The Gospel of Mark: The Healing Power of Jesus

Now listen, I was going to, let me tell you what was going through my mind. I was going to skip Mark Chapter 5.

And here's why. We've been going verse by verse through the Gospel of Mark. I preached this passage last year before I knew I was going to be preaching the Gospel of Mark. So I said, well, since I've already preached this a year ago, let's skip on to the next thing. And the Lord wouldn't let me do this. Because there's some of you who haven't heard what I have to say today, that's number one. And number two, we're in a weird season of just supernatural healing all over this place.

I've never seen, honestly, I've never seen anything like it in my life. And so I really feel like we're supposed to park here today. So turn to Mark Chapter 5. For those of you who may not be used to Jesus, the church, the Bible, there are several biographies of Jesus in the Bible, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John.

Mark is one of those biographies. And we're now at Mark Chapter 5, verse 21. Mark chapter 5, verse 21. Mark chapter 5, verse 21. Mark chapter 5, verse 21.

There's no use in troubling the teacher now. We'll talk more about Jairus and the daughter next week. And we'll talk about death and dying. You said that sounds so depressing. No, I want to tell you how as followers of Jesus Christ, we don't need to fear death. We don't need to fear dying. We'll talk about that more next week.

But this woman amazes me. Now, the background of this thing, I want you to look at this map. I remember we talked about last week how Jesus was crossing the lake. There was a storm. The storm knocked him off course.

And when this map comes up, we got about a 45-minute delay between when I asked for something to come. It knocked him off, and he landed in the region of the Gerasenes, or Gadarenes. He goes and he ministers to that individual that has all the pigs in, or all the demons in him, cast the demons into the pigs. They were under the sea. And now he's going back to the northwest quadrant, and he's kind of in his capital city, his home base of operations, which is Capernaum.

It's about six miles back across the thing. Now, this is interesting. This was not on Jesus' calendar, by the way. He didn't put out his Microsoft Outlook, oh, today I've got to heal a lady who has a bleeding issue. Let me kind of put that on my calendar. This wasn't on Jesus' calendar, but it was on God's calendar. What you're going to find when you get to heaven, you will have done more for Jesus and the kingdom of God by just living your life and having these chance encounters with people that God brings into your life. I am finding I am doing more for Jesus Christ during the unplanned than the planned. I've said this before, a Christian who is led by the Holy Spirit will do more for Jesus on accident than a Christian who's not led by the Spirit will do on purpose. And so that's kind of what's happening here with Jesus. Now, as we're talking about healing today, and I'm going to go and say this up front, we're going to invite you, we're going to do what we did a few weeks ago to have you come forward today in a few minutes.

And if you need healing in your mind, depression, anxiety, in your body, we're going to pray that God will heal you today. Now, there are two extremes when it comes to supernatural healing in the church, in the body of Christ. One extreme is called cessationism.

The root ceasing is in there. Cessationism, and this doesn't come from Bible doubters. Interestingly enough, sometimes the people with the highest view of Scripture are the biggest cessationists, and they say the miraculous gifts have ceased. We now have the Bible, so we don't need the miraculous gifts. The miraculous gifts have ceased. God does not give people the ability to pray for folks and they be healed.

Those ceased in the first century. I've got two problems with it. I've got a lot of problems, but two big problems. Number one is the Bible doesn't teach that, incidentally.

You don't find that anywhere in the Bible. Secondly, it's finally hitting me. I've got friends who are cessationists, some scholars I've followed that I respect are cessationists.

Here's my second problem. You know how much arrogance it takes to stand in authority over the Bible, and so I've decided these gifts are not for today, but these gifts are for today. It takes a lot of arrogance, I think. That's one extreme. There's another extreme, and this comes from the extreme word of faith people, and I say extreme because there are some ideas in the word of faith movement that are actually pretty good, the power of the word you speak. But there are some extreme word of faith people that say this, God always wants you to be healed, and if you're not healed after praying for healing, it's your fault. You didn't have enough faith.

That's an extreme. Look, God does not heal everybody. In fact, I can't remember the last time we preached this.

I don't know what platform it was, Facebook or YouTube or whatever. A lady commented, you know, sermons like this that make me doubt my faith because I've been praying for healing for a long time and God hasn't healed me and he shouldn't preach like that. Look, I never said God healed everybody, but I can't change my theology based on your experience. The Bible says we're to pray for healing, but again, listen, God is still sovereign, and we see the sovereignty of God in this. Sometimes he chooses to heal and sometimes he doesn't. I mean, in this passage, you have a 12-year-old girl there, Jairus' daughter, who dies.

Wait, why did she die? There are other examples of Jesus not even having to go to a house or touch somebody to heal somebody. Jesus just speaks the word from the distance and they are healed. Why didn't he do that here? Why did he speak the word to one person in the distance and they're healed, but he didn't speak the word and this girl dies?

The sovereignty of God. Next week, we'll talk about three of Jesus' closest disciples, Peter, James, and John, and they go in when Jesus heals this girl and raises her from the dead. And if you look at Acts chapter 12, as Peter, James, and John are carrying out the ministry, James is arrested, the church prays for him, and he gets his head chopped off. Next day, Peter gets arrested, church prays for him, and God released him from prison. His head didn't get chopped off.

Why? Because he's God and sometimes he releases people and sometimes he lets people come home to be with him. He is sovereign. And so don't think that because God doesn't heal, there's not enough faith in your life. You still cannot discount the sovereignty of God.

You with me on that? Okay, so look at what this poor lady had gone through. So later, verse 25 says that she'd been bleeding for 12 years. Now, ladies, forgive us, but all the men in the congregation, ugh, she basically had a 12-year continuous menstrual cycle in which she wouldn't stop bleeding, okay? And so for 12 years, this lady is hemorrhaging. And what that does to her is pretty bad.

Number one, it brought a sense of shame to her. Leviticus chapter 12 and 15, the Jewish Old Testament says a woman who bleeds is unclean. She's dirty for seven days. This lady is not bleeding for seven days. She's bleeding for 12 years. In the Jewish culture, she is perpetually dirty. That brought a sense of shame to her. This poor lady, secondly, is lonely because according to Leviticus, not only is she unclean if she's bleeding, but anybody who comes into contact with her, they are now unclean. So if she had a husband, husband's gone. If she'd had kids, kids are gone. Friends aren't going to hang around her.

Nobody is going to get near her. Do you know how lonely it was for 12 years not to have human contact because of this medical condition? She's dealing with extreme...

I mean, just imagine what that does to her psychologically. You know, it's interesting, loneliness has become an epidemic in our society. Japan, like America, is dealing with the epidemic suicide rate, and the Japanese are attributing a lot of that high suicide rate to loneliness. And so Japan has actually appointed a, quote, minister of loneliness to try and combat loneliness and social isolation in Japan. America is the most connected culture electronically, and yet statistically, we're the most lonely culture. Actually, I read about this company that designed a robot to go and hold hands with lonely people. Imagine now, we're actually having to have robots go in and hold hands of people who are lonely.

In fact, there was one man that I read about that he's making a living doing nothing but charging people to simply sit with them and keep them company and combat their loneliness. This poor lady, she's got the sense of... she feels dirty, she feels alone, and now she's bankrupt. Verse 26 says that she spent everything she had on doctors. She had emptied her bank account.

She has no money left. She is at the end of her rope, and the doctors back then were not known for their gynecological acumen, okay? They were some strange guys. For example, do you know the word hysteria comes from the Greek word for uterus, which is hystera? Ladies, don't shoot the messenger.

I'm just telling you what I've found, okay? That doctors felt in those days if somebody was worked up or whatever, well, if something was wrong with their uterus, because, you know, men are pretty calm. It's only women who get worked up or whatever, and only women have a uterus, and so you get the word hysteria from the word uterus. That was the conventional medical thinking in those days.

Here are some of the things that doctors would prescribe for women who had continuous menstrual cycles that wouldn't stop the Talmud. It said women carry the ashes of an ostrich egg in a linen bag in the summer, but carry the ashes of an ostrich egg in a cotton bag in the winter, and you'll be healed. That was their prescription. She spent money for that. Great piece of advice. She spent money for this piece of advice. One doctor said, no, pick the seeds out of donkey dung and carry those seeds around with you, and you'll be healed of your menstrual cycle. She spent money for that.

Here's another one. Drink wine with crocus flowers and onions, and you'll be healed. She spent all of her money, and now she's bankrupt. So she's lonely, she feels dirty, she's lost all of her money, and now she is depressed. In Luke's account, it said that her condition was incurable.

She had lost all hope. I'm going to tell you, some of y'all, I praise God that some of y'all are going to be healed of cancer today, they're going to be healed of back issues today. I praise God for all that, but I got to tell you something, for people I've talked to that have had cancer and depression, they've said depression was worse than cancer. People I've talked to that have a broken leg and depression said depression hurt more than my broken leg. Y'all believe the same Jesus who healed bodies can heal depression today as well? And this poor lady, she's wrestling with depression. She had lost all hope. New research now shows that depression is the most common serious medical or mental health disorder in the United States today. Depression is number one.

In April of this year, the New York Times had an article talking about how depression, and therefore suicide, is now a crisis among our teens. So what did she do? What she did was something you're not supposed to do. In those days, women did not approach men. In those days, women certainly did not approach Jewish rabbis and Jesus was considered a rabbi. In those days, a woman who is menstruating and therefore she was considered dirty, doesn't touch a holy man and Jesus is considered a holy man. Look what this lady does in verse 28. She thought to herself, if I can just touch his robe, I will be healed. And Luke 8 44, talking about the same story. Luke gets more specific. Luke said, not only did she touch his robe, she touched the edge of his robe. Now what's the significance of that?

Well, I think we have a picture of this. In those days, Jews wore, Jewish men wore something called a tallit, T-A-L-L-I-T. It was a robe that Jewish men would wear.

Jesus would have worn something just like this. It was a prayer shawl. And the edge of that prayer shawl is called a kanaph.

K-A-N-A-P-H. You with me? So Jesus is wearing a robe. The edge of that robe is called a kanaph. And the Old Testament is very clear about how that kanaph, the edges, are supposed to be designed. The book of Numbers gives very, very specific details about how to design the edge of your prayer shawl. Remember this story when Saul went into the cave to use the bathroom and David snuck up and it said he cut the edge of his garment?

That actually was kind of humiliating because that prayer cloth is part of who you are and the edges are significant and David cuts off the edge of his prayer shawl. Psalm 57-1, it says, we find refuge under God's wings. Do you know that same word, wing, is that word edge or kanaph?

Edge, okay, edge, the kanaph, the edge, and wings like a bird's wings, it's the same word in the Hebrew language. Now here's the significant part of this because in Malachi chapter 4 verse 2, this is a messianic prophecy. This is written 500 years before Jesus came on the scene. Malachi says 500 years before Jesus, but unto you that fear my name shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. What did I tell you? Wings also means edge.

It's the same word. The Messiah will come with healing in his wings or healing in his edges. And here's what I think happened to that lady. That lady said, I believe that Jesus is that Messiah, and I know my Bible. My Bible says 500 years ago, when the Messiah comes, there will be healing in his edges. If I could just touch the edge of his garment, I will be healed, and she touched the edge of that garment, and the Messiah, the son of righteousness, did have healing in his wings because she was healed.

That's what happened. And Jesus healed her of several things. Number one, Jesus healed her of that sense of shame, that sense of dirtiness.

In verse 34, he says to her, he turns around, and he doesn't chew her out. Who are you to touch me? I'm the clean Messiah. I'm the rabbi. Who are you to touch me?

Now I'm dirty. You know what he says? He says, daughter, your faith has made you well.

The Greek word is sozo, which means to save. Here's what he said, daughter, your faith has saved you. I'm talking to somebody here today.

I need you to listen to me. Somebody here today, your biggest sickness is not body sickness, it's not even mental sickness. It's spiritual sickness. We can play this game all we want that are all good people. You know you're not a good person.

You know you're like the rest of us. You're a sinner. You've done things worthy of going to a devil's hell for all eternity. You are a sinner, and I'm saying to you, that same Jesus is willing to take your shame and your hell and your filth.

He is willing to forgive you and heal you today spiritually. The good news is 2,000 years ago, all my sin, all my filth, all my wickedness, all of your sin and filth and wickedness was placed on Jesus Christ on that cross. And when he died on that cross, he was taking your weapon in your place.

He was taking your hell in your place. He has now paid the price, and he was buried, and he came back to life. And now if you'll turn from your sins and turn to the Lord Jesus Christ, he will heal you spiritually.

He will forgive you of your sins, and the Bible says he will make you pure and righteous today. Jesus can do that. She was healed spiritually. She was healed of her shame. Secondly, Jesus healed her of her loneliness and depression. Verse 34, here's what he calls her.

Do you see this in verse 34? He calls her daughter. That is the only time in the Bible Jesus personally and directly calls somebody daughter.

Would you think about this, lady? For 12 years, for 12 years, she has been called filthy. She has been called dirty. She has been called nasty. And now for the first time in 12 years, Jesus says, you're none of that.

You're my daughter. And in fact, he says something very interesting. If you look at Matthew's account of this, remember I told you there are four biographies of Jesus? Matthew's account of this in Matthew 9 and 22, it says he turned and said, take heart.

That Greek word is tharzai. It literally means to cheer up. It's one of Jesus' special words. It's used eight times in the Bible.

Jesus uses it seven out of the eight times. It basically says, listen, cheer up or may your depression be broken. May this dark spirit be broken. Cheer up. Jesus heals her depression. He didn't just take her shame away.

He calls her daughter and he says, cheer up. In other words, I now take authority over this depression right now. I'm going to ask you the same thing I just asked you a few minutes ago. You believe that same Jesus can heal depression today? Look, you believe he heals your body, you've got to also believe he can heal your mind.

There was a letter I heard recently from a man named Norman. Listen to what he said. Depression was a major part of my life for as long as I could remember. I felt like I could never get out of the dark cloud that surrounded my heart and my mind all the time. Needless to say, I couldn't live my life like this. So I went to numerous psychiatrists and counselors.

There were countless days when I would welcome the release of death. One day I was watching, of all things, Christian television and heard the preacher say, if you want to know what God is like, look at Jesus. I had never heard anyone say that before.

Listen to this. When my eyes were open to Jesus, he changed my life. Now God is so big in my life and I'm now in love with Jesus.

Now I want you to listen to what he says. Now relative happiness has become unspeakable joy. The Lord has delivered me from my depression.

Isn't that amazing? Just one look at Jesus, one touch of Jesus. In fact, I included this painting this past week.

If we can get ready for this painting. When we were in Israel, one of the things we loved to do when we were in Israel is we'd go to Magdala. Where Mary Magdalene was from.

And there's an emphasis on women who follow Jesus in that place. It's really beautiful. And in the chapel of that church, right there, built on the spot where Mary Magdalene was from, there's a beautiful painting from this man.

I love this. I don't know why this painting. Some of you all actually bought this painting.

It's a beautiful painting. You see that lady's hand just touching the edge of his garment? You see that light.

Do you see that? I don't know why that painting strikes me. Maybe it's because there's no faces and there's no, it's just the finger of a woman touching the edge of his garment and she's healed.

And this is not politically correct and I'm not saying go home and flush your medications and whatever. I'm just stupid enough to believe that one touch, one reaching out in faith and touching Jesus Christ can break your depression in the name of Jesus. I believe he can break your anxiety in the name of Jesus. Just one touch of faith. Jesus can touch you. Do you believe that? See, if I didn't believe that, if I didn't believe that Jesus could touch and heal, I think I would just give up this job.

I told you I wanted to be a truck driver, I want to get a chimpanzee like BJ and the Bear and just drive across the country and I want to be. If I didn't believe Jesus still touched people, I think I'd just call it quits. But I've seen too many people touched by Jesus Christ. She was healed of her shame. She was healed of her depression. But obviously, she's healed of her sickness. Verse 29, immediately the bleeding stopped and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition. I'm sorry, I can't be a cessationist and say Jesus doesn't do that today. He did it then, but not today because I don't know what your Bible says, but my Bible says, behold, I am God.

I changeth not. I am the same yesterday, today, and forever that Jesus that healed then can still heal today. And we've seen examples of that even in our own church. We've had a bishop. He's actually preached here twice, Joel June.

Here's a picture of Joel June and his wife. Joel June, they call him the Billy Graham of Haiti. He's one of the most humble men I think I've ever met. He could be living it up in luxury, but he's ministered in Haiti for all of his life.

How many of y'all have been here when he's preached here before? Just a great man of God. And his story's an incredible story. He was born in Haiti back when there was no infrastructure, there was no nothing. And his father was a preacher. And so his father would walk all over the island of Haiti preaching.

When Bishop June was two years old, he contracted a fever and he died. And they couldn't get the word to his father that was preaching over the mountains. They waited, tried to get to the father, couldn't get up to the father. And so they finally said, look, we're in Haiti.

It's a tropical area. The baby's starting to decompose. He said, physically, I'm starting to decompose. So they put Joel June in a coffin.

They have the funeral procession. And they're walking to the cemetery when his father comes walking over the mountains. And he said, what happened to my boy?

They said, sir, we're sorry. He contracted a fever and he died. We were waiting on you, but he was decomposing, so we're bringing him to the cemetery. And his father stopped the procession and he prayed for his son.

He prayed for an hour and a half in that intense tropical heat. Nothing happened. He prays and he prays and he prays and he prayed for another hour. And suddenly they heard somebody sneeze. And they said, who was that?

We didn't sneeze. It sounds like it's coming from the coffin. And they opened the coffin and Joel June is there alive. God did something incredible and now he testifies all over the world of the healing power of God. God still heals today. I remember a few years ago we had a family in our church that had their grandchild.

They said, we need some serious prayer. We've been praying for this baby's birth and it's been a very hard pregnancy. The baby's born, but the baby doesn't have a spleen. I'm not a doctor. I think that helps with infection.

I don't know what it does, but it was a serious condition. The baby does not have a spleen. And we on a Wednesday night had the audacity just to pray for God to heal that baby. They took the baby to the doctor next week and the doctor said, oops, we missed something. The spleen is there. We must have just missed it.

You didn't miss it. God just healed that baby. That's what happened. When I was walking out this morning, we had a sister just stop me over here and she said, look, in March I had stage four cancer. She said, they did the scans. My lungs are black.

They're filled with uck. Stage four cancer. She said, I asked them, I said, am I going to die? And they said, yes.

They were very open. You are going to die. And she said, God touched me in a powerful way and I went back to the doctor last month and they said, there's no cancer in your body.

We can't find cancer. In fact, somebody told me they have doctors from all over the place coming to try to figure out what happened to this lady. What went on, she said, I'll tell you what happened. Jesus. Jesus is what happened. So forgive me if I don't kind of buy into this thing that Jesus doesn't heal anymore. I've seen too many examples of the healing power of Jesus. That same Jesus that touched that woman 2,000 years ago when she touched him can still touch you today and heal you. Now in the church, how do we kind of tap into that healing power of Jesus in a situation like this this morning? The Bible already answered that. James chapter 5 verse 14 says, look, is anyone of you sick that you must call for the elders of the church and they're to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick.

I mean, that's about as clear as you can get. In a situation like this, James says, look at several things. Number one, it's the Lord who heals people. Do you see verse 15? The Lord will raise him up. We're going to have some men and women pray for you today, some church leaders just like James tells us to do. We're going to have some church leaders down here praying for you. But keep in mind, it's not them that heal you and it's not me that heals you.

It's Jesus that heals you. I remember years ago talking or listening to a pastor who said, I went to this pastor's conference. It's kind of a civil pastor's conference. We had breakout groups and in my breakout group, they gave us styrofoam cups and said, let's let this styrofoam cup represent you as a pastor and do all kinds of things, make something with this styrofoam cup here on the spot and let it represent who you are.

He said, listen to all these pastors. Well, this cup, I did this to the cup. It represents the inner child in me that wants my father to love and accept him. Listen, this cup represents me.

I'm struggling with my identity in this area, in that area. He said, when it got to me? He said, I took that styrofoam cup. I popped the bottom out of it and I said, I'm just a funnel through which the power of God flows. And when we called the elders up this morning, they're just funnels through which the power of God flows. So that's what the Lord heals people. Number two, he says, anoint them with oil.

Do you see that? There's nothing magical in the oil that we're going to use this morning. We're going to take a little bit of oil and put it on your forehead because oil represents the presence of the Holy Spirit.

But you understand, don't try to buy it. I prayed for a guy in anointing with the Lord and the Lord healed him and he said, I want to buy that oil. I said, go to Walmart and go to the Sam's Choice Oil because it's just plain old oil.

There's nothing powerful about the oil. The oil just represents the person of the Holy Spirit. But it says there has to be faith. Verse 15, the prayer offered in faith. And that's why we've seen so many dramatic healings. We're going to go corporately here because watch this, when there is an incredible attitude and atmosphere of faith, the Holy Spirit has room to move. Look, Jesus goes back to his hometown.

They say, we want to see a magician. You hear about all your healings everywhere. Heal here. And the Bible says he could not heal there.

Why? Because there was no faith. God just operates in an, I don't know why, he just operates in an atmosphere of faith.

We're going to create that atmosphere in just a moment. And we're going to trust Jesus to do some healing. February a couple years ago, there was a story that was started in the Christian news services and then it was picked up by the secular news. Fox News actually did a story on this, reported that a two-year-old named Jackson Taylor had contracted a life-threatening disease. This disease shut down this two-year-old boy's system. He was airlifted to a hospital and in intensive care for several weeks and was totally unresponsive. Again, this is on secular media. His condition deteriorated to the point that the doctors came in and told the family, we don't think he's going to make it through the night.

It's gotten worse and worse. Little Jackson won't make it through the night. His father, Joel Taylor, an associate pastor at a church out west, called his friends, John David and Melissa Helser.

They're Christian ministers and songwriters. And he shared, the doctors have said, my little boy's not going to make it through the night. After the Christian songwriter hung up the phone with his friend, he said, I felt like this giant of unbelief stood in front of me and I just thought, that little boy, my friend's son, he's not going to make it through the night.

We're not going to see the miracle we've been praying for. And as this giant stood in front of me, all of a sudden, out of my gut, the song started coming out. He wrote this song on the spot, recorded it, and sent it to the father that evening. The song goes like this, I raise a hallelujah in the presence of my enemies. I raise a hallelujah louder than the unbelief. I raise a hallelujah, my weapon is a melody. I raise a hallelujah, heaven comes to fight for me. I raise a hallelujah with everything inside of me. I raise a hallelujah, I will watch the darkness flee. I raise a hallelujah in the middle of the mystery. I raise a hallelujah, fear you've lost your hold on me. I'm going to sing in the middle of the storm, louder and louder. You're going to hear my praises roar, up from the ashes, hope will arise.

Death is defeated and the king is alive. And that father, that father received that song and played it that night over and over and over again in that room with that dying little boy. Soon the little boy opened his eyes. A few days later he was walking around. A few days after that the doctors who said he would not make it through the night went home and today he is a happy, healthy five-year-old boy.

Why? Because Jesus still touches and Jesus still heals. Would you stand with me right now? I want us, I want us to create an atmosphere of faith. We're going to spend a few moments just praising the Lord Jesus Christ. We're going to create an atmosphere of faith and then we're going to do... Look, I'm not a creative person, okay? The Bible doesn't say moreover it is required that a servant be creative.

It says a servant must be what? Faithful. I'm going to be faithful to what James 5 tells us to do. After a few moments of singing I'm going to call the leaders of the church like James 5 tells us to do. We're going to anoint you with oil like the Bible tells us to do and we're going to pray in faith. That same Jesus is going to touch you and heal you.

Mind, body, soul, spirit. Would you lift up holy hands to the Lord right now and let's praise the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Can you lead us in this? I raise a hallelujah. My weapon is a melody. I raise a hallelujah. Heaven comes to fight for me.

Let's sing it. Louder and louder you're going to hear my praises roar. Up from the ashes hope will arise. Death is defeated.

The King is alive. I'm going to ask you right now if you need Jesus to touch you physically and heal you. If you need that same Jesus I just want to preach about for 30 minutes to touch your mind and break that depression and anxiety. If you need a supernatural touch of Jesus Christ I want you to come right now. I'm going to ask our leadership to come as well because we're going to pray for you as well.

Right now if you need a touch from Jesus just come right now. We're not going to get weird. We're not going to get crazy. We're just going to do what James 5 tells us to do. We're going to anoint you with oil and we're going to pray for you right now in the name of Jesus.

I'll say this. I think I asked all of our leaders to have the orange lanyards on. So if you're not wearing an orange lanyard just get received.

Some of you will have black lanyards on. Let's just right now, leaders let's go first of my persons and start praying right now in the name of Jesus. Can we do that? Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. I'm going to sing in the middle of the storm. Louder and louder you're going to hear my praises roar. Up from the ashes hope will arise.

Death is a fear. The King is alive. Sing a little louder. Sing a little louder. Sing a little louder. Sing a little louder. Sing a little louder. Sing a little louder. Sing a little louder.

Sing a little louder. I'm going to sing in the middle of the storm. Louder and louder you're going to hear my praises roar. Up from the ashes hope will arise. Death is defeated.

The King is alive. I'm going to sing in the middle of the storm. Louder and louder you're going to hear my praises roar. Wow.

Wow. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. I'm going to ask if you've not been prayed for, if you're down front and you've not been prayed for, raise your hand.

Keep your hands up. If you've not been prayed for, we're some of my leaders right now. If you'll come and pray for some of these folks, keep your hands up. Just for the next few moments would you all be praying for God to move in a mighty way?

This stage for cancer healing I just told you about won't be the only cancer healing in this place. That depression will be broken right now in the name of Jesus. Would you all just pray right now while these leaders continue to pray? You just pray over this place. Oh, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, Jesus. Hey, right now, some of you all, listen, we're going to close out. Some of you are going through a storm right now. Your finances don't look good. That marriage is on the rocks. That kid has walked away.

The doctors have said there is no hope. And you're throwing up your hands and you're saying, what do I do? Here's what you do. You praise Jesus in the middle of the storm. You throw up your hands and worship the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. You sing to Jesus in the middle of the storm.

Let's do that right now. Praise the King Jesus. I'm going to sing in the middle of the storm. Louder and louder, you're going to hear my praises roar. Up from the ashes, hope will arise. Death is defeated, the King is alive. I'm going to sing in the middle of the storm. Louder and louder, you're going to hear my praises roar. Up from the ashes, hope will arise.

Death is defeated, the King is alive. It's a messed up, scary world, but your God goes with you. No matter what you face this week, He is with you. He'll never leave you.

He'll never forsake you. And I say to you right now what Yahweh said to Joshua millennia ago when Joshua went out to fight his battles. God said, Chazak ve'ematz ata erotz v'arachit. He imcha adonai ela hecha behold shatilach. Which means, church, be bold. Be strong. Y'all don't be afraid and you don't be terrified of anything because the Lord your God is going to be with you everywhere you go this week in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit we pray, Amen and Amen. God bless you, beloved. God bless the world for Jesus Christ.