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feel good feeling. You are about to hear an incredible word from God from someone who I greatly respect in ministry, Pastor Robert Madeu. He's going to come and share with us in just a moment. He is one of the Uh, let me think, I want to say this now, one of the one of the Sometimes you get people who are good preachers and sometimes you get people who are nice people, and sometimes you get both in one package. He is both, and I thank God for he and

his wife Taylor. God is using them all around the world. Uh. Pretty much any given day that you wake up, you can guarantee that somewhere he's blessing somebody in a different time zone than you. God has taken him all over the world. But he is a good person too. Don't you like good people? Yeah, it's good. And he's very committed to this thing that we do to preach the

Gospel of Jesus Christ. What I told him was that at eleven thirty the real Christians, the people with extra Bible depth and sensitivity to the Holy Spirit of God, come to church. And I said, if you want to just save all the good stuff for eleven thirty, they'll be ready for you at eleven thirty. So can we make some noise at all of our locations, elevation, let's welcome to this stage, Pastor Robert made. Wow, Come on, elevation. Can we make some noise for Jesus today? Oh, come on,

this is the day that the Lord has made. Come on across every location. Let us rejoice and be glad in it, and he glad. People in the house, whoa hallelujah? Hey, will you do me a favor before you take your seat, would you just look at your neighbor. You're tired of talking to your neighbor yet? Come on, do you like the person you're standing next to? Come on, get in their face, getting their personal space. Across every campus, and just say, neighbor, I've got a feeling that this is

gonna be a good service. Just in case that neighbor was stuck up, find another neighbor, Find another neighbor. Come on, say other neighbor. You're my second option, but I want you to know I've got a feeling this is gonna be a good service. Come on, if you believe that, I think, give God one more standing ovation of praise. Hallelujah. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. Don't get comfortable. You might be back up again. Come on, come on, I'll I'll say what I always say. I'm

not just excited to be at Elevation Church. I am red bull excited, expresso elated. I've been waiting. I've been waiting to get my chocolate faced back in the place. I absolutely hear me, positively, love love, love this church. I'm from the great country of Texas. But the Elevation Church will mess you up. Elevation will have you looking on Zillo and trying to find a house in Charlotte. Come on, how many know you are ridiculously blessed to

be a part of this church. This is absolutely amazing and not only that you're crazy blessed to have Pastor Stephen Ferdick and Holly Ferdick as your pastor as your leaders. Oh, come on, y'all can do better than that. I come on across every campus. I want you to make some noise if you know. God loves you too much. And I know preachers always say stuff, and this is not a platitude for me. There's so many things I could say.

He's one of the greatest communicators of the Gospel on the planet and incredible leader, writes songs that reverberate around the nation. But I think I think I love the most about Pastor Stephen and Holly is that they're amazing up close. You know what I mean by that. Some people you love from a distance, but man, I'm telling you, when you get up close, it's amazing to see their hearts for people. And he can have any body on

planet Earth in this poolpit. So I'm extremely honored, and it ought to be Pastor Appreciation Minute at elevation because y'all are crazy blessed. Come on one more time, would you let them know how much you love them, how much you appreciate them. Thank God for y'all. I am here with my super dupe. My fine wife, Taylor Madou is in the building. I preach better when she's here, so it's gonna be good. And uh, this is almost like a honeymoon for us because our three kids are

at home. Hallelujah. They are with the grandparents. And uh, I know how some preachers they always put up pictures of their kids because they think they got the cutest kids and they wanted everybody to see how cute their kids are. I am not that preacher. It's about me preaching Jesus, not you seeing my kids. You ain't got to worry about me putting them on the screen. We good, we good. That's not true if y'all don't put my kids on earth screen up in here. Hey, come on, elevation,

I made that. May that come on? That is my four year old daughter ev. That is my two year old son, Robert mdou, the third, my manchild and our newest and last edition. Hello Remington O Lane. She's just one years old. And I put up the picture all the time because fatherhood is the best hood. It's not like being a dad. But hey, I'm excited to share the word. I want to jump straight into it. Do you have a Bible with you? Come on, you got a Bible which you waving in the air like you

just do care across every campus, every location. Also, some of your bibles are glowing. You're charged to your Bible today. I want to look at mark chapter five if we can. Mark Chapter five, Verses twenty one through forty three. Quite a bit of scripture, but I need all of it for you to get the context of where we're going. Mark chapter five, starting a verse number twenty one, and then we'll land in verse forty three. When you're ready

to read it, say yeah. If you need some time to find us, say hold up, it's a desperate hold up. I'll wait for you. Verse twenty one. It says when Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. Then one of the synagogue leaders named Gyris came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. He pleaded earnestly with him,

My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live. So Jesus went with him. A large crowd followed and pressed around him, and a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, Yet instead of getting better,

she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his clothes because she thought, if I just touch his clothes, I will be healed. Immediately, her bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was free from her suffering. At once, Jesus realized that power had gone out from him, and he turned around in the crowd and asked, who touched my clothes? You see the people crowding against you. His disciples answered, and yet you can ask who touched me.

But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet, and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. And he said to her, daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering. While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Gyrus, the synagogue leader, your daughter is dead, they said, why bother the teacher anymore?

Overhearing what they said, one version says ignoring what they said, Jesus told him, don't be afraid, just believe. He did not let anyone follow him except Peter James and John, the brother of James. And when they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion with people crying and well and loudly. He went in and said to them, why all the commotion and welling? The child's not dead but asleep, But they laughed at him.

After he put them all out, he took the child's father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was. He took her by the hand and said to her, talitha coomb, which means little girl, I say to you, get up. Immediately, the girl stood up and began to walk around. She was twelve years old. At this they were completely astonished. He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and then told him don't just stand there and look

at the girl. Go to Chick fil a and get us something to eve. Come on, somebody that is good. All by itself, all by itself in full sermon prep disclosure. I almost titled this message. I almost titled this message get Up, because that's a good sermon title, gets up, because I thought that was the culmination and the climax of the miracle when Jesus told this little girl to get up. But upon further reflection, I realized that was a premature title, premature, and I had to back that

thing up biblically, so Verses forty and forty one. I want us to hone in on Verses forty and forty one, because remember, Jesus walks in and says, this girl is not dead, she's just asleep. The Bible says that they laughed at him. Wo who is the they? The negative, doubting, hating, unbelieving, faithless, cantankerous people in the world. You know, those people that light up a room when they walk out, those people that for every solution they're gonna find a problem that's today. Okay.

They laughed at him, and it says after he that's Jesus put them all out. The Greek suggests that he physically put all of them out. I don't want to mess up with your theology. Or your christology today, because you might think that Jesus is just kind and sweet and loving and caring and he's a good good father, and he is, but this text lets me know, don't get it twisted. He is so so gay because all

of those negative, doubting, unbelieving, faithless people. He said, Oh, y'all got to gets you ain't gotta go home, but you gotta get out of here, savage Jesus. I love it so before she got up first, some people had to get out. Elevation Church. What if the power of a miracle is not just in the miracle itself, but rather in the atmosphere and the environment that surrounds your miracle. You've been telling some things to get up, but perhaps this is the season of your life to check your

environment and start telling some things to gets Oh. I feel like preaching in here today. Come on, would you just look at your neighbor and tell them my title, just say get out? Oh come on, look at another neighbor like you got attitude and them saying get out, not now, but but later. Come on, let's pray long prayer.

Other thank you for your word. Speak to us today, Amen, get out the divine intersection and collision of characters in this text today immediately gave me a nostalgic parental fatherhood flashback to November twenty fourteen. I remember it quite vividly because I was getting ready to leave our home in Dallas to go preach at a conference, just in anything unusual. I often leave to go preach at a conference. Except this time everything was different. Everything was different because I

was not just leaving the house as a husband. Now, I was leaving the house as a father. Our firstborn daughter, Evie, had just entered the world, and I was in that emotional, precarious predicament of leaving my firstborn daughter for the first time. And come on, every parent in here will attest to the fact that things are different with your first child. Oh, come on, there are things that happen with your first

child that none of your other children, whatever experience. Okay, Like now, now, Taylor and I we have three kids plus a demonic dog. So when I leave the house, now, I leave like I got warrants for my rest and I take the long route home. Okay. Often often Taylor will call me with chaos in the background. She'd be like, Babe, where are you I'll go. I'm in traffic. She's like, no, you in the driveway. I see you come in the house and help me with this kid. But when is

your first, it's different, it's different. Your emotional tears are going this way, slots going the other way. I'm like that he loves you. I God put you so much. You is cold, she is small, she is important. I mean, I was a mess. I get to the conference. I get to the conference, I think it was in Florida, and I'm about to get up to preach, and I got the name of Eddie James is leading worship and of all songs, of all songs, he's actually singing, You're

a good good father. I was like, norm not just the mess, said I don't even think I preached. I just put up a picture of my daughter's at that point one, two and three and got in the green room afterwards, and the worst leader, Eddie James, comes up to me. He says, Robert, congrats on your daughter. She's beautiful. I said, thank you. I made her. Then said, hey, Eddie, you know, my daughter Evey might not have ever been born if it wasn't for you. Eddie looked at me

like I had lost my mind. I said, Eddie, you probably don't remember this, but in December two thousand and six, you were scheduled to lead worship and preach at Christ for the Nation's Institute in Dallas, Texas. But en route to Christ for the Nations, your van broke down on the side of the road. Eddie goes, I remember that night,

I said. You picked up the phone and you called a man by the name of Adam McCain, and you let him know that by the time your van would be fixed, there was no way you would make the service, so regrettably you had to cancel. Adam McCain got off the phone with you and looked at a room full of people and said, Eddie, James just canceled for our Tuesday night Bible College chapel. Who in the world can we get last minute to fill? His spy in that room was a man by the name of Brian Meng.

He lifts up his hand and says, I just heard this young guy named Robert Madoo preach. He's local, maybe he can do it. All of a sudden, my phone rings and a voice on the other line says, is this pastor Robert Madou? I say yes it is, says Robert. I know this is last minute, this is crazy, but we've just had a cancelation for our Tuesday Night Bible College Chapel. Is there any way you could come and speak to our young people? Now? Keep in mind during this time of my life, I myself am a Bible

college student at Southwestern the Symblers of God University. So I said to Adam McCain, you know what it seems like yesterday I was a Bible college student myself. What an honor it would be to come in part to your young people. Drove from sad Good to see if and I I'm about to get up and preach. But before I get up, they say, it's Tuesday night, So it's time for our Tuesday night testimony video. We're gonna show a video of a student in our body whose

life has been changed by Jesus Christ. And all of a sudden, on the screen comes the finest girl with the strongest Arkansas accent I have ever heard, and she starts telling her story of Jesus changing her life. Don't meet the girl. I'm at my school the next day, a girl test me in my shoulder. She goes, hey, Robert. I said, it's Pastor Robert Madieu. Now. She goes, was that you that I saw last night at Christ's Nations getting up to preach? I said, yeah, they called me

last minute. They had a cancelation. She goes, Oh my goodness, Oh my good Did you see the girl on the screen telling her testimony before you preach? I said, yes, I did. She said, I've known her for years. I've known you for years, and I always thought that you two would be perfect for each other. But I never said anything but the fact that you were there preaching and they showed her video. You tube have got to meet,

I said, Addie. The next week, that girl and I went on our very first day at the Illustrious International House of Bandcakes, I said, Addie. To make a long story short, that girl's name was Taylor Mitchell is now Taylor Mediou. We did what married people do, Evie. Is

the evidence of that. Eddie. I am so glad your van broke down on the side of the world, and I share that story today, first of all, get some hope to the single people, but also to say, who in the world would have ever thought that Eddie and my ev were connected because their connection is not one

that is easily seen on the surface. But once you begin to peel back the layers and dig down deep into the archaeological value of a person's life, it becomes so clear that none of us get to live our lives in autonomy, which is me, myself and I. But how many you know? All of us are connected. We are deeply connected. Miracles merge with miracles, Testimonies touch each other, our stories intersect. Whether you like the person sitting next to you or not, all of us are deeply and

intrinsically connected. Oh yes, our lives are not straight lines. Our lives are actually links. We are all connected. And then it frustrates you when people you love don't understand this premise, and they got the nerve to tell you, don't worry about me, don't worry about me. You do you. I'm gonna do me. You do you, I'm gonna do me. And you want to look at them and say, well, you doing you is affecting me because all of us are deeply Oh we're connected. We're connected, So don't find

it strange and Mark chapter five. Mark begins by talking about the synagogue leader by the name of Gyros but in the middle of Gyros's story, we're abruptly interrupted with the story of a woman with the issue of blood. And the reason Mark Hat strategically sandwiched these two story together is because the two of them are connected, deeply connected.

In fact, to talk about Gyros the synagogue leader and never discuss the woman with the issue of blood is really to do an injustice to the integrity of this text. Because the two of them are connected. It so connected. Now, not on the surface, not on the surface. If you just look at the surface of their lives, they cannot be more opposite. Come on, if you look at the surface, one of these things is not like the other. Come on, let's just start with biology, one on one. Gyros is

a man. She is a woman. Hello hoo. Gyros is named in the text. The Bible doesn't even give us this woman's name. Gyros was honored and respected. This woman has been shamed and rejected. Gyros is a ruler in the synagogue. This woman can't even come near the synagogue because her sickness has made her ceremonially unclean. Gyrus is actually affluent. He's got some money in the bank. This woman is broke. Busted and disgusted and has spent all she had on worthless physicians who have made her worse

instead of better. Let me bring the text to the twenty first century. Gyrous is driving the bands, this woman is riding the bus. They have nothing in common on the peripheral, but yet life has put them in the exact same place, posture, and position because they both have been hit with something that they cannot handle. How many no? Life will do that. Life has a way of evening

the playing field. Life is an equal opportunity employer. Life will hit you upside the head with some stuff that'll make you scratch your hand, that'll take your breath away. Life will hit you with stuff come on that your money can't fix, Your degrees, can't fix your Instagram followers can't fix. Life will hit an atheist with some stuff that'll make him throw up his hands and say, the Lord is in this place. Life will hit you with

some stuff you cannot handle. And might I suggest that if life is hit you with something that you cannot handle, how many no? That thing is a job for Jesus. That's time for you to throw up your hands and say, God, I don't know what to do about this, But surely you know what to do. Oh look at Gyrus in this woman. Nothing in common on the surface. Both ended up in the same place, having to push people out

the way to get an appointment with Jesus. I love it because now one of them had a pretty pathway with rose pedals to Jesus. They both had to physically push people out the way to get an appointment with Jesus. Just push. You know, Jivers is a pastor. You're not supposed to push people. I can see people coming to the Givers saying, hey, I really loved your Shamon the other day. He's like, you did good move. I'm like jes A pushing people out the way. This woman is

ceremonially unclean. She's not supposed to be touching people. She touched everybody. That's no, not pushing people out the way. Oh you know why they're pushing. I'll tell you why they're pushing. They're pushing because desperate people do desperate things. Oh come on, how many know when you are really desperate for God to do something in your life, you come to church differently, you approach God differently. When you are desperate for God to show up, you don't care

what the traffic is. You'll be in here before the countdown video. When you are desperate for God to show up in your life, you will lift up your hands if you will sing the songs, laugh, You don't care whose nerves you getting up. When you are desperate for God to show up, tears will come down your faith. You mess up out that Mary Kay and Mac makeup because there's something you need God to do in your life.

And I'm wondering, are there any desperate people in this place that said there is something I need God to do in my life that only he convin Oh, come on, if you ain't desperate, you can be quiet. But if you're actually desperate, across every campus, I tell you to give God some praise like this something I'm desperate. Oh there's something about desperation, hear me. God will often use desperation to push you into your purpose. God will often

use desperation to push you into your destiny. In fact, watch this. Desperation is the door that breakthrough walks through. I'm gonna say that again. Desperation is the door that breakthrough walks through. Some people wonder how come I hadn't got my breakthrough you. Sometimes it's because you hadn't got downright desperate enough for God to do it in your life, because desperation will open up doors that complacency will keep shut.

I'm telling you, I'm travel and people will often ask me, Robert, where's your favorite place to preach? Your favorite place to preach? And to be honest, I struggle to name a place because I want to articulate to them that the effectiveness of preaching and ministry has little to do with an address or a destination of a place, but everything to do with the attitude and the disposition of the people

that are in the place. Come on, I would rather ap preach in a basement with three desperate people than to preach on the Bahamas with thousands of bougies, suck up people who act like they don't need God to do anything in their life. But if you give me some desperate people, miracles will break forward. If you'll give

me desperate people, signs and wonders will shut. If you'll give me desperate people, the atmosphere will shift and change, and God sell himself strong and mighty when you're desperate, When you're desperate, and it was the Rolling tides of desperation that brought Gyrus and this woman watched this both at the feet of Jesus. They both ended up at his feet. I love it. Nothing in common on the surface. Both ended up at the same place, at the feet

of Jesus. This is a picture of the Gospel and the power of the Church that we can come in here today across every location, with all of our differences of the surface, but we all end up at the same place, at the feet of Jesus, saying there's something I need you to do in my life. Are you bored yet? Because I would love to delve into the details of their desperation. Gyros gets to Jesus first, and boy is he desperate. He's desperate because his baby girl,

his little daughter, is dying. She is dying. So when he gets to Jesus, he is talking to Jesus with the vocal intonation of a nine to one to one caller. He's saying, jeez, I don't just need you to come to the house. I need you to hurry up and get to the house. This woman is just as desperate. But a situation has been going on for a while now.

It's chronic. This bleeding, this hemorrhaging in her body. And watch how much Mark the gospel writer wants us to know that the two of them are connected, because it just so happens that Gyrus's little girl who is dying is twelve years old, and this woman with the issue of blood has been dealing with it now for twelve years. They're connected. So you got a twelve year old dying daughter and a twelve year old disease. A twelve year

old dying daughter and a twelve year old disease. So that means, chronologically speaking, the same year that this little girl was born was the exact same year that this

woman was diagnosed with her disease. That means, cinematically speaking, if Mark Chapter five was a movie and the producers of This Is Us were making the movie, this is the scene in the movie where it would flip from the feet of Jesus and say twelve years earlier, and it would go to a hospital, and coming out in the hospital would be Gyrous his wife and them holding a brand new baby girl, smiling ear to ear with the full elation of parenthood, and then perhaps walking out

of that same hospital, here's a woman tears coming down her face because she's just been diagnosed with a disease and the doctors don't even know what to do about it. And maybe they were in the same hospital that day but didn't even see each other. Come on, Church, isn't it just like life? Sometimes in life you can be so preoccupied with your promise or so preoccupied with your personal pain that you don't even see other people around you.

You can be so excited about what God has done in your life, are so disappointed about what hadn't come to pass yet, that you are oblivious to other people around you. And can I suggest in this narcissistic, individualistic, self resaturated society in which we live, we had forgotten rowan to twelve that says you've got to rejoice within that rejoice, but also weep with those that weep, and don't be so concerned about you that you miss other

people around you. Oh, come on, Thank God for Jesus, because the two people that didn't see each other at the hospital were forced to see each other at the hem of his garment, And now the two twelves are touching. Who somebody say twelve, I'll say it like I had your coffee, Say twelve how many. You know. You don't need a Bible calluge degree. You don't have to be a student biblical numerology to know there are some numbers in the Bible that God has given you biblical blues

clues that these numbers are a big deal. Okay, twelve is one of those numbers. Twelve is a big number to God. You remember that when God began his covenant with his people, a covenant that commenced with the call of Abraham, continue with Isaac, but culminated in Jacob. You remember that Jacob had not one, not ten, twelve sons, representing the power and the authority of God's covenant with

his people. Those twelve sons became the twelve tribes of Israel, representing the power and the authority and the strength of that nation. You remember in the Old Testament, whenever the high priests were going to the Holy of Holies on behalf of the people of God, he would stand there with a breastplate that had twelve precious stones, representing those twelve tribes of Israel, and he would stand there in

power and in authority. Come on, you know, our New Testament high priest, who is Jesus the first time we see him teaching in the temple is at the tender age of twelve, and they marveled at the wisdom and the power and the authority that came out of a twelve year old. You remember when that twelve year old turned thirty and he got ready to pick his crew, his road dolls, his disciples. If it was me, I

would have stopped at eleven. But not Jesus. He said, I need the hater to come on Judas, and he picked twelve dudes to roam the earth, and he gave him power and authority to heal the sick and the cast out. Name of twelve is the number of God's power. Twelve is the number of God's authority. Do you know what Jesus is trying to teach us with the twelves. He's trying to teach us what he's been trying to

say this the moment he landed on planet Earth. God says, I don't care whether it's a blind eye, a death ear, a withered hand, an issue of blood, a disease, demon, possession of storm, or even death itself. There is absolutely nothing that you're facing that is not under the jurisdiction of my power and my authority. I got the power and the authority to handle whatever your faci. Oh, somebody

ought to give God some praise today. If you're faithful, then no matter what comes against you, He's got the power and the authority to fix it. How far your neighbors say, he's got the power, he's got the authority. Why is that important to hear me today? That's so important because your awareness of his authority, his authority will determine how much you receive from him. Your awareness of God's authority will determine how much you receive from him.

See often we reduce this text just to faith because he said, Dodd of your faith has healed you. So we tell you you gotta get more faith. Give more faith. And faith is important. Come on, this is the substance of things, hope for it's the evidence of things not seeing. You need faith. Faith is our anchor. But nobody takes an anchor and just throws it in the water. You're gonna lose that anchor. You better connect that anchor to something. And my faith is connected to his authority, the authority

of his word, the authority of his power. That's what my faith has got to be connected to. If you don't believe he's the ultimate authority, how many, No, your faith is gonna struggle. Some of you think you got a faith problem. Now your faith is good. You just need an awareness of his authority. Because if you don't believe he's the ultimate authority, your faith is gonna struggle. Give us some scripture for that, Robert, I give you

some scripture. You remember the disciples, remember when not on the boat and the hurricane is going crazy, and Jesus is chilling accent in the boat, just just sound asleep on the boat, and the disciples are having a panic, And they said, oh, Jesus, don't you call me not

to die? And I love Jesus. He gets up in a hurricane, cool, calm and collected with sovereign swags and gets up to the edge of the boat in a hurricane, just peace, be still, and the winds and the waves are still in a moment, and all the disciples jaws were on the floor. They go, who is this man that even the winds and the waves obey him? They marveled at his authority. And what did Jesus say to them, Oh, you of the little faith, your faith is little because

you didn't have an awareness of my authority. If you knew who I really was, who I really was, you should have looked at me when I was asleep on the boat and said, who is this man that is sleeping in a hurricane. If this storm ain't bothering him, it ain't gonna bother me. Stood over the jeesus, Let me just cuddle with you, because if you ain't stressed about this, you must know that in the end, I'm gonna with Oh, come on, somebody, God is not stressing

about what you're stressing about. He's got power and authority. Oh, somebody, give God some praise. If you know the power the authority that is in his hand. I'm telling you you don't got a faith problem. You got an awareness of his authority problem. When you know he's the ultimate authority, your faith can go to a whole another level. You think the doctor is the ultimate authority, You think your friend is the ultimate you think your cousin and him, oh,

the ultimate authority. Ah, But once you know he's the ultimate authority, your faith can go to a whole nothing level. Oh, I gotta hurry, what's it is? Gyrus got a house call? Because that was his awareness of his authority. Remember, he works in the synagogue, he's a pastor. He approaches Jesus as a classic pastor. He said, Jesus, please, my daughter's dying. You gotta come to the house. Hallelujah. Here below is already playing in the background, and you gotta come. You

gotta lay hands on He's Pentecostal too. He said, you gotta lay hands on her because that's the way it works. That's my awareness of your authority. So Jesus goes, okay, I'll go. Because that was his awareness of his authority. This woman had a whole nother awareness of his authority. She hadn't been in the synagogue, so she said, Jesz no, you ain't got to come to my house. I ain't got time for that. All I gotta do is touch

to him of your guard man. If I just touched him, of your car man, I know I'm gonna be made whole if I just touched to him. That was her awareness. That what she got. Oh but how man, you know a centurion Matthew chapter eight that had a whole nother awareness of his authority. That soldier went up to Jesus and said, I'm a man in authority and under authority. He says, my servant is sick at the house, but I'm not worthy for you to come to my house. If you'll just speak the word, Jesus, just send a

voice memo. I believe he'll be healed by you just speaking the word. And somebody got healed without Jesus laying hands hold them because somebody understood affording. Oh and what did Jesus say to that centurion? Never have I seen a faith like this in all of Israel. He marveled at his say, Jesus, why are you marveling that his faith? Because he's got an awareness of my authority. This woman goes for twelve years. Twelve years, I've been approaching people

with no authority. I mean no, this is so important because if you don't believe somebody's the ultimate authority, you'll doubt the validity of their words. If I don't believe you the real authority, I will doubt the validity of your words. Come on, think practically been on there. You've been on the phone with somebody that you knew was a mid level employee and they're telling you something that's contradictory to exemplary customer service after you get frustrated, if

you're like, can I please speak to your manager? Can I speak to your super advisor? H y'all don't do that. Y'all super saved here. Okay, I do that. I speak to managers. Okay. This happened to me not too long ago. I had I had a reservation at a hotel that had been booked for a while, and the girl behind the desk was like, I'm sorry, mister mcdode. We're fully committed. We're sold out. I try to stay safe. I said, hold and I said, this has been booked for several months.

He's like, no, I'm sorry, We're fully committed. That was nice about I said, can I just speak to your manager? Can I speak to your supervisor? The manager comes behind the door, she goes, girl move, I'm so sorry, mister mcdoud. She's new. Here. It is right here. Here's your reservation. I'm so sorry for all your trouble. We're gonna upgrade you to an executive suite. How did I go from about to be on the street to an executive suite Because somebody with some power and some authority new with

button to push hope you'll get so annoyed. But I'm what they inter me doing to your family, to your mind that you threw up your hands and say, I need to speak to us. So I need to speak to the dog that fawned me, the aupa, and they are made the first andthelast. Somebody give him praise. If you know who is hallelujah. He's got the power, he's got the authority, he's got the final say. This woman goes. For twelve years, I've been speaking to mid level employees.

I demand an appointment with the supervisor. She touched the hem of his garment. Immediately, She's made whole. Somebody plays softly behind me. I'll make this sound a whole lot more spiritual. Watch this her her healing. As awesome as it was, Don't forget it was actually an interruption to Jesus's journey to Jyrus's house. Don't forget who got to Jesus first. Gyrous did? He said, Jesus. I can see exactly how it went down. He's like, Jesus, please, please,

can you come to my house? My baby girl is dying. Jesus says, yes, I'll go. Can you imagine the joy that filled Gyrus's heart. When Jesus said, I'll go the text is cleared. There's a crowd of people there that day, a huge crowd, and time is of the essence, So Gyrous's challenges to get Jesus through the crowd to his house so his daughter can be healed. I see how

it went down. You know how this is when it's a crowd of people in your and hurry, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. And he checks back to make sure Jesus you said okay, good. Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. No, I got to h first. Move excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. Checks me. You're still okay, good, excuse me, excuse me, move, excuse me. You're still there, Jesus, okay, good,

excuse me, excuse me. And all of a sudden, the text will suggests that he loses Jesus in the crowd. Wait a minute, what is he? I told him? I taught him this is an emergency. Excuse me, what did you know? And he finally finds him in a crowd of people talking about who touched me and Joseph, are you seriously now, I've just told you this is the emergency you're playing? Twenty one questions what you mean? Who touches? Everybody touch her? Oh, don't act like you ain't never

been there before. Don't act like you never told Jesus this is an emergency. You need a hurry. They about to take my car. You a better hurry, And he just taken who touched me? We'll wait? Wait? Wild Gyrous is standing there. Who knows how long it takes for this woman to finally, sheepishly come through the crowd and says it was me and Jesus The compassionate Savior takes his time to talk to her, who wild Gyrous is waiting. The Bible says that she told him the whole truth.

Another version says she told him her whole story. She told him she ladies, I love you, but have you ever had to let me tell you her host? Oh, don't be in a hurry, get to a comfortable seat. How lah was this guy get a dude to tell you his whole story? He'd be like, I'm good? How long is this conversation? And I can see the Steve coming off of gyruses forehead. Look are you serious? Girl? Get your healing in go? Oh, peter yourways running your Mouth's be a good time to tell your boy to

hurry out. Oh, ain't that frustrating? God makes you wait? Not only that he had to watch her get her miracle. If it's not frustrating enough to wait on your miracle, what do you do when you're waiting on your miracle and God makes you watch somebody else get theirs? You got that fake smiling your face like, oh you got here, hallelujah?

Have we Gonnah? It's funny. Tell us you waiting to be healed, watching other people get healed, waiting to have a baby, watching other people post pictures of their baby on Instagram? What do you do? You've got to wait on your miracle and watch somebody else get theirs and I found. God will often often make you watch a

miracle while you're waiting on a miracle. Not to discourage you, no, he's a good, good father, but to encourage you to let you know that if God did it for them, oh come on, he can do it for you too. He is not a respectable person's If God bless him, he can bless you too. That's why you want not hate on anybody. Don't be jealous of anybody. The same God that did it for them is faithful to do it for you too. That's good news. I'm glad you clapped at that. I'm a preacher. I set you up

for that clap. I'm sorry because we say that a lot of God did it for me, he'll do it for you too, And it's true. But I think there's an erroneous ideology attached to that, because often when we say if God did it for me, he'll do it for you too, we think that means he'll do it in the same way. So if God blessed you with a house, he gonna bless me with a house in the same neighborhood and with the same square footage. And I'm a measure Jesus, so keep it even and do

it for you toobe. But often it won't be in the same way. Because Gyros and this woman hear me both wanted the same thing. They both wanted healing. Gyros didn't get a healing, he got a resurrection, which sounds awesome. Don't clap too soon till you remember that the prerequisite for resurrection, it's death. Can you imagine how Gyrous's heart sunk in his chest? And while he was waiting and watching, they tap him on the shoulder and says, Gyrus, don't

bother the teacher anymore. Your daughter is dead. Oh I feel Gyrus's pain, But I realized Girous has horrible friends, terrible friends hashtag the worst friends ever. Not because they told him his daughter was dead. That was the facts. It was the commentary. They added to the facts. They said, Gyrus, why bother I have to use his voice. They annoy me, Gyros,

Why bother the teacher anymore? Your daughter's dead, Gyrous, Your daughter's already dead, and essays Gyrus, This is the time to give up, Gyrus, This is the time to throw in the towel. Watch out for people in your life that are so quick to tell you to give up. Oh what God spoke in your spirit on the promise he gave you. How you're gonna tell me to give up? This is not your daughter? And how you're gonna tell me don't bother the teacher You don't have an awareness

of there's annoyed it. He's more than the teacher. He's a healer. He's a wam maker's worder. He's no reelection and the life, no even death itself. He'd stop him. Come on, somebody, did God play? He lifted passid No. I rather because I think when Gyros got the news, he was so dazed he didn't even want to move anymore. And finally Jesus speaks to him. He says, Gyrus, don't be afraid, just believe. Don't be afraid, just believing. I

think that's when the journey switched. I think that's when Jesus started leading Gyros, saying Jonas, come on, I know you think it's so for but family, come on, givers, I need you to walk with the same enthusiasm that you're happy for. It's not gonna come on, jobs, I know where you live, Come on, follow me. This is the way it's supposed to be. You're never supposed to be leading Jesus. He's supposed to be leading you, and you gotta file with your heartbroken walks in the house.

He started the funeral. He said, while y'all crying, the girl's not dead, she's just asleep. And they laughed. So you think that's funny? Ever single one of y'all they laughed yet Oh no, I saw your laughing gets Oh, unbelief will always laugh at the language of faith. Yes, Oh, somebody needs to serve an addiction notice on the enemy today and start telling us some things take get out. Oh, come on, fear, get out, anxiety, get out, depression, get out.

Some things won't get up till some things first get out. God, just send somebody today to check your environment so that the dead things can come to life. I'm gonna ask every head be bowed, every I'll be closed across every campus. Can I pray for you Father, thank you for your word. Lord. I thank you that you have power, you have authority, and I also thank you that you've given us power and authority. So today we check our atmosphere. Lord. We speak to ideas, we speak to mindsets, we speak to

people in our lives. Well, they need to get out so that dead things can get up. And I thank you that you are the resurrection and the life. You can do it today. And Jesus's mighty name, we pray. Everybody said Amen, Hey man, God, bless you innovation. Well, I hope you enjoyed the podcast today, And if you did, there are just a couple things I'd love for you to do Number one. Subscribe to our show. That way, the most recent episode will always be in your feed,

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