Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 2: I wanted to thank you for joining us today.
Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.
Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving
Speaker 2: in your life.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the message today.
Speaker 3: I am grateful to be worshiping at Elevation Church.
Speaker 1: Come on, if you're thankful for this house, if you're
Speaker 1: thankful for what He's doing. David said, better is one
Speaker 1: day in your.
Speaker 3: House, been a thousand elsewhere a thousand days.
Speaker 1: That's like two and a half years.
Speaker 3: So I don't know what the next two and a
Speaker 3: half years, if your life's going to look like. But
Speaker 3: if this is the last best day you're in God's house,
Speaker 3: come on, somebody celebrate the name of Jesus like this
Speaker 3: is the best day in the next two and a
Speaker 3: half years.
Speaker 1: Come on, we worship you God, We praise you Lord.
Speaker 3: I want you to reach for your Bible, turning me
Speaker 3: to Mark chapter five. Go ahead and stay standing as
Speaker 3: we get ready to read the scripture today. It is
Speaker 3: such an honor to be at Elevation Church. It is
Speaker 3: a privilege for me and I just love what God
Speaker 3: is doing all throughout the earth. Uh. You know, I'm
Speaker 3: here today on Sunday, but I've been like with you
Speaker 3: all this week because if you don't know, your church
Speaker 3: is on tour Elevation Nights, has been changing city after.
Speaker 1: City, and I got to hop in.
Speaker 3: I was like a roadie, or maybe I was like
Speaker 3: a groupie and maybe more of a groupie. I think
Speaker 3: I was more of a groupie. And I was in
Speaker 3: Long Island. It was the Ubs Arena.
Speaker 1: Is that what it was? Chunks? Y'all?
Speaker 3: Did you know that there are people sold out for
Speaker 3: Jesus in Long Island?
Speaker 1: In Boston, sold out.
Speaker 3: Crowds all up and down the Northeast, And man, it
Speaker 3: was powerful seeing that place full people worshiping, singing the songs.
Speaker 1: That were written right out of this house.
Speaker 3: Pastor Hawley was up on the stage, just presidential, poised
Speaker 3: and beautiful and wonderful. Abby Yo, Abby's up on the
Speaker 3: stage preaching fire. Anybody grateful for Pastor Stephen Ferdick Man.
Speaker 3: I've heard him preach so much, but this week, man,
Speaker 3: the messages he was sharing changing all of us, deep, direct, beautiful,
Speaker 3: and I'm so thankful for how God is using this
Speaker 3: church all over the world, and I hope you're thankful
Speaker 3: for it. Today we're gathering on Sunday, but your church
Speaker 3: has been happening every day of the week this past week.
Speaker 1: And it was C. S. Lewis who said it this way.
Speaker 3: He said, friendship is born at the moment that you go, oh,
Speaker 3: you two.
Speaker 1: I thought I was the only one.
Speaker 3: And Pastor Stephen has a way that when he preaches
Speaker 3: from this pulpit, we all go oh. I thought I
Speaker 3: was the only one. And I'm so thankful for his life.
Speaker 3: I'm thankful for his leadership. His messages right behind this
Speaker 3: pulpit have changed my life.
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you, the.
Speaker 3: Life he lives off of this stage. Man, his pastoring
Speaker 3: has changed me, but his friendship has matured me. And
Speaker 3: I know he's not in the room today, but come on,
Speaker 3: I believe he's watching right now at every location.
Speaker 1: Can we just thank God for our pastor?
Speaker 3: Come on, make some annoys if you love Pastor Steven,
Speaker 3: Pastor Hawley, Elijah Graham, and we love all y'all. Hey, yo,
Speaker 3: this is not just a regular series. This is a
Speaker 3: life message. I get to preach him. Part three of
Speaker 3: do the new you. Try to get that annoyant you
Speaker 3: know me, someone say, do the new you, not the
Speaker 3: old you, not the projected you, the new you, the
Speaker 3: you that God has called you to be. And we've
Speaker 3: been talking about these mindsets. And what a powerful message
Speaker 3: on is that I just can't encourage. I know these people
Speaker 3: watching online right now.
Speaker 1: Get the book.
Speaker 3: It just hit New York Times bestseller. But man, what
Speaker 3: a tragedy for you just to let him teach you.
Speaker 3: Get even deeper. Get into the book because these six
Speaker 3: different mindsets will transform your life. How y'all know our
Speaker 3: mind is set on something. I hope that when you
Speaker 3: come into this house, we're not saying something new, we're
Speaker 3: saying something quite old, but we are reminding who you
Speaker 3: have been called to be. I'm even believing today right
Speaker 3: now it might be a mindset reset. Remember the Nintendo
Speaker 3: the game wasn't going good, very good. You pulled that
Speaker 3: game out.
Speaker 1: Reset.
Speaker 3: May today be a great reset. And we've been talking
Speaker 3: about lots of great things. And week one he was
Speaker 3: talking about I'm not stuck unless I y'all been listening. Man,
Speaker 3: do y'all know the second one?
Speaker 1: Christ is in me?
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, just making sure y'all been listening to the teacher.
Speaker 3: We're gonna get into mindset number three, mark chapter five,
Speaker 3: verse twenty two. Let me read it, and then we
Speaker 3: will preach it. Then one of the synagogue leaders named
Speaker 3: Gyrus came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at
Speaker 3: his feet, and he pleaded earnestly with him, My little
Speaker 3: daughter is dying.
Speaker 1: Please come and put your.
Speaker 3: Hands on her so that she will be healed and live.
Speaker 3: So Jesus went with him, and a large crowd followed
Speaker 3: and pressed around him. And a woman was there who
Speaker 3: had been subject to bleeding for twelve years someone say
Speaker 3: twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the
Speaker 3: care of many doctors and had spent all she had,
Speaker 3: Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse. When she
Speaker 3: heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the
Speaker 3: crowd and touched his cloak because she thought, if I
Speaker 3: just touch his clothes, I will be healed.
Speaker 1: Talk about a mindset.
Speaker 3: Immediately her bleeding stopped, and she felt in her that
Speaker 3: she was freed from her suffering. At once, Jesus realized
Speaker 3: the power had gone out from him. He turned around
Speaker 3: in the crowd and asked, who touched my clothes? You
Speaker 3: see the people crowding against you. His disciples answered, and
Speaker 3: yet you can ask who touched me? But Jesus kept
Speaker 3: looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman,
Speaker 3: knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at
Speaker 3: his feet, and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth.
Speaker 3: He said to her daughter, your faith has healed you.
Speaker 3: Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.
Speaker 1: Come on, if you.
Speaker 3: Received that word today, somebody who's clapped your hands? Mindset
Speaker 3: number three. With God, there's always a way, and by
Speaker 3: faith I will find it. Do me a favor, Touch
Speaker 3: three different people before you sit down and say, by
Speaker 3: faith you're going to find it. Say by faith you're
Speaker 3: going to find it. By faith, you're going to find it.
Speaker 3: How many believe today that God is never late? That
Speaker 3: was okay, I said, How many believe that God is
Speaker 3: never late? God is never late? But have you ever
Speaker 3: realized rarely is he early? No? God is not on
Speaker 3: my time. God is not on your time. God is
Speaker 3: on time. On time is God time? How many believes
Speaker 3: that we serve a God who's on time?
Speaker 1: What's funny?
Speaker 3: Is. I've been serving the Lord for many, many years,
Speaker 3: and what I've realized about God is that he's definitely
Speaker 3: not on my time. He's certainly not on your time.
Speaker 3: But sometimes it feels like to me that God is
Speaker 3: on Miami time. I'm from Miami. Maybe you don't know
Speaker 3: about Miami time, but in nineteen ninety eight, I moved
Speaker 3: all the way from Tacoma, Washington, to the city of Miami.
Speaker 3: And when I got to Miami, I discovered this little term.
Speaker 3: It's called ish. Do you know about ish? What time
Speaker 3: we meet in twelve ish?
Speaker 1: I'll never forget it.
Speaker 3: My first year there, I was fourteen years of age
Speaker 3: and I got invited to a wedding. It was a
Speaker 3: Puerto Rican Haitian wedding. You haven't lived until you've been
Speaker 3: to a Puerto Rican Haitian wedding. The invitation said four PM.
Speaker 3: So I showed up like a Caucasian at three forty five.
Speaker 3: I'm so white, y'all pray for me.
Speaker 1: I got the three forty five. I was like, this
Speaker 1: is awesome. I can't wait.
Speaker 3: This is gonna be incredible, you know, And you know,
Speaker 3: four point fifteen hit and I'm like, it's kind of late.
Speaker 3: You know, this is strange. Four thirty, four forty five.
Speaker 3: I'm breaking out in hives at four forty five and
Speaker 3: I'm about to leave, and the guy next to me says, oh,
Speaker 3: don't you leave.
Speaker 1: This thing will start. At some point.
Speaker 3: Two hours later, six pm at night, the wedding finally began.
Speaker 1: But y'all, ain't no party.
Speaker 3: Like a porter Hatian party, because a Puerto Rican Haitian
Speaker 3: party don't stop. Once this thing began, it just kept
Speaker 3: going and going and going. This was a real This
Speaker 3: was a wedding like I had never been to before.
Speaker 3: God is not on your time, and he's not on
Speaker 3: my time. Sometimes he's on Miami time. And the thing
Speaker 3: I know about Miami time is that it might not
Speaker 3: be how you planned it, but with God, it's going
Speaker 3: to be better than how you expected it. Somebody puts
Speaker 3: your hands together and thank him that he's on time,
Speaker 3: say God time. I want us to be a church,
Speaker 3: and I want us to be a people that understand
Speaker 3: that when God begins to move in your life, it
Speaker 3: probably won't happen the way that you expected it to happen.
Speaker 1: It's not that I'm against speed.
Speaker 3: I just think that we're living in some interesting times
Speaker 3: right now, where people are so used to getting everything
Speaker 3: immediately that all it's doing is increasing depression. It's increasing discontentment.
Speaker 3: I'm not against speed as long as we all agree
Speaker 3: that speed is a luxury, not an entitlement.
Speaker 1: Look around today.
Speaker 3: We are living in a world right now that we
Speaker 3: all know the price of everything, but some of us
Speaker 3: know the value of nothing. Good things, God things take time.
Speaker 3: That when God starts something in your life, I don't
Speaker 3: know when he's going to start it.
Speaker 1: I don't know when he's gonna show up. I don't
Speaker 1: know how he's going to intervene.
Speaker 3: But I know this that He who began a good
Speaker 3: work in you, he will carry it out under completion.
Speaker 3: Somebody take a few moments right now, thank him in
Speaker 3: advance that he's always on time.
Speaker 1: God time is on time.
Speaker 3: And in Mark chapter five we have a beautiful, beautiful,
Speaker 3: beautiful story about the timing of God. That with God
Speaker 3: there's always a way, and by faith I will find it.
Speaker 3: The text as we begin reading today starts out with
Speaker 3: this story. And really we don't have enough time. But
Speaker 3: the text is about two women. This man a name
Speaker 3: of Jiros, who is a successful synagogue leader comes to
Speaker 3: Jesus with a cry from his heart that his little
Speaker 3: twelve year old daughter is about to die.
Speaker 1: Not right away.
Speaker 3: As I read the text, what I notice is that
Speaker 3: this man has a big position and a big title,
Speaker 3: but sometimes your position and your title can't solve all
Speaker 3: your problems. And so by faith he comes to the
Speaker 3: feet of Jesus and he pleads with Jesus. What it
Speaker 3: shows me quickly is that as Jesus hears the man's request,
Speaker 3: Jesus is moved by the man's.
Speaker 1: Faith, meaning my faith can move God.
Speaker 3: Jesus goes with the man to his house to heal
Speaker 3: his little daughter. Before they get there, she actually dies
Speaker 3: on the way. Then let me just skip to the
Speaker 3: end of her store. We'll come back to it in
Speaker 3: a moment. But he gets to the house of this
Speaker 3: little girl and she's died while Jesus was on the journey.
Speaker 3: And when he walks in, there's all these mourners and
Speaker 3: there's people crying, and Jesus walked and said, yop, y'all
Speaker 3: stop crying, and they start laughing at him. He'sai, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: the little girl is just asleep. They're going, haha, no,
Speaker 3: you're crazy. And notice what Jesus does is you go
Speaker 3: back and read it. He clears the room. I can't
Speaker 3: have this kind of mindset around me. I'm about to
Speaker 3: bring about a resurrection, and I don't have no time
Speaker 3: for doubt and.
Speaker 1: For laughter to be around me.
Speaker 3: A couple weeks ago, Pastor Stephen was preaching the story
Speaker 3: about the Walls of Jericho.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: I'm not stuck unless I stop. Remember the word of
Speaker 3: the Lord. What does he say to the Israelites? He says,
Speaker 3: for six days, march around those walls. But remember there
Speaker 3: is a particular command that he gives them. He says,
Speaker 3: when you march for six days, don't say a word.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine how silly this looks. We're finally here
Speaker 3: for a battle. We ain't got no swords, we ain't
Speaker 3: got no shields. We're just silent. Why did God tell
Speaker 3: them to be silent? Because these are the children of complainers.
Speaker 3: And God was saying, there's a miracle in progress. And
Speaker 3: I can't allow you to speak right now because you
Speaker 3: don't realize it.
Speaker 1: The only enemy is yourself.
Speaker 3: And if I let you start talking while you're marching,
Speaker 3: you might talk yourself.
Speaker 1: Out of a miracle. So be quiet.
Speaker 3: There's a victory in progress. March in faith. Come on, somebody,
Speaker 3: if you believe it. Today Jesus heals this little girl
Speaker 3: and resurrects her. The father's reach moves Jesus, but Jesus's
Speaker 3: reach resurrects the girl.
Speaker 1: It was all by faith.
Speaker 3: But what I want us to highlight today, if we
Speaker 3: can for a few moments, is the timing of God.
Speaker 3: Because as Jesus is moved by Jyros towards their home,
Speaker 3: the scripture says that there's another woman and what appears
Speaker 3: to be an interruption to Jesus on the way to Gyrous' house.
Speaker 3: I actually believe it's a divine intervention. I actually believe
Speaker 3: it's a divine appointment. I actually believe it's God's time.
Speaker 3: The Bible says that he is on his way. There's
Speaker 3: a woman there who has an issue of blood, and
Speaker 3: she's had this issue for twelve years. My father, who
Speaker 3: is my hero, wrote a book in the eighties entitled
Speaker 3: Private Pain, and the book was based on this woman
Speaker 3: with the issue of blood that she is bleeding, but
Speaker 3: no one around her is all the way even aware
Speaker 3: of her pain.
Speaker 1: It's a private pain.
Speaker 3: Come, y'all know it's one thing to have a struggle,
Speaker 3: and it's one thing to have an issue. It's another
Speaker 3: thing when you have that issue for twelve long years. Now.
Speaker 3: I don't know who's watching today, I don't know who
Speaker 3: came into this place today, but some of you you
Speaker 3: quickly relate to this woman, because although you might not
Speaker 3: be bleeding physically, you would say I'm hemorrhaging emotionally.
Speaker 1: I'm hemorrhaging relationally.
Speaker 3: I want to encourage you today as we look at
Speaker 3: this passage that with God, there's always a way, and
Speaker 3: by faith, you will find it quickly. What I noticed
Speaker 3: about this woman is that somehow, this woman who's had
Speaker 3: the same struggle for twelve long years, somehow, in all
Speaker 3: of the hurt that she has faced in life, her
Speaker 3: hurt hasn't stolen her hope. I felt it so deep
Speaker 3: in my heart on the way over here. I want
Speaker 3: to tell some people who are watching right now, don't
Speaker 3: give up hope.
Speaker 1: Hope is the building blocks to your faith.
Speaker 3: Hope is the belief that although I can't see God,
Speaker 3: I can still sense God. Hope is this belief that
Speaker 3: although it seems like He might be absent, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: firmly believe that He's present. You ever heard someone say
Speaker 3: to you, don't get your hopes. Sometimes people say that
Speaker 3: they're not saying that to be mean. I know, sometimes
Speaker 3: they say that to be merciful, because they don't want
Speaker 3: you to put your hope in something and then not
Speaker 3: get it and lead to greater disappointment. That's why the
Speaker 3: scripture says, hope deferred makes the heart grow sick. But
Speaker 3: today the mindset is not about getting your hope up. Now,
Speaker 3: that's not what we're teaching today. Hope is too heavy
Speaker 3: for you to hold up on your own. No, you
Speaker 3: don't hold hope up. Come on, somebody, you put hope
Speaker 3: in The Psalmist said, why is my soul so downcast?
Speaker 3: Put your hope in God. I don't put my hope
Speaker 3: in an outcome. I put my hope in God. I
Speaker 3: don't put my hope in an agenda. I put my
Speaker 3: hope in God.
Speaker 1: Come on, is there anybody.
Speaker 3: In the room today that would say, I'm putting my.
Speaker 1: Hope in God. It is not the strength of your.
Speaker 3: Faith, it's the object of your faith. We're not teaching
Speaker 3: mind over matter here at Elevation Church.
Speaker 1: We are teaching faith over unbelief. It's not faith in faith.
Speaker 3: No, my faith is attached to Jesus Christ, King of Kings,
Speaker 3: Lord of lords, author and perfector of my story.
Speaker 1: We attach our faith to Jesus.
Speaker 3: And when I look at this woman quickly, what I
Speaker 3: see is that her hope works.
Speaker 1: Someone say hope works. Don't get it mistaken.
Speaker 3: Hope works. How do I know hope works? Because look
Speaker 3: at what the tech says. The text says that this
Speaker 3: woman has seen many physicians.
Speaker 1: She's gone to many doctors. In fact, the Bible says.
Speaker 3: That she spent everything that she has had trying to
Speaker 3: get well.
Speaker 1: And it's a troubling verse.
Speaker 3: It says that as she spent everything, and as she
Speaker 3: tried to go and see different doctors every time, she
Speaker 3: just grew worse. Now I'm sad that she suffered in
Speaker 3: this way, but I'm grateful that she kept trying. It
Speaker 3: shows me that she has hope because hope works. Don't
Speaker 3: get it twisted today. If you have hope, you will work.
Speaker 3: You will do what you can do, and trust that
Speaker 3: God will do what you can't do. I have three
Speaker 3: little kids and my oldest boy, his name is Wyatt.
Speaker 3: Wesley Wilkerson. He's six years of age. My youngest, who's
Speaker 3: my favorite child.
Speaker 1: It's my daughter. Her name is Waylan, she's two.
Speaker 3: And then right in between, I think every time I
Speaker 3: come to elevation, I have to always tell you a
Speaker 3: story about my boy in between. His name is Wild
Speaker 3: and it's wild to name your son Wild and Wyatt.
Speaker 3: My oldest is quite large for his age. He's like
Speaker 3: in the top ninety percentile for height and weight. And Wild,
Speaker 3: on the other hand, is quite small for his age.
Speaker 3: He's little, but he's feisty. He's little, but he's scrappy.
Speaker 3: And for the most part, this is never really much
Speaker 3: of a problem until we go to disney World. Because
Speaker 3: at disney World they have these rules and qualifications to
Speaker 3: get on a ride. And so we're going to disney
Speaker 3: World the other day and Wild's, you know, he really
Speaker 3: wants to go on the Slinky roller coaster. He's like, Dad,
Speaker 3: I want to go on the Slinky roller coaster. The
Speaker 3: problem is you got to be forty four inches to
Speaker 3: go on that ride. Wild is like thirty inch something,
Speaker 3: you know, I said, wild Man, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not going to happen.
Speaker 3: Bro you're just too short and wild, he says, But Dad,
Speaker 3: please try. I said, sure, So what have you got
Speaker 3: in mind? And so him and his brother went and
Speaker 3: got hair gel, spiked his hair up, put his older
Speaker 3: brother's shoes on. Can I show you what a picture
Speaker 3: looks like of hope working? This is my son wild.
Speaker 3: Look at this photo.
Speaker 1: You want to know what hope looks like. That's all.
Speaker 3: I'm not dull enough, but I'm gonna do everything I can.
Speaker 3: Sometimes hope looks like you spake it up your hair,
Speaker 3: getting some platform shoes on, saying I'm not there yet,
Speaker 3: but I am on my way. Is there anybody in
Speaker 3: the room today who's got a little bit of hope
Speaker 3: in their heart?
Speaker 1: Hope works.
Speaker 3: Hoping in God looks like waiting on God.
Speaker 1: You got to learn to wait on the Lord.
Speaker 3: The prophet Isaiah said, wait on.
Speaker 1: The Lord, and he shall renew your strength. While you're waiting.
Speaker 1: You're getting stronger.
Speaker 3: While you're waiting, He's developing you. While you're waiting. You
Speaker 3: have no idea what he is working out. But there
Speaker 3: is a point to the wait. I think waiting on
Speaker 3: God is this. Waiting on God means doing everything that
Speaker 3: you possibly can and then surrendering everything you can't. So,
Speaker 3: if you're sick in your body today, do everything you
Speaker 3: can call upon God. Do what James says, call the elders,
Speaker 3: get the oil, pray the prayer of faith, take the medication,
Speaker 3: go to the doctor, get the surgery for heaven saying.
Speaker 3: But then you surrender control and you say, God, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna give you my grief. God, I'm not gonna let
Speaker 3: the enemy get a foothold of bitterness. Trust you that
Speaker 3: you are making a way where there seems to be
Speaker 3: no way. If you got a dream in your heart, man,
Speaker 3: Pastor Stevens up here ap preaching the do.
Speaker 1: The New You, and you're getting inspired, like that's it. Man,
Speaker 1: this is my year twenty twenty four. I got a roar.
Speaker 3: I hear you, So do everything that you can call
Speaker 3: upon God.
Speaker 1: God, you put this dream in my heart. God you
Speaker 1: started this dream.
Speaker 3: But then get to work, build your network, sharpen your skills,
Speaker 3: watch a YouTube video, read a book, and then surrender
Speaker 3: everything that you can.
Speaker 1: God, I'm gonna give you my timeline. God, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: trust you with it. God, I believe that you have
Speaker 1: a plan. If you're single and you want to get married.
Speaker 3: Do everything you can call upon God. Lord, I need
Speaker 3: a man. I love dating you, Jesus, but I think
Speaker 3: we should see other people.
Speaker 1: Just came to me right now. That makes me laugh.
Speaker 1: Stay interesting every once in a while. Leave your house.
Speaker 3: No, No, I'm just waiting on God. The old thing
Speaker 3: you have to like, walk out the door. Now he
Speaker 3: can bring my man right here on the front door.
Speaker 3: Set all right, sister, I hope you like uber eat
Speaker 3: men because that's.
Speaker 1: All you're working with.
Speaker 3: No, do everything that you can and then surrender.
Speaker 1: Your control over to God. God. I'm gonna trust you. God.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lower my standard. God.
Speaker 3: I might be single, but I'm gonna remain secure in you.
Speaker 1: God.
Speaker 3: You're the one who completes me. God, You're the one
Speaker 3: who's making away.
Speaker 1: With God.
Speaker 3: There's always a way, and by faith I will find it.
Speaker 3: It's funny because why I got his hair all spiked.
Speaker 1: Though I'm not there yet, but I'm I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: whatever I can. We got to the slinky right.
Speaker 3: Don't tell Disney, but I put wild on my feet.
Speaker 1: We snuck them on y'all.
Speaker 3: How many can testify that that's your story, that you
Speaker 3: weren't qualified.
Speaker 1: You didn't measure up.
Speaker 3: But there's a good Father who stepped in and said,
Speaker 3: they that weighed upon the Lord, I will renew their strength.
Speaker 3: Humble yourself before God, and in due season, Come on, baby.
Speaker 1: He will lift you all. Somebody get God some praise.
Speaker 1: Is how today.
Speaker 3: This woman is doing everything she knows to do. But
Speaker 3: although she's doing everything she knows to do, her problem
Speaker 3: is not getting better, is getting worse. But then the
Speaker 3: Bible says it, she heard about Jesus. Church. We're gonna
Speaker 3: keep telling you about Jesus. I just want to encourage
Speaker 3: some folks out there. There's power in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 3: Come on, if you believe. There's breakthrough in the name
Speaker 3: of Jesus.
Speaker 1: Come on. There's healing in the name of Jesus. There's
Speaker 1: purpose in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 3: She heard about Jesus. She's tried everything but faith, because
Speaker 3: faith begins where your ability ends. The scripture says that
Speaker 3: she heard about Jesus. I don't know what she heard,
Speaker 3: but something tells me it was good news. We opened
Speaker 3: up church today. This is the gospel. This is the
Speaker 3: good news. I don't know who's watching right now. But
Speaker 3: Jesus did not come to this earth to make bad
Speaker 3: little boys good little boys.
Speaker 1: He came for a much deeper reason than that.
Speaker 3: He came to bring people who are dead and bring
Speaker 3: them back to life through his healing power.
Speaker 1: Anybody thankful for the Gospel. It's always good news.
Speaker 3: I'm grateful for the way that your pastor preaches, because
Speaker 3: he preaches with a smile on his face.
Speaker 1: He preaches with the joy of the Lord.
Speaker 3: He preaches every message, bringing it back to the person
Speaker 3: of Jesus and bringing it back to the good news.
Speaker 1: She heard about Jesus.
Speaker 3: And then notice it right there. The scripture says that
Speaker 3: she heard about Jesus and she thought. Someone says she thought.
Speaker 1: She thought.
Speaker 3: She thought, if I could just touch his clothes, then
Speaker 3: I could be made well. Another translation says that she said,
Speaker 3: she spoke, if I could just touch the hem of
Speaker 3: his garment, then I would be made well. What kind
Speaker 3: of a mindset is this? If I could just Who
Speaker 3: taught her this? Where did she learn this? If I
Speaker 3: could just touch the hem of his garment, then I
Speaker 3: would be made well. It started as a thought, and
Speaker 3: then the thought erupted into her mouth. See faith talks
Speaker 3: Faith speaks, Faith says things.
Speaker 1: Faith isn't silent. Faith actually has a sound.
Speaker 3: That's why on the seventh march around those walls, God said,
Speaker 3: all right, you've been marching six times, but now on
Speaker 3: the seventh time, I want you to open up your
Speaker 3: mouth and shout, because when you out, those walls are
Speaker 3: coming down. Because faith has a sound. I wonder is
Speaker 3: the sound at Elevation Church this morning.
Speaker 1: Listen to me.
Speaker 3: You have to get a confession that is louder than
Speaker 3: your circumstance. She said it before she saw it. Oh,
Speaker 3: because that's how faith works. We don't walk by sight.
Speaker 3: We walk by faith. Before she sees it, she says it.
Speaker 3: When we were first starting the church, probably year one
Speaker 3: or year two, I passed her church in Miami, Florida
Speaker 3: called Voo Church. And it's always so fun because there's
Speaker 3: always people from the Elevation World e fam that.
Speaker 1: Are always like I guess taking a cruise out of Miami,
Speaker 1: like we came in for the early service.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I love it when you guys come by and say hello.
Speaker 3: But we started this church in Miami and in year
Speaker 3: one we were able to rent an off space. Now
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be honest with you, like it was. I
Speaker 3: think it was thirty five hundred square feet chunks.
Speaker 1: It was small.
Speaker 3: But you know, I've always been a faith man. I
Speaker 3: don't say what I see. I say what I want
Speaker 3: to see. So we didn't call it an office. We
Speaker 3: called it the International Headquarters. And so I was at
Speaker 3: headquarters one day and I needed to get a ride
Speaker 3: home and my brother in law, who had just joined
Speaker 3: our team, young in the ministry, just a servant for
Speaker 3: the Lord. I said, bro, can you can you give
Speaker 3: me a ride home? And so we exit the headquarters
Speaker 3: and we make our way to this little parking lot
Speaker 3: and where the headquarters was, let's just say it wasn't
Speaker 3: a very good area of town. And my brother in law,
Speaker 3: God bless him, at the time, was driving a two
Speaker 3: thousand and eight Chrysler three hundred gray with twenty inch rims.
Speaker 3: I think I had one hundred and fifty thousand miles
Speaker 3: on it. And as we made our way over to
Speaker 3: the car, somebody had smashed his window in.
Speaker 1: I just thought that was mean.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like my boys already, you know, struggling
Speaker 3: with the whole ride set up, and uh.
Speaker 1: And then to add insult to injury. Is like, really,
Speaker 1: you're gonna shadow this man's window.
Speaker 3: You just took his struggle to suffering, you know, and
Speaker 3: so you do what you do, you know, Like we
Speaker 3: quickly went back into HQ, checked out duct tape and
Speaker 3: a plastic sack from supplies, and we came in and
Speaker 3: we you know, we duct taped the window to make
Speaker 3: it home.
Speaker 1: And we got in the car.
Speaker 3: It's just like a scene, bro, like this old beaten
Speaker 3: down car. Now there's glass all over the floor. We
Speaker 3: have a duct tape, paper sack, plastic sack makes that
Speaker 3: dumb noise come and instantly when we got in the car.
Speaker 3: I don't know if remember that old song. It's not
Speaker 3: elevation worship, so I hope I don't get in trouble.
Speaker 1: But the stereo came on.
Speaker 3: It was that song you Aren't Good Good Oh, and
Speaker 3: we're driving. How was looking at my brother? I'm like, really, we're.
Speaker 1: Both like, I ain't singing that you know.
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 1: You are good good? Oh?
Speaker 3: As I ain't nothing good about this God, this is
Speaker 3: a bad situation.
Speaker 1: But I don't know what it was.
Speaker 3: Remember that, remember that that bridge on that song You're
Speaker 3: never gonna let You're never gonna let me down down, follow.
Speaker 1: Jesus, I promise you. It's an adventure. That bridge came
Speaker 1: on and I don't know where it was. I think
Speaker 1: it was like the second time that bridge.
Speaker 3: At some point, man, that thing kept going and finally, man,
Speaker 3: the spirit of God hit that Chrysler three hundred and
Speaker 3: they came into that bridge a second time. But man,
Speaker 3: I can't sing very good, but something came out of
Speaker 3: the depths of my soul.
Speaker 1: I hit it hard. You are never gonna let it.
Speaker 1: You're never gonna let me down good.
Speaker 3: I don't know who I'm preaching to today, but you
Speaker 3: gotta have a confession that is louder than your circumstance.
Speaker 3: I don't care what you're driving in. I don't care
Speaker 3: what the vehicle looks like. Keep on singing, keep on worshiping.
Speaker 3: Your card might be busted, but your faith is not broken.
Speaker 3: I got a faith and a confession that speaks.
Speaker 1: Somebody. Take about five seconds and remind the enemy you
Speaker 1: know who you are. You're never gonna let me out
Speaker 1: for rich that don't make no sense. I know that's faith.
Speaker 1: If you're waiting.
Speaker 3: For it to make sense, you're never gonna step into faith.
Speaker 1: Because faith is the absence of sense.
Speaker 3: You can't smell it, you can't taste it, you certainly
Speaker 3: can't see it. But you can hear about Jesus. And
Speaker 3: faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of the Lord.
Speaker 3: She said, if I could just touch, if I could
Speaker 3: just touch the hem of his garment, friends, the garment
Speaker 3: is not even him. She had a kind of faith
Speaker 3: that said, if I could just touch the thing that's
Speaker 3: touching him. Ah, I got a revelation today. If the
Speaker 3: garment's got power, if the clothes have got power, how
Speaker 3: much more power does the body of Jesus Christ have.
Speaker 3: Come on somebody, we are the church. I don't know
Speaker 3: about you, ma'am, but when we can you gather. This
Speaker 3: isn't a cool atmosphere. It's not a concert. This is
Speaker 3: the very presence of God. And when you and I
Speaker 3: get into this place, you have no idea the miracles
Speaker 3: on your left, the miracles on your right. If I
Speaker 3: could pass this microphone down the rows, you would start
Speaker 3: hearing the testimonies and the stories from right here in
Speaker 3: this body of God's wonder working power. I can't miss
Speaker 3: a Sunday at Elevation Church. I gotta be in God's house.
Speaker 3: You don't know what's going to happen when the body
Speaker 3: gets together. If his garment's got power, how much more
Speaker 3: power does.
Speaker 1: His body have?
Speaker 3: And I know there's some things that are going around
Speaker 3: today about the church and some people hurt by the church,
Speaker 3: and I understand it. And there's some things that we
Speaker 3: must get right in the church, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: But may I remind everybody in this room. Ain't nobody
Speaker 3: have more church hurt than Jesus. And he keeps on
Speaker 3: showing up. Come on, somebody thank Jesus today that he's
Speaker 3: never let you down, He's never quit.
Speaker 1: He keeps showing up.
Speaker 3: So here comes this woman and if I could just
Speaker 3: touch it the hem of his garment, and the scripture
Speaker 3: says that she begins to step through the crowd, because
Speaker 3: at some point, faith doesn't just talk. Faith has got
Speaker 3: to walk. We didn't gather here just to talk. We've
Speaker 3: actually gathered here that you might scatter back into wherever
Speaker 3: it is that you're going walking the walk of faith.
Speaker 3: I hope you know that God is He's motion activated.
Speaker 3: Have you know, have you learned about God like he
Speaker 3: ever been to one of those like those sinks that
Speaker 3: there's water there, but like there's no way to turn
Speaker 3: it on. It's motion activated, so you have access to water,
Speaker 3: but the water will not begin to flow until you
Speaker 3: motion your hands. James said, draw close to God, and
Speaker 3: he will draw close to you, because when I move,
Speaker 3: God moves just like that. I feel discermon more than
Speaker 3: some of y'all responded and ask, Okay, I'm gonna bless
Speaker 3: myself off here, come on, how y'all believe that when
Speaker 3: you step, it gets the attention of heaven. So here
Speaker 3: comes this woman and she's pressing through this crowd an
Speaker 3: issue for twelve years, and she's got this belief in
Speaker 3: her mind that with God there's always a way, and
Speaker 3: my hope is working and I've been waiting, but I'm
Speaker 3: gonna keep on trying.
Speaker 1: And as she gets close to Jesus, she touches.
Speaker 3: The hem of his garment, and when she does, the
Speaker 3: Bible says that instantly, immediately she's healed.
Speaker 1: So much so that Jesus is like, yo, who touched me.
Speaker 3: One gospel the scripture said that Peter's like, Yo, Jesus,
Speaker 3: you gotta love Peter, right, It's like, bro, shut up, please,
Speaker 3: you know two thousand years later.
Speaker 1: We're gonna use you in every illustration we gone.
Speaker 3: Jesus, Come on, you don't know who touch you. The
Speaker 3: whole crowd's pressing at you. Come on, man, like everyone's
Speaker 3: touching you. But Jesus is saying no, no, no no.
Speaker 3: There is a difference between the touch of fame and
Speaker 3: the touch of faith, meaning.
Speaker 1: Just because you come to church don't mean anything's gonna change.
Speaker 3: Have you ever been like in one of those seasons,
Speaker 3: maybe you went to an elevation night, You're like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, it's too.
Speaker 1: Early to make myself laugh this hard. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm on fire. You know this language will use I'm
Speaker 1: on fire. You ever been like I'm on fire?
Speaker 3: For God?
Speaker 1: It's like Friday night, I'm on fi. Nothing it can
Speaker 1: stop these flames. But then I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's like you go to you know, work on Monday,
Speaker 3: or how about you get in traffic on Tuesday and
Speaker 3: this fire that was burning so bright is quickly shut
Speaker 3: out just with traffic. Yo, spirit fingers, where'd the fire go?
Speaker 3: Beca There's a difference from just showing up to the
Speaker 3: crowd instead of coming out of the crowd. One of
Speaker 3: the most dangerous places you'll find yourself in life. Is
Speaker 3: to think that you are on fire for God, but
Speaker 3: come to find out you were just sensing the heat
Speaker 3: from everyone else around you. I'm not trying to make
Speaker 3: you feel less than I'm trying to empower you that
Speaker 3: if I just came for one person, if it's just
Speaker 3: one person on the other end of that camera, that
Speaker 3: you've been struggling with the same thing and you've been trying.
Speaker 3: I want to let you know that God sees you,
Speaker 3: and God knows your name, and when you make your faith.
Speaker 1: Personal, he notices. He senses he didn't come for the crowd.
Speaker 1: He came for you. Come on, somebody, thank God today
Speaker 1: worship team can start making their way up here.
Speaker 3: And this woman she's pressing through the crowd and she's
Speaker 3: stepping towards Jesus and she touches them of his garment
Speaker 3: and instantly healed. And as healed, Jesus asked this question,
Speaker 3: who touched me? And they say, come on, all sorts
Speaker 3: of people were touching. He's like, no, I felt something
Speaker 3: to leave my body that was a touch of faith.
Speaker 3: And then this woman she speaks up and she says
Speaker 3: it was me and she was terrified. He sayd why
Speaker 3: was she terrified? Because when Jesus turns to her, she's
Speaker 3: not looking at a good teacher, and she's not looking
Speaker 3: at a good man.
Speaker 1: She is staring at the face of God. It's the
Speaker 1: face of God.
Speaker 3: And this woman, I believe one of the great reasons
Speaker 3: why she is in the Bible, and this is an
Speaker 3: encouragement for so many of you, is that she is
Speaker 3: proof positive that at your weakest moment, you are still
Speaker 3: strong enough.
Speaker 1: To touch Jesus. What's amazing is that I sense this
Speaker 1: so deeply my heart.
Speaker 3: What's amazing to say if you take listen to me,
Speaker 3: if you just take one step towards Jesus, immediately, he
Speaker 3: begins working on your behalf.
Speaker 1: Immediately immediately.
Speaker 3: The Bible says that the Lord looks to and fro
Speaker 3: throughout the whole earth, and he's looking for a humble heart.
Speaker 3: He's looking for a righteous heart, someone that he can
Speaker 3: come alongside and strengthen.
Speaker 1: I just have this mindset. My mind is set that
Speaker 1: God is good and has good things for me. So
Speaker 1: I actually believe that God's looking for people to hook up.
Speaker 1: God's looking for people to validate.
Speaker 3: God's looking for people to partner with, and as you
Speaker 3: just take one step towards Jesus, whether you know it
Speaker 3: or not, he starts working.
Speaker 1: Listen to me, it doesn't mean.
Speaker 3: As he begins to work that you're immediately taking out
Speaker 3: of the fire of your circumstance, not immediately always removed
Speaker 3: from it.
Speaker 1: We have to trust and wait on his.
Speaker 3: Time, because God's time is on top. People always ask
Speaker 3: that question, Hey, you know what's your favorite food? You
Speaker 3: ever heard this question before? And like a lot of times,
Speaker 3: when people ask this question, they have two different angles
Speaker 3: on it. One angle is what's your favorite food? Meaning
Speaker 3: if it was your last meal, you're on your deathbed,
Speaker 3: what do you want to eat? Or the other angle
Speaker 3: they mean is like, you know, what's your favorite food?
Speaker 3: What's the one thing that you would eat every day
Speaker 3: if you could? For me, with both crazy hypothetical situations,
Speaker 3: I choose the same thing.
Speaker 1: I plead pizza. You want to know what mano was
Speaker 1: the early stages of pizza. The other day, I went
Speaker 1: to one of my favorite pizza rihas in Miami.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty famous place and I got there when
Speaker 3: I showed up and there was like a line out
Speaker 3: the door, so many people trying to get in. We
Speaker 3: finally got seated and we were waiting for a pizza.
Speaker 3: We put our orders in and finally pizza came out.
Speaker 3: I'm a pepperoni and cheese guy. It came out and
Speaker 3: I took one bite of it, and immediately I was like,
Speaker 3: this ain't right. Come on, man, it's soft. It wasn't
Speaker 3: holding you know how you want your slice to hold up.
Speaker 1: You know it wasn't holding up. And I can't be
Speaker 1: for certain.
Speaker 3: I don't really know what happened, but something tells me
Speaker 3: that that day the chef was under such pressure and
Speaker 3: under such demand that he started rushing orders. It's another
Speaker 3: message for another time, but the fastest way to steal
Speaker 3: your sauce. Your sauce is that gift. Your sauce is
Speaker 3: that thing that God's called you to do. Your sauce
Speaker 3: is that special thing that God's put inside of you.
Speaker 3: The fastest way for you to steal your sauce is
Speaker 3: start trying to please people more than what God's called
Speaker 3: you to do.
Speaker 1: I preach that, I see it right now, but I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna it wasn't right.
Speaker 3: Because if you're anything like me, I don't just want
Speaker 3: my pizza hot. But in the words of Little Caesars,
Speaker 3: it's got to be hot and ready.
Speaker 1: You didn't know I could preach pizza.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 3: This is a place that I can tell is hot.
Speaker 3: Your faith might have a sound, and your faith might
Speaker 3: even have a step. But just because you're shouting, and
Speaker 3: just because you're stepping, doesn't actually mean that you're always ready.
Speaker 1: You know what I love about this book. There's no
Speaker 1: doubt that this book is hot.
Speaker 3: But you know when the last time Pastor Stephen wrote
Speaker 3: anything on paper and gave it to us, It's been
Speaker 3: eight years.
Speaker 1: Eight is the number of new beginnings.
Speaker 3: It is no surprise to me whatsoever that it's a
Speaker 3: New York Times bestseller, because it's not that it's just
Speaker 3: hot and passionate. It's that it's ready. It's that it's
Speaker 3: the right time. I want to encourage some people. Right now,
Speaker 3: you're hot, but you might not be ready. I want
Speaker 3: to encourage you to keep up your passion, keep stirring
Speaker 3: up the gift on the inside of you. But just
Speaker 3: because you're passionate and just because you're excited doesn't necessarily
Speaker 3: mean that you're ready. I know some of you right now,
Speaker 3: I'm in the oven of life. The heat is turning up. Man,
Speaker 3: when's he gonna.
Speaker 1: Pull me out? And I just want to encourage you trust.
Speaker 3: God's timing because God is the master chef.
Speaker 1: Somebody say, let him cook today. He knows the right
Speaker 1: time of when he's gonna pull you out.
Speaker 3: And this woman, what I see about her, and it's
Speaker 3: just an observation, is something tells me is that she's
Speaker 3: not just hot and passionate, is that she's ready for
Speaker 3: her breakthrough.
Speaker 1: We don't get her name.
Speaker 3: Did you notice that she's preached as the woman with
Speaker 3: the issue of blood. That's that's how we know her,
Speaker 3: the woman with the issue of blood. And see, the
Speaker 3: great lie that many of us buy into is that
Speaker 3: your issue is you. But the power of the Gospel
Speaker 3: is to remind you over and over and over again
Speaker 3: that your identity is not made up of your issues.
Speaker 1: You are not your mistake. You are not your failure.
Speaker 3: You're not your doubt, you're not your insecurity, you're not
Speaker 3: your bouts with depression. You're not your mistake from last year.
Speaker 3: You're not even your mistake of tomorrow. We all got issues, but.
Speaker 1: It's one thing.
Speaker 3: When your issue has you, it's one thing that have issues.
Speaker 3: It's another thing when you're controlled by your issues.
Speaker 1: And notice this woman.
Speaker 3: This woman showcases us that she's not just mind over
Speaker 3: matter and shouting and stepping, but we see something that
Speaker 3: she has a clue about and that her behavior is
Speaker 3: breaking past every label on her life. She's a woman,
Speaker 3: and in that time period that was an issue. She
Speaker 3: had a sociological issue. She was not allowed to go
Speaker 3: up to man and touch a man. Remember that woman
Speaker 3: in Luke chapter seven when she brought the alabaster box.
Speaker 3: It wasn't even the world that scolded her, the very
Speaker 3: disciples of Jesus said, why are you letting this woman
Speaker 3: touch you? She doesn't just have a sociological issue, She's
Speaker 3: got a theological issue.
Speaker 1: This bleeding that.
Speaker 3: She's got going on means that she is unclean. If
Speaker 3: you're unclean, you can't touch Jesus, let alone. You can't
Speaker 3: touch a rabbi.
Speaker 1: But this woman.
Speaker 3: With a sociological issue, with a physical issue, with a
Speaker 3: theological issue. She's got a religion that's preventing her. But
Speaker 3: the very hope and calling of relationship is pulling her
Speaker 3: and Jesus instantly and immediately heals her.
Speaker 1: And I just thought today.
Speaker 3: I thought it was important to point out that I'm
Speaker 3: really glad that her issue of the bleeding stop. I'm
Speaker 3: really grateful that she got healed. I'm really grateful that
Speaker 3: the suffering in her body stop. But let's be honest,
Speaker 3: that's not really the power of the story, because how
Speaker 3: do you know she's gonna have some more issues in
Speaker 3: the future. The story that we're reading about isn't just
Speaker 3: simply that her blood flows stop. The story is in
Speaker 3: the Bible because she has a faith that was so
Speaker 3: powerful and so strong that made a way, and the
Speaker 3: way that it made it is that she reissued her identity.
Speaker 1: She re issued her identity.
Speaker 3: Because everyone's like, yo, yo, you can't go and touch
Speaker 3: a man. No, no, no, no, I'm not just some girl.
Speaker 3: I'm actually his dog.
Speaker 1: No no, no, you're bleeding, you're unclean. No no no,
Speaker 1: I'm hurt.
Speaker 3: And I know the man that I'm reaching out to,
Speaker 3: I know that he sees me and he cares about me.
Speaker 1: The power of this story is a.
Speaker 3: Faith that reissued an identity. The news you, I want
Speaker 3: to say it so boldly in my heart. If you
Speaker 3: will approach God like a father every time, he will
Speaker 3: only treat you like a daughter. I don't know, and
Speaker 3: who needs to hear that today? Woman of God, Man
Speaker 3: of God. If you'll approach him like dad, he'll treat
Speaker 3: you like a son.
Speaker 1: He'll treat you like a daughter.
Speaker 3: Would you believe that this is the only time in
Speaker 3: the New Testament that Jesus Christ looks at someone and
Speaker 3: calls them daughter.
Speaker 1: Because she had a.
Speaker 3: Faith that reissued her identity. Yeah, I'm glad that I
Speaker 3: got my healing. But bigger than that, and greater than that,
Speaker 3: is that I know it's been twelve years of suffering.
Speaker 1: Oh but baby girl, it's.
Speaker 3: Gonna be worth it because you're now gonna have an
Speaker 3: eternity of rejoicing. I know it wasn't your time. It's
Speaker 3: called God time. It's called God time.
Speaker 1: You are not your issue.
Speaker 3: Your identity is child of God. Your identity when you
Speaker 3: put your faith in Jesus is son.
Speaker 1: It is dark.
Speaker 3: I just can't help but see it what I think
Speaker 3: about the timing of God, because please understand, the story
Speaker 3: began with Jyris, who has.
Speaker 1: A twelve year old daughter who's so sick she's about
Speaker 1: to die. And it just so happens.
Speaker 3: That there's a woman who has an issue for twelve
Speaker 3: long years. One is dying slowly, the other has died suddenly.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a coincidence.
Speaker 3: I don't think that the very year that this little
Speaker 3: girl was born, this problem began.
Speaker 1: See how I said that right there? But here comes
Speaker 1: the reframing of it.
Speaker 3: The very moment your problem began, a pathway to your
Speaker 3: promise was born. And I just think that these two
Speaker 3: stories overlap and intersect and have this interruption because it
Speaker 3: is a divine appointment of God's timing. That what He's
Speaker 3: wanting to say to every one of us, that if
Speaker 3: you are in the room today and you ain't got
Speaker 3: a daddy like Gyros, maybe somebody dropped you, maybe somebody
Speaker 3: hurts you. Maybe you've ever had anybody plead for you
Speaker 3: on your behalf. Maybe you've been betrayed and let down
Speaker 3: and people have let you go. I just want to
Speaker 3: encourage you. I think the story's in the Bible because
Speaker 3: if you ain't got a daddy like Gyros Woo, you
Speaker 3: still got to save your name Jesus who shows.
Speaker 1: Up right on time. Would you believe me.
Speaker 3: If I told you that twelve is the number of
Speaker 3: order in the Bible, twelve tribes of Israel, twelve disciples,
Speaker 3: read the Book of Revelation. When he restores the New Jerusalem,
Speaker 3: there will be twelve pillars of foundations, twelve gates, and
Speaker 3: twelve angels, because twelve represents order, and God's timing is
Speaker 3: divine order.
Speaker 1: If you believe it, Somebody give God some praise in
Speaker 1: this house. It wasn't a coincidence.
Speaker 3: It was God set up from the very beginning that
Speaker 3: he was bringing these moments together. And he wants to
Speaker 3: remind everybody in this room today. I know you maybe
Speaker 3: have some issues, and I'm not underestimating your issues. But
Speaker 3: more than issues, you, my friend, you have an inheritance
Speaker 3: because you are a child of God. So may I
Speaker 3: say it the way your pastor has been preaching it.
Speaker 3: Don't do the old Jew, don't do your issues, do
Speaker 3: the new you. You're a child, you're a son, you're
Speaker 3: a daughter. Come on, if you know who you are today,
Speaker 3: stand upon your feet.
Speaker 1: You've got some praise and worship him. Let you know
Speaker 1: who you are.
Speaker 3: Some would say, with God, there's always a way, and
Speaker 3: by faith I will find it. With God, there's always
Speaker 3: a way, and by faith I will find it. This
Speaker 3: woman's got a blood issue. Let's be honest, we've all
Speaker 3: got a blood issue. It really wasn't That's not really
Speaker 3: the best way to say it. Blood issue. What this
Speaker 3: woman has is a blood disorder that what is meant
Speaker 3: to happen periodically is now happening perpetually. But the very
Speaker 3: same thing is true for you and I that all
Speaker 3: the way back in the garden, when Adam ate that fruit.
Speaker 3: It's set a blood disorder intomotion. But I'm grateful right there.
Speaker 3: The promise began at the moment of sin, God said,
Speaker 3: I've already made a way.
Speaker 1: For you.
Speaker 3: Will bruise his heel, but he will stomp your head
Speaker 3: the moment your problem began, the promise was born. That
Speaker 3: day her blood stopped flowing. But how many of you
Speaker 3: know some days later the blood of Jesus would begin
Speaker 3: to flow. And his blood is more than enough. His
Speaker 3: blood covers a multitude of sins. His blood relinquishes you
Speaker 3: from shame and condemnation. You are not what somebody else
Speaker 3: says about you. You are not what your parents have
Speaker 3: said about you. You're not your mom, you're not your dad,
Speaker 3: You're not your mistake. You are not dis qualified today
Speaker 3: by grace, through faith, God will make a way and
Speaker 3: you too can reissue your identity.
Speaker 4: Go ahead and thank them all over the room today,
Speaker 4: do the new you. I want to get people an
Speaker 4: opportunity right now to be.
Speaker 3: New, to be made new. That's what salvation is. Old
Speaker 3: things have passed away and the new thing has come.
Speaker 3: That's why Jesus says we must be reborn. I'm reborn.
Speaker 3: I'm born again. Why am I born again? Because you're
Speaker 3: not a son by worth, You're a son by birth.
Speaker 3: And when you know who you are, you know who
Speaker 3: your dad is. Stay with your head bowt and your
Speaker 3: eyes closed before we sing the song, just since God's
Speaker 3: presence here and of relocation right there on.
Speaker 1: YouTube right now. Know Jesus he's here and he loves you,
Speaker 1: and he's for you.
Speaker 3: And I love Sundays because metaphorically, to me, it's like
Speaker 3: Jesus is passing through and anybody who reaches out, they
Speaker 3: can too be healed. They too can find a new identity.
Speaker 3: It's amazing her reach healed her, but Jesus is reach
Speaker 3: to that little girl resurrected her. The reach of Jesus
Speaker 3: will pull you up out of that slimy pit. Put
Speaker 3: your feet on a solid rock, a firm foundation. If
Speaker 3: God pulls you out of that oven too soon, you
Speaker 3: don't have the foundation to hold up. Trust him, Trust him,
Speaker 3: Trust him today. Would you give him your life? On
Speaker 3: the count of three, If that's you saying, I want
Speaker 3: Jesus to be the lord of my life. I want
Speaker 3: to give my life over to him. I want to
Speaker 3: repent from my sin, and I want to be reissued
Speaker 3: a new identity child of God. On the count of three.
Speaker 3: If that's you, be bold, this is your time. This
Speaker 3: is a divine appointment. Ready on the count of three. One,
Speaker 3: that's you, put your hand up. Two, don't look at
Speaker 3: your neighbors. How about you neighbors. That's you put your
Speaker 3: hand up ready, one, two, three. If that's you've lived up,
Speaker 3: that's me, rich.
Speaker 1: That's me. That's me. That's me. That's me. That's me.
Speaker 1: That's me. That's me.
Speaker 3: Church. Can we all lift our hands towards heaven. Bible says,
Speaker 3: believe in your heart and confess with your mouth. It
Speaker 3: all starts with a belief and a confession. So declare
Speaker 3: this out loud, and then we're going to sing. Say
Speaker 3: dear Jesus, Today I give you my life. I repent
Speaker 3: forgive me. I don't want my way, I want your way.
Speaker 3: Today I receive the gift of your righteousness.
Speaker 1: I believe you are.
Speaker 3: Who you said that you are, and I'm throwing my
Speaker 3: life into your hands. Take my past, take my present.
Speaker 3: I'm even giving you my future. God help me to
Speaker 3: do the new me your child in Jesus' name. Come on,
Speaker 3: everybody said, come on.
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