The Reason God Suddenly Turns Things Around In Your Life | The Glory Hour

The word suddenly is everywhere throughout scripture. It's in the Old Testament. It's in the New Testament. [music] It's everywhere. And it connects to God's miracles. It connects to how he does things. [music] And if I look at it and the word immediately, that's another one that happens a lot in there as well. But when you look at it, [music] you say, "Oh my goodness, people, it didn't matter what they were waiting for or what they were praying for [music] or what they weren't praying for anymore at that point." because they had lost hope. God did things when [music] he was ready to and he did them very quickly. That after this period of time of of waiting and pressing in and [music] prayer that he would do the miraculous and when it would happen, it would happen very very quickly and that people would be made whole suddenly. [music] Hey, Glory Hour family. I'm so glad that you are joining me today. We're going to go bit on a journey together because if you've been here, I've been here too and it's really important for us to get revelation and understanding and wisdom when we go through seasons of waiting for a miracle. Is that you right now? Or you're waiting for a promise to come to pass. Or have you ever felt like you've been in the wilderness for way too long? I've been there. Maybe that's where you are today. And I'm just so grateful for our guest Abby Turvet. She has an encouraging word and revelation. She's going to share with us about how holding on to hope for spiritual breakthrough. Abby is a writer and editor for Charisma Media and she's passionate about education, clear communication, and using words to inspire faith and courage in others. In her book, The Power of Suddenly, Abby explores powerful stories of biblical miracles, revealing how God still moves through signs and wonders today. Abby, it is an absolute joy to have you on the Glory Hour today. >> Oh, thank you so much for having me. It is such an honor and a privilege to be here with you. You know, Abby, before we dive into the power of suddenly, because I know there's so much that God is like jam-packed into your spirit and your soul to release into us today, can you just take us through a little bit of your journey and your background with us? >> Yeah, of course. Um, well, starting early on, you know, my parents were both teaching me the principles of prayer from the beginning. You know, my mom loves Ephesians 6, my dad loves the Lord's Prayer. there was no way that I was going to not be hearing about prayer, hearing about Jesus, hearing about the word of God. Um, so that started for me really, really early on. Um, I remember being like two or three years old and asking like who is the trinity and like trying to like figure out like father, son, and spirit. And I remember being like very young trying to figure that out. Um, and then about 11 years old, I was reading my Bible of all things just in my room alone one day. And that was when the truth of I am a sinner and Jesus is the one who can save really connected with me. Um just sitting there reading the Psalms, just reading about the word of God and just fully giving my life over at that point. And from there, I feel like God with me has really done a journey. It's been a journey and a process. Um probably because he knows I'm very much a destination driven person. Even when you talk about vacations or or things like that, I'm like, I don't like the travel. I don't like waiting in line. I don't like any of that. Just get me where we're going. So, in his irony, he has made my whole life basically a process of, you know, learning more about him, learning refinement, going through the fire with him. Um, just learning how to forgive, learning how to obey. And that has really been my journey up until this point. And then back in 2021, um I was graduating from undergrad um with Regent University, went to a Christian college and I was at this fork in the road. I was praying for jobs, praying and praying and praying. I was applying. I was doing all of the things that you would think about doing in the right way. And it nothing seemed to be happening. all the doors that I was like, "This door is going to open. There's no reason this door shouldn't open." Those were the doors that just they were like jammed shut. They were not opening for me at all. And I was like, "This isn't really working for me. I'm not sure why this isn't happening." And I remember at that point in time um just fully saying, "Okay, Lord, this is scary, but not my will, but whatever your will is." And from that point, he just very quickly, suddenly, if you will, opened that door for me to come to charisma. I mean, every time I prayed, it was within like five, 10 minutes from me praying something like that and them giving me a call back, giving me an email, something about moving forward to the next stage. And I was like, I think maybe God is actually answering my prayer. It wasn't where what I was thinking. I had a whole list. I had written out an actual list of places that I thought or or things I thought were going to be the answer. Um because you know I studied journalism and I was thinking like maybe local news, maybe this, maybe that. And so I was kind of thinking in that direction. I you know tried some ministry you know related things as well. But I was I was kind of thinking in this one direction and the thing that God had for me was not on my list but it was his list. And from there, I've really just watched over the past five years that I've been here now of seeing God take me from being a marketing copywriter to them actually opening up the door for me to have my very first book. And so God has just used that whole process of just saying, "I trust you. I'm going to trust you even if I don't see it to kind of bring me to exactly where I am right now." >> You know, Abby, I love just you sharing your story so much. Can I ask you, how old are you? 27. >> 27. Oh, I love it. So, you're Are you Gen Z? >> Yes. >> Yes. Technically, yes. In the end, but yes, >> you're technically like you're Gen Z, but no, like I'm like I'm older. I'm I'm 30. I almost said I'm 37. I'm 38, like the older millennial. But I just love hearing your journey and your story from even as a young girl is that you had this affinity and desire to read the scriptures. Um, and it reminded me of myself. I feel like we have so many similarities um and things that through our journey and going through and that you said you know I'm a destination person like you think you have all these things written down like God this is where I think I'm going to be in five years and by this place I'll be working here and this is a job and all of those things and then it's he puts you through this process that he's like I'm actually I have something even much bigger than what you had in mind of working in local news or whatever it may be that I'm going to open this major door for you in Florida for Charisma Media where I'm going to use the gift that I've imparted into you through writing and your voice is going to be touch just so many lives not just you know just around the world. I mean it is truly incredible and at 27 and you're just getting started. So I your your story and just like hearing your journey really is inspiring and touching. >> Yeah. No, thank you so much for that. It it really has been like I said just this whole process of just learning to trust. you know, fear was something that I feel like I just held on to for such a long point in time. Um, and I feel like over time, that's just something he's kind of been taking away. And I think by actually picking me up physically and saying, "You're going to move 7 800 miles away." That really helps get rid of some fear right off the bat because you're like, "Okay, now I'm by myself. Now I'm alone and I have to try to figure this out." And I had always thought maybe I would want to do something like that. Maybe I'd really want this point in time where it was just me and Jesus. And when you say, "Yeah, I want this just me and Jesus thing." It's a lot harder than you would think when you're like, "Oh, now it literally is just me and Jesus." And how are we going to navigate this? And you know, God has brought along so many wonderful people throughout the journey. I mean, from the first week, the first week that I moved to Florida, I actually um there was a I had a list of churches, had another list, I had a list of churches that I was going to visit. And um the one that I ended up going to first, I said, "Well, this is the closest one." I said, "I'll go to this one first um just to kind of knock it off of the list because I don't want to come here." I walked in and that from the moment I walked in, I was like, "Uh oh, these people worship exactly how I do. Their thought process is similar. I'm looking around. I'm like, uhoh, I'm seeing everything that I'm noticing here about what I've been praying for in a church. Oh no, this pastor seems great." And then from there, within like the next Sunday or something like that, I had a group of girls like just really just walk up to me and they were just like, "Do you know anyone here?" I'm like, "No, I just moved to Florida." And it was like from then on like one of those girls I'm still really close to her and we're still great friends. And so like he even put me in the church that I was supposed to be in and put me around the right people. He put me around the right spiritual mentor that I was supposed to be. Somebody introduced me to her um that first year and like she is just one of the closest people in my life now. And it it's really just been like this whole process of just saying like, "Okay, I'm going to step out in faith even if it doesn't look like my list or my plan." Um, and you know, I am so grateful that I didn't pick even those other churches. When I think about it, when I think about like I'm so glad I didn't just like walk around going like church shopping the way that I thought I was going to until I picked the right one. Um, it really just ended up being exactly where God needed me to just to grow because, you know, plants, we're like plants. We really are. You know, you have to you have to grow the root and you have to grow something deep. Um, and that takes time for it to actually flourish and grow and produce any fruit. And if you're just moving from one thing to another, it's very hard to do that. So, I feel like God just kind of said, "This is everything you need right here in this really close proximity actually from where everything is um right near where I live." And he's just kind of used that opportunity to just grow me. I love it. I love it. Even Abby, I can just see like the twinkle that is in your eye. I just think I just see God of just this amazingly wild journey that he's been taking you on from, you know, you said you moved 700, 800 miles away from home. is home. >> Yeah. My parents currently live in uh North Carolina, but I'm originally from Virginia. Lived in there most lived there most of my life. So, >> and it's like he uprooted you, right? He's like, "Okay, I'm going to uproot you." Like, I guess the plant analogy is coming out today, but he's like uprooting you and planting you in a whole different place because you know what's even coming to mind is um I love plants. I'm a plant mom and you know when you grow your plant there's it's in a certain pot, but when it starts to outgrow the pot, you you got to get a new pot. And so, so even just as you were speaking and just even what God is just like dropping my heart even for you is that he was repotting you and putting you in a bit like a bigger space and a bigger place so you could flourish and grow and just walk in the gifts and the calling that he has for you. And one thing Abby I just love is you know when you're your title of your book is like the power of suddenly. It it sounds like and what I you know and I'm reading through your journey and your story and your book is that your life has been a bunch of suddenly this combination. So can you just share a little bit about the revelation that God gave you about the suddenly moment cuz I know in church sometimes like oh suddenly it's coming get excited but suddenly it's a journey it's a path and that he's led you on and then he's given you this opportunity to share with others what it looks like. >> Yeah. Well, so with the book especially, um I believe it was in 2024. Uh I have been deeply reading scripture in I feel like in a even greater capacity than I ever really had. Like I'd always been trying and asking God for more and more and more, but I it felt like a whole new level um really for the first time. And at the end of the year, he really asked me. He said, "What did you notice reading throughout scripture this year?" And when I tell people a light bulb moment, I mean, it was more than a light bulb moment. It was like just something turned on. Like a switch just turned on my brain. I said, "The word suddenly is everywhere throughout scripture. It's in the Old Testament. It's in the New Testament. It's everywhere. And it connects to God's miracles. It connects to how he does things. And if I look at it, and the word immediately, that's another one that happens a lot in there as well. But when you look at it, you say, "Oh my goodness, people, it didn't matter what they were waiting for or what they were praying for or what they weren't praying for anymore at that point because they had lost hope." God did things when he was ready to and he did them very quickly. that after this period of time of of waiting and pressing in and prayer that he would do the miraculous and when it would happen, it would happen very very quickly and that people would be made whole suddenly. You know, scripture talks about how everyone who was sick that you know Jesus was with like it says all were healed, you know, like all of them. So God was like healing people holy. He was also giving them the gifts and the desires that that he had promised. I think about Abraham and Sarah and just how long of a wait that they really had just waiting for that child and that God did answer and he did answer um just what he told Abraham from the very beginning that he would make his descendants so numerous. And so that was something that the Lord really just placed on me and just placed on my heart. And I actually took a notebook. I wrote it by hand at first. Um I really did. I I had a beautiful notebook that I had put away. someone had given it to me for Christmas one year and I said, "This is so pretty. Like, I can't just use it on a regular, you know, journaling or sermon notes or something like that. I was like, I have to save this for something special. I don't know what that is, but I'll save it for something special." And after I really just realized that, I said, I have to write something. I picked up that notebook. I picked up pencil. I wrote the introduction. And I I remember laughing and actually just being like, "That is the best thing I've ever written in my life." And from then, I I took out, you know, my bi I took out my Bible. I said, "Okay, here's an outline and just here's all of the different ways that God does miracles and here the here's the miracles. Here they are." And just kind of outlining that. And then from there, I just took it by hand, wrote everything by hand, sitting with a paper Bible. Um, really just going back in time in essence really of just like writing with a notebook and my Bible out and just writing all down by hand at first. And then from there, I was like, "Okay, now I have to type everything." So, for something that was supposed to be very sudden, it took quite a while. It was a process um of just having to write all of that out and then typing it all out. But just through that, I feel like God was really getting all of the stories even ingrained in myself as well. That way it wasn't just for other people, but that way it was also for [clears throat] me too because he he wants you to believe what you're saying and he wants you to believe what you're writing and for it to become a core piece of of who you are really of just knowing that yes, when you pick up the scripture from the very beginning to the very end, you can say he is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And there's no there's no um fallacy in here that everything in here is true and that is the same that who he was then is who he is now and he does not change. And if he did not he does if he doesn't change um who he is and that means that whatever he did in scripture then he'll do it for me now. And that was really this big revelation and download it. It it took time. It really did take time. And it took me once again walking outside of my comfort zone and saying like I have a book idea. Um you know like I don't know how this is going to go but I have a book idea. and um just seeing like God give me favor in that way and just seeing him um really just pour his spirit into it and the people that he's brought alongside of that process um from every single editor who worked on it and every single you know person who who did every single bit to help me along with it like he really just placed all the right people and all the right dominoes in effect really for it you know a I just love if you're sharing your journey in this process because um I would I want to say assume that probably writing a book was always a dream that was on your heart >> that you've always wanted to write a book and so it's I know there's people watching like I have this one thing that God has placed in my heart but it's like this journey and the steps that he takes me like our steps says you know the steps of a righteous man righteous woman they are ordered so he's ordering your steps every you know every step of the way and then putting you in the right place at the right time surrounding around the right people so boom it comes forth and it comes out and it's this beautiful revelation that you are literally living the revelation out in your life like he's taking you on this beautiful journey and it um and it's amazing. It's just this this wonderment of like just knowing that it's more than just a belief. I think we go from you know growing up as teenagers or you know we're in early 20s we graduate from college where there's this moment where we're like all right God like here's my life. I don't know what's going to happen, but I'm trusting you. And he takes you on this wildly amazing, beautiful journey. And it's these little moments that add up to like this suddenly um that completely changes your your life. And it's refreshing. And you're you're never you're never the same. Like I love how you were just saying that like the moment we realize it's not just okay, you're the same, you know, today, yesterday, and forever. No, it's like I'm living that out. It's it changes everything. >> Yeah, it does. It changes your perspective on things. It makes you say, "Okay, if someone is is struggling and they feel like God won't heal them from something," then you can say, "But this says that he is the God who heals all of our, you know, all of our diseases and and forgives all of our iniquities." Well, if he's the same God who did that then, he's the same God that will do that now. And you know, you look at and you say someone who's asking for a child, like I already brought up with Abraham and Sarah. But if you are when you're you're saying like, I'm struggling with infertility. I'm struggling with these things, but I believe God's given me this promise. Every single person, every single woman you look at in scripture who prayed for a child, God granted that to her. You know, I look at Hannah and I think about Hannah and just how she was praying and crying and so literally unintelligible where the priests thought that she was drunk because of just how her utterance was just so beyond this world. And no, she was actually pouring out her heart to the Lord. And God granted from that day, he saw the prayer and he granted her that gift and that promise at the right time. And he didn't just give her a child, but he gave her Samuel. You know, he gave her what would be that great prophet of Israel. So, you know, when you think about our prayers and just they they mean so much more than I think a lot of people realize. Um because just one prayer is a plea to God and another prayer is another plea to God. And as you keep praying and praying and praying, he will answer because scripture tells us that we can come boldly before his throne that we can come before that throne of grace that we have that ability to do so. And so as you just keep praying and and asking the Lord and seeking the Lord and not just about your earthly wants or desires, but even seeking his face, you know, wanting to know him more because so many times I know I've said I'm like, I want to know you more. I want to experience more of you. I want to experience more of your glory. Um, in a lot of ways that's come where it's been like, here's a challenge, you know, walk through the challenge and he'll get to know me more. I'm like, okay, that's not exactly what I wanted. But if you can praise him in a valley and then you can also praise him on a mountaintop, you see all the facets of God. You see everything that he really is and that he's good and faithful to bring every single thing to completion. You know, Abby, I love when you brought up the story of Hannah because that's one of my favorite um stories and the journey of Hannah in the Bible of how she was just pleading before the Lord um because she was barren and just like waiting for this this promise. Um and it's so beautiful that like God in the right timing, boom, she gets pregnant. She's like Samuel, but she also had other children as well. That's something that it's it's amazing. It wasn't just one the promise of one, but of um others. And I just love like her faith walk is, you know, something that we can follow and emulate in our own lives. And it's just so important to have that, you know, that faith in the midst of whether when you were talking about we're on the mountain and are in the valley, it's important to trust him in the midst of it. And I'm just curious, you know, through your journey, how how did God, what did he show you? like what were some of the things that you had to do in the midst of your valley seasons and some of the ways that God met you to help you to continue on when it wasn't easy and it was hard to really see and believe that maybe this promise is really going to come to pass. >> Yeah, absolutely. You know, I will say if you want to experience some warfare, um writing a book is the great way of doing so. I will say um cuz I I really I really walked also like through I feel like just a a greater level of that than I ever really had um while writing the book but even even before that as well. And um you know it would be like through prayer and I mean I had all kinds of you know it felt like spiritual attacks like actual like supernatural like attacks and things happening where I'm about to pray for someone and then I feel something trying to stop me or whatever it was you know it was just like this ongoing thing where it just felt like I was being affected in a lot of ways. But I realized that through it, God was really teaching me a about authority. Um because we have that authority in Christ. And to know, hey, remember your identity. Remember your identity. It's in me. It's in me. Don't let anything stop you from your mission. Don't let anything stop you from your goal. Don't let anything stop you um from that. And before really walking into before really walking into that season, um I think God really gave me a heads up that there was going to be some some tough times coming. Um I had had a a dream actually where I had I was about to swim into this water that was covered with all kinds of creatures and stuff that were not great, right? But their only way off of where I was was to go through this, was to go through it. And you know, very soon right after that is kind of when I felt like all of that kind of started. And actually after I moved from where I was living at the time and I moved to a new location um I was taking a walk actually and because I actually moving from one spot to another I actually kind of felt like I was like I feel like warfare was like lifting and stuff like I feel like it's lifting off of me and I was walking around um the neighborhood and I noticed I didn't move far but I noticed this beautiful lake. I mean, there is a beautiful, beautiful lake. Um, and when I looked at it, I said, "Wow, that is so pretty." And I saw uh across from it was where the 711 was near my old place. But I had no idea there was a beautiful lake there. Because when I was over on that side of things, I couldn't see that there was something so beautiful right there and in front of me because I didn't have the vision to see it. I I couldn't see it. All I could see was right there in the immediate. And we're trying to press through God. were trying to keep through to the mission. But it's like he brought that dream back to my mind immediately of like you've made it to the other side. Like you're on the other side of just every single thing that you felt like was just trying to come against you and your words and your writing and um your ability to even pray as an intercessor. You know, it I realized I was like, "Wow, this is beautiful from this side." And that's how it is a lot of times with life is we see things afterwards and we go that was beautiful. Like thank you God for walking me through that. Thank you for taking me through that that time. Thank you for taking me through it. And I look at it I say like I have literally crossed. So like it's it's so close. So, I didn't even see it, but just this beautiful lake that I like to walk, you know, by there in the evenings and stuff and see the sunset over there. And um yeah, so I I think if anyone is dealing with anything mental, physical, spiritual, if it just feels like there is just blockage in the way, like there is another side to it. Um there is a suddenly moment really there is a suddenly moment to things. There is that moment where God says, "Okay, you've passed the test." You know, you've passed the test. You've been faithful. You've been obedient. Like, you know, here here is the reward. And the greatest reward of it all really is you say, "I know him more. I know him more because I walked through something hard. I know him because he was with me even when it felt like no one was with me." And uh just thinking about that and just saying like he he is faithful to the very end no matter what it has been like for someone to just see that and know that even I can say in my own life like he walked me through something hard. He walked me through I was having to pray over my house all the time and just having to pray over my environment and stuff and seeing that I'm like but he taught me stuff from it. He taught me how to pray in more effective ways. He taught me how to see things in the spiritual ways and spiritual eyes that he wanted me to see things with. That way, not only could I write things that people need, but I can also know that the words that I put down on pen and paper are resonating with people in a different way that goes beyond even just them reading something. But it it it's supposed to strike to the heart and to the mind um to bring people to Jesus. >> You know, Abby, as you were just um sharing, what kept coming back to my mind is when you were talking about um you saw the 7-Eleven and there was a lake and you couldn't see it, but there's this journey that we have to go through is I think of Caleb and Joshua like getting to the promised land. And often time the thing that is promised, the thing that we've been praying and crying out and waiting for God for like there is this journey. We don't like to, you know, think we have to face all the giants and land, but he gives us that strength to conquer them, but he also wants to give us divine sight. Like we walk by faith and not by sight. It's a different way of seeing and the discernment um how to go through these hurdles and these hard times. And I just think it is that when you were just talking, I just saw this like image of just how God used that in your life to show you in this divine moment of this is where I'm taking you and you couldn't see it before, but I've allowed you to go through certain things. I've allowed you to suffer some things cuz longsuffering is one of the fruit of the spirit that we don't like yes >> to [laughter] talk about. But it's it's necessary, right? That there's sometimes when you're when you're walking through the valley, when you're going through really hard times that you just you experience a facet and a nature of God that you can't get anywhere else unless you go through that trial. But the most beautiful thing is is we know that with the Israelites too, they made it to the promised land. There were battles along the way, but there's things that strengthen them. There's things that they were able to exceed. You know, God opened their eyes and just saw him as like Adonai Savo, which is one of my favorite names of God, the Lord of the angel armies that he is fighting on our behalf. But he's also training us right through the journey and the process so that you know there's certain things that we need strength and certain skills that we need to acquire. So when we get to the promised land, when we get to that thing we long awaited for that we know how to steward it well. And that's what I just hear from what you were saying is that this journey that you've been on that God has been leading you on. He's like, "Daughter, I'm walking you through some things like you got to pray over your house and to do these things, but it's because of where I'm taking you and the promises that I have for you." >> Yeah. And you know, when I think about uh something I I do discuss in the book as well, but if you look, I believe it's in Deuteronomy, um you know, God makes it clear that there are things that the Israelites were going to encounter, endure that he wasn't going to take away all of their enemies all at once. Um because you would have, you know, the animals of the land that would take over it. It wouldn't be sustainable. They wouldn't be able to maintain. they wouldn't be able to sustain long-term the victory if everything had just happened all at once. He took things out little by little. He drove out their enemies little by little so that they could finally conquer it. So they could have that moment there. And I think sometimes, you know, it's something that it can be very easy to say like, well, God only has taken away a little bit of something or he's only done a little bit of something and it makes us kind of like give up or wonder if he'll really do something fully. But sometimes it's that process and that journey that he's trying to take you through instead to take things out a little bit at a time. That way, it also produces character and it produces fruit because it is that longsuffering that produces character. It is that longsuffering that teaches us to endure. It teaches us what it means to suffer for the name of Jesus, which isn't something that we really like to talk about or think about um long term, but it it is true. Like a faith that is tested and tried, one that goes through the fire with with God really is one that comes out more beautiful and pure and looks more like Jesus on the other side than one if he just gave us everything we wanted exactly when we wanted it. There wouldn't really be a reason to have faith. He would just be a genie to us. But if he takes you through stuff and you still cling on to him and you still say, "Even if I don't get this, even if it's not the way that I want, even if it looks different than I thought, I still choose you and I still choose to praise you." That's what he's after because it's all about relationship. You know, nobody wants to be forced to being love, you know, being in love. Like God doesn't want to be forced, you know, us forcefully loving him. He wants us to choose to love him. And and that's a really big part of him just changing things with us a bit at a time is because he's seeking that relationship of saying, "I know you can't do this on your own, but I'm going to take you where you could never go on your own." >> That is that is so good that it is this relationship of I mean, it's the surrender. It's the laying it down of knowing God, there's only certain places I can go with you. like when I literally lay it all at your feet and just trust you in the midst of it. You know, Abby, I went through a season several years ago. Um the Lord spoke very clearly to me. I was going to go through a season of death and I'm like, "What are you?" I was like, "Oh, okay." But it was literally like people pass away, like relationships changing. Like it was a whole dynamic shift in my life. Um and it was I mean I was down in the pit in the valley and I'm and there was moments I'm like, "God, how could you do all this to But in the midst of it, um, I learned about longsuffering. I learned about Jesus being by my side. I learned so much like from that one season, as hard as it was, um, it it changed me for the good. There was a lot of healing and deliverance and things that needed to come outside of me that God used that season of just pruning me, um, to walk in the things where I am now. And it just sounds like with even the same of your journey is that you know there's moments where you don't know where sometimes what God is doing. You don't know what's happening but it's just that trust like there's a scripture in the book of Job though you slay me yet I trust you. Um and there's something about that clinging to God no matter what no matter how ugly it gets how bad it gets because we know on the other side there's a promise and there's victory and but those are some of the hardest seasons. So we h we have we have but they're necessary. >> Yeah. No, it's so true though because we we in our human flesh, we don't want to walk through it. We don't want to walk through the hard things, but sometimes it's only by the hard things that he gets us to that other side. Um, and you know, I can say one thing that through all of through all of what I was experiencing and going through and stuff, I had the most amazing, glorious experience with Jesus, to say the very least. You know, I I I realized I was like, you're not just having me write a book about miracles. You want me to experience the miracles, too. And I was at a worship night at my church and I physically had the presence of God just like come and just like touch me from like the top my head to the bottom of my feet. Like it was it was wild. It was the most tangible thing that I've ever experienced. And it felt more real than anything that I I've ever experienced in my life that I I was like, "This is more real than I feel like even the people I'm standing around right now because I've been praying to you. I've been asking. I'm like, God, please end the warfare. End it all." And it was just like this glorious peace and just this miraculous like presence that just swept over me that I'm like I feel so much as if I have touched the hem of God's garment. You know, like where you're just like I feel like I have physically touched the hem of your garment because I've cried to you. I've asked you for all kinds of things and you've made me seen and known. And you know, I I think that's another reason that just the miraculous really does resonate with me. It's like because once you experience it, you can't say that it didn't happen. You know, you you might sound strange to maybe people who are skeptical about the miraculous, but the truth of it is is it what matters is what happens between you and God. What matters is is how he changes you in that moment. What matters is how if you say yes to him, you don't look back and you don't go back to, you know, a skeptical mindset or or belief. you just kind of step out of the boat and into the faith and say, "I have experienced the presence of God and I I know him and he knows me and he calls me daughter or son and he he sees every every single thing that I've ever been through and he knows every single thing about me and there's nothing that has ever stopped him or prevented him from wanting to move forward with seeing me in that way." >> It's a it's a beautiful thing. The presence changes everything when you have those moments. And that's a suddenly too is that when it just it comes the glory comes crashing in and you just, you know, you get caught up in where he is. There's nothing like it. And I've had those experiences, Abby, of just like top of my head, the souls of my feet, like I could just feel him or even in the most broken states of my life and just going before him. It's just like pouring out your worship and your love onto him is some of the greatest things that we can do. And you know, I just felt like, you know, Abby, um, here at Cornerstone, we have a prayer line that is 247 that you can give a call at any time. And I just want you to get just have a moment. You know, you said you're an intercessor and you love praying, but just to take a moment to pray for that person that's waiting for their suddenly that's waiting for the promise. Can you just take a moment and pray for them? >> Yes, absolutely. Uh, God, we just give you all the glory and the praise and we give you the honor right now for what you are doing. God, we thank you for what you are doing in the people who are watching in their lives. Jesus, I pray right now. If anyone is struggling with sickness, if anyone is struggling with diseases, if anyone is struggling with with health issues, God, I pray that you would touch them from the very top of their head to the bottom of their souls the same way that you did for me, God. And I pray that you would heal them, Jesus. I pray if anyone is suffering from mental torment, Jesus, I pray that you would just take that away. take every single bit of demonic oppression away, Jesus. And we pray that all all neural systems would just come back together in the name of Jesus. For anyone that is experiencing that mental torment, God, for those who are feeling lonely, God, I pray that they would pick up the phone and that they would know that they are not alone, that you have never left them, that you've never forsaken them. God, that you are with them right now in the name of Jesus. And God, we pray for anyone who's experiencing brokenness in their families, in their marriages, and their finances. God, we pray for those suddenly moments to come. Jesus, that you are going to heal and restore every single relationship that has been broken, that should not be broken. God, we pray for the financial restoration to come for those who have been seeking for your provision and your hand. God, I pray that you would continue to provide for them. I pray that you would continue to pour out your heart and your soul and your spirit, God. That they would continue to see you and that they would continue to seek your face, Jesus. for anyone who does not know you yet. If they're not sure, God, if this is for real, I pray that they would pick up that prayer line, Jesus, and I pray that they would give their lives fully over to you. That this isn't this isn't a guessing game. This isn't a waiting moment anymore. That this is their moment. This is the moment that you have called them into. That Jesus really did die and he really did rise again for them. That they may be saved. That they may have that relationship with you and someday enter into your glorious kingdom. So God, we lift up all those people who are watching and listening right now and we give you them into your precious arms. In the matchless name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. >> Amen. You know, Abby, I just have to say when you were praying, I just had like this vision of like where you have been in the spirit realm that you were lifting us up. Like I literally saw this like big lifting and that you were carrying us into this place into the throne of God. So, thank you for your intercession. Thank you for your prayers. could literally feel as you were you were taking us taking us up into that place and to a different dimension. It was so so beautiful and I don't want to miss this point because something you said in the midst of your prayer and I wonder if it's the miracle you said there was miracles attached to even as you wrote this book that God has been faithful some things because so can you just share the miracles that you've experienced of healing and that he's done in you. >> Yeah, of course. And and a lot of it the you know like I shared earlier was was that really was that big the presence of God just like coming over me that day. And you know I can say I've just seen so many miracles. I feel like I've seen prophetic words that were given to me as well that started coming to pass. You know actually one person gave um a prophetic word to me um about something related to my family and I wasn't sure whether or not it was going to happen. And I was like, that's kind of a big ask. And it it actually did happen um in the middle of all of that. Um you know, it was it was actually near my mom's uh birthday and we were going to have a celebration and a bunch of my family came down to visit me actually and we all spent time together. But um someone during all of me writing the book in the process and stuff, she actually talked about um family um specifically about my sister coming and seeing me. Um, and I was like, I'm not sure if that's going to happen or not. And lo and behold, it was within a few months after that that I actually am like, wow, my sister's sitting here with me. And it was so wonderful. But so many miracles. Um, I've seen people become curious again about scripture, about the word of God, who I wasn't sure if they ever would. Um, I've seen people starting to be interested in the supernatural who I didn't know if God could ever speak to them about the supernatural. You know, some like very closed doors, closed walls up. Um, so I feel like he's been giving me a lot of these little moments that are they've really just started to add up to where I've seen it in my own life as well, where I've seen God, you know, just heal even parts of me that I didn't know needed to be healed. You know, you're like, "Oh, wow. that's been in the back of my mind forever and like now it's not oh I used to be scared to do this and now I'm not and you know it's really just been a process like I said you know I've been I've prayed so much of saying to God take out anything of me that is not of you take out anything bad in me that's not of you take out any darkness that's in me that's not of you because I don't want it because I don't want those things because I don't want to Um, I don't ever want to be someone who spends life looking in the rearview mirror because I truly believe that the latter days are better than the former days. I feel like scripture points that to us many times in many different ways that he does that the latter is better than the former and that when he does things that the old passes away and that the new is here. And so anything I feel like that I didn't even know that was still just a part of me that he's just been like taking it away, taking it to the wayside, saying, "Nope, that can't come into the new part of your life. That can't come into the next part of your life." I'm like, "Okay, that's right." you know, even the process of moving was a miracle for me um from one place to another because I had been at the one place the whole time I'd lived in Florida. And it was it was a bit of a step for me because I had gotten very comfortable being there, but I was like, "But I not supposed to be here anymore." And um I was like, "Okay, I have these specific requests, Lord," once again with my list. And I said, "I have these specific requests. I think you might be able to fulfill some of these for uh the place that I want because I made it clear. I was like it has to have a beautiful view and a better washer and dryer than what I have right now. The rent has to be better than what I have right now. And you know, I just, you know, went through the whole list and uh all of those things were answered and answered more abundantly. And it is such a peaceful, wonderful neighborhood that I'm in. Um, the last one was great, but once again, the latter is much better than the former was. Like, it is just so peaceful and it was something that, you know, I'd wanted to do. I was scared to do, but I felt like it was a miracle in itself because he knew the right time. He knew the right apartment number. He knew the right place. He just knew all of it. like down to the very details of just um even the hardwood floors matching my kitchen table because I wasn't sure if I even wanted to take the kitchen table, you know? I was like, I might have to get a whole new table. I don't know how this is going to work. I mean, he just looked at every little detail. I'm like, wow. Like everything like looks great. Everything that I everything that I really wanted just fell into place with it. Um, so he just kind of took me through a so many big miracles, little miracles, all kinds of miracles in between just through the process of even maybe even even writing the book. Um, all the way up until now. And I'm just I'm in awe really because miracles are big, they're small, and they happen every single day. And you know, he gets all the glory. >> He gets all the glory. And you know, Abby, I just loved as you were just sharing um that what's truly amazing is he's in the details. Like the small things of, hey, I like God, my I want my kitchen table to match my floors. He knows. I mean, the there's these little things where I just know God, he's he's so good and he does exceedingly above that we can ask, think, or imagine. And I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, it's been such a joy just to have our conversation to hear your journey and your story and what you're pouring into for us to understand the suddenly in the midst of the waiting, in the midst of encountering him. It's just an opportunity for him to pour out his love and his light so we can spread the hope and joy to others. So, it has been so much fun having our conversation today. >> Yes. Yes. It has been so wonderful. I have so enjoyed it and you know it is just such a a great thing for me to see the Lord just use conversations just use conversations to bring people closer to him. Yeah, it's it's so wonderful and great. And so we just thank you all for joining us today on the Glory Hour and also check out Aby's book, The Power of Suddenly. It is really a great read and it's going to enrich you and inspire and nurture your soul so you can go into the chapter that God is calling [music] you into. We'll see you next time.