Your Life, Your Hands! - Bishop T.D. Jakes

[Music] Thank you. Tonight, the assignment of the Holy Spirit comes to take us, not to that which is foreign to us, not to that which has not been explored, but to that which is familiar. And many times has been shared from many rostrums. And yet, God says, there is treasure in the text for us tonight. We will be in the gospel of Saint Luke, chapter number eight, verse number 41 through 50. Again, my appreciation to all of our visiting pastors, to our associate pastors, to our staff, to our First Lady in her absence. Hi, honey. Amen. Give God praise for her. To all of our volunteers and all of our staff who work so hard to make things happen, even on short notice. I called her a Revival and gave him about a week to get ready for it. You know, my administrator said, when I heard you say it, I started calling and texting right then. Yeah, because we want to be in the flow. We want to be in divine alignment, anointed alignment, so that when the oil hits the head of Aaron, we want to be right lined up as a beard or as a skirt to catch the flowing of the spirit, because God is up to something. I can tell he's up to something because Satan is trying all kinds of stuff. Is it just me, or is it you too? Looks like hell got scared when we started talking about Revival. Demons got to trembling and working and having board meetings, but they didn't know the greater is He [Applause] that is in us than He that is in the world.

And behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. Fell down at the at Jesus' feet and besought Him that He would come into his house, for he had only one daughter about 12 years of age, and she lay dying. But as he went, the people thronged Him. And a woman having an issue of blood 12 years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, came behind Him the border of His garment. Uh-huh. And immediately her issue of blood stanched. Jesus said, "Who touched me?" [Music] When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, "Master, come on, Master. Don't you talk about, Master, the multitude thronged Thee and pressed Thee, and sayest Thou, 'Who touched me?'" And Jesus says, "Somebody [Applause] foreign. Somebody has tapped into something. Somebody has touched me, for I perceive that pressure is gone out of me." "I didn't send it, but it went out of me." And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling and falling down before Him. She declared unto Him before all the people for what cause she had touched Him, and how she was healed immediately. [Applause] She was healed [Music] immediately. And He said unto her, "Daughter, be of good comfort. Thy faith hath made thee whole. Go in peace." Look at Jennifer's head. You got any faith? While He had spoken, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying to him, "Ain't no need in you coming now. Jesus, thy daughter is dead. Trouble not the Master." But when Jesus heard it, He answered, saying, "Fear not. Believe only, and she shall be made whole." Can you say amen? Jesus said, "Who touched me?" When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, "Master, the multitude thronged Thee and pressed Thee, and sayest Thou, 'Who touched me?'" I want to talk a little bit tonight about your life and your hands. I want you to look at your hands. Your life, your hands. The next miracle you get is going to come through [Applause] your hands. The very next miracle that God has for your life is going to come through [Applause] your [Applause] your hands.

[Applause] Sweet Holy Spirit, fill this place with Your glory. Come in like a flood and manifest Yourself. Establish Yourself in such a supernatural way that our lives are altered and irrevocably changed by the presence of God. I thank You in advance for what You're going to do. Great God that You are. Move in the midst of Your people. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Give Him a praise. [Applause] It's very interesting to me. It is hooking between a grown woman and a little girl. The grown woman has been sick for 12 years. That means that for the last 12 years, she has had an issue. Her issue started when Jairus' daughter was born, because Jairus' daughter is 12 years old. There is some synergism between the birth of Jairus' daughter and the bleeding that would not stop in the life of this grown woman. I'm not saying that they knew each other, but I am saying that Jesus finds Himself juxtaposed between the problems of an adult woman and the ailing of a young girl. Into this atmosphere, not only is the dichotomous reality that He has been invited by Jairus, who is a rich young ruler of the synagogue, to come to his house, only to be interrupted by a woman who has no name and is broke. It seems that her poverty does not stop her from getting the promise of God in her life. It seems to me [Applause] it is important. It stands out. It has been the theme of so many songs and sermons and messages and ministries, not only because of the opulence of the text, but it also stands out amongst many other texts because this is a miracle that slipped in on Jesus. Imagine that. That the omniscient God, the ruler of the universe, the I AM of Israel, the Mighty God, the Prince of Peace, the Everlasting Father, the one who knows the end from the beginning, the one with whom all things are naked before Him, with whom we have to do. Imagine that this, this broke woman, this broke, bleeding woman would slip up behind Him and receive something from Him without asking Him and leave Him asking them. [Applause] "Who touched You?" You have to be careful when God asks a question. He is, after all, the Rabbi, the Master Teacher. And it boggles the mind that the Teacher would ask the students a question, and it boggles their mind as well, because they immediately responded, "What do You mean, 'Who touched You?' Everybody pressed around You. You've been thronged about with a crowd of people." But Jesus here lets us know that it is possible to be around Him and not touch Him. There must be some significant difference, rushing past Jesus and tapping into Jesus. You would think in your mind that if you got in the presence of Jesus, everything would be all right. Well, let's be fair, because He is omnipresent. All of us are in the presence of God. But the unique thing about Jesus is, He is beyond the omnipresence of God. He is, in fact, the Manifest Presence of God. That is, we are around the omnite presence of God without awareness. Jacob said, "God was here, and I knew it not." But whenever God manifests Himself, the presence of God becomes obvious. Jesus is the Manifest Presence of the Father. He says to Philip, "Philip said, 'Show us the Father, and it suffices us.' And Jesus said, 'Have I been so long time with you, and you still don't know that I and My Father are one? If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father.'" In other words, when God gets ready to make a selfie, He gave us Jesus. Uh, Jesus is so much the embodiment of God that when He was born, He was nicknamed Emmanuel, meaning "God tabernacle with us." And in this case, in our text, He is with them. But being with them does not seem to be, uh, the, the, the criteria through which miracles occur. Just being with Jesus, just being around Jesus, just saying Jesus' stuff, just knowing Jesus' slogans, just knowing Jesus' routines does not necessarily invoke the presence of God that brings healing. Just to go to Jesus' places, just to wear Jesus' jewelry, just to wear bands that say "What would Jesus do?" does not necessarily invoke the presence of God. Thronging around Him must be quite different from touching Him, or everybody around Him would have been healed. The question then comes in our own mind, what is the criteria that some folk get more than other people do, even though they are in the same geographical location? Let's bring it in closer. All of us can come to the same service, but we don't experience the same level of deliverance. We can hear the same sermon, but there are people that can be here and hear the word of the Lord and not be changed by it, while other people leave in tears and sit in their car and have to wipe their face because they've been so touched by the power of God. Both people were there, but one had a God encounter, and the other was just around Him. That takes also demonstrates to us our human responsibility [Music] to divine occurrences. And I don't think enough has been taught to us about our human responsibility to divine occurrences, that we must become complicit in our own miraculous experience with God, that just being around God without responding to Him appropriately does not elicit a miracle. For example, "He that hungers and thirsts after righteousness shall be filled." That means that God has a filling that is discriminatory. He will not just fill everybody. He will only fill those who are hungry and thirsty for Him. I hate to tell you this tonight, but you will get no more of God tonight than you are hungry for Him. If you're watching over the internet, type on the line, "I'm hungry." If you're in the building, shout out, "I'm hungry!" Now, ask yourself, is that true? Because if you are not hungry for a touch from God, God will not force-feed any believer to receive anything that they're not hungry of. You can be passive, you can remain detached, you can be indifferent, that all you please, and not receive anything from God. But don't be a hater on me if He opens up the floodgates and starts pulling out blessings in my behalf because I'm hungry. Look at somebody, say, "I'm hungry." Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the onus is on me. He comes crystal clear that if I am indifferent, I cannot receive what God has for me. I have to become involved. I have to be complicit in the process of the miracle, not that I can perform the miracle apart from God, but it has to be a collaborative effort in order for God to be made manifest in my life. If we don't do that, we will never ascertain God's power in our behalf, and then we will blame God. "I paid my tithes, it didn't work. I came to church, it didn't work. I went up for prayer, it didn't work." It didn't work because you didn't work. You see, much of what God does in this text is based on the aggression of the person who seeks it. You have to be aggressive. You have to be bodacious. You have to be a little radical. If you're not radical, you're not going to receive anything from God. If you're timid, and you're too worried about what people think, and what the rules say, and what the people said, who are looking at you funny, you can't receive anything from God. Glory to God. I remember as a young man, I was traveling, getting ready to go someplace to speak, and I was, oh, maybe in my 20s or so, and I told the Lord, I said, "Oh God, I said, I don't know why, but I'm so nervous." He said, "I know why. He said, 'If you stop worrying about your name and start worrying about Mine, the nervousness will go away immediately.'" Most people are so focused on what they look like that they can't receive from God. "Oh, no, I can't cry. I'm a deacon. Oh, no, I can't lay out in the presence of God. I'm an elder. I'm a pastor. What will people think of me if I lay out before God?" But I ask the Lord to send some folk to church tonight who do not care what anybody thinks about them, who doesn't regard their title, their position, their income, their intellectualism. I ask God to give us some hungry people. Are there any hungry people out there? Make some noise! I want to hear hungry people. I want to hear thirsty people. I want to hear radical people. I want to hear aggressive people. I want to hear people who are ready for a touch from God. The onus rests on you, then, for a radical encounter with God. At the end of the day, it will not be the general public nor the consensus of the congregants that determines whether you receive something from the Lord or not. It's not who you sit by. It's not how many people you have around here. It's not because of your prayer warriors and and and your intercessory circle. At the end of the day, you come to a point in your life that it comes down to you and God, and nobody else can do your work for you. You have to do your own work. Everybody else will fall asleep in the Garden of Gethsemane, but you've got to keep on praying until you get your breakthrough. Are you hearing what I'm saying to you tonight? It would not be our rich heritage of faith. God will not ask you how long your grandmother was saved and your mother was saved. No, this is an individual commitment where you have to have a personal relationship with God that releases the impossible and makes it possible. You have to do that. You have to decide, "I believe God for something that makes no sense. I believe God to do something that I've never seen Him do before. I believe God to fix a 12-year-old problem in my life." The seniority of my problem does not negate the power of my faith. I don't care how long I've been like this. I believe that God will respond to 12 years of pain with immediate results of power. 12, immediately. 12, immediately. 12, immediately. 12, immediately. The internet worked for 12 years, but God said, "Immediately." This woman is surrounded by masses of people. April, she's surrounded by a crowd of people. We like, we like to be in these atmospheres where we are engulfed with people. This woman is surrounded by masses of people. None healed her. The disciples were present. The foundation of the early church, all of them were around. They would be the ones that became the foundation for New Testament Church and theology, but none of them healed her. In fact, they totally disregarded her. She was not even in their purview. They were not even looking in her direction. They don't, they did not even notice the plight of this woman. The fact that you are around holy people doesn't guarantee you that you get divine results. The fact that you run with people with big names doesn't make you bigger. Walking with tall men doesn't make you taller. Walking with handsome people doesn't make you better looking. Come on, talk to me somebody. At the end of the day, it comes down to you. [Applause] The impetus of her miracle rests squarely on her. Who is this woman? Who is she, anyway? The Bible goes in every gospel, it writes a little something about her, and yet it's, that's not even bad to mention her name. A writer so specific that it tells us about Jairus. We know exactly who he is, but who is this woman? This no-name woman, this nameless woman, who is she in the first place? The very fact that we don't even know her name, and the only thing we know about her is her problem, speaks to the fact that by man's standards, she's a nobody. And perhaps even worse than a nobody, she has been noted by her problem, as if her problem, as if her problem defined who she was. And still, the impetus rests squarely on her. She was alone in a crowd. There's nothing worse than being alone in a crowd. Aloneness is its own disease. Can I take my time with this? I'm not talking about being single. You can be single and not be alone, and you can be married and still be alone. You can have masses of people over and still be alone. We were meant to be a social species. We were created like certain schools of fish to run in packs. We were, we were meant to be the kind of species that survives in part by our association with other people. Our inherent need requires socialization to feel and sense a sense of wholeness. We function better when we interact with each other. There's something that we get from other people's energy. But this woman was alone. Aloneness creates emotional homelessness. The fact that you have emotions and you're around people doesn't mean that your heart is homeless if you can't trust them. I know you want to shout right there, but you can't, because you might be sitting around somebody you can't trust. [Applause] It creates a sense of homelessness to not be able to anchor my emotions to those that I am around. So having more people does not give me the feeling of sanity that I desire, because I have to be careful. I'm getting to the age now, I don't even like to be around people where I have to be careful. Yeah, yeah. I did that when I was 30. I played around a little bit when I was 40, but when I got about 50 or so, I got bold enough to say that I'd rather be by myself and be myself than be surrounded by people where I have to watch what I say. Because aloneness has nothing to do with who is in close proximity to me. Aloneness is its own disease. Sociology, psychology shares with us that people who live alone and stay off to themselves do not live as long as people who have somebody to live with, even if they don't like them. Somebody to argue with, somebody to bounce ideas off of. It is so powerful that it has been proven that people who simply have nobody but a dog can cause you to live up to two years longer than people who shut the door on the house and there's no noise and there's no sound and there's nobody to laugh with and there's nothing to do. With a cat could extend your life. Aloneness is its own disease. And there's not a person in this room that hasn't gone through an issue alone. I'm missing many sociological constructs, religious, political, and personal. She has been excommunicated from them all, almost as if she had a Scarlet Letter on her. She is alone, not because people are not there, but even her faith has left her in a state of aloneness. Her faith itself declares that any woman who has an issue of blood that does not stop is declared unclean, and nobody was to touch her. And if they did touch her, they had to declare themselves unclean. She is a woman without a touch. But I am not sure which is worse, the issue of her disease or the issue of her aloneness, because even a disease is better to deal with if you don't have to deal with it alone. If there's somebody sitting by the bed, if there's somebody who comes over, if there's somebody who brings some soup, if there's somebody who interacts with you, it's better than having to go through it alone. Old age is better if you don't have to go through it alone. If somebody calls you every now and then or comes by, or brings you some cookies and acts like you matter. [Applause] She could not enjoy that because she was alone. There are all kinds of studies that are out right now about what being quarantined does to the human mind over time. And I, like many people, I'm a novice, not an expert, but like many people, have been researching what isolation does to the human brain. Science says that it actually shrinks the human brain. To be left alone too long, we learn from the prison system that hardened criminals, tough guys, big, burly, tough guys who would shoot you dead in the head and think nothing about it. When they get ready to punish them, they don't beat them, they don't whip them, they put them in isolation. And left in isolation long enough, the tough guys ball up in the corner crying like a baby, and he doesn't even understand why, because aloneness is a punishment and a pain all by itself. [Applause] And there's only so much she can draw from her faith, because her faith, according to the Pentateuch, demanded that she be alone because of her issue. So I'm trying to get you to understand that her issue has issues, to have issues, that have issues. It is not simple. It's not just one thing, but because of this thing, it creates that thing, it creates the other thing, it creates the other thing. And you can't fix this over here because this came from that over there, and this is tied to that over there, and your issues have issues. A quick look at Luke 15:19-22, you will find the word of God validating her aloneness. And He says, "And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days. And whoever touches her should be unclean until the evening. And everything that she lieth upon in her separation should be unclean. And everything that she sitteth upon shall be unclean. And whoever touches her bed, she shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. And whoever touches anything that she sat upon shall be washed, shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean unto the evening. And if a woman had an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it doesn't stop, or if it runs beyond the time of her separation, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation; she shall be unclean." Are you hearing what I'm saying to you? You see, it's not wrong. It's normal. It's necessary. It's healthy for her to have an issue. It's how the body recycles itself. It's how the woman was designed. It's a part of her ability to be able to be childbearers and to bring birth. There's nothing wrong for her to have an issue. The problem is, the issue is not supposed to continue. It's supposed to be a cycle, coming and going, and coming and going, and coming and going. But what do you do when something that ought to be gone is still there? [Applause] It's natural to have grief when you lose somebody, but what do you do when the grief lasts too long? Certain things that can happen in your life at a particular season is supposed to happen in your life, but you don't want the season to last too long. Not even a good season. You don't even want to bear fruit all the time. It's not good to bear fruit all the time. The reason we have seasons in the earth is so that the ground can rest and so that the tree can rest. If you're bearing fruit all the time, you burn out and you wear out. With a word to the preachers, don't let people preach you to death, because if you're giving out all the time and more is going out than what's coming in, after a while, it's going to show up in your life. A word to the women in this room, if you're giving out to other people all the time and you don't have any me-time, after a while, Mama gets depleted. A word to the men in the room, if you're protecting everybody and you don't protect yourself, after a while, you wear out. You're supposed to do it for a season, but what happened? What happens [Applause] when the season runs off the clock? I'm wondering if there's anybody here online or around the world, or in Nigeria, or in Australia, or in Europe, that's watching me right now, and you have been giving and giving and giving, and what was an issue has turned into a hemorrhage. What was a cycle has come into a point where people define you, and they think it's just natural for you. And I've heard people say, "Oh, that's just how he is. That's just how she is. That's just how they are." And people start taking you for granted. And the more you give, the more they want. And the more you give, the more they want. And the more you give, the more they want. And the more you give, the more they want. I wish there was somebody in here who understood what I'm talking about. I wish it was somebody in here that got tired of giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and giving and giving, and you said, "Lord, hello, hello [Applause] hello. Before it becomes my turn, hello. But so if somebody gives back to me, hello. Somebody ministers to me like I minister to them. How before I receive all that I've been giving out? I've been sowing and sowing and sowing and sowing and sowing and sowing and sowing, and I'm not reaping anything back. I don't know about you, but I want to confess, I'm tired of sowing and getting nothing back. I don't want to sow into people. I don't want to sow into places. I don't want to sow anything and never get anything back. Sooner or later, my day ought to come. And the Lord said, "Today's your day."

If you've been needing a little reciprocity, take 30 seconds and praise Him for return coming back your way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm tired of everything going out and nothing coming in. I'm tired of everything going out and nothing coming in. I'm tired of giving everything and getting nothing. But don't be ashamed of it. Make some noise if you're in the house. [Applause] [Music] As dangerous as it is to shelter in place as a community, it's quite different to shelter in place as an individual. Because when you shelter in place as an individual, you are tormented by the movement of others. You have to watch everybody else build a house. You have to watch everybody else start a business. You have to watch everybody else get married. You have to watch everybody else go forward. You have to watch everybody else do business, and you're stuck in the same place. And it seems like their progress becomes your torment. It would be better if you didn't have to see them, but there you are, stuck in the same place. You're like blind Bartimaeus sitting on the side of the highway. If I was blind, I wouldn't want to sit on the highway because I'd get tired of people passing me by. Is there anybody in here that's tired of people passing you by? The people you grew up with, the people you went to school with, the people you go to church with, and you try to be nice, and you tried to celebrate everybody, but when you get all by yourself where nobody can hear you, you say, "Lord, when is my day coming? When is my time going to come? When are You gonna bless me? When are You gonna move me? When are You gonna deliver me?" [Applause] She was on a vicious downward cycle. This woman was on a vicious downward cycle. I was looking at some property the other day, and it was empty property that had been empty for about 30 years. And without any vandalism at all, its emptiness caused it to go down. I want to arrest some downward cycles tonight. [Applause] First one being, "Another my mother." You say, "If it's not one thing, it's another." As soon as you get over this, here comes that. And as soon as you withstand that, you withstand the other. And people talk about how strong you are because they weigh your strength by how much you can lose and still keep going. But I say, enough is enough. Enough is enough. Enough is enough. Is enough is enough. Enough is enough. If you read the text carefully, you will find that her issue took her relationships. Nobody could sit where she sat. Nobody could lay with her. Nobody could hold her. No children could run in the room and show her paintings they'd grown of her. Her issue had stole her relationships. Her issue had exhausted her finances. Her issue had drained her bank account. It had affected her economically. We're talking about a physical infirmity, but it has had economic repercussions. If you have one issue long enough, and you don't fix it, it will roll over into the next issue and start affecting that. And if you don't fix that, it'll roll into the next issue and start taking that. She has suffered at the hands of worthless physicians. Footnote to all my worthless physicians: If you can't fix me, leave me alone. Brother Oscar, I'm tired for practicing on me. I'm tired of focusing on practicing on me. I don't need no preachers practicing on me. I don't need my friends practicing on me. I don't need no phone calling me up saying, "If I was you, I would do..." You know me. Shut up. I don't need another worthless physician. I'm already suffering with the issue, and now I gotta suffer with all the people that are telling me how to handle an issue that you don't know anything about. Leave me alone. Leave me alone. [Applause] Leave me alone. Leave me alone. Don't call me. Don't text me. Don't ring my doorbell. Don't come over my house. If you can't make me better, for God's sake, don't make me worse. Leave me alone. I already got an issue, and now my issue has created another issue. I gotta survive the issue, and I gotta survive how you treat the issue. [Applause] It has created the agony of poverty. And poverty is not just economic. Poverty is being robbed of my dignity, robbed of my culture, robbed of my self-esteem, robbed of the sense of the power of who I am, rather being able to hold my head up high in the marketplace, robbed of being able to exchange jokes with friends and laugh with my sisters and brothers and broads, robbed of a sense of belonging, robbed of a sense of connection, robbed of a sense of knowing. All of this has come from the issue. The sad reality is, this woman was on her own. She was not even on Jesus' purview. Jesus is not walking toward this woman. Jesus is headed to Jairus' house. She is not in Jairus' house. She's just on the peripheral view of the Jesus whose gaze is pointed in another direction. And I know you wouldn't say it, but I am. There have been moments in my life that I struggled to get God's attention where the real people had made some noise. There have been moments in my life that I struggled to get God's attention, and I danced, and I shouted, and I threw twenty dollars on the altar, and I struggled to get God's attention. [Applause] And suddenly, she realized, "It's in my hands." All right. It's in my hands. It's not in the hands of the friends. It's not in the hands of the church mothers. It's not in the hands of the elders. It's not in the hands of my husband. It's not in the hands of my wife. It's not in the hands of my children. It's not in the hands of my preacher. It's not in the hands of my boss. It's in my hands. If I don't do anything, I'm gonna die on the sidelines of opportunity and never receive what God has for me. Type it on the line, "It's in my hands." It's in my hands. It's in my hands. It's in my hand. It's in my hand. I want you to just clap your hand for exercise. Clap until they get a little warm. Clapping pill, you feel some heat in it. That's where your next miracle is going to come from. It's in your hands. It's in your hands. And I want you to clap your hands because God's gonna teach your fingers to warm. He's gonna teach her how to fight the good fight of faith, because what you've been praying about is in your hands. It's in your hands. It's in your hand. Tell everybody you can reach, "It's in your hands." Your healing, your miracle, your deliverance, your restoration, your renewal, your breakthrough, your advancement, your courage, your strength is in your hands. Now open your mouth and praise God like you lost your mind. It's in your hand. It's in your hands. It's in your hands. You've been waiting on God, but God is waiting on you. You've been praying for God to move, and God's been waiting on you to move. And if you don't soon move, before the year is out, He's gonna pass you by. The Lord is passing you by while you make excuses, while you blame other people, while you fuss about your childhood, while you talk about this, that, or the other. The Lord is passing you by. And not only is the Lord passing you by, time is passing you by. But get right in the devil's face and clap your hands. It's in mine. It's in mine. It's in my hand. Is it mine? God's already given me permission. It's in my hands. It's in my hands. And I made up in my mind, I'm gonna work with what I got. I'm gonna work with what I got. Somebody open your mouth and holler like you lost your mind. Look at you. Notice how I didn't realize it was in my hands? You mean I don't have to wait on you? I don't have to wait on you? I don't have to wait on the committee? I don't have to wait on the board? I don't have to wait on a group to meet? You mean it's in my head? Yes, it's in my hands. One woman was about to die until the prophet came by her house and said, "What is in your house?" She said, "I don't have nothing but a pot of oil." He took what was in her hands, and a miracle broke loose in her life. Y'all to hear what I'm saying. Another woman was about to eat a cake and die, and the prophet said, "I'm gonna take what's in your hand. If you give me a handful of meal, I'll work a miracle in your house." Somebody hollers, "In my hands!" Samson was blind and lost his hair, but they put his hands on Dagon's temple, and the entire temple came down because the power wasn't just about his hair, it was about his hands. Somebody shout, "His head!" By our hands, Moses was standing in front of the Red Sea, a mountain on the right side and a mountain on the left side. He looked up at God, and God told him, "It's in your head." David came down to the valley and saw a giant standing in the middle of the field, and God said, "All you need is in your hands." You're not gonna help me preach this thing. One woman had lost a coin in her house, but she took a broom, huh, in her hands, and swept the house until she got back everything the devil stole. Act like you're sweeping, 'cause this is a restoration meeting. Everything the devil stole, I'm a sweep till I get it back. I'm a sweep till I get it out. I'm a sweep till I get it loose. Five thousand people were about to die. Faith without food until a little boy discovered what was in his hands, and with two fish and five loaves of bread, God fed five thousand people. Jesus was trying to redeem the world. He couldn't do it with his feet. He couldn't do it with his knees. He could do it with his arms, but when he grabbed the cross, foundation was in his. Look at somebody and say, "It's in my hands." Yes. Yes. And the word of the Lord came to you today to say, "You got to get your hands on it. You got to get your hands on it. You gotta get involved in it. You gotta reach out and touch it. You gotta go for it. You gotta grieve for it. You gotta stretch for it." Somebody take a minute and praise Him in this house. All right. Praise Him in this house. Praise Him in this house. Praise Him in this house. Praise Him in this house. Praise Him in this house. Praise Him in this house. Praise Him in this house. Praise Him. Praise Him. Praise Him. Praise Him. Praise Him in this house. Praise Him in this house. Praise Him in this house. Elbow somebody, say, "I gotta get my hands on it. I gotta get my hands on it. I got to get my hand on my future. I gotta get my hand on the prophecy. I gotta get my hands on the way. I gotta get my hands on my business. I gotta get my hands on my body. I gotta get my hands on it." She was laying there bleeding, but she said, "If I could get my hands on it." If the things the devil stole, everything the devil took, everything that never went after, everything that had me tied up, I gotta get my hands on it. I need somebody to give Him a crazy praise, a Holy Ghost praise, a supernatural praise, a shout of deliverance, a shout of breakthrough. Let the devil know what you've been trying to do for the last 12 years. I'm gonna break it tonight. I'm gonna break it tonight. I'm a [Applause] I'm gonna break it. I'm gonna break it. I'm gonna break it. I'm gonna break it with what's in my hands. I'm tired of crying about what I lost. I'm gonna use what's in my hands. Who am I preaching to tonight? [Applause]

I used to say that it was what she said to herself, and that was powerful, because she said to herself, "If I can but touch the hem of His garment, I know I'll be made whole." And she was talking right. And the first thing you got to do is adjust your language for a breakthrough. Look at somebody, say, "I'm gonna change the way I talk about it. I'm gonna change the way I talk about it." Huh? "I'm gonna change the way I think about it. I'm gonna change what I say about it. I'm gonna change the way I say it to myself." "If I can but touch the hem of His garment, I know I'll be made whole." But I didn't realize, even though she said it, it didn't get her healed. Her mouth got it started, but her hands settled it. The Bible said that the woman who started talking right, started reaching right, and she reached out. Somebody reached out. I'm reaching for something that I've been living without. I'm reaching for something that I've been doing without. I'm reaching for something I've been praying about. I'm reaching for something I've been asking God about. God, God told me to put my hands on it tonight. You ought to touch something. [Music] You ought to touch somebody. You ought to touch something. [Music] It'll change your life. Get your hands on it. Stop sending other people to get your blessing out and get your hands on it. If I'm preaching to you, give God a praise. [Applause] Give God. Every time I get decided, the democrats shut me down, but the devil is alive. I'm gonna stretch my hand out and get what God has for me. You need to get it before the year is out. You see that she touched, she touched, she touched, she touched, she touched, she touched, she touched, she touched, she touched. She didn't even touch Jesus. She touched what was touching Jesus. [Music] If you just touch whatever is touching Jesus, a breakthrough is coming your way. Somebody better grab my cocktail, 'cause I feel demons crippled. I feel hell getting nervous. I feel witches looking for doors, 'cause I got my hands loose. If I get my hands loose, I can get my money looser. If I get my hands loose, I can get my heart loose. If I get my hands loose, I could get my house loose. If I get that, if I think [Music]

[Music] [Music] Why the devil's been trying to keep me tied up? 'Cause he wanted my hands occupied. He wanted my hands on everybody else's problems, my hands on everybody else's situation, my hands on everybody else's emotions, 'cause he knew that the power was in my hands. But tonight is my night to lose my hands. I'mma shake off everything else that was in my hands, and I'm getting ready to see my vision from the past in my life. I'm gonna get my hands on it. If I don't answer the phone, if I don't call you back, if I don't come over for dinner, if I don't want to solve your problem, I got to get my hands loose. Somebody starts shaking your head, shake your hands, take your hands, shake your hands, take your hands, get your hands, get your hands loose. Get ready for what God is getting ready to deliver. The whole time God is getting rid of them, God, God is getting ready, God is getting rid of us. God is getting ready, God is getting rid of us. God is getting ready. Now God is getting ready to set your hands loose. Take your hands. Live. Shake your hands. Shake your hands. [Applause] Inside your hands. [Music] Who touched me? Yes. Yeah. What it was in her hands was so strong that she touched what was touching Jesus. They can't handle it. I'm just gonna tell you, immediately after 12 long years, immediately after over a decade, immediately after 12 years of animosity, immediately after 12 years of loneliness, immediately after 12 years of being broke, immediately after 12 years of pain, immediately after 12 years of isolation, the immediately. Somebody in this room, after a long time of agony, Holy Ghost said, "Immediately." Nudge everybody you could reach and say, "Immediately." Doing it now. He's doing it right now. He's doing it right now. Guys, he's doing it right now. Yes, yes, yes, yes. [Applause] [Applause] The staunch stops. And I like the way the King James version said it, it says, "She knew [Music] within herself." [Applause] She didn't need confirmation. She knew within herself that the issue was a lie. Is there anybody in here that knows within yourself that the issue is over? Throw yourself a five-second party and celebrate. It's over. It's over. It's over. It's over. [Music] [Music] You got three seconds left to throw your party and announce to the devil and so [Music] come out of hiding. If you touched them, come out of hiding. The Bible says she came out of hiding and set it forward. [Music]

[Music] [Music] It's over. Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust. The Holy Ghost said, "It's over." My depression is over. And my loneliness is over. My isolation is over. Being broke without. It's over. [Music] [Music] It's over. Yes. [Music] Come over in your hand. Your hands. In your hands. In your head. Gets in your head. [Music] No more watch this position. Depression. No more financial to providence. No more economic bound China. It's over. His homework. It's over. Y'all don't believe it. It's over. It's over. It's over. It's the unbelievable. Do you believe it? Do you believe it? Do you believe it? [Music] It's always home again. [Music] Give Him a prize. [Applause] [Music] Y'all read the text. She had to come out and explain to Jesus, not only "It was me that touched You," but "What I touched You for." That means that Jesus was totally oblivious. It was totally in her hands. Your life, your hands. Your life, your hands. Jesus looked at a nice. Already stopped. Okay. She knew within herself because a woman knows. [Applause] Come on, sisters. A woman knows. She knew within herself that her fountain was stanched. That was already done. And then Jesus looked at her and said, "Go thy way. Thy faith..." See, it's one thing to be made. It's one thing for the fountain to be stanched, but what about the money I lost? What about the years I lost? What about the relationships I lost? What about the nights I cried myself to sleep? Jesus said, "Go thy way. Thy faith..." "I ain't got to heal you. You already healed. Thy faith hath made thee whole." Look at the neighbor and say, "God's getting ready to make you whole." He's going to restore everything you lost. Everything you did without. Everything that went down. You're watching over the internet. Look me right in my face. God is getting ready to restore everything the issue took away from you. Everything you did without her. It's one thing for the issue to stop, but you're still at a loss. But Jesus said, "Go thy way. Thy faith has made thee whole." The Lord told me to tell you, He's gonna make you whole. [Applause] [Music] Don't worry about the house. I'm gonna make you whole. Another job. I'm gonna make you a whole. The world who left the church. God sent him to make you whole. I'm gonna make you whole. I'm gonna make you whole. It's gonna be as if you're never lost it. I can't be whole if I still miss it. You must understand the difference between being healed [Applause] and being whole. There are a lot of people in this room that are healed, but you're still trying to recover what you lost. Her hand got her healed. His word made her whole. Caught City little child. God said in His word, [Applause] "I kept a record of how much you spend." [Applause] "I kept a record of how many nights you cried." [Music] "I kept a record of how much love you missed." And God said, "Your faith has made you [Music] [Applause] [Music] How many people

Are ready to be made whole. Lift Your Hands Up. I want to talk to my internet audience. You have an opportunity tonight to be made whole in your faith and your belief, in your giving, in your sowing, in your planting, and you're stretching out on his way. God is specifically saying, not only will I stop the issue that you've been praying about, if you stop hiding, [Applause] come out right in front of me. [Applause] I'm gonna make you whole. Lift your hands up. This is a Revival of wholeness. It is Operation Restoration. [Applause] God is doing something inside of his people [Applause] that the epidemiologist cannot do, that Congress cannot do, that the president cannot do. God said, I'm gonna make you whole. [Applause] [Music]

Some of you, for the first time in years, you're going to do what God told her. You're going to go in peace. You've been going, but you have not been going in peace. There's a glory in this place. [Applause] Somebody get Pastor Tubman a mic and just come up on the stage for a minute. There's a glory in this place. I want you to enter into it. There's somebody that the Holy Spirit has spoken to on the internet. You need to be so unright at this moment because this is where the prophetic word for you and the situation that you're facing right now. God said he's going to make you whole. You lost some stuff. You had some setbacks. You're still trying to recover. You're healed, but you're still trying to recover. God said he's gonna make you whole. You need to sow into that moment. Attach your faith with that word. [Music] It's in your hands. Somebody in this room, and if the Lord give you one of those worship songs while we lift our hands in worship in this place, let the glory of the Lord fill this place. All I want is to be made whole. I came out tonight 'cause I wanna hold it. I want a wholeness. He's gonna make you whole. [Music] [Music] Your pain. He's gonna make you whole. [Music] He's gonna make you whole. He's gonna make you whole. [Music] Make you whole. [Music] [Music] [Music] Make it whole. [Music] Real big. Yeah. [Music] [Applause] [Music] He's gonna make you whole. Here is gonna make you whole. [Music] Come on, come on. [Music] Just reach out and touch him. He's gone. [Applause] He's gonna make you whole. The anointing of God is in this place. Can I get a witness in here? There is a year in the Bible called The Year of Jubilee. [Music] And in the Year of Jubilee, all the slaves were set free. In the Year of Jubilee, the ground rested. And in the Year of Jubilee, they came into restoration. On the 50th year, God opened doors, made ways, loose bounds, set the captive free. It was called The Year of Jubilee. Some of you have been smiling a long time, but you ain't had Jubilee for a while. Come on, talk to me, somebody. But I'm believing God for a Year of Jubilee. I want to challenge everybody in the room that has it. If you don't have it, I'm not talking to you. I want you to sow fifty dollars. Just come and bring it and lay it on. All to you that are online, I want to invite you to join us. I'm believing God for Jubilee to break out in your life. If you got to wait and go into a trance, don't do it. But if you sense the anointing of God on this word, just come and bring it for yourself. I wanted to come out of your hand. You're on the internet. I wanted to come out of your hand. Just fifty dollars. Just, just get it in your hand and just. He's gonna make it. He is. [Music] He's gonna make you whole. Come on down and bring it. Come on down. Yeah. [Music] Yeah, yeah, yeah. [Music] Oh God, it's gonna make you whole. [Music] Way. [Music] 'Cause you know it's your life. It's your, it's your life. It's his hand. [Music] In your life. [Music] Your life. [Music] [Applause] Make your whole. [Music] [Music]

There's someone in this room tonight. You've been bleeding a long time. Some of you in your anger, in your hostility, and and in what seems like rebellion, what seemed like frustration, led to bad choices, led to bad situations. And we're on a mission tonight, Operation Recovery. You've lost a lot. There's a backslider in this room that's stripped it a long ways away. [Music] Hey, and you know better, but you haven't been doing better. While other people are bringing offerings, I want you to bring yourself and just come stand right in front of me and say, "I want to, I want to be saved. I want to be whole. I want to be whole." I don't care if you got to come from the top of the balcony. I don't care if you got to come from the middle of the road. I want you to come. If you're online, there's a number on your screen right now where our prayer warriors, anointed prayer warriors, are ready to pray with you. [Music] Every backslider, every unsaved person, every person who's not made a real commitment to Jesus. And there's been a shaken in this world, and you got your. God got your attention. God got your attention. [Music] Your hands. I can't close this service. This is about your life. Your hand. That woman got up off the ground and pressed her way to get to Jesus. What you gonna do, bro? What you gonna do? What are you going to do, my sister? What are you going to do? Watching online right now, you won't flick past me and watch something else. God is waiting on you to make a move. [Music] [Music] Would y'all look at these souls on the altar right now? [Music] Let me tell you something. Holding me. Let me tell you something. There's nothing in your life, in the darkest angles of your life, that God doesn't know. And there is nothing in your life that God cannot fix. Not nothing, do you hear me? Not nothing. He can make you whole. Jesus didn't die for goody-two-shoe folks. [Applause] Jesus died for folks who've been around the block, been around the corner, been locked up in jail, been in storms, been in rain, got issues, got problems, got crisis, made mistakes, dysfunctional, angry, mad, strung out, confused, messed up, in bears, ashamed. Do you know how difficult it must have been for that bloody woman to pass through all those men and come to Jesus? Whatever has changed your life, God can handle it. Me? God can handle it. And you came tonight to have an encounter with God, and that's all that matters. I'm going to pray with you in a minute, but it's going to be what you say to God that really brings about the change. If you're sick of your sins and you're sick of yourself and you're ready to pull your act together, that's going to be what matters. If you believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, for your secrets, for your issues, whatever the issue might be, he died for your issue. He's able. He's able. Yes, Lord. He's able to make you whole. I don't know who it is. The Lord said to somebody in this crowd that wants to come. You're struggling to come. Don't miss this moment. Come right now. Come right now. Don't miss this moment. Don't try to pray in your seat. He's dealing with you. Come on. I was getting ready to pray. He said, "Wait a minute. All that I'm pulling on ain't come yet." Oh my God. All that I'm pulling on hasn't come yet. You watching on the internet. The part of the house is in full flesh Holy Ghost Revival in the middle of a stop. We're in Revival, Operation Restoration. God wants you back. He wants your praise back. He wants your commitment back. He wants your life back. He wants your gift back. There's so many gifts around this altar that God placed down inside of you. God wants your gift back. How many of you know you've been gifted? You've been gifted by God. God put a gift down inside of you. God wants it back. He wants it back. He wants it back. You watch it online. I don't care where you are in the world. This prayer will reach you. This prayer will reach you. I don't care how deep and dark and sin you're in. This prayer will reach you. You and your friend. You had your situation. You and your issue. I call you out. Come out with your hands up. You're under arrest. The Holy Ghost has got you surrounded. You got no other options. You can't afford to let tonight pass you by. Tonight is the night. Father God, lift your hands. Every one of you. Father God, in the name of Jesus, I don't know all of these people by name, but you do. I don't know their story, but you do. I don't know their situation, but you do. Every one of them that you brought to this altar, you got a plan for their life. They've been missing it because of some dumb issue. But tonight, in the name of Jesus, we renounce every issue that kept us away from you. We renounce every sin that does so easily beset us. And we bring our lives to the bloody cross of the Master. And let your blood cleanse us and touch us and wash us and renew us. Renew us. Renew us from the shame and the pain and the guilt and the anger and the frustration of all the things we had to do because of the state we were in. Devil, we will not go back. Right now, in the name of Jesus, we will not go back. He whom the Son has set free is free indeed. Jesus, you paid for their pardon. You paid for their escape. Let not one woman, let not one man, let one boy, let not one girl leave this altar with the brightness of your glory shining on their life. At a fresh anointing. Yes, Lord. The Lord said virtue is going out. Virtue is going out. His virtue is going out. His virtue is coming down into your life, into your spirit, into your gift, into your ministry, into your walk, into your tongue. You and ever. [Music]

Now listen. When the woman with the issue of blood first got healed, she hid. But Jesus wasn't having it. He said, "Come out of hiding." God does not need any undercover Christians. If you're his child, confess him. If you're his child, confess him. I don't care how they laugh at you. I don't care how they make fun of you. They make jokes about me. They said I'd be back in the club in two weeks. 46 years later, I'm still standing here. They haven't been perfect. I made mistakes. In the years, there have been years without temptations and stress and struggles and ups and downs. But I told the devil, "If I go to hell, you're gonna have to pick me up at the church because I am never leaving my Father's side again." I know that there is nothing wrong with me that he cannot fix. And you're not going to trick me out of my place because God's got something for me. And I found out for once in my life who I was. Who I really was. Not who they said I was. Who I really was. [Music] In the house of God, I was being who they said I was. Sometimes I was being who I thought I had to be. Little by little, God began to show me who I am. If you're in this area and you don't have a church, I want to be your pastor. I want to be the man of God who intercedes for you and prays for you. I want to be the place that you can come and get the word of God. I want you to come in here when you're weak and when you're strong, and when you're right and when you're wrong, and when you're tired and when you feel good, when you're mad, when you got an attitude. I can handle it. I'm a grown man. Bring your attitude on in here. I got something for you. You know why? [Music] I built this church. I built this church for you. [Applause] [Music]