The Power of Suddenly: Abby Trivett on How God Changes Everything in a Moment
About this episode
Abby Trivett, editor at Charisma Magazine and author of The Power of Suddenly, joins Philip Cameron to unpack one of the most overlooked patterns in all of scripture — the word "suddenly" and its direct connection to divine miracles. Abby shares how a deep, yearlong immersion in scripture in 2024 led to a light-bulb moment: the word "suddenly" appears throughout the Bible and is consistently tied to God's miraculous intervention. "It is all over scripture," she says, "and it is connected to miracles." Drawing on biblical accounts including the woman with the issue of blood (who touched the hem of Jesus's garment after exhausting every other option) and Abraham and Sarah's decades-long wait for the promised child, Abby explains why God's timetable rarely matches ours — and why that gap is itself part of the miracle. She challenges the skepticism of modern Western culture that dismisses the supernatural, pointing out that nowhere in scripture does God say He stopped doing miracles. Abby also addresses what to do in the "valley of no suddenlies" — the painful middle ground between prayer and breakthrough. Her answer: stay in faith, take negative thoughts captive, choose to be led by the Spirit, and "just try Him one more time." The Power of Suddenly is available now on Amazon.
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Quotes worth sharing
“I got mad at my begging God, and I'm saying, 'God, why do you make me beg you? Why am I spending hours a day praying and asking you to help us?' And as quick as a flash, God spoke back to me and He said, 'I love your company.' He said, 'If I gave you all the money you needed, you'd be so busy doing the work that you wouldn't be sitting and kneeling at my feet.'”
“When we choose to be led by the Spirit instead of by the flesh, that is the ignition point where God lives in the suddenlies.”
“She didn't even have to believe that she had to touch Jesus, just the hem of his garment. And just with that one touch of that hem of the garment, everything was changed. She was healed. And not only was she healed, but then Jesus is looking at the crowd saying, 'Who touched me?' He knew her. He knew her intimately. And he looks at her and he tells her, 'Daughter,' he calls her daughter.”
What's Discussed
Abby Trivett, Charisma Magazine editor and author of The Power of Suddenly, reveals how a deep dive into scripture in 2024 uncovered a striking pattern: the word 'suddenly' appears throughout the Bible and is consistently linked to God's miraculous intervention. She walks through the stories of Abraham and Sarah's long wait for a promised child, and the woman with the issue of blood who touched the hem of Jesus's garment after exhausting every human remedy — and was instantly healed and called 'Daughter' by Jesus. Abby challenges modern skepticism about the supernatural, arguing that scripture never records God stopping miracles. She offers practical guidance for believers stuck in the painful middle ground between prayer and breakthrough: take negative thoughts captive, choose to be led by the Spirit, and press in one more time.
- Origin Story Behind The Power of Suddenly
- Hand-Writing Scripture Outlines in 2025
- Spiritual Warfare During the Writing Process
- Why God's Timetable Differs from Ours
- Overcoming Doubt About Modern-Day Miracles
- The Man at the Pool and Mindset as a Barrier
- The Woman with the Issue of Blood
- Identity in Christ as the Greatest Miracle
Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:Hey, my friends. Welcome today to "Daily Faith." My name is Philip Cameron, and I am delighted that you are with us. God has a rhema word for you today. Sometimes when you're in a crisis, you're going through something, you start looking. It's amazing how need creates a hunger in your heart for the answer.
Philip:One time, I was sitting in my car, stopped at a traffic light, and we were needing some crazy amount of money for our mission work in Moldova. And I'm praying, I'm sitting there praying. I'm saying, "Lord, please, you've got to meet this need. It's such a huge need." And I got mad at my begging God, and I'm saying, "God, why do you make me beg you? Why am I spending hours a day praying and asking you to help us?" And as quick as a flash, God spoke back to me and He said, "I love your company."
Philip:He said, "If I gave you all the money you needed, you'd be so busy doing the work that you wouldn't be sitting and kneeling at my feet." And sometimes the need that you're looking for and you're asking God to take away is the thing that God uses to draw you closer to Him.
Philip:But we're going to tell you today how the suddenlies of Heaven can come into your moment and into your life and your circumstance and transform you by the power of God. So I'm really excited. Abby Trivett is with us, and she's one of the editors at Charisma Magazine and written this book that I just believe that God is going to use for you. So get a pen and paper, or at least get your phone ready to take an address down so you can order today.
Philip:One of the things that most folk understand when they see us on "Daily Faith" is we have a mission work. Thirty-seven years ago, I adopted a wee boy in an orphanage in Timișoara, Romania. He'd been abandoned at two weeks by his birth mother. He was now almost four, starving to death, sick with hepatitis, and no hope.
Philip:And I walked in there with my dad. My dad had made me come back from America to go to Moldova to meet and see what he'd been watching on TV. And I walked in this room complaining about my dad was taking too long to go around the — we need to leave. We've got to drive back to Scotland, 2,500 miles. And he went up the stairs. You talk about a suddenly. We'd gone around the downstairs of the orphanage, and it was unbelievable, the mess, the smell, the... And I just wanted to get out of there, to be quite honest with you.
Philip:And I says, "Come on, Dad, let's go. I've got to drive home." He was recovering from cancer surgery, had driven 2,500 miles to get there, and we had to turn and drive all the way back. And I says, "Come on, Dad. It's time to go." No idea that a suddenly moment was coming in my life. And he says, "Oh, there's rooms upstairs." And I went, "Oh no, Dad, let's go." And he ignored me, just walked up the stairs. I'm walking behind him complaining to my dad that he's making me watch more of this deprivation I was looking at.
Philip:No idea that when he opened salon number five, that sitting amongst 30-odd kids rocking in their cribs because no one had ever hugged them in their lives. And I walked in behind him, and I saw this little boy in the middle of all these other kids, and he's looking at me, and the Spirit of God spoke and says, "That's your son." Suddenly. Here's a suddenly moment. I got in, walked down, picked him up, held him, covered in his own waste, naked from the waist down, and I says, "I don't know who you are, but I will not rest until I come back and get you."
Philip:And it took me a year to get him. And in the meantime, I fixed the roof, there was no toilet, I put in toilets for them, changed their beds, changed the whole place, and adopted Andrew. And out of that came all the ministry we have. So if it hadn't been for a suddenly moment in my life, I wouldn't be talking with the thousands of kids we have helped, and right now, the girls that we are rescuing from trafficking.
Philip:And we've an amazing place called Vatra Village. It's on the largest lake in Moldova. And these kids, instead of the traffickers getting them, they come to this village that we have. We put them back in school, share the gospel with them, and we are watching the most amazing transformation. Every girl you see in this video is worth $300,000 if a trafficker gets ahold of them. And instead of going there, they come to our village and go to school. And right now, it's summertime, and they are out preaching the gospel in villages all over Moldova. Orphans have become missionaries.
Philip:And we just got a new story. It's a girl called Antonia, and I want you to watch this and be blessed. Watch this.
Antonia:My name is Antonia. I am 18 years old. My parents divorced when I was seven. As strange as it may sound, I wasn't sad when they separated. I felt relieved. My father struggled with alcohol addiction and was often violent towards my mother. Some of my earliest memories are of seeing my mother sitting on the floor after being beaten. My father would tell me that what he was doing was normal and that one day I would understand.
Antonia:When he came home drunk, he would often threaten to kill my mother and take me away to live with another woman. Many nights, my mother and I would lock ourselves in the bathroom or run to my aunt's house. Sometimes we ran through the cold with barely any clothes on and no shoes. After the divorce, life became very difficult. My mother didn't have a stable job, and the money was never enough. After enduring a painful marriage and the loss of a child, her health began to deteriorate. She spent long periods in the hospital, and I was raised mainly by my grandmother and my aunt.
Antonia:Unfortunately, they were not always kind to me. They often told me that I would never achieve anything in life because I reminded them of my father. They would say that one day I would become just like him and have the same fate. School was not an easy place for me either. I struggled to make friends, and many people made fun of me because of the way I looked and my weight. For a long time, I believed that my existence only caused problems for the people around me.
Antonia:But even in those darkest moments, God never left my side. When I was 17 years old, I was worried about how I would continue my education. I didn't know where to turn. That was when I was given the opportunity to join The Orphan's Hands. Through the support I received, I discovered a new chance for my life. I found motivation to grow, to learn, and to become a better person. For the first time, I could see a future filled with hope.
Antonia:My message to anyone who is going through a difficult season is this: don't give up. With God, even the hardest situations can lead to something beautiful. Trust Him, keep moving forward, and remember that all things are possible with Him.
Philip:Wow, what a story. What a story. Talk about mercy rewriting a life. And we need folks like you to help us expand. Right now, we're in the middle of building two new homes for small kids between the age of four and 16. This home in Batran village, they can take kids from 16 upwards. And we had a young girl who was brought to us by the mayor of a town saying, "Can you look after this girl?" And she was 14.
Philip:And we had to put her back to the village because she was underage, and she was there for a while, just a few days, and was gang raped by 10 men. And that has motivated us to begin to believe God for younger kids, to catch them even before 16 years of age. All that you see we're doing in Moldova is done by someone like you giving $1 a day. You can change a life for $1 a day. It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
Philip:And girls like Antonia, who comes to us broken, despaired, beaten, abused by everything and everyone she's ever met, come into our place and finds peace for her heart. She can go and study in school. We support them in school. We pay for any educational needs they have. Most have never seen a doctor or a dentist or an eye doctor. And we take them, and it's like an adoption, that we care for these girls until they can stand on their feet.
Philip:And I need you to be a part of this. Pray about helping us, if you would. A dollar a day won't change your financial situation, but it sure changed Antonia's. We had a place for her ready because someone just like you had watched me talk about this somewhere else and says, "I want to be a part of it." You can contact me by writing The Orphan's Hands. It's so simple. The Orphan's Hands, P.O. Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. That'll be up on the screen.
Philip:In fact, it's under my name right now. You can also go to dailyfaith.tv. There's a giving page there. All of our programs are cataloged there. You can go and see other shows that we've done, and there's hundreds of videos that we've created about what we've done in Moldova. But your gift and your giving and your prayers can change so many more lives. It's so heartful and frustrating when we are faced with this need constantly, and the only thing that stops us from reaching more and going further is finances. And we are Scottish, and we stretch every dollar.
Philip:We squeeze every dollar we can, and your help and your prayers — please pray for us. If you can't give, pray that God opens doors and allows us to help the healing in these young folks' lives. We have a boys' homes also, and soon to be the two houses for the small kids. Let the Lord speak to your heart, and if you respond to Him, I promise you, He will bless you in return. Pure religion undefiled is where you care for the widow and the orphan, and that's what we're doing together in the name of Jesus.
Philip:I'm so thankful and happy to have Abby Trivett with us. She is a Charisma editor and an author, and she's written a new book entitled "The Power of Suddenly." And sometimes you see a title of a book and you think, "Man, I should have written that book." And so she is with us today, and I am so glad to welcome her to "Daily Faith". Abby, thank you for being part of "Daily Faith" today.
Abby Trivett:Oh, thank you so much for having me. This is such a joy and an honor.
Philip:Oh, well, first of all, I'm always interested on backstories. A lot of times, we always like the shiny, glossy front, but I want to know what brought you to the point of writing this book. Something must have happened to trigger this inside your spirit, to make it flow from your hand and your heart, to make this book possible.
Origin Story Behind The Power of Suddenly
Abby Trivett:Yeah, absolutely. So it was back in 2024, actually. It was towards the end of the year, and I had been reading really, really in depth that year in scripture. I just went all in. Some parts of my soul were just like, "You need more scripture." So I was just diving in, and at the end of the year, I just felt the Lord kind of say, "What did you notice when you were reading throughout scripture?" And it was a true light bulb moment. I've never had the same kind of light bulb moment in my life, and I just said the word suddenly.
Philip:Suddenly. It is all over scripture.
Abby Trivett:Absolutely. And it is connected to miracles.
Philip:Wow. I thought about that and I said, "Okay."
Abby Trivett:I was like, "I think I might have something to write now." And actually, what I did is I had a very special notebook that someone had given to me a year or two prior. I didn't want to just use it for sermon notes or just journaling or anything like that, because it was beautiful. It was a very beautiful notebook, and so I had saved it. I said, "I'll find something to use this for." And that notebook came back to my mind. So at the beginning of 2025, I actually took out that notebook and a pen or pencil, whatever I was using that day, and my Bible, and I sat down, and I hand wrote everything.
Hand-Writing Scripture Outlines in 2025
Philip:Wow.
Abby Trivett:I just hand wrote it. I went from an outline. I said, "Okay, here's all these different ways that I feel like..." God was just pouring in information to me. He was just pouring. He was like, "Hey, miraculous provision. That's one way that I do stuff. Hey, promises kept, that's one way that I do stuff. People being healed and delivered, that's another way that I do stuff." So I was making this outline, and then I was just writing everything out with my paper Bible right in front of me, and it was about as far as you could possibly get from being any type of AI-generated anything.
Philip:Thank God.
Abby Trivett:It really was me with a notebook and a Bible, sitting on my couch, writing it. And then, of course, from there, I was like, "Okay, now I need to type everything out." So I took extra steps. For something that's supposed to be suddenly, it took a long time.
Philip:Sometimes suddenlies take a long time, because we want it in our timetable, but sometimes God's timetable is different than ours.
Abby Trivett:Yeah, absolutely, and I feel like through the process, God was also growing me spiritually as well. I feel like I was really being confronted for the first time, really, in my life with bigger spiritual giants, bigger spiritual attacks. I felt like I was, here I am about to go and pray for someone, I'm feeling like actual spiritual warfare here, and I feel like God was using this whole time period of my life to really teach me about his authority, to really teach me about him, and to really teach me about identity as well. That way, everything that I was writing, I not only would just write it down, but that I knew it in the core of myself as well.
Spiritual Warfare During the Writing Process
Philip:It was written inside you, and that's important because today, we've got so many ways that we can cheat with AI and stuff. But when I write something, it comes out of my spirit, and usually out of this finger on my iPhone, because I can't type. I just pick. But God does use the circumstance. When you're writing this book, it almost takes you on a journey that you're discovering and learning, and suddenly, you see all the suddenlies and you think... Our Earth, we live on a delay system here, but it's out of tune somewhat with Heaven. It's like the Earth going around the sun. Once in a while, it collides, and that's when the miracles really happen.
Abby Trivett:Yeah, absolutely, which is something that I really talk about in the book. Because what I think happens for a lot of people is we pray for something, and if it doesn't happen right away, we kind of push the prayer request to the side. We kind of give up. We think, "Okay, he didn't answer when I wanted him to, so maybe that's not for me. Maybe that's not going to happen. Maybe he doesn't actually want these things for my life", and we kind of move along. But the truth is, we are dealing with heavenly spiritual realms. And so we have to keep praying. You have to keep praying. You have to keep pressing in. You have to keep seeking him. We have that ability to go boldly before him and bring our requests to him, and anything that is of his will, he will answer. It's just a matter of that timing.
Why God's Timetable Differs from Ours
Abby Trivett:And that's really something that I do try to point people to in the book, of giving them that extra hope that it doesn't matter where you are right now, he can take you from that point A to the miracle. And when he does it, sometimes it'll be from that little inching along, and then other points in time, it'll just happen at once. Sometimes it takes you from that journey of a little bit at a time, and then it's just everything that happens all at once. And it is such a blessing.
Philip:If I think about the story of Abraham and Sarah, God promised Abraham years prior — such a long time before. He promises him this land, he promises him that his descendants would be so numerous as all the stars or all the sand of the sea, and you look at that and then nothing seems to happen for years. Years. Nothing at all seems to happen. It was crazy. The promise of a family is what got him to leave Ur of the Chaldees to head for this place that he didn't know where he was going. But the promise was, "I'm going to give you children."
Philip:And sometimes God uses a promise that isn't fulfilled yet or isn't even fulfillable yet because the circumstances in your life, like me praying at that stoplight saying, "God, for goodness' sake, why do you make me do this?" What he was making me do was put roots down, grow roots into my life and my circumstance. That if he'd give me the money I needed for the mission work the first time I asked for it, it wouldn't have developed me. The kids could have got the money, but I would have never been developed. But it's the long nights and the praying when you can't see anything and the hope when there's no hope.
Philip:Everything else flows through and the miracle comes, but the residue that stays, the part that grows inside you, that's part of the miracle as well.
Abby Trivett:Yeah, it is, because then you look back and you say, "I'm not the same person that I was when this started." And you can see God's hand molding and shaping, and it hurts. It hurts to go through sanctification, it hurts to go through that process.
Philip:Oh, my, yes.
Abby Trivett:But God does that, that way we can look more like him, because he's more interested in us becoming more like him than he is in just giving us whatever it is we're asking for right up front. He's more interested in us becoming like Jesus.
Overcoming Doubt About Modern-Day Miracles
Philip:And the thing is this, in the world we're living in, it's such a skeptical world that people — the supernatural, that was for the Dark Ages, and all of these things happened, but we are far too sophisticated now, we know so much. And how do you overcome that doubt in people's minds that are saying, "I'm stuck here waiting between not having and my suddenly. What do I do in this middle? How do I survive this? And is there a miracle at the end of this journey that I'm on? Is there a suddenly for me?"
Abby Trivett:Yeah, absolutely. Nowhere in scripture does it tell us that God ever stopped working. Nowhere in scripture does it tell us that God stopped doing miracles. So I find that hopeful in itself. Because if he is the same yesterday, today, and forever, then you can read the Bible and you can look at it through that perspective instead of saying, "Just because I don't see it in American culture today, just because I don't see it in the Western world today, doesn't mean that he doesn't do stuff." Sometimes we put ourselves in a box, and we put God in a box, and we limit what he wants to do.
Abby Trivett:I think about Jesus with the man who was by the pool laying on the mat, and that man, he couldn't walk. He was there for 38 years. Unbelievable. He couldn't move. And Jesus doesn't just touch him and heal him, and he gets up. He looks at him and he says, "Do you want to be healed?" He asks him what step is he going to try to take, what thing is he going to try to do out of the fear, to get out of the fear and the mindset and believe that God actually can do something for him.
The Man at the Pool and Mindset as a Barrier
Philip:Sure. A lot of the things that we do or don't experience has a lot to do with our mindset, because out of our mindset then comes how we think, it comes how we talk, it comes how we walk, it comes how we do everything in life.
Abby Trivett:Absolutely. So if you don't take those negative things captive, if you don't take those lies of the enemy captive and you don't make them obedient to the word of God, then you're going to be led by them. Because we have that choice to either be led by the Spirit or be led by the flesh, and we have to make that choice daily to say, "I am going to be led by the Spirit." And let me tell you, that there is where the suddenly lives. When we choose to be led by the Spirit instead of by the flesh, that is the ignition point where God lives in the suddenlies.
Philip:Because unless we understand that we are serving a God of miracles, the darkest days I've ever had in my life have always been just before the greatest miracle I've ever had in my life. And sometimes God uses the contrast between the two to get us closer to him than we would normally be. If everything was hunky dory, and everything was wonderful, and the sun was shining, and the clouds were wispy, we would never develop and grow.
Philip:And someone's watching this now, we have three minutes left. Someone's watching this program right now, and they are in the valley of no suddenlies. Earth and heaven are a million years away from each other, it seems. Give them a hope. Tell them what thread, what rope can they hold onto just now to believe God through this moment until the suddenly happens.
Abby Trivett:Yeah. I always go back to the story that I think describes a suddenly moment more than any other one in scripture. It is the woman with the issue of blood. What a moment. Because she was getting worse, not better. She had tried everything in her own power, so I don't know what someone is trying in their own power, what doctors they've been to, what situation they're facing. I don't know what they've tried in their own power, and they're sitting there saying, "I don't know what else to do." Just try him one more time. Because in the same way that she had that faith to say — she didn't even have to believe that she had to touch Jesus, just the hem of his garment.
The Woman with the Issue of Blood
Abby Trivett:And just with that one touch of that hem of the garment, everything was changed. She was healed. And not only was she healed, but then Jesus is looking at the crowd saying, "Who touched me?" He knew her. He knew her intimately. He knew that even though everybody else was pressing in and touching on him, he knew that there was somebody who was so desperate, who had tried everything, and he knew that she was that person. And he looks at her and he tells her, "Daughter," he calls her daughter.
Philip:Wow. He brings that relationship with her.
Abby Trivett:And then he says, "Your faith has healed you. Go in peace."
Philip:Being called daughter is almost as important as being healed. I can live through a lot of pain as long as I know I'm his son.
Abby Trivett:Yes. Having that identity in Christ is just as important as seeing the miracle on the other end. Because the greatest miracle any of us will ever experience truly is that salvation and relationship with Jesus. Because it really is having neither height nor depth nor anything in all creation separate us from his love. And from his love and being close to him, even if it's the very last thing that you do, just staying in that faith and in that love with Jesus, God can do so many miraculous things with that.
Identity in Christ as the Greatest Miracle
Philip:You are such a good guest. We have flown through this. This is wonderful. I want you to get this book, now listen to me. It's called "The Power of Suddenly", Abby Trivett. There it is, on the screen for you. "The Power of Suddenly". You can get it from Amazon right now. You can go online and get it right now. This book is what you need to let you put a handle on the circumstance you've been going through wordlessly. And sometimes we go through all these things, and we can't even put a word on what we feel and how our heart feels. This is your moment to do something about your future, and by getting this book, you can do it.
Philip:We're out of time, Abby. Thank you for being with us. Come back sometime again, if you can.
Abby Trivett:Yes.
Philip:And write something else. Thank you for watching "Daily Faith." We love you guys. Be praying for our work in Moldova, and the best is yet to come because there's a suddenly on its way. Bye-bye for today.
For over 25 years, the Cameron family has been changing the lives of orphans in Romania and Moldova. From providing running water, flushing toilets, and clean wells, to coal for heat, new windows, as well as food and clothing. They champion the physical needs of the orphans in these broken and desolate countries. Many of Moldova's orphans are saved from the horrors of trafficking through homes founded by the Camerons, and in the process, orphans become daughters and sons. They come to know their heavenly Father and are forever changed by the love of Jesus.
God helped the Camerons lift these amazing young men and women out of darkness. Now, no longer orphans, they want to return and invade that very same darkness with the light of Jesus Christ. The Orphan's Hands equips these daughters and sons to become missionaries. Your monthly gift of $31 will allow us to rescue and take in more girls and boys, saving them from the hell of human trafficking. Your monthly partnership will allow us to care for those in the Orphan's Hands homes in Moldova and the Ukraine. If you want to join Philip and Chrissy in taking care of these precious young people, please contact us today by calling 833-DAILYFAITH. You can also give by going online to www.dailyfaith.tv or by writing to Post Office Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. So many lives depend on what we do. Thank you for loving the lost.
Common questions
What inspired Abby Trivett to write 'The Power of Suddenly'?
Abby says it came out of an intense year of deep scripture reading in 2024. At the end of that year she felt God ask her what she had noticed, and the word 'suddenly' just lit up for her — she realized it appears all throughout scripture and is consistently connected to miracles. That light-bulb moment convinced her she had something worth writing.
How did Abby actually write the book — did she use AI or any writing tools?
Abby says she went as old-school as possible: she pulled out a special notebook she had been saving, sat on her couch with a paper Bible, and hand-wrote everything from an outline. She describes it as about as far from AI-generated content as you could get. She only typed it up afterward.
What does Abby say you should do when you've been praying for something and nothing seems to be happening?
Abby says the biggest mistake people make is pushing a prayer request aside when it isn't answered on their timetable. She urges people to keep pressing in, because God operates in heavenly spiritual realms where timing is different from ours. Anything that is within His will, He will answer — it's just a matter of when.
What Bible story does Abby point to as the best example of a 'suddenly' moment?
Abby points to the woman with the issue of blood. She highlights that the woman had been getting worse, not better, and had exhausted every option in her own power — yet she reached out and touched just the hem of Jesus's garment. In that single moment she was completely healed, and Jesus called her 'Daughter,' giving her both a miracle and an identity.
According to Abby, what role does mindset play in experiencing God's miracles?
Abby says that if you don't take negative thoughts and the enemy's lies captive and make them obedient to God's word, those thoughts will lead you. She argues that choosing daily to be led by the Spirit rather than the flesh is the actual 'ignition point' where God works in the suddenlies — pointing to Jesus asking the man at the pool 'Do you want to be healed?' as an example of God challenging someone's fear-based mindset before the miracle came.
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