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Before You Go // Missing Peace (Part 2) // Tim Ross
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Welcome to Transformation Church podcast, where we represent God to
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the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
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glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
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God will transform your life. Did today's message.
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And there was a woman with a blood flow for
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twelve years, who had suffered much under many doctors. She
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has spent all that she had without benefit. Instead, she
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grew worse when she heard about your shoe as she
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came through the crowd from behind and touched this garment.
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So she kept saying, if I touch even his clothes,
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I shall be healed. Now that's some faith right there.
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She didn't say, She didn't say I might be. She said,
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if I touch this dude's clothes, I shall be here
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right away. Quick work some stuff God gonna do for
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you in this season. It's gonna happen right by the way.
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It's not gonna be no gradual thing. It's gonna happen
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right right away. The blood flow stopped, and she felt
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in her body that she was healed from her disease.
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Once your shoe A at once your shoe A knowing
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in himself that power had gone out from him, turned
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around in the crowd and said something very specific, who
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touched my clothes? Disciples responded, you see the crowd pressing
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upon you, and you say, who touched me? But he
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kept looking around to see who had done this. But
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the woman, scared and shaking, knowing what had happened to her,
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came and fell down before him and told him the
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whole truth. And he said to her daughter, your faith,
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I want to go slow here. Your faith has made
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you well. Get this, Go in shalom. You came in bleeding.
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I want you to go out in peace.
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Go in.
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Shalom and be healed from your disease. In the second
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week of this Missing Piece series, the Holy Spirit gave
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me three words that I need to give somebody in
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this room before you go. Before you go. I know
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you came expecting God to move, But before you go,
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before you walk out of these doors, he wants you
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to leave with something that you didn't come with. Hear me,
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He wants you to leave with something that you didn't get.
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You came to Jesus, you got something, but you was
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still about to leave. So before you go, that's what
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I want to preach to you today before you about
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your heads's prayer. With the word, shall the Holy Spirit
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give us peace before we go? Amen? And there was
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a woman with the blood flow for twelve years. Now this,
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this word ann means that there was something that was
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happening before that, and the writer decided to tag this
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story in to a story that was already in progress.
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Jesus had came from the opposite side of the sea,
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and there was a very accomplished public figure who had
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influence in the city named Gyros. Gyros ran up to Jesus,
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met him face to face as soon as he had
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come to shore, and he said, Master, my daughter is sick.
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Will you please come pray for her? Would you please come.
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I've heard about your reputation. I know what you can do.
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Would you please come to my house? Would you please
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pray for my daughter. So a great crowd had gathered
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around Jesus and they start in the direction of Gyrous's house.
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Because this is Gyrous's story until that and came in.
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The story was about one man until and came in.
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And is a different word than butt. When the word
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butt comes up, that means that whatever was happening happening before.
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Forget about it, because now what we're about to say
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after is either greater than or in opposition to what
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we said before. But I love the word and because
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and is this conjunction word that makes two things true.
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Gyrus is the one that got your shoe as attention.
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Gyrus is on the way. I'm sorry, your shoe is
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on the way to Gyrus's house. But it is this
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woman who has been bleeding for twelve years who interrupts
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the story and who draws our attention away from Gyrus
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and his daughter. And there was a woman who had
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an issue of blood for twelve years. Now, when I
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preach this text, there is some sensitivity and some empathy
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that I have to have because obviously I am not
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a woman, and I do not know what it is
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like to have a blood flow for twelve years. I
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don't know what it was like for this woman to
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perhaps think, twelve years in the past that perhaps she
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was having her monthly cycle. Maybe she thought this was
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going to last, as the others do, for a few days,
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maybe a week and a half, but then for days
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to turn into weeks, and then for weeks to turn
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into months, and to have something going on in your
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body that you cannot control. I don't know if there's
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anybody in this room that can resonate with a person
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who has their body betrayed them in such a way
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that it is doing things that you do not want
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it to do, but it's doing it anyway. To not
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have control of your faculties, to not have a diagnosis
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that is sufficient enough to make bleeding stop, I don't
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know what it is, and I'm not a woman, but
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I am an impath I can empathize. I could try
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to put myself and please, ladies, please don't be mad
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at me for where I tried to put myself, so
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I could at least understand. What I tried to at
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least understand is if I had a deep laceration on
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my inner thigh, and if I were to try to
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wrap that up and hope the bleeding stop. But the
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bleeding didn't stop after day one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve,
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fifteen thirty as an impact. But I tried to try
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to at least understand, is how disruptive is this to
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my day to day life? How do I have to
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start changing how I go out and come in based
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on the fact that I have an internal clock now
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going on in my head? That no matter how many
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bandages I have over the wound, at some point, I'm
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gonna have to go back home. At some point, no
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matter how much I'm enjoying the party, I'm gonna have
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to be like, well, you look at at the time.
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No matter how much I'm enjoying this date, I'm uncomfortable
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because I know it can't go no further than what
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it's going right now, I'm gonna have to go because
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before I embarrass myself fully, I know that that the
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bandages are not gonna be able to hold a flow
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that won't stop. So I know I'm gonna be I'm
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gonna start spotting through my clothes. And if I start
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spotting through my clothes, depending on what I have on,
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people gonna start squinting. And if and if I'm like
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kind of lost in the moment and I don't know
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what you're squinting at, I'm automatically self com Oh, I
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just think your pants acute. And you're like, at this point,
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your whole wardrobe changes. You loved wearing whites and and
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and beiges and earth tones, and and you loved wearing
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yellows and and and and and oranges, and now you
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gotta wear browns. Girl, your whole wardrobe win coco. All
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of a sudden, what is the you weren't a lot
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of black nowadays? Is that a deep burgundy you got
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on After the first few months, you gotta be thinking
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it's gonna stop. At some point, maybe after the first year.
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You're You're like, this can't be. There's some great doctors
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in the area. Let me go get a diagnosis. This man.
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This woman had money, she had means, she she she
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went to doctors. Doctors gave her remedies. None of the
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remedies worked. Scripture says she spent all her money going
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to doctors for remedies and none of them worked. Here's
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the worst part about it. She got worse. Imagine going
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to a physician for healing, only to get to the
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physician and not only can they not help you, but
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what they did give you made you take the lambskin
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off the wall. Doc, you not who you say you are.
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She had gone too many doctors, she had gone everywhere
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she could, and she grew worse. At this point, your
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whole attitude gotta change, if not her, as mine. And
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this is just my empathic version with my deep laceration
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on my enner thigh. I'm over everybody. My words are short.
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I ain't got much to say. It's year five. I'm
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not that happy at your birthday. Here go your gift.
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God bless you. Are you okay? I'm fine? Oh my God,
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you know you're You're usually just much happier. I can't
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get into it. It's complicated. Where do I even start
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if I bring up the story? Where do I even
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start telling you what's been going on with me? It's
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year seven, this is now my life. I get up
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in the morning, I know that I got a good
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three or four hours before this is about to become
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too much for me, and I'm gonna have to go
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back on the inside of the house because of the
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culture that I live in. I can't really fellowship with
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people like I want, because in this state that I'm
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in that's only supposed to last for a few days
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up to a week, I am ceremonially unclean, and so
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if I touch someone in my impure state, they become
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as impure as me. So now I'm staying away from people,
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and people think I'm staying away because I'm funny acting,
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I'm actually staying away from them, so I don't contaminate them.
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See a lot of times when people retreat from you,
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it's not because they have an attitude problem. It's because
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they're trying to wrestle with some things that are so
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deep on the inside of themselves that they don't want
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to bring you into their drama. They're not being stand office,
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they're not being reclusive. It's just so complicated. I don't
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want to bring you into it because I'm still bleeding
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while I'm talking to you, and I don't want you
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to be as unclean as I'm in as I am,
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so I'm retreating and standing back from you so I
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can actually protect you. It's year eight, year eight, not
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day eight, not month eight. Year I heard there's another
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doctor in town. I've tried these other doctors. They haven't helped,
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but this one you'll hurt. You said, this one's good,
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I'll try him. And she goes to him and he
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don't help either. It's year nine, it's year ten, it's
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year eleven. Now what should have been a few days
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is a lifestyle. And you have a choice. When something's
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been going on so long that it's become your lifestyle.
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The choice is this is it. The choice is it's
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never going to be better than what it is right now.
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The choice is I've ascribed that I am now a bleeder.
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I now define myself by my condition. It's not something
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I have, it's now who I am. This is a choice.
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You are in charge of your inner narrative. You get
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to choose if you have a condition or if you
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are the condition. This is a good place to stop.
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Anybody beside myself, ever been in the season of your
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life where you've been doing something so long that you
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haven't had control over that. You just start calling yourself
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what you do. If you didn't call yourself society did
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you are a robber, You are a thief, you are
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a convict. You are what you did, not who you are.
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She had the option because it's been not one year,
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not five years, not eight years, not ten years. It's
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been twelve years. And of all places Jesus could have
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showed up, he shows up in this woman's city. Now,
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I don't know where this woman was off in the
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cut to get into this story. Mark is a teenager,
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and teenagers don't give a lot of details. You read
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Mark's gospel, it reads like an Instagram post and immediately
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Jesus went here, and immediately he went there, and straightway
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he went around the corner, and then he quickly dashed
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through the streets. What Mark, can you give us a
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little more detail? Nah, that stuff's boring. Mark ain't got
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nobody's genealogy. He ain't got one bigat. He don't care
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about none of that because it's.
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Not interesting to him. He's a teenager. Tell me what's
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popping off the story about this woman with the issue.
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When he hears it from his mentor, Peter is.
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Pik, He's like, tell me more about this story. He
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was like, yeah, you know, Gyrus, the influential god came
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to Jesus. He came to him face to face, and
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he says, can you go to my daughter's my house
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because my daughter's sick. And Jesus starts walking, but this
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crowd surrounds him, so Jesus can't walk like he wants to.
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The crowd actually slows his pace. And I just imagine
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that a woman that's been bleeding for twelve years is
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not spry. I don't imagine her to be quick. I
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don't imagine her with all the stuff she has to
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do to be outside, to be like, oh.
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Word, this crowd slows Jesus down enough that this woman
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is like.
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That's that man. I've heard about that man. He got
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a reputation for healing people. But in my state, I
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don't have to. I don't have the strength to try
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to fight through that crowd and square up. I can't
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even catch up to him. But that crowd move is
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so slow, I think I could get in the middle
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of that. And this woman starts making her way through
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this crowd of people, and here's the only thing on
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her mind. I've read the Old Testament. I read Malachi
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chapter number four. It's said that the son of Righteousness
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would have healing in his wings. Now, I don't think
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this boy is an angel or nothing like that. But
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I don't even have to touch him. If I just
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touched something that's touching him. She doesn't say. Maybe she said,
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I shall be. Can you imagine after twelve years and
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you've given all your money away to doctors to try
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to make you better, and you're still not well, and
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you still have hope. Hope is a wonderful thing. Can
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I just stop and talk about hope for a moment.
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What the enemy is trying to rob you? Of is
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hope at the end of it all. He wants to know.
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I want you to give up on God and everything
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after twelve years. This woman could have been cynical, She
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could have been a pessimist. She could have waved off Jesus.
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He just liked them other physicians. He ain't gonna do nothing.
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She said, no, all those other physicians ain't Jesus. If
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I make it to Jesus, I shall be healed. So
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she moved through the crowd and again she said, if
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I just touch the tassel, if I just get the fringe,
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I'll get a benefit. Ever heard fringe benefits. This gives
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a new little texture and nuance to the word fringe benefits.
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This is I can get a fringe benefit from him,
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because if I touch what's touching him, I will be
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made ho there's somebody in this room or watch it online.
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You've been in a season of your life that you
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don't even feel like you can approach Jesus. But if
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you can touch somebody that is touching him, you know
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that you will be healed. For some of y'all, your
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Grandmama's prayers is what's getting you through right now. For
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some of you, all, it's your parents' prayers that's getting
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you through right now. For many of you, all it's
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your friends prayers. You're like, I can't get to them,
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but if you touch them, I'll be touching him. I
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need to touch something that is touching him. I need
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to touch somebody that is touching him. That's why some of
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your friends call you in the middle of the night
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for prayer, because they know that you are actually touching him.
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They're coming to you trying to get to him, and
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through you, they're getting to him. That's why they come
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to you. Stop rolling your eyes and stop looking at
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the phone going oh God, there they go again. The
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only God they got in this season of their life
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is you. I don't know who that was for, and
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maybe that was for like ten or fifteen people, But
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the only reason why they're calling you it is because
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they know that you are touching him. So she touches,
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She gets through the crowd and she literally it's a tassel.
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But I'll just do this. She does that. She don't
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she don't grab him, she don't touch him. She touches
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what's touching him. She said, the hymn is as good
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as him. If you don't get it. Just ask somebody
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next to you. I'm not gonna explain that one the
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hymn is as good as him. And she touched him,
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And Scripture says, right away, not five minutes later, not
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an hour later, right away. That's the kind of God
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I serve. I serve a right away God. I can
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be in a situation twelve years and in one moment,
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right away, In one moment, what seemed like forever goes
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away because my Adai has the right of way to
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do whatever he needs to do right away. She stopped
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the moment. She did that immediately she could feel that
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she was here, She got what she wanted. She stopped
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the pursuit. You can go, Thank you, sir. We didn't
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even need to talk. Oh thank you, Holy Spirit. Let
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me slow down. Some of y'all's right away is before
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you even prayed. Some of y'all gonna get a right away,
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and you didn't even pray to prayer yet. Some of
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y'all gonna get a right away. And you didn't even
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know to say the thing yet. All you knew to
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touch what was touching him. And God has already given
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you a breakthrough before you even opened your mouth. They
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didn't even have a conversation. She did not get his attention.
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She was not Bartimaeus in the middle of the road
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saying master. She just said, if I touch him, I'm good.
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She touched him and she stopped. That woman was on
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that ground. M m hmmm. I've been to every physician,
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but that man right there, that's the great physician. All
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my money was spent up, but that man right there,
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he didn't need my money. He is money. He is
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my provision. He is my healer, he is my deliverer,
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He is my strong tower. He is my anchor. She
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got what she came for. She has her healing. It's done.
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She can leave, she wants to leave. She came from
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behind him and she touched to him if his garment.
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She got the freedom she needed, She got the healing
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that she needed, and she was content. She was content.
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He wasn't in the middle of all kinds of people
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around you. You would think you would think that would
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go unnoticed. Jesus only several feet stops. Scripture says, because
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he within himself knew that power going out of his body.
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Now you know, you have to be a sensitive man
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with a high level of attunement to not just notice
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that somebody tugged on your garment, but also notice that
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they took something from you. Power left him, get it,
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not when she touched him, When she touched something that
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was touching him. Power left him. So he stops, and
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he says, who touched my clothes? You got a gang
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of dudes around you, pressing up against you, walk in
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this direction, and you got the nerve to ask who
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touched my clothes. Notice he didn't say who touched me?
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You know the difference between this and you. He said,
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nobody touched me, But somebody touched my clothes, and power
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left me, and I'm not leaving. You know, Gyrus is
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in the corner light though I was first. I'm the
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one called you. Man. You're supposed to be going to
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my house while you stopping. What you mean, somebody touching you?
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Jesus won't move. Here's why Jesus won't move, because Jesus
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doesn't want this woman to think that she stole something
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from him. I know you've been bleeding for twelve years.
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I know all your money is going. I know you
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didn't want to bother me, so you press through the crowd. Surreptitiously.
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Good word, look it up. You came through the crowd surreptitiously.
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You tried to creep up on me. You didn't want
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to bother me because you didn't want to stop the procession.
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You don't want to draw attention to yourself because if
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we draw attention to you, you might have to explain
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what you've been through. So you tried to come and
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get what you wanted in private. I know why you
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sat at the back of the church. You wanted to
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get in, just enough to be in, but you want
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to slip out because you don't want nobody to know
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that you smell like weed, that you're just coming off
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your high, that you still drunk a little bit, that
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you had some sex last night. But God is saying,
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before you go, I know you just wanted to come
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in and get your healing and walk out the door.
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But before you hardy know you got your healing and
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you think you got everything that you need before you leave.
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But before you go, I don't want you to walk
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out of here today. Unseen, unheard, unknown, unloved. Who touched me?
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Everyone's looking around, everybody been touching you. Yeah, no, no, no, no,
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y'all have been pressing. You can't press God. Yep, He'll
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give you permission to touch him. But don't think you
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ever pressing God to do nothing. He cannot be pressed.
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He is the unmovable, He is the immuta, He is
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God in the flesh. He can't be pressed, but he
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can be touched. The press didn't stop him. The touch did.
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Who touched me? And everybody's looking around, drivers in the corner,
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and it gets uncomfortably quiet because God is very comfortable
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in silence. And the silence and the discomfort made her
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show up to be seen. Scripture says, the woman scared
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and shake it because when you're not used to being seen,
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and when you're trying to hide. This is the connection
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back to last week's message. Remember Adam and Eve hid
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because they were so ashamed, so they hid themselves. And
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a question is what brought them out now here? It
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is this woman is not hiding amongst the leaves. She
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is hiding amongst the crowd. And God would not allow
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her to remain anonymous in the crowd. Touched me, so
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here she comes, shaking, timid, scared, heal me healed, shaking, timid, scared, healed, shaking, timid, scared, healed, shaking, timid, scared, heal,
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You do know that you can be healed and still
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be shaking and timid and scared. You're healed, but you're
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not ready to give your testimony yet. You're healed, but
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you're not ready to show yourself yet. You're healed, but
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you're not ready to say I want to give my
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life to Jesus and declare him publicly. I know something
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that's shames on the inside. But I'm still shaking and
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I'm still scared because I'm not used to being seen.
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After twelve years, I've mastered the art of disappearing into
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the crowd. I know what it is to be in
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a place and not be in a place at the
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same time. I know what it feels like to show
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up and still be hidden. She comes shaking and scared,
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and she's like, oh you sure, ah, Hi, Hey, Hi, everybody,
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don't be mad. I'm so sorry. Oh ah ah. And
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here's what scripture says that just is so profound to me,
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because if you're ever going to have peace, you have
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to break the silence. You will never your body, your
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nervous system, will never be at peace as long as
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you got some stuff pent up on the inside that
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you have not articulated with your mouth. Whatever doesn't come
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up and out of your mouth through words will come
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up and out of your mouth through your body, so
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you have to speak. This woman was about to go
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home healed and unseen, and your shoe was stopp thinking
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entire procession, and said, before you go, and she fell
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down before him. Here's the scripture says, and she told
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him the whole truth. Child. I've been preaching thirty years
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and I've never seen that part the way I saw
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it studying for this message. It's always been there, lying
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in plain sight. And it never even dawned on me
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that she just didn't show up and said I've been
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bleeding for twelve years. Then thank out, No, no, no. Scripture says,
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when she showed up. She showed up, and she told
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him the whole truth, which means because the whole truth.
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It don't mean that she just said, I've been bled
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for twelve years and I spend all my money and
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that's it. No, no, no, she's healed. Now it was time
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to share how this experience has felt. She told the
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whole truth. I stopped believing in doctors, a bunch of liars.
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Been bleeding for twelve years. Everybody told me they had
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a diagnosis that was gonna fix it. All they did
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was take my money and left me worse off than
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what I was. I can't tell you how many friends
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I lost over the last twelve years because they didn't
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understand the situation that I was going through. I even
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tried to be vulnerable enough to share with a couple
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of people and they just start They just told me,
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you just need to pray more. A couple of these
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jokers told me that I must have some sin in
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my life or else God would have healed me already.
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They tried to act like it was my fault, and
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I let me tell you about some of y'all pharisees. Now,
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I'm not saying it is Gyrus, but can you change
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the laws of something. I'm ceremonially unclean, which means I
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can't even go to the very place that I need
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to get my healing because they want me to stop
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something that I can't even stop on my own. Now,
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I'm not saying that's what she's said. I'm just saying
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this is what I would have said if I had
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a laceration on my nithigh and I've been baddished up
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for twelve years. She told him the whole truth. Thank
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you Holy Spirit. She told the truth, her truth. See
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we be telling people, or tell your truth, but you
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gotta remember that your truth has to reconcile with the
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truths No, no, no, you can have your truth. Just know
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that your truth one day is gonna have to stand
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before the truth, and the truth is going to be
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able to pronounce if your truth was his truth, Truth,
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speak your truth, says. Here's how I know that the
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truth she told was the truth the truth wanted to hear,
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because he said to her daughter, I want you to
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go scour the New Testament scriptures Matthew, Mark, Luke, and
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John and find me another place that He looks at
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a woman and calls her daughter. A single man, unmarried,
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looks at a grown woman and says, daughter, Now, remember
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this is the Word wrapped in flesh. And the beginning
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was the Word, and the word was with God, and
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the word was God, and the word became flesh. And
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what among is the only begotten son of the Father,
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full of grace. And so if he says it, it
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must be true. Jesus is God's word. So when he
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calls her daughter, he is not just making some endearing inference.
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He is letting her know, Oh, you're my sibling. Your
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truth is the truth. And you're not walking out of
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here some unnamed woman. You came in as a woman
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with no name. You're leaving here with a position. You
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are a daughter, hear me. Your faith has made you. Well.
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Here's the instruction, and I gotta go slow here she
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was already healed, but he declares, when she leaves, go
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in shaloon. I humbly submit this to all the theologians
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in the room. Don't be mad. It's just a submission.
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I believe this woman was gonna forfeit her peace if
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she would have taken if she would have taken her
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her healing and hiding, she would have been healed. But
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she wouldn't have been at peace because she would have
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left unseen, unknown and unheard. And you cannot be in
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the kingdom and go unseen, unheard and unknown. So he says,
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you are a daughter. Before you go, I want you
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to know you're a daughter. Now go in peace and
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be healed ed past tense from your disease. Here's what
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he was saying, I appreciate you coming out from the
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crowd and telling me the truth about the experience that
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you've had in a journey to this healing. Now that
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you have it, I want you to go in peace
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and be healed from your disease. Now you know that
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when God speaks a word, if Jesus God the Son
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speaks a word, it cannot come back void. When he
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told her, be healed from your disease, and it was
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past tense, what he's telling her was you will never
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have this situation again. I don't know who I'm preaching to,
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but there's somebody in this room. God's about to do
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such a work in your life. You are never going
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to struggle with that issue again. But it's contingent upon
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you telling the truth. I know a lot of people
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God's doing crazy breakthroughs and miracles in their lives, but
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they're still not at peace because they've never told the
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whole truth about their experience. Revelation Chapter number twelve says
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we overcome by the blood of the Lamb, And what
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the word of our testimony can I tell y'all something?
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Unedited testimonies don't help anybody. Edited testimony not unedited, edited
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testimonies don't help anybody. There's some people that have been
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blessed by God for years and and and the way
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their testimony goes, it's like this, first getting out of
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the God who is ahead of my life to pass
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the mic, and first Lady Natalie into the saints and friends.
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So grateful to be here in the house of the Lord.
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You know, God has brought me from a mighty long way.
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I used to be in some stuff child, but God
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did a work. He did a didn't he do a work?
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He did a work. Hey man, y'all just keep praying
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for me as I continue in the Lord. Who does
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that help? Who does that help? Imagine this woman getting
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healed and coming into church and and and then we
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say can you tell us a story? And it was like, yeah,
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you know what I went through? Ooh, I went through
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so much in my body. But then the Lord, you
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know how the Lord do He'd just be showing up
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and I touched to him off his garment and he
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just no, no, no, no, the whole truth, the whole truth.
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Both of my sons are here, Nathan and Noah are
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with me today. And people ask that they'll be like, oh,
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my goodness, how many children do you have? I said, well,
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we have too, But we were pregnant five times. We
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lost the first, then we had Nathan, then we lost
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two more. Then we had Noah. And it was painful
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to have to deal with the losses. And then after
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it happened once, and then it happened twice, and then
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it happened three times. I was starting to think, is
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it me? The enemy started to make me believe that
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there was something in me that God wanted to block
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from coming into the earth. See how your narrative can
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change if you're not staying close to him. See what
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happens when you don't have an anchor. But by me
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telling that story, guess what, it normalizes it for other
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people who are in this room that have gone through miscarriages,
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because the enemy will make you think like you're the
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only one that's been through something until you open your
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mouth and tell your story. Don't just start this crazy,
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vague testimony of what the Lord brought you out of.
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Tell the truth. I'm glad you're a church mother now,
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but if you as a hole, please tell the other
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holes in the room that God can change your life
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around and he can turn a hole into a housewife.
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I'm just saying, before you were a killer, don't kill me,
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and don't kill nobody in the church. But if you've
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got a body, just go ahead and tell you're gonna
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relieve some stress, do your time, get on out. I
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know our message goes into prisons, and I know I
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might make all my fellow prison prisoners mad, the inmates
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that are mad. I have a brother that's locked up
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right now and incarcerated, so I understand, uh uh. And
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I know that there are some people that are locked
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up behind bars, uh that that are absolutely innocent. And
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because of the way that our our our criminal system is,
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some people just get caught up and they wind up
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doing time that it's not theirs. But for the rest
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of us, Yeah, can we just tell the truth? The
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prison system wouldn't be filled with innocent people. Some of
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y'all did it, and you would you you would come
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out with some peace if you just tell the truth
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that I did do the thing that I was charged for,
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and I have to do the time, and the consequences
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are harsh, but I'm freer because I ain't got no
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more secret. She told the whole I was sexually abused
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at the age of eight years old by an older
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teenage boy that lives across the street from me. For
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a six month period of time, I wet the bed
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until I was sixteen years old. The trauma that happened
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in my body because of that sexual abuse, my body
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betrayed me. I didn't have an issue of blood, but
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I couldn't stop whiting to bed, and my parents did
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everything parents do at that age. Don't drink no liquids
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after six You can't have a soda after three point
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thirty four PM. I don't know where they came up.
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They just freest out these rules. Go in to bed
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with a dry mouth. I can't have no liquids after
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six dinners at seven thirty. Make it makes sense. I
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couldn't stop witing to bed. I could never spend a
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night over my friend's house. I was too deathly afraid
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of waking up in a wet spot. I just learned
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how to hide better. Woke up in the middle of
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the night, flipped the mattress over, sprinkle some baby powder
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on it, put a clean towel on it, change my pajamas.
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Wake up in the morning, like I did not pee.
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I washed up at four point thirty in the morning
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while everybody was still sleep. Just might as well tell
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you all the truth. Got exposed to pornography when I
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was twelve years old, pour in to masturbation. That was
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how I numbed the pain. My mom caught me when
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I was nineteen, and it was an embarrassing night. But
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then I told the truth, and that night a peace
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came into my heart. Hear me, I had not given
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my life to Jesus yet, but the truth brought my
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body peace. And I just believe that there's somebody in here. Listen.
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I am not about to put a mic in front
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of your face and tell you to confess everything that
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you've ever gone through. But I'm telling you before you go,
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he doesn't want you to walk out of here anonymous.
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He wants you to walk out a daughter. He wants
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you to walk out of sun. He wants you to
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walk out free. He wants you healed. Yes, but he
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wants you to have peace because he's the prince of
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it and why would he have you lacking something he is,
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So before you go, I just want to give someone
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an opportunity to come out from the crowd, someone that's
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been hiding someone that has gotten used to slipping in
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and slipping out. It's gotten used to blending in with
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the shadows, getting just what you need, and then leaving.
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And God's saying, no, today's to day. Who touched me?
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You're in this place, you're in this at You've literally
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connected with the heart of God. And He's saying, who
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touched me? I want to know who you are so
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you can know who's you are, so if there's somebody
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in this room that has been hiding amongst the crowd.
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I just want you to get up and just come
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right here. I just want to see who you are.
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Who touched me? Who touched me? Who touched me? Who
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touched me? I want to identify the daughters. I want
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to identify the sons who touched me. Did you think
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you were going to come in and out of here
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and not be seen by me? Who touched me? I
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don't want you to walk out of here unknown. I
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don't want you to walk out of here unheard who
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touched me? Come out, Come out from wherever you are.
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Your days of hiding out amongst the crowd are over.
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You are a daughter, you are a son, You are
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his and he is yours who touched me? I see
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you coming, Come on, come on, come on, wherever you are? Who?
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Who whoo who? Who? Who? Yeah?
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Yeah, I'm so proud of you. I am so proud
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of you. You have no idea, and I want to
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tell you right now, tears are so good.
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Tears. Tears are gods. God could have put tears anyway
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as many sweat glands as we have on our body.
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Tears could have been coming out the bottom of our feet.
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He put them right in our eyes on purpose, so
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that other people would know how to get close to you.
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Isn't it crazy that the one of the first things
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society tries to do is keep you from crying. Suck
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it up, stop being a cry baby. Don't nobody want
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to see all that? Don't nobody want to hear all that?
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When the very thing we came out the wound with
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was our tears in our voice. It's the first two
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things that enemy tries to take from us is our
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ability to speak, to make sound, and our ability to
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show emotion. You're not strong for not crying, You're wrong
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for not crying. You were created to cry, okay to
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somebody else, and he loves you so much. He's like
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you went like to the edge of your seat and
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was like you did like a pump fake juke. Hes,
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he where are you at? Yeah? Come through? Come through? Yeah, man,
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come through. Oh a bunch of y'all did it? Hes Yeah,
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come through, come through, Come through, Come through, Come through.
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This is real business up here. We do real work
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up here. It's real. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Yeah, come through, y'all,
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come in just a little bit. We all got on deodorant.
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You know they make a ninety six hour de order it. Now,
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what type of work is that person doing? It makes
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no sense. Who needs that much protection? Stay in the house,
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work from home. Well, a bunch of always doing that
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heavy step Praise God, Thank you Holy Spirit. Yeah. He
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wants you to be seen. He wants you to be seen.
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I know that's not comfortable at all, But he loves
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you that much that he would not let you out
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of here without being seen, without being recognized, without being noticed.
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He loves you. You're his daughter. You're his daughter. Okay,
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that's good, Okay, I'm so happy. We're gonna pray. I'm
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gonna pray for y'all. Is that all right? You girl?
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After all you've been through. What he does next is
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right away. There's a whole right away for you. And
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the enemy has written this very ugly narrative about you
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that sometimes you started to repeat, and it's alive from
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the lake of fire, what you have been through, what
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you're currently in. It's not the rest of your life.
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It is not the rest of your life. Give that
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story back to who owns it. It's not you, it's him.
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I don't know who him is. You know who him is.
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Father God, I thank you for my brothers and sisters.
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Thank you for my brothers and sisters, for your sons
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and daughters. I thank you for this message of peace.
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Holy Spirit. I pray right now in Jesus' name, that
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we would come out and we would stay out, that
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we would tell the whole truth about the experience that
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we've been having. Thank you for the healing that is
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happening in the hearts of your sons and daughters. Thank
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you for the issues that you are stopping from leaking.
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Thank you for the issues that you have stopped from flowing.
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And Holy Spirit, I pray now for a right away
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miracle and blessing that transforms their lives from the inside out.
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Holy Spirit, Thank you for the grace that you have
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given us to walk in the peace of God that
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passes all understanding, that guards our hearts and our minds.
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Through Christ Jesus, May we never hide out in the
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crowd again. Before we go, remind us that we are
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your sons, your daughters, that we're healed, and that we
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go in peace. Shaloam over our lives, Shaloam over our minds,
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Shaloam over our bodies, Shalom over our children, Shalom over
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our marriages, Shaloam over everything that pertains to us. Thank you,
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Yeshuah for being the Prince of peace. In the matchless
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name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Come on, can we
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clap our hands for Jesus run good time? Come on,
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you can do better than that. If you're happy about
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the peace that we have in your shoe of Messiah,
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we are going to another level of peace. Faith to faith,
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and glory to glory through our words. Listen, we are
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going to I don't know what I'm supposed to do
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right now. Amberly come up here. Pastor mic passes his church,
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so he be knowing what he doing. I'm just here
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for six weeks, so I don't know. I'll just be
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making it up every did.
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I just want to take this moment while we're just
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in this holy moment. We've prayed it specifically over you, guys,
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and before you go, I do believe that peace has
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been given to you, and you're walking out of here
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different I see you.
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I do.
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But for many of you in the room, some of you,
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it's not even peace that you're looking for. It's a
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real relationship with the Jesus that we're talking about.
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And so we would be remiss if we didn't.
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Give you the opportunity to make this Jesus that Pastor
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Tim has just so beautifully preached about, the Lord and
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the savior of your life. And when I think about
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that Lord, many of you have rented something before. You've
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lived in an apartment, you've lived in a house, You've
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rented something. And when you have a landlord, you don't
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get to just knock down walls, you don't get to
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just paint things. You don't get to just do things
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because you don't like the way that they designed it.
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But you run everything by the landlord. You ask for
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permission before you move, before you build, before you construct,
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and that's what happens when we make Jesus the lord
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of our lives. We ask him, we seek him, We
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ask him, can I do this? Should I take this job?
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Should I marry this spouse? Should I go to this school?
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Should I engage in these activities? And when he says no,
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don't get in that relationship, No, don't go to that school, No,
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don't take that job, we submit to him because he's the.
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Lord of our life.
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And so this morning, Pastor Tim and I we want
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to ask you, is there anyone in the room today
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that would be bold and brave enough to say, I've
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not done that yet. I've not made Jesus the lord
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of my life. I've not submitted my decisions and my
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desires to him. And if that's you, I'm going to
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ask you, on account of three to be the boldest
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and the most brave that you've ever been, and to
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raise your hand. One, two, three. I see you, I
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see you, I see you up there, I see you
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back there. Making Jesus the lord of your life is
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the best decision that you will ever make. That's how
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you walk in the peace that we've talked about today,
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That's how you experience the Bible talks about a peace
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that passes all of our understanding, meaning our normal natural
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brains can't conceive what that kind of peace could look like.
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So this morning, you got a whole church full of people,
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and if there's people up here at the front, we're
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gonna pray with you. We're gonna pray a prayer, and
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we're gonna ask Jesus to come into our hearts to
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make us new, to make us fresh, to wash away
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the old, and to make us brand new people. And
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we're gonna repeat that prayer with you, because you're not alone.
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We see you, We see you, So will.
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You pray with me? Dear God, I admit I've made mistakes.
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I admit I need a savior. I admit I need
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a Lord. I asked that you would come into my heart,
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that you would change my motives. I believe you lived,
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I believe you died, and I believe you rose again
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just for me. Change me, renew me, and transform me.
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In Jesus's name, I pray.
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A men.
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Now listen, if you made that decision today, how are
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we going to celebrate.
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As a church.
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We are so proud of you, But even more than that,
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God is proud of you. If you've made that decision today,
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will you do exactly what Pastor Tim said, Will you
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tell somebody? Will you go and tell somebody the whole truth.
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Don't leave this building today without telling somebody the whole truth.
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If you have made this decision, if you will text
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the word saved to A two A two A two,
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we'll be able to get you some more resources into
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your hand. We don't want you to walk this alone.
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You're not meant to do life alone. There's a tribe
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for you. There are people that can surround you and
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walk out the this walk.
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Of faith with you.
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And for those of you that are at the altar,
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or maybe those of you that are still saying I
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didn't come down and I wish I would have, We're
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gonna leave the altar open and we've got people that
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are gonna be here to pray over you and for you.
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So I want to encourage you.
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Don't leave this place before you go. As Pastor Tim said,
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get the peace that you need before you go, get
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the healing that you need, leave need, don't leave here
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the way that you came in.
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We love you so much.
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Until next week, go out and live a transformed life.
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Thank you for joining us today. If you said that
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prayer and accept it Jesus into your heart, it's the
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