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let’s get into the word let’s get into

the word god is so good we’re gonna be

reading a lot of scriptures maybe a

hundred okay but they were gonna kick

off in mark 5 21 to 36 and they were

gonna jump into Hebrews really quick but

let’s start with mark 5 and the Word of

God says now when Jesus had crossed over

again by boat to the other side a great

multitude gathered to him and he was by

the sea and behold one of the rulers of

the synagogue came Jarius by name and

when he saw him he fell at his feet and

begged him earnestly saying my little

daughter lies too at the point of death

come and lay your hands on her that she

may be healed and she will live so Jesus

went with him and the great multitude

followed him and thronged him now a

certain woman had a flow of blood for 12

years and had suffered many things from

many physicians she had spent all that

she had and was no better but rather

grew worse when she heard about Jesus

she came behind him in the crowd and

touched his garment for she said if only

I may touch his clothes I shall be made

well immediately the fountain of her

blood was dried up and she felt in her

body that she was healed of her

affliction and Jesus and Jesus

immediately knowing in himself that

power had gone out of him turned around

in the crowd and said who touched my

clothes but his disciples said to him

you see the multitude thronging you and

you say who touched me and he looked

around to see her who had done this

thing but the woman fearing and

trembling knowing what had happened to

her came 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 be healed of your

action while he the scripture would

preach for itself so I’m gonna take it a

different direction while he was still

speaking some came from the ruler of the

synagogue’s house and said your daughter

is dead why trouble the teacher any

further as soon as Jesus heard the word

that was spoken he said to the ruler of

the synagogue do not be afraid only

believe in Hebrews 10:35 it tells us

therefore do not cast away confidence

which has great reward family while

you’re standing let us pray Heavenly

Father we thank you for this very day we

thank you for this moment that we are

standing in we thank you Lord God

because you have a point at this moment

Lord that I thank you for the word that

you have for all your people included

myself Lord may you help me to speak it

the way you showed it to me

we thank you Lord Holy Spirit have your

way for everyone listening everyone here

everyone watching Lord have your way

made this word to speak to them in a way

that is unique to where they are right

this very moment in Jesus mighty name

amen family you may be seated

if you’re taking notes I’ve titled this

message the posture of Prayer you know

there are many things that we can speak

on you know honestly and every time

we’re here together the time that we

have will never be enough to go into the

layers of the text that we read and so

what I’m gonna do by the grace of God is

to really just pinpoint the things that

God has shown me for this very moment

you see I read the scripture and the one

thing that I see that was you know just

kind of like throughout the test the

text is expectation and when I’m

speaking about the posture of Prayer

what I’m really gonna highlight is

expectation you see last week I went on

a sabbatical within the trip getaway and

initially when I was making my plans I

remember it was like I’ve been trying to

plan this from like end of last year and

whatnot and I was like you know maybe

this would be a birthday trip I can go

to Miami

eat some Cuban food and dance through

the Cubans and all of a sudden you know

I kept feeling the Lord telling me you

know go on a vacation with me I said you

know what Lord that’s alright I’m I

don’t know if I could do that in Miami

but but maybe I could go to Hawaii or

somewhere you know just amazing and then

all of a sudden I hear so clearly and

the Lord tells me meet me in Seattle I

said see ya what is in Seattle it’s cold

I don’t know anybody out there and I

hear that so clearly meet me in Seattle

and I said wow God I don’t know whose

vacation this is if it’s mine or yours

and I ended up you know outside I said

okay well I guess we’re gonna go to

Seattle and I have this I’m like God

that has to be something in Seattle and

they were so able to make matters worse

when we checked the weather

it was raining the whole week I would be

there I said at least God

you know just give me some sunshine or

something and so I booked my flight I go

to see how to thank God that I had some

days where you know it was not really

sunny it was cold but it wasn’t raining

and so I’m out there and to be honest

the days go by and I’m like God we could

have done this in Hawaii okay but there

was a moment where all of a sudden like

so I did an Airbnb an Airbnb they have

these like Airbnb experience things and

things to do in the city and there was

one particular thing that the Holy

Spirit told me to do so it was to hike

the Snoqualmie Falls and now that would

all be cool you know that would be fine

let me get some you know activity in my

body and every day that I’m there from

Monday through Friday every day that I’m

trying to get you know go to this thing

the Holy Spirit says not today not today

and then on Thursday he says booked it

for tomorrow and I’m like okay you know

I leave tomorrow but that should work

and so I’m booking it so I checked the

weather it’s raining on the Friday and

I’m like okay maybe the Lord will also

be generous on this day and give me some

kind of Sun so I booked it

Friday morning it’s pouring rain I said

you want me to hike in the rain I said

what a vacation guy and so I haven’t

going hiking with a like this guide who

were kind of like show me around and

it’s the bike would literally be like a

two-hour hike and I’m like so we’re

gonna do this in the rain and all I have

is an umbrella alright so I go I meet

this lady I have my umbrella she’s like

you know what you’re crazy to want to

hike in this weather but I’m with it I

said these I’m set I have my umbrella

and she looked at me crazy like the wind

is gonna blow that thing out so she kiss

me she gives me like this poncho and we

wear the poncho I’m ready I’m like

alright let’s do this thing we go into

like so we’re doing this hike it’s

raining and it’s snowing the snow made

me a little happy because I’ve never

experienced snow and I was like oh great

you know I guess some snow but at some

point I was over it do you know like I

said outside of the photos and this

moment the moment is over I’m ready to

go home and I’m like god why am I here

like why am I here but I still have this

expectation of God so let me know what

I’m doing in the rain and the coat every

time I bring my hands on my jacket it

freezes I’m trying to warm myself up and

all of a sudden went finally after two

hours or so we’re coming back down

because it’s huge I don’t know who

anyone from Seattle I love your city in

the summer but yes so we’re coming down

and all of a sudden the Holy Spirit says

this is why you’re here and it was about

the woman and he says I want you to

speak to her about me and then it hit me

because the woman had told me earlier

that because of the weather no one else

wanted to take this day

and so not only would it be a moment

where it’s just of two of us cuz if

there’s a crowd of people I mean the

conversation at some point would be

changed you know someone loves to bring

up something maybe a gummy bear or

something

and so he says talk to her about me and

I’m wondering I’m like God how do I

bring you up you know we’re hiking she’s

from Denmark I’m not sure how we find a

common ground here and in a very just

unsubtle way I said you know what in

Seattle they don’t really talk about God

what do you believe and she looks at me

like really yeah I know

[Laughter]

and so we start this conversation we

start this conversation she tells me

about her background there you know her

parents were Christian but she never

understood it because the way they

presented it to her was you know what

Jesus is Lord believe in him trust in

him if not you know good luck to you and

so because of that she was never sure

about you know why is Jesus Lord so she

ended up dabbling in so many other

things and all along she’s searching for

the truth but what her search has

questions there were questions that she

had for God and she was waiting for how

I need these questions and said if I’m

going to open my heart to Jesus you see

something I’ve learnt about God is that

every attribute of God speaks to how

someone can encounter him there are

times that people can encounter God

because of his love his love draws us in

but there are people who encountered God

because of his judgment in the book of

Acts there was a man I believe it’s acts

13 there was a time where the Apostle

Paul he’s going he’s he know he’s on

assignment he’s about to preach the

gospel to someone and then this person

comes out he called himself by Jesus and

he was a false prophet and he comes to

oppose the Apostle Paul and the Apostle

Paul recognizes I recognize that your

mission is from the enemy and by the

power of that by the power of the Holy

Spirit he looks at this man and he says

the Lord is against you it was the

judgment of God

said you will be blind for a time in

that moment it was the judgment of God

that made him blind but it was in his

blindness that he repented and he

followed God so there are different

attributes to God that causes people to

be drawn to him and one of it that we

rarely talk about is the wisdom of God

there are people that have questions

about the faith and it is when we are

able to give them answers that are

inspired by the Holy Spirit that all of

a sudden their hearts are open to God

what we often do is that someone has

questions and we say you know what

you’re just in your pride you’re down in

the Lord you need to just humble

yourself but the Lord is a God of wisdom

there is no question that he doesn’t

have an answer to but who would seek Him

and say God I there are these common

questions amongst atheists there are

these common questions amongst people

that say I don’t want to believe in a

Jesus like that God can you give me the

revelation for it because when you’re

able to articulate it to them there is

something about that that would draw

them and open up their hearts to Jesus

so this woman had many questions that

were left unanswered when she would ask

people about certain things that you

know made her I’m conflicted in her

faith they will give her the generic

answer if you just have to trust God and

believe that he is and she said I hear

you

but I don’t know how to open my heart to

someone when I have these questions that

are left unanswered and so we literally

have this two hour plus conversation

match the hike experience about God and

she’s asking these questions and all and

the revelation for these questions and

things that I’ve been sitting with God

about I’m like wow this is such an

ordained moment and all of a sudden she

she opens up to me and tells me that the

day before someone gave her a book and

the book was about Jesus and she said I

don’t read Christian books but something

about this book made me hold on to it

and she’s like all of a sudden you’re

here and you’re talking to me about

Jesus and you’re answering and here is

the kicker

she said you’re answering questions that

I have asked God for 20 years now the

interesting thing I realized was after a

while I said God well twenty years is a

long time okay you know and she dabbled

in so many things and the Lord began to

show me that I wanted her to know who I

was not before she recognises Who I am

now this woman for 20 years she has

these questions but she’s still open she

still has an expectation that God I want

to know who you are she told me that

she’s always troubled in her spirit

because she feels like I want to know

what is the truth and so for 20 years

and in this moment she’s like it feels

like this moment is what I have been

waiting for for 20 years and what later

dawned on me is that when I begin to

think about it I said 20 years ago God

that’s when you encountered me for the

first time 20 years ago is when I gave

my life to you so it’s not just a moment

where I see how much you care about the

one that you sent me to become a City of

Seattle for this one lady because there

was a moment that you already ordained

that once this that in this moment it is

pregnant with the things that she has

been searching for but what I also

realized is that that moment was

pregnant with something for me because

in that moment when I said God the

answer to her question was in me and

when she began asking you these

questions was the moment you started

developing me so 20 years ago she has

these questions about who are you lord

jesus who are you God they’re questions

I have for you and unless you answer me

I am NOT going to follow you in the same

year you encounter me and you talk to me

about my life and you talk to me that

you’ve called me for your for your

kingdom and so when I began to think

about it I said wow her expectation

never left her and my expectation for

God why am I here never left me

and in our expectation we were able to

meet and God moves so powerfully you see

this reminded me of the woman with the

issue of blood because for 12 years this

woman had an affliction when her

problems started

Jesus was already on the earth but he

was not yet revealed when she was going

from physician to this physician and it

was not even getting better it was not

even looking like okay maybe there could

be hope in this manner the only thing

that she was knowledgeable about was not

working for her but she never lost her

faith she never lost her hope and then

you have this moment where she hears

about Jesus and she does not allow the

past reports from physicians that show

that this is not gonna work and it looks

like this may never get better because

every time you’ve tried it only got

worse but when she hears about Jesus her

faith is still so potent that in that

moment she tells herself you know what

only if I could touch his garments I

will be made whole what the experience

never diluted the fact that I am

believing for something she never

allowed the years that were put upon her

affliction to define her as what she was

dealing with she said God I’m gonna

believe in you I’m gonna trust in you

that I stopped one day the answer for my

problem I would need it you see in that

moment she touches the hem of Jesus

garment and the Bible tells us that

power left him but what is so

fascinating because every time I read

something there are so many questions I

have for God because another thing is

that but why did it have to take this

long why did they have to take 12 years

and the Lord said that showed me that in

the same way you see why not during my

trip in Seattle there were things that

God’s that are revealing to me about

what he’s calling me to do in this

season and what he was what some of the

things he revealed to me are things that

are very foreign to me it’s places I’ve

never really walked in

things that I’m not really familiar with

but in the same way that he told me to

go to a city that I know nobody a place

that is foreign to me and then he

reveals in that moment that no there is

an assignment here I will never send you

anywhere and it is random I would never

send you anywhere and it’s without

purpose that in that moment because my

interaction with that lady it gave me

strength for the things that God spoke

to me and so it was not just about her

she also had something to give me

because in recognizing that God you

orchestrated this and so in the same way

when you send me to foreign places and

foreign industries that you have a plan

for me you see in this this lady with

the issue of blood for 12 years what she

did not realize is that when her

infirmity started that in the 12 years

to come that a man named gyrus will be

banking on her story so have faith for

his daughter to come back to life you

see the Bible tells us that first of all

Jesus is having a interaction with this

man gyrus and he’s telling the Lord he

said Lord if you can just lay your hand

on my daughter she’s sick but if you lay

your hand on her she would become well

and then the story is interrupted and

it’s so fascinating because his daughter

was 12 years old this woman has been

dealing with this issue for 12 years so

he’s having this interaction this woman

comes up such as the hem of Jesus

garment power leaves Jesus she is healed

but Jesus is so it is so aware that no

something happened and it is beyond me

telling her your faith has made you well

her story needs to be heard by somebody

so when he looks for the woman cuz Jesus

could have it could have just been what

it is the woman would have known okay

I’m here then you know kumbaya if it was

only about her healing because this is

what we have to understand what you’re

waiting for is not just for what you

need to receive

because if it was only about her healing

it then it would have been a silent

thing and she could just go on her way

because that was her plan she said look

I just need to touch his the hem of His

garment

and get my healing and welcome back like

nothing even happened but Jesus

understood it was beyond just saying who

touched me and we know somebody touched

him

it was beyond that when he says who

touched me and the Bible tells us that

she began to tell her story now when

this is when this happens someone comes

up to gyruss and says your daughter is

dead forget about the matter but in the

midst of that he’s hearing a woman talk

about how for 12 years I’ve been dealing

with this issue but I knew that when I

would touch you Jesus that I will be

made whole she in her mind she’s as

given her testimony but there was

something that the Bible tells us in the

book of Revelation it says that they

overcame by the blood of the Lamb and by

the word of their testimony

you see oftentimes God would orchestrate

moments and you may think that God I

just feel like it is taking forever and

God says that no your testimony is a

seed for someone else’s miracle and so

it’s not because I’m just trying to

waste my time with you but the moment

the appointed time that I have ordained

for this thing to happen someone would

be in the vicinity of it someone would

hear about it and you actually without

knowing their miracle is connected to

what I do in you so if I do it

prematurely when this daughter dies this

man will not have the faith to believe

you see the only thing jesus said to

gyruss he says do not be afraid just

believe but that was not an empty

statement Jesus realized gyruss you just

heard a story

your daughter is 12 years old and she

just died you just heard a story about

this woman talking about for 12 years

I’ve been dead

with this issue it only got worse but I

just all I did was touch your Garmin

gyrus you want me to touch you want me

to use my hand to touch her this woman

did not even touch me she touched what I

was wearing and power came out of me

you see family what whatever seems to be

going on in your life and you feel like

God it seems like it is taking forever I

have been believing for this thing I’m

believing for this breakthrough this

miracle I’m believing for my place in

this industry I’m believing for a spouse

and you just you you may think that it’s

just about me praying more Lord I just

need to pray more body so it happens now

but the real the posture of prayer is

expectation then Lord I already know

it’s gonna happen and I will trust you

with the timing because what I don’t

recognize is that the timing of my

miracle is also assigned to someone

else’s breakthrough and the very thing

the Lord began to show me you see this

year our pastor declared that this year

is the year of revealing and some of the

things some of the other things that

would happen is that what you’re seeking

for wood will start being revealed to

you Jesus was revealed to this woman he

had been on the earth the whole time

that she was going to what she was

dealing with but he was not yet revealed

but she never lost her confidence and so

when Jesus was now revealed she could

recognize him because she had

expectation she was confident that God

what you have put in my heart to believe

it will come to pass and so when the

miracle when the answer was right in

front of her because of her expectation

she could engage it you see whatever it

is that God has spoken to you about it

may have been 12 years ago it may have

been 20 years ago whatever it is that

you feel like you’ve been wrestling with

how you know you have your expectation

is that you don’t allow your experiences

to dilute the power of what you believe

for

there are some of you you’re believing

God for this fairytale that he put in

your heart as a child he put in your

heart when life could not contaminate

you and all of a sudden you went through

experience after experience this woman

literally every experience she had only

made matters worse and oftentimes what

that does for us it makes us believe

that you know what maybe this is just

not for me

and it begins to dilute the power of

what God said you see family a lot of

times the reason why a prophetic word

will come to you early or something

would be deposited in your heart early

it’s because God is using that as an

insurance for you to know that look when

life looks as the opposite of what I’ve

told you understand that that is the lie

because there are many things there are

many things that God does in our lives

is not even telling us there are many

things that we happen to walk into

sometimes you know I remember asking God

sometimes I’m like God how did this like

when did this happen and he’s like you

prayed about it I’m like when but when

we’re saying God you know have your way

your will be done and not my will it is

a prayer of surrender that God literally

orchestrated my life but why is it that

there are specific things about our

lives

that God would put a seed in you a

desire every time you one thing I’ve

noticed even in my life and some of you

I believe it when all of us can attest

to that is that the moment I desire

something that I desire it so much that

I feel like it’s right here I know that

God has put that in my heart and so a

lot of times God puts you know when God

speaks to us whether it’s through a

dream a desire or knowing just like you

know what God I just know this is

supposed to happen and it’s his

insurance plan for his word to be made

manifest because he recognizes that the

seasons that are coming after this will

challenge who you really are but if I

can show you an image of what I want to

do in your life I am banking on that you

would hold on to that image and not what

surrounds you

and so you may be wrestling with God

I’ve believed for this and it just

doesn’t seem to be working you see that

that word in Hebrews it says do not cast

away your confidence meaning that God

has given you something to be confident

about God has given you a word and the

only way that the enemy who the Bible

tells us comes to steal kill and destroy

but then look at how it starts he comes

to first steal and so how does he steal

something when we don’t see the value in

the words that God has said the Bible

says do not cast away your confidence do

not throw away that which I gave you do

not let go of the word I gave you

because the moment you abandon it that

is when because how the enemy picks it

up is that oh he sees a moment of

vulnerability that you are no longer

believing in the very thing I said so

now let me actually use this moment to

kill every trace of Hope you ever had

and then all of a sudden you feel like

there is attacks from every corner

regarding this very thing that you have

believed God for and God says it starts

by if you take it out of your sight

if you’re no longer mindful about the

things that I’ve said to you that is

when the enemy can steal because that is

when he comes in and says oh I see a

little doubt in you then maybe I can

start changing your language about what

you once believe God for and in our

religious mindset we think you know what

God maybe I just need a surrender I’m

just gonna lay it before the altar Jesus

you see surrender there are things that

when God wants you to surrender

something that is very dear to you it’s

not it doesn’t start by you volunteering

Abraham never said Wow Jesus well Lord

what are your thoughts about me just

killing my son and I just feel like he’s

getting in the way of our relationship

it was a clear instruction that God gave

him and said Abraham sacrificed bring to

me your only son the one that you love

when God gives you a word he’s not you

surrender is not gonna come from you

oftentimes surrender comes from us

because we don’t want to deal with the

hurt and the pain no longer and now we

say you know what god I just need a

surrender

I need a lay that the altar yet you are

surrendering the thing that he gave to

you because when God is the one that

tells you it is time my son I want you

to lay this thing at my feet and

oftentimes it’s not because it’s

actually telling you to let that thing

go but perhaps in that moment he’s

saying that this thing has overpowered

your life but it would come from the

Spirit of God and so we have to be

honest with ourselves we have to be able

to do a heart check and say God have I

let go of the things I once desired

because you asked me to or is that my

fear of rejection is that my fear that

what you’ve said to me is it my fear of

not wanting to expect something on a

grand level only to be met by mediocrity

is that my fear or is it actually you

speaking am i leaving things on the

table imagine if this woman when she

heard reports about Jesus and she said

you know what it’s gonna be like

everything else I’m good

Jesus would have been there and after

three years he would have been gone and

the woman in her 17th year she would

still be looking for physicians because

when the miracle was right in her midst

she held on to the stories of her

experiences rather than the word that

God put in her heart in the first place

that this infirmity is not gonna define

your life and so family in a very simple

way the very thing the Lord showed me is

don’t quit on who you are don’t give up

on the things he said to you don’t give

up on the authentic nature of who you

are because you feel like perhaps if I

settle

then maybe I can experience a little bit

of what I wants desire but don’t give up

on you you see the year of revealing

also what is so powerful about this

scripture that stood out to me is even

Jesus in the picture when power left him

we have to realize that he was power

left him because he was full of power

but that power came upon him when he

left the wilderness when he was able to

overcome his own temptation when he was

able to endure when he could have easily

given in and that was the moment that he

was empowered that he would be revealed

you see when we talk about the year of

revealing is gonna come with a lot of

tests on both sides there is gonna be

the test of the things that God has once

spoken to you about and now he’s

revealing the answer in front of you

he’s bringing things in your mists and

it’s only your expectation that would

allow you to engage it and there are

things that are also in your midst that

you have to be able to overcome in order

for God to reveal you to somebody else

you see so this is a moment where we’re

like Lord it’s not just for us to say

wow you know what the big checks are

coming the contracts are coming I’m

being revealed hallelujah amen to that

too though but we also have to recognize

that this is the moments when we begin

to say no to our fears when we begin to

say no to disappointment that

disappointment you will not have me that

I am still believing God for the things

that he won’t showed me that God unless

you were the one telling me to let

something go I am not gonna lie to

myself and convince myself that this is

not what I want anymore

I’m not gonna lie to myself and say you

know what God all I need is a little

more Jesus because the truth of the

matter is in the things that God has

called you to it’s gonna reveal him to

somebody else the very you know what’s

interesting as I was praying for this

one of the things that God show

me because even even with the messages

about praying about God what is it that

you’re calling people to and how can I

pray into those very things but one of

the things God showed me even had to do

with marriages and some I feel like God

like this is taking forever but what you

don’t realize is that your marriage your

breakthrough there there are key things

that he showed me one had to do with

marriage is one had to do with I saw

like where the the very simple if there

are some actors and things that are

believing God for that movie that role

that would just break them out and God

is saying the moment you have been

praying I have been working on someone

with the idea for the script even when

it comes into marriages that what you

don’t realize is that your testimony and

your story that there there is a child

being born right now that would need

your story in 20 years and so it’s not

about you we we have to come into this

awareness that God mine miracle is

bigger than me it’s not just about me

and so my ability to hold on to it it’s

not just about me there are lives that

are banking on the testimony that you’re

gonna give me and so family as we are

approaching this new year we have to

approach it with honesty being honest to

ourselves first God what is it that

you’ve shown me and what have I lied to

myself about I need to get back to that

version of me who believed you before

disappointment came and shook my world

and then it get back to that version of

me God one of those things that I’ve

always believed before I used to journal

about it I used to talk about it I used

to I used to make notes about it what

are the things I believed you for I need

to get back to that version I have to be

willing it’s okay if it looks like I

fell because failure is about the end

result not the moment every time it

could look like failure to the outside

world but it’s not failure when it’s

between you and God every time that lady

with the issue of blood every time that

her case got worse I’m sure people were

like just stop already you’re wasting

money on this but she knew that you may

think that this is failing but I know

between God that it’s about the end

result and I’m still breathing and so

it’s not over and so family we have to

be so committed so committed to the

things that God showed us they were like

god I would ride this thing out till the

grave I would ride it out till the grave

that yes it may be 25 years and I’m

still believing you for this one thing

but I would ride it out till the grave

because what you don’t realize is that

it’s not that God has been unfair and

it’s not that God has forgotten you

but God recognizes that the timing of

your breakthrough the timing of your

miracle is connected to somebody else

and it is to make that x align and so

family let’s be honest

let’s be honest and one of my the thing

I prayed the most about this moment is

that in this moment the Holy Spirit will

bring to your memory the things that you

have left let go of and the idea of God

I’m just gonna surrender this or maybe

this is not what I believe for anymore I

don’t think this was ever me you know I

think I don’t even think I really wanted

this but to come back to your truth and

come back to your core because in that

you will be able to recognize when God

brings the miracle in front of you and

you will be able to engage it family

stand with me

thank you Jesus thank you Jesus

thank you lord

I just believe that in this moment that

God is gonna is gonna put a fire on that

desire once more but it has to take a

partnership with your will because I

believe that even during this message

that the Holy Spirit began to bring to

your memory the things that you have

left on the table in the name of fear or

whatever it is but as I think back on

this woman that I met and I my god what

are the odds that was you there at the

same time the very same time that she

has these questions for you is the very

same time you encounter me and you’re

aligning our paths all along for that

very moment and that they would be

pregnant with something that we both

needed that this woman with the issue of

blood that the moment her condition

started you are already years ahead that

a child was just born the the very year

her affliction started this child was

born that same year and you already saw

what will come against that child in 12

years and you assigned that woman to be

the answer to her testimony Wow

you see what if what looks like an

affliction in your life what if what

looks like a circumstance what if what

looks like oh the enemy seems to be

against me

it’s actually an answer prayer for

someone else that someone is banking on

you to overcome what you’re dealing with

in order for them to live you see I

think that I believe that it’s so you

its own everything every every act the

way God moves is so unique because

everything about God is prophetic

it speaks beyond the moment and I

believe that it’s so unique that what

happens first of all you have someone

who is losing blood life is in the blood

then you have a child that dies but I

believe that what is prophetic to us

even now is that we have to recognize

that the assignments on our lives is

literally life or death for somebody

else and sometimes you see sometimes we

think that an assignment is only about

when God gives you a task that you know

what I have called you to do a B or C we

think that it’s only when God says this

is your purpose do you know that

sometimes purpose could be overcoming

that sometimes you’re assigned with a

thorn and it’s in your ability to

overcome that thorn that is your purpose

in that moment you see one of purpose is

something that is always evolving when

Jesus was on the earth he had different

assignments there are times that the

father would have him go to different

cities to meet different people for

different reasons but there was a moment

that Jesus’s assignment was to overcome

death

it was for him to take on the sins of

the world kill it in his body and

allowed the Holy Spirit to resurrect him

that was also part of his assignment he

it was not it had nothing to do with

being sent to anyone it had to do it

overcoming what could overcome somebody

else this woman did not allow the loss

of blood to overcome her and in her

ability to overcome it

she was able to reveal strength to the

father of someone who just lost his

twelve-year-old daughter and this none

of this is coincidence this is just the

workings of God it shows us how much we

need each other you see Jesus said to

the woman your faith has made you whole

and it almost tells us this image that

Jesus was also looking for the man to

have some faith in the situation

concerning his child he says to him do

not be afraid just believe that what if

this man’s belief was part of the

ingredient the Holy Spirit needed

because you see Jesus was submitted to

the power of the Holy Spirit it wasn’t

based on what he will to do it was based

on how God orchestrated to reveal the

miracle and what if part of the miracle

in that moment included the faith of her

father and so family it’s bigger than us

it’s bigger than us part of your

assignment on this earth could be

overcoming the very thing that it could

be enduring it could be being patient

it could be knowing that God I would

hold on to your word because someone

else is not even just for me but someone

else is also banking on this

you see that gives me hope because if

it’s just about me then I could make

room to give up I could say you know

what God it’s not that deep you know

it’s not that serious but when you start

recognizing this is beyond me you see

one of the things is that one of the

things about God every time God moves

God every time God even speaks a word to

you every time God blesses you he his

word speaks in legacy in generations God

will look at you and he’s looking at

your seed and the problem oftentimes

with us is that in humanity we always we

often look at life through a space of a

time block and that is where frustration

always kicks in because we’re looking at

life through this time frame okay God by

the time I’m 30 this needs to happen at

30 and if it doesn’t happen at 30 but

when we begin to look at life from an

internal perspective that alone will

kill a lot of frustration because you’ll

begin to recognize that when God was

talking to Abraham about his seed he was

not just speaking to Abraham being a

father he saw his son coming through

that line age when he was blessing

Abraham he was speaking to the legacy of

Abraham Abraham was not just fighting

for his status of a father he was

fighting for generations that would come

after him you’re fighting for battles

that others fought for you we often

thank God we many of us would say god I

thank God I had a praying grandmother I

thank God I had a praying grandfather

you know we don’t show grandfather’s a

lot of love we mostly talk about the

grandmothers but they also fought

something so that you will be standing

where you are and so family if you know

that in this moment the Holy Spirit

begins to bring things to your mind that

you have let go of because you’re like

God it’s been disappointment of a

disappointment and you know you could

reveal me a different way and you know

that you need to go back to that

every word God said to you that you had

let they go that you started settling

for mediocrity when God has spoken

things to you that is way above what

you’re doing right now some of you may

need the strength to let go of

mediocrity because what God said to you

is not where you are this woman with the

issue of blood never held on to the

physicians that didn’t work she moved

quickly she said this is not looking

like my promise the Bible tells us that

she went through physicians to

physicians and what it tells me is that

she said if you don’t know how to do it

I’m out of here

i’ma find somebody else she never said

okay maybe you can you know try a

different route you know try to figure

something else out or maybe whatever it

is to just soothe the pain and make it a

temporary thing she was on a search she

said if this does not look like my

promise I don’t want it some of you in

this house right now are watching you

may need the strength to let it go right

here and for some of you you need the

strength to pick it up if that is you

meet me at this altar let us pray

thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank

you Lord thank you Lord God is speaking

to you about things that you let go of

God is speaking to you about it you know

you need to pick it back up come down

right now thank you Jesus thank you

Jesus thank you Jesus

have your way God

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you see how God moves is so strategic

and it’s always full of love it would

never be that God is just trying to you

know waste time and wait for you to be

you know talk about it more pray about

it more the posture of prayer starts

first with expectation and it’s very

possible to pray for an hour without

actually expecting God to move it’s very

possible that could just be a religious

activity like okay let me just some talk

about this but the posture is

expectation that God I’m believing you

for something I’m believing you for

something you know on Sunday

our pastor Pastor Tory Roberts he taught

on knowing God and you use a scripture

where David the scripture tells us that

David cried to the Lord and he heard his

cry and then it tells us how and David

is crying out to God because of the

injustice in his life and the scripture

talks about how God was angry and it was

angry that God was angry at that which

was against David but you see there’s a

way that David cried out to God then he

said God you have to answer me I’m not

just crying out to you and then after I

were complaining about the situation he

said in this very moment God something

needs to happen I have an expectation of

you and it was that expectation that

made room for God to move God was always

angry about what was happening but

everything God doesn’t the earth he does

it through partnership if you don’t make

room for him he cannot reveal the things

that he wants to right it correct in

your life he cannot reveal the ways that

he wants to put his hand on your life if

we don’t have an expectation of him that

power that came out of Jesus was

ordained for that woman but if she did

not engage him it would have been stored

up right there

and so it’s our expectation that opens

heaven it’s when we know that God I will

not let this thing go the scripture

tells us that it is your confidence that

has a great reward that very thing so

when you hold on to it when the

appointed time comes you will be

rewarded by with what it comes with

you’ll be rewarded with the

manifestation of the spoken word thank

you Jesus

if there’s anyone else I just sense that

in my spirit

don’t let disappointment have you don’t

let disappointment have you God is

calling you out he says my child my

daughter my son I have you thank you

Jesus thank you Jesus

don’t let disappointment have you amen

amen amen

every time we come into this house as a

Thursday night when we come into this

house with us on a Thursday and a Sunday

we’re coming to grab hold on to God

we’re not just coming for a service

we’re coming to grab hold on to

everything that God says we are God show

me me I don’t want to leave here at the

same the same way I came I don’t want to

leave here and say wow he’s not when the

charity no where she was led now worship

will be live but I want to leave here

transformed I want to leave here knowing

that God I encountered you and something

about my life changed in this very

moment I don’t want this to just be a

habit I want this to be a place that

changes my life if I’ve left anything on

the table God searched my heart right

this very moment I don’t want to be

afraid any longer and I don’t want to

lie to myself either

if I’m gonna look like a fool let me

look like a fool but let me be known as

the fool who sought after God let me be

known as the fool who believed in the

promises of God if I’m gonna be a fool

God has you in his hands and it was so

key for you to know this that it’s not

that time is going by because God has

forgotten what he said to you it’s not

that time is going by because maybe you

didn’t hear correctly it’s not that time

is going by because hey maybe God

changed his mind but that what if not

even what if the truth is the timing of

your miracle is assigned to somebody

else and God is literally watching for

those moments to align together and

that’s what breakthrough happens

family just bow your heads in prayer

with me Heavenly Father we thank you we

thank you for the word that we have

received Oh God

we thank you for what took place in this

very moment we thank you Lord they you

by your power and by your spirit you

were put in a flame right back on those

desires that it would be so potent in

their hearts that they would not let it

go that if there’s anything they need to

surrender in this moment is the lies

that the enemy has tried to use to

plague them of what you said if there is

something that needs to be surrendered

is it not allowing the disappointments

of their life to define them is to

surrender every disappointment and say

God I will still trust you God I will

still believe in what you said God I’m

not gonna settle for mediocrity I

believe that the word you gave me is

true and it is pure and I’m gonna hold

on to it God I recognize that the very

same way that because of what someone

overcame I’m standing here you have also

appointed another persons miracle so the

timing of what you said to me and so

Lord I will be patient I would wait on

you and I would know that you alone are

the one who holds my life

and you have me God thank you Jesus

thank you that you are in this moment

with each and every one of us and you

are speaking to us right now then I

never changed my mind concerning you

I never changed my mind concerning what

I said to you I said it in a time to you

where it could not be contaminated I

said in a time to you that you did not

even desire it but I put that desire in

you so that you would know that when it

seems when life seems to be against what

I said I didn’t like the circumstance is

what’s lying to you Thank You Jesus Lord

may we always have this posture of

expectation before you because that is

the exchange where we meet that is the

place of our exchange thank you lord

thank you lord now if there’s anyone in

this house and you know maybe you walked

someone brought you here or you just

found yourself here you’ve been going

here for a period of time and you want

to give your life to Jesus and you have

not made you have not opened your heart

to him but somehow in this moment in

this message your heart just it’s moved

to know that God I need you in my life I

need you in my life I want to know who

you are that while I was talking about

this woman that maybe I was also talking

about you that maybe in this house there

are questions that have been answered

and you know that I should follow you

Lord but I’ve been running and maybe I’m

scared I don’t know what it is but in

this very moment you know that God is

knocking on your heart and he’s saying

open up your heart to me if you know

that you want to give your life to Jesus

in this moment I want you to boldly

raise up your hand and say lord have

your way in my life thank you Jesus

thank you Jesus

thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank

you Lord family just say this prayer

with me Lord Jesus I confess with my

mouth as I have believed in my heart

that you are my Lord and Savior you died

on the cross for me have your way in my

life make my heart your home in Jesus

mighty name family can we lift up a

praise to God

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