It’s vital that we recognize the difference between God’s voice and Satan’s lies, and that we choose to ignore the lies of doubt when we hear them. Joyce shares a story in Mark 5, where Jesus ignored the doubt and surrounded himself with belief. Watch and learn from this miraculous story.
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i want to share a story with you in mark
5
where jesus actually ignored
the voice of doubt and unbelief you know
i think we’re going to have to learn
how to recognize when god’s speaking to
us and when the enemy’s speaking to us
and if it’s the enemy we’re just going
to have to say well i know you’re a liar
so i’m going to ignore you and not pay
any attention
mark 5 22 and i want you to try to
insert yourself in this story sometimes
we just read
these things we don’t really think about
it as i go through this i want you to
pretend like you’re here and you’re
seeing all this
one of the rulers of the synagogue
jairus by name
seeing jesus fell at his feet and
implored him earnestly
saying my little daughter is at the
point of death
come and lay your hands on her so that
she may be made well and alive
imagine the intensity of this man’s
prayer
my little daughter is almost dead
but i believe you will you come and lay
your hands on her
so she might get well well jesus was
full of compassion and so
it says he went with him but there was a
great crowd that was following them
because there were crowds that followed
jesus everywhere that he went
and in that crowd there was a woman who
had been bleeding
for 12 years and she’d been to every
doctor
nobody made her better made her any
better and it had cost her all the money
that she had
but she had heard about jesus and the
amplified bible says she kept saying to
herself
if i can only touch the hymn of his
garment i know i shall
be healed i love that you know if you’re
going to talk to yourself you might as
well talk about something positive
i believe if i can just get to jesus and
touch him that i shall
be healed and so he’s on his way to heal
this
man’s daughter who’s almost dead and now
he stops to help somebody else
think about how that would make you feel
think about if you were jairus
what kind of doubt and fear would have
attacked your mind
at that time
when she touched jesus immediately the
flow of blood dried up and she felt in
her body that she was healed of her
disease
and jesus felt the power go out of him
this power of god is a real thing
it’s a tangible thing you know when the
power of god
is working in your life
and jesus turned to the crowd and said
who touched me well the disciples
thought that was a foolish question
there’s such a big crowd here
who what do you mean who touched you
there’s all kinds of people touching you
but you know they this woman touched him
with her faith
can you touch god with your faith today
and believe that no matter what kind of
problem you have that god is great
enough
to get you out of the mess and bring
restoration into your life
but the woman knowing what had happened
to her came
with fear and trembling and fell down
before him and told him
the whole entire truth and he said to
her daughter
your faith has made you well go in peace
your faith faith does things faith
brings deliverance
faith brings change faith brings healing
faith brings that job that you need when
there’s no jobs to be had
while he was still speaking someone came
from jairus house
and said your daughter is dead you don’t
need to trouble
the master any longer oh my gosh
how did he feel jesus
why did you have to stop for her right
now i told you what a desperate
situation i was in
i’m not saying that’s what he said but
he might have felt like saying that
but now listen to this in verse 36
mark 5 36 but overhearing the amplified
bible says
but ignoring what they said
jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue
do not fear
only believe wow he’s asking
i mean that’s a lot just keep your eyes
on jesus
what does it say i think it’s hebrews 12
that says looking away from all that
will distract unto jesus
who is the author and the finisher of
your faith
god doesn’t didn’t just start faith in
you for something
to leave you destitute and without an
answer
he’s the author and the finisher of your
faith
but sometimes you need to keep believing
when everything
looks like nothing is going to work and
you’re never going to get
what you ask god for i just sense in my
heart today that there are people
who have given up your dream there’s
people that the enemy has talked
into just forget it it’s never going to
happen
just forget it you’re just full of
bright ideas none of this is anything
god spoke to you
listen turn your head off for a few
minutes and go back and see what’s in
your heart
if you did miss it and you made a
mistake then admit it and
say so but if you say no i believe that
that’s what god wants to do
i believe this is something that god
spoke to me
then you need to stir your faith up
today
fan that flame that once burned on the
inside of you
and go back to saying i believe god and
i don’t care how long it takes i’m not
going to give up on god
because i’ve got his word on this and he
is
faithful so
he allowed no one to follow him except
peter and james
and john now why was that you know what
jesus
was going to go in and raise this girl
from the dead and he didn’t want
a bunch of doubt and unbelief around him
he wanted faith around him
and you know what when you’re in a
desperate situation and everything looks
like
nothing’s going to work you don’t need a
bunch of people around you that are
negative
and always telling you what’s not going
to work you need surround you need to
surround yourself with positive people
people of faith people that would
encourage you and believe god with you
i know certain people when i need
somebody to pray i know who to call
because they’re not going to just say oh
sure i’ll pray for you
i mean they’re going to pray they’re
going to really pray
and i have confidence that god hears
them
they came to the ruler’s house and there
was a great commotion
people weeping and wailing loudly
and when he entered into them he said
why are you making such a commotion
the child is not dead but she’s just
sleeping and they laughed at him but
look what he did
but he put them all outside once again
he got rid of the doubt and unbelief
he put them all outside and took the
child’s father and mother
and those who were with him peter james
and john
went to where the child was and of
course he raised her up
and she got up made totally whole you
know what
some of you could change your life if
you would just simply get away from some
of the
negative
doubtful people that you hang around
with all the time
you know i can’t stand negativity and
that’s interesting because
at one time in my life i was a very
negative person i always say
if i thought two positive thoughts in a
row my brain got in a cramp
i mean i had grown up around a negative
father
he didn’t trust anybody he didn’t like
anybody everything had an ulterior
motive
and i grew up being taught how to be
negative
and almost being made to feel foolish if
i was ever positive
so it took a while for god to get me
turned around
dave and i had been married a short
period of time and he said to me
why are you always so negative and you
know what i said to him i said well if
you don’t expect anything good to happen
then you won’t be disappointed when it
doesn’t
i’d had so many disappointments in my
life i thought i was protecting myself
by believing for bad thoughts for bad
things i actually had what the bible
calls in proverbs 15
15 evil forebodings
there was always this feeling around me
kind of in my atmosphere like i was
waiting for the
hammer to drop so to speak you need to
be careful about letting yourself get
into that situation
and so if you’re in if you’re having
problems right now
don’t let your friends be people that
always just want to do nothing but talk
about your problem and then on top of
that talk negative about your problem
surround yourself with people that will
bring some joy people that will make you
laugh
people that will encourage you and tell
you that god can do anything