September 11, 2025 • 53 mins
Pull up a chair, call Jimmy-Earl and nem! In this episode, Pastor Tim unpacks the story of The Woman with The Issue of Blood from the Gospel of Mark. Unpack how her struggle mirrors the walls we hit today: financial strain, emotional exhaustion, mental pressure, spiritual fatigue. She was isolated and drained but desperation moved her towards Her breakthrough!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome, brothers in the word. My name
is Tim Smith. It is such an honor and the
privilege to be here with you. Hey, now say now
the city is back up. It's a must. The brothers
are outside. Do man I favor before we get started,
Please like love and share this teaching. That is the
only offering that I need from you. I need your
help in offering this teaching to your family and to
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your friends in your timeline. So listen, whether you're watching
this on your phone, whether you're listening in your car,
whether you're tuning in from across the globe. I want
you to know something. This is a divine appointment for
you right now. This is for the people who are
staring at the ceiling at three am, wondering when the
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anxiety will finally release his grip on your life. This
is for my people who smile in public book behind
closed doors, you're fighting a secret battle. So here today
and we're going to talk about a very interesting subject matter.
And I believe it's a subject matter that such as
all of us. And it's simply entitled these Walls of
your Issues, These Walls of your Issues. So I need
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you to do me a favor. Grab your Bible, prepare
to take detailed notes. I'm not playing with y'all. Take
detailed notes. Shout out to Shannon, because we're about to
chop up this word. The power word for this teaching
is breakthrough. A breakthrough is not a gentle opening. It
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is a violent, sudden and decisive bursting through an obstacle.
It's what happens when an unstoppable force me to move
able object. And your issue, family issues that you're dealing with,
the issues that you're struggling with. Through this lesson, they
are about to be moved. I want to talk a
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little bit about a subject for tonight, the woman with
the issue of blood. I remember some years ago I
went to my past at the time, he was Elder
Philip Wright. He became a bishop before he passed away,
maybe three years ago, but I remember going to him.
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I was twenty two years old and I simply asked
him this. I said, Elder right, how do you go
about studying the Bible? And he looked at me and
he said, brother Smith. He said, here's what you need
to do. He said, find two people that you're interested in,
two people whose life somewhat parallels yours, someone whose life
really interests you. And so I actually took three people
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for the Old Testament. I grabbed Moses. For the New Testament,
I grabbed the Apostle Paul. Then there's one more person
that I grab and it's this woman that we're going
to talk about tonight. So I have been rocking with
her over thirty years, thirty five years now, because her
story is an incredible story, and it is my hope
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and my prayer that you too will familiarize yourself it's
her story and exactly who she is. We're going to
pick up her story in the Gospel of Mark. The
thing you need to understand about Mark's Gospel, Mark's gospel
if you like action movies, Mark's Gospel is an action gospel.
It moves rapidly, it moves quickly. Mark is one who's
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there for the details, but he's going to keep it moving.
And so Mark is going to give us what I
think is the best overview of this story. So I'm
not going to assume that you know this story, but
I hope that my prayers that by the time we
finish looking at this little snapshot in her life, my
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prayer is that you will come back to this story,
you will come back to this teaching, you will come
back to this podcast, and you will listen to it again.
Because I really truly feel that this is a moment
where you're going to begin to see things differently in
terms of the issues that you're currently dealing with. So
let's go to Mark Chapter five. Mark chapter five. I
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got to read a few verses because again, I never
want to assume everybody knows. Everybody's at different journeys in
there in their walk through the Word of God, and
so I always try to come down to the lowest
common denominator and then just try to build people up
through the Word of God. So I got to read
these verses. But I'm reading these verses because we need
to lay the foundation. And then what we're going to
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do is we're gonna turn around and we're going to
walk back through these verses, and then we're going to
capture the revelation that God wants each of us to have.
Mark Chapter five, Verse twenty five through thirty four. And
there was a woman who had a discharge of blood
twelve years and who had suffered much under many physicians
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and had spent all she had and was no better,
but rather do worse. But when she had heard the
reports about Jesus, she came up behind him in the
crowd and touched his garment, for she said, if I
I touch even his garments, I will be made well.
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And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she
felt in her body that she had healed, that she
was healed of her disease. And Jesus, perceiving in himself
that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about
in the crowd and said, who touched my garments? And
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his disciples said to him, you see the crowd pressing
around you, and yet you say who touched me? And
he looked around to see who had done it. But
the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in
fear and trembling, and fell down before him and told
him the whole truth. And he said to her, daughter,
your faith has made you well. Go in peace and
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be healed of your disease. Let's go to work. Wall
number one, the wall of draining, that's for everybody's taking notes,
The wall of draining desperation. Notice verse twenty five to eight.
It says, and there was a woman who had a
discharge of blood for twelve years. So let's pull over
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right there. The Bible doesn't give us her name, why
because she had lost her identity a long time ago
to her issue. She wasn't known as Sarah, she wasn't
known as Rachel, she wasn't known as Nne. She was
the woman with the issue of blood. I need you
to hear me. Your issue wants to rename you. Your
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issue wants to change your identity from child of God
to the attic, from more than a conqueror, to the
divorce seat, from fearfully and wonderfully made to the failure.
Your issue wants your problem to become your pronoun And
notice the duration of her issue twelve years. Whenever you're
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reading in scripture and you come across numbers, you should
stop and do a little investigation because numbers play a
very significant role in your Bible. When the Bible gives
you certain numbers number one to the number three, the
number one. Number two is the number of witness. Number
one represents God, number three represents the Triune God. Number
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four represents like these numbers mean something. Seven, of course
is completion, eight, of course is new beginning. But twelve.
Let's focus on twelve for the time being. The number
twelve is the number of governmental order and divine authority
in Scripture. Think about it. There are twelve tribes of
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the nation of Israel. Jesus chose twelve disciples. So what
does this mean. It's twelve in her life. What does
it mean for her? This means that for a full
cycle of divine government, her life was in complete and
utter disorder. Twelve years she woke up with the same problem.
Twelve years she went to bed with the same defeat.
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For twelve years she had no hope. Here's the thing.
Your twelve years might be twelve months of unemployment. Your
twelve years could be twelve weeks of greef grief. Your
twelve years could be twelve days of a toxic relationship.
Your twelve years is whatever issue that has been a constant,
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draining presence in your life. For some of you, your
twelve years might be longer than twelve years. So understand this.
The issue of blood that she has, this condition is
not just a medical problem. It's also a social disorder.
Under the Old Testament law, this was a spiritual catastrophe
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for this woman. We have to go back to Leviticus.
I always say this, the Gospels are Old Testament books. Yes,
you find them in the New Testament portion of your Bible.
But in terms of the context, in terms of the culture, Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John are Old Testament. They're still under the law,
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under the law. When Jesus was born, his family was
still under the law. It's when we get over the
Matthew twenty seven. It is round verse fifty one to
fifty two, when he cries out it is finished, and
the Bible flashes over into the temple and you see
the veil being torn from the top to the bottom.
That's when we began to enter into the New Testament.
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Fully over in the Book of Acts. But right now,
right here where we are in Matthew chapter five, we're
in the Old Testament. So now the Old Testament has
something to say about what's happening with this lady and
her blood issue. On the Vidicus, chapter fifteen, verse twenty
five through twenty seven, it says this, and this is
the law. You can't get around this, you can't ignore this.
This is what governed how they live. At the children.
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It says this, if a woman has a discharge of
blood for many days, not at the time of her
minstrel impurity, or if it continues beyond the time of
her impurity, all the days of the discharge she shall
continue in uncleanliness, as in the days of her impurity.
She shall be unclean. Every bed on which she lies
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all the days of her discharge shall be to her
as the bed of her impurity. And everything on which
she sits shall be unclean, as in the uncleanliness of
her impurity. And whoever touches these things shall be unclean,
and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the evening. I want you to
see this. This woman was living in isolation. She was
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quarantined for twelve years. We all know about quarantine. We
all know about having to obey the rules of any
kind of infectious disease. So she's quarantined for twelve years.
She couldn't touch her husband, she couldn't hug her children,
she couldn't sit at the table with friends. If she
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went to Starbucks, every person she accidentally bumped into was
now ceremonially unclean. She was a walking contamination. The Old
Testament law God gave to the nation of Israel. It
was meant to provide structure for them, but that structure,
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because of this law in Leviticus, it had become the
very bricks of her issue. This is for my ken
folks who feel alone right now. You feel like your
issue has you quarantine from the life you were meant
to live. You see people laughing, you see people connecting,
you see people thriving, and you feel like you're watching
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life through a thick pane glass. Your issue has made
you feel uncle clean, unworthy of connection, unworthy of community.
And if your issue could talk, it would taunt you
and say no one wants to get too close to you.
Your problem is too much for them. But look at
verse twenty six of the same chapter. Mark chapter five,
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verse twenty six, because this is the gut punch. And
who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent
all that she had and was no better, but rather
grew worse. She suffered. The Greek meaning isn't just physical pain.
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It means to be tormented. The very people who she trusted,
the very people who were supposed to help her, ended
up hurting her. She went to the experts, She went
to the specialist. She went to the healing gurus, and
you know what they did. They took her money, They
made her promises, and they left her work off. She
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spent all that she had, All of her money was gone,
all of her pension money was going, all of her
four to one because she spent every single dime that
she had. She was physically drained, financially bankrupt, and emotionally devastated.
She hit rock bottom, and then she found out that
rock bottom had a basement. And this is the anatomy
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of an issue. The very same thing that happened to
her is what happens to us when we're dealing with issues.
The anatomy of an issue is this. It drains your strength,
It drained your resources, It drains your hope, It drains
your joy. It promises of fix through cultural and religious systems,
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the latest fads, but you know what ends up happening.
It only digs you into a deeper hole. You try
therapy and it didn't work. You tried self help books
and felt hollow. You tried changing your diet, your job,
your city, your church, your relationships. But guess what, the
issue followed you. Why Because the issue wasn't around you.
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The issue was in you, and your condition got worse.
Call to action. I mean you to write this down.
Stop investing your hope in systems that have proven they
cannot heal you. The definition of insanity is doing the
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exact same thing over and over year after year, and
you're expecting a different result. Stop going back to the
physitions that have only made matters worse. I have a
question for you, what quote unquote physicians have you been
running to that have left you depleted? Sometimes we pay
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into these quote unquote physicians for so long we feel
like we don't have any other choice but to keep
doing it. Oh, you have a choice. You always have
a choice. You can look to the heels from when's
coming through your help, or you can keep running after
these physicians. Wall number two, the wall of defiant decision.
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This is where it's about to get good. This is
where the entire story of what's happening and what has
happened in her life begins to pivot. This is where
the atmosphere shifts. This is the moment when the victim
decides she will no longer be a victim. And this
is the wall you must build in your mind before
you can tear it down in your life. Look at
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verse twenty seven. I love this and I love her.
But when she had heard the reports about Jesus, she
came up behind him in the crowd. I don't know why, Dana,
but every time I read that about her coming up
behind him in the crowd, visually, in my mind, I
just see her like a cat, just coming up behind
g Jesus. Because she's desperate, she's ready, she has made
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up in her mind. But when she heard the reports
about Jesus, she's coming up behind him in a crowd.
I love this because her theology syllabus was one line
I heard about Jesus. Now, excuse me while I reach.
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Faith begins as something you hear, but it becomes a
miracle at the moment you start elbowing through the crowd
to touch Jesus. The first word is key in verse
twenty seven. But twelve years everything was going wrong. But
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she had spent all she had, But she was alone, isolated,
But she had a blood issue. But she was getting worse.
But is the on which the door of your destiny
swings open. It's the language of interruption. It's the word
that declares your past does not get to dictate your
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future any longer. Listen to what she heard. The text
says she heard the reports about Jesus. That's all the
information she had, y'all. We hadn't been in church for
years in years in years, and she acted on less
information than we have at our fingertips. Each and every
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single day, she heard the news. She heard the teeth
the streets were talking about this young preacher from Nazareth.
She heard that a man named Jesus was raising the dead,
healing the sick, opening blind eyes, and casting our demons.
She heard her hope, which had been starving for twelve years,
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suddenly got a meal. A report of what Jesus can
do is the seed of all miracles. This is why
the enemy wants to control your algorithm. He wants you
aimlessly scrolling through reports of disaster, reports of failure, reports
of fear. He wants you to hear everything in everybody
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except the report by Jesus. And what did homegirl do?
She can just hear no. The fate she received from
the report produced in action. She came up behind him.
It wasn't a casual stroll. Remember her condition. Understand this.
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She was legally forbidden from even being in the crowd.
She has no business being in this crowd. She should
be in quarantine. Every single step that she was taking
moving towards Jesus was actually an act of rebellion. Every
person she pushed past was at risk. She was breaking
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the law, plain and simple. She was defying doctor's orders
to stay at home and stay in the bed. She
was making a defiant decision that her breakthrough remember the
power word, was greater than her fear of being discovered.
She turned the rumor into a reach. You know why,
because Faith refuses to let revelation remain a headline. This
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couldn't just stay a headline in her mind. Your breakthrough
requires your participation. I'm not sure if you knew that,
but yeah, your breakthrough, whatever you're trying to break through
right now, it will require your participation. I've seen this
narrative in the modern church, where we're just sitting around
waiting on God to do something for us. We're just
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sitting around. We ain't putting up no effort. We're not
trying to do anything. The Bible tells me over the
Book of James, faith without works, it's dead. We're not
willing to put into work. We just feel like, Hey,
I went and gave my money at church. Okay, God,
give me what I asked you for. No, you have
to get up from the comfortable misery that you find
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yourself in do the thing you've never done. Faith is
not passive. I'm going to keep telling you this. Faith
is a verb. Faith acts, faith advances. Sister girl is
teaching all of us this one simple fact. Faith is
a verb with elbows. But ask somebody. Faith is a
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verb with elbows. She's coming through that crowd. This reminds
me of another powerful choice of scripture back in Joshua Joshua,
chapter twenty four, verse fifteen. Joshua draws a line in
the proverbial saying, and he says this, and if it
is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, okay, cool,
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Choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods
of your father's served in the region beyond the river,
or the gods of the Amairites in whose land you dwell.
But as for me and my house, my crib, we
will serve the Lord. Joshua gave Israel a multiple choice
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with only one real answer. You know what he was
saying to Israel, stop analyzing, Decide, stop overthinking, Decide, stop
wavering it, Decide stop if a could or would have
should have. Decide serve the God of your issue or
serve the God who solves it. There comes a holy
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moment in all of our lives when we have to
stop circling options and we have to step into obedience.
You must decide, right here, right now, whom you will serve,
the small god built out of your issue or the
living God who breaks issues. Sister Girl made her choice.
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She judged the report about Jesus more solid than the
reality of her twelve year sickness. She treated his reputation
as a greater reality than her condition. And you know
what happened. That decision turned desperation into divine interruption. She's
about to interrupt the whole set. Here's the thing I
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didn't tell you. If you go back a few verses,
Jesus is walking with Jars. Jaris came to Jesus. A
ruler said, hey, Jesus, my daughters at home sick. Can
you please come to my house and heal my daughter.
Jesus said, bet, let's go. So while him and Jarris
are walking to Jarris's house. Sister Girl comes up in
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the crowd and said, Ah, not yet. I'm not gonna
let you go, buddy, and she grabbed a hold of him.
See this is the thing I want you to understand.
If the wall of your indecision could talk, it would
say just wait, maybe it'll get better on its own.
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Don't make a scene. What will people think? Indecision wants
to paralyze you with what ifs. But this woman's fate
was a what if of a different kind. I love
her what if thinking because her what if thinking is
saying what if the tea about Jesus is truth? What
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if the reports are true? What if he really can
heal me? And this is for my people who've been
sitting on the sidelines. You've heard the reports about Jesus,
You've seen people get their breakthroughs, but you still haven't moved.
You've been waiting for the perfect moment, the perfect feeling,
the perfect sign, the perfect altar call. The moment is
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right now. Here's your call to action. You to make
a defiant decision. Right now. Choose to believe the report
about Jesus over the report of your issues. Stop telling
yourself how big your goliath is, and start telling your
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goliath how big your God is. Because we got some issues,
some of us got some big issues. But instead of
making yourself small in front of that issue, why don't
you make your God big in front of that issue?
You got to get up and move towards him. That's
what she's doing, is family. She's moving in his direction.
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You move in his direction in your word. You move
in his direction through prayer, You move in his direction
through fasting. You move in his direction through obedience, even
if it is just a prayer, even if it is
just one step of faith. Whatever you have been putting
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off to do for God, I implore you to do it.
Just make one step in his direction. Question for you,
what defiant step can you take right now that proves
you believe the report about Jesus? For yourself? I want
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you to wrestle with that. Let's go to the next
wall wall number three, the wall of desperate reach, Verse
twenty seven B. She came up behind him? Who is him? Jesus?
She came up. I don't think I've seen anybody in
scripture approach Jesus like this. Moman. She is on one,
and I absolutely love it. She came up behind him
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in the crowd is and touched his garment. We have
reached the summit of her faith. This is the apex
of her faith. This is the mount everest of her faith.
The verdict in her mind is final. How do we
know the verdict in her mind is final because her
body is already moving in his direction. He hasn't called
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for her, he hasn't asked for her. She's doing this
on her own. And now, boom, guess what happens? Because remember,
you got to make up your mind to do this.
And as soon as you make up your mind to
do it, guess what happens. The crowd, heah, the crowd,
the resistance, the barrier, the wall. That crowd represents every obstacle,
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every face, every hater, every doubt, every challenge, every whisper,
every thought that's daring to wedge itself between you and Jesus.
You're like, he's right there. I can reach out to
touch him. I can grab it. Now. That crowd is
right there too. So she came up behind him. She's
approaching him. She's approaching him, and a posture of shame.
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She didn't feel worthy of approaching him face to face.
Her issue had told her for twelve years that she
was unclean, that she could hide. Some of you feel that,
if you're honest, you want to approach God, but you
feel too a shamed, You feel like you're too gone,
You feel like you're unworthy. You feel like your mistakes
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have disqualified you from his love and from his grace
because you're viewing God through the same lens how you
view people. You know, people can play those kinds of games,
but God doesn't play games with us. He says, come
unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I'll give you rest. He said, take my yoke
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upon me on you. So you come up behind him,
hoping he won't see the mess you're in. And so
she's now in the crowd. She's bumping up against bodies.
The Greek word for crowd implies a mob. There were
a mob. There was a mob of people around Jesus.
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I believe in the King James version that it says
they thronged him. That literally means they were crushing him.
He could barely move, he could barely breathe. It is
a thick, pressing, suffocating, massive people. What's in this crowd.
You got the doubters, you got the nitpickers, you got
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the self righteous, you got the curious clutter. Every present
is telling her, you shouldn't do this, you shouldn't be here.
But her desperation answered said, watch me, watch me. She
ignored the disciples, she ignored the drama, she ignored the crowd,
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and she withou fixed faith. She had a scope on
one individual. She had a bullseye on Jesus. She wasn't
checking for anybody else in the crowd. There was an
inner soundtrack that was playing inside of her that day,
and it simply said, if I touch even his garment,
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I will be made well. No audience, nobody's hyping her up.
No organ no piano, no band, no praise team, none
of that. Just a woman who got sick and tired
of being sick and tired. She's prophesying to her future.
She's coaching her courage. She's narrating her own breakthrough before
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the breakthrough even manifest itself. That's self fed faith, right there, people,
That is self fed faith. She made up in her mind.
The Bible says being transformed, how by the renewing of
your mind. She preached it. She rehearsed it, she reinforced it.
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Her words were working ahead of the miracle before she
ever touched Jesus. Please, I want you to see the transition.
I want you to see the order of her steps.
She hasn't touched him yet, she has already declared what
is going to happen in my life once I touched him.
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Because I heard the reports about this man, and if
everything they're saying about this man is true, I'm about
to get what I came here for. If I touch
even his garments, I will be made well. Not next week,
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not this time, next year. If I touch him right now,
that's it. See, we like to create these th and
all of this theater. No no, no, no, no, no
no no, Let's strip all of that down. This is
where the wheat separates from the tear. This is where
the faith separates from the fake. The word transcribed translated
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made well. Oh my god, it's loaded. Made well is loaded.
It's so much bigger than a bandage on the body.
It literally comes from the Greek word soso s o
z o. You know what soso means. It means to
be healed, it means to be saved. It means to
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be delivered. It means to be protected, to be preserved,
to be made whole, not patch restored, not stabilized, reinforced.
She wasn't just begging, please stop the bleeding, No, please
hear me. She was reaching for her life back. That's
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what she's reaching for, and some of you are going
to have to start reaching for your life back. She
was reaching for her future back, her name back, her
home back, her reputation back, her children back, her place back.
She was reaching for salvation in every dimension. She's reaching
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for salvation and spirit, soul, body, and story. She thought
she was reaching for the hymn of a rope. No,
she messed around and grabbed the hymn of heaven, the
one who holds all things together by his word. He
felt the trembling reach of this woman whose life was
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falling apart. And guess what happened When she reached and
she touched at him. Healing rushed into her body. Look
at verse twenty nine. You don't got it, I'll read
it for you verse twenty nine, And immediately I like
that word. I told you the Gospel of Mark is
an action gospel, so you're going to see words that
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speak of urgency and then verse twenty nine. Immediately the
flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her
body that she was healed of her disease immediately. I
always teach you this, what the Bible doesn't say is
just as important as what the Bible does say. Let
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me talk to you about what it doesn't say in
this moment right here, because her healing came to her immediately,
she made up in her mind. She reached out, she touched,
and then immediately she got exactly what she prophesied, not
what she gave ties and offering. Nope, she went in
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nobody's ten dollars line, fifteen dollars. Remember she ain't got
no money. Okay, so let's set that off to the side.
Not in a weed now this time next year. It's
easy to tell U somebody, Yeah, your break new coming
this time next year. Yoh, okay. Not after a twelve
step program. Immediately, the moment of her faith, the moment
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her faith contacted the power of Jesus, the twelve year
issue that she had. It was resolved immediately. The source
of her shame, her isolation, her suffering, her bleeding, it
was all gone, and the power of it is in
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this scripture says, and she felt it. She felt it.
She didn't need nobody to co sign for her. She
knew what that healing felt like in her body. Why
because she had been broken for twelve years. She had
been isolated for twelve years, so she full knew. No,
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something is different. This is healing and I can feel it.
Here's your call to action. I want you to encourage
yourself until your faith is activated. Declare what will happen
when you connect with Jesus? What will happen when you
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touch Jesus in the word in prayer? What will happen
when you begin to do something that you haven't done before? Again?
Definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing
you've always done and expecting a different result that you've
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done that. Now, let's do something different. She spent all
she had and her condition only grew worse. She made
up in her mind, I'm going to get to Jesus.
Forget this crowd I'm pressing through. Forget my disease I'm
pressing through. Forget the fact that I'm not supposed to
be around these people. I'm pressing through. So many of you,
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you get distracted by people you get distracted by people
easily distracted. You have to see Jesus and you have
to press through the crowd that's trying to keep you
from getting to him. Question for you, what is the
crowd air quotes that is standing between you and touching Jesus?
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What is your proverbial crowd the thing that blocks you?
Because I know in your heart you want to serve.
I know in your heart you want to do this.
But what's that thing in the crowd that's blocking you,
that's stopping you, that won't allow you to touch him?
You got your hand up, brother, done.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Yeah, real quick. The flip side of that for me
is she reached out elbow bowl through them bowls got
to be smuck up on this man mhm and everybody.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
The law says everybody she touched makes them ceremonially unclean.
She touched him and didn't make him unclean. He's too powerful.
The word the same law.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Mm hmm, same embodiment of that of that power, and
that that grace and that love immediately canceled out all
of that to the point where he can be you
can't make him unclean exactly.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
So that says to us, whatever we're going through.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Yes, all along we're going.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Through can get back to him. He can't truly completely
totally handle it and restore you and I that's my state.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Hey man, I appreciate your your sermon. I appreciate you
and that. Jesus told the group. He said, listen, I
didn't come to destroy the law. He said, I came
to fulfill the law. The law pointed to Jesus. He
is the fulfillment of the law. I believe this. Dani's
in Galatians maybe three twenty four to twenty five, Paul
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writes these words. He says, the law was our school
master to bring us to Christ. Do you know what
the word school master means in the Greek it means
substitute teacher. Remember we used to go to school when
we had a substitute teacher. We give her the blues, right,
But she wasn't permanent. The substitute teacher wasn't permanent. They
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were just filling in the law, just simply filled in.
For Jesus. The law exposed and showed humanity. You can't
keep this law. You can't, You're too broken. So the
law is pointing and saying, hey, you need to go
over there and holler at Jesus because he's grace. Remember
what John said in the first chapter of John. The
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Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came
through Jesus. See, the law would tell you, hey, I'll
kill you. Grace and Truth, says, Jesus died to pay
it all. So Danny makes a profound point. Jesus is
demonstrating to her and to us in real time. I
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proceed anything, any governing principle that's in this world right now.
There is no higher order than him. That's why the
Bible says that he is the King of kings and
the Lord of lords. Great points, sir, I appreciate you
putting that on wax Wal number four, the Wall of
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Divine Recognition. This is the turning point of this story
for me, and it always has been because here's the thing.
Once she got her healing, she could have vanished back
into the crowd. Remember it's a mo they're thronging him,
they're crushing him. Nobody can it's just it's just a
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lot of people. So she could have easily slipped back
into the crowd with a secret miracle. But here's the thing.
You also got to understand about Jesus. Jesus refused a
secret healing. You know why, because he wanted a public daughter.
Jesus is not content to mend a body while leaving
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a broken identity. He restores and he transforms. See she
got her healing physically, but she didn't have an identity.
Verse thirty. Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone
out from him, turned and said, who touched my garments?
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Some translations say who touched my clothes? A mob is
crushing him. The disciples were running interference. I'm sure they
were trying to put a security barrier around him. Hundreds
of people are making contact. This is the thing that
I love about this. Of all of these people that
are touching him, only one made a connection. Why faith? Faith?
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Crowds pressed Jesus every week at churches throughout the world,
people saying, people wear symbols, people post verses. But a
casual brush never pulls virtue from him. You know what
pulls virtue from God? Faith? Without faith? It is impossible
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to please God without faith, you can't do it. You
can do everything else. You can go through all of
the religious activities, but if you don't have any faith,
you haven't done anything. Her faith is what made her hole.
Jesus is not moved by proximity. He's moved by a
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believing breach. Everybody in that crowd could have got gotten
a healing, got in a break, gotten a breakthrough for
whatever issue they were dealing with, but they weren't there
for that one time. Jesus told the group, he said,
you're only following me for the fishes and the lows.
In other words, you're only following me for what you
can get out of me. But in this moment, a
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powerful explosive force left him, and this wasn't an accident.
There was a divine transfer. So he stops everything. He's
searching for this woman, a trembling woman. The disciples bruh,
everybody's touching you. I'm touching you. What are you talking about,
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Jesus naw, y'all don't get it. Somebody just withdrew from heaven.
So he begins to scan the crowd, not to shame her,
but to lift her. Verse thirty three. Here it is.
She came in fear and trembling, told him the whole truth,
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told him the whole truth for the first time in
twelve years. She told her story from the side of victory,
the doctors, the draining, the isolation, the last ditch reach.
She laid it down, She put it out there to
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him Verse thirty four. Daughter, there it is right there.
You should underline that, make a notation of that. Before this,
she's just simply known as the woman with the issue
of blood. They don't even provide a name for her.
But I want you to see just that small And
Jesus does this in the Gospel. He did this with
another man who was lowered down from a roof by
his four friends because they couldn't get to him. Why
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because there was a crowd. And when Jesus saw the
faith of the four men, he looked at the man
who was paralyzed laying on the mat, and the first
thing he said to this man is, son, daughter, your
faith has made you well. Go in peace and be
healed of your disease. He doesn't call her unclean, he
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doesn't name her by her issue. He renames her by
his heart. Daughter. He doesn't in public. She's restored, she's
reintroduced to community. Her identity outruns her infirmity over In
Jeremiah Chapter one, verse five, the prophet Jeremiah says this.
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Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you
as God speaking. God's knowledge of you predates your nightmare.
God's knowledge of you predates your issue. Before the bleeding.
There was a blueprint before the issue. There was a calling.
Your issue, hear me, is a detour. It's not who
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you are. His purpose remains the map. He said, my
words shall not return unto me void. Jesus saw her
not as the woman with the issue of blood, but
as the daughter who he had chosen before the foundation
of the world. He restored her back into the family.
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Go in peace. You know what the Hebrew word of
peace is shaloon. That simply means nothing missing, nothing broken.
He didn't just stop blood. He restored destiny. He restored purpose.
He stopped the leak and filled the life church. Listen
to me. When Jesus calls you out, do me a favor.
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Don't hide. Step forward. You know when he's calling you.
You know when he's talking to you. Let him turn
your secret struggle into a public song, into a public testimony.
Trade the anonymity of the crowd for the identity of
a son or a daughter. I feel that walls are
cracking right Now the wall of depression is splitting, the
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wall of anxiety is shaking, the wall of addiction is buckling.
Loneliness collapsing. Why Because lies are losing oxygen in the
presence of truth. Lies are losing oxygen in the presence
of truth. Lies, the devil has been whispering in your ear,
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are losing oxygen in the presence of truth. Jesus said,
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. You
are not your issue. You are not your relapse. You
are not your label. You are not your addiction. You
are not your mistake. You are not your issue, and
you're definitely not your past. You are who God says
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you are. You are a daughter. You are a son.
You have been chosen. He knows you by name, He
knows the very hairs on your head. He has collected
every tear that has ever rolled down your cheek. You
are appointed. So I got three urgent responses for you
that I need you to participate in. I'm gonna use
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the woman with the issue. I'm gonna use daughter's word immediately.
I need you to respond immediately. Number one, choose your source, brother,
Joshua wrote, as he said to the nation of Israel,
You're gonna have to make a choice. I need you
to fire every false physician in your life that has
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drained you. I don't care if it's dead religion, if
it's counterfeit comforts, if it's toxic tithes, if it's numbing habits.
I want you to write them down. I want you
to renounce them and declare as for me and my house,
we will serve the Lord, one source, one savior. That's
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all you need. Number two, make your move, make your
move fake moves. Make one bold act in the next
twenty four hours that proves your reach. You're going to
reach like she did. A confession, a reconciliation, deleting the trap,
setting the alarm to meet God before the world begins
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to flutch your mind. Don't wait for the crowd. Push
through it. Action activates power. Action activates power. Number three,
Tell your truth. Even a partial breakthrough is a real testimony.
So what I want you to do is this week,
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tell one person the whole story, one person you trust.
Pray and ask God, who can I share this with?
Who can I talk to? One person the whole story,
the pain and the power. Don't curate, confess it, be honest,
your voice becomes someone else's ladder out of their issue.
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And so now what I want to do, I want
to do something different before we get ready to get
up out of here. I want to speak this over
your life, but I also want you to speak it
over your life as well. So whether you're watching on
the replay, whether you're watching it live, whether you're listening
in on the podcast, I want us to just speak
this over our lives. I want us to speak this
over our issues. I want us to speak this over
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our homes. I want us to speak this over our future,
and I also want us to speak this over our past.
Simply say this, Father, in the name of Jesus, I
rise from defeat. I silence every lying label with your word. Father,
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I choose your report over the report of my issue. Father.
I press past the crowd. I press past the crowd
of doubt, crowd of fear, crowd of shame. By faith,
I receive healing, I receive deliverance, I receive wholeness, I
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receive joy, I receive peace. I am not what my
issue called me. I am who you named me to be.
I am your child, and you are my father. I
am healed. I am whole. I am free, I am delivered,
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I am set apart, and I will walk it out
in faith. Amen. I just want you to get what's
the word. You have to make a declaration over your life.
You have to speak words of affirmation. Remember what she did.
She spoke it over her own life before she moved
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and did anything. And that's what we all have to
look at and begin to do. We do everything else
but what the Bible tells us to do. And sometimes,
can I be honest with you, it's not your fault.
Sometimes it's just people leading you to just do some goofiness.
It don't take all of that. Think of everything that
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you see happening around you, or in church or wherever.
And then I want you to come back to this
store and ask, where's the setting here, where's the choir,
where's the praise team, where's the flag? Where them people at?
Because see church will tell you you need all this
extracurricular activity to get your quote unquote breakthrough. But the
woman who had the issue with blood, she says, no,
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all you gotta do is hear the report, make up
in your mind, prophesy over your own life, and then
begin moving in his direction. Nothing more, nothing less. That's it.
She gives all of us the cheat code. And that's
why I say, over the last thirty years, she has
been one of my favorites in this Bible because she's
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bold and she's audacious, and she finally got to the
point where I'm not doing this no more, and she
made up in her mind. So that's what I want
you to do. I want you to make up in
your mind that you are going to walk this thing out.
So I want all of us to walk in our healing,
to walk in our wholeness. Do me a one last
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favorite before you get up out of here. If this
teaching knocking down the wall in your life, don't hoard it.
Don't hoard it. Hand it to someone still behind. This
is freely you received, then freely you give. Share it,
send it, speak it, talk about it. Get a group,
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get a group together. Hey, we find all openness work.
We finna get into this and we're gonna study this
and we're going to walk through it, and we're going
to talk amongst each other and we're going to encourage
each other. You can build a Bible study around these teachings.
So I want you to share it. I want you
to send it. I want you to speak it. Turn
your social media feed into an altar. People should be
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able to come to your social media feed and find
help in their time of need. So Facebook family, I
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with your friends. My name is Tim Smith, son of
Clara Jones. I will see you next week. We will
get into this word once again, and always remember I
love you and I need
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome, brothers in the word. My name
is Tim Smith. It is such an honor and the
privilege to be here with you. Hey, now say now
the city is back up. It's a must. The brothers
are outside. Do man I favor before we get started,
Please like love and share this teaching. That is the
only offering that I need from you. I need your
help in offering this teaching to your family and to
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your friends in your timeline. So listen, whether you're watching
this on your phone, whether you're listening in your car,
whether you're tuning in from across the globe. I want
you to know something. This is a divine appointment for
you right now. This is for the people who are
staring at the ceiling at three am, wondering when the
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anxiety will finally release his grip on your life. This
is for my people who smile in public book behind
closed doors, you're fighting a secret battle. So here today
and we're going to talk about a very interesting subject matter.
And I believe it's a subject matter that such as
all of us. And it's simply entitled these Walls of
your Issues, These Walls of your Issues. So I need
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you to do me a favor. Grab your Bible, prepare
to take detailed notes. I'm not playing with y'all. Take
detailed notes. Shout out to Shannon, because we're about to
chop up this word. The power word for this teaching
is breakthrough. A breakthrough is not a gentle opening. It
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is a violent, sudden and decisive bursting through an obstacle.
It's what happens when an unstoppable force me to move
able object. And your issue, family issues that you're dealing with,
the issues that you're struggling with. Through this lesson, they
are about to be moved. I want to talk a
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little bit about a subject for tonight, the woman with
the issue of blood. I remember some years ago I
went to my past at the time, he was Elder
Philip Wright. He became a bishop before he passed away,
maybe three years ago, but I remember going to him.
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I was twenty two years old and I simply asked
him this. I said, Elder right, how do you go
about studying the Bible? And he looked at me and
he said, brother Smith. He said, here's what you need
to do. He said, find two people that you're interested in,
two people whose life somewhat parallels yours, someone whose life
really interests you. And so I actually took three people
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for the Old Testament. I grabbed Moses. For the New Testament,
I grabbed the Apostle Paul. Then there's one more person
that I grab and it's this woman that we're going
to talk about tonight. So I have been rocking with
her over thirty years, thirty five years now, because her
story is an incredible story, and it is my hope
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and my prayer that you too will familiarize yourself it's
her story and exactly who she is. We're going to
pick up her story in the Gospel of Mark. The
thing you need to understand about Mark's Gospel, Mark's gospel
if you like action movies, Mark's Gospel is an action gospel.
It moves rapidly, it moves quickly. Mark is one who's
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there for the details, but he's going to keep it moving.
And so Mark is going to give us what I
think is the best overview of this story. So I'm
not going to assume that you know this story, but
I hope that my prayers that by the time we
finish looking at this little snapshot in her life, my
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prayer is that you will come back to this story,
you will come back to this teaching, you will come
back to this podcast, and you will listen to it again.
Because I really truly feel that this is a moment
where you're going to begin to see things differently in
terms of the issues that you're currently dealing with. So
let's go to Mark Chapter five. Mark chapter five. I
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got to read a few verses because again, I never
want to assume everybody knows. Everybody's at different journeys in
there in their walk through the Word of God, and
so I always try to come down to the lowest
common denominator and then just try to build people up
through the Word of God. So I got to read
these verses. But I'm reading these verses because we need
to lay the foundation. And then what we're going to
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do is we're gonna turn around and we're going to
walk back through these verses, and then we're going to
capture the revelation that God wants each of us to have.
Mark Chapter five, Verse twenty five through thirty four. And
there was a woman who had a discharge of blood
twelve years and who had suffered much under many physicians
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and had spent all she had and was no better,
but rather do worse. But when she had heard the
reports about Jesus, she came up behind him in the
crowd and touched his garment, for she said, if I
I touch even his garments, I will be made well.
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And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she
felt in her body that she had healed, that she
was healed of her disease. And Jesus, perceiving in himself
that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about
in the crowd and said, who touched my garments? And
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his disciples said to him, you see the crowd pressing
around you, and yet you say who touched me? And
he looked around to see who had done it. But
the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in
fear and trembling, and fell down before him and told
him the whole truth. And he said to her, daughter,
your faith has made you well. Go in peace and
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be healed of your disease. Let's go to work. Wall
number one, the wall of draining, that's for everybody's taking notes,
The wall of draining desperation. Notice verse twenty five to eight.
It says, and there was a woman who had a
discharge of blood for twelve years. So let's pull over
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right there. The Bible doesn't give us her name, why
because she had lost her identity a long time ago
to her issue. She wasn't known as Sarah, she wasn't
known as Rachel, she wasn't known as Nne. She was
the woman with the issue of blood. I need you
to hear me. Your issue wants to rename you. Your
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issue wants to change your identity from child of God
to the attic, from more than a conqueror, to the
divorce seat, from fearfully and wonderfully made to the failure.
Your issue wants your problem to become your pronoun And
notice the duration of her issue twelve years. Whenever you're
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reading in scripture and you come across numbers, you should
stop and do a little investigation because numbers play a
very significant role in your Bible. When the Bible gives
you certain numbers number one to the number three, the
number one. Number two is the number of witness. Number
one represents God, number three represents the Triune God. Number
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four represents like these numbers mean something. Seven, of course
is completion, eight, of course is new beginning. But twelve.
Let's focus on twelve for the time being. The number
twelve is the number of governmental order and divine authority
in Scripture. Think about it. There are twelve tribes of
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the nation of Israel. Jesus chose twelve disciples. So what
does this mean. It's twelve in her life. What does
it mean for her? This means that for a full
cycle of divine government, her life was in complete and
utter disorder. Twelve years she woke up with the same problem.
Twelve years she went to bed with the same defeat.
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For twelve years she had no hope. Here's the thing.
Your twelve years might be twelve months of unemployment. Your
twelve years could be twelve weeks of greef grief. Your
twelve years could be twelve days of a toxic relationship.
Your twelve years is whatever issue that has been a constant,
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draining presence in your life. For some of you, your
twelve years might be longer than twelve years. So understand this.
The issue of blood that she has, this condition is
not just a medical problem. It's also a social disorder.
Under the Old Testament law, this was a spiritual catastrophe
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for this woman. We have to go back to Leviticus.
I always say this, the Gospels are Old Testament books. Yes,
you find them in the New Testament portion of your Bible.
But in terms of the context, in terms of the culture, Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John are Old Testament. They're still under the law,
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under the law. When Jesus was born, his family was
still under the law. It's when we get over the
Matthew twenty seven. It is round verse fifty one to
fifty two, when he cries out it is finished, and
the Bible flashes over into the temple and you see
the veil being torn from the top to the bottom.
That's when we began to enter into the New Testament.
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Fully over in the Book of Acts. But right now,
right here where we are in Matthew chapter five, we're
in the Old Testament. So now the Old Testament has
something to say about what's happening with this lady and
her blood issue. On the Vidicus, chapter fifteen, verse twenty
five through twenty seven, it says this, and this is
the law. You can't get around this, you can't ignore this.
This is what governed how they live. At the children.
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It says this, if a woman has a discharge of
blood for many days, not at the time of her
minstrel impurity, or if it continues beyond the time of
her impurity, all the days of the discharge she shall
continue in uncleanliness, as in the days of her impurity.
She shall be unclean. Every bed on which she lies
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all the days of her discharge shall be to her
as the bed of her impurity. And everything on which
she sits shall be unclean, as in the uncleanliness of
her impurity. And whoever touches these things shall be unclean,
and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the evening. I want you to
see this. This woman was living in isolation. She was
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quarantined for twelve years. We all know about quarantine. We
all know about having to obey the rules of any
kind of infectious disease. So she's quarantined for twelve years.
She couldn't touch her husband, she couldn't hug her children,
she couldn't sit at the table with friends. If she
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went to Starbucks, every person she accidentally bumped into was
now ceremonially unclean. She was a walking contamination. The Old
Testament law God gave to the nation of Israel. It
was meant to provide structure for them, but that structure,
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because of this law in Leviticus, it had become the
very bricks of her issue. This is for my ken
folks who feel alone right now. You feel like your
issue has you quarantine from the life you were meant
to live. You see people laughing, you see people connecting,
you see people thriving, and you feel like you're watching
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life through a thick pane glass. Your issue has made
you feel uncle clean, unworthy of connection, unworthy of community.
And if your issue could talk, it would taunt you
and say no one wants to get too close to you.
Your problem is too much for them. But look at
verse twenty six of the same chapter. Mark chapter five,
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verse twenty six, because this is the gut punch. And
who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent
all that she had and was no better, but rather
grew worse. She suffered. The Greek meaning isn't just physical pain.
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It means to be tormented. The very people who she trusted,
the very people who were supposed to help her, ended
up hurting her. She went to the experts, She went
to the specialist. She went to the healing gurus, and
you know what they did. They took her money, They
made her promises, and they left her work off. She
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spent all that she had, All of her money was gone,
all of her pension money was going, all of her
four to one because she spent every single dime that
she had. She was physically drained, financially bankrupt, and emotionally devastated.
She hit rock bottom, and then she found out that
rock bottom had a basement. And this is the anatomy
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of an issue. The very same thing that happened to
her is what happens to us when we're dealing with issues.
The anatomy of an issue is this. It drains your strength,
It drained your resources, It drains your hope, It drains
your joy. It promises of fix through cultural and religious systems,
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the latest fads, but you know what ends up happening.
It only digs you into a deeper hole. You try
therapy and it didn't work. You tried self help books
and felt hollow. You tried changing your diet, your job,
your city, your church, your relationships. But guess what, the
issue followed you. Why Because the issue wasn't around you.
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The issue was in you, and your condition got worse.
Call to action. I mean you to write this down.
Stop investing your hope in systems that have proven they
cannot heal you. The definition of insanity is doing the
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exact same thing over and over year after year, and
you're expecting a different result. Stop going back to the
physitions that have only made matters worse. I have a
question for you, what quote unquote physicians have you been
running to that have left you depleted? Sometimes we pay
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into these quote unquote physicians for so long we feel
like we don't have any other choice but to keep
doing it. Oh, you have a choice. You always have
a choice. You can look to the heels from when's
coming through your help, or you can keep running after
these physicians. Wall number two, the wall of defiant decision.
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This is where it's about to get good. This is
where the entire story of what's happening and what has
happened in her life begins to pivot. This is where
the atmosphere shifts. This is the moment when the victim
decides she will no longer be a victim. And this
is the wall you must build in your mind before
you can tear it down in your life. Look at
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verse twenty seven. I love this and I love her.
But when she had heard the reports about Jesus, she
came up behind him in the crowd. I don't know why, Dana,
but every time I read that about her coming up
behind him in the crowd, visually, in my mind, I
just see her like a cat, just coming up behind
g Jesus. Because she's desperate, she's ready, she has made
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up in her mind. But when she heard the reports
about Jesus, she's coming up behind him in a crowd.
I love this because her theology syllabus was one line
I heard about Jesus. Now, excuse me while I reach.
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Faith begins as something you hear, but it becomes a
miracle at the moment you start elbowing through the crowd
to touch Jesus. The first word is key in verse
twenty seven. But twelve years everything was going wrong. But
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she had spent all she had, But she was alone, isolated,
But she had a blood issue. But she was getting worse.
But is the on which the door of your destiny
swings open. It's the language of interruption. It's the word
that declares your past does not get to dictate your
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future any longer. Listen to what she heard. The text
says she heard the reports about Jesus. That's all the
information she had, y'all. We hadn't been in church for
years in years in years, and she acted on less
information than we have at our fingertips. Each and every
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single day, she heard the news. She heard the teeth
the streets were talking about this young preacher from Nazareth.
She heard that a man named Jesus was raising the dead,
healing the sick, opening blind eyes, and casting our demons.
She heard her hope, which had been starving for twelve years,
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suddenly got a meal. A report of what Jesus can
do is the seed of all miracles. This is why
the enemy wants to control your algorithm. He wants you
aimlessly scrolling through reports of disaster, reports of failure, reports
of fear. He wants you to hear everything in everybody
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except the report by Jesus. And what did homegirl do?
She can just hear no. The fate she received from
the report produced in action. She came up behind him.
It wasn't a casual stroll. Remember her condition. Understand this.
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She was legally forbidden from even being in the crowd.
She has no business being in this crowd. She should
be in quarantine. Every single step that she was taking
moving towards Jesus was actually an act of rebellion. Every
person she pushed past was at risk. She was breaking
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the law, plain and simple. She was defying doctor's orders
to stay at home and stay in the bed. She
was making a defiant decision that her breakthrough remember the
power word, was greater than her fear of being discovered.
She turned the rumor into a reach. You know why,
because Faith refuses to let revelation remain a headline. This
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couldn't just stay a headline in her mind. Your breakthrough
requires your participation. I'm not sure if you knew that,
but yeah, your breakthrough, whatever you're trying to break through
right now, it will require your participation. I've seen this
narrative in the modern church, where we're just sitting around
waiting on God to do something for us. We're just
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sitting around. We ain't putting up no effort. We're not
trying to do anything. The Bible tells me over the
Book of James, faith without works, it's dead. We're not
willing to put into work. We just feel like, Hey,
I went and gave my money at church. Okay, God,
give me what I asked you for. No, you have
to get up from the comfortable misery that you find
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yourself in do the thing you've never done. Faith is
not passive. I'm going to keep telling you this. Faith
is a verb. Faith acts, faith advances. Sister girl is
teaching all of us this one simple fact. Faith is
a verb with elbows. But ask somebody. Faith is a
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verb with elbows. She's coming through that crowd. This reminds
me of another powerful choice of scripture back in Joshua Joshua,
chapter twenty four, verse fifteen. Joshua draws a line in
the proverbial saying, and he says this, and if it
is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, okay, cool,
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Choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods
of your father's served in the region beyond the river,
or the gods of the Amairites in whose land you dwell.
But as for me and my house, my crib, we
will serve the Lord. Joshua gave Israel a multiple choice
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with only one real answer. You know what he was
saying to Israel, stop analyzing, Decide, stop overthinking, Decide, stop
wavering it, Decide stop if a could or would have
should have. Decide serve the God of your issue or
serve the God who solves it. There comes a holy
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moment in all of our lives when we have to
stop circling options and we have to step into obedience.
You must decide, right here, right now, whom you will serve,
the small god built out of your issue or the
living God who breaks issues. Sister Girl made her choice.
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She judged the report about Jesus more solid than the
reality of her twelve year sickness. She treated his reputation
as a greater reality than her condition. And you know
what happened. That decision turned desperation into divine interruption. She's
about to interrupt the whole set. Here's the thing I
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didn't tell you. If you go back a few verses,
Jesus is walking with Jars. Jaris came to Jesus. A
ruler said, hey, Jesus, my daughters at home sick. Can
you please come to my house and heal my daughter.
Jesus said, bet, let's go. So while him and Jarris
are walking to Jarris's house. Sister Girl comes up in
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the crowd and said, Ah, not yet. I'm not gonna
let you go, buddy, and she grabbed a hold of him.
See this is the thing I want you to understand.
If the wall of your indecision could talk, it would
say just wait, maybe it'll get better on its own.
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Don't make a scene. What will people think? Indecision wants
to paralyze you with what ifs. But this woman's fate
was a what if of a different kind. I love
her what if thinking because her what if thinking is
saying what if the tea about Jesus is truth? What
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if the reports are true? What if he really can
heal me? And this is for my people who've been
sitting on the sidelines. You've heard the reports about Jesus,
You've seen people get their breakthroughs, but you still haven't moved.
You've been waiting for the perfect moment, the perfect feeling,
the perfect sign, the perfect altar call. The moment is
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right now. Here's your call to action. You to make
a defiant decision. Right now. Choose to believe the report
about Jesus over the report of your issues. Stop telling
yourself how big your goliath is, and start telling your
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goliath how big your God is. Because we got some issues,
some of us got some big issues. But instead of
making yourself small in front of that issue, why don't
you make your God big in front of that issue?
You got to get up and move towards him. That's
what she's doing, is family. She's moving in his direction.
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You move in his direction in your word. You move
in his direction through prayer, You move in his direction
through fasting. You move in his direction through obedience, even
if it is just a prayer, even if it is
just one step of faith. Whatever you have been putting
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off to do for God, I implore you to do it.
Just make one step in his direction. Question for you,
what defiant step can you take right now that proves
you believe the report about Jesus? For yourself? I want
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you to wrestle with that. Let's go to the next
wall wall number three, the wall of desperate reach, Verse
twenty seven B. She came up behind him? Who is him? Jesus?
She came up. I don't think I've seen anybody in
scripture approach Jesus like this. Moman. She is on one,
and I absolutely love it. She came up behind him
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in the crowd is and touched his garment. We have
reached the summit of her faith. This is the apex
of her faith. This is the mount everest of her faith.
The verdict in her mind is final. How do we
know the verdict in her mind is final because her
body is already moving in his direction. He hasn't called
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for her, he hasn't asked for her. She's doing this
on her own. And now, boom, guess what happens? Because remember,
you got to make up your mind to do this.
And as soon as you make up your mind to
do it, guess what happens. The crowd, heah, the crowd,
the resistance, the barrier, the wall. That crowd represents every obstacle,
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every face, every hater, every doubt, every challenge, every whisper,
every thought that's daring to wedge itself between you and Jesus.
You're like, he's right there. I can reach out to
touch him. I can grab it. Now. That crowd is
right there too. So she came up behind him. She's
approaching him. She's approaching him, and a posture of shame.
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She didn't feel worthy of approaching him face to face.
Her issue had told her for twelve years that she
was unclean, that she could hide. Some of you feel that,
if you're honest, you want to approach God, but you
feel too a shamed, You feel like you're too gone,
You feel like you're unworthy. You feel like your mistakes
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have disqualified you from his love and from his grace
because you're viewing God through the same lens how you
view people. You know, people can play those kinds of games,
but God doesn't play games with us. He says, come
unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
and I'll give you rest. He said, take my yoke
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upon me on you. So you come up behind him,
hoping he won't see the mess you're in. And so
she's now in the crowd. She's bumping up against bodies.
The Greek word for crowd implies a mob. There were
a mob. There was a mob of people around Jesus.
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I believe in the King James version that it says
they thronged him. That literally means they were crushing him.
He could barely move, he could barely breathe. It is
a thick, pressing, suffocating, massive people. What's in this crowd.
You got the doubters, you got the nitpickers, you got
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the self righteous, you got the curious clutter. Every present
is telling her, you shouldn't do this, you shouldn't be here.
But her desperation answered said, watch me, watch me. She
ignored the disciples, she ignored the drama, she ignored the crowd,
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and she withou fixed faith. She had a scope on
one individual. She had a bullseye on Jesus. She wasn't
checking for anybody else in the crowd. There was an
inner soundtrack that was playing inside of her that day,
and it simply said, if I touch even his garment,
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I will be made well. No audience, nobody's hyping her up.
No organ no piano, no band, no praise team, none
of that. Just a woman who got sick and tired
of being sick and tired. She's prophesying to her future.
She's coaching her courage. She's narrating her own breakthrough before
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the breakthrough even manifest itself. That's self fed faith, right there, people,
That is self fed faith. She made up in her mind.
The Bible says being transformed, how by the renewing of
your mind. She preached it. She rehearsed it, she reinforced it.
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Her words were working ahead of the miracle before she
ever touched Jesus. Please, I want you to see the transition.
I want you to see the order of her steps.
She hasn't touched him yet, she has already declared what
is going to happen in my life once I touched him.
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Because I heard the reports about this man, and if
everything they're saying about this man is true, I'm about
to get what I came here for. If I touch
even his garments, I will be made well. Not next week,
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not this time, next year. If I touch him right now,
that's it. See, we like to create these th and
all of this theater. No no, no, no, no, no
no no, Let's strip all of that down. This is
where the wheat separates from the tear. This is where
the faith separates from the fake. The word transcribed translated
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made well. Oh my god, it's loaded. Made well is loaded.
It's so much bigger than a bandage on the body.
It literally comes from the Greek word soso s o
z o. You know what soso means. It means to
be healed, it means to be saved. It means to
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be delivered. It means to be protected, to be preserved,
to be made whole, not patch restored, not stabilized, reinforced.
She wasn't just begging, please stop the bleeding, No, please
hear me. She was reaching for her life back. That's
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what she's reaching for, and some of you are going
to have to start reaching for your life back. She
was reaching for her future back, her name back, her
home back, her reputation back, her children back, her place back.
She was reaching for salvation in every dimension. She's reaching
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for salvation and spirit, soul, body, and story. She thought
she was reaching for the hymn of a rope. No,
she messed around and grabbed the hymn of heaven, the
one who holds all things together by his word. He
felt the trembling reach of this woman whose life was
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falling apart. And guess what happened When she reached and
she touched at him. Healing rushed into her body. Look
at verse twenty nine. You don't got it, I'll read
it for you verse twenty nine, And immediately I like
that word. I told you the Gospel of Mark is
an action gospel, so you're going to see words that
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speak of urgency and then verse twenty nine. Immediately the
flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her
body that she was healed of her disease immediately. I
always teach you this, what the Bible doesn't say is
just as important as what the Bible does say. Let
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me talk to you about what it doesn't say in
this moment right here, because her healing came to her immediately,
she made up in her mind. She reached out, she touched,
and then immediately she got exactly what she prophesied, not
what she gave ties and offering. Nope, she went in
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nobody's ten dollars line, fifteen dollars. Remember she ain't got
no money. Okay, so let's set that off to the side.
Not in a weed now this time next year. It's
easy to tell U somebody, Yeah, your break new coming
this time next year. Yoh, okay. Not after a twelve
step program. Immediately, the moment of her faith, the moment
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her faith contacted the power of Jesus, the twelve year
issue that she had. It was resolved immediately. The source
of her shame, her isolation, her suffering, her bleeding, it
was all gone, and the power of it is in
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this scripture says, and she felt it. She felt it.
She didn't need nobody to co sign for her. She
knew what that healing felt like in her body. Why
because she had been broken for twelve years. She had
been isolated for twelve years, so she full knew. No,
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something is different. This is healing and I can feel it.
Here's your call to action. I want you to encourage
yourself until your faith is activated. Declare what will happen
when you connect with Jesus? What will happen when you
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touch Jesus in the word in prayer? What will happen
when you begin to do something that you haven't done before? Again?
Definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing
you've always done and expecting a different result that you've
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done that. Now, let's do something different. She spent all
she had and her condition only grew worse. She made
up in her mind, I'm going to get to Jesus.
Forget this crowd I'm pressing through. Forget my disease I'm
pressing through. Forget the fact that I'm not supposed to
be around these people. I'm pressing through. So many of you,
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you get distracted by people you get distracted by people
easily distracted. You have to see Jesus and you have
to press through the crowd that's trying to keep you
from getting to him. Question for you, what is the
crowd air quotes that is standing between you and touching Jesus?
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What is your proverbial crowd the thing that blocks you?
Because I know in your heart you want to serve.
I know in your heart you want to do this.
But what's that thing in the crowd that's blocking you,
that's stopping you, that won't allow you to touch him?
You got your hand up, brother, done.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Yeah, real quick. The flip side of that for me
is she reached out elbow bowl through them bowls got
to be smuck up on this man mhm and everybody.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
The law says everybody she touched makes them ceremonially unclean.
She touched him and didn't make him unclean. He's too powerful.
The word the same law.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Mm hmm, same embodiment of that of that power, and
that that grace and that love immediately canceled out all
of that to the point where he can be you
can't make him unclean exactly.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
So that says to us, whatever we're going through.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Yes, all along we're going.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Through can get back to him. He can't truly completely
totally handle it and restore you and I that's my state.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
Hey man, I appreciate your your sermon. I appreciate you
and that. Jesus told the group. He said, listen, I
didn't come to destroy the law. He said, I came
to fulfill the law. The law pointed to Jesus. He
is the fulfillment of the law. I believe this. Dani's
in Galatians maybe three twenty four to twenty five, Paul
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writes these words. He says, the law was our school
master to bring us to Christ. Do you know what
the word school master means in the Greek it means
substitute teacher. Remember we used to go to school when
we had a substitute teacher. We give her the blues, right,
But she wasn't permanent. The substitute teacher wasn't permanent. They
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were just filling in the law, just simply filled in.
For Jesus. The law exposed and showed humanity. You can't
keep this law. You can't, You're too broken. So the
law is pointing and saying, hey, you need to go
over there and holler at Jesus because he's grace. Remember
what John said in the first chapter of John. The
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Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came
through Jesus. See, the law would tell you, hey, I'll
kill you. Grace and Truth, says, Jesus died to pay
it all. So Danny makes a profound point. Jesus is
demonstrating to her and to us in real time. I
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proceed anything, any governing principle that's in this world right now.
There is no higher order than him. That's why the
Bible says that he is the King of kings and
the Lord of lords. Great points, sir, I appreciate you
putting that on wax Wal number four, the Wall of
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Divine Recognition. This is the turning point of this story
for me, and it always has been because here's the thing.
Once she got her healing, she could have vanished back
into the crowd. Remember it's a mo they're thronging him,
they're crushing him. Nobody can it's just it's just a
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lot of people. So she could have easily slipped back
into the crowd with a secret miracle. But here's the thing.
You also got to understand about Jesus. Jesus refused a
secret healing. You know why, because he wanted a public daughter.
Jesus is not content to mend a body while leaving
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a broken identity. He restores and he transforms. See she
got her healing physically, but she didn't have an identity.
Verse thirty. Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone
out from him, turned and said, who touched my garments?
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Some translations say who touched my clothes? A mob is
crushing him. The disciples were running interference. I'm sure they
were trying to put a security barrier around him. Hundreds
of people are making contact. This is the thing that
I love about this. Of all of these people that
are touching him, only one made a connection. Why faith? Faith?
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Crowds pressed Jesus every week at churches throughout the world,
people saying, people wear symbols, people post verses. But a
casual brush never pulls virtue from him. You know what
pulls virtue from God? Faith? Without faith? It is impossible
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to please God without faith, you can't do it. You
can do everything else. You can go through all of
the religious activities, but if you don't have any faith,
you haven't done anything. Her faith is what made her hole.
Jesus is not moved by proximity. He's moved by a
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believing breach. Everybody in that crowd could have got gotten
a healing, got in a break, gotten a breakthrough for
whatever issue they were dealing with, but they weren't there
for that one time. Jesus told the group, he said,
you're only following me for the fishes and the lows.
In other words, you're only following me for what you
can get out of me. But in this moment, a
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powerful explosive force left him, and this wasn't an accident.
There was a divine transfer. So he stops everything. He's
searching for this woman, a trembling woman. The disciples bruh,
everybody's touching you. I'm touching you. What are you talking about,
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Jesus naw, y'all don't get it. Somebody just withdrew from heaven.
So he begins to scan the crowd, not to shame her,
but to lift her. Verse thirty three. Here it is.
She came in fear and trembling, told him the whole truth,
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told him the whole truth for the first time in
twelve years. She told her story from the side of victory,
the doctors, the draining, the isolation, the last ditch reach.
She laid it down, She put it out there to
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him Verse thirty four. Daughter, there it is right there.
You should underline that, make a notation of that. Before this,
she's just simply known as the woman with the issue
of blood. They don't even provide a name for her.
But I want you to see just that small And
Jesus does this in the Gospel. He did this with
another man who was lowered down from a roof by
his four friends because they couldn't get to him. Why
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because there was a crowd. And when Jesus saw the
faith of the four men, he looked at the man
who was paralyzed laying on the mat, and the first
thing he said to this man is, son, daughter, your
faith has made you well. Go in peace and be
healed of your disease. He doesn't call her unclean, he
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doesn't name her by her issue. He renames her by
his heart. Daughter. He doesn't in public. She's restored, she's
reintroduced to community. Her identity outruns her infirmity over In
Jeremiah Chapter one, verse five, the prophet Jeremiah says this.
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Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you
as God speaking. God's knowledge of you predates your nightmare.
God's knowledge of you predates your issue. Before the bleeding.
There was a blueprint before the issue. There was a calling.
Your issue, hear me, is a detour. It's not who
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you are. His purpose remains the map. He said, my
words shall not return unto me void. Jesus saw her
not as the woman with the issue of blood, but
as the daughter who he had chosen before the foundation
of the world. He restored her back into the family.
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Go in peace. You know what the Hebrew word of
peace is shaloon. That simply means nothing missing, nothing broken.
He didn't just stop blood. He restored destiny. He restored purpose.
He stopped the leak and filled the life church. Listen
to me. When Jesus calls you out, do me a favor.
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Don't hide. Step forward. You know when he's calling you.
You know when he's talking to you. Let him turn
your secret struggle into a public song, into a public testimony.
Trade the anonymity of the crowd for the identity of
a son or a daughter. I feel that walls are
cracking right Now the wall of depression is splitting, the
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wall of anxiety is shaking, the wall of addiction is buckling.
Loneliness collapsing. Why Because lies are losing oxygen in the
presence of truth. Lies are losing oxygen in the presence
of truth. Lies, the devil has been whispering in your ear,
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are losing oxygen in the presence of truth. Jesus said,
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. You
are not your issue. You are not your relapse. You
are not your label. You are not your addiction. You
are not your mistake. You are not your issue, and
you're definitely not your past. You are who God says
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you are. You are a daughter. You are a son.
You have been chosen. He knows you by name, He
knows the very hairs on your head. He has collected
every tear that has ever rolled down your cheek. You
are appointed. So I got three urgent responses for you
that I need you to participate in. I'm gonna use
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the woman with the issue. I'm gonna use daughter's word immediately.
I need you to respond immediately. Number one, choose your source, brother,
Joshua wrote, as he said to the nation of Israel,
You're gonna have to make a choice. I need you
to fire every false physician in your life that has
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drained you. I don't care if it's dead religion, if
it's counterfeit comforts, if it's toxic tithes, if it's numbing habits.
I want you to write them down. I want you
to renounce them and declare as for me and my house,
we will serve the Lord, one source, one savior. That's
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all you need. Number two, make your move, make your
move fake moves. Make one bold act in the next
twenty four hours that proves your reach. You're going to
reach like she did. A confession, a reconciliation, deleting the trap,
setting the alarm to meet God before the world begins
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to flutch your mind. Don't wait for the crowd. Push
through it. Action activates power. Action activates power. Number three,
Tell your truth. Even a partial breakthrough is a real testimony.
So what I want you to do is this week,
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tell one person the whole story, one person you trust.
Pray and ask God, who can I share this with?
Who can I talk to? One person the whole story,
the pain and the power. Don't curate, confess it, be honest,
your voice becomes someone else's ladder out of their issue.
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And so now what I want to do, I want
to do something different before we get ready to get
up out of here. I want to speak this over
your life, but I also want you to speak it
over your life as well. So whether you're watching on
the replay, whether you're watching it live, whether you're listening
in on the podcast, I want us to just speak
this over our lives. I want us to speak this
over our issues. I want us to speak this over
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our homes. I want us to speak this over our future,
and I also want us to speak this over our past.
Simply say this, Father, in the name of Jesus, I
rise from defeat. I silence every lying label with your word. Father,
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I choose your report over the report of my issue. Father.
I press past the crowd. I press past the crowd
of doubt, crowd of fear, crowd of shame. By faith,
I receive healing, I receive deliverance, I receive wholeness, I
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receive joy, I receive peace. I am not what my
issue called me. I am who you named me to be.
I am your child, and you are my father. I
am healed. I am whole. I am free, I am delivered,
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I am set apart, and I will walk it out
in faith. Amen. I just want you to get what's
the word. You have to make a declaration over your life.
You have to speak words of affirmation. Remember what she did.
She spoke it over her own life before she moved
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and did anything. And that's what we all have to
look at and begin to do. We do everything else
but what the Bible tells us to do. And sometimes,
can I be honest with you, it's not your fault.
Sometimes it's just people leading you to just do some goofiness.
It don't take all of that. Think of everything that
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you see happening around you, or in church or wherever.
And then I want you to come back to this
store and ask, where's the setting here, where's the choir,
where's the praise team, where's the flag? Where them people at?
Because see church will tell you you need all this
extracurricular activity to get your quote unquote breakthrough. But the
woman who had the issue with blood, she says, no,
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all you gotta do is hear the report, make up
in your mind, prophesy over your own life, and then
begin moving in his direction. Nothing more, nothing less. That's it.
She gives all of us the cheat code. And that's
why I say, over the last thirty years, she has
been one of my favorites in this Bible because she's
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bold and she's audacious, and she finally got to the
point where I'm not doing this no more, and she
made up in her mind. So that's what I want
you to do. I want you to make up in
your mind that you are going to walk this thing out.
So I want all of us to walk in our healing,
to walk in our wholeness. Do me a one last
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favorite before you get up out of here. If this
teaching knocking down the wall in your life, don't hoard it.
Don't hoard it. Hand it to someone still behind. This
is freely you received, then freely you give. Share it,
send it, speak it, talk about it. Get a group,
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get a group together. Hey, we find all openness work.
We finna get into this and we're gonna study this
and we're going to walk through it, and we're going
to talk amongst each other and we're going to encourage
each other. You can build a Bible study around these teachings.
So I want you to share it. I want you
to send it. I want you to speak it. Turn
your social media feed into an altar. People should be
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able to come to your social media feed and find
help in their time of need. So Facebook family, I
need you to like. I need you to comment, I
need you to share it. I need you to tag
some people who are living behind the walls of their issues.
New podcast drops every Thursday morning. Those of you that
get the podcasts, please download the app on Spreaker, Spotify, Amazon, iHeart, subscribe,
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like and follow, Share it with your family, share it
with your friends. My name is Tim Smith, son of
Clara Jones. I will see you next week. We will
get into this word once again, and always remember I
love you and I need
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