Testimonies of God's Grace 2025

May 15, 2025

 

Keywords

solid foundation, prophetic anointing, spiritual warfare, breakthrough, Choctaw prayer, wisdom and understanding, change mindset, thankfulness, depression, forgiveness, unforgiveness, God's grace, spiritual freedom, blessings, safety

 

Sonja

I hear the Lord say that the fruit of this ministry [GVFC ] is coming out of the solid foundation of the word and prayer and intercession, teaching, decreeing and declarations. I hear the Lord say, this land is blessed. The foundation is blessed. The Lord says there's been no compromise in the teaching here, but it's solid, and that's what's going to stand, in Jesus name.

 

Sonja

Father. Thank you for your frequency. I thank you for your heartbeat that's in this land. When there's a heartbeat there's life. So Father, I thank you for the life that's in this land, in this ministry. Thank you, God, I'm reminded of that song. I'm not going to sing it, but I'll just say what I'm hearing. You're a Good, Good Father. That's who you are, that's who you are.

 

Sonja

Father, I thank you that Your grace never runs out, your mercy never runs out, Your love never runs out. Oh, Father.

 

Judah Team Sonja

And yes, in each and every way, you take us throughout this day, you establish our steps, Lord and we walk them as you lead the way.

 

Sonja

Father, I just thank you for Layla and I, thank you Father for the anointing on her. I thank You Father for who she is and what you're doing in her life. What a beautiful soul, what a beautiful spirit, what a beautiful young lady. And I, thank you, Father, for the prophetic anointing on her life. I thank you for the dreams and visions, the spiritual songs and the rhythm that flows from her. I thank you for the anointing.

 

Sonja

So Father, right now in the name of Jesus, I, thank you for the great cloud of witnesses. They're here. Seen them twice, and so Father. I, thank you. We stand at attention with heaven.

 

Judah team

Layah playing the native drum

 

 

Sonja

When Layah was playing the drum, when she first started out, and she was hitting it where it would, when she would hit it, it would kind of do, like a little something like that. And I knew, I don't know about y'all, but this is what I saw, that that was war. And then her rhythm changed, the sound changed. And it was, it was really intense, what I was seeing in the spirit realm, and what the enemy has tried to kick up with the storms, not just in the natural, but in the spirit. But then the rhythm, the sound changed. The Beat changed, and we went through, that's what I got. Konnie of got that too. So we thank Jesus amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

 

Konnie

Talking about the breakthrough and the war. It's like what the Lord was showing me was from right here, from Philadelphia, Mississippi, right here, us in the Spirit, we sent a breakthrough out there. It's powerful. It was powerful.

 

Sonja

Ben, I want you to sing in Choctaw a song, then I want you to pray in Choctaw. This is very significant, because I was reading last night about the natives and how and about the land being stolen. And this is powerful. God is going to do something today in the spirit that's going to manifest in the natural regarding this nationwide. And I speak that prophetically in Jesus name. So it's very significant that Ben is here and he's going to sing and then pray in Choctaw.

 

Konnie

So just right here, right now in Philadelphia, you are a representative of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. And what you're about to release into the atmosphere is a first fruit. They honor the Native Americans at Glory of Zion. That's what they've been doing for the past two or three days. And this is a first fruit. What you're about to release here in 2025.

 

Ben Stephens

sang in native tongue

 

Ben Stephens

prayed in Choctaw, native tongue

 

Sonja

I heard the Lord tell, say, tell Ben to bless the land, because I didn't know what he said, but it was beautiful, wasn't it? And he said, I did in Choctaw, so praise the Lord

 

Sonja

Father. I thank you for today. I thank you for your word. I thank You, Father, that there is nothing that's impossible with you as we put our faith in you, and we call on the spirit of wisdom to help us. You know, Lord, wisdom helps us to understand what's going on, and it also helps us to know what to do. And I hear the Lord say that sometimes you don't need to do anything. There's nothing for you to do but stand, to rise up and stand. I hear the Lord saying, quit trying to fix everybody and everything. Quit trying to fix things at your work. I hear that very strongly. The Lord says, you go and you be a good steward, and you submit to those in authority over you, and I will bless you. The Lord says, quit complaining and murmuring, because it will only it will only delay your advancement of where he wants to place you. So, Father. I thank you for that word, and I thank You Father for every person here today. And I thank You Lord that we receive your word today, in our hearts, in our souls, in our bodies, in Jesus name Amen. Okay, so who wants to come first and share?

 

Rakha

That was so very fitting and kind of like the message that I have kind of goes with what you were talking about. So the beginning of 2024 the Lord spoke to me about changing my mindset. I needed to, like you said, become more trusting in Him. I needed to listen to him more. Do what he says. Don't think about it. Just do it. Do it in faith. Blind faith. Blind faith. So beginning of 2024, I was having difficulty with one of my vehicles, and the Lord woke me up. It was a Saturday morning, and he said, Rakha to this place, going ahead and apply for vehicle financing with this place, go to this place and your vehicle is going to be there. And I was like, Okay, Lord, okay. Well, it can't be, I can't finance it for no more than this. My payment has to be around this much. I don't  want my interest to be over this, you know, and for this many years, okay, could do it. I do it. Then 30 minutes, I'm out of the dealership with the vehicle. But when in changing your mindset, and I told also told the Lord, I said, Okay, if this happens, I'm gonna put on my tag. I'm gonna get a specialized tag, TYL, THANK YOU LORD. So in changing my mindset, in anything and everything that I do, I have to thank the Lord. You have to tell him thank you. It doesn't matter if I go through the drive through and get a cup of water, and it's free. Thank you, Lord, that's $1 I saved. Is it much? No, it's not much, but it's a blessing. Everything is a blessing. When you wake up in the morning, are you thanking the Lord? Are you telling him, thank you, Lord for opening my eyes so that I could see another day that I'm here? You have to change your mindset. You have to change. You have to give him all the honor and glory in everything that you do, no matter how big, no how, matter how small it is. You have to do that because there is nothing that you do, there is nothing that the flesh does that deserves any kind of glory. We've all gone through different things, and I was noticing on the Guardian that a lot of people were their families were being attacked. So prior to the service starting, we were in here speaking in tongues, praying. I did a simple prayer to break off the attacks that we were having on our families. It was a simple prayer, nothing spectacular. You know, nothing just you know. Call on you Lord, break it off. And lo and behold, my daughter and my grandson show up. That's nothing short of Lord. That's nothing short of God. So thank you, Lord, but here again, change your mindset. And I guess the most important thing that I got out of 2024 and it's taking with me into 2025 is stop chasing the blessing. Start chasing the one that blesses,

 

Ben Stephens

Well, what I have to share is something that's been in my heart for almost 30 years. I have carried the pain of my parents leaving when I was 12 years old. It had shaped who I was. Then I say who I was, but this past year, God gave me something credible in my life, he gave me the strength to truly forgive them, something I've been holding on for like three decades. This Thanksgiving and Christmas was were the best I've had, filled with peace and joy that I haven't felt in years, like in Romans, 8:37, it says No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. And this verse reminds me that it wasn't through my own strength or anything, but through God's love that I could overcome this pain and find true freedom and forgiveness. So I say, if you're carrying something today, I encourage you to trust God. He's faithful to heal and restore and even make the hardest situations of a testimony of His grace and love.

 

Ashton

So mine would be overcome in depression. So my depression, I didn't know I had depression, you know, growing up. But a lot of families of the natives, you know, they grow up alone. You may have a mom and dad at home, but you don't, you don't confide in them, you know, you hold things in. So that was me. I held a lot of things in, and the Depression started way young. And when I started to come to church, and I realized that's what it was, you know, the dark cloud over me. Coming to church, even though I was not this saint or this person who didn't sin, having this relationship with God pushed me to not sin. So a lot of things, having this relationship and reading God's word, a lot of the sins started to come out of me, and it's to the point where I don't want to do these things. And when you don't do these things, you're allowing the blessings of God to come into your life. So being on the dark side for the longest, just recently, probably the end of last year, when I realized, you know, it's more to be on the light side. So everything that was happening in my life, I blamed it on Satan, which a lot of it was, but it was like, I was looking for a demon in my life that wasn't even there. And then it was like, so if it's not there, what do I do? Like, how come I'm not advancing or how come I'm not seeing the blessings? But the thing is, is you have to invite God into your life. You got to ask him and even just declare it, you know, God, you said you're you, this is what your word said. So, you know, I receive it, you know, put it in my life, and I and a big thing I always say is, you know, your desires, like a desire to have this specific car, and that car came into my life over a few years ago. And you know that that's a big thing in my life that I like to hold near and dear to my heart, because that was all God. Because, in a way, I could have gotten this type of vehicle on my own. But in saying all of that is just, you know, when you think it's the devil, it's probably not even a devil. It's just you taking the initiative to invite God into your life and invite God to do these things for you, because he's not going to do it, because he gives us, He gives us free will. So if we're not asking for it, and we're just, you know, hoping for it, it's, what did they say? It's faith without works or that. Yeah, so that's just a big thing in my life now, and since then, up until today, I haven't, I haven't feel like I've been in this depressive mode, and it feels good.

 

Sonja

Thank you. Ashley there. She said something that really pierced my heart. She said, If you don't invite Him into your life, when she said that, and what she said, What I'm just going to tag on to you, Ashley, if you don't mind, invite God into your situation, whatever you're going through, it may be you deciding to take a promotion at your job. It doesn't have to be anything bad, okay, but invite Him into that and see what he does. You know, you can have a situation going on personally or with your family or your job or friends or whatever, and usually like you're going nuts because you don't know what to do. You're panicking. You're in panic mode. You're in anxiety mode. You're in fear mode. Well, try asking Holy Spirit to come in that situation and see what happens. Amen.

Regina

You know, God's been dealing with me about that same thing since Wednesday. You know, we think it's Ruth Ann taught last week about when David asked the Lord, you know, do I pursue? And a lot of times we just personally, I tried to take things into my own hands and take care of it, instead of inquiring of the Lord, see what I'm supposed to do. I lost my dad October 24 of 1998 and for years after that, from the end of October through the spring, I would go through a cycle of depression. I would just go dark. I would isolate myself from friends and family, and it would take me about six months to work out of it, and then when it came again, it would get the same thing. It took me a couple of decades Ben to realize that cycle and what it was doing to me. And he said, they're no perfect parents. I didn't realize the impact that my depression was having on raising my kids. I didn't see them going through some of the same things, because I was caught up in my own struggles. And so, you know, there's some things I had to repent of, but unforgiveness is important. I've had to ask my children to forgive me for my failures as a parent. I've had to forgive my parents for not being perfect. Imagine, you know, but unforgiveness is so important. I have a friend that she and her mother lost her sister and brother, and they both struggled with years blaming or feeling like the other one blamed them, that sort of thing, but just to forgive someone for something is a huge weight lifted off of you. We're walking around carrying these things that we really have no business carry, depression, all of those things, unforgiveness, all those things can lead, not only to spiritual problem, they can lead to physical problems, and we're carrying all these things, and the Lord just wants us to be free. But you know, several, several times David said, I inquired of the Lord, and that's all we have to do. You know, we quote the Proverbs, Trust the Lord with all your Heart lean not to your own understanding, but we don't really go to the next verse where it says, In all your ways, acknowledge him. Acknowledging God is simply inviting him into your situation. And I can think back, you know, 20 something years ago, if I had just invited God into that situation, totally different outcome. I know it would have been, but what I'm so thankful for is that God has a rerouting system, that no matter how many times we mess up, his grace sufficient, he keeps us. I mean, if I miss it right here, he's going to bring me right back around and give me another chance to make things right. And I thank God for His grace. I thank him for being the God that delivers me, even when myself is the problem, I'm the problem. I chose to listen to the enemy's lives, to isolate myself, pull myself away from my family, and go deeper and deeper into things that would have easily been nothing if I had just followed God, listened to the Holy Spirit. But you know, you get caught up in your emotions, and you do what your flesh tells you to do for so many years. And I realized, you know what, this keeps happening. I think I'm smart, but sometimes I'm dumb. I don't look at things. You know, this keeps happening. Why am I missing it? Why is it happening? And so it is important a lot of times for us to examine our lives, examine our decisions. Why did I do this? What's making me keep making this bad decision, this wrong decision, and you know, I'm just really thankful for God's grace.

 

Sonja

Father, I thank you for your overpowering of your love and your grace. I thank You, Father, for your power that's in each and every one of us and Lord, I just thank You that: I hear the Lord say, don't take ownership of anything demonic, okay, don't take ownership, like my anxiety, my depression. It's not yours. It's the enemy's okay. So Father, I just ask that you bless everyone here today, Father, I just speak blessings on them. I thank You, Father, for Your word. I thank you that it does not return void, Father, but it accomplishes that which it sent forth to do. And Father, we've heard your word today, so I praise you, and I honor you. Father, I thank you for this opportunity to minister before you and the great cloud of witnesses and my people, my body, the body of Christ, my family here. Father, I ask that you continue to bless us the rest of the day with grace, with love. And I speak blessings on everybody here. I speak safety over everybody here in the name of Jesus. And everybody said, Amen. God bless you. Thank y'all for coming you.




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Two or three nights later, you see them down at the fair having a good time, like they don't remember your name. You the one sitting over in the corner, miserable, right? Yeah, you get what I'm saying. So you were miserable. You wanted them to be miserable. Instead of saying, I got a choice. Do I get myself miserable? You got a choice in everything. Everything is a choice. So then you have to go back and say, Wow, I thought they were over there crying because I'm gone. They don't even notice I walk by, right? So you got to realize you got to find your happiness and not rely on somebody else to be miserable because you're miserable. Ruth Ann: And so Father, we thank You that we step into surrender today. That's the first thing you got to do. You got to put your toe and your ankles in the water. It says, I'm going to let this go, whether it be emotional or physical. The first thing I hear that I'm going to call out is bitterness. So Father, we just say in the name of Jesus, the spirit of bitterness that is operated, that's come down generations, where families have been bitter over loss, over lack, over not having we just tell that spirit to let go of every person that holds their hands up and just said, I'll take that. So just raise your hand if you want that prayer, and just say, I'll take it. And just say, in the name of Jesus, I let go of my family bitterness. Their pain was their pain. You didn't create me to walk in their pain. So I let family bitterness go, and I choose not because we were done right, we were done wrong, but I choose to forgive that I'm not tied to bitterness. So I tell you bitterness to come out of my nervous system, to come out of my life and to leave me permanently. I tell you to go bitterness, to the door hell, to the door of hell, to the abyss and wait for judgment. Wow, Sonja, what have you got? Sonja: Well, I just want to share something real quick. Everybody look at me. I just had a layer come off of my life during that teaching, and I want to share it with you, because I've never seen it before, and I believe this testimony of what's just happened to me will help you. You know, as children growing up, we're not responsible for our parents actions. And my parents divorced when I was six years old, and there were six of us kids, and there was money in our family old money for my great grandfather. God is so good. My mother went on welfare for years, and we would go down. I called it the commodity house to get our groceries, all the rice and all that junk, that is all we had, because it sustained us. And I said all that to say this because of that, and as a child, observing and living in that, we stepped into poverty and lack. We did. My mother weighed about 110 pounds. It was awful because she worried about her children, yet we had an inheritance from the grandpa that refused to help at the time. So out of her ignorance, whether knowingly or unknowingly, because she didn't understand. She stepped into poverty and lack. I step out of it in Jesus name, and I break it off for my life, and what that caused in me was an unworthiness. I'm not good enough. She bought our clothes at the rag house, and I'm not I'm telling you this because you can rise above it and you can come out of it. Our shoes came from a store in Carthage called the Salvation Store. God has delivered me another layer out of poverty today. I remember the first time I never thought I was good enough, even after I got married to own a pair of knee pants. I went without. I saw that my kids had because I said, You know what, they're not going to go without. And you know what, I had a credit card debt. That was outrageous, because I didn't have the money because of that poverty mentality of having enough money in cash to pay for it. So I put it on a credit card, and I got delivered from that. And I realized that when my older sister took me shopping one time, she said, she had all these clothes in her hands, and we went to Dillards, and she had all these clothes. And I said, and I was thinking, I can't afford this. She said, Sonja, just try them on. You can afford this because they were all on sale. I Shop sales. I shop smart, and I bought every one of them, $250 I'll never forget I thought, I was the richest, the best looking thing that ever God ever created. And I am in my mind, but I'm saying. What I'm saying is it caused wounds in my soul, but I didn't even know that was there as a child, living through this God wants you, and Holy Spirit highlighted that to me as she was teaching, and I was just a writing and he highlighted to me, and I said, Wow, because he said there are those here today that he wants you to step out of the poverty, out of the bitterness that Ruth Ann talking about, out of the shame and guilt and condemnation, the abandonment. Listen, she said it, I believe it. I receive it. Healing is not what he does, it's who he is, that who he is, you know, and I've been guilty of it, and God convicted me today. God heals so and so. God, no, Jesus, you've healed them. They are healed. You gotta change your mindset and let Holy Spirit come into you and do that work in you. Like she said, instantly. It can be instantaneous, and sometimes it's a process, and it's layer by layer. And I got a layer off of me today. Come on, God wants to deliver you. He already has. He's already healed you, but you've got to let go of those wounds. You got to let go of them and quit pampering them and quit talking and quit being the victim and start seeing yourself as victorious. Men. Amen. Hallelujah, yes. Hallelujah, come on, y'all. Sonja: Come on. Because the Bible says that he whom the Son sets free is free. Indeed, we don't have to go back to why mama used to do things in our life, whether in ignorance or whether knowingly, and for a long time, I was angry at My great grandpa, and I would question my Mama, why didn't he help? Why didn't he do this? Why didn't he do that? I don't know, greed, selfishness, rebellion, pride, I don't know, but that's on him, because it ain't on me. Hallelujah. So if you're angry about your circumstance, if you're angry because you went through a divorce, if you're angry at your children, God forbid, get whole, get well, so it doesn't pass on to them. Do you see what I'm saying? Because it will your anger and your frustration and whatever you're dealing with, quit running from it and hit the giant head on like David did Goliath and say it stops with me so it won't be transferred to your children and your grandchildren. Get rid of it, repent for even partner with me. Now, what happened to me? I was a kid. I was six years old. I didn't know any better, but it affected me because of what happened, and it just carried over into my adult life until I begin to see and God begin to help me. Sometimes it's instant, sometimes it's layer by layer. I just got a huge layer off of me today, and God wants to get the layers off of you, but you've got to give them to him. You've got to give them to him. Quit carrying somebody else's burdens. Quit caring what your mama did and your grandpa did and your great grandma, quit caring what your siblings did or didn't do that's on them, not you. Quit carrying it. Quit carrying the load of their burden on you and making it personal for you. It's not your responsibility to fix somebody else. It's your responsibility to take care of you. Amen. Amen. Every time the enemy tells you you're no good, you're not going to overcome this. Well, he's just confirming that you are over it. You're getting over it. He's just confirming to you the enemy will bring confirmation to your life too, because he's going to tell you, contrary to the Word of God and what God says about you. I have said so many times myself, Sonja, get over yourself. Get over yourself and start fighting. Start fighting for who God says you are. Start letting. Come out of your mouth. Who said, God says you are and when you get healed of the wounds, your physical body is going to line up and bring healing. But you got to get rid of the emotional junk in your life. Even it's one thing at a time, and sometimes it's multiple things, get over it and ask the Holy Spirit to help you. I'm not standing here saying just get over it. I am, but I'm not, because I do understand that there's a process to get over it, but everybody else is junk, everybody else's stuff that you've been carrying around. Give it to Jesus and let Jesus deal with that person in that situation and stop carrying it. Jesus says, My yoke is easy and my burden is light. Give it to him, because what you're doing is you're aiding them, and you're coming in agreement with it. And you know who it's hurting it's hurting you when you're thinking you're helping them. I don't know who that's for, but that's for somebody, Jesus name. Ruth Ann: Break poverty all. Break it up. Sonja: I'm telling you, I'm free. Sonja: Father In the name of Jesus, I break the spirit of life, the spirit of poverty, off of everybody in the sound of my voice, that are here, that are listening online. I break the spirit of poverty off of our family, off of this city, off of this county, off of this state in Jesus, name, Jesus. Father. I thank you right now that it is replaced with what you said, that we are the righteous of God. In Christ, Jesus, we are the head and not the tail. We are above and not beneath. Father. I thank you for the wealth that's on the inside of me and those that are here to bring prosperity to our lives, spirit, soul and body, to bring prosperity to this city, to this county, to Mississippi. Spirit, soul and body. Thank you Jesus. Ruth Ann: So receive it. Let God show you what you do to agree with, because when you go home, you got to quit agreeing. That's part of you walking it out. You can't do it again. Can't hang out with those folks if they bring you there. And we'll do one more, and then we're going to stop for today, but we will continue. And you got to continue. And I'm going to call out diabetes and emotions are the root of all diseases, emotions. Because your emotions will settle. Your brain will handle it so long it will put it in your heart. And people have heart disease, okay, if it passes from your heart, it will go into other parts of your body, okay. Hopelessness will settle in your pancreas. There's a book out there called the 'More Excellent Ways' been in print for over 40 years, but it tells you how to track this. You can still get it today, but Father in the name of Jesus, hopelessness. Declarations: I want you just to say: where my family accepts it. Hopelessness, and my family's family, and even my family way back, accepted hopelessness. I break my agreement with it, you're no longer bringing death in my body. Hopelessness, you will not regulate the sugar in my body. You will. I would hit, do y'all feel that when he had it, went, wham. Hopelessness, you will not set the sugar levels of my body. My body comes into alignment with how Jesus Christ created my body to be. So, I tell you, hopelessness, you are no longer my friend, and you're no longer welcome in my body. I give up. I put off all of their problems of the past that was told to me, and I carried them and I tried to fix it. God, I realized today. You're the healer, and I come to you to be my one that fixes everything. I'm no longer Holy Ghost Junior, amen. Amen, that feels good, doesn't it? Amen. Declaration: Okay, one more thing I will call I just said I want but I am anger. I've been angry about my loss in my family to diabetes, anger you can no longer live in my body, you can no longer talk to me. You can no longer follow me, and you can no longer keep me in bondage, because the sun no longer goes down on you, and my emotion of anger still there. No it's not. It's gone in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen, that's right. I agree. Yeah. Amen, that's right. Ruth Ann : So when you're angry, and you have a right to be angry at times, because Anger is an emotion to say something's wrong, but the Bible tells me never hold it past sundown. Fix it before sundown. Everybody good with me? Yeah, okay.
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