Mother's Day: Mary, Our Blessed Hope

Hello, I'm Tammy Toney-Butler, Healing Evangelist, and your host of Reflective Hour. Well, we all know who the host of this show is, and that's Christ, by way of his Holy Spirit, his Holy Spirit. Today's Mother's Day, twenty twenty six. And to all mothers out there, we honor you. We honor you and we thank you. for what you do for others every day. And today's episode, The Lord Placed on My Heart, is a Mother's Day about Mary, our blessed hope. Mary, our blessed hope. When we look on Mary, when we look at all she did, by her yes, so many have a pathway to reconciliation, restoration, and redemption. In some way, she's the mother of us all. And many of you are mothering spiritual sons and daughters, people that you didn't actually give birth to, but you're mentoring them up as leaders, as change agents. as generation curse breakers. You're showing them the light and love of the Lord Jesus Christ, helping them to mirror Christ to a dark world, showing them the way, showing them the right way, raising them up in the right way, and they won't depart from it. Many of you are raising grandchildren. You're getting a second chance. Maybe in some capacity you feel as if you failed. You didn't do it right the first time. You made mistakes. There's wounds there that haven't healed. Because of Mary, because of her yes, and because of her giving birth to our Lord Jesus, you have a pathway to wholeness, to restoration, to redemption, to hope, to a future, to peace, to praise, to joy. no longer covered in shame-filled garments or garments of heaviness, but wearing garments of praise, beauty for ashes. So as we stop and we look inward and think about Mary's yes, think about when she was approached and learned that she had been chosen. And she said, let it be as you say, Lord, let it be as you say. She believed. She believed. And her faith spoke volumes. Because faith is the evidence of things that we can't see. Faith. We walk by faith and not by sight. We believe in things that are invisible, that man can't see. Faith requires complete surrender and obedience, especially to Father's will and not our own. Mary had to give up her precious son much too soon. He was way too young, way too young to be taken from her. But she gave him up knowing she had to. And through His sacrifice, we have eternal everlasting life because no one gets to the Father but through the Son. Mary gave us hope. She gave all of us a chance who've sinned and fallen short of the glory of the Lord because of her Son, because of her beautiful Son. Even on that first miracle, At Cana, when the water was turned into wine, she knew she had to act. And she gave up her son freely, knowing it was time. Many of you have had to give up children way too early. They've been called home to be with the Lord. Or maybe your children are out there. on the streets and you don't exactly know where they are and you're wondering, are they okay? And there's a piece of you that dies every day as you await to hear from them. But I awaken you today to the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ. Peace I give to you. Peace I leave with you. Because of Mary's yes, Our blessed hope has come into the world. Jesus. So no matter what you're facing, no matter what mountain you're facing, no matter what past pain or hurt, Jesus can and will set you free. He is the restorer. He is the healer, the great physician, the deliverer. Everything he is is in his name. He died and by his stripes you were healed. And he ascended to the right side of the Father. And his Holy Spirit, his Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus lives within us as believers. It guides us. And it's in the strength of the Holy Spirit that we become. We don't let go of addiction. We don't let go of depression. We don't let go of shame and guilt and fear, regret, self-loathing, rejection. We don't do any of that in our own strength. We call on the name of Jesus and say, Lord Jesus, I know your spirit lives inside of me. And Holy Spirit, I want you to help me. I want you to help me to let go of guilt. Help me to let go of shame. Help me to let go of unforgiveness, of bitterness, of hate, of envy, of pride, of anger. Help me to let go and help me to become all that God has for me. And to all those mothers out there and all those grandmothers that are praying for their children, their grandchildren, that are praying without ceasing, standing in the gap, being the intercessor. We see you today. We see you and Christ sees you. Never stop praying. Never stop declaring. Never stop believing. And we will never stop declaring that the prodigals are coming home. The prodigals are coming home. As we remember mothers on Mother's Day and Mother Mary, our blessed hope, let us remember all the mothers out there all over the world, even the ones that are alone and isolated, the ones that have given birth but sadly made choices based on survival mode Trauma responses based on the trauma adapted brain, wounds that never healed, those that chose abortion, those that chose adoption, those that are still waiting to be reunified with their children. And maybe they lost them because they were addicted or they were incarcerated. To all of those mothers that still ache for their children and have never stopped loving and believing in their children. through the darkest, darkest of times. I speak hope. I speak life. And I tell you that Jesus, the repairer of the breach, can and will repair what was lost. And all the years a locust stole, the canker worm and the pommel worm, they're coming back. Believe. receive, surrender, and heal, and be restored. Glory be to Jesus. Glory be to Jesus. Glory be to Jesus. And that's what he has for you today on this episode of Reflective Hour with Tammy Toney-Butler, Mother's Day. Mary, our blessed hope. Remember to like, to subscribe, to share. Remember to check out our Reflective Spaces ministry podcast and YouTube channels. We thank you. We thank you for everything that you're doing for mothers all over the world, for children, for those that you're raising up, those in our orphanages, those on the streets, those that you're going out of the way to help raise up in the right way. God bless you. God keep you. May his light shine upon you. And may you have everything that you need this season to carry out what he's called you to do. God bless you. God keep you. God keep you.