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Before You Go // Missing Peace (Part 2) // Tim Ross

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  1. Welcome to Transformation Church podcast, where we represent God to

  2. the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so

  3. glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe

  4. God will transform your life. Did today's message.

  5. And there was a woman with a blood flow for

  6. twelve years, who had suffered much under many doctors. She

  7. has spent all that she had without benefit. Instead, she

  8. grew worse when she heard about your shoe as she

  9. came through the crowd from behind and touched this garment.

  10. So she kept saying, if I touch even his clothes,

  11. I shall be healed. Now that's some faith right there.

  12. She didn't say, She didn't say I might be. She said,

  13. if I touch this dude's clothes, I shall be here

  14. right away. Quick work some stuff God gonna do for

  15. you in this season. It's gonna happen right by the way.

  16. It's not gonna be no gradual thing. It's gonna happen

  17. right right away. The blood flow stopped, and she felt

  18. in her body that she was healed from her disease.

  19. Once your shoe A at once your shoe A knowing

  20. in himself that power had gone out from him, turned

  21. around in the crowd and said something very specific, who

  22. touched my clothes? Disciples responded, you see the crowd pressing

  23. upon you, and you say, who touched me? But he

  24. kept looking around to see who had done this. But

  25. the woman, scared and shaking, knowing what had happened to her,

  26. came and fell down before him and told him the

  27. whole truth. And he said to her daughter, your faith,

  28. I want to go slow here. Your faith has made

  29. you well. Get this, Go in shalom. You came in bleeding.

  30. I want you to go out in peace.

  31. Go in.

  32. Shalom and be healed from your disease. In the second

  33. week of this Missing Piece series, the Holy Spirit gave

  34. me three words that I need to give somebody in

  35. this room before you go. Before you go. I know

  36. you came expecting God to move, But before you go,

  37. before you walk out of these doors, he wants you

  38. to leave with something that you didn't come with. Hear me,

  39. He wants you to leave with something that you didn't get.

  40. You came to Jesus, you got something, but you was

  41. still about to leave. So before you go, that's what

  42. I want to preach to you today before you about

  43. your heads's prayer. With the word, shall the Holy Spirit

  44. give us peace before we go? Amen? And there was

  45. a woman with the blood flow for twelve years. Now this,

  46. this word ann means that there was something that was

  47. happening before that, and the writer decided to tag this

  48. story in to a story that was already in progress.

  49. Jesus had came from the opposite side of the sea,

  50. and there was a very accomplished public figure who had

  51. influence in the city named Gyros. Gyros ran up to Jesus,

  52. met him face to face as soon as he had

  53. come to shore, and he said, Master, my daughter is sick.

  54. Will you please come pray for her? Would you please come.

  55. I've heard about your reputation. I know what you can do.

  56. Would you please come to my house? Would you please

  57. pray for my daughter. So a great crowd had gathered

  58. around Jesus and they start in the direction of Gyrous's house.

  59. Because this is Gyrous's story until that and came in.

  60. The story was about one man until and came in.

  61. And is a different word than butt. When the word

  62. butt comes up, that means that whatever was happening happening before.

  63. Forget about it, because now what we're about to say

  64. after is either greater than or in opposition to what

  65. we said before. But I love the word and because

  66. and is this conjunction word that makes two things true.

  67. Gyrus is the one that got your shoe as attention.

  68. Gyrus is on the way. I'm sorry, your shoe is

  69. on the way to Gyrus's house. But it is this

  70. woman who has been bleeding for twelve years who interrupts

  71. the story and who draws our attention away from Gyrus

  72. and his daughter. And there was a woman who had

  73. an issue of blood for twelve years. Now, when I

  74. preach this text, there is some sensitivity and some empathy

  75. that I have to have because obviously I am not

  76. a woman, and I do not know what it is

  77. like to have a blood flow for twelve years. I

  78. don't know what it was like for this woman to

  79. perhaps think, twelve years in the past that perhaps she

  80. was having her monthly cycle. Maybe she thought this was

  81. going to last, as the others do, for a few days,

  82. maybe a week and a half, but then for days

  83. to turn into weeks, and then for weeks to turn

  84. into months, and to have something going on in your

  85. body that you cannot control. I don't know if there's

  86. anybody in this room that can resonate with a person

  87. who has their body betrayed them in such a way

  88. that it is doing things that you do not want

  89. it to do, but it's doing it anyway. To not

  90. have control of your faculties, to not have a diagnosis

  91. that is sufficient enough to make bleeding stop, I don't

  92. know what it is, and I'm not a woman, but

  93. I am an impath I can empathize. I could try

  94. to put myself and please, ladies, please don't be mad

  95. at me for where I tried to put myself, so

  96. I could at least understand. What I tried to at

  97. least understand is if I had a deep laceration on

  98. my inner thigh, and if I were to try to

  99. wrap that up and hope the bleeding stop. But the

  100. bleeding didn't stop after day one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, twelve,

  101. fifteen thirty as an impact. But I tried to try

  102. to at least understand, is how disruptive is this to

  103. my day to day life? How do I have to

  104. start changing how I go out and come in based

  105. on the fact that I have an internal clock now

  106. going on in my head? That no matter how many

  107. bandages I have over the wound, at some point, I'm

  108. gonna have to go back home. At some point, no

  109. matter how much I'm enjoying the party, I'm gonna have

  110. to be like, well, you look at at the time.

  111. No matter how much I'm enjoying this date, I'm uncomfortable

  112. because I know it can't go no further than what

  113. it's going right now, I'm gonna have to go because

  114. before I embarrass myself fully, I know that that the

  115. bandages are not gonna be able to hold a flow

  116. that won't stop. So I know I'm gonna be I'm

  117. gonna start spotting through my clothes. And if I start

  118. spotting through my clothes, depending on what I have on,

  119. people gonna start squinting. And if and if I'm like

  120. kind of lost in the moment and I don't know

  121. what you're squinting at, I'm automatically self com Oh, I

  122. just think your pants acute. And you're like, at this point,

  123. your whole wardrobe changes. You loved wearing whites and and

  124. and beiges and earth tones, and and you loved wearing

  125. yellows and and and and and oranges, and now you

  126. gotta wear browns. Girl, your whole wardrobe win coco. All

  127. of a sudden, what is the you weren't a lot

  128. of black nowadays? Is that a deep burgundy you got

  129. on After the first few months, you gotta be thinking

  130. it's gonna stop. At some point, maybe after the first year.

  131. You're You're like, this can't be. There's some great doctors

  132. in the area. Let me go get a diagnosis. This man.

  133. This woman had money, she had means, she she she

  134. went to doctors. Doctors gave her remedies. None of the

  135. remedies worked. Scripture says she spent all her money going

  136. to doctors for remedies and none of them worked. Here's

  137. the worst part about it. She got worse. Imagine going

  138. to a physician for healing, only to get to the

  139. physician and not only can they not help you, but

  140. what they did give you made you take the lambskin

  141. off the wall. Doc, you not who you say you are.

  142. She had gone too many doctors, she had gone everywhere

  143. she could, and she grew worse. At this point, your

  144. whole attitude gotta change, if not her, as mine. And

  145. this is just my empathic version with my deep laceration

  146. on my enner thigh. I'm over everybody. My words are short.

  147. I ain't got much to say. It's year five. I'm

  148. not that happy at your birthday. Here go your gift.

  149. God bless you. Are you okay? I'm fine? Oh my God,

  150. you know you're You're usually just much happier. I can't

  151. get into it. It's complicated. Where do I even start

  152. if I bring up the story? Where do I even

  153. start telling you what's been going on with me? It's

  154. year seven, this is now my life. I get up

  155. in the morning, I know that I got a good

  156. three or four hours before this is about to become

  157. too much for me, and I'm gonna have to go

  158. back on the inside of the house because of the

  159. culture that I live in. I can't really fellowship with

  160. people like I want, because in this state that I'm

  161. in that's only supposed to last for a few days

  162. up to a week, I am ceremonially unclean, and so

  163. if I touch someone in my impure state, they become

  164. as impure as me. So now I'm staying away from people,

  165. and people think I'm staying away because I'm funny acting,

  166. I'm actually staying away from them, so I don't contaminate them.

  167. See a lot of times when people retreat from you,

  168. it's not because they have an attitude problem. It's because

  169. they're trying to wrestle with some things that are so

  170. deep on the inside of themselves that they don't want

  171. to bring you into their drama. They're not being stand office,

  172. they're not being reclusive. It's just so complicated. I don't

  173. want to bring you into it because I'm still bleeding

  174. while I'm talking to you, and I don't want you

  175. to be as unclean as I'm in as I am,

  176. so I'm retreating and standing back from you so I

  177. can actually protect you. It's year eight, year eight, not

  178. day eight, not month eight. Year I heard there's another

  179. doctor in town. I've tried these other doctors. They haven't helped,

  180. but this one you'll hurt. You said, this one's good,

  181. I'll try him. And she goes to him and he

  182. don't help either. It's year nine, it's year ten, it's

  183. year eleven. Now what should have been a few days

  184. is a lifestyle. And you have a choice. When something's

  185. been going on so long that it's become your lifestyle.

  186. The choice is this is it. The choice is it's

  187. never going to be better than what it is right now.

  188. The choice is I've ascribed that I am now a bleeder.

  189. I now define myself by my condition. It's not something

  190. I have, it's now who I am. This is a choice.

  191. You are in charge of your inner narrative. You get

  192. to choose if you have a condition or if you

  193. are the condition. This is a good place to stop.

  194. Anybody beside myself, ever been in the season of your

  195. life where you've been doing something so long that you

  196. haven't had control over that. You just start calling yourself

  197. what you do. If you didn't call yourself society did

  198. you are a robber, You are a thief, you are

  199. a convict. You are what you did, not who you are.

  200. She had the option because it's been not one year,

  201. not five years, not eight years, not ten years. It's

  202. been twelve years. And of all places Jesus could have

  203. showed up, he shows up in this woman's city. Now,

  204. I don't know where this woman was off in the

  205. cut to get into this story. Mark is a teenager,

  206. and teenagers don't give a lot of details. You read

  207. Mark's gospel, it reads like an Instagram post and immediately

  208. Jesus went here, and immediately he went there, and straightway

  209. he went around the corner, and then he quickly dashed

  210. through the streets. What Mark, can you give us a

  211. little more detail? Nah, that stuff's boring. Mark ain't got

  212. nobody's genealogy. He ain't got one bigat. He don't care

  213. about none of that because it's.

  214. Not interesting to him. He's a teenager. Tell me what's

  215. popping off the story about this woman with the issue.

  216. When he hears it from his mentor, Peter is.

  217. Pik, He's like, tell me more about this story. He

  218. was like, yeah, you know, Gyrus, the influential god came

  219. to Jesus. He came to him face to face, and

  220. he says, can you go to my daughter's my house

  221. because my daughter's sick. And Jesus starts walking, but this

  222. crowd surrounds him, so Jesus can't walk like he wants to.

  223. The crowd actually slows his pace. And I just imagine

  224. that a woman that's been bleeding for twelve years is

  225. not spry. I don't imagine her to be quick. I

  226. don't imagine her with all the stuff she has to

  227. do to be outside, to be like, oh.

  228. Word, this crowd slows Jesus down enough that this woman

  229. is like.

  230. That's that man. I've heard about that man. He got

  231. a reputation for healing people. But in my state, I

  232. don't have to. I don't have the strength to try

  233. to fight through that crowd and square up. I can't

  234. even catch up to him. But that crowd move is

  235. so slow, I think I could get in the middle

  236. of that. And this woman starts making her way through

  237. this crowd of people, and here's the only thing on

  238. her mind. I've read the Old Testament. I read Malachi

  239. chapter number four. It's said that the son of Righteousness

  240. would have healing in his wings. Now, I don't think

  241. this boy is an angel or nothing like that. But

  242. I don't even have to touch him. If I just

  243. touched something that's touching him. She doesn't say. Maybe she said,

  244. I shall be. Can you imagine after twelve years and

  245. you've given all your money away to doctors to try

  246. to make you better, and you're still not well, and

  247. you still have hope. Hope is a wonderful thing. Can

  248. I just stop and talk about hope for a moment.

  249. What the enemy is trying to rob you? Of is

  250. hope at the end of it all. He wants to know.

  251. I want you to give up on God and everything

  252. after twelve years. This woman could have been cynical, She

  253. could have been a pessimist. She could have waved off Jesus.

  254. He just liked them other physicians. He ain't gonna do nothing.

  255. She said, no, all those other physicians ain't Jesus. If

  256. I make it to Jesus, I shall be healed. So

  257. she moved through the crowd and again she said, if

  258. I just touch the tassel, if I just get the fringe,

  259. I'll get a benefit. Ever heard fringe benefits. This gives

  260. a new little texture and nuance to the word fringe benefits.

  261. This is I can get a fringe benefit from him,

  262. because if I touch what's touching him, I will be

  263. made ho there's somebody in this room or watch it online.

  264. You've been in a season of your life that you

  265. don't even feel like you can approach Jesus. But if

  266. you can touch somebody that is touching him, you know

  267. that you will be healed. For some of y'all, your

  268. Grandmama's prayers is what's getting you through right now. For

  269. some of you, all, it's your parents' prayers that's getting

  270. you through right now. For many of you, all it's

  271. your friends prayers. You're like, I can't get to them,

  272. but if you touch them, I'll be touching him. I

  273. need to touch something that is touching him. I need

  274. to touch somebody that is touching him. That's why some of

  275. your friends call you in the middle of the night

  276. for prayer, because they know that you are actually touching him.

  277. They're coming to you trying to get to him, and

  278. through you, they're getting to him. That's why they come

  279. to you. Stop rolling your eyes and stop looking at

  280. the phone going oh God, there they go again. The

  281. only God they got in this season of their life

  282. is you. I don't know who that was for, and

  283. maybe that was for like ten or fifteen people, But

  284. the only reason why they're calling you it is because

  285. they know that you are touching him. So she touches,

  286. She gets through the crowd and she literally it's a tassel.

  287. But I'll just do this. She does that. She don't

  288. she don't grab him, she don't touch him. She touches

  289. what's touching him. She said, the hymn is as good

  290. as him. If you don't get it. Just ask somebody

  291. next to you. I'm not gonna explain that one the

  292. hymn is as good as him. And she touched him,

  293. And Scripture says, right away, not five minutes later, not

  294. an hour later, right away. That's the kind of God

  295. I serve. I serve a right away God. I can

  296. be in a situation twelve years and in one moment,

  297. right away, In one moment, what seemed like forever goes

  298. away because my Adai has the right of way to

  299. do whatever he needs to do right away. She stopped

  300. the moment. She did that immediately she could feel that

  301. she was here, She got what she wanted. She stopped

  302. the pursuit. You can go, Thank you, sir. We didn't

  303. even need to talk. Oh thank you, Holy Spirit. Let

  304. me slow down. Some of y'all's right away is before

  305. you even prayed. Some of y'all gonna get a right away,

  306. and you didn't even pray to prayer yet. Some of

  307. y'all gonna get a right away. And you didn't even

  308. know to say the thing yet. All you knew to

  309. touch what was touching him. And God has already given

  310. you a breakthrough before you even opened your mouth. They

  311. didn't even have a conversation. She did not get his attention.

  312. She was not Bartimaeus in the middle of the road

  313. saying master. She just said, if I touch him, I'm good.

  314. She touched him and she stopped. That woman was on

  315. that ground. M m hmmm. I've been to every physician,

  316. but that man right there, that's the great physician. All

  317. my money was spent up, but that man right there,

  318. he didn't need my money. He is money. He is

  319. my provision. He is my healer, he is my deliverer,

  320. He is my strong tower. He is my anchor. She

  321. got what she came for. She has her healing. It's done.

  322. She can leave, she wants to leave. She came from

  323. behind him and she touched to him if his garment.

  324. She got the freedom she needed, She got the healing

  325. that she needed, and she was content. She was content.

  326. He wasn't in the middle of all kinds of people

  327. around you. You would think you would think that would

  328. go unnoticed. Jesus only several feet stops. Scripture says, because

  329. he within himself knew that power going out of his body.

  330. Now you know, you have to be a sensitive man

  331. with a high level of attunement to not just notice

  332. that somebody tugged on your garment, but also notice that

  333. they took something from you. Power left him, get it,

  334. not when she touched him, When she touched something that

  335. was touching him. Power left him. So he stops, and

  336. he says, who touched my clothes? You got a gang

  337. of dudes around you, pressing up against you, walk in

  338. this direction, and you got the nerve to ask who

  339. touched my clothes. Notice he didn't say who touched me?

  340. You know the difference between this and you. He said,

  341. nobody touched me, But somebody touched my clothes, and power

  342. left me, and I'm not leaving. You know, Gyrus is

  343. in the corner light though I was first. I'm the

  344. one called you. Man. You're supposed to be going to

  345. my house while you stopping. What you mean, somebody touching you?

  346. Jesus won't move. Here's why Jesus won't move, because Jesus

  347. doesn't want this woman to think that she stole something

  348. from him. I know you've been bleeding for twelve years.

  349. I know all your money is going. I know you

  350. didn't want to bother me, so you press through the crowd. Surreptitiously.

  351. Good word, look it up. You came through the crowd surreptitiously.

  352. You tried to creep up on me. You didn't want

  353. to bother me because you didn't want to stop the procession.

  354. You don't want to draw attention to yourself because if

  355. we draw attention to you, you might have to explain

  356. what you've been through. So you tried to come and

  357. get what you wanted in private. I know why you

  358. sat at the back of the church. You wanted to

  359. get in, just enough to be in, but you want

  360. to slip out because you don't want nobody to know

  361. that you smell like weed, that you're just coming off

  362. your high, that you still drunk a little bit, that

  363. you had some sex last night. But God is saying,

  364. before you go, I know you just wanted to come

  365. in and get your healing and walk out the door.

  366. But before you hardy know you got your healing and

  367. you think you got everything that you need before you leave.

  368. But before you go, I don't want you to walk

  369. out of here today. Unseen, unheard, unknown, unloved. Who touched me?

  370. Everyone's looking around, everybody been touching you. Yeah, no, no, no, no,

  371. y'all have been pressing. You can't press God. Yep, He'll

  372. give you permission to touch him. But don't think you

  373. ever pressing God to do nothing. He cannot be pressed.

  374. He is the unmovable, He is the immuta, He is

  375. God in the flesh. He can't be pressed, but he

  376. can be touched. The press didn't stop him. The touch did.

  377. Who touched me? And everybody's looking around, drivers in the corner,

  378. and it gets uncomfortably quiet because God is very comfortable

  379. in silence. And the silence and the discomfort made her

  380. show up to be seen. Scripture says, the woman scared

  381. and shake it because when you're not used to being seen,

  382. and when you're trying to hide. This is the connection

  383. back to last week's message. Remember Adam and Eve hid

  384. because they were so ashamed, so they hid themselves. And

  385. a question is what brought them out now here? It

  386. is this woman is not hiding amongst the leaves. She

  387. is hiding amongst the crowd. And God would not allow

  388. her to remain anonymous in the crowd. Touched me, so

  389. here she comes, shaking, timid, scared, heal me healed, shaking, timid, scared, healed, shaking, timid, scared, healed, shaking, timid, scared, heal,

  390. You do know that you can be healed and still

  391. be shaking and timid and scared. You're healed, but you're

  392. not ready to give your testimony yet. You're healed, but

  393. you're not ready to show yourself yet. You're healed, but

  394. you're not ready to say I want to give my

  395. life to Jesus and declare him publicly. I know something

  396. that's shames on the inside. But I'm still shaking and

  397. I'm still scared because I'm not used to being seen.

  398. After twelve years, I've mastered the art of disappearing into

  399. the crowd. I know what it is to be in

  400. a place and not be in a place at the

  401. same time. I know what it feels like to show

  402. up and still be hidden. She comes shaking and scared,

  403. and she's like, oh you sure, ah, Hi, Hey, Hi, everybody,

  404. don't be mad. I'm so sorry. Oh ah ah. And

  405. here's what scripture says that just is so profound to me,

  406. because if you're ever going to have peace, you have

  407. to break the silence. You will never your body, your

  408. nervous system, will never be at peace as long as

  409. you got some stuff pent up on the inside that

  410. you have not articulated with your mouth. Whatever doesn't come

  411. up and out of your mouth through words will come

  412. up and out of your mouth through your body, so

  413. you have to speak. This woman was about to go

  414. home healed and unseen, and your shoe was stopp thinking

  415. entire procession, and said, before you go, and she fell

  416. down before him. Here's the scripture says, and she told

  417. him the whole truth. Child. I've been preaching thirty years

  418. and I've never seen that part the way I saw

  419. it studying for this message. It's always been there, lying

  420. in plain sight. And it never even dawned on me

  421. that she just didn't show up and said I've been

  422. bleeding for twelve years. Then thank out, No, no, no. Scripture says,

  423. when she showed up. She showed up, and she told

  424. him the whole truth, which means because the whole truth.

  425. It don't mean that she just said, I've been bled

  426. for twelve years and I spend all my money and

  427. that's it. No, no, no, she's healed. Now it was time

  428. to share how this experience has felt. She told the

  429. whole truth. I stopped believing in doctors, a bunch of liars.

  430. Been bleeding for twelve years. Everybody told me they had

  431. a diagnosis that was gonna fix it. All they did

  432. was take my money and left me worse off than

  433. what I was. I can't tell you how many friends

  434. I lost over the last twelve years because they didn't

  435. understand the situation that I was going through. I even

  436. tried to be vulnerable enough to share with a couple

  437. of people and they just start They just told me,

  438. you just need to pray more. A couple of these

  439. jokers told me that I must have some sin in

  440. my life or else God would have healed me already.

  441. They tried to act like it was my fault, and

  442. I let me tell you about some of y'all pharisees. Now,

  443. I'm not saying it is Gyrus, but can you change

  444. the laws of something. I'm ceremonially unclean, which means I

  445. can't even go to the very place that I need

  446. to get my healing because they want me to stop

  447. something that I can't even stop on my own. Now,

  448. I'm not saying that's what she's said. I'm just saying

  449. this is what I would have said if I had

  450. a laceration on my nithigh and I've been baddished up

  451. for twelve years. She told him the whole truth. Thank

  452. you Holy Spirit. She told the truth, her truth. See

  453. we be telling people, or tell your truth, but you

  454. gotta remember that your truth has to reconcile with the

  455. truths No, no, no, you can have your truth. Just know

  456. that your truth one day is gonna have to stand

  457. before the truth, and the truth is going to be

  458. able to pronounce if your truth was his truth, Truth,

  459. speak your truth, says. Here's how I know that the

  460. truth she told was the truth the truth wanted to hear,

  461. because he said to her daughter, I want you to

  462. go scour the New Testament scriptures Matthew, Mark, Luke, and

  463. John and find me another place that He looks at

  464. a woman and calls her daughter. A single man, unmarried,

  465. looks at a grown woman and says, daughter, Now, remember

  466. this is the Word wrapped in flesh. And the beginning

  467. was the Word, and the word was with God, and

  468. the word was God, and the word became flesh. And

  469. what among is the only begotten son of the Father,

  470. full of grace. And so if he says it, it

  471. must be true. Jesus is God's word. So when he

  472. calls her daughter, he is not just making some endearing inference.

  473. He is letting her know, Oh, you're my sibling. Your

  474. truth is the truth. And you're not walking out of

  475. here some unnamed woman. You came in as a woman

  476. with no name. You're leaving here with a position. You

  477. are a daughter, hear me. Your faith has made you. Well.

  478. Here's the instruction, and I gotta go slow here she

  479. was already healed, but he declares, when she leaves, go

  480. in shaloon. I humbly submit this to all the theologians

  481. in the room. Don't be mad. It's just a submission.

  482. I believe this woman was gonna forfeit her peace if

  483. she would have taken if she would have taken her

  484. her healing and hiding, she would have been healed. But

  485. she wouldn't have been at peace because she would have

  486. left unseen, unknown and unheard. And you cannot be in

  487. the kingdom and go unseen, unheard and unknown. So he says,

  488. you are a daughter. Before you go, I want you

  489. to know you're a daughter. Now go in peace and

  490. be healed ed past tense from your disease. Here's what

  491. he was saying, I appreciate you coming out from the

  492. crowd and telling me the truth about the experience that

  493. you've had in a journey to this healing. Now that

  494. you have it, I want you to go in peace

  495. and be healed from your disease. Now you know that

  496. when God speaks a word, if Jesus God the Son

  497. speaks a word, it cannot come back void. When he

  498. told her, be healed from your disease, and it was

  499. past tense, what he's telling her was you will never

  500. have this situation again. I don't know who I'm preaching to,

  501. but there's somebody in this room. God's about to do

  502. such a work in your life. You are never going

  503. to struggle with that issue again. But it's contingent upon

  504. you telling the truth. I know a lot of people

  505. God's doing crazy breakthroughs and miracles in their lives, but

  506. they're still not at peace because they've never told the

  507. whole truth about their experience. Revelation Chapter number twelve says

  508. we overcome by the blood of the Lamb, And what

  509. the word of our testimony can I tell y'all something?

  510. Unedited testimonies don't help anybody. Edited testimony not unedited, edited

  511. testimonies don't help anybody. There's some people that have been

  512. blessed by God for years and and and the way

  513. their testimony goes, it's like this, first getting out of

  514. the God who is ahead of my life to pass

  515. the mic, and first Lady Natalie into the saints and friends.

  516. So grateful to be here in the house of the Lord.

  517. You know, God has brought me from a mighty long way.

  518. I used to be in some stuff child, but God

  519. did a work. He did a didn't he do a work?

  520. He did a work. Hey man, y'all just keep praying

  521. for me as I continue in the Lord. Who does

  522. that help? Who does that help? Imagine this woman getting

  523. healed and coming into church and and and then we

  524. say can you tell us a story? And it was like, yeah,

  525. you know what I went through? Ooh, I went through

  526. so much in my body. But then the Lord, you

  527. know how the Lord do He'd just be showing up

  528. and I touched to him off his garment and he

  529. just no, no, no, no, the whole truth, the whole truth.

  530. Both of my sons are here, Nathan and Noah are

  531. with me today. And people ask that they'll be like, oh,

  532. my goodness, how many children do you have? I said, well,

  533. we have too, But we were pregnant five times. We

  534. lost the first, then we had Nathan, then we lost

  535. two more. Then we had Noah. And it was painful

  536. to have to deal with the losses. And then after

  537. it happened once, and then it happened twice, and then

  538. it happened three times. I was starting to think, is

  539. it me? The enemy started to make me believe that

  540. there was something in me that God wanted to block

  541. from coming into the earth. See how your narrative can

  542. change if you're not staying close to him. See what

  543. happens when you don't have an anchor. But by me

  544. telling that story, guess what, it normalizes it for other

  545. people who are in this room that have gone through miscarriages,

  546. because the enemy will make you think like you're the

  547. only one that's been through something until you open your

  548. mouth and tell your story. Don't just start this crazy,

  549. vague testimony of what the Lord brought you out of.

  550. Tell the truth. I'm glad you're a church mother now,

  551. but if you as a hole, please tell the other

  552. holes in the room that God can change your life

  553. around and he can turn a hole into a housewife.

  554. I'm just saying, before you were a killer, don't kill me,

  555. and don't kill nobody in the church. But if you've

  556. got a body, just go ahead and tell you're gonna

  557. relieve some stress, do your time, get on out. I

  558. know our message goes into prisons, and I know I

  559. might make all my fellow prison prisoners mad, the inmates

  560. that are mad. I have a brother that's locked up

  561. right now and incarcerated, so I understand, uh uh. And

  562. I know that there are some people that are locked

  563. up behind bars, uh that that are absolutely innocent. And

  564. because of the way that our our our criminal system is,

  565. some people just get caught up and they wind up

  566. doing time that it's not theirs. But for the rest

  567. of us, Yeah, can we just tell the truth? The

  568. prison system wouldn't be filled with innocent people. Some of

  569. y'all did it, and you would you you would come

  570. out with some peace if you just tell the truth

  571. that I did do the thing that I was charged for,

  572. and I have to do the time, and the consequences

  573. are harsh, but I'm freer because I ain't got no

  574. more secret. She told the whole I was sexually abused

  575. at the age of eight years old by an older

  576. teenage boy that lives across the street from me. For

  577. a six month period of time, I wet the bed

  578. until I was sixteen years old. The trauma that happened

  579. in my body because of that sexual abuse, my body

  580. betrayed me. I didn't have an issue of blood, but

  581. I couldn't stop whiting to bed, and my parents did

  582. everything parents do at that age. Don't drink no liquids

  583. after six You can't have a soda after three point

  584. thirty four PM. I don't know where they came up.

  585. They just freest out these rules. Go in to bed

  586. with a dry mouth. I can't have no liquids after

  587. six dinners at seven thirty. Make it makes sense. I

  588. couldn't stop witing to bed. I could never spend a

  589. night over my friend's house. I was too deathly afraid

  590. of waking up in a wet spot. I just learned

  591. how to hide better. Woke up in the middle of

  592. the night, flipped the mattress over, sprinkle some baby powder

  593. on it, put a clean towel on it, change my pajamas.

  594. Wake up in the morning, like I did not pee.

  595. I washed up at four point thirty in the morning

  596. while everybody was still sleep. Just might as well tell

  597. you all the truth. Got exposed to pornography when I

  598. was twelve years old, pour in to masturbation. That was

  599. how I numbed the pain. My mom caught me when

  600. I was nineteen, and it was an embarrassing night. But

  601. then I told the truth, and that night a peace

  602. came into my heart. Hear me, I had not given

  603. my life to Jesus yet, but the truth brought my

  604. body peace. And I just believe that there's somebody in here. Listen.

  605. I am not about to put a mic in front

  606. of your face and tell you to confess everything that

  607. you've ever gone through. But I'm telling you before you go,

  608. he doesn't want you to walk out of here anonymous.

  609. He wants you to walk out a daughter. He wants

  610. you to walk out of sun. He wants you to

  611. walk out free. He wants you healed. Yes, but he

  612. wants you to have peace because he's the prince of

  613. it and why would he have you lacking something he is,

  614. So before you go, I just want to give someone

  615. an opportunity to come out from the crowd, someone that's

  616. been hiding someone that has gotten used to slipping in

  617. and slipping out. It's gotten used to blending in with

  618. the shadows, getting just what you need, and then leaving.

  619. And God's saying, no, today's to day. Who touched me?

  620. You're in this place, you're in this at You've literally

  621. connected with the heart of God. And He's saying, who

  622. touched me? I want to know who you are so

  623. you can know who's you are, so if there's somebody

  624. in this room that has been hiding amongst the crowd.

  625. I just want you to get up and just come

  626. right here. I just want to see who you are.

  627. Who touched me? Who touched me? Who touched me? Who

  628. touched me? I want to identify the daughters. I want

  629. to identify the sons who touched me. Did you think

  630. you were going to come in and out of here

  631. and not be seen by me? Who touched me? I

  632. don't want you to walk out of here unknown. I

  633. don't want you to walk out of here unheard who

  634. touched me? Come out, Come out from wherever you are.

  635. Your days of hiding out amongst the crowd are over.

  636. You are a daughter, you are a son, You are

  637. his and he is yours who touched me? I see

  638. you coming, Come on, come on, come on, wherever you are? Who?

  639. Who whoo who? Who? Who? Yeah?

  640. Yeah, I'm so proud of you. I am so proud

  641. of you. You have no idea, and I want to

  642. tell you right now, tears are so good.

  643. Tears. Tears are gods. God could have put tears anyway

  644. as many sweat glands as we have on our body.

  645. Tears could have been coming out the bottom of our feet.

  646. He put them right in our eyes on purpose, so

  647. that other people would know how to get close to you.

  648. Isn't it crazy that the one of the first things

  649. society tries to do is keep you from crying. Suck

  650. it up, stop being a cry baby. Don't nobody want

  651. to see all that? Don't nobody want to hear all that?

  652. When the very thing we came out the wound with

  653. was our tears in our voice. It's the first two

  654. things that enemy tries to take from us is our

  655. ability to speak, to make sound, and our ability to

  656. show emotion. You're not strong for not crying, You're wrong

  657. for not crying. You were created to cry, okay to

  658. somebody else, and he loves you so much. He's like

  659. you went like to the edge of your seat and

  660. was like you did like a pump fake juke. Hes,

  661. he where are you at? Yeah? Come through? Come through? Yeah, man,

  662. come through. Oh a bunch of y'all did it? Hes Yeah,

  663. come through, come through, Come through, Come through, Come through.

  664. This is real business up here. We do real work

  665. up here. It's real. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Yeah, come through, y'all,

  666. come in just a little bit. We all got on deodorant.

  667. You know they make a ninety six hour de order it. Now,

  668. what type of work is that person doing? It makes

  669. no sense. Who needs that much protection? Stay in the house,

  670. work from home. Well, a bunch of always doing that

  671. heavy step Praise God, Thank you Holy Spirit. Yeah. He

  672. wants you to be seen. He wants you to be seen.

  673. I know that's not comfortable at all, But he loves

  674. you that much that he would not let you out

  675. of here without being seen, without being recognized, without being noticed.

  676. He loves you. You're his daughter. You're his daughter. Okay,

  677. that's good, Okay, I'm so happy. We're gonna pray. I'm

  678. gonna pray for y'all. Is that all right? You girl?

  679. After all you've been through. What he does next is

  680. right away. There's a whole right away for you. And

  681. the enemy has written this very ugly narrative about you

  682. that sometimes you started to repeat, and it's alive from

  683. the lake of fire, what you have been through, what

  684. you're currently in. It's not the rest of your life.

  685. It is not the rest of your life. Give that

  686. story back to who owns it. It's not you, it's him.

  687. I don't know who him is. You know who him is.

  688. Father God, I thank you for my brothers and sisters.

  689. Thank you for my brothers and sisters, for your sons

  690. and daughters. I thank you for this message of peace.

  691. Holy Spirit. I pray right now in Jesus' name, that

  692. we would come out and we would stay out, that

  693. we would tell the whole truth about the experience that

  694. we've been having. Thank you for the healing that is

  695. happening in the hearts of your sons and daughters. Thank

  696. you for the issues that you are stopping from leaking.

  697. Thank you for the issues that you have stopped from flowing.

  698. And Holy Spirit, I pray now for a right away

  699. miracle and blessing that transforms their lives from the inside out.

  700. Holy Spirit, Thank you for the grace that you have

  701. given us to walk in the peace of God that

  702. passes all understanding, that guards our hearts and our minds.

  703. Through Christ Jesus, May we never hide out in the

  704. crowd again. Before we go, remind us that we are

  705. your sons, your daughters, that we're healed, and that we

  706. go in peace. Shaloam over our lives, Shaloam over our minds,

  707. Shaloam over our bodies, Shalom over our children, Shalom over

  708. our marriages, Shaloam over everything that pertains to us. Thank you,

  709. Yeshuah for being the Prince of peace. In the matchless

  710. name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Come on, can we

  711. clap our hands for Jesus run good time? Come on,

  712. you can do better than that. If you're happy about

  713. the peace that we have in your shoe of Messiah,

  714. we are going to another level of peace. Faith to faith,

  715. and glory to glory through our words. Listen, we are

  716. going to I don't know what I'm supposed to do

  717. right now. Amberly come up here. Pastor mic passes his church,

  718. so he be knowing what he doing. I'm just here

  719. for six weeks, so I don't know. I'll just be

  720. making it up every did.

  721. I just want to take this moment while we're just

  722. in this holy moment. We've prayed it specifically over you, guys,

  723. and before you go, I do believe that peace has

  724. been given to you, and you're walking out of here

  725. different I see you.

  726. I do.

  727. But for many of you in the room, some of you,

  728. it's not even peace that you're looking for. It's a

  729. real relationship with the Jesus that we're talking about.

  730. And so we would be remiss if we didn't.

  731. Give you the opportunity to make this Jesus that Pastor

  732. Tim has just so beautifully preached about, the Lord and

  733. the savior of your life. And when I think about

  734. that Lord, many of you have rented something before. You've

  735. lived in an apartment, you've lived in a house, You've

  736. rented something. And when you have a landlord, you don't

  737. get to just knock down walls, you don't get to

  738. just paint things. You don't get to just do things

  739. because you don't like the way that they designed it.

  740. But you run everything by the landlord. You ask for

  741. permission before you move, before you build, before you construct,

  742. and that's what happens when we make Jesus the lord

  743. of our lives. We ask him, we seek him, We

  744. ask him, can I do this? Should I take this job?

  745. Should I marry this spouse? Should I go to this school?

  746. Should I engage in these activities? And when he says no,

  747. don't get in that relationship, No, don't go to that school, No,

  748. don't take that job, we submit to him because he's the.

  749. Lord of our life.

  750. And so this morning, Pastor Tim and I we want

  751. to ask you, is there anyone in the room today

  752. that would be bold and brave enough to say, I've

  753. not done that yet. I've not made Jesus the lord

  754. of my life. I've not submitted my decisions and my

  755. desires to him. And if that's you, I'm going to

  756. ask you, on account of three to be the boldest

  757. and the most brave that you've ever been, and to

  758. raise your hand. One, two, three. I see you, I

  759. see you, I see you up there, I see you

  760. back there. Making Jesus the lord of your life is

  761. the best decision that you will ever make. That's how

  762. you walk in the peace that we've talked about today,

  763. That's how you experience the Bible talks about a peace

  764. that passes all of our understanding, meaning our normal natural

  765. brains can't conceive what that kind of peace could look like.

  766. So this morning, you got a whole church full of people,

  767. and if there's people up here at the front, we're

  768. gonna pray with you. We're gonna pray a prayer, and

  769. we're gonna ask Jesus to come into our hearts to

  770. make us new, to make us fresh, to wash away

  771. the old, and to make us brand new people. And

  772. we're gonna repeat that prayer with you, because you're not alone.

  773. We see you, We see you, So will.

  774. You pray with me? Dear God, I admit I've made mistakes.

  775. I admit I need a savior. I admit I need

  776. a Lord. I asked that you would come into my heart,

  777. that you would change my motives. I believe you lived,

  778. I believe you died, and I believe you rose again

  779. just for me. Change me, renew me, and transform me.

  780. In Jesus's name, I pray.

  781. A men.

  782. Now listen, if you made that decision today, how are

  783. we going to celebrate.

  784. As a church.

  785. We are so proud of you, But even more than that,

  786. God is proud of you. If you've made that decision today,

  787. will you do exactly what Pastor Tim said, Will you

  788. tell somebody? Will you go and tell somebody the whole truth.

  789. Don't leave this building today without telling somebody the whole truth.

  790. If you have made this decision, if you will text

  791. the word saved to A two A two A two,

  792. we'll be able to get you some more resources into

  793. your hand. We don't want you to walk this alone.

  794. You're not meant to do life alone. There's a tribe

  795. for you. There are people that can surround you and

  796. walk out the this walk.

  797. Of faith with you.

  798. And for those of you that are at the altar,

  799. or maybe those of you that are still saying I

  800. didn't come down and I wish I would have, We're

  801. gonna leave the altar open and we've got people that

  802. are gonna be here to pray over you and for you.

  803. So I want to encourage you.

  804. Don't leave this place before you go. As Pastor Tim said,

  805. get the peace that you need before you go, get

  806. the healing that you need, leave need, don't leave here

  807. the way that you came in.

  808. We love you so much.

  809. Until next week, go out and live a transformed life.

  810. Thank you for joining us today. If you said that

  811. prayer and accept it Jesus into your heart, it's the

  812. best decision you could ever make. We want to celebrate

  813. with you, and we have some tools to help you

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