Getting Over The Opinions Of Others

I am not my issue.

See, you've been going through what you've been going through

so long you think.

The issue is you. But you can stop it with

a thought. I mean right now, I mean right now.

The darkness that has overwhelmed you helped me.

Holy Spirit. They don't believe me. You can stop it

with a thought.

Now.

She did not get healed because she just thought. She

got healed when she touched. But she only touched because

she thought. It starts with a thought. When I think

of the goodness of Jesus, when I think about the Lord,

how he saved me, we used to sing this holly,

how he raised me, how he filled me, how he

healed me, how he reached down and rescued me.

Stop it with a thought. You can stop it with

a thought.

The dates of hell will not prevail one thought about God.

My thoughts are not your thoughts. I could stop it

with a thought. I found out thoughts are optional. Yeah,

thoughts are optional.

I might have a thought, but I don't have to

let the thought have.

Me b three organ on that point, give him twelve

seconds to praise God. I don't have to think like this,

live like this, bleed like this.

I don't have to die like this.

That was kind of weak.

Let's try it again. Think of all the ways he made,

Think of all the things he did. I've been thinking

about the wrong things. Come one thought away from good,

one thought away from hea.

Yeah, thoughts are optional.

Can I tell you how I know if you did

everything you thought, you have a prison ministry from the

inside of the prison. My god, Tim is so unsanctified,

he'd be in prison if he did everything he thought about.

Since I've been preaching, it's kind of like a split

screen to me. Okay, it's like, probably what the other people.

Thought when the woman was coming up right, and what

she thought almost called the message.

Hold that dot, hold that DoD, I almost called the

message hold that dot. Let's at least put that in

the chat. I mean, even if you're watching this after

three and a half years, hold that God, hold that God,

hold that dog.

I mean, she said, if I touch him. It don't

matter what anybody else thinks. Once you get over.

The fact that other people's opinions, they are not limits.

They are merely suggestions.

Contrary to what your mom told you don't have to

eat everything on your plate. Okay, you don't have to

believe everything in your brain, so the.

Thought is optional.

And I imagine that the woman thought put it back

up because she thought that's what got me started on

wanting to preach about this woman is because just like

her bleeding started on the inside, so did her healing.

Now, if you're gonna sit over there to my.

Side, you got to get in on the sermon. Y'all

can't sit there like it's a spectator of that.

Because she thought, but you can't see thoughts.

So how does Luke or Mark no or Matthew know

what she thought by what she did? I'll make a

suggestion and y'all can click over to Andy Stanley sermon

or something if you think I'm preaching heresy here?

But what if? What if she had a thousand other thoughts.

And yet the only one that she acted on is

the only one that mattered.

See, I can have a thousand thoughts.

I can have a thousand thoughts, but the one that

I hold determines.

Where I go.

I bet she also thought, can we talk about what

the woman also thought? You've been sick twelve years. You've

been to every doctor, you've been kicked out of every

insurance policy, Nobody.

Wants to hire you.

You got pre existing conditions, so nobody wants to be

with you.

Twelve years. That's long enough to completely give up hope.

That's long enough. Where she would have thought, also thought,

how many agree? She would have also thought, put it

on the split screen. Here's the screen of what she did.

Here's what she also thought. What's the point I tried

this before?

Some of y'all can't even hear a sermon real good

because you guys inspired last Sunday and you feel like

you had an even worse week, so you don't want

to hear it anymore.

Yeah, cool man.

Whatever, I bet a part of her I bet I

bet she had the thought, whatever she heard about Jesus,

he's a healer. I bet she thought, whatever, I've seen

this show before, what does he want? He just wants

my money too. You know, you would get to think things.

You ever think things, even good things, even good things

can be wrong things. I was talking to one of

my friends, we who studied the creative process, and I

was like, give me a piece of advice on the

creative process, because I'm constantly trying to create.

I feel like sometimes like I'm just bleeding hemorrhaging the

next sermon, you know.

And my friend said, hey, make sure you rest while

you're working, and let your spirit work on your sermon too.

I was like, a cool, I.

Don't know really how to rest because I identify myself

by what I do, and I tend to associate my

worth with my work. Yeah, somebody say, I'm not what

I thought I was. I always thought I was only

as good as my trophy. I was only as good

as my achievement. I was only as good. And so

here's why. I said back to my friend, I said,

that's really cool. I said, I love that advice to

rest and just let my spirit work on my sermon,

let my subconscious work on my material. I said, that's

a great creative tip. I said, it's kind of like

when a computer renders. My friend said, yeah, kind of

like that. But you're not a computer. I'm not what

I thought. My friend was trying to get me to see,

you got the right idea, but you got the wrong identity.

You're not an object. You're not a machine. I know

every parent.

Sometimes just feels like a bending machine, and then an

uber and then a referee, and then and then what

else do you feel like parents, parents, parents, what you

feel like?

Sometimes I feel like if I'm not driving.

Them somewhere cleaning something up, I'm a housekeeper.

I'm a short order shelf. But I'm not.

That's not all I am. That's not all I am.

Stane Lane, Steve Be a preacher. That's not all I am.

That's not all I am.

Do you feel God on that That's not all I am.

Now that might be all I've experienced up to this point,

but that's not all I am. My genetics just haven't

met Jesus yet.

That's not all.

I'm not just the woman with the issue of blood.

That's not all I am.

I'm not just gyros a synagogue leader.

I'm also a dad.

I need ministry, I need a touch, I need refreshing.

I need a flow, I need a prayer. Answer.

Yeah, that's not all I am.

I'm not what I thought I was. I'm so much

more than I thought I was.

How many times have I limited what I could receive

because of what I thought I was.

Because she thought she touched, and because she touched, the

healing stopped.

But you know what's really crazy. Instead of getting back

on the road to get to Gyr, his daughter, the

one who was more important. Jesus stopped in verse thirty,

and here we see in the scripture the first instance

of contact tracing. The Bible says Jesus stopped, so her

bleeding stopped. Jesus stopped. You got thirty.

And he realized, power, power, power, power. There's power in

a thought. There's power in a thought. There's power in

a thought. She thought she touched. Jesus said, I felt that. Now,

remember she heard she came, she thought, she touched. She felt.

Feelings follow thoughts, and Jesus stops and goes, WHOA, I

felt something, and the woman's like, I.

Did too, And it started with a thought. Feelings start

with thoughts.

And so next time you wonder when you're in a

bad mood or something like that, like, oh my god,

what it's like the weather just changed on the inside.

What happened? Do some contact tracing with your thoughts and

some of y'all.

This is gonna mean you're not gonna be texting everybody

back this week because I did some contact tracing and

I found out every time I text you is trouble

for me.

My lord.

Look in the Bible, so up to date in the

Papist of twenty twenty.

Look at the Bible.

The Bible said Jesus, stop and he said, turned Aroundcross.

Said, we'll touch my clothes. Who'll touch me? Now? The

disciples are annoying.

Not just because they don't want to go back through

and do the paperwork to find out who had COVID

and who was exposed and six feet distance, none of that.

But watch what the disciples said verse thirty one. It

doesn't say it's Peter, but I bet it was.

You see the people crowding against you as disciples answered,

And yet you can ask who touched me?

Your feelings come so fast, don't they. It's hard to

even know where has started.

It's like you.

Want, you want us to trace it all the way back. Jesus,

we don't have time.

To stop and talk about your feelings. Cyrus's daughter is dying,

so we can stop and break it all.

Down if you want to.

But it's a lot of people, and it's a lot

of stuff. I was telling Eric the other day, I said,

I try to figure out why I'm in a bad mood.

But if I tried to trace everything that made me

in a bad mood back, I'd never go.

Anywhere I'd never get out of bed. Someday's sunny weather.

Makes me depressed because I think I should be outside.

And join it.

Someday's rainy weather makes me depressed because it's raining. I

can't trace anything back. It just comes so fast. You

know what I'm saying?

Who touched me?

It's like a lot of people are touching, lot of

things are happening.

The world's really crazy right now. Okay, He said no, no, no,

no no, who touched me?

And he kept looking around verse thirty two to see

who had done it.

So I know we don't live.

By our feelings, but sometimes we need to focus.

On our feeling and see what led to it.

You're following me, you're following me, so Jesus, like who

touched me?

Who touched me? Who touched me? Who touched me, Who

touched me? Who touched me? Who touched me? Who touched me?

Who touched me? Who touched me? Who touched me? He

didn't see it because she came up from behind. And

the woman verse.

Thirty three, who is only used to being a nuisance

or an inconvenience.

How many of you give me the camera read that one?

How many of you.

Have ever felt like you were a nuisance because that's

the way other people treated you, or that's what you

thought they thought. How stupid is it to be trapped

in what you thought they thought? This is called thought tracy,

not contacted. This thought Tracy. Well, they thought they did

that because they thought they thought. The woman thought she

was in trouble. And the reason I know she thought

she was in trouble when Jesus stopped on the way

to Jyrus's house, help me do this, Lord, is because

when she came up verse thirty three, the Bible says descriptively,

she came back and fell at his feet and trembling

with fear. She thought she was in trouble, but she

wanted to tell the truth. She heard, she came, she

thought she touched, she felt she told it was me.

It was me. I don't mean this in any kind.

Of stereotypical way, but the fact that she was a

woman makes me think she didn't give Jesus the plot summary,

because my wife doesn't give me plot summaries or cliffs notes.

She told him the whole truth. She told him the

whole truth, what it had been like.

To bleed on the inside, what it had been like

to once have resources, and as you spend all your resources,

your issue continues to deteriorate your reality.

And she told him that you know trembling.

She told him, I know I wasn't supposed to stop you.

I know I caused a big commotion. I know you

were on your way to heal that important man's daughter.

And Jesus stopped and said, who did it? Who did it?

It seems petty that he would stop healing somebody to

come fuss at somebody. He said, who did it? I

wonder why he did it? Because when I read his

response after she told him the whole truth, it says

in verse thirty four, can you give me? Ver thirty

four that he said to her daughter, your faith is healed.

You go in peace and be freed from your suffering.

But she was already freed from her suffering. Give me

verse twenty nine. When she touched him, immediately her bleeding stopped,

and she felt in her body that she was free

from her suffering.

She was already free. Why do you call her back?

Not to reprimand her.

Maybe he called her back to give her a little

bit more money, or a little bit more details, or maybe.

To give her a little extra help. So I read

that over and over again. Somebody say, I'm not what

I thought.

You remember how she snuck up and said, if I

just touched the hem of his garment, the dirty part,

the part that's been dragging through the street with feces

and urine and and and the mud off of the shoes,

of the feet with the other important people as they

moved through the street to do things that she no

longer had the resource to do. And that's all, that's

all she thought she was if I touch it, and

then I'll sneak away. And she snuck away like a thief.

They couldn't find her. She snuck away like she stole something.

He said, who did it? Bring her back? And then

he told her what she already knew. Why'd he call

her back? Why did he call her.

Back and let Gyrus's daughter die just to tell her what.

She already knew? And then I realized something. Put verse

thirty four on the screen. It's not what he told her,

it's what he called her. He didn't call her one,

and with the issue of blood, we call her that

he didn't. There are many times in scripture that Jesus

touches people in their heel. There are very few where

someone touches him. And there's only one time in scripture

that Jesus calls somebody, put it back up, daughter. This

is the only time Jesus uses that term. Why did

he stop on the way to heal Gyrus's daughter because

there was another daughter who forgot that she was a daughter.

So I'm not gonna let you sneak away like a beggar.

If I let you sneak away right now, the bleeding

may stop, but you will live the rest of your

life believing something about yourself that isn't true.

What would you do if you knew it was true

that you were a daughter of God? What would you do?

What would it be like if you knew.

That almighty, omnipotent, all powerful God had committed his resources

to you, like weak little Stephen Ferdick has committed his

resources to abby.

What would you do? What could knock you off your balance?

What could the opinions of others do to you?

If you knew that I am not what I did,

and I am not what I went through, and I

am not what I thought I was and what I

suffered and I am.

Not what I love, Jesus said, call her back. I

know Jyrius has a daughter, but she's a daughter too.

I know nobody else, Caesar, but that's my daughter.

Just minister, lj just minister. I need you to receive

this word.

You don't have to touch the dirty part, the limited part.

Come on.

I'm not what I thought. I am not my temptation.

I am not my perversion. I am not my discouragement.

I am not my last mistake. I am not my pattern.

I am not my flesh. I have been crucified with Christ,

and if I can touch him, I can have what

he has because I am like he is.

I'm a daughter, I'm a son.

He called her, so she would know, You're not leaving

like a thief. You're not leaving like a beggar. You're

leaving like a daughter. Don't you crawl out of here

waiting to get caught. She thought she was in trouble,

but Jesus brought her back to tell her the truth.

She's bleeding on the inside.

And she did something on the outside.

Well, God didn't just want to fix what was happening

in her body. She heard about Jesus and that freed

her from her suffering.

But when she heard from.

Jesus, not about Jesus, I read her from her shame.

Lift your hands in the air right now. I break

the power of shame off of your mind. I break

the power of shame off of your past. I break

the power of shame off of your body. Hey, thank

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