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. The message today I title it shoe. It'll

make a bit more sense later on. But if you want to be the

proper title kind, you just put the environments actually important. The environment where

you're in is important. But I used the word shoe go away. Uh.

So again forgive me. I'm a bit naughty sometimes when it comes to

titles. I'm gonna put titles if if you come to the one that is

service. My titles are all over the place. And but it'll make sense

after a while. And as I mentioned to you, we're going to a

series through the book of Daniel. So we've seen Daniel through the different kings,

different administrations. Uh and and and and of course this year we are

looking at the year of observing having rules right and and that's simply translated to

you know, God is still in control of everything. Uh. And that

is something that you haven't actually experienced for yourself yet. In twenty twenty three,

they're still one mon left. We pray that you have that experience.

But this will all make sense and tied to death as well. Okay,

so let me just jump straight into the word. Okayn. We read from

Mark chapter five. Some of the verses up there, I hope, yeah,

a bit tiny. I'm so sorry, but bear with me. Okay,

if you want to turn your Bibles to the verses is Mark chapter five

versus. We started with verse twenty one, and we're gonna it's a bit

of scripture, but I promise you'll be good. All right. So the

title of this particular section of the Bible, the title is a girl restored

to life and a woman he Okay, some of you may know this passage,

but bearing mass, I go through this and then we will come back.

Okay. Now, when Jesus has crossed over by boat to the other

side, a great multitude gathered to him. He was by the sea,

and behold the rulers of Synagogue came Gyros by name. So Gyrus is a

pastor of Chortzler. Okay, of that time, that's what the ruler of

synagogue is. And he saw him, and he fell to his feet and

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

Translation. She's dying. Okay, just in case you're not aware she's

dying. Come and come, Jesus, come lay your hands on her,

that she may be healed and that she will live. So Jesus went with

him. A great multitude followed him and thronged him, basically surrounded him.

Now, now a certain woman had a flow of blood. Translation. She

was bleeding. Okay, not just any other bleeding, not once a month

bleeding. It is bleeding for twelve whole years, continuously, NonStop, every

single day. Okay. I don't know whether you can imagine this, but

it's probably not the most comfortable and probably not the most easiest to deal with.

And she has also suffered many things from many physicians. Means he's in

law doctors. She spent all her money and was no better, but rather

grew worse when she heard about Jesus. And were so amazed and so thankful

that Jesus was in the picture right, because we all know that Jesus when

he goes around, his spreads to good news to the world. And he

also came in in the human flesh, and he said, she came behind

him in the crowd and touched his garment. And then she said, if

I may touch his clothes, I shall be made well. Now, if

you look at this particular picture, right, there's so much faith in the

in in the story. But of course it's very easy to just, you

know, reduce this whole sermon to just's a faith sermon, or say faith

message. But bear with me, it's not just about faith. Faith is

important, but there's more than just the faith. Okay, but most people

will see the faith jump up. If only I may touch his clothes,

I may be made well. Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up,

and she felt in her body that she was healed of affliction or suffering.

And Jesus really, knowing in himself that the power has gone out from

him, turn around in the crowd and said, who touched my clothes?

Who touched me? And the disciples probably wondering, what do you mean?

Everybody's touching you. Everybody's thronging you, right, So what do you mean

by who touched you? Everybody touched you? But he felt a certain change

or a certain shift in power. Right, So he looked around her and

and to see what who has done this thing? But the woman was faring

in, fearing and trembling, knowing what has happened to her, came and

fell down before him and told him the whole truth. And he said to

her daughter, your faith hath made you well. Go in peace and be

healed of your affliction. Okay, so that's the miracle story over there.

Now, while he was speaking, some came from the rulers of the synagogue's

house, saying that your daughter is dead. This is the first story earlier.

Okay, urgent call, my daughter is not well, she's dying,

and now she's did okay, so one is the present time. She's dead

lack Okay, why trouble the teacher any further. Now, as soon as

Jesus heard the word was spoken, and some variations say that Jesus ignored them,

he said to the ruler of the synagogue, do not be afraid,

only believe. Don't be afraid, just believe. Isn't that amazing? This

is basically what extra is all about, right, helping people believe, And

this is what it's all about. And he permitted no one to follow him

except Peter James and John, the brother of James. Then he came to

the house of the ruler of the synagogue and saw a tumult or basically outroar.

Okay, and those who wept and wailed loudly, everybody crying like because

obviously there is a death over there. Right when he came in, he

said to them, why make this commotion, why all this noise? Why

weep? The child is not dead but sleeping at the point in time.

Guess what, everybody naturally ridiculous? What are you talking about? Were you

smoking? Right? So we will say it in laymans them, you know.

He he, but he he was very firm. He put them outside.

You can see the Bible, he says, put them outside. He

took the father and the mud of the child and who were with him,

and entered where the child was lying. Then he took the child by the

hand, and he said, the litter to me, which is translated to

little girl, I say to you, arise the darth way that kind of

a thing arose anyway. Immediately the girl arose and walked. She was twelve

years of age. And they were overcome with great amazement. But he recommanded

them strictly that no one should know it, and said something should she be

given to eat, or in simple translate, do not stand there, get

her big mac because she's really hungry. She's been sleeping for quite some time.

Okay, yeah, okay, so I know a lot of scripture.

I know a lot of scripture, but I hope you survived that that's probably

the biggest bulk of the scriptures. But I wanted to also go to the

entire thing so that you can understand the picture and the context and in the

particular chapter. Right, the two stories although different, but they are put

together for a reason. Okay. I don't know whether anybody has noticed that,

but yeah, So initially, when I was putting a sermon title together,

I was telling you I'm very bad titles. So I was to say

things like a rise, you know, like a dart way they kind of

saw. But but it's not just that. It's not just about the faith

messages. I was telling you you'd be prettymature to jump straight into just looking

at it. And as I was reflecting upon these message this versus, I

realized there is more to that than just the faith story. Of course,

faith is important, but there's more to that. Okay, every okay,

so far, okay, so let's look at the context of the story.

Now, who was in the picture? Who else is in the picture?

That's the dad, right, the synagogue leader, the pastor. He's urgent,

He's like, come, come, come, come, my daughter is

dying. Right that that person, There is people in the crowd. There's

that woman. Right. There's also the people that said that a bodoka you

know, you know, like what's happening? You know, the girls did

so they are the people that ridiculed him. They laughed at him. In

fact, some versions says, but who are these people that laughed at Jesus?

Who do you think they are? Family? Friends members? Who do

you think they are? Okay? These are people that normally are what we

classify as doubters, people that are unbelieving, people that maybe faithless, argumentative

direct I don't know, but yeah, these are the ones that maybe perhaps

in other words, not so positive la right, I don't know that if

you've come across people like this in your lifetime. If you have not,

God bless you fantastic. But you know these are the same people sometimes right

when they walk out the room, right, the whole room lights up kind

of a thing, you know, I say, Right, they're not so

not so positive people. Okay, but there are people like that. I'm

quite sure you come across people like that where everything they see is always half

glass half I can never I cannot get it right. Half empty or half

full, but whichever way you want to look at it. LA, but

I think it's more half empty kind of people, right, yeah, so

they look at the negative, they focus on the negative. But those people

are the very problem in the situation, because you see, before Jesus did

the miracle, he actually had to literally take them out of the of the

of the picture. Okay, so again the focus is not just on the

miracle, but on as I mentioned earlier, then ironment. Okay, before

that could happen. Okay, okay, so far. So if you look

at verse forty again, now I've highlighted that in Sorry, I'm so sorry.

I forgot what I put up Verse forty. I think there's a slide

with worse forty. Uh, then I proode the slicer. Everything is yeah,

verse forty. Okay, is there one with a highlight. I think

there's one with a highlight of blue. If not, then I'm so sorry.

Can never mind. I've actually highlighted my version. They ridiculed him keyworder

number forty, the first part that they really killed him, and then he

had put them outside. Okay, so very clear cutter. They say something

that Jesus didn't like. Jesus took him. Sometimes we look at Jesus with

like, oh, he's a he's a very you know, teddy beag kind

of a god, right, you know, very loving he is. Don't

get me wrong, he is loving, but he can be quite gangt at

times as well. You know when the time when when when when the time

is required of him to be gangster. So he literally took them and threw

them out right, and you can say in that scripture he put them outside,

all outside. Okay, why because he knew that he had to physically

do this and remove them before uh, this miracle could happen. And again

it's not just people, okay, it could also be any negative thoughts helps

in your mind, or people that are messing with the atmosphere or the environment

for the miracle to happen, or preventing the miracle to happen. Okay.

So and that's why I titled the do message shoe cast it out, Get

it out before you know that thing can come to past because sometimes we always

say faith is what you need. Faith is what you need, but you

also need to set the environment right before that faith can take action. Okay,

and it makes sense after a while. Okay. Now, the power,

of course is in the miracle, but not just the miracle itself.

As I mentioned earlier, the atmosphere and the environment that surrounds that miracle is

also equally as important. Okay, Now let me just pray for I faking

this is an introduction again. Okay, let's pray. I say a long

prayer. No, no, no kidding, Father God, I just pray

Lord that you just come permit displaced Lord, Father mean your wisdom guide as

Father, as we look into your word today in Jesus, name me pray

amen Amen. Now yeah, So the background story is these two stories were

put together in a particular chapter, but they are actually very different, or

on the surface that at least it appears different. Okay. Why because one

is a rich person synagogue leader, and one is an unclean woman probably broke

by that time, because you know that the Bible says that she spends lots

of money to to to see physicians and all that. So they are different,

but at the same time they are same same I know, Okay,

I explained how they are. For those of you do not trust me,

I'm a I'm a I'm a researcher by trade, so I do tend to

do research a bit more So, if you don't got a paper written,

can you flash that paper? It's a it's a journal paper of sorts.

Yeah, so that's actually a paper written about how the two stories are connected.

I mean, someone's gonna very deep dive into it, published, et

cetera. So, uh, take if you don't take my word for it,

take the person's word for it that there is actually a lot of connections.

So on the surface, like I said, it's not connected, but

on in a deeper level it is. But how are they connected? Is

probably the question here, right, And the connection is really true? How

sometimes you know, life in general can really even out the playing field,

right? Uh? No matter what, right, if you're ill or if

you're unwell, whether you are you know well to do or not, you

still go to the same struggles and suffering. Remember the pandemic not too long

ago. Everybody was on the same page. Right, regardless of what you

drive, what you do, what you eat, we're all the same restrictions,

that is right. So that's what I meant by life. It's a

very interesting way of putting us or leveling out the playing field. Okay,

So let's look at how they are connected. Okay. Now, of course,

in our text we did say that this guy's is in a good leader,

a church pastor of sorts. The woman is an ordinary woman, and

of course, in that context in the women also in a lower scale in

terms of hierarchy back in those days. Okay, nowadays, we're not We're

not like that. I'm not trying to be sexist or whatever it is stating

the facts at that time. Okay. And then, of course there is

also the issue of blood. Uh. And then the two connected connected but

not now one of course, the very obvious one. One is a woman

and one is a man. Okay, they're different, okay. Uh.

Secondly, uh, one has a name we know, Gyrus. The other

person is unnamed woman. That shows how much different they are, Okay.

Uh. One was rich, one was poor or broke one one one also.

But the thing that tied them together, if you look very closely,

is that, as I mentioned to you, life came together level the playing

field. And one thing that is certain that is similar is that they were

both desperate. Okay, Why they desperate? God, That's what I meant

by saying life sort of level of the playing field. And what do desperate

people usually do desperate measures? Correct, they do exactly They behave exactly the

same way. Essentially, when you need help, you do you take desperate

measures whatever it takes to get it resolved. And sometimes we understand this,

and then we also say God allows certain things to happen to ensure that we

do not get detached from him. That's one, and then uh yealla,

we depending on him to a next tent. Okay, So when you're hit

by something you cannot handle, it's when you call out for God. In

this case, you know, one is unwell, unclean, and the other

person's daughters did so they're both equalis'sprate. They're both fighting for Jesus's attention.

Okay, all right, that's the desperation. They were both pushing people away.

If you look at the story right the crowd, they were pushing through

the crowd. Joison probably like, hey, Jesus, you know I got

my ticket first, I saw you first, I got a number. Hey,

why is this lady this lady cut cue or whatever you wanna call it,

And he was probably you know, going all out already halfway to the

house, and then he realized that Jesus wasn't behind me anymore. Okay,

they were both desperate. They pushed, they had to push to get through,

and the lady same things. Or they push true people to just touch

Jesus and that miracle happened. Okay, So why am I saying all this

is because you ever notice that when people are desperate, they would pray even

more like maybe like Daniel three times a day, maybe more than that,

even uh, they will worship with their hands lifted up even higher than usual

when they're desperate, right, desperation sometimes I sort of believe to say that

extent right, the pandemic was there to sort of remind us that we can

be complacent, He can be over complacent, and that of resets everything again

about how we need to really depend on God. Because people were in a

very uh uh you know, interesting season where people were very desperate, uh

for for human touch even godly touched as well. And and that that is

I mean, I believe that to an extent it was allowed to happen the

way it happened, so that there was that that recognition that the complacency shouldn't

be there because sometimes you know, everything is okay, and well we forget

that we need God. Right, So yeah, back to this. Are

you bought yet? Are you okay? Yeah? Sorry, Like I said,

my mind is all the place because I got another message in my head.

But now I but yeah, uh yeah, let's look through the details,

all right. So Gyrus obviously got to him first. He was desperate.

Uh. Earlier time there was a present and saying that she's not dead

yet, she's dying. Later on we read that she's dead. Okay.

The woman also desperate, right when Rue touched the the the the the the

the the clothes. Okay, Now, if you want to Hollywood, Hollywood

dies the whole thing, okay you can. You'll be like a new Netflix

series right where you see the things that is common between the two is also

the twelve years. Right. So at the end it was revealed that the

girl was twelve fish old, and if you remember the story from before,

this lady bled for cheldfish as well. So if you want to dramatize the

whole thing, they may be coming out from a hospital right. One scene

you know, will be a scene after the dad carrying the daughter. Oh,

you know, brings me memories of my first born, and you doting

on the on the little girl, and then in the background, out of

focus, right in the Hollywood movies, right then the girls like really the

doctor's report, Why God, why you know? And of course you know

that that medically, medically they were both in the same hospital, you know,

just to dramatize the whole thing, but they probably did not cross paths.

They were both and this is exactly what it is, right. Sometimes

we do not realize that we are often going through calamities or challenges and all

that we are very self centered, self focused on the problems that we're going

through, that we forget that sometimes even your neighbor next to you, seeing

next to you right now might be going through something that it may be similar,

but we are not, how they put it, not sensitive to it.

Okay, And this is exactly why he responded the way he responded,

because it's like, hey, my problem important was right, And this is

exactly what we are reminded of as well, that we cannot be too preoccupied

with just the things that we're going through that we sometimes even though when somebody

else receives a miracle and a promise that we do not rejoice with them as

well. Right, and that's the problem. It is a problem here.

So you can walk past people sometimes your office workers, your fellow peers in

your colleges, universities, in school, et cetera. They receive a blessing

and then you'll be like, huh, why not me the kind of thing.

You shouldn't be like that, right, it shouldn't be like that.

Okay. Now let me just remind you scripturally, Romans trailfa do have that.

Yeah, Romans traild Okay, So leve in action. The most important

part about it is in fifteen rejoice with those who rejoice, mon with those

who mo right. So this is a commandment, right that we are to

journey together. And that's why we do life together as a church as well,

because we are one. Happy times, sad times, you know,

we journey together. And that's why we always say that we need to have

a community. Now, let me just go into the deep dive a little

bit into the significance of the number twelve, because it's also no considents that

the number twelve is being utilized. If you can flash up one of the

yep, okay, so twelve, thanks twelve commandments. Okay. The twelve

Sons, which then represented the twelve tribes. Ishmael also had twelve princes okay,

twelve thousand, of course, coming from the tribes. After that.

Jesus the christ Bride is also in Revelation's twelve. The church that where's the

crown also contains twelve stars. The New Jerusalem contains twelve gets made of pearl.

Okay, So again you don't need a Bible degree to realize there is

some significance in here and there's no concidents. But if you do not like

the Old Testament stuff as well, there's also some Newer Testament stuff like like

you know, Jesus' twelve Disciples, et cetera, et cetera. Okay,

So I actually went through a book where I was in Melbourne. Again,

shot the book, next slide, I think, yeah, no, nice

sense, Sorry, did I have it there? It's called the Divine Code,

not the Divinsity Code. Now mine, if I maybe I send the

wrong slides, I'm so sorry. Okay, now mine, let's move on.

Yeah, but I also put up some other details up there about the

civic Syniicans of twelve. Uh, if you want to you can get a

copy of the slides. But needless to say, twelve is an important number,

not just in the Old Testament, but the New Testament as well.

Jesus when he started teaching, he was the age of twelve, and sometimes

I remind myself, I had to remind myself rather that my son is just

turned twelve this year. He can go and do things that you know he

should be doing at this age, but he's not a kid anymore. And

and there is that that that whole thing about Uh, you know, you

marvel at Jesus. This is an upper it's a upper primary, upper primary

school kid, right, amazing talking with the gurus of that time, you

know, with a lot of power, a lot of wisdom, a lot

of confidence. Sometimes you just brush off twelve feels that it never ever despise

the youth and what they can do. It's amazing, right, Yeah,

But just come back to this, Twelve actually signifies authority and power. Okay,

now in simple English again, just simply reminds us again that Heaven rules

love. Right, And why is this important? It's because he is saying,

or Jesus saying, that I don't care what you're going through. I

don't care what the situition is. If you understand the authority and the power,

there is nothing that cannot be solved. Okay, And sometimes we have

to bring ourselves to this because and that's why we pray in Jesus name as

well, not in Daniel's name, not in Raphael's name, right, because

there is power and authority in that name. So yeah, I have this

other slide next one, thank you. So the twelve not considents. It

actually signifies God's power and authority and almost the perfection of this whole you know,

governmental foundation. So why it is important because sometimes when you go through

things, you forget the authority, you forget his power. And I believe

in this story as well that the two of them, I wouldn't say they

don't have the same levels of faith or even higher levels of faith. It

is maybe the difference between the two is that the is the awareness of the

authority. The level of awareness of the authority between the two, maybe one

person has forgotten a little bit. Okay. Now, why is this important

is because how much recognition you have in God's authority will determine how much,

to a certain extent you will receive from Him as well or how much of

a miracle can happen. So if you have a larger or a more sensitive

awareness of it, basically get a lot more power in that particular miracle to

come. So sometimes we can behold the miracle by us not recognizing God's authority

or fully recognizes authority. You know, the song says mountains bowed down and

the seas will roll all right, that's the power, you know. And

if you link your faith with authority, your faith goes to the level.

Okay, I always liken this to a very simple fact that faith is like

an anchor. You troy it overboard, it does its job. But if

you forgot to anchor that anchor, that anchor with a rope, so sorry

my old place, that that rope is like the awareness of the authority,

then the anchor is not maximized because he will not do his job because you

just throw it all overboard and it's not actually linked to what is supposed to

be linked. So you need to link your faith to the authority, to

his authority rather, and then it will be another level. And that's why

I said earlier we shouldn't reduce that passage that earlier that it's just a matter

of faith, because we all know this, right, how much faith is

required for any miracle to happen, just as much I believe they have at

least this much. So the period was already there. But the awareness of

the authority is another thing that we need to work on. And as why

sometimes we say, right a Bible versesa. Faith is the substance of things

hoped for. It is the evidence of things not seeing he Brews eleven.

Without faith, it's impossible to please God he Brews eleven six. And and

you know, you need to understand that faith is like an anchor, right,

as I mentioned earlier, But you need connected because otherwise it will not

be fully maximized. But it's not a matter of faith, is a matter

of how much awareness. So whenever we just discount, oh, how come

you're not receiving a healing, is it because you're not you don't have faith?

May not be dead, you know, faith might be there because like

I said, to be enough with it siccret to Copordy right, my son

says he is malay hopeless and but secret is enough. But if you do

not have linked to the authority or his authority, then you're not maximizing it

love. Okay, so and and and again, not trying to be to

be little things that sometimes do not come to pass. But it may be

the awareness problem. Don't just say I got no faith, or he has

no he or she has no faith. It's not the object of It's not

the size of the faith. As we've discussed earlier. Right, I have

a slide next one, right, must it see its sufficient? But your

faith will struggle if you do not have or believe in His ultimate authority.

So it's never the size of the faith. It is the object of the

faith that that it thrives on. And that's why I say the environment is

important. Okay. Once you connect your faith with His or Jesus' authority,

your faith goes to the next level level up. Okay, Now give me

give you some examples. You look at the faith lesson in the in the

Jesus in the boat. Remember the storm came. Everybody panicked, I'm gonna

die. Jesus. Oh he's just doing sleeping. Maybe it's not ring as

well, who knows, but very calm, very comfortable. But everybody was

panicking because they thought that their lives were at stake. Right, But why

was Jesus so comfortable sleeping and all that. It's the authority. He knew

his authority in his not in himself only, also in his in God the

Father. And of course you know what he did he just do that was

like, you know, peace stop, and the whole seeds were calm.

That is authority, you know, not just faith, okay, but of

course it's faith as well, but the authority God in heaven and sorry say

kingdom. You know, the heavenly mindset right, Heaven rules right whenever things

happen on earth, right, even the wars that's happening. Now you think

up there people are in frenzy, like how governments are earthly are in friends,

Oh we're going to do you know, you know there's a war going

on up there. It's calm and collected. Why because authority. Again,

they understand the authority. It's the awareness that's important. They don't go in

anxiety. It's just like Jesus wasn't anxious. He's calm because he trusts in

the authority. So again, just to recap, we don't have a fair

problem. We may have an awareness of the authority problem. Okay, So

it's just something too mindful of and it's my earnest prayer that everybody do not

take this too lightly as well, in the midst of all the chaos craziness

in the world that we live in today, and trust me, it only

gets crazier roller coaster kind of thing, but fresh awareness of his authority has

to happen every single day, all right, So pray for that. Don't

say it's over till he says it's over all right, because he has the

ultimate authority, and it was the term in over to the fact that this

thing is no no, no, in over to Jesus says. So okay,

now let's come back to Gyrus and the woman again. As I mentioned

earlier, both going through different struggles. But I think the difference between two

is that the awareness of the authority of God. Okay, can I go

a bit deeper with this? Okay? You must understand Gyrus worked in the

synagogue. He's very well verse in this basically is a pastor, right as

I mentioned earlier, So when he approached Jesus, I'm quite sure he did

it with a lot of I mean urgency, yes, but there's also a

lot of respect, just like how I mean akin to today's world, and

if you have a problem, you might go to past the past. You

know, can you come? Is urgent you come, and you know,

help me pray over this situation. Ah. Then then in this case she's

yeah, cool, I'm coming, I'm walking over. And then the other

woman, just as I mentioned, just cut cure right because she's desperate as

one. But all she wanted, right is just a touch. Didn't want

to bring him to the house or so to to receive the healing, because

again, the awareness of authority is different. She feels that as long as

I touch, I know this authority is sufficient. I don't need him to

come to my house, right, whereas the person has two journey, probably

miles and miles away just to see that come to fruition. Okay, Again,

the focus is really the ultimate authority. So building faith, as I

mentioned, I put out another slide, building faith relates to recognizing the ultimate

authority, not just the faith itself, because faith is not just the problem.

Sometimes it is you know what you need to understand. And that's why

for us we often maybe just Mila, how many of you, if you

go to restaurant and get the wrong order, you might call for somebody to

come in fix the problem. Now, who do you normally call when you

want to fix that problem? Wa waiter, waitress? Sometimes if the person

cannot fix it, what you do ask for the manager? Right? Or

is it just me doing that? But why do you ask the manager?

High authority? That's exactly the one I'm trying to allude to here. You

go up, you escalate the case, right, because you know that that

person has the correct authority and power to do a thing. So this lady

here is in other words, it's like supervisor, right, because you know

the supervisor can do the thing. And I'll just share a quick story recently

the middle of the year, I was traveling a little bit for work and

I was sort of rushing to buy my etiquettes myself. So I was praying

appointing to point B in the car using a laptop mobile connection, and I

was because I was driving. I said through my laptop to my wife Jess

was next to me, can please go and book the thing for me?

She put it through. It went through, well, it didn't go through

this error, uh, And then later I went home I put it through

again. So, needless to say, there's a double charge for a flight

from Perth to Melbourne. That's why fabul like Austrian dollars by the way.

Uh. And then I'm like, oh man, it's one of those flights

right, no refunds, no, nothing, kind of cavet then so I'm

like, oh man, I'm so in trouble. Okay, So then I

just tried lot, went online, did the thing called the person, speak

to the manager, and then and be whole five minutes or rather I spoke

to the person the underlink first, and then the straight away escalated and then

five minutes prob go solved. So again is of course, praise God for

the testimony that I got my refine. But it shows that if you speak

to the right people, you get a better outcome from it. So what

I'm trying to say here is that go to Jesus love. In short,

don't even talk to whatever whoever people. I mean, speak to your leaders.

That's fine, but ultimately you still have to have that connection with Jesus

because he's the ultimate supervisor. Right, So do just that. And the

woman just did just that, consulted a lot of doctor's physicians. He realized

it is getting me nowhere. I need to escalate the case went straight to

Jesus. Touch a bit deity finish. Okay, So yeah, you need

to speak to your supervisor. And who's the supervisor. God is supervisor.

You need to speak to God of heaven and earth, not your heavenly manager.

You're earthly manager, all right. You need to speak to the Alpha

and the omega. Right, he was there from the beginning until the end.

He's still there, all right, So speak to God because he has

the full authority. He's got it under control. Right. Your faith is

the addition on, but his authority is equally important. Now let me just

quickly come to a close. I'm going to land very soon. But you

see, the woman right in this story or so can be seen as an

interrupter right to the next tent. Because the story started off by he said,

a Hollywood partner. The story started off by it, you know it

is, I need to go heal thisiclar person. And then suddenly this person

interrupted the whole miracle. And then, as I mentioned to you earlier,

Gyrus also didn't rejoice with the woman even though a miracle did happen. He

was sort of blinded by the calamities that's going through. Okay, and interruptions

are like this, all right, everything in life is urgent, everything,

especially for herself, is always urgent. Sometimes we feel that, hey,

Jesus, why why why is it taking so long for me to see that?

The prayer answered, why is the other person, you know, getting

a promotion where I'm I deserve a promotion, et cetera. Right, why

why? Why? Why? And then there's always all these questions, right,

and then you see right here he I mean she herself. You know,

it took some time to even to the courage to walk up to Jesus

to explain what's happened. And I'm thinking to myself, right, well,

imagine Gyrous in the situation right there. He's probably boiling you know, I

mean, no disrespect to women, right. But normally, when you tell

a story, a guy will use ten ten words to tell a story.

You know, the opposite gender will probably u one hundred words to tell the

same story, right, so you know it's going to be a long drawn

conversation. When Jesus asked, you know what, what what can you tell

me? Then Gyros are probably feeling like, oh, you know, Jesus,

don't you get didn't get the memo? My girl is dying, so

she probably he probably sees her as an interrupter. I told you his emergency,

God, why did he come? Truth for me? And Jesus can

also go and ask questions like who touched me? Like trying to play the

guessing game when the situation was dying, and in extreme can come up already

I'm I'm nearly done. Okay, now, Jesus, as you can see,

the story, not only waits, He waits for the woman to come

for a crowd, tell the long drawn story, and then, of course

the miracle did happen. But sometimes for us, when we observe a miracle

or somebody else's miracle, it can be quite frustrating from the observer's point of

view. Like I said earlier in that funny Hollywood scenario, is that,

yeah, we tend to focus on us and not realize what's happening to your

neighbor next door. But you know, ever seen somebody posts good news on

social media newborn child perhaps, and you've been struggling to have a child for

the last fifteen years, and you find yourself like, how am I going

to celebrate together for that miracle? And that is ultimately an issue as well

to the next tent. When Jesus makes you watch a miracle, it is

not to torture you or make you feel bad. I always believe that miracles

are shown to us, other people's miracles are shown to us, and it's

not we take testimonies, right, it's because that should be an encouragement that

if that Jesus can come true for the other person, yours would come true.

But maybe it's a timing thing. Maybe Again it's the awareness of the

authority thing that we need to work on, right. But it's not to

torture you, all right, even if you've seen somebody get married. Rather,

he's one hundred weddings. You've been to one hundred weddings and you're still

wondering where am I? No, it's not to torture you, and the

time is right. God will bring the right person to you, and that's

more important. So I want to encourage you, just like how at the

end of the story, you know he still did receive the miracle. It's

still a happy ending, right, But what did God do here? God

has to firstly, he has recognized the authority and power of God. And

then God has also removed the noise that is around there, So we circle

back one circle. All right, you need to put the things that are

not right aside for that miracle to come to pass. So the environment has

to be right. They started a funeral already, by the way, but

God say, hey, it's not a funeral. Why why do you like,

I say in over till God says so. So you need to start

practicing this, recognize the authority. Also start to drive out things that are

not right. Okay, and again not just talking to people. Okay,

don't just go and kick somebody your housemaid out of the house because you know

you don't feel comfortable with the person and things that he say. It's not

that I'm talking about things like fear, depression things or previous hurts. Perhaps

things that you deal with internally. Those are the things that need to drive

up. It may be impatience as well, anxiety, ah, you know,

disappointments, And that's why you see. Sometimes right when we are able

to recognize and understand and be in control of this, that miracle will come.

So please, if you I'll just get a better to stand right now,

I'm nearly done here, I'm landing now, so I just want to

encourage you if you struggle with this with every hit bout and eyes closed,

if there's some things that you know in your life that needs to be driven

out, need to be shoot out so that you can then see that miracle.

I just to encourage you to just lay it at the altar, allow

him to move again. It's not just the faith. Understand the authority and

the power that is also required. You know, check your environment what needs

to be driven away. It may be even the relationship that is not meant

to be and God is telling you that, hey, you know you need

to do something about it. It may be suicidal thoughts I don't know what

you're going through, or maybe a healing that you require for quite some time,

and you think that, what's the point. Lord, I've been doing

this, I've been praying for this so many times. You've got to drive

that out. God has not abandoned you. He is with you in and

out of season. So I think you need to just arrest in the confidence

that the power and authority is there. And if every eye is closed and

hit, but if you want to respond or you require prayer in this particular

area of breakthrough, you know, feel free to just creat Alton in front

of you and just pray. And even if you're there, you know you

can even lift up your hand in response and God would meet you there,

say, God would stop in his journey to meet you there to hear what

you have to say. God is not rushing at all. We hope you've

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