Do You Have Something You Can Keep Saying? | Dr. Jacari P. Davis

We give God praise for the gift of life and for His abundant grace, for His compassion that failed not but even this very morning they have been made new. We do not take it lightly this privilege that we have been graced with this morning to stand in this illustrious church and this illustrious pulpit. I want to thank God publicly, as I have done so privately, for the gift to the body of Christ, to the will of a new church, and to the world at large, who is the Reverend Dr. Marcus D. Cosby. Even in his absence, can we thank God for Him? I know He said He would be tuning in, and so pastor, if you're watching, thank you so much for entrusting this pulpit with me on this day. And to the wonderful staff and leaders, cohort of clergy who serve this church, who have been so gracious and so kind, my brothers and my sisters, I thank God for you as well. And we'll get into our text in just a moment, only have one verse to read, but permit me, I always, whenever I'm afforded this opportunity by Pastor Cosby, I express my gratitude for the witness of Will Avenue in my own life. I shared with the 7 a.m. service that years ago when I was a student at the best university on the other side of Scott Street, Texas Southern University, and was introduced to the ministry of this church, this church changed my life in extraordinary ways. It is no understatement to say that I am standing here in this moment because of the ministry of the Will Avenue church. I was a Christian before I encountered this ministry, but my testimony is that it's the Will Avenue church that made me a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. I hope you don't take this place for granted. I hope you don't take this place for granted and legacy of Pastor Lawson and legacy that is being written of Pastor Cosby. My beautiful wife is here at this service. Danielle Davis, we celebrated 14 years of marriage.

Last month, thank God for her. And even as I looked that way, I thank God for Pastor Cosby. I got to thank God for Lady Archer Cosby and all she means to us and our family. My mother and my father are here. I'm grateful to have them with us in this service. Amen, bless the Lord for you, my little brother Mario. And then some friends are here. They are from Tulsa, Oklahoma. They told me they came for a concert last night to see Usher and his cherries. And they are great friends in life. They are brothers and sisters in life and love to me and my wife. Doctors Eric and Kendra Gill, thank God for your presence this morning. Help me. Thank God for our friends. Amen. The text and context has been ably read by the Reverend Dr. Janela Piles, Mark chapter 5. She read in your hearing verses 21 through 31. Allow me to read just one verse within that context, verse number 28. From the New King James Version here with the word of the Lord says, for she said, "If I may only touch his clothes, I shall be made well." Amen, you may be seated in the presence of the living Lord. For she said, "If only I may touch his clothes, I shall be made well." I want to label this message in the form of a question. Do you have something you can keep saying? Do you have something you can keep saying? Look at somebody and ask them, "Do you have something you can keep saying?" Can you imagine her morning? Before the streets filled with people, before the merchants begin beckoning customers to Before Sandals started to stir dust into arid Palestinian air, before the noise of conversations began bouncing between houses,

she woke up aware of the one thing that she yearned would be dismissed from her reality. She is still bleeding. Perhaps she hesitantly checks herself hoping that today would finally be different, but it isn't. It's just another morning, another government, another reminder, another day of painfully managing what she cannot make stop. And Mark tells us that this has been her reality for 12 years. And the most discerning amongst us don't need to be told that 12 years is a long time to wake up every day with the same problem. Not to suppose that Mark intended for this to be a point of emphasis, but the number 12 carries with it in scripture a signal of constitutional completeness. There are 12 tribes of Israel, 12 disciples, and the like, a tree in the river of life bearing 12 men of fruit in John's revelation. And even if that emphasis of 12 is not intentional, I want to suggest that it is interpretive because 12 years of the same issue is long enough to see life as being completely and constitutionally confined. 12 years is long enough for the unusual to become routine. 12 years is long enough to get, to forget what life was like before this showed up. He announced his candidacy to run for president almost 12 years ago. 12 years is long enough for you to get to a place where you stop counting the days of struggle. And you start to add up the years that this particular struggle has taken out of you. I imagine it to be positive that this is where our sister was. You know well that her issue of bleeding was more for her than a medical inconvenience in the zeitgeist in the spirit of the time in which she lived where religious doctrine blended with social ideals. A persistent discharge of blood carried a litany of consequences. The libidical law was clear. During such a discharge she is to be considered ceremonially unclean. Everything she contacts is affected. The bed she lies in is affected.

The chair she sits in is affected. Physical contact with anything or anybody transfers her uncleanness and requires a process of purification. I shine a spotlight on that for us to conceptualize what 12 years of living with that does to a life. What it does to a psyche. What it does to a soul 12 years of having to consider what you sent. 12 years of thinking about what you touch. 12 years of navigating worship and community and relationships and ordinary human closeness through the reality of a condition that carries consequences for other people also. She knows what it is to watch people move differently around her. She knows the sounds of whispers and the side eye looks. You know people will give you a good side eye. She is all too familiar with an emotional exhaustion of carrying this condition that does not stay confined to her body but literally and figuratively it stains her life. And then they are the doctors. Mark says she has suffered much under many physicians. She has gone. another expense, another treatment, ultimately another disappointment. A physician says, "Let's try this," and she does so because hope is never too expensive when you're desperate. She spends everything she has, and after spending everything she isn't better, she's worse. Can life take anything else? The bleeding has taken her health, the treatments have taken her money, the years have taken her strength, and the social consequences have complicated her relationships, her body is depleted, her resources are depleted, her options are seemingly depleted. She has every reason to believe, I think, that after 12 years of this, this is the new norm. This is my unfortunate lot in life. This is the cross that I'll have to carry to the grave. This is the only kind of ending that people like me get to experience, but then she hears something. The years, according to Mark, were called to

acoustic attention of another alternative. Mark says, "She heard about Jesus that somehow the name of Jesus reaches the ears of this woman whose suffering has lasted longer than some people's marriages. She hears that there is a man from Nazareth. She hears that sickness behaves differently when this man enters the room. She hears that that demons recognize his authority and they submit to him when they hear his name. She hears that storms over his voice. She hears that paralyzed bodies regain mobility when he begins to speak. She hears that lepers are touched and transformed when he speaks. She hears about a power that is never without a possibility. And apparently she hears enough about this power, enough about this Jesus to boldly and audaciously decide, "I've got to get to him. I've got to get close enough to reach him. If there's a way to get to him, I've got to find that you see her, don't you?" She gathers a courage and determination to make her way through the streets of Caponium, but when she gets there, there's another problem. There's a crowd. You can hear him before you see him. The boy says questions, excitement. People calling his name feet, shuffling bodies, pushing up against bodies. Everybody's trying to see him. Everybody's trying to get close. And somewhere in that crowd is a brother named Jairus. He's a social anti-type. He's a synagogue leader, a respected man, a man with social standing. He's a man whose daughter has only been living for 12 years and she's on the verge of dying. And she's looking at this man while she's been dying for 12 years while trying everything she can to keep on living. And beloved, Jesus is on his way to Jairus' house. And this means that as she is pushing her way into this crowd following Jesus, she's always pushing her way. She's also pushing her way, rather, through somebody else's emergency. And here's the report to remember, y'all, she ain't supposed to be there. And everything about her condition has said, stay away. Her religious world has told her the consequences of uncleanness. Her body is telling her, "You're too weak for this." Her bank account says, "You've already tried everything." Her history says, "You've been like this for 12 years." The crowd says, "We don't have a room for somebody like you." And Jesus is on his way somewhere else. And this is where, this is where, as I hear the tension of a trouble and the tension of the text, can change her condition is within reach. But everything about her condition is making reaching him difficult. I won't say that again. The one she believes can change her condition is within reach.

But everything about her condition is making him difficult to reach. Don't miss the dynamics. Jesus is close. But so is the crowd. Jesus is accessible, but she has to press through everything her condition has produced just to get to him. And therein beloved lies not only the tension she has to navigate, but it's also the tension of some of our lives because I am of the belief that all of us have been this woman and some of us are this woman right now. All of us, church, have our circumstances and concerns in lives. That all of us, I see how y'all looking at me, but all of us have some battles in some private places, y'all gonna get that later. We all have some battles that we're struggling with in some private places that's causing us to bleed. And it feels like the zeal and the passion and the spirit for living life is slowly being drained out of us. I mean, we know a few things. We know Jesus is within reach. We know God has not abandoned us. We know I go to Willa Avenue. So I know what the Bible says. We know how to pray. We know how to worship. We know the language of faith. We know that we're rooted and anchored in Jesus. But sometimes, anybody want to be real, real quick, sometimes the condition that life has put you in can make a Jesus that's close by, feel like a Jesus that's hard to reach. I'm looking for about 100 honest folk in the room, can I just take a sermonic survey? Anybody in here who knows you can be close to Jesus, but life can throw so much at you that even though Jesus is close, you don't even know what to say when you pray.

Anybody else know that Jesus can be close to you and you can still be mentally overwhelmed and your thoughts are so crowded and you can't locate the piece of Jesus anywhere. Anybody ever been so tired of being disappointed and although Jesus ain't far away, you don't have the desire to keep getting up every day reaching because the disappointment has exalted you, the child of God, you can be so financially strained and you can be filled with so much anxiety that although you know the presence of Jesus is closer, it still feels like he's difficult to read. You can even come to 10 o'clock servers and we'll sing the songs and hear the scriptures and lift your hands in the sanctuary and you still feel like there is something between where I am and where Jesus is. The safety and the security of Jesus, the healing and the hope of Jesus, the deliverance and the destiny of Jesus can be within reach but my condition, my circumstances, my concerns seem to be making him difficult to reach, nothing I think seems to cause more spiritual complications than a life that's crowded with so many problems that you can see Jesus, but you can't touch him. Beloved I hope you grasp the metaphor here, all crowds, forgive my grammar, all crowds ain't bodies, some crowds in your life are your beliefs, some crowds are behaviors, some crowds are burdens you've been carrying, let me help you here, fear is a crowd, fatigue is a crowd, shame and grief, what happened to you, what somebody is saying about you, But you keep saying about yourself. (audience cheering) All of those things can be a crown. And I wanna tell you that one of the greatest tragedies you could ever allow to happen to your faith and in your life is to allow what has happened to you to convince you that you can no longer get to him. Did you hear what I just said? One of the greatest tragedies you could ever allow in your life is to allow your circumstances to convince you that you can no longer get to Jesus.

Can I help you see it? What you can gather and glean from this woman's determination that will strengthen you for whatever lies ahead is that although your condition may seem to make reaching Jesus difficult, what it doesn't do is make reaching Jesus impossible. (congregation applauding) Stay with me. I believe, Dr. Guillaume, this is why Mark makes sure that we get to overhear what she's saying as she's pressing her way through the crowd. Because if the crowd around her is communicating to her why she can't get to Jesus, she needed something within her to keep telling her why she could get to Jesus. Church folk don't know when to get to happen. I'm gonna say it again in verse 28. For she's saying, if I just may touch his garments, I shall be made well. Can I tell you why that should have brought revival and renewal to your spirit? It's because, stay with me, there's a treasure that's hidden in the grammar of the verse that our English translation doesn't allow us to see. The first three words for she's saying, everybody say for she's saying. It's a single verb in the Greek meaning to declare or to utter.

So the language reads so she declared to herself. (congregation applauding) She uttered to herself if I may but touch his garments. That ain't get you, so let me take it further. It's not just what those first three words say, but it's also the tense and the voice that the word is in. Stay with me. When it says she declared, she said it's in the imperfect tense. And it's in the active voice. What that mean, Pastor? Good question. It means that when the woman said what she's saying about getting to Jesus, she didn't just say this one time. And that was the end of the story. No, this was a declaration that was active that she kept saying over and over again. But beloved, she's moving through the crowd. And she is repeating this conviction to her. If I could just touch his garments, I shall be somebody bumps into it. She said, if I can just touch the hymn of his garment, as another person gets in the way, if I could just touch the hymn of his past starts whispering in her ear. If I can just touch the hymn of his garment, she remembers what the doctors have diagnosed. If I could just touch the hymn of his garment,

she remembers the bank account that's collecting over draft fees. If I could just touch the hymn of his garment, and here's the preaching y'all, every time something around her gave her a reason and a justification to stop, she had something within her spirit that she could keep saying to herself to resist surrendering to the noise that was all around her. Can I tell you something, child of God? Sometimes what you keep saying. Sometimes it's what you keep declaring. Sometimes it's what you keep affirming when life is crowded, anybody in here can testify. That's the only thing that keeps you moving. And I came to tell somebody, you've got to learn how to keep saying something to yourself until God shows it to you. Can I put it this way? Sometimes you've got to say it until you see it. Look at somebody and tell them, sometimes I got to say it until I see it. and the He's a promise keeper. He's a way maker. He's a light in the darkness. You are my God. That is, is there anybody in here knows that sometimes it's what you say. (audience cheering) - Don't miss your word.

In difficult seasons, if you are a faith person, you have to be steadfast and stubborn enough to keep speaking faith. Because if you don't have something faithful to keep affirming within yourself, your circumstances will start speaking for you. And you'll start to believe the lies of Satan and the lies of, I wish I had somebody in here who can declare the devil is a lie. I'm not gonna believe anything that my circumstances are saying about me. I shall live and not die and declare the works of the Lord. I shall be above and never beneath. I shall be the lender and not the borrower. I shall be the anybody in here. Learn to keep saying it to yourself so that you won't believe what's in the atmosphere. (audience cheering) - Hear me, hear me, here's what the text teaches. Here's what the text teaches. Faith does not require your circumstances to be favorable in order for it to be functional. (audience cheering) Your condition doesn't have to complement your faith for your faith to do what it does. Faith sees it and then that same faith gives you something stronger than your circumstances. (audience cheering) To keep you affirming the promises of God while you walk through them.

Y'all ain't shouting, here's what I'm saying. You ain't healed yet, but you can talk like it. (audience cheering) I can't believe y'all sitting on me like this. You ain't bounced back yet, but guess what? I can talk that talk like I am. (audience cheering) I ain't passed the class yet, but I'm gonna claim it in Jesus' name. It hasn't changed right now for me to believe it right now. Sometimes I gotta say it until I see it. Because the jest I told seven o'clock, she'll live. (audience cheering) Look at somebody tell 'em you better start talking like it. (audience cheering) Child of God, expand your definition of deliverance. (audience cheering) Did you hear that? Expand your definition of deliverance. Sometimes, it's gonna bless somebody. Sometimes, the evidence that God is bringing you through something on your way to something is that you start talking differently before anything around you looks differently. (audience cheering) That's how I know I'm on my way out. When I start speaking deliverance before deliverance shows up, when I start speaking healing before healing shows up, when I start speaking breakthrough before breakthrough shows up,

is there anybody in here who knows there's power as it relates to life and death that's in your town? (audience cheering) (audience cheering) Faith changes your vocabulary before it improves your vision. And so, the question of consequence for your life today and on every other day, when life gets crowded and complicated, when everything around you is saying something contrary to what you know and believe about God, my question to you is, do you have something you can keep saying? (audience cheering) Until you get the touch and the transformation and the deliverance and the miracle that you need from God. I think this woman, she gives us three things to practice so that we can develop this kind of faith-speaking repetition. She shows us first that when life gets crowded and complicated and Jesus seems difficult to touch, you've got to learn how to keep saying what reinforces your trust. Learn how to keep saying what reinforces your trust. Beloved, when everything around you is saying something that doesn't align with your faith, that's when you have to have the resolve to keep saying whatever is necessary in reminding you of who Jesus is and why Jesus is worth continuing to reach for. Here it is, you continue to reach for Jesus because you know his power can be trusted. You keep pressing toward and reaching for Jesus no matter how crowded and complicated life gets because of your journey of pursuing Jesus but again with the one promise that you're still holding on to, he's a deliverer you can trust. Remember, before this woman ever touches Jesus, what happens? She hears about what Jesus has done.

Her confession, her affirmation, her declaration that she has to touch his garment, then, is not some optimism that she's manufactured in her mind. No, no, she has evidence, she has hard data, she has testimony, witness about who Jesus is and what Jesus has done and I'm leaning into this because there's an indication between the lines that somewhere between verses 27 and 28, what she heard about Jesus's history became the expectation that she had for her future, are y'all still with me? It was what she heard Jesus had done for somebody else that gave her faith enough of a push to believe that her testimony could be next. Beloved can I bless you and remind you that that's what your faith does for your life. It reinforces why you trusted Jesus in the first place when life starts doing too much. Here it is, faith has the ability to recall and remember. It holds in your mind and in your heart enough about what God has done so that you are able when life gets grounded, to keep believing that the same God who did that is able to do something else and that's why you need something of substance you can rehearse. The faithfulness of God, the power of Jesus Christ has to be on repeat in your life so that the circumstances you're facing don't make you forget why you believe what you believe. Look at somebody and tell them faith is reinforcement. Tell the other neighbor, faith is reinforcement. You don't believe me. Job is sick, he's broken on an ass heap and when friends show up to accuse and criticize him, Job doesn't curse God in that season because he said the same God who blessed me in one season is the same God who's with me in this season. So I'm not going to curse God just because things are bad right now. What I will do is reinforce my trust in the God in whom I believe. And so Job says, I'm not going to curse God, but here's what I'm going to say to myself. I know that my redeemer lives. I'm having too much fun and though he slay me, yeah, well I keep on trusting him. and the ejection that's going on in his own house. He starts on Psalm 42 by singing the blues, but he ends Psalm 42 singing soul music.

He starts on 42 saying, "Why are you cast down within me?" But then he ends Psalm 42 speaking to his same soul and saying, "Why are you cast down on my soul? Hope in God, for I shall praise him again." Y'all don't know that one. Jesus didn't get simony. And the weight of the world's sin is on his shoulders. And in that moment of agony, the Bible says that Jesus reinforces his trust in the God who sent him. He says, "God, I don't want to do this. If there's another way, let that be another way." But listen to the trust of Jesus. Nevertheless, not my will, but your will be done. Beloved, sometimes you have to keep reinforcing what you already know so that you can keep reaching into what can be. Because sometimes the memory of who God has been in your life is the only thing that can keep you moving forward and trusting about what God is able to do. This ain't for everybody. But there are 200 of y'all who have some memories with Jesus. Any of y'all have some throwbacks with Jesus. And you are here to testify when I look back over my life and see what God has done and see the ways God has made and see the doors God has opened and see the provision God has brought. Life may be crowded right now, but I know too much about him now. You can't make me down him. I know too much about it. If he didn't before, yeah, he can do it if he enough. Because he's the same God right now as he was back there now.

Look at somebody until I'm reinforced your trust. Keep saying what reinforces your trust. But then she also shows us you got to keep saying what raises your tenacity. Hear this. Hear me. Hear me. The affirmations of faith. They are made for the moments with the avenue. When you have to learn how to pray and press at the same time. Church, this woman's declaration is powerful. Not just because of what she says, but where and when she says it. No, no, the organic sequence. She doesn't say it after she makes contact with Jesus. She says it in the chaos. She says it in the crime. She says it while she's still weak. Y'all with me? She says it while Jesus is moving in another direction. And while somebody else's issue appears to have his attention. Let me tell you why that matters. It matters because it puts before you the spiritual assignment to keep strengthening your faith until it becomes a faith. That's strong enough to survive resistance. Y'all with me? Pushback is an inevitable experience with crowds. Some of y'all wear the concert last night. You're left out in the crowd. You're going to bump into somebody. It's an inevitable experience.

So the cost pushback is an inevitable experience with crowds. You need a faith that can press against it. Faith then is not just left to being a declaration of trust about what you believe in God. But it also becomes a public display of tenacity, of nerve. It has to behave like it believes. Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord. how you talk, but it also changes what you're willing to do. Your mouth and your movements have to be working together. If I touch his garments, that's what she says. But after she says it, she has to take a step. I'ma get happy by myself. I will be made well is what she says. But after she says it, she has to take another step. If I touch his garments is what she says. After she says it, she has to keep on pushing. I will be made well is what she says. But after she says it, she has to keep on pressing. Can you encourage yourself and touch yourself and say, self? I got to walk it like I talk it. I pray. But then after I say, man, then I got to get up and start pressing. I believe the promise. But then I take a step out on the promise, believe in that God is going to do exactly what he said he was going to do. I step out on what I trust God can do. But then I got a bus to move. The crowd is going to be the crowd. The circumstances are going to be the circumstances. But you need some tenacious faith to keep you stepping and to keep you pressing through it. I came to tell her, believe I'm a date myself. But are there any millennials in the room who can remember when Martin wanted somebody out of his house? What would he tell him? He said, it's time for you. Well, you tell your neighbor, it's time for you to get to step out. It's time for you to put some feet with your faith. It's time for you to put some movement with your mouth. It's time for you to get some tenacity with your trust. If you're going to believe it, God, God, God, go in it, you better walk like you believe that. If you're going to trust God, you better leave like you trust God. If you're going to believe God is going to make a way, you better get up tomorrow morning to put your feet on the floor and start moving through life like you know God is going to show up. In fact, I came to tip somebody, some of y'all got a better testimony than you thought you had. The testimony of your life is that God didn't always move everything out of your way. But the testimony is that everything that should have stopped you.

That couldn't stop your faith, because God kept your feet on the ground. He said, "Anybody in here who knows that the only reason you're here today is because God kept your feet moving. He kept your feet on the ground. He kept you believing that all things were going to work together for good to them who love God and for those who are called according to his purpose. He kept your feet moving on the promise that he will supply all of your needs according to his riches and glory. He kept your feet moving on the promise that he'll never leave you, nor will he forsake you. I wish I had somebody here who can open up your mouth and testify. I ain't just here standing on the premises. But I'm in here standing on the promises standing on the promises of Christ. He will make a way. I've seen the lightning flash. Heard the thunder rolling. Felt sin breakers dashing and trying to cook them up. But I heard the voice of Jesus beating me the spill of my daughter. He promised never to leave me. I never to leave me alone. Anybody in here who knows that he'll keep your feet moving on. I'm done. Keep saying what reinforces your trust. Keep saying what raises your own tenacity. But finally, keep saying what will help you realize your touch. Lean in. what you are rehearsing will be realized through the power of Jesus Christ. Somebody should have shouted right there because what I just told you is that God is going to bring it to pass. God will make it happen. Your faith just has to keep saying it in the dark until you see it in the light. Watch the progression from expectation to realization. Verse 28, she says, "In expectation, if I but touch his garments, I will be made well." And then there's the divine realization, verse 29, immediately. Her flow of blood stopped and she felt in her body that she had been healed of her disease. Somebody shout immediately. I wish you knew that you serve a God who's a God of suddenly. Anybody in here know you serve a God of immediately. Anybody in here know you worship a Savior who can turn it around right now.

In fact, why you in here worship and God can be outside working on your deliverance so that by the time you leave brunch and forget me not and get back home, that thing has already been worked out. Look at somebody and tell them he'll do it suddenly. Kim O'Hail's, she touches Jesus and immediately 12 years of hell collapsed into one moment of healing. I want you to be certain that you hear what I'm saying, will I have a new? Here's what I'm saying. Jesus did it. Somebody shout Jesus did it. Her testimony and her tenacity had a purpose in the process, but it was the touch that be at the healing. I'm trying to tell you, Jesus did it. Her words, though they were faith-billed again, faith-sustaining, her words didn't heal her. Jesus did it. I wish y'all were getting this because I'm saying this for the sake of some of us in this generation, this age of TikTok and timeline theology who try to put the life-transforming power of God on the same level as routine manifestation. If that's what you heard in the sermon, shout out to God, you ain't hit a sermon. What happens for us when we believe God, y'all, this ain't magic. I'm trying to help somebody, I really am, rehearsing our faith through language can have a manifesting effect in our lives, but the manifestation I wish I had a witness here, the manifestation, however it shows up, it always flows from the will of God. I came to tell somebody, you are not ever going to manifest nothing in your life that God don't want for your life. In fact, I just made 40 this year, and my testimony is God, if it ain't in your will for my life, I don't want it. I'll be happy with your clothes and some doors, I'll be happy with your end in some friendships,

I'll be happy getting some rejection letters. Is there anybody in here, can tell somebody, "It ain't God's wheel, I don't want it." It flows from God's wheel, not our words, and the moment we forget that, we're not moving in faith, we're moving in spiritual superstition. And I'm saying that to say, people who move like that are people who don't know where they help come from. But I wish I had somebody, I'm done, who can testify, I know where my help comes from. [CHEERING] When I look at my life, this ain't the power of positive thinking. No, no, no, no, Jesus, dear this. I'm going to stop right there. Is anybody in here who knows who you are and where you are, Jesus, dear this? I'm looking for 100 people who can testify. All I am, God made me. All I know God taught me and where I am, it was the Lord who brought me. Is there anybody in here who can testify that if it had not been for the Lord who was on your side, you don't know where you would be. And so Jesus is the only one who can touch everything in your life, everything that has been bound, everything that has been broken, and everything that needs to be put back together again. Now, somebody can shout, "It's only Jesus who's able to get me the touch I need." Is there anybody in here who can lift up your hands and give God glory right through here because you can testify, what Jeremiah testified, he's the only one who has a CBS pharmacy that's in the hem of his garment. He's the only one who is above in ghillie hat. He's the only one who can make the sensey hole and he can heal the wound at time because there's power in the name of Jesus. I wonder is there anybody here who's ever reached out and touched him. I wonder is there anybody in the room who's ever felt his grace, felt it grip your life. I wonder is there anybody in the room who's ever had your wounds healed by the one who

is the wounded healer if you have the faith anybody in here know that God still has the power. In fact, why don't you help me preach that ten o'clock? Find your somebody and tell a neighbor if you have the faith God still has the power. He has the power to change your life, he has the power to lift up a bow down head, he has the power to open doors for you that nobody else can open and close some doors, that nobody else can close, is there anybody in here who knows that if you have the faith my God has the power. She reached out and she touched Jesus at the Bible says that after she touched Jesus immediately she was made whole, and when she confessed to the Lord what she had done, look at what Jesus said, daughter your faith has made you hell, go in peace and be healed. Don't miss your shout right there, go in peace and be healed. I'm going to say it one more time with the balcony, go in peace and be healed, can I tell you what that is, that's a benediction, that's a blessing that she didn't even ask for, that's some favor that she wasn't even looking for, that is anybody in here knows that when you touch Jesus you'll give your life favor, that you won't even even looking for, and so I'm going to my seat this morning, but that's how I want to leave somebody, that's how I want to bless somebody here at the ten o'clock service, I want to speak that over your life, go in peace and be healed, you want to lift through your hands and receive that blessing, I'm going to go in peace and be healed, go with your burden lifted, go with your mind settled, go with your shrimp renewed, go with your hope restored, go with your confidence Go with your joy, return and go, sleep and bed. Go believing that the best is still yet to cover. Keep saying it until you see it. And then when you see it, you wanna shout about it. Is there anybody here gonna give God praise? Anybody in here gonna give God glory? Can I do a Cosby style? I said can I do a Cosby style? Won't it make a way for you?

Won't it open doors for you? Won't he come through for you? Won't he do it? I said won't he do it? Won't he do it? I said won't he do it? Won't he do it? Won't he do it? Won't he, won't he, won't he, won't he, won't he? Won't he do it? Say yes! Say yes! Say yes! Say yes! He'll do it! He'll make a way! Say yes! ♪ He'll do it! Yes he will! Do you know he'll do it? The Lord will make a way somehow! Yes he will! Hallelujah! As our deacons and deacons come, the invitation is extended. ♪ Come on! ♪ Come on!

♪ I see you coming. Come on! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Is there another, come on. ♪ Anybody been trusting? But it hadn't manifested yet. Have the tenacity to keep on pressing. Keep on saying it till you see it. Come on! There's another. ♪ I see you coming. Come on! Yes indeed. From the balcony. Come on! ♪ For I have to walk him up his ground. And his blood. ♪ Always. ♪ Somebody else, come on. ♪ I see you coming.

In my soul. ♪ Is there another, come on. ♪ I see you coming. Come on! And his blood. ♪ Made me whole. ♪ Anybody in the sanctuary? ♪ Come on! ♪ ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪ You got to dance with me, put your weight on the turds. Come on, I see you coming, come on. [MUSIC] It's Jesus, in my soul. [MUSIC] Listen, if you hear and you haven't accepted Jesus Christ and saved the Lord of your life, or if you're looking for a church home, if you're here on temporary assignment for healthcare reasons or for school, or for work, and you need some place to watch over your soul while you're here, all of these invitations offer you. If you're here, and what you need is a touch from the Mass, you need to reach out and really touch him. You can see him, but you feel like you can't reach him. I stopped by to tell you he's in reach right here, right now. Make your way down there.

We're waiting on you. Oh, it is Jesus, it is God, in my soul, for God and God, God, in my soul. Oh, Jesus, and he loves Jesus. Right quickly, right quickly, and I want to, for a long time, too much, but let's do a little cue evangelist, turn to your left of your right, ask him, are you safe? Do you have a church where you're growing, where you're going? I can't walk for you, but I'll walk with you. Hallelujah. Give the Lord a hand of praise for those who have come. It is my privilege to welcome you to the Willa Avenue Baptist Church. On behalf of our pastor and all of our members, we're excited about what the Lord is doing in your life right now, what he's going to do in your life, what he's going to do through you in the life of our church, our church has just been made better because you walked the eye. And I'll prove to you how excited we are. Let them know how much we're excited about them being a part of our church. If you'll follow our deacons, we'll, they'll lead you to the intake room so that you can gather some more information, and we can gather some information about you, Hallelujah. Come on church, give God pray. Give God pray. If that was for me, it would be all right. I said, give God pray. Thank you, Dr. Davis. You blessed us again. Now pray for him. He's got one more sermon to preach. And if he preaches like he preached at seven and at 10, he's gonna need some restoration. Praise the Lord. So pray his strength.

Amen. (congregation applauding) Let us stand. And praise God from whom all blessings flow. (lively music) ♪ Praise God from whom ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, let be ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ Praise him ♪ ♪ And our praise ♪ ♪ Let him be ♪ ♪ He's the Lord ♪ ♪ Praise him ♪ ♪ And our heart ♪ ♪ He's the heavenly Lord ♪ ♪ Praise God from whom ♪ ♪ Let him be ♪ ♪ Praise him ♪ ♪ The Lord bless ♪ ♪ And the Lord keep you ♪ ♪ The Lord make his face shine upon you ♪ ♪ And be gracious to you ♪ ♪ The Lord lift the light of his confidence upon you ♪ ♪ And grant you his peace ♪ ♪ The Lord be with you ♪ ♪ The Lord guide you in your labor ♪ ♪ And in your leisure ♪ ♪ In your joys ♪ ♪ As well as in your sorrow ♪ ♪ In your laughter ♪

♪ As well as in your tears ♪ ♪ Until that day ♪ ♪ When we meet the Lord face to face ♪ ♪ And shout holy, holy, holy ♪ ♪ Is the Lord of hosts ♪ ♪ Until that day my brothers and sisters ♪ ♪ Go and peace ♪ ♪ Go in love, go in joy ♪ ♪ And the God of peace, love and joy ♪ ♪ Go with you ♪ ♪ Now his four ♪ ♪ And forevermore ♪ ♪ In his name ♪ ♪ Let us all sing together ♪ ♪ Amen ♪ ♪ Amen ♪ ♪ Amen ♪ ♪ Amen ♪ ♪ Amen ♪ (audience cheering) (audience clapping) (audience clapping) (audience clapping) (audience clapping) (audience clapping) (audience cheering) (audience clapping) (audience clapping) (audience clapping) (audience clapping)

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