Sermon #S023 - I'M
Out Of Options - Part 2)
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Welcome to the Breath of Life
Television Ministries broadcast
with Pastor Debleaire Snell!
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In today's episode, Pastor Snell
will share Part Two of the
dynamic message entitled: “I'm
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Out of Options.” Now,
lets go into the Word of God.
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Pastor Snell: And see, I need us
to know that what God is saying
is, I'm just going to stay in
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the pantry like oatmeal. And I'm
just going to keep letting
things disappoint you until you
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turn to the God that can satisfy
you. See, I need you to
understand, friends of mine,
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that there are certain things
that don't satisfy. What will
happen is everything in life,
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you build up a tolerance to it.
See, it's crazy because I'm
upset. In our time, we have the
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church that is kind of allowing
ourselves to become a part of
the weed and alcohol culture.
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[Congregation: Amen] Let me
stand in on this for a minute.
See, the problem is we got too
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many Jesus supplements. In other
words, I want Jesus, and I want
Jesus in addition to.
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But how many of us know that
Christ is so epic in the life
that everything else is a faulty
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counterfeit for the joy that we
find in Jesus? Are y'all hearing
the word today, friends? See,
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everything that takes your high,
guess what? Is going to bring
you back down. But you got to
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let Jesus fill up your life.
Because at the end of the day,
you're going to build up a
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tolerance to it. So you only
have to smoke a little weed to
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feel good, but now you got to
smoke ten blunts to get the same
high that one used to bring.
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There was a time you used to
drink just to get a buzz but now
you drink just to feel normal.
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In other words, we get to a
place where we build up a
tolerance to everything in this
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life because none of it is able
to provide any lasting
satisfaction. It cannot provide
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any lasting joy and like the
woman, you're going to try all
these different types of drinks
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and all these different types of
men and all these different
types of apps and all these
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different types of
relationships. And what God is
saying to somebody is, I don't
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need any supplements. And as we
said two weeks ago, your
supplements become substitutes
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and you got to get to a place
where you realize, man, that
didn't work, and this didn't
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work and that didn't help. It
started out good, but emptiness,
ultimately emerged, and like the
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woman, you got to realize, man,
I'm down to my last dime. I
tried everything, I've tried
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every one, and I need you to
know, friends of mine, that the
day she ran out of options was
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not her worst day. But the day
she ran out of options was the
best day because it wasn't until
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she ran out of options that she
decided to go and see Jesus.
See, friends of mine, I need you
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to get, beloved, that she has
had this disease for 12 years.
Are y'all hearing me, saints?
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And I need you to hear this,
friends, because, see, what the
Bible does not make clear is
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that this is a fatal condition
because remember, she's not just
losing blood, it is literally
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the essence of her life that is
flowing out of her. The Bible
says it best in the Old
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Testament that the life is in
the what? The blood. And so I
need you to see this thing, man,
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where after she walks out of the
doctor's office for the last
time, as she goes and she checks
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her bank account and there ain't
no more money to hide it, there
ain't no more money to fix it,
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there ain't no more money to
manage it, the Bible says that
providentially she overheard
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somebody talking about Jesus and
it was only in the absence of an
Earthly solution that she
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decided that my last help is
God. See, friends, I need you to
know that sometimes the devil
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makes a mistake when he rips
away all your options. It's
amazing how in his book Sun Tzu,
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the author of the book, The Art
of War, he says something very
strange. He says, even when you
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have an enemy on the run, he
says, you need to always leave
the enemy an outlet. He says,
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you always want to leave him a
way of escape, not because
you're going to let him go. But
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when you get an enemy that's
down to their last option, he
says, they will fight with
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courage and despair when they
realize they ain't got no
options left. And can somebody
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let the devil know that you made
a mistake when you push me into
the corner, you should have left
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a way for me to get out because
now, I'm not fighting with
skills, I'm fighting out of a
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courage, I'm fighting out of a
despair. I realized I ain't got
nothing else to lose. I ain't
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got nothing else to go. I'm
gonna die if I don't fight
anyhow. And do I got some folks
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who are out of options that are
saying if I'm going to go, I'm
going out swinging in Jesus'
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name? Are y'all hearing the word
today? [Congregation: Applause]
So, man, I can see your girl as
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she ties up her hair in a bun
and I can see her putting
Vaseline on her face. She's
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taking off those press-on nails
and she's tying up that dirty
sheet for the last time, and she
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makes her way into the crowd and
she makes it up in her mind that
if nothing else happened today,
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I'm going to meet Jesus this
afternoon. And I love what it
says, friends. The Bible says
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that she makes it up in her
mind. The word says she says
within herself if I can just
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touch the hem of his garment, I
know I can be made whole.
Somebody missed it. Notice this
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was not something that somebody
said to her, it is something she
said to herself. Oh, God. See,
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can I just say to somebody be
careful what you tell yourself?
See, I didn't believe it when he
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said it. But remember that life
and death is in the power of
your tongue. And see, that's why
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you got to be careful the
messages you give yourself
because you're going to be a
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nurse. The Bible says, "By the
fruit of your tongue," and see,
that's why some of y'all say
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every year around October I get
sick. That's why every October
you get sick. You say they ain't
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gonna never change and that's
why they ain't never changed.
You said to yourself, it ain't
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gonna get better and that's why
it's not going to get better.
And what I'm saying to somebody
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today is you got to change the
dial on your tongue. Do I have
any blood washed, saints, who
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are saying I'm going to change
the messages I say to myself?
[Congregation: Amen] Pastor
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Snell: See, I love this woman
because before she talks to
anybody else she talks to
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herself. Okay, let me say it
this way, I need you to know
you're not crazy for talking to
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yourself. You're crazy for
talking to them. You won't get
saved until you start talking to
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yourself. Are y'all hearing the
word today? And, see, friends of
mine, I need you to know,
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beloved, that I'm not just
talking about, man, humanistic
optimism. I'm not talking about
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this reach up and grab it, name
it, and claim it. Our fairy tale
watered-down faith. I'm talking
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about a people that learned how
to speak the promises of God and
stand on them like they are
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concrete. Are y'all hearing me
today, friends? In other words,
friends of mine, you got to get
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to a place where guilt is
overwhelming. You got to start
talking to yourself. Anybody
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know the promise that says in 1
John 1:9? If I confess my sins,
he is faithful and just to
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forgive me of my sins and
cleanse me from all
unrighteousness. There's
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somebody that's got some
sickness going on in your body,
and instead of just believing
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the doctor's report, you ought
to declare the word that says, I
shall live and not die. And that
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my latter day is greater than
the former day. There is
somebody that ain't got no money
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in the bank. You ought to quote
Psalm 37 which says, "I was
young and now I'm old and I've
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never seen the righteous
forsaken nor his seed begging
after bread." When you ain't got
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no money in the account,
remember the promise of
Philippians that says, "My God
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shall supply all your needs
according to his riches and
glory." Instead of waking up
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with circumstances and saying
it's going to be a bad day,
won't you wake up and say, "This
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is the day that the Lord has
made, I shall rejoice and be
glad in it." When all your
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enemies come at the same time,
remember that no weapon formed
against you shall prosper, and
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every tongue that rises in
judgment, God shall condemn.
When all your enemies align at
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the same time, can anybody
shout, "The battle is not mine,
but it belongs to the Lord?" I'm
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looking for some mature people
who ain't always waiting on
somebody to come and pat them on
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the back and rub them on the
shoulder and say, "Child, it's
going to be all right." Do I
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have some saints like David that
when there ain't nobody that
calls and when nobody stops by
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and when nobody sends a card,
I'm going to encourage myself?
I'm going to encourage myself in
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the Lord. And it's crazy,
friends, I got to see this thing
in my mind's eye. As she
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approaches this throng and all
these folks are pulling on
Jesus, it's crazy because this
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lady is emaciated, her weight is
down, her skin is pale, and her
bones are feeble because of all
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of the blood that she has lost
over such a long period of time,
and this is an intimidating
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moment because there's such a
large crowd of people who are
waiting there in order to see
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Jesus, and it's crazy because
she can't get to Jesus. She
can't go arm-to-arm with these
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people. She can't go
shoulder-to-shoulder with these
people and remember where she
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says, she's not aiming for his
head. She ain't trying to get
his shoulders. She ain't trying
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to get his waist. She says, if I
can just touch the hem of his
garment, I can know I'll be made
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whole... watch this. So the lady
doesn't charge up into the crowd
standing up, but the lady gets
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down on her hands and her knees
and she begins to crawl toward
Jesus. [Congregation: Amen] How
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many of us know that the path to
Jesus can only be seen when you
get down on your hands and your
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knees? See, y'all still
bourgeoisie in here today, y'all
worrying about me messing up my
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suit. I'm trying to mess up the
devil's kingdom. Are y'all
hearing the word today?
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[Congregation: Applause] Pastor
Snell: And so I need you to
know, she gets down on her hands
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and her knees, and though she
stepped on, she stays on her
knees and though people are
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trampling her, she stays on her
knees. And folks are talking
about her but she stays on her
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knees and the reason she gets
stepped on, the reason she gets
trampled is because the devil
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wants her to get off of her
knees. But she knows the only
way I get to Jesus is if I stay
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on my hands and knees. Can I
just say to the church today? No
matter what happens tomorrow
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stay on your knees. It doesn't
matter what happens the next
day, stay on your knees. It
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doesn't matter who talked about
you for always being down there,
stay on your knees because you
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can only see Jesus if you stay
on your knees, are y'all hearing
me today? And it's crazy. I can
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see, man, she's just trying to
get to the hem of his garment.
And as he moves to the crowd,
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she can see the blue border of
the garment waving in the air.
And it's crazy because as she
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gets closer and closer, faith
begins to swell. Her courage
begins to grow, and she reaches
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out once and misses it. But she
stays on her knees. See, you may
have missed it last time, but
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stay on your knees, and then, it
waves again, she reaches out
again, but she misses it and
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somebody steps on her hand but
she stays on her knees. But
eventually, the word says that
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as she reaches out and she grabs
the hem of his garment and the
Bible doesn't say, later, it
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doesn't say the next day, it
doesn't say in the fullness of
time, it doesn't say when the
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doctor got back to her, the
Bible says that immediately, the
issue of blood was healed.
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Sometimes you'll have to wait,
sometimes you'll have to be
still but sometimes if you grab
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it just right, it's going to be
healed, right then and there.
Are y'all hearing the world
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today, friends? And the Bible
says she felt within herself
that she was healed of the
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plague. So that the measurement
for healing didn't start down
below her waist, she felt it,
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oh, she felt it on the inside
before she saw it on the
outside. Oh, God. See the
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problem is the reason we never
get sanctified is because we're
looking at the outside behavior.
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But, you know, God starts his
work on the inside, and when you
get born again on the inside,
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guess what? The outside is going
to follow. It is crazy because
Jesus heals this woman, but I
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need you to know, there's only
one tragedy in the story. No,
no, actually before I get to
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that, I love this thing. So,
Jesus is walking along minding
his own business, going to
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Jairus's house and he says, man,
who touched me? No, Jesus is
walking. Imagine he's walking
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and he's just like, hmm. He
says, "Who touched me?" And so,
old loudmouth Peter when ain't
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nobody else was talking about,
he's gonna talk up. He goes,
"Lord, we are bumping up against
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you. We're all touching you. How
are you gonna say, who touched
me?" He says this touch was
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different because when I said,
hmm, I felt power come out of me
when this touch took place. In
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other words, Jesus didn't look
and aim a blessing at the woman,
he didn't put his hands on the
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woman, he didn't speak a word to
the woman, but because he is
divinity wrapped in humanity, I
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need you to know divinity acts
involuntarily whenever humanity
operates in faith. Oh, God,
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where y'all at to this church?
In other words, God said, I
didn't even mean the blessing, I
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wasn't even aiming that at you.
I was on my way to Jairus's
house but because you talked
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faith, because you're acting in
faith, because you grabbed me,
divinity just aimed itself at
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you. Are y'all hearing me today,
friends? [Congregation: Amen]
Pastor Snell: In other words,
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you ain't gotta try hard for God
to bless you, you just got to
believe and the power is going
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to go your way. It is crazy. Do
you know what tripped me out
about this story? This woman has
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been bleeding for twelve years.
She's about to die. She's down
to her last dime, she feels in
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herself that she's made whole of
the plague but then when Jesus
says who touched me? In other
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words, what Jesus is saying is I
need a testimony. I need a
witness because remember, he's
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going to Jairus's house to heal
Jairus's daughter that's about
12 years old. Well, y'all didn't
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get it. So that the same time
this woman got sick was the same
time that Jairus got his joy and
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so he's been happy as long as
she's been sad but he needs the
woman that's been sick for 12
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years to give testimony to what
God is able to do, but
literally, he got to drag her to
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the front to talk about what
he's done for her. Do you
realize that if you've been that
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sick for that long and you ain't
know how you were going to pay
your last bill when God comes
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through for you, nobody
shouldn't have to tell you to
speak a word on behalf of God?
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When you come into the house,
nobody should have to beg you to
shout. Nobody should have to beg
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you to praise. As a matter of
fact, we ought to have to buckle
you down in your seat to keep
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you from giving testimony to the
greatness and the power of God.
See, the problem in the church
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is we've got too many anonymous
miracles, miracles that have
never been spoken, miracles that
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have never been witnessed to,
and testimonies that have been
silenced because we are ashamed
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to speak on behalf of Jesus. But
do I have any saints like Paul
who can say, "I'm not ashamed of
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the Gospel of Jesus Christ for
it is the power of God until
salvation?" Look at me crazy if
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I stand up, if you want to, you
don't know where I've been. You
don't know what I've come out
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of. You don't know what God has
done for me. You don't know what
God has done. I've been up, I've
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been down, I've been almost
level to the ground, but as long
as I got King Jesus, I don't
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need nobody else. Are y'all
hearing this? Listen, I want you
to see this. I'm done. The
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Desire of Ages, page 344, 347. I
want you to see this thing. Man,
listen, she literally says, the
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Savior... watch this, church.
Could distinguish the touch of
faith from the casual contact of
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the careless throne. Yeah, there
were other people touching but
they were in a casual way. They
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touched Jesus in a cute way.
They touched him in a ceremonial
way, but this woman is so
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desperate that she pulled the
divinity released from God
before he even released it. Can
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I say, church? One of the
problems is our prayers are too
casual, it's too cute, friends.
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Okay, y'all are brand-new today.
We're worried about how it
sounds, we're worried about what
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people are going to say, we're
worried about polysyllabic
phrases, we're worried about
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quoting the King James version
but how many of us know that
when you need something from
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God, you ain't praying with your
head, you ain't paying with your
education, you're talking about
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some broken English, there's a
moan that comes from your soul
cause you just need God to do
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something in your life.
[Congregation: Amen] Are y'all
hearing what I'm saying? Listen
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to this. Look at it. She says,
many hold faith as in opinion.
Oh, God, I'm about to explode.
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See, we hold faith as an
opinion, something that can be
disputed by somebody that holds
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up a different opinion. Saving
faith is a transaction by which
those who receive Christ joined
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themselves in a covenant
relationship with God. Genuine
faith is life. A living faith
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means an increase of vigor, a
confiding trust by which a soul
becomes a conquering power. Are
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y'all hearing this thing today,
church? You got to treat the
word of God like a transaction
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or a covenant that cannot be
going back on. Are y'all hearing
me today? Next page, 347, I want
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you to see this. After healing
the woman, Jesus desired her to
acknowledge the blessing she had
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received. The gifts which the
gospel offers are not to be
secured by stealth or enjoyed in
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secret. So that the Lord calls
upon us for a confession of his
goodness. Ye are witnesses saith
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the Lord that I am God. In other
words, friends, what I'm saying
is that when God does it, don't
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sit on it. When God does it,
don't hide it. I need you to
know that whenever God does a
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miracle, he gives you
responsibility. Do you realize
that the miracle comes with a
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responsibility to give voice and
witness to the great things that
God has done? So when God pays
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the bill, don't sit on it, shout
about it. When God raises your
child home, don't just cover it
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up under the guise of family
pride. Let somebody whose child
is still out here in these
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streets know what God has done
for your child and if he's done
it for mine, he'll do the same
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for yours. [Congregation: Amen]
Don't be scared to say, man, I
had bad credit but God gave me
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the house anyway. Man, don't get
shamed for your credit score,
give the glory to the god that
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overlooked the credit score.
See, we say God doesn't do
miracles. We are just so doggone
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uppity and self-sufficient that
we want folks to think we got it
and we did it and we pulled
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ourselves up by our own
bootstraps. But are there any
educated folk in this room that
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realize the only way you passed
the dissertation is because God
guided you, God provided the
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money for school? God sent forth
to give you laundry detergent
when you didn't have money to
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wash your drawers. God sent
people to send food. God sent
folk the pray on you. Your
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education ain't about you. Your
Ph.D. ain't about you. It's
about the G-O-D that does all
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things well. Man, don't nobody
care about your cum laude, your
summa cum laude, take you Lordy
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up in this thing. Are you all
hearing what I'm saying today,
friends? And I believe we ought
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to be the praising folk this
side of planet Earth. Are y'all
hearing me today? Simply because
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we have a knowledge of where God
has brought us from. Listen, I'm
done but I need you to
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understand something about this
lady that we feel like, man,
it's bad to be out of options.
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But this lady, salvation did not
commence. See what God had to do
with it, He had just let all
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that stuff keep disappointing.
He had to let all that stuff
keep letting her down. And like
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oatmeal, He just stayed in the
back of the pantry, and he says,
guess what? I don't mind being
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your last option as long as I
become your final option. As
long as I become your final
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option. And there's somebody
today like the book I referenced
earlier, God has brought you to
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the end of yourself. He's gotten
some of us to a place where we
can't contain it anymore. He's
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gotten some of us to a place
where just life keeps
disappointing and disappointing
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and hurting and hurting and all
of that is literally designed to
aim you in the direction of the
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God who saves. And so, friends
of mine, I want to, in just a
moment, I want to present to
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somebody Jesus Christ, the
life-giver, the lifesaver, the
heart fixing, and so the praise
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team, is going to sing a song
and in just a moment I'm going
to invite one or two last
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persons to get in a relationship
with the Jesus who is real in
your soul today. Gratitude
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