Episodes

  • Chapter 16 - From Eviction to Elevation

    Chapter 16 - From Eviction to Elevation
    Mar 2 2026
    📘 Chapter 16: From Eviction to Elevation

    Series Title: The Simple Walk – Don’t Walk Alone

    From eviction notices to royal places discover how divine rejection leads to holy promotion. This soul-piercing message reminds the brokenhearted that being cast out was never the end. God is about to set you among princes.

    📖 Psalm 113:7–8 — “He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.”

    There are seasons when eviction doesn’t just come from landlords it comes from life itself. A door closes. A support system vanishes. A foundation crumbles beneath your feet. And yet, in that dust, God calls your name.

    This message is for those who have been displaced, dismissed, or dropped, and are still trying to find their footing. But God doesn’t promote from comfort He promotes from the dirt.

    From eviction… to elevation. From the street… to the seat. From overlooked… to ordained.

    This chapter speaks to the soul that has been through the ashes and is ready to understand why the eviction happened because elevation was coming.


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    Chapter 16: From Eviction to Elevation
    ✍🏽 By: Pastor Barbara Duffey Hammonds
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    14 mins
  • Chapter 15 - My Furnace Has a Name

    Chapter 15 - My Furnace Has a Name
    Feb 12 2026
    The Simple Walk - Don’t Walk Alone

    Chapter 15 - My Furnace Has a Name

    “I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.”
    Isaiah 48:10 (KJV)

    This chapter explores the divine purpose behind suffering and hardship. It reveals how God uses the fire of affliction not to destroy us, but to refine, purify, and choose us for deeper purpose. Rather than seeing pain as punishment, this message shifts the lens to see affliction as a mark of calling and preparation for spiritual elevation.

    Verse Reference:
    Isaiah 48:10 — “Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.”

    In this powerful episode, Pastor Barbara Duffey Hammonds delivers a soul-piercing message about how the fires of life—betrayals, health battles, grief, poverty, and trials—are often the very place God chooses to refine and select His servants. It’s not the escape from the furnace that defines you… it’s what God burns away and what emerges. This is for those who had to break before they could hear, cry before they could climb, and suffer before they could see clearly. Your furnace has a name—and that name is purpose.

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    Series Title: The Simple Walk – Don’t Walk Alone
    Chapter 15 - My Furnace Has A Name
    ✍🏽 By: Pastor Barbara Duffey Hammonds
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    8 mins
  • Chapter 14 - Watchmen Are Sleeping

    Chapter 14 - Watchmen Are Sleeping
    Jan 28 2026
    🛡️ The Simple Walk - Don’t Walk Alone – Chapter 14

    Watchmen Are Sleeping

    Scripture Focus:

    “His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.”
    — Isaiah 56:10–11 (KJV)

    📣 Who is watching while the people sleep?
    In this compelling episode of The Simple Walk – Don’t Walk Alone, Pastor Barbara Duffey Hammonds sends a wake-up call to the slumbering watchmen of our generation. Isaiah 56:10-11 paints a chilling picture—spiritual leaders who can no longer see, warn, or intercede. They have lost their bark, their burden, and their boldness.

    This soul-stirring message exposes the cost of silence in the pulpit, passivity in leadership, and ignorance in places of power. It calls for the brokenhearted to cry out, for the intercessors to rise, and for the blind watchmen to be healed and restored.

    🔥 This is more than a message—it’s a divine trumpet.


    🎧 “When the watchmen sleep, danger creeps in. Wake up, cry loud, and return to the wall.”

    The watchmen shall rise and not be ashamed. They shall stand in the gap. They shall cry aloud and spare not. They shall carry the burden of the Lord and light up the midnight hour.

    Awaken, O Zion.
    Awaken, O Remnant.
    Blow the trumpet… for the King is coming.

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    Series Title: The Simple Walk – Don’t Walk Alone
    Chapter 14: Watchmen Are Sleeping
    ✍🏽 By: Pastor Barbara Duffey Hammonds
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    15 mins
  • Chapter 13 - I Had to Break to Hear God

    Chapter 13 - I Had to Break to Hear God
    Jan 24 2026
    The Simple Walk – Don’t Walk Alone
    Chapter 13 - I Had to Break to Hear God


    📘What happens when you can no longer hear God? This raw and soul-searching episode of The Simple Walk – Don’t Walk Alone invites you into the moment where silence met surrender. Pastor Barbara Duffey Hammonds shares how brokenness is not failure—but a sacred sacrifice that God never despises. If you’ve ever carried too much, kept going without hearing direction, or felt distant from Heaven, this message is for you.

    Be encouraged. God is still speaking… sometimes He just waits for the noise to stop.

    🙏🏽 “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.” — Psalm 51:17

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    Series Title: The Simple Walk: Don’t Walk Alone – Chapter 13 - I Had to Break to Hear God
    ✍🏽 By: Pastor Barbara Duffey Hammonds
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    14 mins
  • Chapter 12 - Escape Plans and Empty Cabinets

    Chapter 12 - Escape Plans and Empty Cabinets
    Dec 22 2025
    📖 The Simple Walk – Don’t Walk Alone
    Chapter 12 - Escape Plans and Empty Cabinets
    Theme Scripture:
    “The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.” — Psalm 34:10 (KJV)


    🌟 In this gripping episode: What do you do when your cabinets are bare… your exit plans feel blocked… and your soul aches for provision, direction, or just a sign that God sees you?

    Pastor Barbara Duffey Hammonds shares the honest wrestle of human survival—when even the lions go hungry—but reminds us of the unshakable truth: those who seek the Lord shall not want for any good thing.

    Join us on this journey as we explore the moments when the wilderness gets real—but so does God’s faithfulness. Whether you’re living paycheck to paycheck or soul to soul, God’s escape plan has already been drafted. The pantry may be empty, but your purpose is still full.


    🔚 Don’t be deceived by what your eyes see—God still provides in famine, protects in fire, and promises rest to the weary.

    Your escape plan isn’t in a human hand. It’s written in the promises of the Lord.

    Keep walking… even when your cabinets are empty. Because in God’s kingdom, the lack is often where the breakthrough begins.

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    If today’s message reached your soul… Don’t walk away quietly.

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    Don’t walk alone… walk with me.


    “Don’t Walk Alone”
    Chapter 12 - Escape Plans and Empty Cabinets
    ✍🏽 By: Pastor Barbara Duffey Hammonds
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    12 mins
  • Chapter 11 – When Your House Is the War Zone

    Chapter 11 – When Your House Is the War Zone
    Dec 6 2025
    The Simple Walk: Don’t Walk Alone – Chapter 11 – When Your House Is the War Zone

    Main Verse:
    “A man’s enemies shall be they of his own household.”
    Matthew 10:36 (KJV)

    Description:
    What happens when your greatest spiritual battles erupt inside the very place that should bring you peace—your home? In this soul-searching and divinely inspired message, Pastor Barbara Duffey Hammonds exposes the truth many believers silently endure: sometimes the war zone is not across the world… it’s across the hallway.

    Whether it’s broken marriages, rebellious children, toxic relatives, betrayal by loved ones, or homes filled with fear and silence, this message speaks directly to the hearts of those walking through domestic spiritual warfare. God is not distant. He sees. He hears. And He’s about to restore order, heal trauma, and bring peace into your atmosphere.

    Let this Word guide you through the fire, back into authority, and toward the promise of victory—even when the battlefield is behind your own front door.

    This chapter is part of The Simple Walk series—specifically the Don’t Walk Alone edition—where personal pain meets prophetic power, and hope is rekindled one Word at a time.


    🎧 Before You Go:
    If today’s message reached your soul… Don’t walk away quietly.

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    🎯 Call to Action: REMEMBER
    Don’t walk alone… walk with me.

    ✍🏽 By: Pastor Barbara Duffey Hammonds
    Founder of Deep Roots Rising and The Simple Walk: Don’t Walk Alone
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    10 mins
  • Chapter 10 – Wounded at the Altar

    Chapter 10 – Wounded at the Altar
    Dec 2 2025
    The Simple Walk: Don’t Walk Alone – Chapter 10 – Wounded at the Altar


    🔥 Chapter Overview & Highlights

    “Faithful are the wounds of a friend…” Proverbs 27:6
    “And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands?” Zechariah 13:6

    This chapter cuts deep into one of the hardest truths in the walk of faith: some of the deepest wounds are inflicted within the house of God.

    It’s not just the betrayal by the world that breaks us — it’s the altar we trusted. The one we knelt at. The arms that laid hands on us… now bearing thorns. Pastor Barbara Duffey Hammonds walks boldly into this space of silence and stigma, and she declares — you can heal.

    Many believers have been wounded by spiritual leaders, church members, or so-called friends who masked manipulation as ministry. But like Jesus, who bore wounds in His hands — wounds misunderstood even by those closest to Him — there is a holy purpose to your pain.

    This message is a cry for the spiritually bleeding to stop hiding and start healing. For those who have been shamed in pews, ignored at the altar, or discarded after serving — this Word is for you.

    💧 Teaching Points to Reflect On
    •Wounds at the altar aren’t always evil — sometimes they are faithful, meant to correct, redirect, and restore. (Proverbs 27:6)
    •Jesus was asked about His wounds — and He answered, “I was wounded in the house of my friends.” (Zechariah 13:6)
    •Bitterness keeps wounds open. Surrender lets God pour in oil and wine.
    •Betrayal by believers isn’t the end of your calling — it may be the beginning of your true assignment.
    •If you’ve ever walked away from ministry, the church, or your purpose because of pain inflicted at the altar, it’s time to come home whole.

    🙏🏽 Powerful Prayer for Healing from Church Hurt

    Heavenly Father,

    You see the bruises beneath our Sunday clothes…
    The silent screams behind our hallelujahs…
    And the limp in our walk, even as we lead others forward.

    We bring You the betrayal, the confusion, the offense, and the loss.
    We confess the bitterness — not to justify it — but to be cleansed of it.

    We cry out like David: “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.”
    Let the Holy Spirit soothe what people broke.
    Let forgiveness rise where silence reigned.
    Let discernment be sharpened so that truth is never mistaken for cruelty again.

    Heal every broken leader…
    Restore every crushed worshipper…
    And revive those whose purpose was buried beneath religious wounds.

    Let Your oil and wine — like the Good Samaritan poured — flow freely now.
    You are the God who never wounds without healing.
    Wounded at the altar — but saved by the Cross.

    In Jesus’ name,
    Amen.


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    ✍🏽 By: Pastor Barbara Duffey Hammonds
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    10 mins
  • Chapter 9 – I Can’t Feel Safe Anymore

    Chapter 9 – I Can’t Feel Safe Anymore
    Dec 1 2025
    The Simple Walk: Don’t Walk Alone Chapter - 9
    I Can’t Feel Safe Anymore

    By: Pastor Barbara Duffey Hammonds

    📖 “I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.” — Psalm 4:8 (KJV)


    In a world that seems to crumble around us—with false alarms, broken systems, and fear on every street corner—many are whispering silently in their hearts, “I can’t feel safe anymore.”

    This chapter enters the emotional trenches where spiritual trauma, social unrest, betrayal, and abandonment have replaced peace. But through Spirit-led insight and a deeply compassionate tone, Pastor Barbara Duffey Hammonds speaks to that hidden place.

    She reminds us that true safety is not in locked doors or politics—it’s in the presence of God. When everything else fails, He still makes us dwell in safety. This is not just a message… it’s a rescue mission for the weary.


    🔔 Before You Go:

    If today’s message reached your soul…
    Don’t walk away quietly.

    ✅ Subscribe to the journey.
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    ✅ Share the walk.
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    ✅ Tag someone who’s still standing after the storm.
    Let this Word multiply.

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    Don’t walk alone… walk with me.
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    8 mins