus. As we are one with Jesus, and as Jesus was one with God, we are one in spirit and truth. Now let's look, and I'm going to be reading out of a book, so I want to give credit, Prayers That Route Demons. Prayers for Defeating Demons and Overthrowing the Power of Darkness. John Eckhart is the author. John Eckhart is the author. And we will put the link to purchase it in the show notes. But I always like to give credit. And I'm going to be reading page twelve, thirteen and maybe fourteen. A little bit of twelve, thirteen and fourteen. Prayers for enlargement and increase. Break off of my life any limitations and restrictions placed on my life by any evil spirits in the name of Jesus. I bind and cast out all python and constrictor spirits in the name of Jesus. Bless me indeed and enlarge my coast. Let your hand be with me and keep me from evil. First Chronicles four, ten. Cast out my enemies and enlarge my borders. Exodus thirty four, twenty four. Lord, you have promised to enlarge my borders. Deuteronomy twelve, twenty. Enlarge my heart so I can run the way of your commandments. Psalm one, nineteen, thirty two. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies. First Samuel two one. Enlarge my steps so I can receive your wealth and prosperity. Isaiah sixty five through nine. I received deliverance and enlargement for my life. Esther four fourteen. The Lord shall increase me more and more. Me and my children. Psalm one fifteen fourteen. Let your kingdom and government increase in my life. Isaiah nine, seven. Let me increase in the knowledge of God. Colossians two, nineteen. Oh, Lord, bless me and increase me. Isaiah fifty one, two. Let me increase exceedingly. Genesis thirty, forty three. Let me increase with the increase of God. Colossians two, nineteen. Let me increase and abound in love. First Thessalonians three, twelve. Increase my greatness. And comfort me on every side. Psalm seventy one twenty one. Let me increase in wisdom and stature. Luke two fifty two. Let me increase in strength and confound the adversaries. Acts nine twenty two. Let your grace and favor increase in my life. Let the years of my life be increased. Proverbs nine eleven. Let the word of God increase in my life. Acts six, seven. Bless me in all my increase. Deuteronomy fourteen, twenty two. Let my giving and tithes increase. Deuteronomy fourteen, twenty two. Let my giving and tithes increase. Now, if God's not a God of abundance, then why would he want are giving in tithes to not increase, meaning we need to tithe and give ten percent. So the more we're blessed with income, with ability to prosper, then the whole church prospers because we're tithing and we're giving. But I ask you, where are the tithes and the giving going? Are they going to large buildings? Are they going to conferences? To staff salaries? To certain things that bear no fruit for the kingdom of God? We have to be careful. that if we're planting churches, building churches, increasing our building size, is that what God is calling us to do in this season, in this particular moment? What is God trying to do? Where are the broken and the lost that need a Savior found? Because Jesus came for the sinner, not the for the religious elite, the Sadducees, the Pharisees, those that didn't even think they needed a savior. He came for the lost, the broken, tax collectors, sinners. Are we following the true gospel in the footsteps of Jesus and preparing and making a way for the greatest awakening, the greatest outpouring during this end time harvest that he is trying so hard to produce on the earth. But is his church cooperating? Are we cooperating? I ask myself this question every day. Don't let me miss it, God. Don't let me miss it. I surrender everything to your will for my life. Don't let me miss it, God. Let's keep reading. Let my ladder End, greatly increase, Job eight, seven. Let my ladder end, greatly increase, Job eight, seven. Let me grow in grace and in the knowledge of Jesus Christ, second Peter three, eighteen. I will flourish like a palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon, Psalm ninety-two, twelve. Let my faith grow exceedingly, second Thessalonians one, three. Wow. Wow. The breaker has gone up before me and broken through every limitation and barrier of the enemy. Micah two, thirteen. Lord, you are the God of the breakthrough. You have broken forth against my enemies. Second Samuel five, twenty. While Lord, you're the God of breakthrough. My branches run over every wall erected by the enemy. Genesis forty nine, twenty two for reference. I could run through a troop and leap over a wall. Psalm eighteen, twenty nine. Let my line go through all the earth and my words to the end of the world. Psalm nineteen, four. I am a joint heir with Jesus Christ. Give me the heathen for my inheritance and the uttermost part of the earth for my possession. Psalm two, eight. And as we conclude, and again, reading out of prayers that route demons, prayers for defeating the demons and overflowing the power of darkness, John Eckhart concluding with page fourteen, renunciations. I renounce all lust, perversion, immorality, uncleanliness, impurity and sexual sin in the name of Jesus. I renounce all witchcraft, sorcery, divination and occult involvement in the name of Jesus. I renounce all ungodly soul ties and immoral relationships in the name of Jesus. I renounce all hatred, anger, resentment, revenge, retaliation, unforgiveness and bitterness in the name of Jesus. I forgive any person who has ever hurt me. disappointed me, abandoned me, mistreated me, or rejected me in the name of Jesus. I forgive any person who has ever hurt me, disappointed me, abandoned me, mistreated me, or rejected me in the name of Jesus. That can be so hard for those of us who've been victimized. Many of you know I overcame child sex trafficking. My mother sadly would have been considered to be my trafficker. I lost my dad to suicide when I was a teenager and we buried him on Father's Day when I was around fifteen. And I recently lost my baby sister to trauma, complications from trauma. Her body failed her and she died so much earlier than she should have as a result of what happened to her. And as we all do, as I did, I coped with that shame, guilt, fear, regret and self-loathing through various addictions and the Lord has shed them all. Well, I'm still working on my coffee in the morning. I'm now moving to decaf. So pray for me because I am now transitioning to decaf completely. So that is one that I believe the Lord has been, you know, speaking to me on. Many of you know, I've lost, you know, gosh, over ninety pounds. And I, you know, the Lord helped me shed my food addiction and so many things, just layers, you know. the need for wine, the need for pills to sleep, all that stuff. God just set me free of all that stuff because all I need is Jesus. But it has been such a layered process. I mean, for probably thirteen years now, he's really been doing a work in me and especially the past seven years. So cut yourself some slack. Healing takes time and financial fitness. And, you know, so if you have those past due notices to bring it kind of back home, the original message, then understand that it's okay because no one ever taught me how to do a budget. I lived in survival mode. I live paycheck to paycheck, but no one taught me how to sit down and do a balance sheet and figure out, well, I've got this much going out every month and this much coming in, and there's a lot more going out than there is coming in. So how can I cut things out that I can cut out? Do I have to have that sports package, you know, on your prime channels? And I will tell you, I don't even have, what'd you call it? A cable TV, none of that. I have my internet. but I don't have any of that. I don't have it. I just have one of those antennas and I get whatever channels, which I don't watch TV, that my husband does, but I control what goes in my ear and eye gate and I just sit alone with Jesus all the time. So I'm not telling you anything that I'm not already living. Many of you know, I sold everything to follow God. I sold my sailboat, my house on the golf course, my FJ cruiser. I had to pay for my well water. And God just showed me I had all these material possessions. And my time was being spent on them, shining the cars, washing the cars, keeping them running. And I wasn't spending time in a secret place with Christ in the closet, you know, and getting along with Jesus. And slowly but surely, everything went away. And now, you know, I live in a five hundred and seventy six square foot little park model, and that includes the front porch. And I'm coming to you from my ministry shed. And so, you know, we, I'm living what I'm preaching to you. None of us through our ministry have a salary, you know, and we have volunteers. I haven't received a salary in a long time because Christ gave me healing for free. And how could I charge for what he gave me? so we rely on you guys paying it forward we rely on donations coming in and and I told him I'll go I'll go wherever you send me and even if the ninety nine are safe he goes after the one so our ministry is a lot of times going after the ones so please you know if you want to fund those and tithe in if he's put that on you that's between you and god you know what tithe means trust And I had to learn that too. And I tithe. I tithe. Of course I do. Because it's all God's. Everything we have is his. And when you look at it like that and you realize that he gives us the ability to bring more into the storehouse so we can pour it out to others and be a blessing. I think that that's where... the truth comes in it really matters and so those of you who are facing those past due notices trust me I understand I mean I've had to go to the store and get out my my calculator and see if I had enough money to buy the items on my list and I had to put some back You know, and I had to walk that walk. I quit my my job in the emergency department as a nurse for ER nurse for almost thirty years. And I just went into full time, you know, evangelism and doing what God's called me to do with my healing ministry and and providing healing bags of hope and pathways to wholeness for survivors of childhood trauma, human trafficking, sex trafficking, rape, sexual violence, domestic violence, men and women. You know, I'm really on a mission to get Egypt out of people. I'm on his mission. And I'm just moving layer by layer, step by step as he's teaching me, I'm teaching you. So I'm living it. I'm living what I'm saying to you. And so look at financial fitness this year. Look at pathways you can trim. Do you need those things? Because he had to teach me, is this a need or a want? Yes, he gives us the desires of our heart, but come on. I mean, do I need that truck with all the bells and whistles that costs fifteen thousand dollars more and a huge monthly payment? So we have to really ask ourselves as we get away from the idol of money, the idol of material possessions, and we put our trust in Jesus. Put first the kingdom of God and all else shall be given unto you. So I've given you a lot to think on today. I've given you a lot to sit with and marinate with that he brought to my door. Um, and he, as I was ministering to someone, uh, just the other day, uh, he said something to me and you know how you write it down when you're like flowing and you're like, oh, wow, that was really good. And it was, it was just about changing our perspective and our victory. Let me just sit for a minute. I just want to make sure I'm not, um, going where he doesn't want me to go. So with this being live, just give me a minute. I often stop and pray. And I do this even when I'm in communication with another person. If I'm leading a group of people, I'll say, hold on a minute. I need to just give me a minute. I need to just sit. Yes, I feel his peace to continue. Victory is in the surrender. You feel powerless, yet you have all the power to change your current circumstances by looking to scripture to guide you and teach you how to speak life over your finances and not death. You're guided by the light of truth. Change your perspective, change your mindset, change your lifestyle. Even though I lack, I trust. Even though I do not see the manifestation of abundance in my life, I believe. I believe. I believe. I trust God to deliver. God will make a way. It's all about trusting, surrendering, obeying, enduring, and persevering until you see the promise or we see the Messiah coming in the clouds. We have to have that enduring faith. And when we look back, remember at James three, when I was talking about the rudder, we have to understand that he is the rudder and the Holy Spirit. We have to allow the Holy Spirit this season, like never before to steer us. We have to surrender that the Holy Spirit, the spirit of Christ is our rudder. And we need to speak his words of truth. We need to speak truth. His words that edify and build up. We don't need to partner with hate and violence in the world. We must be at a place of surrender and let the rudder of truth guide us and guard our tongue and our speech, even that we speak to ourselves. I mean, I've had to check myself because I'm thinking, wait a minute, am I speaking death over myself or I'm speaking life? God spoke the world into existence. Words matter. Speak life. If someone says to me, well, why are you saying that? Because I trust in the Holy Spirit and I trust in his word and I'm the head and not the tail, above and not beneath, the lender, not the borrower. I trust it. I live by this stuff. The word is alive. You know what? Jesus was the living word, right? It's in surrendered obedience that you find abundant life. The problem is how you view abundance. What if the wealth you seek is found in the freedom of others? Maybe you're being called to help others and set them free to speak God's truth. As you walk it out, as you step out in faith, as you trust, as you surrender, he keeps saying, I will provide. My favor is upon you. Go and prosper. Go and prosper. Go and prosper. Do you believe you found it, the path of life, only found through obedient relationship with Christ? If so, start walking and see what God does. For you are in alignment spiritually, and that's what brings provision. Glory be to Jesus. I can't read my writing. It's so small. Hold on. Yes. Glory be to Jesus. The problem is how you view abundance. Okay. So I got that. Okay. Okay. So that's what he gave to me. And yes, I write sideways all over my paper. What can I tell you? Some days I'm on the struggle bus. But that's what he has for you today. And I want to thank you all for listening. And I want to tell you, don't fear in this season. Put God first and he will provide for you, for your ministries. He will show you where the fruitful field is, whether it's in the community. And I'm not here to cast judgment. I don't want to be judged. You know, God set me free and every time I missed it and I came to him, he got me out of the pit I was in. But I'm saying to us as a church, as a body of believers, we need to wake up because he's trying to bring about the great harvest, the end time harvest of souls, the great awakening for he is coming. And he doesn't want anyone to perish. We don't need to want, we shouldn't want anyone to perish. We need to make sure that we are ministering from a lens that allows us to have mercy and compassion and grace and understand that we are ministering to a society that is full of trauma and we have to act and speak differently as leaders, as spiritual leaders. I've built a trauma responsive pulpit series. I didn't do it, the Lord did. You all watch it. It's free on the YouTube channel. It's a trauma responsive pulpit series. You can follow us on Reflective Spaces Ministry, our YouTube channel, our podcast, and also Reflective Hour with Tammy Toney- Butler and look for the teachings there. Sometimes we cross teachings over. I can't tell you why he has me do one and why he has me do the other. Ask Jesus. but we have to come together and unify. We have to strengthen. We have to look at anything we can trim out so that we are ready. He's trying to speak to you. He's trying to speak life into your dead circumstances, into your finances, into your past due notices. He's trying to put money into your bank account. He is trying to set you free from poverty. He is trying to set you free from doubt and despair and loneliness. Are you listening? Wake up. Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up. It is time that the dead in Christ wake up. For he is coming for a purified bride without spot nor blemish. Will you be found ready with oil in your lamp? And will you be pure in your faith? strong and enduring faith that will not fail no matter what you face even if you're in a fiery furnace if he delivers you he delivers you if he doesn't he doesn't his will be done and I will praise him until the end because the end is only the beginning in christ jesus glory be to jesus glory be to jesus glory be to jesus That's what He has for you today. Father, bless them and keep them. Strengthen them, O God. Cause rain to come, O God, and show them where they're missing it. If they're out of alignment and if they're in alignment, speak to them. Guide them like never before. Strengthen their finances. Strengthen their ministries. Strengthen their leadership teams. Fresh oil, fresh clarity, O God. Unite us, O God. Let us show the love and light of Jesus Christ to a dark world. Let us be bearers of the light of truth with humility, compassion, and mercy for our fellow believer, no matter their race, color, creed, or religious preference. Let us show kindness and mercy And the love of Jesus. Because it's the love of Jesus that breaks the yoke of bondage off of the people. It's the love of Jesus that transforms, that heals, that gives us the ability to say, Jesus, be my Lord and Savior of my life. There is nothing more important than you. And no one gets to the Father but through the Son. I recognize you as Savior. I know you died on the cross and you rose again. Control my life. Holy Spirit, Spirit of truth, Spirit of Christ, fill me up. Fresh oil, fresh oil. Strengthen me. Give me enduring faith. Strengthen my faith muscle and help me endure to the time of your coming. In your mighty name, Jesus, we pray. I decree and declare all things. Glory be to Jesus. Glory be to Jesus. Glory be to Jesus. I'm Tammy Toney-Butler, Healing Evangelist. That's what he has for you today. God bless you and keep you. God bless you and keep you. God bless you and keep you. Glory be to Jesus. Glory be to Jesus. Bask in that peace. that surpasses all understanding. Know He's with you. He has you tucked under His wing. And you lack nothing when you have Jesus. You lack nothing when you have Jesus. You lack nothing when you have Jesus. Change your perspective. Change your words. Change your mind and your heart to be like Jesus.