Shoo... Go Away | Dr Daniel Kong

You're listening to a message to go from acts church. We hope this message

will light up your day. Read from Mark chapter five. Okay, So

liveing a scripture today, because start off with verses twenty one and then and

in forty three verse forty three, okay, so bear with me, all

right. So this one is this story, I think, a very famous

story or of us probably know, but let's read together anyway. So now,

when Jesus has crossed over again by boat to the other side. Some

say it's the sea, some say it's the lake. Okay, whichever version

you read, it's fine. A great multitude gathered to him, and he

was by the sea, and behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue

came Gyrus by name. So this Gyrus was like the pastor, all right.

And when he saw him, he fell at his feet. He begged

him earnestly, saying, my little daughter lies at the point of death.

Translator, she's dying, well, okay, not yet dead, but dying.

Okay, Come and lay your hands on her, that she may be

healed, and she may she will live. Okay. So Jesus went to

him, and a great multitude followed him, and thronged him surrounded him.

Okay. Now, a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years.

Okay, she was bleeding. I think we know this storia. And

she and suffered many things from many physicians. So she's seen a lot of

doctors and there was no healing for a twelve whole years. Okay. She

she has spent all that she had, all her money, and she was

no better, but rather grew worse. And when she heard about Jesus,

how many loved the story about hearing about Jesus. Is so good to have

Jesus story available that they can actually come to see Jesus, the one that

can heal. Okay, And so we also called to be that agent's right

to spread the good news of all around the world, so otherwise people wouldn't

come to him. Okay. She came behind him in the crowd and touched

his garment, for she said, if I only may touch his clothes,

I shall be made well. Literally just a touch of heaven. Okay.

Immediately the fountain of a blood dried up. Wow, quite visula, and

she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction, or some

transition would say suffering and Jesus immediately, knowing in himself that the power had

gone out, turned around as the crowd and say, who touched my clothes?

Who touched me? A lot of people touching him? La, it's

like, but he's very specific this particular touch. He actually felt it all

right, and he was looking for the whoever touched him. But disciples said

to him, you see a multitude strong you, and you say who touched

me? It's almost like is silly? Questioned the askler. By anyway,

he looked around her to see her who had done this thing. But the

woman, fearing and trembling, eventually came out, knowing that what had happened

to her, came and fell before him and told him the whole truth.

And then he has said to her, daughter, your faith has made you

well. Go in peace and be healed of your affliction. While he was

speaking, some of the some came from the ruler of the synagogue's house,

saying, your daughter, is that this is the original story just now where

Gyrus the daughters actually did really, Okay, why trouble the teacher any further?

So as soon as you just heard the word was spoken? And some

virgins they use the word. They ignored what they said. He said to

the ruler of the synagogue, do not be afraid, only believe, or

don't be afraid, just believe, okay and thirty seven. And he permitted

no one to follow him, even except Peter, James, John and the

brother of James. Then he came to the house of the ruler of the

synagogue. And then he saw the tumult or an uproar. Okay, and

those who wept and wailed loudly, so they were already starting a funerality,

okay. And he said to them, oh, sorry. When he came

in, he said to them, why make this commotion and weep? The

child is not dead but sleeping. Of course, they laughed at him,

and they ridiculed him. Okay, but when and sometimes we do that,

right, we're like, hey, don't you see the obvious he's already dead.

But what did he do? He had put them all outside the means.

He actually said, you guys, go out, go away, leave,

leave this place, and some transition, we wouldn't say that. He

actually physically removed the people that ridiculed him. Okay. He took the father

and the mother of the child, and those who were with him and entered

where the child was lying. And then he took the child by hand and

said, talita to me. Okay, he was translated to a little girl.

I say to you, arise, sounds like a Star Wars kind of

a thing. Darth way anyway, And immediately the girl rose and walked,

for she was twelve years of age. And then sorry, and they will

overcome with a great amazement. But he commanded them to strictly commanded them strictly

that no one should know it. Never. Don't tell anybody sit that something

should be given to her, so essentially saying, don't just stand there,

get a big mac or something to eat, la okay, because she's hungry.

She's been asleep for quite some time. So I know a lot of

scripture today, but that's pretty much all the scriptures for today. And I

think a lot of us has heard this story before. And the first thing

that you always think about is the miracle of the sleeping beauty that actually woke

up after that. Right, Honestly, when I was putting the title,

you know, I'm very bad titles. I always be very honest with you.

I was putting this thing about you know, getting up or rise or

rise up, you know, way there or something like that. But I

think that is a premature title because I think the climax of this is not

really about the child waking up, but actually in Jesus getting everybody out.

If you focus on verse forty, these are the people that ridicule him,

right, and in some versions that NIV says that they laughed at him.

They laughed at him, And who are these people? If you think about

it, these are people that are doubtless, people that are maybe perhaps unbelieving,

faithless, and those kind of words that you normally use, people that

are um that that you know, quote unquote a bit negative. Have you

ever heard people like that before? In a in a room whatever it is

you guys say, right, they come in, then the homewood changes,

and then they move out of the room. Everything sort of lights up.

Yeah, these are the same type of people that were talking about. Okay,

the doubtless. Okay, I hope you're not or not like this.

Luck, Okay, we're not supposed to be like this. But what did

you just do? Jesus said you have to actually go out, you have

to go away or the word I used to shoot, Right, it's for

the kids are actually shoe go go away, because why if you are there,

you're affecting the atmosphere, and the atmosphere is not going to make that

miracle happen. Okay, so those people need to go. Okay, and

this is uh. I highlighted the verse the verse forty. They ridiculed him,

and he had put them all outside, literally took them and removed.

Like I said, there in some transition there or some some scholars actually believe

that he physically took them and threw them out. Okay. With drama,

sometimes you always feel that, you know, you know, Jesus is always

this very nice, fluffy, teddy bear kind of a god. You know,

he's always very good, you know, but actually you know, he

can be quite gangster if he wants to, you know. Right in this

case, he said, okay, you've got to go because you're messing up

with this atmosphere here, and because of that, you're preventing the miracle from

happening. Okay, Okay. So now, today, like I said,

it's it's a passage that we probably is familiar with. But I would like

to also focus on some other aspects of the of the particular verse that we've

versus that we've read. Okay, So as you know, in life,

right, we actually have a lot of connections, and we're always intertwined.

Sometimes we don't even realize that we are connected. And you may see that

in this story, right, the two stories are very different, but somehow

they're intertwined and connected otherwise, right that the author will not put the two

stories together back to back, but they existed together the same place. And

sometimes we can easily miss this connections. I mean, especially when you watch

a lot of movies. Right, You see movies they don't know each other,

but actually they're in the same scenario kind of a storyline. Have you

seen those movies before and then after at the end the reviews that actually the

very beginning, they actually had some connections at the very start. And it's

actually like this, This journey of life is sometimes like that. We actually

deeply connected, more than what we can actually imagine sometimes, Okay, and

I think recently when we got hit by the pandemic, we even drew closer.

The connections are even closer. Why because we things are more relatable to

some extent. Okay, Otherwise, we get very busy, we get distracted

we forget that we're all doing this together. Recognizing that God is still in

control, that's one, but also recognizing that we're all in this red race

of life that we're doing together. But we often go to certain similarities.

But individually it may seem different, but we are all connected together. Okay

with that so far? Yeah, so life is like this. It's not

just your straight line is not joking's straight line, you know, it's not

waning straight line. Our paths are intertwined with each other. It's all interlinked

with each other. And this story, although they can be so different,

but let me just draw to some of the similarities in a little while.

Okay, sorry, Yeah, so Mark began opened me. Mark. Mark

began by talking about the synagogue leader, right, Gyrus is his name?

If you look at that, right, thank you? And they issue of

blood. You know, how are they connected together? The two are so

so different? Right, status wise is different? Um? You know,

firstly, genders are different. You know, one guy, one woman,

all right, Um, and you know for and you see the funny thing

is the guy's name is known, the woman's name is just the woman right,

so different one we know it is maybe a bit more affluent, maybe

a bit more wealthy. He's a pastor in that time, people know him.

The other person name or was it wasn't mentioned, And we'll probably know

that she's also very broke poor because you know, the story says that she's

spent all her life savings trying to fix that problem that she has for the

last twelve years to no avail. Okay, so very very different. Okay,

but um, they're completely opposite. By the same time, they're the

same same Okay, and what is the same same the'm talking about? Um,

just so that you are, I mean, you guys are convinced to

the next tent. I actually did find a research paper. Next next light,

I found a research paper. They talk about the same same stuff.

They actually had an entire publication or why these two stories are intertwined together.

So I'm just extracting some of the same sames are from a literature. Okay,

so they're deeply connected, and yet they are not. So you're gonna

read that. You're gonna look it at yourself. Okay, sorrow teases about

it. But life has put them exactly the same place, same situation,

same scenario, same era. Why because they're hit by some form of calamity,

some form of trouble they got. Life just basically came to them and

they couldn't find a solution to it. And that's the same same in a

nutshell, okay. And and the common commonality, right, is that they

couldn't handle the situation. Regardless of the situation that they're in, whether they

are rich, whether they are known, whether they are poor, it's still

the same thing. They couldn't handle it. So life is a very funny

thing because it's sort of when it hits you, right, it's sort of

evens out the playing field if you if you are if you get cancer,

regardless of whatever status you are, at whatever conditions they have, you know,

you still probably will you know, have to go through that. It's

it's it's level leveling, right. Maybe other scenarios, you know, you

can have a bit of differences, right, So this is the thing when

now one thing, one of the highlight is why they God put this together,

is because they also wanted to maybe perhaps bring some of the differences together

so that we know that we can't do this alone and we've allow God to

take control. That's the main gist of it, LA, And that's why

the author put these two together because even in cases for unbelievers, even atheists

saying things like this, if I cannot solve this, you know, God

help me in those scenarios, and we see people cry out for God even

more during the pandemic when they hit us because it was uncharted territive for a

lot of people. Right, people were desperate. So the commonality of these

two characters are they're both desperate, and sometimes God brings us through these journeys

and allow that desperation to happen to bring us together in that same common space

to even out the playing field to the next denty Okay, so far,

okay, so nothing common, but at the same time common and desperation.

As you approach God, you you also approach God very differently when you are

desperate. Right, you know these people they the first the first guy,

he pushed part away to find Jesus. The woman's same thing as well.

The common thing is that pushed part away just to touch Jesus's uh, you

know, clothes, right, And that's the desperation. So I put up

a slide over there. Yeah, you will approach God differently when you're desperate.

You tend to push people aside, not push you in the negative sense,

but you tend to go get it when you need something. It's not

like a rosy pathway to Jesus, you know, rows of petals there walk

towards him. A god. You know, hear me of this kind of

thing. It's not you have to push through, and people are pushed through,

pushing through, okay, to get what they need. So with this,

I mean people also worship harder, lift out their hands even higher,

maybe during worship, pray maybe from one time a day to three times a

day when they're going through something. Right, And this is what I mean

by pushing harder. You're desperate to see something happen in your life or in

that family member that is maybe in the dying bit. You know, you

want to pray for the person, you pray even harder. So desperation actually

sometimes open doors to an extent for miracles to happen. That's one, But

also it shuts the door of complacency. Just like how I say in the

pandemic, all of us are very complacent. Before we didn't think that we

will be going through those kind of struggles. But it takes that desperation to

actually reveal to us where we are at right otherwise blinded. So it takes

that desperation in this case for the story of Gyrus and also the bleeding lady

to have that understand the same commonality. Okay, so let's come back to

some details of the desperation, are we okay? All right? So Gyrus,

he was first in line, he came first, all right, So

it took a number, he got it first, right, and then he

gets to Jesus. He's desperate. Oh no, Jesus, my as the

story tells, my girl is dying. Is you no present tense? I

mean it's not yet dead. Dying That means like still something could be done.

It's like you you rush somewhe to the hospital and the ambulance. It's

still is hope, it's not dead yet. It's not it's not a different

kind of a vehicle. It's the it's the ambulance kind of a thing.

She's dying. He's not casually approaching Jesus. I I don't think he's like,

Jesus, you know, I've got a problem back home? Can you

when your time became la probably very very very very very desperate. That's my

God voice, right, It's like Jesus, hurry up, hurry up.

You know my girl is dying. Please come. You know I ever been

the institution before you call up? I don't want to do at the time.

As a story of the day, but Jess had something incident at home.

Some animal died at home. And then she was desperate. She caught

somebody Pino and I died anyway, another story for another day. But she

was desperate. People talked a bit differently, and and he was desperate at

the same time. Do you think the woman was not desperate. She's also

desperate. She's pushing, true, pushing through to get there. Okay,

she's hemorrhaging as she's pushing through. Okay. And and this is what the

author of this passage. One has to know that they are both the same

same Okay, these two stories are nected. Like I said, even read

the full version of the thing. You go and look up the journal hecticle.

Okay, but they are the same, even though they are different.

Okay. Now, because of this, there's also something that I wanted to

highlight, Okay, here is that there's also something special about the number twelve

over here. Remember the story about this this girl being twelve years old and

then this lady suffering for twelve years. So I said that, you know,

I made that funny joke about you know how in the Hollywood movie,

you know, somebody come out with the hospital. You know, they probably

came from the same hospital one the birth of the baby girl. You know,

oh, you know, so cute, you know, and then down

the hour the lady come out. Oh man, I'm leading. There's no

solution to it. Probably the same hospital. And Hollywood can do a good

thing these things, right, They make it sound so Hollywood, But it's

exactly like that. They may have even cross paths. But they do not

realize that there are you know, um together and and but but let me

just move on to the trail. They even they didn't see each other.

They don't know what each other is like. And sometimes you are like that,

when you are preoccupied with your own problems and challenges, you sometimes do

not realize that your neighbor, your friend, your work, colleagues, your

you know, you're your fellow peers at school. They are may be going

through seamless and scenarios, but you have your thing to deal with that you

cannot see that you're actually both same sames. That's why I meant by we're

actually connected, but we are not quite. Okay, So this is the

scenario here, okay, so far. So the danger of that is that

you walk past that person okay, that God has put in your life that

actually God may want to use you to bless but you missed it because you

are so preoccupied with either waiting for your own blessing or the with the problems

that you're going through every okay, So doesn't meant to be arrestimple message.

Okay. And and and that's the thing. If you look at Gyrris,

right, he's like, I don't care about the promise for this girl.

I care about the promise for my girl. My girl is dying. I'm

desperate. How much pain do you have to go through? You know,

I'm a ready desperate. I'm recalling it. Isn't oblivious to what's happening.

Didn't I say that she needs help? And sometimes you speak like this,

right, you think that your problems are more urgent than someone else's problem.

Right, But you see Romans trealth right reminds us that you have to rejoice

with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep, and that's what

the church is for sometimes as well. Right, we often go through things

together. So him come back to this. So thank God or the author

here that puts these two together. Now, let me just quickly run to

twelve vers the signatance a twelve Okay, I put in some two slides and

there's many, many more of these Traelve with these are just some some big

ones that are highlighting. Okay, So you know God with numbers, right

is he's he loves numbers one and the twelve right signifies a few things.

You know, started with traield commandments. It's no coincidence. Okay, Jacob

had twelve sons, and then after that came the twelve tribes. Okay,

Ishmael, the one that was not part of that plan, also had twelve.

Even though his you know, it's secondary, it's still twelve. And

this is so so one training to highlight here is that Traelveh is a big

number for God, okay, because God started a covenant with his people and

his people, uh, you know, the covenant began with Abraham in the

context, and then of course we see the multiplication through the tribes and then

of course even the high priest, you know, the bad the breastplate had

child precious stones, Okay. And this represents the the the chwelve tribes of

Israel, of course. And then of course you know New Jerusalem also contains

chelve gates, etc. So child is an important number. Now let's also

move to the New Testament, because sometimes you may say Old Testament not relevant

anymore. Child may maybe your old number, not the current number. Let's

do the New Testament. Okay. If you look at Jesus's time, right,

even Jesus right, there was some significance to him. He was twelve

right when he first made an appearance, you know, right, So sometimes

we feel this Chico here is like turning twelve. He may not know it,

but Jesus was hanging out with the learned, the eldest at age twelve.

Okay, So chield is a signament number. Okay. They marveled at

this upper not him upper primary kid name Jesus because they were talking the lingo,

so much power, so much wisdom when he hung out. So twelve

is a big number. Okay. Now of course you can see it over

there. There's other examples, all the anointing, the different ones Aaron's and

his four sons, Aaron's Aaron and his four sons, Saul, David,

Solomon, Absalom, etc. You can look all the references I've given you.

You can look it up later. But all this signifies the anointing that

God has on these people. And these were just twelve. So what does

twelve signify? Twelve signifies a few things. The power and the authority of

God. That's what the magic number twelve is. And that's why I said,

I don't think there's a coincidence that the lady went to twelve years and

the girl was twelve years old at the time, because we're trying to prove

something here that it talks about the significance of authority and power of God or

simply plain simple English. We're trying to say that God rules, because if

you understand authority of God, Heaven rules. God rules the same thing,

right, This is the power and authority. Okay, Okay, So what

are we saying here. We are saying here that if you understand this,

Jesus couldn't care too much about the sickness the disease, that the promise is

going true. Okay, because the thing that you're going through an ultimate,

ultimate thing that you're facing. Right, it's actually not under your jurisdiction,

but actually under God's jurisdiction because it's his power and his authority that could actually

enable that miracle to happen. Okay, So he's basically not so conjungua essentially

because he understands who the authority is. Okay. Now, if you asked

me, right child, why twelve? I mean Jesus even disciples for twelve.

If I were Jesus, I'll probably stopped at eleven because the one joker

is going to go a wall anyway. But you know he still gave power

and authority to the twelve even though one is joker. Okay, but that's

the number of authorities. From trying to highlight here, Okay, now,

so I have a slide up there. Twelve signifies God's power and authority,

and it's also a perfect number for a governance kind of a structure. And

that's why you see a lot of the things in the Bible is che che

chelf child, disciples, chield, tribes, chelf chelf twelve Okay, because

that is a significant signifies God's power and authority. Okay, So the reminder,

here is really this number twelve is that we have fa when that nothing

that we are facing, right, it's actually under our authority, but it's

under God's authority and his power okay or simplified heaven rules. Okay. Now

why is this important? Because sometimes we go with this currency of faith,

but without the currency of understanding the authority, and somebody, you wonder,

how come your faith couldn't activate, couldn't see that miracle happens, couldn't see

that break to happen, because you're just going based on faith and we know

faith, right, it doesn't take a lot faith of a master seat,

lost little bit is enough. Why is the faith not sufficient? It's not

because of the quantity or the quantum, but rather it doesn't come with the

recognition of or the awareness of the authority that's supposed to come with that faith.

It's probably trying to say here, Okay, okay, So it's the

awareness of God's authority in your life that will determine how much you receive that

miracle in your life. Okay, big statement. Let me just say it

one more time. It's your awareness of God's authority that will often determine how

much you see from him. Okay, yep, okay, good now.

See, sometimes we read this passage just as a very quick glance, right.

We often reduce it to just all this is a passage of faith,

like what I said earlier, right said the old daughter, your faith has

healed you the end. I used to end my stories with these two kids

at this, at the end. End. But it's not that that's only

just the beginning. Faith is only one portion of it, right, It's

not just faith. Like I said, I'm not saying that faith is not

important. We said, we know this, we need faith. Faith is

also a currency, as we always say, substance of things that are hope

for right. It is evidence of things that are not seen right, and

without faith it's impossible to please God. We all know all that. But

faith right is almost akin or likened to, like, uh, like an

anchor. You know, anchors are right, the thing that sort make sure

that boats don't go away. Ships even the size of titans don't go away.

But imagine this, If you have faith, like an anchor, you

chuck it down just like that all happened. The boat is too jealan and

know if you didn't tether it or tie it or put a chain, put

a link to it. And what's that linked I'm talking about that link is

actually understanding or the awareness of the authority of God that accompanies that faith.

Otherwise it's just faith gone. Some cannot find it anymore, even worse right,

and then nothing nothing, and you begin to wonder why why it's not

so I use that term once light before, sorry, connect one slight before.

Please link your faith with His authority because you take you basically take right

your faith right and level up that faith when you actually introduced or recognizes or

have the awareness of His authority that goes with that faith. Okay, So

you need to take that, connect that faith with the authority and you'll take

it to another level. Okay. And if not becomes a problem, and

sometimes we have this thing, oh you know, is things not happening?

You know, I have faith video wide. You know the Bible says what

faith as small as a message is all we need. Yeah, faith is

that small as all you need. But the caveat is that you need to

have belief as well. You need to know, not just believe, but

know that it the authority has to come from God. Like I said,

it's never about the size of the faith. It's never about the size.

It is the object of your faith that is important. And once you have

this, like I said, your whole thing, the wholestitution goes to that

level. Okay, And you may ask, you know, where's the back

king of this kind of understanding. Now you look at the faith lesson that

we learned from Jesus on the boat. That story. I think we all

know that story. Right. Everybody was panicking, big storm. What was

our friend doing? Jesus sleeping, snoring or whatever. You know, he's

very chill, but he's the others were panicking, right, Why are they

panicking? They were screaming, Oh, Jesus, you gotta wake up.

You know, this whole thing is we're gonna die. Often we're like that

read drama, right, We're gonna die. What do you say, Oh,

you have little faith? Right? But why do you think Jesus was

saying those things? Because he understood where the authority lies. And then he

went out and then he of course he did the mumbo jumbo. Okay,

peace stopped waves, chill, I need to go back to sleep. No,

But if you if you think about this, right, if you actually

knew a reorganized authority beforehand, right, And you were one of the people

that on the boat, right, you're probably like, okay, lot,

Jesus chilled their eyes, I sleep soundly. And that's exactly that, right.

Sometimes the fatherly figure that you may have, an earthly father, you

know that your dad is there, He's in control. Right, things are

all right? You have that kind of sense. It's really because why you

know, the authority is there. And this is exactly what I'm talking about.

Okay, So it's not just about the faith, it's the awareness of

the authority. Now back to this. Okay, so remember who has the

finals say? Is the main thing here? It ain't over till the not

not the factily these things, but till Jesus sings right. No, no,

no, I've probably butchered it. But you get yet the idea.

Only he has authority to say it is over right, no matter what's going

on. Please connect your faith to his authority. Now back to Gyrus versus

the woman. I believe the main thing here is actually the difference of awareness

of the authority, not so much the faith, but that awareness of the

authority. Okay, so let me just go a bit deeper on this,

so we know that this. You know, Gyrus came out, he heard

the house call from Jesus bringing him back, you know, and don't forget

you know this Gyrus not some layman. He's he's actually, uh, you

know, he worked in a synagogue. Basically, he's a pastor. H

he knows his stuff. He's uh an approach Jesus like, how any pastor

would you know, sir, I mean being that roller, sir, can

you come? You know mine probably be my desperate wise love, but you

know, come, my girl is dying. I need help. He probably

even did all the worship, probably at home, setting a worship going,

and all that kind of things, praying done, all that prayer and all

that as well, you know, and and and and Jesus probably said,

okay, cool, I'll come. I'll come. You know, I can

see that you need help. And here is another scenario in the same timeline

where this lady has a whole another level of awareness because she's even more desperate.

Like we said, right just to touch, I got no time for

him to come to my house. You know, this is what the lady

thinks. You know, I'm going out to him. The equivalent probably be

this guy Gyrus taking the daughter out to Jesus for Jesus to heal. It's

a different kind of level. She's actually literally going out, so so why

because she's a different awareness of the authority. So what I'm trying to say

here is that this next slider building faith really relates to the recognition part of

the ultimate authority. See some of the things that we sometimes fail to see.

Right, If you don't believe in somebody's ultimate authority, right, sometimes

you also doubt the validity of the words in there. Okay, because God

they say I am the word, right, But if you don't understand authority,

or you doubt their authority, in other words, you also doubt those

words or his words. Okay. Have you ever been in a scenario where

you know, let's say, for example, in a restaurant, something you

ordered didn't come according to what you ordered, and then you try to talk

to somebody and then the situation situation doesn't get resolved, right, and then

what do you normally do? Talk to the boss? Right? Can I

speak to your manager or can I speak to your supervisor, etc? Why

do you do that? Why do we do that? Have you ever wondered

because the person may not be able to make that decision to either remove,

change or whatever, you know, replace or refund. It's the the one

of birth, the supervisor, which has the authority to do something about it.

Okay, So unless you're all a very Christian lie you know, don't

don't know, call and supervisor. Maybe I'm the only one that does that.

La, I mean me and Jess you know you guys, jes Lah,

she she knows me. I cannot. I cannot take these tide things

that are usually to like, Okay, let's let's get this done. Customer

service is one of the things that I really really, you know, I

put it up with Della. It's very important to me, so I need

to get it right. So I usually say, can I just talk to

of course, very nicely, can I speak to your Yeah, just to

solve it. Now, let me tell you a story. Um um,

when we were traveling to China before the pandemic, I think Jess was there

for work. I just tagged along she was. They were doing a wreckie

for a particular I think event, right, and then we had a few

days sort of worked out where we're staying, and there was I think two

or three days of gap where we were going to look for a place to

stay up. And then we went to somebody or rather a hotel, to

look for a place to stay. And then somebody who is in a place

of authority actually realized that Okay, they're looking for a place to wreckie,

so they actually gave her. I just taked along a complimentary executive suite just

to stay there free of charge. Okay, So we got from that level

of living on the streets to leaving on their executive suite. Okay. What

I'm trying to say is that the supervisor or the manager, or even the

lady her name is Jessica, I remember, yeah, yeah, Chinese lady,

China. Yeah. But it's only that somebody they can do that,

not the guy at the behind the desk. Hope you Understan I'm trying to

say here, right, So often we need to go to the right people.

Okay, Now what I mean by I talk to a supervisor who is

our supervisor? Who is the real boss here in our situation, when you

can't sleep at night, when you're going through problems at work, when you're

going through problems with whatever whatever you're going through, who do you talk to

do you talk to your earthly boss, or do you recognize that your actual

supervisor is actually Jesus God. He's probably I'm trying to say here, I

need to speak to the Alpha and Omega. I demand to speak to him.

He's want way to put it right. I need to speak to the

one that started at all, the beginning, the end, right God of

Heaven. And because if you speak to the right people, you get the

right results. Okay, I digress a lot, but you get the idea.

You need to speak to the one who is in authority because he's got

the authority to fix that problem. And like I said, your faith,

even if it's a problem, it goes up to another level when you bring

the right person in, when the supervisor comes in, you've got to have

an awareness of the authority. Is probably why I'm trying to sit here.

The woman you know, for twelve years, she's been going to the wrong

people. You think about it, going to maybe mid level people, supervisors.

She should have gone up to upper management, and she did go up

to upper management. Of the trophies, going to Jesus like that is you

don't get it, or if you don't get it, maybe if Tuesday you

get it laughter the holiday, but it's okay. But yeah, I'm going

to land here. Let me get in my thoughts. She was healed immediately

right when she went to the right person. But in that same story,

right, Gyrus was a bit upset. If you think about it, right,

obviously you'll get upset. Right. It's like, hey, I'm also

looking for a miracle. How come she cut line? I thought a number

first, and somehow she stepped in and she got that miracle first. I

mean, we look at it and we can sort of judge Gyrus's behavior,

but oftentimes, right when we see a miracle happened with somebody else, we

often tend to say, ye, also looking for a miracle. It's that

promotion that somebody else has got first and you didn't. God, why am

I not looking for that as well? Right? And and this is exactly

what this thing is trying to, you know, this interruption that we actually

have. Sometimes you have to understand it's an invitation for a miracle to happen.

And sometimes we view the interruptions as not good because it doesn't work to

our favor. But if you must understand God's character here, he must understand

God's God is good, right and and and whatever it is, you must

continue to trust him, even though it may not be your miracle to come.

Now back to this story, just very quickly. You know, um

joys very excited, Jess, come to the house. You know my daughter's

dying. Blah blah blah blah blah. You know he's probably like running around.

Okay, kicker, come come, come, going to the crowd.

No, come come here? Uh? But did go? I lost him?

Because why there's a crowd them even back Jesus, what happened? I

thought you were following me, didn't I tell you? I was desperately right?

And then what happens the other side is that Jesus is there chilling with

this girl. And then who touched me? Who touched me? You must

understand our jaris. We're looking at it like what nonsense is this? My

girl is dying and you can afford to ask who touched you? What they

expect. It's like, you know, asking ten questions to get the right

answer. What was happening? And my's my stitution not you know, severe,

not urgent enough for you to give me attention? Are you serious?

Lord? Are you serious? And then what did what did God say uh?

And then eventually you know, the girl came out and then actually it's

me. It's me. Took a while probably, and then what what happens

after that you read the scripture? They will say that she also told her

story. I mean, I don't be discriminating women low, but you know

normally when girls tell stories a bit longer stretched right. But but when trying

to say right, if you need to be quick, this guy's desperate,

you all get somebody else to just be a spokesperson, just to tell the

story about she actually told a story, so it probably took a little longer.

So he's probably like, ah, what is this? What is this?

Am I not important? It's my girl not important? Like I said,

it's very frustrating sometimes to see others get their miracle first, you know,

if you are looking for to get a child and you can't. Sometimes

it's very hard to celebrate moments that people put on social media about oh,

you're don't going to her child, third or fourth child. God, I'm

looking for the miracle as well. How come it's not happening to me?

Or if you see somebody else walk down the aisle, hey, I'm also

looking at when's my turn. But trust God. These miracles that you are

exposed to, the miracles that are given to those that are around it is

supposed to encourage you and not discourage you. You just have to see it

with a different perspective, right, because it's actually telling you. If God

can do it for those people, yours is coming, he can do it

for you too. It might not be the same, slightly different, but

know that He has the power and authority to make sure that miracle comes to

you. So all we do is just believe. Like what this says,

let me see the story, right, I'll come back to this last the

last verse that he walks into the house in the funeral, there is at

the funerality. Why are you all crying? The girl is not that,

she's just asleep. It's just chill. Okay. Now you may think it's

really funny, but he said, you guys, I had to remove you.

Shoot go away what they do, go away? Remove them, remove

them. So what are you to remove in your environment? What are the

things that need to not taking a physical people at all? The one you

have to you have to love, but you know you have to remove things

like fear in your life. Maybe that's hindering for you from your miracle.

Again, faith is there that your miracle would happen, But maybe fear is

preventing your or doubt, or maybe you've been waiting for so long. Patience

is the one that you need to say, Hey, patience, impatience,

rather shoot go away, go away, depression go away all right, anxiety

go away, or even disappointments hurts in the past. Please, you do

not belong here. You are causing this environment to be a non perfect environment

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