The Sermon Secret Prayer by David McGee
Nov 03, 2013
Secret Prayer (29:19)
Referenced Scriptures: Luke 8:40-49
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Luke 8:40-49
40) It happened, as Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.
41) Behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus‘ feet, and begged him to come into his house,
42) for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes thronged him.
43) A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any,
44) came behind him, and touched the fringe of his cloak, and immediately the flow of her blood stopped.
45) Jesus said, "Who touched me?" When all denied, Peter and those with him said, "Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?‘"
46) But Jesus said, "Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me."
47) When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
48) He said to her, "Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace."
49) While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue‘s house came, saying to him, "Your daughter is dead. Don‘t trouble the Teacher."
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Amen. Well, I don't mind message today is my secret prayer. My secret prayer, and will turn to Luke chapter eight, verses forty to forty nine. I never had a prayer that you really didn't tell anybody about and it is didn't know if it would ever come to pass, send and then while first love. It's a secret. Sometimes we just don't like to brag about it. But you know, whatever God has a way of working in our lives. He wants us to affirm what's going on and what has happened and will maybe put that together as we look at the Scriptures today. No chapter eight Mobley will put it together as we look at the Scriptures today. Amen. That is a definite. The definite maybe. On his return. Jesus was welcomed by a crowd. They were all there, expecting him a man came up. Jerry is by name. It was president of the meeting place. He fell at Jesus feet and begged him to come to his home because his twelve -year-old daughter 's only child was dying Jesus went with him making his way through the pushing, jostling crowd in the crowd that day there was a woman who for twelve years had been afflicted with hemorrhages. She had spent every penny she had on doctors, but no one been able to help her. She slipped in from behind and touched the edge of Jesus Roe at that very moment her hemorrhaging stopped. Jesus said, who touched me when no one steps forward Peter said, but Mister we've got crowds of people on hands. Dozens have touched you. Jesus insisted someone touched me. I felt power discharging from the when the woman realized that she couldn't remain hidden. She knelt trembling before him in front of all the people she blurts out her story why she touched him and how that same moment she was healed. Jesus said Doctor you took a risk trusting me and now you're healed and whole live well and live glass so whenever we think about this story in this situation that happened with Jesus and the one he has just returned from the across the Sea of Galilee and again assume Jolley is not that big. It's now 's not a notion and is not its only I have to look up how far you can see from one short of the other, but on one shore. It was it was kind of divided up the gutter radians are individuals who all the certain part of this evening on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. It's kind like the mountain and seek in the mountain area on the Sea of Galilee, and whenever I was in was in Israel police, we were in a hotel, motel on one side, it would look across the mountains on the other side, and that was where that they gather reinstallation and what happened in that situation. There was this wild man is crazy man who was possessed of many problems, demons, and he would run around the tunes elected the terms and Jesus went there called him cast the demons out, they went into the pigs pigs ran down the hill and drowned in the state while the gathering ends don't have time for Jesus so they asked him to leave. So when Jesus left that area of this of the Sea of Galilee. A cross over to the other side, and when he returned, crossed back over to the other side. Jesus was walking by a crowd so they were waiting for him, but you could see across you to see what was happening out there been a great young people enable notice something 's going on in the other side. So there probably got out the binoculars looking over their and have binoculars but they were looking altogether. Simon would've known something was happening. Something was going on in because there is there is bunch of people turmoil and innovate. Mick came from the city basically Jesus, you know you're causing us a lot of trouble. Here we you drive all of our profits and we lost our bacon, and so thank you they lost the bacon and the hard crowd today, but the so they came across when Jesus arrived at the other side. He was welcomed by the crowd. They were all kind of waiting for Jesus to get back and when they were when he arrived and he was there in this crowd. A man came up to him and yell several my daughter. He was president of the meeting place when I was in Israel and I've said this before we need to make a trip. No need to go back when you go to his room and he states that it's a it's a hotspot. It's always the hotspot and I always look at it that to go to Israel. They don't bomb towards the kit spill killed for why Indiana. The idea because mentors today are they spend money and twelve sides make money and exceeds the profits coming any keep the profits coming against the prophets having PRWeb IPS to give the profits coming to the land limit the day. I think the profits coming to the land, and they like tourists in Canada like each other, but they like tourists. Anyhow, we were there and and it's this place where this man was president of the meeting place of the synagogue we sat there we sat in this building. It was basically a foundation and had a stone bench along the side and about half of the wall was there and part of the front wall was there and everything else is the lockdown and we sat there at this bench. It was a bench along the wall. Anyone had it on both sides. I think I can remember exactly but I think the bench on the other side was still there all out of stone, but they viewed out and they put in place and it was probably maybe is why does this center section with and so it was set there and we talked about this story in which the person who was in charge of the meeting place. What are common, met Jesus. So we don't know for sure if they were in this meeting place or they were close to and is not very far from the sea of Galilee. So from the shore of the Sea of Galilee to the synagogue was probably fifty yards seventy five yards and the city. The town that was there they had excavated its and it was the streets. Pink in the after remember whenever you talk about roads and streets the streets of the city were just about the size of dispute, maybe about this. This walkway and the houses on both sides, with the doors coming out in the middle and the houses are maybe ten, twelve feet high, and the doorways and eight, ten feet high. Maybe, maybe ten, eight, ten feet high in the doorways or maybe five foot high. There are very big and so it would been very crowded. Now what happens is, Jesus shows up and Jerry has comes to him. Darius is this guy who is the role of the synagogue, and the ruler of the of this meeting place and he begged Jesus to come for his daughter, who was he was ill. She was buying while Jesus went with him. I I him. He's making his way through what the pushing and jostling crowd. I now in this crowd businesswoman. I need to volunteers. I need one person to be Jesus one person be the woman I given you to monitor 's hope not. Pope. Let's hope them all the time is up. All we got problems. All we had in the league back there and Ashley can want him to your next intestines on the pastor 's price is right. One of them, but but he has to be married wealthy, down on each about the video, you can be proud of when once it have to do this with your brother. Okay Juergen to be the woman who is in his second attack your Jesus you to stand there looked like Jesus, that's a Cajal enough that out-of-pocket fifties. The nap pockets. I K I get money set aside, but not what I would like you to do now in the story it says that the woman who was sick. I touched the hem of his garment. Now he has shorts on. See you don't have to go to the bottom is apparently better. I would like for you to touch the him of his pants. Okay, I think yes he did. That was his MRI on your FAFSA. Why was good. Now, how does it say 's he came to a jostling crowd he has been right there in their again if the backup. I exactly want down money in the rate of your eye. I need some other people have a jostling crowd, it was debated on nine my name is in our displeasure. Sixteen. That means that you cannot hear like a exact year-over-year in the side area, go you to your face. This way, and you guess that appear Mahathir LaPierre, our all closed within their assembly 's multiyear argument here and be there in your Ambien the middle by Kay and your try and get through the jostling crowd that means there to push and shove analogy through so destroying it through the letter through there now now okay this is very easy as it so what do Delaney do. There is a jostling crowd. So what if she did how you think she raced the hem of his garment. I think she got down to thanks Disney's Disney walk-throughs didn't give me the reach Center United down in the needs of all okay jostling crowd reached their there no way out, such as errata and got success now just think now you have used it now just a when this happened, there was probably fifty, seventy five people on a dirt road about this wide and she had to find her way through all of those people to get to the head of his garment on her hands and knees of it. She got stepped on a lot but she was determined that she was going to touch the hem of his rope and she didn't want him to know that she did about that because she felt one commentary said she was going to steal the miracle and nobody would know you can be seated. Thank you. All right, thank God you have to have. So in the crowd that day there was this woman and she had been sick for twelve years now anyone who's had a blood disorder or continual hemorrhaging is there a generally very pale, very weak, and she probably didn't have vitamins and minerals to keep her well and because of her disorder. She was forbidden to even be in the community. She have to be on the outskirts of town all the time because of her bleeding because of our hemorrhaging. So here is a woman who has been virtually ostracized from her family from the community on the outskirts of her community and we panel, and she's made up her mind. She's going to have to touch the hem of Jesus garment, but in the meantime, what she has done it. She spent every penny that she has everything that she owns she sold everything she had any type of savings. Anything that was probably part of her family income or wealth. She has spent it all so that she could be well and nothing worked and she was still sick so what she did was in the said Tierney and I like this in the message Bible says, she slipped in from behind. She got down on her hands and knees and cry. She couldn't get through the crowd, people were not all you want to see Jesus. All long enough. Now they were all trying to get a hold up. Get in position to touch Jesus, so she got out of her hands and knees and recently knows. Anthony cause she talked to him of his garment associate is that she said in her heart. I've got to get there. I've got to get to that place where I can touch his hand and ingenious, so she has to waive her way through all amazed people on her hands and knees trying to get their and she asked me a very determined person, but she's been sick for twelve years and she spent everything she had, so she was determined to get where she needs to go. Did you ever have a secret prayer. She sometimes whenever we pray and I know it's it's important that whenever we pray no doubt think of the Lord and print your Sega of Houston, Texas. Jesus only did there, and that's a good say, but in this case she had to take it to him. She had to struggle she had to push she had to work her way through the crowd. First of all she had to make up her mind is what you do, then she had to set out and get a plan. Then she had to her plan was failed because she couldn't did. Jesus so she had to do something more, more than she ever thought she had in our hands and knees and crawl on a times have we ever prayed it is like while you know God. I would like a new I would like the July what was everyone for Christmas family and gift. No, she figure off the luck she wants nothing for Christmas. I doubt anybody also someone who want something for Christmas. I know Rich once a size ten boot because he wears size eleven any camera, Canon, they give it to me so you see, Rachel Mike Richardson and I get it. I get the shootings that he'd like him because he forget the work and eleven. See the one I have them now, so I keep dollar ten ten ten p.m. the so anyhow, she buys it can write on you. Okay, okay, so I go there for Christmas. My prayer is God and prayer boots for Christmas, but it has on file though. Okay, got your days is like, that's kind of how our prayers are operating on the Bible also says that we travail in prayer, but were travail is applied to the word travail is applied to childbirth so ladies if you have children, it was. I will have a baby. It didn't come out that way travail thing is that it is like labor. Imagine that prayer can be at times like labor. This woman was in labor, as it were, working her way through smoking her way through because she couldn't take it on the this is where this is where dedication and prayer come together in our sacred prayers. We have an easy way all figured out. We have an easy way off, figured out. I now does it answer my prayers and we got this simple thing. Simple formula. I got it is. Do this and it's done. But it doesn't happen that what we have to do while God is only to have it begin. He does on what's next for mailing and in this case, making up our minds deciding in our heart. God, I believe that this is what you want for my life and I have to get to that place where I can receive it so she slipped in from behind and touched the edge of Jesus wrote, so here she is in a perhaps I cannot. I'm thinking she is weak, frail from her condition, and she rages out and she touches his hand of his garment. This is like I'm going to steal a miracle and he won't even know I'm going to get something from God, and no one will ever know. Well, Jesus said, who touched me well who touched me, who touched me well when no one stepped forward to see. He stopped the whole group he stopped the whole procession people got hands all over them or touch them. They want this miracle worker to do something for them. They want the out in the United States yelled five loans division break and you walk away not know how much you out there thinking that he's able to do, but he's still other still after him. Now they wanted to touch him, and he says okay to touch me stops all crowded by steps back who touched me, Peter kind of wanting things to walking around uncomfortable with the silence in all and nobody coming forward to Jesus case you didn't notice the Jesus I know you're pretty involved in everything that every touch and Jesus was not having that simple explanation insisted. Jesus insisted someone touched me. I felt power discharge from me. You see, whenever we are persistent and we are going to touch God, and were going to get an answer. We are. We are searching and we are pushing and we are travailing. We are working we are going to get through this. I'm going to get through my doubts. I'm going to get through my difficulties, and I'm believing that when I reach that spot. I'm going to send feels no, the God has answered my prayer. Because Jesus says everybody touched me and you. I request a juice like a request, but along comes a woman who's that it was in desperation said, I just have to touch him. I just have to touch him. He's my only hope is my only hope if I'm ever going to live. That was the kind of faith that touched his garment and virtue flu flow from Jesus to her and she was healed while, but when the real woman realized that she couldn't remain hidden, now when Jesus answers our prayers. They when God touches our life. He doesn't want it to be a hidden secret. You see in front of all the people she blurted out her story. Why was Jesus trying to embarrass her. He wasn't trying to embarrass her. He wanted her to be established in society again. He wanted her to once again be part of the community for twelve years, she's been cast out of the city for twelve years. Everybody knew you can't let Iran and she's forbidden to be honest in our present, and Jesus sad who touched me, which made her Neil and in front of Jesus. She was kneeling there say she blurred out all that happened. It was now for her benefit that she gave the testimony of what happened to her. It wasn't that Jesus was embarrassing her he wanted to establish the miracle that was performed in her life among the whole community, so that she would no longer have to be an outcast and she would no longer have to be crawling on her hands and knees to get through things. She was now able to walk in upright and in front of everyone. Jesus has done something miraculous in my life. And Jesus wanted that established before he took another step. Not only was he feeling beneath you. Her, but he brought her to a place in her relationship with other people through her testimony that she was now okay anything in our lives we we reach those places that we need to buy faith, believe that God is going to do something in pray and believe and how ill I you believe that God is going to do this in my life. And that's one form of the testimony and the other form of a testimony is, I had this secret thing in my life. I have this either secret nobody knew about, and I've been praying about it for a long time and you know what today today this week, I felt like God just touched me, and made everything okay. What happened cognitive difference in our life. God makes a difference in our life when you reached out and touched the pant leg of those shorts anything happen no not at all because it was Tyler theirs dialer now. Now that was when I got a few charts now while I believe maybe that's my Valley. Nothing that happened, Butler, late types of Jesus something happens, and he's not there physically that we can spiritually inside of us, we can reach out and we can touch him and what happens is when the weather realized that she couldn't remain hidden. She now traveling before hand like I'm in trouble now the strongly because that was the punishment for her being in a group of people in front of the people she blurted out her story. Every one of us have a story everyone has a story and we need to touch Jesus in such a way that we see Jesus coming into our life. We feel that unction. We feel that knowledge, understanding that we speak about our faith. I believe that God is going to do something so in front of the people she blurted out her story why she touched him and how that at that same moment she was healed. And Jesus said daughter you took a risk you took a risk entrusting me and now you are healed and whole live well, live less. That's our life. Live well, live less why because we touched Jesus Newman, so when you feel like when you feel like it's all when you feel like it is all of that. So we get down on our knees and crawl through the crowd. That's right, get out, you can ask for more perfect perfection than that. Let's stand in with you but you see, even even written response in the little ones sensitive young. That's why I think it's so important for children children. The children to be in church because where else you see we can't wait. It's familiar that the spirit of God, we become from the your with God to the point that if we do we sense is urging is moving the little ones can sometimes just stand and speak and do exactly what the Spirit is saying they don't even know because it's just a natural feeling inside of them. And that's what we're looking for an online we artist childlike faith that will just go through the outpost will go through the difficulties will get on our hands and knees if necessary and lonely touch God something happens inside and we just have a wow thank you God, and as adults than were called upon to speak that truth, the people around us and see how God is flowing through us to touch the lives of others and then we all have a story we all have a way that God is working in us and let us by faith talk about that story to a father, we ask your blessing. We ask your guidance with your touch upon our lives for God. You have truly touched us in Jesus name we pray. Amen. God bless youAmen. Well, I don't mind message today is my secret prayer. My secret prayer, and will turn to Luke chapter eight, verses forty to forty nine. I never had a prayer that you really didn't tell anybody about and it is didn't know if it would ever come to pass, send and then while first love. It's a secret. Sometimes we just don't like to brag about it. But you know, whatever God has a way of working in our lives. He wants us to affirm what's going on and what has happened and will maybe put that together as we look at the Scriptures today. No chapter eight Mobley will put it together as we look at the Scriptures today. Amen. That is a definite. The definite maybe. On his return. Jesus was welcomed by a crowd. They were all there, expecting him a man came up. Jerry is by name. It was president of the meeting place. He fell at Jesus feet and begged him to come to his home because his twelve -year-old daughter 's only child was dying Jesus went with him making his way through the pushing, jostling crowd in the crowd that day there was a woman who for twelve years had been afflicted with hemorrhages. She had spent every penny she had on doctors, but no one been able to help her. She slipped in from behind and touched the edge of Jesus Roe at that very moment her hemorrhaging stopped. Jesus said, who touched me when no one steps forward Peter said, but Mister we've got crowds of people on hands. Dozens have touched you. Jesus insisted someone touched me. I felt power discharging from the when the woman realized that she couldn't remain hidden. She knelt trembling before him in front of all the people she blurts out her story why she touched him and how that same moment she was healed. Jesus said Doctor you took a risk trusting me and now you're healed and whole live well and live glass so whenever we think about this story in this situation that happened with Jesus and the one he has just returned from the across the Sea of Galilee and again assume Jolley is not that big. It's now 's not a notion and is not its only I have to look up how far you can see from one short of the other, but on one shore. It was it was kind of divided up the gutter radians are individuals who all the certain part of this evening on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. It's kind like the mountain and seek in the mountain area on the Sea of Galilee, and whenever I was in was in Israel police, we were in a hotel, motel on one side, it would look across the mountains on the other side, and that was where that they gather reinstallation and what happened in that situation. There was this wild man is crazy man who was possessed of many problems, demons, and he would run around the tunes elected the terms and Jesus went there called him cast the demons out, they went into the pigs pigs ran down the hill and drowned in the state while the gathering ends don't have time for Jesus so they asked him to leave. So when Jesus left that area of this of the Sea of Galilee. A cross over to the other side, and when he returned, crossed back over to the other side. Jesus was walking by a crowd so they were waiting for him, but you could see across you to see what was happening out there been a great young people enable notice something 's going on in the other side. So there probably got out the binoculars looking over their and have binoculars but they were looking altogether. Simon would've known something was happening. Something was going on in because there is there is bunch of people turmoil and innovate. Mick came from the city basically Jesus, you know you're causing us a lot of trouble. Here we you drive all of our profits and we lost our bacon, and so thank you they lost the bacon and the hard crowd today, but the so they came across when Jesus arrived at the other side. He was welcomed by the crowd. They were all kind of waiting for Jesus to get back and when they were when he arrived and he was there in this crowd. A man came up to him and yell several my daughter. He was president of the meeting place when I was in Israel and I've said this before we need to make a trip. No need to go back when you go to his room and he states that it's a it's a hotspot. It's always the hotspot and I always look at it that to go to Israel. They don't bomb towards the kit spill killed for why Indiana. The idea because mentors today are they spend money and twelve sides make money and exceeds the profits coming any keep the profits coming against the prophets having PRWeb IPS to give the profits coming to the land limit the day. I think the profits coming to the land, and they like tourists in Canada like each other, but they like tourists. Anyhow, we were there and and it's this place where this man was president of the meeting place of the synagogue we sat there we sat in this building. It was basically a foundation and had a stone bench along the side and about half of the wall was there and part of the front wall was there and everything else is the lockdown and we sat there at this bench. It was a bench along the wall. Anyone had it on both sides. I think I can remember exactly but I think the bench on the other side was still there all out of stone, but they viewed out and they put in place and it was probably maybe is why does this center section with and so it was set there and we talked about this story in which the person who was in charge of the meeting place. What are common, met Jesus. So we don't know for sure if they were in this meeting place or they were close to and is not very far from the sea of Galilee. So from the shore of the Sea of Galilee to the synagogue was probably fifty yards seventy five yards and the city. The town that was there they had excavated its and it was the streets. Pink in the after remember whenever you talk about roads and streets the streets of the city were just about the size of dispute, maybe about this. This walkway and the houses on both sides, with the doors coming out in the middle and the houses are maybe ten, twelve feet high, and the doorways and eight, ten feet high. Maybe, maybe ten, eight, ten feet high in the doorways or maybe five foot high. There are very big and so it would been very crowded. Now what happens is, Jesus shows up and Jerry has comes to him. Darius is this guy who is the role of the synagogue, and the ruler of the of this meeting place and he begged Jesus to come for his daughter, who was he was ill. She was buying while Jesus went with him. I I him. He's making his way through what the pushing and jostling crowd. I now in this crowd businesswoman. I need to volunteers. I need one person to be Jesus one person be the woman I given you to monitor 's hope not. Pope. Let's hope them all the time is up. All we got problems. All we had in the league back there and Ashley can want him to your next intestines on the pastor 's price is right. One of them, but but he has to be married wealthy, down on each about the video, you can be proud of when once it have to do this with your brother. Okay Juergen to be the woman who is in his second attack your Jesus you to stand there looked like Jesus, that's a Cajal enough that out-of-pocket fifties. The nap pockets. I K I get money set aside, but not what I would like you to do now in the story it says that the woman who was sick. I touched the hem of his garment. Now he has shorts on. See you don't have to go to the bottom is apparently better. I would like for you to touch the him of his pants. Okay, I think yes he did. That was his MRI on your FAFSA. Why was good. Now, how does it say 's he came to a jostling crowd he has been right there in their again if the backup. I exactly want down money in the rate of your eye. I need some other people have a jostling crowd, it was debated on nine my name is in our displeasure. Sixteen. That means that you cannot hear like a exact year-over-year in the side area, go you to your face. This way, and you guess that appear Mahathir LaPierre, our all closed within their assembly 's multiyear argument here and be there in your Ambien the middle by Kay and your try and get through the jostling crowd that means there to push and shove analogy through so destroying it through the letter through there now now okay this is very easy as it so what do Delaney do. There is a jostling crowd. So what if she did how you think she raced the hem of his garment. I think she got down to thanks Disney's Disney walk-throughs didn't give me the reach Center United down in the needs of all okay jostling crowd reached their there no way out, such as errata and got success now just think now you have used it now just a when this happened, there was probably fifty, seventy five people on a dirt road about this wide and she had to find her way through all of those people to get to the head of his garment on her hands and knees of it. She got stepped on a lot but she was determined that she was going to touch the hem of his rope and she didn't want him to know that she did about that because she felt one commentary said she was going to steal the miracle and nobody would know you can be seated. Thank you. All right, thank God you have to have. So in the crowd that day there was this woman and she had been sick for twelve years now anyone who's had a blood disorder or continual hemorrhaging is there a generally very pale, very weak, and she probably didn't have vitamins and minerals to keep her well and because of her disorder. She was forbidden to even be in the community. She have to be on the outskirts of town all the time because of her bleeding because of our hemorrhaging. So here is a woman who has been virtually ostracized from her family from the community on the outskirts of her community and we panel, and she's made up her mind. She's going to have to touch the hem of Jesus garment, but in the meantime, what she has done it. She spent every penny that she has everything that she owns she sold everything she had any type of savings. Anything that was probably part of her family income or wealth. She has spent it all so that she could be well and nothing worked and she was still sick so what she did was in the said Tierney and I like this in the message Bible says, she slipped in from behind. She got down on her hands and knees and cry. She couldn't get through the crowd, people were not all you want to see Jesus. All long enough. Now they were all trying to get a hold up. Get in position to touch Jesus, so she got out of her hands and knees and recently knows. Anthony cause she talked to him of his garment associate is that she said in her heart. I've got to get there. I've got to get to that place where I can touch his hand and ingenious, so she has to waive her way through all amazed people on her hands and knees trying to get their and she asked me a very determined person, but she's been sick for twelve years and she spent everything she had, so she was determined to get where she needs to go. Did you ever have a secret prayer. She sometimes whenever we pray and I know it's it's important that whenever we pray no doubt think of the Lord and print your Sega of Houston, Texas. Jesus only did there, and that's a good say, but in this case she had to take it to him. She had to struggle she had to push she had to work her way through the crowd. First of all she had to make up her mind is what you do, then she had to set out and get a plan. Then she had to her plan was failed because she couldn't did. Jesus so she had to do something more, more than she ever thought she had in our hands and knees and crawl on a times have we ever prayed it is like while you know God. I would like a new I would like the July what was everyone for Christmas family and gift. No, she figure off the luck she wants nothing for Christmas. I doubt anybody also someone who want something for Christmas. I know Rich once a size ten boot because he wears size eleven any camera, Canon, they give it to me so you see, Rachel Mike Richardson and I get it. I get the shootings that he'd like him because he forget the work and eleven. See the one I have them now, so I keep dollar ten ten ten p.m. the so anyhow, she buys it can write on you. Okay, okay, so I go there for Christmas. My prayer is God and prayer boots for Christmas, but it has on file though. Okay, got your days is like, that's kind of how our prayers are operating on the Bible also says that we travail in prayer, but were travail is applied to the word travail is applied to childbirth so ladies if you have children, it was. I will have a baby. It didn't come out that way travail thing is that it is like labor. Imagine that prayer can be at times like labor. This woman was in labor, as it were, working her way through smoking her way through because she couldn't take it on the this is where this is where dedication and prayer come together in our sacred prayers. We have an easy way all figured out. We have an easy way off, figured out. I now does it answer my prayers and we got this simple thing. Simple formula. I got it is. Do this and it's done. But it doesn't happen that what we have to do while God is only to have it begin. He does on what's next for mailing and in this case, making up our minds deciding in our heart. God, I believe that this is what you want for my life and I have to get to that place where I can receive it so she slipped in from behind and touched the edge of Jesus wrote, so here she is in a perhaps I cannot. I'm thinking she is weak, frail from her condition, and she rages out and she touches his hand of his garment. This is like I'm going to steal a miracle and he won't even know I'm going to get something from God, and no one will ever know. Well, Jesus said, who touched me well who touched me, who touched me well when no one stepped forward to see. He stopped the whole group he stopped the whole procession people got hands all over them or touch them. They want this miracle worker to do something for them. They want the out in the United States yelled five loans division break and you walk away not know how much you out there thinking that he's able to do, but he's still other still after him. Now they wanted to touch him, and he says okay to touch me stops all crowded by steps back who touched me, Peter kind of wanting things to walking around uncomfortable with the silence in all and nobody coming forward to Jesus case you didn't notice the Jesus I know you're pretty involved in everything that every touch and Jesus was not having that simple explanation insisted. Jesus insisted someone touched me. I felt power discharge from me. You see, whenever we are persistent and we are going to touch God, and were going to get an answer. We are. We are searching and we are pushing and we are travailing. We are working we are going to get through this. I'm going to get through my doubts. I'm going to get through my difficulties, and I'm believing that when I reach that spot. I'm going to send feels no, the God has answered my prayer. Because Jesus says everybody touched me and you. I request a juice like a request, but along comes a woman who's that it was in desperation said, I just have to touch him. I just have to touch him. He's my only hope is my only hope if I'm ever going to live. That was the kind of faith that touched his garment and virtue flu flow from Jesus to her and she was healed while, but when the real woman realized that she couldn't remain hidden, now when Jesus answers our prayers. They when God touches our life. He doesn't want it to be a hidden secret. You see in front of all the people she blurted out her story. Why was Jesus trying to embarrass her. He wasn't trying to embarrass her. He wanted her to be established in society again. He wanted her to once again be part of the community for twelve years, she's been cast out of the city for twelve years. Everybody knew you can't let Iran and she's forbidden to be honest in our present, and Jesus sad who touched me, which made her Neil and in front of Jesus. She was kneeling there say she blurred out all that happened. It was now for her benefit that she gave the testimony of what happened to her. It wasn't that Jesus was embarrassing her he wanted to establish the miracle that was performed in her life among the whole community, so that she would no longer have to be an outcast and she would no longer have to be crawling on her hands and knees to get through things. She was now able to walk in upright and in front of everyone. Jesus has done something miraculous in my life. And Jesus wanted that established before he took another step. Not only was he feeling beneath you. Her, but he brought her to a place in her relationship with other people through her testimony that she was now okay anything in our lives we we reach those places that we need to buy faith, believe that God is going to do something in pray and believe and how ill I you believe that God is going to do this in my life. And that's one form of the testimony and the other form of a testimony is, I had this secret thing in my life. I have this either secret nobody knew about, and I've been praying about it for a long time and you know what today today this week, I felt like God just touched me, and made everything okay. What happened cognitive difference in our life. God makes a difference in our life when you reached out and touched the pant leg of those shorts anything happen no not at all because it was Tyler theirs dialer now. Now that was when I got a few charts now while I believe maybe that's my Valley. Nothing that happened, Butler, late types of Jesus something happens, and he's not there physically that we can spiritually inside of us, we can reach out and we can touch him and what happens is when the weather realized that she couldn't remain hidden. She now traveling before hand like I'm in trouble now the strongly because that was the punishment for her being in a group of people in front of the people she blurted out her story. Every one of us have a story everyone has a story and we need to touch Jesus in such a way that we see Jesus coming into our life. We feel that unction. We feel that knowledge, understanding that we speak about our faith. I believe that God is going to do something so in front of the people she blurted out her story why she touched him and how that at that same moment she was healed. And Jesus said daughter you took a risk you took a risk entrusting me and now you are healed and whole live well, live less. That's our life. Live well, live less why because we touched Jesus Newman, so when you feel like when you feel like it's all when you feel like it is all of that. So we get down on our knees and crawl through the crowd. That's right, get out, you can ask for more perfect perfection than that. Let's stand in with you but you see, even even written response in the little ones sensitive young. That's why I think it's so important for children children. The children to be in church because where else you see we can't wait. It's familiar that the spirit of God, we become from the your with God to the point that if we do we sense is urging is moving the little ones can sometimes just stand and speak and do exactly what the Spirit is saying they don't even know because it's just a natural feeling inside of them. And that's what we're looking for an online we artist childlike faith that will just go through the outpost will go through the difficulties will get on our hands and knees if necessary and lonely touch God something happens inside and we just have a wow thank you God, and as adults than were called upon to speak that truth, the people around us and see how God is flowing through us to touch the lives of others and then we all have a story we all have a way that God is working in us and let us by faith talk about that story to a father, we ask your blessing. We ask your guidance with your touch upon our lives for God. You have truly touched us in Jesus name we pray. Amen. God bless you