Deliver Me Out of My Affliction

Welcome to today's episode of Reflective Hour. I'm Tammy Toney-Butler, healing evangelist and host. But we all know who the host of this show is, and that's Christ by way of the Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth, the spirit of God that's in us, living, breathing, alive like the word of God is alive and sharper than any two-edged sword. How many of you today are using your sword to stop the attack of the enemy, to stop his advances in your territory, in your home, in your workplace? How many of you are calling out to Jesus and recognizing he's a deliverer? He's everything and he will deliver you out of your affliction. You need only to ask him. Invite him in. Seek him above all else. And he will be found. He will be found.

Our father Adonai sent his only begotten son Lord Jesus to die on a wooden cross and execution stake so we could live free of the bondages and condemnation of sin.

We don't need to be lost. We don't need to be carrying heavy burdens. We can be free and live free and at peace, full of joy despite our circumstances.

How's that? How do we do that?

by ensuring that we have a relationship with Jesus. Not just religion, not just knowing Jesus, but truly walking as a friend of Jesus, surrendered to his lordship, his disciple, his servant. Jesus came to wash feet, to serve, to serve those most in need of a savior. Sinners like you and me that know they were condemned by sin, by the past. But in walks Jesus and changes our lives. He certainly changed my life. He helped me shed the aftermath of child sex trafficking. The shame, the guilt, the fear, the regret. When I lost my dad to suicide as a teenager, I lost him long before that. When he came back from Vietnam, he was never the same. Pretty much an absent father, a police officer, a good man. But he died by suicide. And we buried him on Father's Day. It was hard. It was difficult. The Lord has been with me through so much. I used everything I could to cope with the shame, the guilt, the fear, the regret, the self-loathing, the weight of it all threatened to destroy me. The persecution that I face daily from my own mind, my thoughts, from the enemy's deceptive lies.

I couldn't break free on my own. There was no way to lift that weight off of that trauma. The only thing that did it was Jesus when he helped me surrender to him and he took that little girl that I was carrying and I didn't need to because he died on the cross. And as it says in his word in 1 Peter 2:24, 1 Peter 2:24, I'll be reading out of the King James version. Who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree that we being dead to sin should be live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed. Ye were healed. And when we look at the uh complete Jewish Bible and we read it out of the complete Jewish Bible, First Peter 2:24, when we look at that, it says here, "He himself bore our sins in his body on the stake so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed. For you used to be like sheep gone astray, but now you have turned to the shepherd who watches over you. Who watches over you? And then when we look at second Peter 3 and we read second Peter 3, which I'm going to do out of the complete Jewish Bible, we look at Jesus as a deliverer. So you can cry out and say, "Deliver me out of my affliction, oh God." That's what I did. I said, "Jesus, help me. I can't carry it anymore. I don't want to be a victim anymore. I want to be victorious. I don't want to walk in shame and guilt and depression and despair and this heaviness that threatens to consume me. I don't want any of that. I just want you, Jesus. I just want you. And I knew I knew Jesus. I I knew that he died on the cross for me. that he rose again and is seated to the right side of the father in heavenly places. I knew that that that God sent his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. I knew the scriptures. John 3:16. I knew that Jesus, but I didn't know that Jesus. I didn't know that Jesus. And I did not and had not surrendered to his Holy Spirit living inside of me and coming under his lordship because I put myself on the throne, my own self. And I tried to control everything and do everything and make my own way because I said no one would ever hurt me or victimize me again. But nothing nothing healed that wound but the blood of Jesus. And when I surrendered that little girl that all those things happened to on that day at a Maria University where I visited and I said no more. I surrender it to you. I can't carry it anymore. I don't want to be afflicted anymore. Take it Jesus. Take it from me. And I asked his Holy Spirit to live on the inside of me. the spirit of God to make me fresh and new. And I just surrendered everything I had to him. And I said, I don't know how to do it do it any other way than the way I was raised. I was victimized from a little girl very early on in life. I don't know how to live healthy and whole. God, I don't know how to do this stuff. You got to help me, Jesus. Help me, Jesus. I used food to cope. I used sex to cope. I used alcohol, sleeping pills, whatever I could do to try to get through the moment. And nothing helped. Nothing helped. It was only when I let go of that little girl and surrendered it all at the foot of the cross to Jesus, my deliverer, my Lord and Savior, that I was made whole, fresh, and new. And you can be, too. Say, "Holy Spirit, live inside of me. I have repented of all my sins. So just repent of all your sins. Ask him to forgive you. He already knows what you've done. Just say it as an act of humility. Forgive me, Father. Forgive me. I've missed it. Forgive me. I've missed it. Give me the courage to turn, to repent, to walk your way, your path of righteousness. to walk your way, not the way of the world. Give me the strength to chart a new course, a new path. You order my steps. I submit to your lordships, Lord Jesus. The Lord and Savior of my life. And with this prayer, I believe the spirit of God is inside of me. The spirit of Jesus, the Holy Spirit's living inside of me. And because I believe that, Holy Spirit, take it from me. Take it. That heaviness, that weight of the trauma, that little girl that all that stuff happened to or that little boy, I surrender them to you. I surrender them to you. And I'll open my eyes. I'll get up from this park bench. I'll get up out of this chair, out of this bed, and I will rise into all you've called me to be, knowing that I've been set free by the blood of Jesus, by his death on Calvary on the execution stake. I'm no longer under condemnation of the law, but I'm in Christ Jesus, born again, fresh and new. Fresh and new. And if you prayed that prayer, and if that's you I'm talking about, make sure you reach out to me via email, info@reflectedspacesministry.com,

so we can send you information, literature, and help disciple you up

as a new believer in Christ Jesus. Reach out. Reach out to us. Reach out to us. Let me read this passage of scripture that the Holy Spirit wants me to read.

Second Peter 3 out of the complete Jewish Bible. Dear friends, I'm writing you now this second letter. And in both letters, I am trying to arouse you to wholesome thinking by means of reminders so that you will keep in mind the predictions of the holy prophets in the command given by the Lord and deliverer through your emissaries. First understand this. During the last days, scoffers will come following their own desires and asking, "Where is this promise coming of his? For our fathers have died, and everything goes on just as it has since the beginning of creation." But wanting so much to be right about this, they overlook the fact that it was by God's word that long ago there were heavens and there was land which arose out of water and existed between the waters. and that by means of these things the world of that time was flooded with water and destroyed. It is by that same word that the present heavens and earth having been preserved are being kept for fire until the day of judgment when ungodly people will be destroyed.

Moreover, dear friends, do not ignore this day. Do not ignore this with the Lord. One day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise as some people think of slowness. On the contrary, he is patient with you. For it is not his purpose that anyone should be destroyed, but that everyone should turn from his sins. However, the day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that day, the heavens will disappear with a roar. The elements will melt and disintegrate, and the earth and everything in it will be burned up. Since everything is going to be destroyed like this, what kind of people should you be? You should lead holy and godly lives as you wait for the day of God and work to hasten its coming. That day will bring on the destruction of the heavens by fire and the elements will melt from the heat. But we follow along with his promise wait for new heavens and a new earth. But we following along with his promise wait for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness will be at home. Therefore, dear friends, as you look for these things, do everything you can to be found by him without spot or defect and at peace.

Peace is your portion. Healing is your portion. Never forget that. And think of our Lord's patience as deliverance. Just as our dear brother Shaw Paul also wrote you following the wisdom God gave him. Indeed, he speaks about these things in all his letters. They contain some things that are hard to understand, things which the uninstructed and unstable distort to their own destruction as they do the other scriptures. But you, dear friends, since you know this in advance, guard yourselves so that you will not be led away by the errors of the wicked and fall from your own secure position and keep growing in Christ and knowledge of our Lord and deliverer. There's that word again, Yeshua, the Messiah. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen. That is a prayer. That is a promise. You get to walk in it. By his wounds, you were healed. That's past tense. You've already been healed. By his death on Calvary, as long as you believe in him and you're a follower of Yeshua, you don't have to walk in condemnation. You don't have to walk in shame, guilt, fear, regret, you don't have to walk in that afflicted state. You get to be whole, made fresh and new with a new heart and mind like Christ Jesus. Call out to him. He's waiting. He'll bring you out of the merkin mire. He'll get you to that recovery center. He'll get you to that meeting. He'll get you to that halfway house.

He'll get you to someone to help you.

There's no shame in seeking help. Call out to Jesus. Call out to a friend. Call out to that counselor, that trauma specialists. Reach out. Reach out to that youth outreach specialist. Whatever it is that you need, reach out. There's people waiting to help you. But the main thing is to reach for Jesus. Reach for Jesus. Call out to Jesus. He will be with you in your infirmary. And he will deliver you. For it's his goal not just to get people out of Egypt, but get Egypt out of his people. That starts with you. Generational family oppression ends with you. Step out. Step into purpose and step into all he's called you to be this season. He's your deliverer and he will deliver you out of your affliction. Holy Spirit, be with them now. Give them the strength like it says in Isaiah 40:31. Give them strength. Be their protector like it says in Psalm 91. And help them. Help them. Help them to help themselves to reach out for help. to reach out for healing, to stretch out their hand like the man with the withered hand for healing or to pick up their mat and walk. Help them to take the first step. Oh God, help them. Jesus, help them. Give them strength, fresh oil for those that need fresh oil in their lamps.

In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray and declare all things. Amen. And that's this episode of Reflective Hour with Tammy Toney-Butler, healing evangelist, and your host. Glory be to Jesus. Glory be to Jesus. Glory be to Jesus.