August 26, 2024 • 28 mins
Welcome back, Faith It Family!
In this heart-stirring episode, prepare for a deep dive into the transformative power of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Strap in quick as James get right to it, using the power of words to paint a vivid picture of spiritual rebirth, likening it to the peaceful moments after the chaos of childbirth. He shares his journey of co-parenting, emphasizing the miraculous changes Jesus has accomplished in his heart, enabling him to embrace new family dynamics with grace and gratitude.
We'll also explore some of the profound healing stories of Jesus in the scriptures, from the paralyzed man who was lowered through a roof to the blind man who was healed with mud and spit. These narratives not only demonstrate Jesus' miraculous physical healings but also serve as metaphors for spiritual enlightenment and inner transformation.
Throughout the episode, James highlights the importance of faith, obedience, and gratitude in our spiritual journeys. He discusses how these virtues unlock the blessings and grace of God, and how they help us navigate the trials and tribulations of life with a renewed perspective.
Whether you're facing challenges in your family, struggling with personal issues, or seeking a deeper connection with Jesus, this episode promises to inspire and uplift your spirit.
As always, we conclude with a powerful prayer, taking up the full Armor Of God and declaring protection and blessings over all of our listeners. You don't want to miss this episode. See you inside. God Bless!
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Hi, my name is Charlotte. I want to welcome you to Faith It Till You Make It
with my daddy, James Masse
Me and my sister just want to thank you all for being here.
Hi, my name is Gracie Bell. We just want to remind you. Jesus loves you! Bye!
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What's up, everybody? Welcome to Faith It Till You Make It.
I am your host, James Masse So before we get started, I just want to make
it a habit to start off the show with some good news. Amen.
So no matter who you are, where you've been, what you've done,
or where you're headed, Jesus loves you.
He knows you by name and he has amazing plans for your life.
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Jesus Christ willingly sacrificed himself for our salvation.
And then three days later, he rose again, conquering death, hell, and the grave.
All you have to do is believe in him, repent of your sins, invite him into your
heart, and follow his lead. I promise you, it will be the best and most important
decision of your entire life.
And if it sounds too good to be true, that's because it should be.
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But luckily for us, there's Jesus.
And that is why we call it the good news.
Your ticket to heaven is already paid in full. So just pick up your cross and let's go.
Music.
What's up, guys? We're just going to jump right into it. This is Jesus the Great
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Physician Part 2, Episode 12.
It's still a little raw like last week because most of this was shot at the same time.
But it's definitely a little cleaner, a little less raw. It's more like a medium rare.
But anyways, here we go.
Being born again, I really picture it like when a baby comes out of the womb, right?
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When the baby comes out and it's just like his eyes are closed.
It's all slimy. it's just like screaming and doctors are
like yanking it by its feet and just like wiping its
face and sticking stuff up its nose and just the
baby's like what is going on and then that baby like
gets wrapped up and the baby's warm and like calm right and then the baby's
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just like chilling and opens its eyes it's just like all that craziness the
delivery the screaming the the The machines, the crying,
the panic, right? The delivery.
And now all that is behind you, right? And this baby is just like wrapped in
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this blanket with this hat on. And it's just laying there.
And it's peaceful. And its little eyes open up. It can't see nothing.
But its little eyes are open.
You're holding it or the mother, the mother's holding it, the dad's holding
it, whatever. They're holding it together, you know, and that baby's so peaceful.
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That is the best way to describe being born again and finding Jesus and looking
at the world for the first time through those eyes.
Wow. Through those eyes of being born again and really seeing.
It's like, I still, I pray that still today that,
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that I can be wise enough or strong enough to look at the world through Jesus
instead of through my eyes, like lenses almost, right?
Like Jesus stands between me and everything and he takes it in and he processes
it to a level where I can handle it.
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Like this stuff with my mom or stuff with my daughters, my kids, right?
My ex and her boyfriend are serious, like serious, like they're going to end
up getting married and stuff. And I'm so happy for her and for him.
I met him. We went out to dinner. He's a really good guy. No man wants another
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man in their daughter's lives, especially at four and six.
But this new new me, you know, it's not me, it's Jesus in me,
just is able to just see benefits,
like the benefits of just having another person in their lives who loves them.
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And I'm going to tell you, I prayed for this guy before my ex prayed for this guy,
because I knew I just I
just a certain temperament a
certain openness and it's
it's he fits you know it's still not easy sometimes like you know with him and
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my daughters but it gets easier every single day every single day and you know
a lot of times we can look at something in a perspective where
it just seems like, oh, that's perfectly normal, right?
Like, you're a dad, you have two girls, it's hard enough splitting,
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you know, co-parenting, it's hard enough co-parenting coming out of a divorce.
Where you have to split your children with your ex, right?
It's hard for the father and it's hard for the mother. If both parents are good
parents and want time with their kids, because you know, some people take that
as an invitation to just go have freedom again.
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That's not us. That's not me and my ex.
We both want the kids. We love the kids. The kids come first and everything.
But what I was saying is it's so easy to be like, oh no, yeah,
I'm just like a dad who's protective over my girls.
But really, you have to really watch because pride or like selfishness,
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these things show their heads in very inconspicuous ways, right?
Like, of course, you're a dad with daughters.
Having another man enter their life is not going to be easy.
But if you really pray about it and you really dissect it and you really think
about the feelings that you're having, and this is like spiritual maturity.
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This is something I would have never been able to accomplish without Jesus in
my life. There's just no way.
But it just opens your eyes to, okay, if I'm looking at two beautiful little girls, right?
Now they have a mother who loves them. They have a father who loves them.
What's in the best interest of these girls? To have a stepfather who also loves
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them, and eventually a stepmother who also loves them, of course that's in their best interest.
Of course that's what's best for them, right?
So the process is not going to be easy. The process of everything is not easy,
right? That's why it's a process.
So when I can really look at that aspect of it, it's like, oh,
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this is what's best for them.
So anything in me that was resistant, not that it's resistant,
it's just like, when you first, I mean, if you're a divorced parent or a co-parent,
you understand immediately the first thing you think if you have kids,
the first thing you think is, oh man,
I'm going to have to share these kids with somebody one day outside of their
mother or their father, right? And that's scary and that's hard.
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But really all that is, is it's just selfish, you know, or it's pride, right?
Those are mine, right? But it really is amazing when your eyes are open to it.
That's what I mean about seeing benefits, like the benefits of having just another
person who loves them. And it really helps, man. It really helps.
And it's almost like you turn a corner where you're like, oh,
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not only am I not dreading this anymore, or not only is this not my worst nightmare
anymore, like I'm grateful.
Like, wow, I'm grateful. This is great. This is good. This is good for them.
Because, you know, this world is hard. I'm going to make sure my girls,
they're going to have a father who they can turn to.
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They're going to have a mother who they can turn to. They're going to have a
stepfather who they can turn to. They're going to have a stepmother who they can turn to.
And most importantly, they are going to have a God. They are going to have a
God in Jesus Christ who they can turn to when they need. And they will know that.
And that's, I mean, that's a blessing. That's amazing.
So, man, I can't tell you how, I can't tell you the work that this Jesus of
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mine has done in my heart and on me.
I mean, it's amazing. It really is truly amazing.
So I am grateful. And you know, the girls are so well adjusted.
It's a blessing because I know it's not always the case.
So it's good. They love him and he loves them.
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And this is really personal stuff. I did not plan on, I'm supposed to be talking
about healing, but I'm talking about how this is healing.
Some of you might be going through this, but looking at it, thinking of the
the old me and how I would process that,
man, I'm just so grateful for Jesus and for the transformation that he made
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in me because it's a miracle.
It is a complete miracle.
He can do anything. If he could fix me, he could fix anything.
The devil will try to remind you of who you were and try so hard to pull you
back to there because the more, it's like Romans 12, too, right?
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Don't be conformed to the world, be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
So it's like the more you realize, the more Jesus works on you,
the more you realize what the Bible says about you, right?
The more you fill yourself with the truths, truths the less
room there is for him to fill you with lies like
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it's so simple it's not
simple it's should be simple but
he's you know he's got a lot of practice at this he's he's a strategist he's
very good at what he does lie cheat steal kill destroy i mean he has so many
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weapons and And this world is designed to push us right into it,
starting with the news and the media and the fear and the fear,
fear, fear, fear, right?
Destroy the innocent, steal the peace, pump everybody full of fear,
you know, but when you find Jesus,
that's, you just, you get, like what I said about the baby, when the baby opens
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his eyes, when your spiritual eyes are opened, you, it's like the matrix,
dude, I can't even explain, when I did my 21 day fast,
I'm going to do an episode really soon about fasting, because Because as hard
as it is and as terrible as it could be some days, it is the most incredible.
That changed everything for me. That shifted my entire life.
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That actually made, that brought this, that birthed this podcast that changed
the trajectory of all my plans.
I mean, I can't even say enough about it, but it gave me vision like the matrix. tricks.
I started to see things in myself and the way the enemy has been using them
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against me and tricking me and making me believe things about myself from like
things that were planted in me in childhood.
I started to uncover all these things.
Or like there was a situation where someone tried to cause a lot of drama, right?
I'm not going down that road because... But anyway, Anyway, like a whole plan
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to just cause a bunch of problems, right? Complete lies.
But the Holy Spirit literally stops me in my tracks.
And when I tell you this was supernatural, stops me in my tracks and floods
my mind with every hole in the story.
Immediately, it was instantaneous.
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And all of a sudden, all these holes in the story showed up.
And I had this peace, like, so move on.
So let that go. Don't even entertain any of that.
That's never happened to me in my life.
So there is a level that you can tap into, and that's what fasting does.
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Like, people don't understand. The Bible doesn't say if you fast, it says when you fast.
So as a Christian, you are expected to fast, right? And these are the reasons.
Because there's growing that you can only do through fasting.
I know that now. I know that so well now.
And so does anyone who has fasted. I don't even know why I was talking about
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that, but, oh, yeah, how you can just be changed so much.
How Jesus can just, yeah, because even that is healing.
Healing things in me that I was tricked into believing about myself.
Like all these people, I have anxiety. I have ADHD.
I have depression. I have this. I have that. No, you live and die by the power of your tongue.
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It's like with horoscopes. My family was obsessed with horoscopes.
I was obsessed with horoscopes.
If I introduced myself to you, I'd be like, my name is James and I am a Scorpio. Like, bad.
I don't even look at that stuff anymore
because now I understand that it's demonic as a weapon of the enemy.
Right? So yeah. So while the enemy,
while the horoscope will tell you, yeah, you're passionate, you're
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sensual you're a great lover you're
you're considerate you're i forget just whatever they are awesome right then
on the back end it's like oh but you're but you're crazy and you're jealous
and you're mean and you're wild and you're you know short fused okay.
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So, so if I was the enemy, how could I get these people to come into agreement with me?
I ain't going to get them to come into agreement with me if I tell them a bunch of bad stuff.
But if I could tell them five good things, they will receive these five terrible
things because they're stupid, right? Yeah.
And it works. It works for millions of people, every billions,
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probably every single day.
Send me my horoscope so I can get these three good things so you can tell me
three bad things about myself so I can come into agreement with them and watch
how they manifest in my life and watch how, yeah, but when I look at my horoscope,
I really am all these things, the good ones and the bad ones.
Of course you are because you've been speaking them over your life your whole life.
Of course you are because you've been coming into agreement with them.
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The Bible says you live and die by the power of your tongue.
Your words become things. God created the universe with words.
He said, let me create man in my image. That means he created the universe with
words. That means our words create things, right?
You ever wake up and say, oh, I'm miserable today. I'm miserable today.
And then all of a sudden, what are you? You're miserable.
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And then what happens is snowballs. And then what happens? It becomes the worst day ever.
And then what happens? You go home and you fight with your husband or your wife
or your mom. You know what I'm saying? It's just, it's real.
You ever wake wake up and say, today's going to be the best day of my life.
And no matter what happens, you're just, it's, you're a different person, right?
You're a different person because you are a magnet and you're going to attract
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what you, what you are, whatever your tower emits, right?
This is real life. The law of attraction is real. It's not, it's first of all, it's biblical.
Second of all, it's scientific. And third of all, it's psychological.
Like it's been proven by all different scientists.
And it's just, it's real. It's real, right? And Jesus says this,
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right? Believe in what you're praying for.
You live and die by the power of your tongue.
Just, I mean, it's all over there. I don't have anything written down.
So anyway, what I was saying is, look who you surround yourself with because,
you know, your company matters.
Obviously, look at this. this man got healed.
You know, I didn't even get into that. Like, what even happens in that?
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Let me say Mark 2. I'm going to jump into that. Might as well.
Mark 2, 1 through 12, Jesus heals the paralyzed man.
When Jesus returned to Capernaum several days later, the news spread quickly that he was back home.
Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was
no more room, even outside the door.
While he was preaching God's word to them, four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat.
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They couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through
the roof above his head, and they lowered the man on his mat right down in front of Jesus.
Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, my child, your sins are forgiven.
But some of the teachers of religious law who were sitting there thought to
themselves, what is he saying?
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This is blasphemy. Only God can forgive sins.
Jesus knew immediately what So he asked them, why do you question this in your hearts?
Is it easier to say to the paralyzed man, your sins are forgiven,
or stand up, pick up your mat, and walk?
So I will prove to you that the Son of Man has the authority on earth to forgive sins.
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Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and says, stand up.
Pick up your mat and go home. And the man jumped up, grabbed his mat,
and walked out through the stunned onlookers.
They were all amazed and praised God, exclaiming, we've never seen anything like this before.
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Praise God. Yeah. So surround yourself with some believers.
Surround yourself with some good God-fearing Christians, right?
Marry one, if you can. Then Jesus heals the blind man. I gotta start moving.
Jesus heals a man born blind. Oh, this is a good one too.
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Demonstrating his power over physical blindness and providing a metaphor for
spiritual enlightenment.
In John 9, the blind man's journey from darkness to sight involves,
not only a miraculous healing, but also an inner transformation transformation,
as he becomes a bold witness for Jesus, amidst skepticism from the Pharisees
and his own parents' fear. Let's see.
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. Here we go. All right. John 9, 1-12. Let's do it.
Jesus heals the man that was born blind. As Jesus was walking along,
he saw a man who had been blind from birth.
Rabbi, his disciples, asked him, why was this man born blind?
Was it because of his own sins or his parents' sins?
It was not because of his sins or his parents' sins, Jesus answers,
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this happened so the power of God could be seen in him.
We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us.
The night has come, love that.
Then he spit on the ground, made mud with his saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man's eyes.
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He told him, go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam. So the man went and washed and came back seeing.
Let me just stop right there for a second. This is kind of a crazy story.
So this kind of, this is kind of like how when something is going on, right?
And we pray for something, right? Something's going wrong and we pray for something.
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And all of a sudden, everything starts going in the opposite direction,
right? Like things get worse.
I mean, this has happened to me. This happens to people, right?
This has probably happened to you.
Everything seems like it's going contradictory to what you're trying to accomplish
or what you're praying for or even what God showed you, right?
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Because a lot of times you gotta be stripped, crushed, stretched, pruned, clipped.
I mean, he says, I make your crooked
places straight. That does not sound comfortable in the process, right?
Or he burns the gold, or he burns the impurities out of the silver, right?
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Crushes the grapes to get the wine, crushes the olives to get the oil.
I mean, it's all about process, keeping your faith in the process,
right? So this man wants to see.
So first this man was blind. He wants to see.
Jesus shows up, right? This is like us. We get a revelation from God,
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and then we start praying for it, we start trying to move toward it,
but all of a sudden, things start getting worse, so this man was blind,
but now this man is blind with just dirt and spit all over his face,
right, does that seem like it got a little worse, right, and then Jesus tells
him, go find this place, so now he's blind with spit on his face,
looking for this lake, or what did he say, pool.
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Right, but Jesus knows, God knows what's waiting for him in that pool,
right, God knows what's waiting for us on the other side of that process.
It's up to us, right? It was up to him. Jesus didn't just say,
see, and the man could see.
No, this is showing us, right? There was still something that needed to be done.
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He needed to go wash in that pool. Why?
We don't know why, but it sounds to me like something was expected of him, right?
Something is expected of us. Keep keep our faith through the process and do
what God's telling us to do.
Obedience, right? We get rewarded for faith. We get rewarded for obedience.
We get rewarded for gratitude.
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I mean, I don't know how biblical that is, but in my own life, this has been the case.
Grace flows in the spirit of gratitude. I mean, I don't have anything in front of me.
Like I said, we're just rolling tonight, but gratitude, it's a big deal.
Come to think of it, be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication.
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With thanksgiving, present your requests to God, right?
What does thanksgiving sound like to you besides turkeys and pilgrims, right?
Sounds like gratitude, right? So he's telling you with thanksgiving,
present your requests to God.
Oh, so you mean to tell me I can come ask for something, but I should come to
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you with a spirit of gratitude for what you've already done?
Okay. So that's telling me, yeah, so grace does flow in the spirit of gratitude. That's good.
That's really good.
So, gratitude, obedience, gratitude, faith.
Faith, obviously, that's written, that's all throughout Scripture.
Without faith, we can't please God. God, have faith, walk by faith,
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not by sight. Faith, faith, faith, faith.
Everything, everything is faith. That's the currency in the kingdom that is undeniable, right?
What was the other thing? Faith, oh, obedience, yes.
Obedience. You could be the best, you could be the most talented,
influential person in the world, but if you're not obedient,
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you can't be used. You can't be used.
You could have the ability to do it, but if you don't have the willingness, it's worthless.
It's for nothing, right? So anyway,
obedience. Yeah, so this guy, he came back seeing.
His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar each asked,
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They asked, isn't this the man who used to sit and beg? Some said he was.
Others said, no, he just looks like him. But the beggar kept saying, yes, I am the same one.
They asked, who healed you? What happened? He told them, the man they called
Jesus made mud and spread it over my eyes and told me, go to the pool of Siloam and wash yourself.
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So I went and washed and now I can see. Where is he now? I don't know.
Then they took the man who'd been blind to the Pharisees because it was on the
Sabbath and Jesus had made the mud and healed him.
The Pharisees asked the man all about it. So he told them, he put the mud over
my eyes and then washed it away.
I could see. I just love how, I mean, right here I have like,
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I don't know, one, two, three, four, five, they're like, I don't know,
15, 15 like situations like this where Jesus healed people.
And the thing I love is that he did did something very different each and every single time.
I feel like that was him telling us that like all of our situations are different.
You can't look at someone whose situation is kind of similar to yours and expect
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it to go the same way theirs did.
Because look at this, look at, that wasn't the only blind person he healed.
That was just the only blind person he healed like that. right this
this man script god is amazing god is
amazing if you just even tonight
reading these scriptures for me this is renewing
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my mind and they say like scripture is a double-edged sword so as i'm telling
you guys this it's sharpening me i know i said this before but like these things
have to be reiterated because it's the truth and it's so easy to forget sometimes
i'll see a a scripture that I'll be obsessed with a scripture for like four months.
All of a sudden, two months later, I'll see it and I totally forgot it existed.
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And I'm like, oh, that's right.
Wow. I could have used that three days ago. Right?
Like what, what came up today? Oh, I wrote in my, like over a month ago,
I wrote in my little, little notepad that I bring to church with me,
the anointing breaks the yoke, right?
And this is totally unrelated, but this has been on my heart.
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The Anointing Breaks the Yoke. It's from Isaiah 10.
It's from Isaiah. I haven't written, but The Anointing Breaks the Yoke.
I wrote that like a month ago, and I needed to hear it today.
And today in church, I opened the book and looked right at it,
and it just jumped at me, smacked me in the face.
Here we are again, guys. We are going to cut this episode here,
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and then next week for episode 13 will be Jesus the Great Physician part three.
This series has definitely been very spirit-led i hope you guys are enjoying
it as much as i am stick around for the armor of god and we'll see you next time.
Whether you know it or believe it ephesians tells us that we do not wrestle
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against flesh and blood but against principalities and the rulers of the darkness
in this world so let's pray father i take up the full and complete armor of
God over everybody under the sound of my voice.
I declare and decree the cross and the blood of Jesus to protect us,
our families, and our peoples.
Father, with the power of prayer and all of your promises in scripture,
I take up the belt of truth. I take up the breastplate of righteousness.
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I take up the boots of the gospel of peace. I take up the shield of faith.
I take up the helmet of salvation, and I take up the sword of the spirit.
I take up the full and complete armor of God. I declare and decree that no weapon
formed against us shall ever prosper,
that God will never leave us nor forsake us, that God's plan is to bless us
and not to harm us, and that greater is he who is in us than he who is in this world.
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I bind and rebuke any plan or
scheme that the enemy tries to form against us. I claim the word of God.
I claim the power of the Holy Spirit.
I claim all of God's armies of angels in heaven, and I claim the precious blood
of my Lord and Savior over our protection in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
Music.
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Amen. This is Faith Until You Make It with James Masse, and I just want to
thank everybody for for being here.
I pray that you guys leave with a little bit more than you came with.
Get out there and tell somebody about the show. And while you're out there,
definitely tell somebody about Jesus. Love you all. God bless you,
and we'll see you next time.
Hi, my name is Charlotte. I want to welcome you to Faith It Till You Make It
with my daddy, James Masse
Me and my sister just want to thank you all for being here.
Hi, my name is Gracie Bell. We just want to remind you. Jesus loves you! Bye!
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What's up, everybody? Welcome to Faith It Till You Make It.
I am your host, James Masse So before we get started, I just want to make
it a habit to start off the show with some good news. Amen.
So no matter who you are, where you've been, what you've done,
or where you're headed, Jesus loves you.
He knows you by name and he has amazing plans for your life.
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Jesus Christ willingly sacrificed himself for our salvation.
And then three days later, he rose again, conquering death, hell, and the grave.
All you have to do is believe in him, repent of your sins, invite him into your
heart, and follow his lead. I promise you, it will be the best and most important
decision of your entire life.
And if it sounds too good to be true, that's because it should be.
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But luckily for us, there's Jesus.
And that is why we call it the good news.
Your ticket to heaven is already paid in full. So just pick up your cross and let's go.
Music.
What's up, guys? We're just going to jump right into it. This is Jesus the Great
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Physician Part 2, Episode 12.
It's still a little raw like last week because most of this was shot at the same time.
But it's definitely a little cleaner, a little less raw. It's more like a medium rare.
But anyways, here we go.
Being born again, I really picture it like when a baby comes out of the womb, right?
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When the baby comes out and it's just like his eyes are closed.
It's all slimy. it's just like screaming and doctors are
like yanking it by its feet and just like wiping its
face and sticking stuff up its nose and just the
baby's like what is going on and then that baby like
gets wrapped up and the baby's warm and like calm right and then the baby's
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just like chilling and opens its eyes it's just like all that craziness the
delivery the screaming the the The machines, the crying,
the panic, right? The delivery.
And now all that is behind you, right? And this baby is just like wrapped in
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this blanket with this hat on. And it's just laying there.
And it's peaceful. And its little eyes open up. It can't see nothing.
But its little eyes are open.
You're holding it or the mother, the mother's holding it, the dad's holding
it, whatever. They're holding it together, you know, and that baby's so peaceful.
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That is the best way to describe being born again and finding Jesus and looking
at the world for the first time through those eyes.
Wow. Through those eyes of being born again and really seeing.
It's like, I still, I pray that still today that,
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that I can be wise enough or strong enough to look at the world through Jesus
instead of through my eyes, like lenses almost, right?
Like Jesus stands between me and everything and he takes it in and he processes
it to a level where I can handle it.
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Like this stuff with my mom or stuff with my daughters, my kids, right?
My ex and her boyfriend are serious, like serious, like they're going to end
up getting married and stuff. And I'm so happy for her and for him.
I met him. We went out to dinner. He's a really good guy. No man wants another
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man in their daughter's lives, especially at four and six.
But this new new me, you know, it's not me, it's Jesus in me,
just is able to just see benefits,
like the benefits of just having another person in their lives who loves them.
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And I'm going to tell you, I prayed for this guy before my ex prayed for this guy,
because I knew I just I
just a certain temperament a
certain openness and it's
it's he fits you know it's still not easy sometimes like you know with him and
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my daughters but it gets easier every single day every single day and you know
a lot of times we can look at something in a perspective where
it just seems like, oh, that's perfectly normal, right?
Like, you're a dad, you have two girls, it's hard enough splitting,
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you know, co-parenting, it's hard enough co-parenting coming out of a divorce.
Where you have to split your children with your ex, right?
It's hard for the father and it's hard for the mother. If both parents are good
parents and want time with their kids, because you know, some people take that
as an invitation to just go have freedom again.
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That's not us. That's not me and my ex.
We both want the kids. We love the kids. The kids come first and everything.
But what I was saying is it's so easy to be like, oh no, yeah,
I'm just like a dad who's protective over my girls.
But really, you have to really watch because pride or like selfishness,
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these things show their heads in very inconspicuous ways, right?
Like, of course, you're a dad with daughters.
Having another man enter their life is not going to be easy.
But if you really pray about it and you really dissect it and you really think
about the feelings that you're having, and this is like spiritual maturity.
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This is something I would have never been able to accomplish without Jesus in
my life. There's just no way.
But it just opens your eyes to, okay, if I'm looking at two beautiful little girls, right?
Now they have a mother who loves them. They have a father who loves them.
What's in the best interest of these girls? To have a stepfather who also loves
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them, and eventually a stepmother who also loves them, of course that's in their best interest.
Of course that's what's best for them, right?
So the process is not going to be easy. The process of everything is not easy,
right? That's why it's a process.
So when I can really look at that aspect of it, it's like, oh,
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this is what's best for them.
So anything in me that was resistant, not that it's resistant,
it's just like, when you first, I mean, if you're a divorced parent or a co-parent,
you understand immediately the first thing you think if you have kids,
the first thing you think is, oh man,
I'm going to have to share these kids with somebody one day outside of their
mother or their father, right? And that's scary and that's hard.
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But really all that is, is it's just selfish, you know, or it's pride, right?
Those are mine, right? But it really is amazing when your eyes are open to it.
That's what I mean about seeing benefits, like the benefits of having just another
person who loves them. And it really helps, man. It really helps.
And it's almost like you turn a corner where you're like, oh,
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not only am I not dreading this anymore, or not only is this not my worst nightmare
anymore, like I'm grateful.
Like, wow, I'm grateful. This is great. This is good. This is good for them.
Because, you know, this world is hard. I'm going to make sure my girls,
they're going to have a father who they can turn to.
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They're going to have a mother who they can turn to. They're going to have a
stepfather who they can turn to. They're going to have a stepmother who they can turn to.
And most importantly, they are going to have a God. They are going to have a
God in Jesus Christ who they can turn to when they need. And they will know that.
And that's, I mean, that's a blessing. That's amazing.
So, man, I can't tell you how, I can't tell you the work that this Jesus of
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mine has done in my heart and on me.
I mean, it's amazing. It really is truly amazing.
So I am grateful. And you know, the girls are so well adjusted.
It's a blessing because I know it's not always the case.
So it's good. They love him and he loves them.
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And this is really personal stuff. I did not plan on, I'm supposed to be talking
about healing, but I'm talking about how this is healing.
Some of you might be going through this, but looking at it, thinking of the
the old me and how I would process that,
man, I'm just so grateful for Jesus and for the transformation that he made
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in me because it's a miracle.
It is a complete miracle.
He can do anything. If he could fix me, he could fix anything.
The devil will try to remind you of who you were and try so hard to pull you
back to there because the more, it's like Romans 12, too, right?
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Don't be conformed to the world, be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
So it's like the more you realize, the more Jesus works on you,
the more you realize what the Bible says about you, right?
The more you fill yourself with the truths, truths the less
room there is for him to fill you with lies like
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it's so simple it's not
simple it's should be simple but
he's you know he's got a lot of practice at this he's he's a strategist he's
very good at what he does lie cheat steal kill destroy i mean he has so many
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weapons and And this world is designed to push us right into it,
starting with the news and the media and the fear and the fear,
fear, fear, fear, right?
Destroy the innocent, steal the peace, pump everybody full of fear,
you know, but when you find Jesus,
that's, you just, you get, like what I said about the baby, when the baby opens
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his eyes, when your spiritual eyes are opened, you, it's like the matrix,
dude, I can't even explain, when I did my 21 day fast,
I'm going to do an episode really soon about fasting, because Because as hard
as it is and as terrible as it could be some days, it is the most incredible.
That changed everything for me. That shifted my entire life.
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That actually made, that brought this, that birthed this podcast that changed
the trajectory of all my plans.
I mean, I can't even say enough about it, but it gave me vision like the matrix. tricks.
I started to see things in myself and the way the enemy has been using them
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against me and tricking me and making me believe things about myself from like
things that were planted in me in childhood.
I started to uncover all these things.
Or like there was a situation where someone tried to cause a lot of drama, right?
I'm not going down that road because... But anyway, Anyway, like a whole plan
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to just cause a bunch of problems, right? Complete lies.
But the Holy Spirit literally stops me in my tracks.
And when I tell you this was supernatural, stops me in my tracks and floods
my mind with every hole in the story.
Immediately, it was instantaneous.
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And all of a sudden, all these holes in the story showed up.
And I had this peace, like, so move on.
So let that go. Don't even entertain any of that.
That's never happened to me in my life.
So there is a level that you can tap into, and that's what fasting does.
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Like, people don't understand. The Bible doesn't say if you fast, it says when you fast.
So as a Christian, you are expected to fast, right? And these are the reasons.
Because there's growing that you can only do through fasting.
I know that now. I know that so well now.
And so does anyone who has fasted. I don't even know why I was talking about
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that, but, oh, yeah, how you can just be changed so much.
How Jesus can just, yeah, because even that is healing.
Healing things in me that I was tricked into believing about myself.
Like all these people, I have anxiety. I have ADHD.
I have depression. I have this. I have that. No, you live and die by the power of your tongue.
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It's like with horoscopes. My family was obsessed with horoscopes.
I was obsessed with horoscopes.
If I introduced myself to you, I'd be like, my name is James and I am a Scorpio. Like, bad.
I don't even look at that stuff anymore
because now I understand that it's demonic as a weapon of the enemy.
Right? So yeah. So while the enemy,
while the horoscope will tell you, yeah, you're passionate, you're
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sensual you're a great lover you're
you're considerate you're i forget just whatever they are awesome right then
on the back end it's like oh but you're but you're crazy and you're jealous
and you're mean and you're wild and you're you know short fused okay.
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So, so if I was the enemy, how could I get these people to come into agreement with me?
I ain't going to get them to come into agreement with me if I tell them a bunch of bad stuff.
But if I could tell them five good things, they will receive these five terrible
things because they're stupid, right? Yeah.
And it works. It works for millions of people, every billions,
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probably every single day.
Send me my horoscope so I can get these three good things so you can tell me
three bad things about myself so I can come into agreement with them and watch
how they manifest in my life and watch how, yeah, but when I look at my horoscope,
I really am all these things, the good ones and the bad ones.
Of course you are because you've been speaking them over your life your whole life.
Of course you are because you've been coming into agreement with them.
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The Bible says you live and die by the power of your tongue.
Your words become things. God created the universe with words.
He said, let me create man in my image. That means he created the universe with
words. That means our words create things, right?
You ever wake up and say, oh, I'm miserable today. I'm miserable today.
And then all of a sudden, what are you? You're miserable.
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And then what happens is snowballs. And then what happens? It becomes the worst day ever.
And then what happens? You go home and you fight with your husband or your wife
or your mom. You know what I'm saying? It's just, it's real.
You ever wake wake up and say, today's going to be the best day of my life.
And no matter what happens, you're just, it's, you're a different person, right?
You're a different person because you are a magnet and you're going to attract
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what you, what you are, whatever your tower emits, right?
This is real life. The law of attraction is real. It's not, it's first of all, it's biblical.
Second of all, it's scientific. And third of all, it's psychological.
Like it's been proven by all different scientists.
And it's just, it's real. It's real, right? And Jesus says this,
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right? Believe in what you're praying for.
You live and die by the power of your tongue.
Just, I mean, it's all over there. I don't have anything written down.
So anyway, what I was saying is, look who you surround yourself with because,
you know, your company matters.
Obviously, look at this. this man got healed.
You know, I didn't even get into that. Like, what even happens in that?
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Let me say Mark 2. I'm going to jump into that. Might as well.
Mark 2, 1 through 12, Jesus heals the paralyzed man.
When Jesus returned to Capernaum several days later, the news spread quickly that he was back home.
Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was
no more room, even outside the door.
While he was preaching God's word to them, four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat.
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They couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through
the roof above his head, and they lowered the man on his mat right down in front of Jesus.
Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, my child, your sins are forgiven.
But some of the teachers of religious law who were sitting there thought to
themselves, what is he saying?
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This is blasphemy. Only God can forgive sins.
Jesus knew immediately what So he asked them, why do you question this in your hearts?
Is it easier to say to the paralyzed man, your sins are forgiven,
or stand up, pick up your mat, and walk?
So I will prove to you that the Son of Man has the authority on earth to forgive sins.
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Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and says, stand up.
Pick up your mat and go home. And the man jumped up, grabbed his mat,
and walked out through the stunned onlookers.
They were all amazed and praised God, exclaiming, we've never seen anything like this before.
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Praise God. Yeah. So surround yourself with some believers.
Surround yourself with some good God-fearing Christians, right?
Marry one, if you can. Then Jesus heals the blind man. I gotta start moving.
Jesus heals a man born blind. Oh, this is a good one too.
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Demonstrating his power over physical blindness and providing a metaphor for
spiritual enlightenment.
In John 9, the blind man's journey from darkness to sight involves,
not only a miraculous healing, but also an inner transformation transformation,
as he becomes a bold witness for Jesus, amidst skepticism from the Pharisees
and his own parents' fear. Let's see.
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. Here we go. All right. John 9, 1-12. Let's do it.
Jesus heals the man that was born blind. As Jesus was walking along,
he saw a man who had been blind from birth.
Rabbi, his disciples, asked him, why was this man born blind?
Was it because of his own sins or his parents' sins?
It was not because of his sins or his parents' sins, Jesus answers,
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this happened so the power of God could be seen in him.
We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us.
The night has come, love that.
Then he spit on the ground, made mud with his saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man's eyes.
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He told him, go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam. So the man went and washed and came back seeing.
Let me just stop right there for a second. This is kind of a crazy story.
So this kind of, this is kind of like how when something is going on, right?
And we pray for something, right? Something's going wrong and we pray for something.
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And all of a sudden, everything starts going in the opposite direction,
right? Like things get worse.
I mean, this has happened to me. This happens to people, right?
This has probably happened to you.
Everything seems like it's going contradictory to what you're trying to accomplish
or what you're praying for or even what God showed you, right?
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Because a lot of times you gotta be stripped, crushed, stretched, pruned, clipped.
I mean, he says, I make your crooked
places straight. That does not sound comfortable in the process, right?
Or he burns the gold, or he burns the impurities out of the silver, right?
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Crushes the grapes to get the wine, crushes the olives to get the oil.
I mean, it's all about process, keeping your faith in the process,
right? So this man wants to see.
So first this man was blind. He wants to see.
Jesus shows up, right? This is like us. We get a revelation from God,
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and then we start praying for it, we start trying to move toward it,
but all of a sudden, things start getting worse, so this man was blind,
but now this man is blind with just dirt and spit all over his face,
right, does that seem like it got a little worse, right, and then Jesus tells
him, go find this place, so now he's blind with spit on his face,
looking for this lake, or what did he say, pool.
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Right, but Jesus knows, God knows what's waiting for him in that pool,
right, God knows what's waiting for us on the other side of that process.
It's up to us, right? It was up to him. Jesus didn't just say,
see, and the man could see.
No, this is showing us, right? There was still something that needed to be done.
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He needed to go wash in that pool. Why?
We don't know why, but it sounds to me like something was expected of him, right?
Something is expected of us. Keep keep our faith through the process and do
what God's telling us to do.
Obedience, right? We get rewarded for faith. We get rewarded for obedience.
We get rewarded for gratitude.
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I mean, I don't know how biblical that is, but in my own life, this has been the case.
Grace flows in the spirit of gratitude. I mean, I don't have anything in front of me.
Like I said, we're just rolling tonight, but gratitude, it's a big deal.
Come to think of it, be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication.
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With thanksgiving, present your requests to God, right?
What does thanksgiving sound like to you besides turkeys and pilgrims, right?
Sounds like gratitude, right? So he's telling you with thanksgiving,
present your requests to God.
Oh, so you mean to tell me I can come ask for something, but I should come to
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you with a spirit of gratitude for what you've already done?
Okay. So that's telling me, yeah, so grace does flow in the spirit of gratitude. That's good.
That's really good.
So, gratitude, obedience, gratitude, faith.
Faith, obviously, that's written, that's all throughout Scripture.
Without faith, we can't please God. God, have faith, walk by faith,
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not by sight. Faith, faith, faith, faith.
Everything, everything is faith. That's the currency in the kingdom that is undeniable, right?
What was the other thing? Faith, oh, obedience, yes.
Obedience. You could be the best, you could be the most talented,
influential person in the world, but if you're not obedient,
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you can't be used. You can't be used.
You could have the ability to do it, but if you don't have the willingness, it's worthless.
It's for nothing, right? So anyway,
obedience. Yeah, so this guy, he came back seeing.
His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar each asked,
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They asked, isn't this the man who used to sit and beg? Some said he was.
Others said, no, he just looks like him. But the beggar kept saying, yes, I am the same one.
They asked, who healed you? What happened? He told them, the man they called
Jesus made mud and spread it over my eyes and told me, go to the pool of Siloam and wash yourself.
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So I went and washed and now I can see. Where is he now? I don't know.
Then they took the man who'd been blind to the Pharisees because it was on the
Sabbath and Jesus had made the mud and healed him.
The Pharisees asked the man all about it. So he told them, he put the mud over
my eyes and then washed it away.
I could see. I just love how, I mean, right here I have like,
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I don't know, one, two, three, four, five, they're like, I don't know,
15, 15 like situations like this where Jesus healed people.
And the thing I love is that he did did something very different each and every single time.
I feel like that was him telling us that like all of our situations are different.
You can't look at someone whose situation is kind of similar to yours and expect
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it to go the same way theirs did.
Because look at this, look at, that wasn't the only blind person he healed.
That was just the only blind person he healed like that. right this
this man script god is amazing god is
amazing if you just even tonight
reading these scriptures for me this is renewing
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my mind and they say like scripture is a double-edged sword so as i'm telling
you guys this it's sharpening me i know i said this before but like these things
have to be reiterated because it's the truth and it's so easy to forget sometimes
i'll see a a scripture that I'll be obsessed with a scripture for like four months.
All of a sudden, two months later, I'll see it and I totally forgot it existed.
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And I'm like, oh, that's right.
Wow. I could have used that three days ago. Right?
Like what, what came up today? Oh, I wrote in my, like over a month ago,
I wrote in my little, little notepad that I bring to church with me,
the anointing breaks the yoke, right?
And this is totally unrelated, but this has been on my heart.
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The Anointing Breaks the Yoke. It's from Isaiah 10.
It's from Isaiah. I haven't written, but The Anointing Breaks the Yoke.
I wrote that like a month ago, and I needed to hear it today.
And today in church, I opened the book and looked right at it,
and it just jumped at me, smacked me in the face.
Here we are again, guys. We are going to cut this episode here,
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and then next week for episode 13 will be Jesus the Great Physician part three.
This series has definitely been very spirit-led i hope you guys are enjoying
it as much as i am stick around for the armor of god and we'll see you next time.
Whether you know it or believe it ephesians tells us that we do not wrestle
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against flesh and blood but against principalities and the rulers of the darkness
in this world so let's pray father i take up the full and complete armor of
God over everybody under the sound of my voice.
I declare and decree the cross and the blood of Jesus to protect us,
our families, and our peoples.
Father, with the power of prayer and all of your promises in scripture,
I take up the belt of truth. I take up the breastplate of righteousness.
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I take up the boots of the gospel of peace. I take up the shield of faith.
I take up the helmet of salvation, and I take up the sword of the spirit.
I take up the full and complete armor of God. I declare and decree that no weapon
formed against us shall ever prosper,
that God will never leave us nor forsake us, that God's plan is to bless us
and not to harm us, and that greater is he who is in us than he who is in this world.
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I bind and rebuke any plan or
scheme that the enemy tries to form against us. I claim the word of God.
I claim the power of the Holy Spirit.
I claim all of God's armies of angels in heaven, and I claim the precious blood
of my Lord and Savior over our protection in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
Music.
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Amen. This is Faith Until You Make It with James Masse, and I just want to
thank everybody for for being here.
I pray that you guys leave with a little bit more than you came with.
Get out there and tell somebody about the show. And while you're out there,
definitely tell somebody about Jesus. Love you all. God bless you,
and we'll see you next time.
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