Sharon navigates through life’s wilderness experiences and teaches how they serve as gateways to profound personal growth. In this episode, Sharon Knotts delivers a powerful message on finding hope amidst troubles, using compelling biblical examples including Moses and the children of Israel. Through moments of difficulty, we can listen to the divine voice that guides us to redemption and assurance. We also delve into the story of Gomer, who strayed far from grace only to discover a renewal of spirit. Her journey mirrors our own times of despair and the boundless grace available when we turn back to faith.
Greetings, friends and new listeners. Welcome to our program today. I’m Sharon Knotts, and I’m so happy you’re tuning in today because we know faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. I’m excited to bring you today’s message, A Door of Hope in the Valley of Trouble, because I know something about the Valley of Trouble and how I thought I’d never come out until God opened the door of hope to me. There are also those who are far away from God, and sin has taken its toll on them. They feel trapped and hopeless, but God wants to open to them a door of hope in the valley of trouble.
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He said, in the wilderness, I’m going to speak comfortably to her. Now, the Hebrew word for wilderness is midbar, M-I-D-B-A-R, midbar. But the root of Midbar is Dabar, D-A-B-A-R. And that’s a very common Hebrew word, and it simply means to speak. Dabar means to speak, to talk. So you see, Midbar is rooted in Dabar, which tells me that God is saying, in the wilderness, I’m going to speak to you. Oftentimes it’s in our wilderness journeys, amen, that we can hear the voice of the Lord. When you’re in the wilderness that God even draws nearer to you, amen? Think about it for a moment. Where did he meet up with Moses to give him his mission to go liberate the children of Israel out of Egypt? Where was Moses when God showed up in the burning bush? He was in the wilderness. He had been going around those same old trails for 40 years. But one day, he got a visitation from the IM. Amen? In the wilderness, God showed up and spoke to Moses and told him, go and… Tell Pharaoh to let my people go. Think about it as we already alluded. Where was it that God spoke to the children of Israel and said, I want to marry you, I love you, and I’m going to make you mine in the wilderness. Amen? So if you’re in a wilderness experience, child of God, don’t despair. Don’t lament. Listen for the voice of God. Listen to the voice of your lover. Amen? I tell you what, saints, Moses found out that the wilderness can become holy ground. Amen? Hallelujah. God said, boy, take off your shoes because the ground you’re standing on is holy ground. And when you get in the wilderness and you feel like you’re in despair, oh, I want you to know you’re on holy ground because the Lord will come and speak to you. And he will speak to you out of his heart. Amen? So as you can see now, I’ve created another track. So now we’re talking about the backslider and we’re talking about the child of God. Amen. We know one is Gomer and that refers to the one that’s backslidden. But the other one, God is speaking to you. If you are a child of God and you’re walking uprightly before him and you’re living right. Amen. God wants you to know you’re going to have to go through some wilderness experiences. So if this shoe don’t fit you, that shoe will. So put one of them on. So let’s stop for a moment and talk about the righteous. So why would God allure the righteous out into the wilderness? Why would he take us through wilderness experiences? I know I’ve been through one recently. Amen? And you think to yourself, you try to search your life and you try to figure out where you went wrong. You try to figure out what’s going on and you even say, why, Lord? Am I the only person that’s ever been there, done that? No. You say, why, Lord? Why am I here? I don’t understand. I’m your child. I’m living right. I’ve been walking right. So why, oh, why am I going through this? Amen? But you see, God says, when I draw you away into this wilderness experience, sometimes we can get so busy doing the work of the Lord that we don’t have time for the Lord of the work. Amen? But he says, when I get you out in the wilderness, you’re not going to have any distractions. And you can be where I can talk to you from my heart. You know, when we’re walking in the blessings and everything is going smooth. If we’re not careful, we can do like I just said. We can begin to neglect our spiritual walk. But I’ll tell you what. When you get under pressure and everything is coming against you, you’ll get on your prayer bones. There’s nothing like trouble to set people praying. Amen? And God says, when I get you in the wilderness, you’re going to hear my voice. And we can be more intimate. We can talk that love talk. You know, husbands and wives, you know what I’m talking about. You know, when you first got married, you had all that love talk. Don’t anybody say anything now? You had little names you called each other. Baby cakes. You know, I’m sure you’ve got some pet names. And when you first get married, you call each other all those names, amen? But you know, after a while, life gets really hectic. Kids start coming. Things get busy, amen? Always something to do. It’s always this and always that. And you’re running around and you’re hardly, you know, you’re on like two different schedules and once in a while you might meet. Nobody calls each other baby cakes anymore. Amen? Charles is the exception to the rule. And, you know, sometimes if something happens, like a separation comes for some reason, maybe one has to go out of town for an extended period of time, you start missing one another. And then when you talk on the phone, you start saying those sweet little things that you used to say all the time. Amen? Maybe it’s been, you can’t remember the last time you said, I love you. I mean, you love them and they know that you do and you love them and he loves you and she loves you, but you don’t say it. You don’t say it. Amen? But you get on the phone when you haven’t seen them for a few days or a week. Before you hang that phone up, you say, I love you. And they say, love you too. Sometimes it takes that. And you know if a crisis comes in your life, I mean a crisis, A serious crisis comes. Maybe it’s some kind of sickness or something happens. Amen? Boy, what do you do? You’ve got to start getting closer to one another. You have to lean on one another because if you don’t, what you’re going through is just more than you can handle. But you begin to lean on each other. Amen? God knows this. Amen. He knows it. And so sometimes he has to bring us into the wilderness so that we can have that intimate time with him. And especially if we have messed up. Amen. And we know we’ve messed up. We know we’re not where we’re supposed to be with the Lord. We know it. And we get in that wilderness and we’re ready for God to just lower the boom and jump all over our case. And instead he says, I brought you out here because I want you to know that no matter what you do or what you have done, I will never leave you. I will never forsake you. I will be with you. If anybody’s going to have to do the leaving, it’s going to have to be you because I’m not going to leave you. I will be here for you. Amen. Because I love you. He talked about through the prophet Jeremiah, because, you know, he was another one of the prophet had a very unpopular job. to tell the people that judgment was coming. But he said, the Lord said, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love, and with my bands of love I have drawn thee. Amen? And sometimes it’s trouble that God uses to draw us to him. Isn’t that right? So then he said in verse 15, after I get her out in the wilderness and I talk lovingly to her, I am going to bless her. I’m going to give her vineyards from thence. What? I got to make sure I’m reading this right. You’re going to give me vineyards in the wilderness? Stuff don’t grow in the wilderness. Vineyards don’t grow in the wilderness. What does that mean? And look what he says. This is my favorite part. And the valley of Achor for a door of hope. The valley of Achor for the door of hope. So the question is, why do I love it so much? Because you have to know what the valley of Achor is. If you understand what the valley of Achor is, then and only then can you understand how remarkable it is that God says, I’m going to open a door of hope in the valley of Achor. So how many want to know what the Valley of Achor is? All right, turn in your Bibles to Joshua 7. We know the children of Israel now have been in the wilderness for 40 years. They now have ended their 40-year journey. Moses has already been going to heaven to be with God, and now Joshua is their leader. And the first city of conquest we all know was Jericho. And boy, was that a tremendous victory. We know they marched around the walls for seven days. And on the seventh day and the seventh time, they blew the trumpets and the walls fell straight down. And if you ever get a chance to go to the Holy Land, you will see those walls. They confirm Scripture. So they were ecstatic of this great victory. God had said up front, now normally you’re in a war and you conquer, you get to strip the dead of all of their weapons, you get to take all their silver, you get to take all their gold, they called it booty, and you get to keep that. But God said, because Jericho is the first city that you will conquer, All of the spoils or booty come to me, to the house of God. It was like the tithe. How many know God always gets the tithe? That’s his first. The tithe is God’s first. So God was basically saying Jericho is the tithe. Jericho is the first fruits. You do not keep any of the wealth that you get from this battle. No man keeps any. It all dies. goes to the house of God. But there was one man. It only takes one man to bring judgment and trouble. named Achan, and he thought to himself, nobody’s going to miss this one little thing. He took some silver and gold and a very ornate garment, and he went into his tent, and he dug a hole in the ground, and he hid it in the ground, and he knew that nobody saw him because he was inside his own tent with all the flaps down. So nobody was going to see that, but he forgot to look up. And so he disobeyed the commandment of the Lord. Now they go to the next city, a very tiny little city in comparison to Jericho. It was nothing. AI but they went and guess what they lost miserably they actually lost 36 men and Joshua was so upset and he was angry with God and he went to God and said how come you let this happen 36 men we gotta bury this why did you do this to us Lord And God basically said, Joshua, shut up. You know what? You didn’t come to the Lord. You didn’t inquire first because I would have let you know there is sin in the camp. And how many know God can’t bless when there’s sin in the camp? Amen. God’s not going to bless the individual when there’s sin in their life. And God’s not going to bless the church that’s got a lot of sin going on. Sometimes people don’t understand why you preach it hard, why you preach against certain things. And they think, I don’t know why you always got to be preaching about sin and preaching about homosexuality, preaching about this and preaching about that. God knows what’s going on in the camp. He sees what goes on behind closed doors. He knows that stuff that’s going on. And he sees when it begins to grow and other people get involved in it. Amen? You just don’t worry about it. You leave the preacher to the preacher. You leave the preacher to the Holy Ghost because he knows exactly what’s going on. So now we’re in Joshua 7 and let’s see what happens. Let’s look at verse 24. Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah and the silver and the garment and the wedge of gold and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and all that he had, they brought him unto where? The valley of Achor. And Joshua said to Achan, why have you troubled us? The Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned them with stones and burnt them with fire that they had stoned with stones. And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore, the name of that place was called the Valley of Achor. Let me interpret it. The Valley of Trouble. That’s what Achor means, trouble. And this was a remembrance. The people did not forget this. He said, and to this day, the writer is saying a lot of time is going by. But to this day, we still refer to that as the Valley of Achor, the Valley of Trouble. Let me give you an example. You that are sitting here, all I have to do is say this to you. 9-11. 9-11. I don’t have to stand up here and say, well, now on 9-11, there was three airplanes, and one went to the Pentagon, and one went to the towers in New York. I don’t have to tell you all that. I don’t have to stand up here and give you a summary of what happened on 9-11. All I have to do is say 9-11, and you know exactly what I’m talking about. It will be burned in our minds forever. Amen? And that’s what this was. If you said the valley of Achor, immediately they thought about what happened, how that they had to stone Achan and notice his whole family. Amen? And called it the valley of Achor. The valley of trouble. So when God said to Gomer. Hallelujah. When God said to Gomer. I am going to give you a door of hope. In the valley of Achor. God was saying to her. Saying to the backslider. Even saying to the child of God that’s in a wilderness time in your life. God was saying to us. He’s saying in that wilderness. In that valley of trouble. Look for a door. You may be in the valley of trouble. Everywhere you look there is trouble. All around you things are going wrong. And you feel the pressure of it is moving in on you. But I’m telling you look for a way out. Look for a door. The door of hope. Amen. God will give a door of hope. And that’s what you’ve got to pray for your backslidden loved ones and friends. You’ve got to pray, Lord, bring them to the place that you brought Gomer. Let them wake up one day and realize I’m a fool out here in the pigsty. What am I doing out here? The devil’s done made me his slave. Can you imagine when she was up there on that slave block and some of those men that were coming, looking her over to see if they were going to buy her? Some of those very men are the men she slept with that paid her for sex. Amen? And she knew it. She was probably thinking, you hypocrite, you. You’re unpaid to have sex with me. But you see, that’s what the devil will do to you. Amen? But there she was, and they were mocking her, and they were making fun of her. But God said, Gomer, in your place of trouble, I’m going to give you a door of hope. Because I will bring you back. If you want to come home, you can come home. The backslider can come home. Amen. As long as they have breath in their body, there is hope that they can come home. So don’t give up. Don’t stop praying for them. Don’t stop pleading for God to have mercy on them. As long as they’re in the land of living, there’s a door, a way out. Amen. And we got to pray, Lord, bring them to the place that they’re ready to come back. You know, you can’t always rescue them every single time they get in trouble. You can again and again and again get them out of jail. Sometimes the trouble the Lord is allowing to get them to the place that Gomer got to. Because in their trouble, they realize there’s nowhere else to go. And they say, God, if you’ll have mercy on me and take me back. And he says, that’s what I’ve been waiting for. Amen? You know, when your children are first getting into trouble, you get them out, you get them out. But after a while, you have to let them live in some of their messes. Amen. You can’t keep bailing them out all the time. You give them your good money that you’ve worked hard for and tried to save and hold on to, and boom, it’s going like that. Because you’ve got to get them out of jail, because you’ve got to get them a lawyer, because you’ve got to get them rehab, because you’ve got to get this and get that. Money that you didn’t use, that you could have used on other things, but you were holding on to it. And now it’s gone. Amen? So they’re out in the street, so you get them another apartment. And the next thing you know, they haven’t lost that one. You’ve got to go get them something else. But Gomer had to go all the way down. Amen? And then she said, I want to go home. I want to go back to my husband. I want to go back where it was better for me. And she looked up, and there was a door. There was a door of hope. There was a door of hope, and when she came to that place in her heart, that very day, she was going to get sold. She might have got sold to somebody and taken away far away, but she saw in that crowd of people out there, she looked and she saw that man, that wonderful man, that beautiful man, Jose. She saw her husband, and he pushed his way through the crowd, and he said… Whatever it costs, I’m going to pay it. Whatever it costs, I’m going to pay it. It’s going to cost the blood of my only begotten son on Calvary’s tree, but I’m going to pay it.
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I’m going to pay it. I love him. I love her. And I’m going to pay the price.
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And child of God, if you, the righteous, are in that place, in that wilderness, and you don’t understand what’s going on, and you find yourself in that valley of trouble, that valley of Achor, you’ll hear God say, like he said in Psalm 46, 1, I am a very present help in time of trouble. He said in Psalms chapter 37, 39, I am your strength in the time of trouble. Trouble. He said in Psalm 91 15, I will be with you in trouble and I will deliver you out of trouble. Psalm 138 7 does this and this is one of my faves. Though I walk in the midst of trouble, that means I’m right in the middle of it. Thou will revive me. You will revive me, Lord. Amen? So God is saying to the children of God, I’m going to give you a door of hope in the valley of trouble. And this is what he says is going to happen. This is for the backslider coming back. And this is for the child of God coming out. We both got to come through that door of hope. And what did he say about Gomer? He said, she is going to sing like she did in the days of her youth. I’m going to return unto her a song in her soul. How many remember when you first got saved? You remember your first love when you first got saved? My goodness, you had your cassettes playing there. Back then, the cassettes were playing. Amen? I remember as a teenager, I had the big LPs playing. Amen? Edwin Hawkins and Oh Happy Day, they came out on records, people. We still sing Oh Happy Day. Oh Happy Day when Jesus brought me out of the wilderness. And when you were first saved, you had all your favorite songs that you loved so much. Some of those you wore them out. You wore those things out. Amen. You’d have to get those cassettes and you’d have to get your pencil and put it in that little hole and turn it around so you could get it to start playing again because it got stuck. And eight tracks. My mom had one in one of our cars. I mean, how many know that’s going back? Some of you are saying, what is an 8-track? Ask your grandma when you get home. But you had all your songs that you loved. And you know there’s something about you got to watch out when you get in the wilderness. The devil tries to shut you up and shut you down. You don’t feel like singing in the wilderness. You don’t feel like praising God in the wilderness. Amen. But that’s when you need to praise God. That’s when you need to sing a song. Hallelujah. But he said, I’m going to return to you the joy of your salvation. I’m going to let you sing like you sang when you were just a young girl. Amen. I’m going to restore your joy. Hallelujah. I’m going to restore your happiness. All of the heaviness, the despair, all of that, I’m going to take it away and I’m going to restore to you your salvation. For with joy shall you draw from the wells of salvation. The thing is, is when you find yourself in the valley of trouble, whether you’re there as a backslider, away from God, or whether you’re a child of God going through a very fierce trial of faith. Amen? Like I have just been through. Amen? Look for that door of hope because God said he will give it to you. Amen? Now think about Gomer. There is no way she could redeem herself. She didn’t have a penny to redeem herself. And when God opens the door for you to come home, he will rescue you. Don’t you worry about everything, how all the little details are going to work out. Don’t you worry about what you’re going to do about this and about that and how it’s going to affect your job and how it’s going to affect your family. You see that open door? You need to walk through it and trust the Lord. He will redeem everything. He said, I can restore unto you the days, the days that were lost to the canker worm and the poma worm and the caterpillar and the locust and the devil. that came in and stole all your good fruit and ate away all of your grapes from your vines and your figs from your trees. I can give you a vine in the wilderness. Nobody can do that but God. Nobody can do that for you but God. People get out there in the world and they end up on drugs and things. They lose their jobs. They lose their credibility, so then they have a hard time getting a new job. And then they can lose their homes, their cars, their everything. God said, I will redeem you. And God said, if you give me all the pieces, he can mend a broken heart. He can mend a broken life, but you’ve got to give him all the pieces. Amen. And if you’re the child of God in this wilderness, know he’s got you there for a season, for a reason. Amen. Just keep listening for his voice because Jesus said in John 10, I am the door. He is the door of hope. Amen. And he will bring you out and he will bless you. Notice that he told Gomer, he said, I’m going to give you vineyards in this valley, in this wilderness. I’m going to bless you. I’ll supply your need. I’m not going to forsake you, child of God. If you’re in a wilderness in a valley of financial lack and you’re going through financial problems, he said, I’m not going to forsake you there. I will provide for you there. Amen? Only God can turn a wilderness into a garden. Amen? And he not only can turn it into a garden, he can turn it into… a beautiful valley where the lily of the valley blooms and the rose of Sharon. You believe that? I’m going to close with Isaiah 65.10. I love this verse. I’m very fond of this verse. You’re about to find out why. Isaiah 65.10. And Sharon… Shall be a fold of flocks. And the valley of Achor. Wait a minute now Lord. We’re talking about Sharon here. And the valley of Achor, a place for the herds to lie down in for my people that have sought me. I tell you what, that preaches to me. That preaches to me. God says, I’ll make the valley of Achor, I’ll make your valley of trouble like the lily of the valley and the rose of Sharon. Amen. You know where the lily of the valley and the rose of Sharon bloom in Israel? It’s a place called Carmel. And it’s near the Mediterranean Sea. And it’s beautiful. If you see pictures of it, it’s just covered with gorgeous wildflowers. Beautiful, many multicolored flowers as far as you can see. And green, lush grass. It’s so green and lush that it becomes a place for the sheep. Oh, who are the sheep? God’s people are the sheep. He’ll make it a lush valley for the sheep to come and lie down. And you know sheep won’t lie down just any old time in any old place. They’re very skittish. They’ll only lie down where it’s peaceful. They’ll only lie down in the green pastures. They’ll only lie down beside the still waters. Amen. They’ll only lie down when there’s no enemy there. God said, I will take your valley of anchor, your valley of trouble, and I will transform it into a place that is so peaceful. There’s such provision. It’s so lush. that sheep will lie down there and feed. Amen? And the rose of Sharon and the lily of the valley will bloom. That’s what God does for his people. That’s what God will do for you. That’s what God will do for the backslider. Amen? He said, all they have to do is seek me. Isn’t that what he said? For my people, those who have sought me. If you seek God, it’s because the Holy Spirit is drawing you. How many know you can’t seek God without the help of the Holy Spirit? Even the sinner and the backslider, the Holy Spirit hounds them. When they go to bed at night, he’s hounding them. When they get up in the morning, he’s hounding them. When they’re in the club, he’s hounding them. Wherever they are, he’s hounding them. Amen. Because he loves them. And he wants to bring them back.
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He wants to deliver them and redeem them. Amen.
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And when you’re in that valley of trouble as a child of God, the Holy Spirit will deal with your heart and speak comfortably to you. Amen. Let’s have some singers, please. Amen. Let’s everyone bow our head here this morning. And God is talking to so many people on so many different levels. And I can’t do that. Only the Holy Spirit can do that. Some of you are burdened because you have backslidden loved ones, sons and daughters, grandchildren, siblings, and even parents, perhaps, that are away from God. Some of them are backslidden. Amen? And the devil is just having a field day in their lives. And some of them… When you try to talk to them, they are so dejected. They’re so down that the devil’s done told them, there’s no point in you coming back. No point in you trying to get saved again. God’s not going to take you back. And even if he would take you back, you’re such a mess. You can never live right. You’ll never get it right. Don’t you be discouraged. You keep praying for them. And when you see them, let the Holy Spirit direct you. Yes, there’s sometimes you’ve got to have a tough talk. You’ve got to say, look at yourself. Look, it pays to serve the devil. Look what he’s done to you. But other times you’ve got to say, the Lord loves you. And he wants you back. He wants you back. Sometimes just that word can break their heart. That word can let them know, God does love me. He will take me back. Amen? So if you have a loved one in that condition, God wants you to know, don’t stop praying. Pour on the prayer. And ask the Holy Spirit to give you the wisdom and the right words to say at the right time. Amen? And if you’ve been in a hard place, amen, I can tell you that the Lord has brought me out of the wilderness. Amen. But while I was in that wilderness, while I was there, he talked to me. He spoke comfortably to me. You all know about my story of glory. You all know how he showed up and opened up a portal of glory over my head. Amen. You heard about how that one time he let me see a license plate that said Psalm 34. You heard about how when I went to the hospital to get blood work and EKG, I left with a prayer shawl. Prayed over by women. In my wilderness, the Lord didn’t forsake me. He was near. He talked to me comfortably. He let me know he loved me, and he wants to let you know if you’re in a wilderness, he loves you. Amen? But we’re going to pray this morning. We’re going to pray that God will get a hold of the hearts of our loved ones. And that they will come. They will come to the house of God. Whether it’s Faith Tabernacle or another church. I don’t care what churches it is. If they’re preaching the truth. And they can get saved there. Then Lord let them go and get saved. Amen. And if you’re in this place this morning and you’re away from God and the Lord is talking to your heart, he’s saying, come home, my child. I love you. I brought you here today to speak comfortably to you. Father, I thank you today for the word of the Lord because your word will never return void. You said you send it forth and it will prosper in the thing where it’s been sent. Now, Father, we’re asking you, Lord, to get a hold of our unsaved loved ones. We’re asking you, Lord, to get a hold of the backsliders. Some of them are even in prison, Lord. But we pray in that place of trouble. They needed to get to prison. They needed to be locked up. So, Lord, in that place where they’re away from all of the distractions of the streets. And all of that that got them there in the first place, you can talk comfortably to them. You can speak to their heart. Father, I pray that you will get a hold of the backslider. Those that are far from you, Lord, and let them know, Lord, that you are always ready and willing to take them back. But Satan is always there to take them out. We ask you, Lord, you’ll have mercy on them. We’re praying you’ll have mercy on them. And don’t let the devil take them out until they get right with you and come back to you, Lord, in Jesus’ name. Lord, I pray for those that are here today that are not right with you. They’re not saved. They’re backslidden. They’re on the verge of backsliding. They need you. They need you. Father, right now, deal with their hearts. Deal with their hearts. I want everybody to pray this prayer with me. Say, Father, I come to you in the name of your son Jesus. I’ve received your mercy today. I’ve received your love gift of salvation and redemption. I surrender all to you, Lord. Forgive me of my sin. Cleanse me in your blood. Renew a right spirit in me. Restore unto me The joy of my salvation. Bring me out of trouble. Into your marvelous light. And by your grace. I will serve you. I will. I will. I will serve you. All the days of my life. Thank you Lord. Come on and thank him here this morning. Come on and thank him.
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Amen. I trust you are being blessed by this insightful and uplifting word of the Lord, a door of hope in the valley of trouble. When people turn away from God and leave the safety of his house, they will end up in the valley of trouble, just like Gomer did. She was a prostitute God commanded the prophet Hosea to marry and to have children with, which he obeyed. But after having experienced a brand new life of love and security and blessing gomer went back to the streets of whoredom and this time she ended up on the slave block incredulously god told jose to go and buy her back are you kidding me after all she did to him and their children But God was drawing an unforgettable picture of how much he loves his people, even when they leave him for other lovers. The thing is, while God was working on Jose’s heart to go and find her, he was also working on Gomer’s heart to draw her back. And she said, I will return to my husband for it was better with me then than it is now. Like the prodigal who found himself in the pigsty, Gomer found herself on the slave block. God said that when Gomer returned, he would bless her and give her the Valley of Acre for a door of hope. Now, when we know the significance of the Valley of Acre, which was a place of trouble and cursing in becoming a door of hope, we we will understand how much God loves backsliders and wants to bring them out of their bondage of sin and how much he loves us, his faithful people, and will not forsake us and our valleys of trouble and testing. So if you find yourself in the valley of trouble, look for him to create a door of hope that is his promise to you to bring you out. A Door of Hope in the Valley of Trouble is available on CD for a love gift for at least $10 for our radio ministry. Request offer SK-135. That’s SK-135. Mail to R.G. Hardy Ministries, PO Box 1744. Baltimore, Maryland, 21203. Or if you prefer, order online at rghardy.org. You can also order on MP3 at rghardy.org. But to order by mail, A Door of Hope in the Valley of Trouble, send your minimum love gift of $10, request SK-135 to P.O. Box 1744, Baltimore, Maryland, 21203. Until next time, this is Sharon Ott saying, Maranatha.
