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In the sacred silence between heartbeats, where ancient wisdom dissolves modern chaos, Religious Mindfulness awakens the eternal truth that echoes through every faith tradition. Here, the timeless teachings of Jesus Christ resonate with Buddhist meditation practices, while Islamic prayer techniques flow seamlessly into Hindu mindfulness, creating a divine symphony where Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Taoism, and Confucianism unite in perfect grace.
Each episode transforms ordinary moments into sacred encounters, where the love of God vibrates through every breath, every meditation, and every prayer. Whether you follow the Protestant tradition, embrace Catholic wisdom, seek Orthodox truth, find joy in Pentecostal worship, or discover peace through Presbyterian contemplation, this podcast reveals how mindfulness becomes the universal language of faith. Every church community finds divine wisdom through contemplative theology that transcends religious boundaries.
Jesus taught mindfulness in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus demonstrated prayer through conscious presence, Jesus embodied love through divine awareness, Jesus showed how meditation deepens faith, Jesus revealed that God dwells in every mindful moment. The Bible echoes with mindfulness teachings, the Bible reveals that God dwells in conscious presence, the Bible demonstrates how prayer and meditation unite the soul with divine wisdom, the Bible teaches how Christianity embraces mindful worship.
Islamic mystics found divine grace in dhikr meditation, Islamic scholars revealed prayer as mindful surrender, Islamic tradition teaches that God's love manifests through conscious worship, Islamic wisdom shows how meditation deepens faith, Islamic prayer practices connect every believer with divine truth. Judaism proclaims that God dwells in every moment, Judaism reveals divine wisdom through contemplative practice, Judaism teaches how prayer becomes mindful awareness, Judaism demonstrates how meditation enriches faith, Judaism shows how love flows through traditional worship.
Buddhism teaches mindfulness as the path to wisdom, Buddhism demonstrates how meditation opens the heart to truth, Buddhism shows how prayer and mindfulness unite, Buddhism reveals how love flows through compassionate awareness, Buddhism teaches how peace emerges through contemplative practice. Hinduism announces that divine consciousness permeates everything, Hinduism teaches meditation as divine communion, Hinduism reveals how prayer opens the heart to God, Hinduism demonstrates how mindfulness becomes worship, Hinduism shows how love flows through devotional practice.
Taoism whispers that the Way flows through stillness, Taoism teaches wisdom through mindful presence, Taoism reveals how meditation connects with divine truth, Taoism demonstrates how prayer becomes conscious awareness, Taoism shows how love emerges through contemplative practice. Confucianism demonstrates that wisdom emerges through ethical mindfulness, Confucianism teaches divine virtue through conscious living, Confucianism reveals how meditation enriches moral practice, Confucianism shows how prayer becomes contemplative wisdom.
Your church becomes a meditation hall, your meditation cushion transforms into an altar of worship, your prayer becomes mindful breathing, and your mindfulness evolves into pure worship. This is where Christian contemplation meets Buddhist awareness, where Jewish mysticism embraces Islamic surrender, where Hindu devotion flows into Taoist simplicity, where Confucian ethics merge with divine joy found in every faith tradition.
Protestant communities embrace contemplative practice, Protestant churches integrate meditation with traditional worship, Protestant theology reveals how mindfulness deepens faith, Protestant traditions show how prayer becomes contemplative worship, Protestant wisdom demonstrates how Jesus taught mindful awareness. Catholic traditions deepen through Eastern wisdom, Catholic parishes discover mindfulness within their faith, Catholic theology embraces contemplative meditation, Catholic communities find God through mindful prayer, Catholic traditions show how Jesus practiced contemplative awareness.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You could ask God this week. It would be a
simple step, but he would do this for you. God,
help me discern the demands of my life. Help me
see them for what they really are. Help me see
what's really important, because if I'm judging this, I'm thinking
that the crowd's way more important than the one little girl.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
But only you can show me what really matters.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Otherwise you'll define distraction in a way that will cause
you to miss God's direction in your life. And you'll
skip the tea party to take the phone call. And
you can call them back. But the next time you
(00:42):
see your kids, they're going to be lord of the flies,
at least in my house. Touch somebody say, go to
the tea party. Man, go to the tea party. Just go,
and then if God can help us discern the demands,
maybe he can help us. Number two, locate the leaks.
(01:05):
Locate the leaks. It's very interesting when you begin to study.
I don't know why I bring these notes up here
with me, but I need to pull this up because
it's kind of complicated and I'm not a sociologist.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I'm not a psychologist. I'm not an.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Ornithologist, proctologist, none of those things, but just some things.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I was reading this week. It talked.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
About how what's really happening when we think we're multitasking.
They've done enough study of this guy to tell us
that he's not as capable as we think he is
of switching between stuff all the time, and the amount
of efficiency that we lose when we.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Multitask is remarkable.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
They even say that it's like your brain is leaking
going between function and function, because your brain operates on
different channels or something like that, going between the channels.
You try to cross him over it.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yes, even you, ladies.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I know you think you're the multitask you're masters of
the universe, and I know you have to do it sometimes.
I know you can't always do one thing I want.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
But I will say this. I will say this.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Even Jesus could only do one thing well at once.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
He had to leave one thing.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
To do another because he could only do one thing
well at once, even Jesus, even Jesus had to harness
the power of focus to leave the.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Crowd and go to Gyros. And so he did it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And while he's going, Okay, we've already got distraction Number
one is that a crowd met him. On the other side,
we've got distraction number two. Guy interrupts the church service
and ask him to come home with him. But then
it gets ridiculous. And if you are in the position
of trategically consulting Jesus how to make the mission happen
(03:02):
in the next three years that you have in front
of you, you certainly would have advised this next move
because he's moving now, he's on the move, He's going,
He's going to an emergency. Would it qualify as an
emergency that a twelve year old girl is dying and
you're the only one who has the hope of healing her.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Would it?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I think it qualifies as an emergency.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So is code orange. It's Code orange situation.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And Jesus is on the move and the entourage is
trying to get him through the crowd quickly, a large
crowd followed and pressed around him.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Twenty four and a woman.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
She's not important, she doesn't even have a name, not
in this culture.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
She's not important.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And a woman was there who had been subject to
bleeding for twelve years, and she had suffered a great
deal under the care of many doctors and had spent
all she had Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.
I read that description about the woman, but it kind
of reminded me of our society. Is that we are hemorrhaging, hemorrhaging,
(04:13):
go into all these different sources trying to get healed.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yet it's really not making our lives much better, is it.
Come on, talk to me.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
We're a whole lot more efficient than we've ever been.
We got life hacks and shortcuts and apps for everything.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
But are we really that much wiser?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I mean, true wisdom, the skill to live and put
knowledge into practice.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Do we really have that? Or are our lives leaking
more than ever?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
We're leaking life, is what's happening, Switching between stuff all
the time.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
We're leaking life. That was the situation with this woman's body.
It's the situation with our minds. We're leaking. That's what
was going on inside of her. She was leaking.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
She was broken inside and she could not hold what
she needed to behold, leaking from the inside. And so
she comes to Jesus, and she's tried all these other things,
and she gets his attention in a strange, unusual way,
(05:32):
which I will show you in a moment. But first
I want you to think about where the leaks are
in your life. Where the leaks are in your life.
They did a study in the nineteen seventies that you
would swear was done in twenty fifteen where they started
finding out that the way your brain works is that
(05:54):
information comes at a cost.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
The cost is called attention.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So the only way to attain information is to consume
it at the cost of your attention.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
You with me? Are you with me? You're with me?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
So the information consumes the attention. Therefore, the article said,
we are at a time where we have a wealth
of information and a poverty of attention.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
That was the woman that's us.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
She had a wealth of doctor's opinions, she had a
wealth of treatment options, yet she had a poverty of
what she truly needed to have, the connection that could heal.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Her until this moment, until this moment, and in this
moment she presses her way.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Now, think about all the distractions that she would have
had to overcome just to even get in the vicinity
of Jesus. All of the people telling her to get
off of her hands and knees, all of the people
telling her, hey, there's an emergency in progress, don't you
see the flashing lights. Don't you see the sirens. Don't
you see the escalades lining up? The president is on
the move. Cyrus's daughter is sick. Gyrus is very important.
(07:07):
Cyrus's need is urgent. And what I can't get about
the whole passage is she she does something inappropriate, she
does something impulsive.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, she reaches out.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
For God in a way that's superstitious, but it works.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It works. Wish she heard.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Twenty seven about Jesus. She came up behind him in
the crowd and touched his cloak because she thought, I
try everything else, maybe if I connect with this, if
I can just touch his close up her heel. Immediately,
(07:50):
the hemorrhaging came to an end, and immediately the divine
presence of Christ was able to locate the leak that
none of the doctors could plug. And immediately her search
for her source was.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Over and her need was satisfied. Wow. I love the Bible.
Come on, read the Bible. Read it this week. Read
the Bible this week.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Read it and put yourself in the situation, and think
about how you're like this woman, and think about how
you want to be more like Jesus, and think about
what it must mean that this woman had her issue
that had been incurable for over a decade stopped in
a moment that the Savior became distracted with her desperation.
She felt in her body that she was freed from
(08:41):
her suffering. You know what freed her her focus. She
was finally freed because she got the right focus. Man,
there's something strong on me today to teach this. I
taught it last night.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I was.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I told Holly, I said, I thought, I don't think
I'll do it better than that, But there's something, there's something.
You're pulling something out of me. Because I want to
tell you something. Freedom comes from focus. Focus brings freedom.
Focus on fear, you'll always be a prisoner. Focus on faith,
and nothing in the world can keep you locked down.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
And this woman, when she got the right focus, she
got set free.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Come on, I believe God wants to set your focus
free today. You've been so focused on the wrong things.
You've been so focused on the last twelve years. You've
been so focused on the childhood you didn't get to experience.
You've been so focused on the promotion you got passed
over for. You've been so focused on what might happen
you've been so focused on what one person said, You've
(09:41):
been so focused on the wrong thing. So you've been
in shame's but not after today, because there's a connection
point in this church today. It's called the spirit of God.
If you plug into this what the doctors couldn't do,
what no other stream could bring, the Spirit of God
can bring into your life. Make the connection. Do seven
(10:02):
people say, make the connection. Come on, let's hook up
with something that has the power to heal. We're hooking
up in all the wrong places, with all the wrong people,
with all the wrong priorities.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
But I want to get hooked up today with something
that can heal my life and make me humble. What's Jesus?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And at once Jesus realized that power had gone out
from him.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
He turned around in the crowd. Everybody said, crowd, you're
gonna miss the best part. I'm telling you, I'm gonna
do better in a minute. He turned around in.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
The crowd and asked, who'll touch my clothes? A big crowd,
and he notices, just like one person he turned around.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Remember this is life or death. This is not a
tea party upstairs. There is life or that. There's a
crowd there's a you remember.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Michael Jackson back in the day when they used to
show him, like show up a place and there would
be like a mob scene.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Do you remember this? It was you.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I mean, please tell me, you know who Michael Jackson is.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
We're going Jesus.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I was about to lay hands on him, but he uh,
he's in that kind of scene. Maybe you've seen.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It with a more current celebrity. You know, you're Elvis
Presley's the heart throbs of today.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But but they crowd around him. Actually, was in a
situation like that last year. It wasn't me they were chasing.
It was somebody that I was with, and it was crazy.
I never seen anything like that before in my life,
and it's crazy, and so I can kind of people
were shaking the car we were in.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
This car was shaken. It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I never see anything like in my life. I never
experienced anything like that in my life. And Jesus experienced
it all the time, and so it's kind of normal
for him. And he goes somebody trying to get to
try and get to it and then pushing.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And they're pushing pushing him around and pushing.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Him around, and all of a sudden, he stops and
asks the disciples, who did that.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Verse thirty one? Really? His disciples asked.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Are you so serious right now? You want us to
find out who touched you? A better question would be
who didn't touch you? Jesus stops the procession that can
(12:35):
save a girl's life to try to locate one life
that was leaking that needs to be made whole. Because
he realized power had gone out from him. You see it,
it went out from him. Hold that it went out
from him. When it went out, he turned around. When
(12:57):
it went out, he turned around in the out and said,
who touched my clothes? The disciples said, it's going to
be impossible for us to ascertain that, sir. We suggest
that you keep moving in full direction towards Gyrus's house.
This is a woman. Gyrous is a man. Gyros is
a leader. This woman is bankrupt. She cannot contribute to
your ministry. She has nothing to give. She is not
a person of influence. In order to impact the world,
we're going to have to infiltrate the key cultural center,
(13:19):
starting with the Jewish synagogues, and Giros has a position
which is helpful to us, and perhaps if we can
do this for him.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Let's get this show on the road.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
But Jesus thirty two kept looking around.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
To see who had done it, to see who had
done it.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
And then the woman on what had happened to her,
came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear,
told him the whole truth.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And he said to her, dollar, your faith has healed you.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
It was her focus, empowered by her face, that made
her whole.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Where her heart used to have holes. Go in peace.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I don't just want to hear your body. I want
to hear your mind and be freed from your suffering.
It's so good, not for Gyros, not for Gyros, it's
good for the woman. But while all this was going on,
(14:32):
and everybody saw such a touching scene of a compassionate
rabbi who was able to be stopped in his tracks
by the desperation of one woman, it says that while
all this was going on, some people came from the
house of Gyros.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Synagogue leader said, we missed our shot.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Your daughter is dead. Leave Jesus alone. See the thing
about life, No, that's that's that's that's what happens, is
that while we're trying to get one thing to live.
It's always at the expense of something else. And this
(15:13):
is what's hard about living. It is, it's what's hard
about focus. Like, I need to make some money right now, babe,
and I would love to be around more.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
But but I.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Need to do this for us, for our future, for
our family, because I'm looking out and I'm trying to
see where our kids are gonna want to go to
school and if and if you're not going to homeschool
them for college. I gotta get this money while I can.
But while I was out earning to provide for you,
(15:45):
your emotional state was unattended, and so now I don't
know how to keep it all alive at one time.
That's the struggle of it. That's that's the That's.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
The problem with distraction is I can't decide which one
is a distraction. We'll have a team party.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I need to make this phone call. I got a
couple thousand people come in.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
To hear me preach. What do I do? Which one
should I let die?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
And what he did made no sense Because they teach you,
they teach you from a business standpoint. You got another
difference between what's urgent and what's important.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
And that's typically good advice. It's very practical advice.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It's meaning that you know the text that came from them,
that is their emergency. Because they didn't plan properly shouldn't
derail your whole day. Just because they didn't plan in
time doesn't mean you've got to shut down your scheduled
activities that are priorities in order to deal with somebody
else's dysfunctional planning.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Wow, that's ninety nine dollars business seminar.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
But then if you take this situation into account, that's
out the window. Because okay, who's more important Gyrus or
the woman?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
It's not a trick question, it'll be gyrous. Would you
would you say Gyros gyrous more important? Which one's more urgent?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
A woman who's been able to live for twelve years
with the condition or a daughter who might die at
any moment.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
She's a little girl.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
The woman's already lived a little, while the girl should
get the chance to live a little.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
While the kid's always more important. Always save the kid first.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
And Jesus did what wasn't as urgent and what wasn't
as important?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
So you'll have a good week? And why why? How? What?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
So?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
What?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
What? What Okay, here's what you do. Pursue the pool.
Pursue the pool. Jesus is in a crowd being pushed
down the street. Jesus is in a crowd, being pushed
(18:05):
along the way. Jesus is in a crowd. Everybody is pushing,
but one woman pulled, One woman pulled. Life is always
pushing you in many directions. People pushing you to be this,
(18:26):
and pushing you to do that, and buy me and
eat me, and tweet me, and and and sell me,
and and and and watch me, and and and and
stream me, and and and check me and respond to me,
and snapchat me, and deb and me and to me
and me and me and.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
And God wants to give you the ability in a
world that is crowded with people and priorities that will
push you in every direction.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
To perceive the pull of His power that he's trying
to release out of your life.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Everybody else was pushing toward Jesus, but when something pulled
from Jesus, it pulled.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Have you ever felt the pull of the spirit of God?
Have you? Because I have.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I believe it's because in my life, of all the
things I could have done with my life, God pulled
on me to start this church. God pulled on me
to preach the gospel. I'm sure I could have gotten
distracted with other things, and maybe you think that couldn't
have been good at anything else.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Maybe you're right, But all I can tell you is
something was pulling me from a young age.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That's what separated the woman from the crowd.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Is the pull of God, the pull in the midst
of a pushy life. Jesus always refused to be pushed
into anything. He would not be pushed to the coronation
(20:17):
before the crucifixion. He would not be pushed to be
a king before he suffered as a criminal.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
He would not be pushed, but he could not resist
the pull. The pull.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
All the demands of life are impossible to categorize or anticipate.
Some of the moments that are the most meaningful will
come on the porch when you've got a sermon to
prepare and a conversation to happen.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
When you feel that pull, the pull pursue That not
what Peter and James and John think you should do next.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Pull a Laddin word for distractionists, pulled apart.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
The word for attention in Latin is reached toward.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Yeah, so Jesus being pulled didn't allow it to pull
him apart, but he reached toward the revelation of what
God had called him to do.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Next. Hey, thank you for watching.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
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Speaker 2 (21:41):
Thanks again for watching.
You could ask God this week. It would be a
simple step, but he would do this for you. God,
help me discern the demands of my life. Help me
see them for what they really are. Help me see
what's really important, because if I'm judging this, I'm thinking
that the crowd's way more important than the one little girl.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
But only you can show me what really matters.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Otherwise you'll define distraction in a way that will cause
you to miss God's direction in your life. And you'll
skip the tea party to take the phone call. And
you can call them back. But the next time you
(00:42):
see your kids, they're going to be lord of the flies,
at least in my house. Touch somebody say, go to
the tea party. Man, go to the tea party. Just go,
and then if God can help us discern the demands,
maybe he can help us. Number two, locate the leaks.
(01:05):
Locate the leaks. It's very interesting when you begin to study.
I don't know why I bring these notes up here
with me, but I need to pull this up because
it's kind of complicated and I'm not a sociologist.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I'm not a psychologist. I'm not an.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Ornithologist, proctologist, none of those things, but just some things.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I was reading this week. It talked.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
About how what's really happening when we think we're multitasking.
They've done enough study of this guy to tell us
that he's not as capable as we think he is
of switching between stuff all the time, and the amount
of efficiency that we lose when we.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Multitask is remarkable.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
They even say that it's like your brain is leaking
going between function and function, because your brain operates on
different channels or something like that, going between the channels.
You try to cross him over it.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yes, even you, ladies.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I know you think you're the multitask you're masters of
the universe, and I know you have to do it sometimes.
I know you can't always do one thing I want.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
But I will say this. I will say this.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Even Jesus could only do one thing well at once.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
He had to leave one thing.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
To do another because he could only do one thing
well at once, even Jesus, even Jesus had to harness
the power of focus to leave the.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Crowd and go to Gyros. And so he did it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And while he's going, Okay, we've already got distraction Number
one is that a crowd met him. On the other side,
we've got distraction number two. Guy interrupts the church service
and ask him to come home with him. But then
it gets ridiculous. And if you are in the position
of trategically consulting Jesus how to make the mission happen
(03:02):
in the next three years that you have in front
of you, you certainly would have advised this next move
because he's moving now, he's on the move, He's going,
He's going to an emergency. Would it qualify as an
emergency that a twelve year old girl is dying and
you're the only one who has the hope of healing her.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Would it?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I think it qualifies as an emergency.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So is code orange. It's Code orange situation.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
And Jesus is on the move and the entourage is
trying to get him through the crowd quickly, a large
crowd followed and pressed around him.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Twenty four and a woman.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
She's not important, she doesn't even have a name, not
in this culture.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
She's not important.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And a woman was there who had been subject to
bleeding for twelve years, and she had suffered a great
deal under the care of many doctors and had spent
all she had Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.
I read that description about the woman, but it kind
of reminded me of our society. Is that we are hemorrhaging, hemorrhaging,
(04:13):
go into all these different sources trying to get healed.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yet it's really not making our lives much better, is it.
Come on, talk to me.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
We're a whole lot more efficient than we've ever been.
We got life hacks and shortcuts and apps for everything.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
But are we really that much wiser?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I mean, true wisdom, the skill to live and put
knowledge into practice.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Do we really have that? Or are our lives leaking
more than ever?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
We're leaking life, is what's happening, Switching between stuff all
the time.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
We're leaking life. That was the situation with this woman's body.
It's the situation with our minds. We're leaking. That's what
was going on inside of her. She was leaking.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
She was broken inside and she could not hold what
she needed to behold, leaking from the inside. And so
she comes to Jesus, and she's tried all these other things,
and she gets his attention in a strange, unusual way,
(05:32):
which I will show you in a moment. But first
I want you to think about where the leaks are
in your life. Where the leaks are in your life.
They did a study in the nineteen seventies that you
would swear was done in twenty fifteen where they started
finding out that the way your brain works is that
(05:54):
information comes at a cost.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
The cost is called attention.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So the only way to attain information is to consume
it at the cost of your attention.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
You with me? Are you with me? You're with me?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
So the information consumes the attention. Therefore, the article said,
we are at a time where we have a wealth
of information and a poverty of attention.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
That was the woman that's us.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
She had a wealth of doctor's opinions, she had a
wealth of treatment options, yet she had a poverty of
what she truly needed to have, the connection that could heal.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Her until this moment, until this moment, and in this
moment she presses her way.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Now, think about all the distractions that she would have
had to overcome just to even get in the vicinity
of Jesus. All of the people telling her to get
off of her hands and knees, all of the people
telling her, hey, there's an emergency in progress, don't you
see the flashing lights. Don't you see the sirens. Don't
you see the escalades lining up? The president is on
the move. Cyrus's daughter is sick. Gyrus is very important.
(07:07):
Cyrus's need is urgent. And what I can't get about
the whole passage is she she does something inappropriate, she
does something impulsive.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, she reaches out.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
For God in a way that's superstitious, but it works.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It works. Wish she heard.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Twenty seven about Jesus. She came up behind him in
the crowd and touched his cloak because she thought, I
try everything else, maybe if I connect with this, if
I can just touch his close up her heel. Immediately,
(07:50):
the hemorrhaging came to an end, and immediately the divine
presence of Christ was able to locate the leak that
none of the doctors could plug. And immediately her search
for her source was.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Over and her need was satisfied. Wow. I love the Bible.
Come on, read the Bible. Read it this week. Read
the Bible this week.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Read it and put yourself in the situation, and think
about how you're like this woman, and think about how
you want to be more like Jesus, and think about
what it must mean that this woman had her issue
that had been incurable for over a decade stopped in
a moment that the Savior became distracted with her desperation.
She felt in her body that she was freed from
(08:41):
her suffering. You know what freed her her focus. She
was finally freed because she got the right focus. Man,
there's something strong on me today to teach this. I
taught it last night.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I was.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I told Holly, I said, I thought, I don't think
I'll do it better than that, But there's something, there's something.
You're pulling something out of me. Because I want to
tell you something. Freedom comes from focus. Focus brings freedom.
Focus on fear, you'll always be a prisoner. Focus on faith,
and nothing in the world can keep you locked down.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
And this woman, when she got the right focus, she
got set free.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Come on, I believe God wants to set your focus
free today. You've been so focused on the wrong things.
You've been so focused on the last twelve years. You've
been so focused on the childhood you didn't get to experience.
You've been so focused on the promotion you got passed
over for. You've been so focused on what might happen
you've been so focused on what one person said, You've
(09:41):
been so focused on the wrong thing. So you've been
in shame's but not after today, because there's a connection
point in this church today. It's called the spirit of God.
If you plug into this what the doctors couldn't do,
what no other stream could bring, the Spirit of God
can bring into your life. Make the connection. Do seven
(10:02):
people say, make the connection. Come on, let's hook up
with something that has the power to heal. We're hooking
up in all the wrong places, with all the wrong people,
with all the wrong priorities.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
But I want to get hooked up today with something
that can heal my life and make me humble. What's Jesus?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And at once Jesus realized that power had gone out
from him.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
He turned around in the crowd. Everybody said, crowd, you're
gonna miss the best part. I'm telling you, I'm gonna
do better in a minute. He turned around in.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
The crowd and asked, who'll touch my clothes? A big crowd,
and he notices, just like one person he turned around.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Remember this is life or death. This is not a
tea party upstairs. There is life or that. There's a
crowd there's a you remember.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Michael Jackson back in the day when they used to
show him, like show up a place and there would
be like a mob scene.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Do you remember this? It was you.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I mean, please tell me, you know who Michael Jackson is.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
We're going Jesus.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I was about to lay hands on him, but he uh,
he's in that kind of scene. Maybe you've seen.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It with a more current celebrity. You know, you're Elvis
Presley's the heart throbs of today.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But but they crowd around him. Actually, was in a
situation like that last year. It wasn't me they were chasing.
It was somebody that I was with, and it was crazy.
I never seen anything like that before in my life,
and it's crazy, and so I can kind of people
were shaking the car we were in.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
This car was shaken. It was crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
I never see anything like in my life. I never
experienced anything like that in my life. And Jesus experienced
it all the time, and so it's kind of normal
for him. And he goes somebody trying to get to
try and get to it and then pushing.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And they're pushing pushing him around and pushing.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Him around, and all of a sudden, he stops and
asks the disciples, who did that.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Verse thirty one? Really? His disciples asked.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Are you so serious right now? You want us to
find out who touched you? A better question would be
who didn't touch you? Jesus stops the procession that can
(12:35):
save a girl's life to try to locate one life
that was leaking that needs to be made whole. Because
he realized power had gone out from him. You see it,
it went out from him. Hold that it went out
from him. When it went out, he turned around. When
(12:57):
it went out, he turned around in the out and said,
who touched my clothes? The disciples said, it's going to
be impossible for us to ascertain that, sir. We suggest
that you keep moving in full direction towards Gyrus's house.
This is a woman. Gyrous is a man. Gyros is
a leader. This woman is bankrupt. She cannot contribute to
your ministry. She has nothing to give. She is not
a person of influence. In order to impact the world,
we're going to have to infiltrate the key cultural center,
(13:19):
starting with the Jewish synagogues, and Giros has a position
which is helpful to us, and perhaps if we can
do this for him.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Let's get this show on the road.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
But Jesus thirty two kept looking around.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
To see who had done it, to see who had
done it.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
And then the woman on what had happened to her,
came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear,
told him the whole truth.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And he said to her, dollar, your faith has healed you.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
It was her focus, empowered by her face, that made
her whole.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Where her heart used to have holes. Go in peace.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I don't just want to hear your body. I want
to hear your mind and be freed from your suffering.
It's so good, not for Gyros, not for Gyros, it's
good for the woman. But while all this was going on,
(14:32):
and everybody saw such a touching scene of a compassionate
rabbi who was able to be stopped in his tracks
by the desperation of one woman, it says that while
all this was going on, some people came from the
house of Gyros.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Synagogue leader said, we missed our shot.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Your daughter is dead. Leave Jesus alone. See the thing
about life, No, that's that's that's that's what happens, is
that while we're trying to get one thing to live.
It's always at the expense of something else. And this
(15:13):
is what's hard about living. It is, it's what's hard
about focus. Like, I need to make some money right now, babe,
and I would love to be around more.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
But but I.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Need to do this for us, for our future, for
our family, because I'm looking out and I'm trying to
see where our kids are gonna want to go to
school and if and if you're not going to homeschool
them for college. I gotta get this money while I can.
But while I was out earning to provide for you,
(15:45):
your emotional state was unattended, and so now I don't
know how to keep it all alive at one time.
That's the struggle of it. That's that's the That's.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
The problem with distraction is I can't decide which one
is a distraction. We'll have a team party.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I need to make this phone call. I got a
couple thousand people come in.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
To hear me preach. What do I do? Which one
should I let die?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
And what he did made no sense Because they teach you,
they teach you from a business standpoint. You got another
difference between what's urgent and what's important.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
And that's typically good advice. It's very practical advice.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
It's meaning that you know the text that came from them,
that is their emergency. Because they didn't plan properly shouldn't
derail your whole day. Just because they didn't plan in
time doesn't mean you've got to shut down your scheduled
activities that are priorities in order to deal with somebody
else's dysfunctional planning.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Wow, that's ninety nine dollars business seminar.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
But then if you take this situation into account, that's
out the window. Because okay, who's more important Gyrus or
the woman?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
It's not a trick question, it'll be gyrous. Would you
would you say Gyros gyrous more important? Which one's more urgent?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
A woman who's been able to live for twelve years
with the condition or a daughter who might die at
any moment.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
She's a little girl.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
The woman's already lived a little, while the girl should
get the chance to live a little.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
While the kid's always more important. Always save the kid first.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
And Jesus did what wasn't as urgent and what wasn't
as important?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
So you'll have a good week? And why why? How? What?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
So?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
What?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
What? What Okay, here's what you do. Pursue the pool.
Pursue the pool. Jesus is in a crowd being pushed
down the street. Jesus is in a crowd, being pushed
(18:05):
along the way. Jesus is in a crowd. Everybody is pushing,
but one woman pulled, One woman pulled. Life is always
pushing you in many directions. People pushing you to be this,
(18:26):
and pushing you to do that, and buy me and
eat me, and tweet me, and and and sell me,
and and and and watch me, and and and and
stream me, and and and check me and respond to me,
and snapchat me, and deb and me and to me
and me and me and.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
And God wants to give you the ability in a
world that is crowded with people and priorities that will
push you in every direction.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
To perceive the pull of His power that he's trying
to release out of your life.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Everybody else was pushing toward Jesus, but when something pulled
from Jesus, it pulled.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Have you ever felt the pull of the spirit of God?
Have you? Because I have.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I believe it's because in my life, of all the
things I could have done with my life, God pulled
on me to start this church. God pulled on me
to preach the gospel. I'm sure I could have gotten
distracted with other things, and maybe you think that couldn't
have been good at anything else.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Maybe you're right, But all I can tell you is
something was pulling me from a young age.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
That's what separated the woman from the crowd.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Is the pull of God, the pull in the midst
of a pushy life. Jesus always refused to be pushed
into anything. He would not be pushed to the coronation
(20:17):
before the crucifixion. He would not be pushed to be
a king before he suffered as a criminal.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
He would not be pushed, but he could not resist
the pull. The pull.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
All the demands of life are impossible to categorize or anticipate.
Some of the moments that are the most meaningful will
come on the porch when you've got a sermon to
prepare and a conversation to happen.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
When you feel that pull, the pull pursue That not
what Peter and James and John think you should do next.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Pull a Laddin word for distractionists, pulled apart.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
The word for attention in Latin is reached toward.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Yeah, so Jesus being pulled didn't allow it to pull
him apart, but he reached toward the revelation of what
God had called him to do.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Next. Hey, thank you for watching.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
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