Matthew 9:18-26

Icebreaker: A good friend of my family was planning for sinus surgurey. There was no other options. She constantly had migraines. She was sitting at a restaurant and a preacher came by...

Need: Some of you have an impossible situation

Jesus Cares About Your Impossibility

Jesus was interrupted in the middle of this discussion but responded with compassion.

watching a youtube video of dad interrupted by children on bbc

Daniel Smith was talking about golden globe award this January and son walks in and starts rolling the car across his dads shoulder

Synagogue Leader:

Calling His daughter little meant she was under 12.

According To Jewish Law Touching A Dead Body Was the Most Defiling & Most Jewish leaders would have avoided going

According To Jewish Law Touching A Dead Body Was the Most Defiling & Most Jewish leaders would have avoided going

Hemorrhaging Woman:

According to Jewish Laws touching the bleeding woman would make anyone unclean until evening.

this woman remained unclean meaning she was shunned by everyone couldn’t participate in anything

could you imagine if you were not allowed to go to church anymore?

Jesus Can Fix Your Impossibility

Hemorrhaging Woman:

Jesus healed this woman who had spent all her money trying to fix the condition but it only got worst

Little Girl:

Jesus brought the daughter back to life.

The Greek is literally “just now died”

Jesus Has One Requirement: Faith

Define Faith: using chair and volunteer (ask why do you believe)

The synagogue leader:

believed his daughter would live again

compare this to the crowd that ridiculed Jesus

The bleeding woman

believed that she just need to touch the tassels

explain the 8 threads spelled in a way representing Jehovah One

The Reason Christians Have Lost Faith

Fakes

Too many fake faith healings exposed

Jim & Tammy Bakker...last seen selling more religious goods promised to heal you

Too many fake faith healings exposedJim & Tammy Bakker...last seen selling more religious goods promised to heal youDisappointment: Didn’t get miracle in the pastImagine if my kids asked if they could play a video game and I said no...what if they never asked me for anything ever againImpatience: Unwilling to Wait & Keep PrayingGod makes us wait for two reasonsit teaches us to be content with graceits not the right timeRight Hook - young lady hysterectomy and ovaries removed...adopted but mother changed mind...prayed for 13 years...baptist doctors came to watch...ovary grew back...2 years later they had daughter...that was my grandmother

Disappointment

Didn’t get miracle in the past

Imagine if my kids asked if they could play a video game and I said no...what if they never asked me for anything ever again

Impatience

Unwilling to Wait & Keep Praying

God makes us wait for two reasons

It teaches us to be content with grace

It’s not the right time

Right Hook - young lady hysterectomy and ovaries removed...adopted but mother changed mind...prayed for 13 years...baptist doctors came to watch...ovary grew back...2 years later they had daughter...that was my grandmother