I Refuse to Give Up | The Woman Who Wouldn’t Quit (Mark 5:24–34)

See, I don't come to church because I have it together. I come to church because I want god to get me together. I don't come to church because I know everything. I come to church because I want to be in the presence of the one who knows everything and has everything that I need. And Jesus has started this journey healing folk, changing lives, working miracles, and his calling matches up to her need. Wow. Because every calling is for a need and Jesus comes into town and this woman who says, I'm not giving up on myself. [00:57:07] (42 seconds)  #ChurchForHealing

you have to even get to a place that says, if there are casualties or there is fallout because I'm getting what I need from god, I believe that the same god who's going to do it for me will take care of them too. Amen. You gotta stop holding yourself back worried about what everybody else going to say. Amen. You know, I get I get tired of folk who say, well, you know, I would do this but I don't want people to talk. Well, you know, I I I would take this step of faith but I don't want somebody to say something. I have learned this. I value too much what god's going to do in my life. [00:59:50] (39 seconds)  #UnapologeticFaith

Because sometimes we can be so far down that our tomorrows don't have sun either. But one of the things I love about god, my brothers and my sisters, is that no matter how bad things may be in this moment, we have a god who can fix it in the next one. Yes. Amen. Yes. See, I was, if I was better preaching, somebody would have thrown something. Let me try that again. No matter how low we are right now, we have a god who can make it better tomorrow. Yes sir. And as long as we stay in it long enough, god can and god will show up. [00:46:11] (39 seconds)  #HopeForTomorrow

Anybody know about that? That you've tried your hardest to act like you had it all together. Yes. You showed up with a smile. You were confident that what you were doing would work but yet you sat there with the results saying, I don't know if I can ever get this right. And if I could even add on to it, one of the challenges of life is that we've been in this place and it causes us to have a dangerous mindset where we no longer see opportunities. We only see devastation. We no longer think that if we try our hardest, it'll work but we live with disappointment always ready to show up. [00:42:18] (46 seconds)  #BehindTheSmile

This woman in the text, she teaches us, she shows us, don't settle. Don't worry that what you've tried hasn't worked yet. Just refuse to give up. When Jesus heals this woman, he does not say to her, how much money did you spend on healing? He doesn't say to her, how long you've been trying this? He just heals her. When you get to the place where god's gonna bring you through, How long the journey took and the twist and turns that you had to endure will pale in comparison to the glory god's gonna reveal in you. [01:09:45] (57 seconds)  #DontSettle

This this sermon is not for those who know that every time you try, you always succeed. This is not for those who are batting a thousand percent at the plate that no matter what curveball, slider, or screwball comes your way, you can hit it out the park. But this is for some of us who know we've stood there and wondered, will we ever turn it around? Psychologist call this phenomenon learned helplessness. A condition that develops when you've been hurt so much, you failed so much that you start believing that it will never get better. [00:43:25] (39 seconds)  #BreakLearnedHelplessness

many of us have testimonies of what we almost were But we serve a god that does not stop at the almost but as long as we stay with him, he'll get us to where we need to be. In this text today jumps out at us as we're journeying this path and this almost in this enough already series because we meet a lady who has been through enough hell that it would be understandable if she stopped trying. For twelve years, she's struggling. For twelve years, she's going through. [00:48:22] (41 seconds)  #BeyondAlmost

The Bible says that it progressively got worse for twelve years. Every day, she wakes up saying they're still there. Every time she goes somewhere, she's trying to navigate how she would do what she needs to do knowing all that she's dealing with. And it gets worse. If we could contemporize it, she has traveled all around the nation to try to find the best doctors. They told her there was a special center in Tennessee she could go to. She used her money, went there, and the doctor said, there's nothing else we can do. [00:49:24] (39 seconds)  #HopeAfterNo

I've been like the woman with the issue of blood. I had some stuff going on. I was wondering if it would ever move but all praise be to god that Jesus just happened to show up for me, that Jesus healed me. So, now, my testimony is not, I've been perfect but my testimony is that whenever I needed him most, he showed up for me and the same god who did it for me is the same god that will do it for you. The same god that healed me is the same god that's going to heal you. The same god that delivered me is the same god that's going to deliver you. [01:07:46] (38 seconds)  #FaithfulGod

This this sermon is not for those who know that every time you try, you always succeed. This is not for those who are batting a thousand percent at the plate that no matter what curveball, slider, or screwball comes your way, you can hit it out the park. But this is for some of us who know we've stood there and wondered, will we ever turn it around? Psychologist call this phenomenon learned helplessness. A condition that develops when you've been hurt so much, you failed so much that you start believing that it will never get better. [00:43:25] (39 seconds)  #TurnItAround

No, we have to understand that even in the hardest spots, we do serve a god that can and will turn it around and this is the key that no matter how much our testimony has said we almost were something, we have a god that can finish the job. How many of you know you got some friends whose testimony is only about what they almost were? Know, I I remember growing up on the basketball courts, you know, as I as I shared in the blueprint, I I I really believe that god was calling me to the NBA. I I was misunderstanding what the calling was on my life. [00:47:17] (40 seconds)  #GodFinishesTheWork

this we read this text so often is like she pressed through the crowd. She got up near him and touched him but the reality is, this is a great risk because again, she's unclean. Uh-huh. Which means that anything she comes into contact with will also be then unclean. So, she is by the Levitical law not supposed to come around people. She can't go into church. She can't be in the marketplace where everybody is. She can't walk around in crowds because if she accidentally bumped somebody, they too will be unclean. But she makes a calculated risk. [00:58:15] (40 seconds)  #RiskForHealing