Praying From Uncomfortable Places

This morning. I would like to just take a moment to turn our attention to the last in our series from The Gospel According to Mark. We have been preaching from the scripture this this Gospel of Mark with the theme in Mind of a gospel of conflict. And as we conclude I look at the series of sermons through the gospel of Mark today's sermon will be taken from Mark chapter 7 verses 24 through 30 Mark chapter 7 verses 24 through 30. I'll be reading from the King James version. Anywhere we talked about hopefully of God gives us preaching power and permission praying from uncomfortable places. praying from uncomfortable places

You have your Bibles open in those passages you'll find these scriptures. Bible says in verse 24 from their Heroes and went to the region of Tyre and sidon and in turn into a housing wanted No one to know it, but he could not be hidden.

for a woman who's young daughter had an unclean Spirit heard about him and she came and fell at his feet. The woman was a Greek Sarah Phoenician by birth and she kept asking him to cast out the demon of her daughter. Jesus said to her. Let the children be filled first. What is not good to take the children's bread and throw it to the little dogs. She answered and said unto him. Yes, Lord, even the little dogs under the table eat from the children's crumbs. Then he said to her was this saying go your way. The demon is gone out of your daughter. And when she had come to her house, she found the demon gone out and her daughter lying on the bed. Again for Thought let's just talk for a little while praying. from uncomfortable places

I have to say the least been challenged over the last Now 60 some-odd days. Being called to Pastor. Add a place Familia and Van to me. a place that I mentor a guide a friend of brother Reverend James Anderson serve from for so many years. I consider it an honor and a privilege to be. counted in the line of those who Are charged with building the people of God to do the work of God on Earth until he comes again to take us from labor to reward?

But it's been uncomfortable. Comfortable because a pandemic broke out.

the spread of the covid-19 virus and how it is sent the world into a chaotic tailspin and then I'm a very personal level that God in his. omniscience in his wisdom chose to call the most important figure in my life my mother home. And discomfort is an insufficient word. with the strain of not being with the congregation who you are developing a Godly love and care for Those things that are pastoral heart develops to Shepherd God's people. and not being able to be in their presents uncomfortable because

the world around us is in chaos and freefall. Pandemic has brought out the worst in humanity and although there are many cases and many stories of people doing good and righteous things showing brotherly love and care regardless of age race Creed color. Those things don't make the newsreel. They don't find their way to the broadcast. They don't pay attention. We we find that we sensationalize the most heinous of things and then they are seemingly unending. our leader seem not to care about the things that really matter they seem to have different agendas. political pressuring bipartisan thinking

creating these divisions that leave us broken and frayed and stress and it's uncomfortable uncomfortable because you can't go to the things you would normally go to let off steam you can cancel because you can't be in the places that usually bring you a sense of security and safety. Although we all work really hard to put all these things in our home and created what we thought was a place of comfort many of us after the time spent Sheltering in place are finding that the place that we used to run to for Refuge now seems to be rubbing us raw and ragged. build the wall Seymour Narrows the space not as Much of a consolation Hollywood grateful that we have family and friends around us and it's a blessing to be able to have a roof over our head the discomfort cannot be denied. It is uncomfortable to be restricted to be cordoned off to be sectioned away to to not have access to what you've always had access to you can go when you want to but not now you could do what you wanted to do, but not now you that there's no Recreation. There is no no no no release there is no relaxation and there's not even those things that we used to distract us and yet As a tortillas began to open up our world and end put us back to what they think is what we used to have. I think we need to be very cognizant of the fact that what was will never be again.

And even Saturday more uncomfortable and I'm not trying to put a hundred on 10. The truth is just the truth is that none of us? Not one person? No matter how healthy your psyche no matter how sound your mentality no matter how discipline you are and keeping your mental health and check not one of us will leave out of this environment this exchange this happening unscaved. We will irrevocably be changed forever nothing. will be as it used to be but

There's still some things we are mandated commanded to do we still should be honoring that although we're not in the place of worship. We are still worshippers. Although the doors are closed the church is open. The quote mean from a social media site the church has indeed left the building. And that might not be what you're used to but it doesn't seem like a bad thing from where I sit.

It doesn't seem like it's a distraction to me that I can't be at that location, but I can still be in the presence of the Lord. It doesn't seem like a problem to me that that that I was never back down to God answering prayers from a place but I could always go to the place of prayer and get an answer. Cut the place of prayers wherever I settle myself on the fact that my way won't work and God's way always works. It's wherever I am when I can turn away from Earthly wisdom and turn to Divine Providence. It's wherever I decide to buy Lani release my strength relinquish my authority even though it's assumed and allow my petition to reach the Throne of Heaven. It is not GPS center. It's not where I offer my prayers from it's where I wish you my prayers to

So wherever you are is still a place of worship, wherever you are. It's still a work of ministry. Whatever you're Sheltering in place. You might be away from the building, but you're still a part of the body. But man, it's uncomfortable. Are you awake? I'm still singing prayers. I'm still singing praises in an uncomfortable place. I'm still worshiping in an uncomfortable place. I'm still creating Fellowship building community. Doing the work of evangelism offering assistance to the broken the downtrodden the distress the depressed. I'm still about the father's business, even though we're not in the local father's house be encouraged brothers and sisters uncomfortable might be different but it doesn't mean destroyed. I'm comfortable might be unsettling but it does not mean without security. In right now where you are when trouble visits and it will when difficulties arrived and they and it shall when when when when Things Fall Apart like they always do my good news to you. You get nothing else from what God was saying this moment that you still can worship in these worrisome space is you still can serve while you shelter-in-place. How about this though? You also can still pray from uncomfortable places. He never said he'd hear you from the church. It's because you are the church that he hears you and wherever you turn your attention away from the the finite towards the infinite God not only hears but we have the assurance that God is still in the business of answering prayers. And if we've been dealing with this. Gospel of conflict Gospel of Mark written by a disciple who seems to be rapidly moving towards a conclusion to the work of Jesus's Ministry. I sent the conflicts he's pointed out. There was a conflict in the pressing where we must fight against the flesh temptation to sleep on God. Yes shoulder the responsibility in the weight the heavy burden of being about the father's purpose. Even if it means personal Peril, we saw that in the sermon we saw on a sermon that that it that even the religious me to point where religion fails and relationship is solid and even in the rulers bow and worship before him and begging him to come and work the miraculous work even while he's on his way to help others. God still has time. To stop by your place of sickness. We saw it in scripture in and it's just Sia song miraculous happen for the woman with the issue. He also got the critical news that his daughter has slipped away. But just I didn't lose Faith. Jesus told him do not fear only believe he was fighting that battle that when we think it's too late. It's too far gone too much lost. God says I declare when something is done and only guy That was good news, and he fought that conflict. Are being canceled out but this last message. As we think Mark and exiting turn our eyes to the next thing before we go. Let's look at one more conflict that has to be defeated in the house. One more thing. We need to put in check and Mark that's such an eloquent job. I just want to talk to you for a second and look at that 7th chapter and tell you what a thing of beauty mark wrote. Mini theologians suppose that the narrative placed in front of us in the seven chapters out of sequential order that this might have occurred before Jesus had the Discord with the Pharisees and Sadducees about the uncleanliness of certain things in the works of his disciples, you know, the the religious rigor of of Judaism at the time of the Bible's riding be considered ceremoniously unclean was to remove you from access to the temple. What if you were priests at that your time of service was such a precious thing that if you you you violated that by touching something that was considered a file or unclean water time to miss that you need fellowship with God and let me say I'm not knocking the point of being ceremoniously or religiously clean, but y'all know like I know I can set out to do clean things and still end up with dirt on my hand. I can set out the deal with the living and still end up with dead bodies All Around Me matter fact, as long as I'm involved in any encounter or engagement seeking Perfection. There's a chance that Perfection won't be reached because I know if you don't that I am failed. I am fractured. I am forever broken. I'm a missed opportunity. I am a lost connection if there's something wrong and there's something not right at this inability for to go wrong. It is all captured within me. I am the embodiment of a Bad Thing even when it's righteousness that I see when I was Paul was here he would help me with with stating that clearly even when I can see righteousness in My Mind by the time it reaches my hand is sin. And I cry like Paul cry o wretched Wretched Man that I am who can deliver me from this body of sin kids to shout. Thanks be to God that through Christ Jesus. We made righteous. Here, he's about to send a similar lesson to the religious. Similar lesson to those who seek to honor ceremony and not do it in a sacred secureway who who simply want to wash the outside but stay worn on the inside. He's telling us I'm here to settle the difficulty. I'm here to empower the powerless. You might not ever been able to do it by the law, but you're going to be able to do it by my love. I'm here to tell the religion. They tried to break you that relationship is here to make you right there in that seventh chapter and verse 24. We see a very uncomfortable scene. I'm just give you a little context as we look back at the point. I hope not to talk to you long today. I want not to tarry too much, but I do want to make sure we're doing the tech some honor. I see a couple things that we need to discuss before we even begin, and I hope you'll join me there. When do you think I want to point out as we look at scripture as we start to see what God might have us to say I see something that just should start the narrative for us. I see this belief is draining. It's raining. It's it's draining. It's right there at verse 24, you really can't see it, but it's still declares it. Why do I say is that verse 24? You can't see it because I hate dropping into a middle of a story and we're in the middle of chapter 7. If you go back to the beginning you'll find that Jesus has been in disagreement in doubt and distrust and division from the start of the chapter. Those who should have been able to teach the people of God to Be watchful for the arrival of the Messiah have now seen the arrival of Jesus. He has declared who his disciples are. He has begun his ministry about the father's business and yet rather seeking to see if his works his words and his ways satisfies the prophets were in scripture. They are busy trying to declare. Jesus is not what he appears to be instead of working for him that working against them the same people the same chosen children who he came to deliver from all the problems the persecution the predicament that wrong had an issue that the world had thrown against them. You would think they were fatigue enough with bringing sacrifice after sacrifice at the offering to the throne that if they knew it was time for the answer to come if they knew the Lamb of God had arrived. They would be busy or not wanting to a fatigued and tired congregate. Bet. Good news has come but no. You're busy trying to discredit the Messiah. They were busy trying to dissuade his believers. They were busy trying to declare that. He was not from God but from Satan and all of the beginning of chapter 4, they start with we know you can't be righteous because your servants handle unclean things with unclean hands. They talking about 8 a ceremonious ritualistic approach to cleanliness the Pharisees of all people the scribes of all people the Sadducees of all people should have been one who understood the law was a framework that guided you to the lawgiver and here he is and instead of honoring the one who gave the law. We try to persecute the one who gave the law with the law and I'm struggling with that that problem that Jesus came to deliver, but all he's being experiencing now, there's a Dream from the disbelief all around him. And I can pause for just a second and ask you that it's hard enough to keep myself. Encouraged Man by the time I walk out the door. There's nothing but discouragement way, I'm discouraged because I'm not the right color. I'm discouraged because I'm not the right side. I got to go to Target. I'm grateful for but as soon as I get around a certain group, my car is no longer satisfactory. I'm discouraged because I'm not flying enough in my my wheels. I'm not fashionable enough in my clothing. Go on jobs where I've proven that I'm I'm a provider. I can do the assignments yet. I'm discouraged because there are others being promoted in your hard work is being ignored. Maybe you can join me in those places that man it's hard trying to function from a place of belief with disbelief is all around you. Hard to stay faithful with faithlessness is amongst your peer group. Sometimes it's so so hard to even keep an encouraging thought in your head because discouraging words are being flung around so freely.

And if Jesus is going to deliver Humanity, he must understand what humanity and doors. He became just like us everything. We went through he went through and hear the messiah's feeling the weight of being human is hard. People aren't being optimistic people aren't being encouraging. Y'all can't blame people. Hey hurt people hurt people broken people Break Free People. depressed people depressed people here it is. We survived we say misery loves company. I don't see no hope so I'm going to rob you of your whole snow way out for me. So I'm going to close the door for you. Y'all think Kobe is contagious get a touch of Despair and watch it wreak havoc in your determination.

Things falling apart on you and all of a sudden nothing will go right why just snatch defeat out of the jaws of Victory. Jesus to is busy trying to stay on purpose while people are plotting to disagree with him. He's trying to stay on path and people are planting stumbling blocks in his weight. He came to redeem man and bad man is busy demeaning him.

He's tired. Tired drained he's empty. He's worn. He's weary. Jesus ain't used to this windshield. With with the father Angels waited to be servants to the Messiah when when he was in glory. He would speak and things would happen. Keep her mind it at the Genesis moments where he the father in the spirit spoke in unity and everything that is came to be and now that he is dwelling among the thing you created. All you can feel is disbelief. Is distrust is doubt. in his division

Can we get two verse 24 Jesus is empty. Not figuratively, but weary from wearing the weight of Being Human. To keep heavy from carrying a load a feeling the pain of being a preacher. Yes, he's Divine. But he must identify with those that are not he he must be acquainted with our Agony. He had to relate to the restlessness and I sleep he had to be like us put under the same pressure bearing the same burden feeling the same failures all around him. Safe listening on every tongue and he needed a break is Dad a text from there from the place where. Was from the place where this believe what he need a getaway. 1 * 8 even Jesus needed a Calgon moment. Take me away. there's a Is the approximate four times with Jesus at the dip? to decompress He had to leave gallery for just a little while. Yeah, I'm here for him, but they getting to me. I'm here to deliver but that doubt is is just unbearable. Perfect. You hear the scripture says he went into his own town and he could do no good works, but for their unbelief.

And that's what's wrong with out. Y'all wee-wee begging him to this place where we are God come down here and handle covet and then we're here while he's moving while he's operating while he's busy doing other only the combined can do all we can do is stand and being doubt stand and being disbelief standing being Discord. We're not agreeing with the Savior when he arrived when making a difficult job even harder nothing is hard for God, but it's hard to watch the kids are trying to deliver not believe your deliverance is worth trusting.

Yeah, I see it. And you ought to see it to disbelief. It's draining. What does that suit he was drained from disbelief. He was also drain though y'all from from doubt. from distrust he was also drained from division. The Lord himself had the same pressures come to Bear against his his purpose living that we have every single day.

But I also see. That although he was drain. He was willing to put himself in a position to get it back. The Bible says he pulled away and went to the region of Tyre and sidon and enter into a house and listen to show he wanted no one to know it. But he could not be hidden or I got to stop right there and said, you know what Jesus was in an uncomfortable position. Yeah, he came to be seen but at this moment you didn't want to be seen he he came to be known but at this moment he didn't want to be known. It was too much doubt too many people plotting against them too many folks trying to make ineffective. The thing he had made affected. They were trying to dissuade followers into following him. They were trying to refuse to deliver as he was bringing they were trying to declare that those he had called the trust him shouldn't trust him at all. Even when he wanted to just step back for a second. He he couldn't does he he wanted to be left alone. If I say something very clearly said he could not be hitting he couldn't think about this the light of the world. Wanted a bushel break. The start of the earth wanted to sit still for a second. Can I ask you a very real question? Why do you keep moving?

Jesus wanted to break. Why do you use steel move at Breakneck speed? We have become a people who can't sit still. What we've become a people who can't pause for just a second can put your phone on mute. Can't turn it off for an hour. Can't stop answering or or instructing can't stop plotting or planning. Your itinerary is endless. Your planner is exhausted. Your calendar looks convoluted. It's confusing it's chaotic but you still are trying to move and even when they say restrict I like people fighting to get back out into The Fray.

It's a paid vacation, but you're begging to go back to work. What's wrong with us? What's wrong with us that we love chaos more than we love Tom. We we want to poison piece.

We want to pollute Paradise. We can't be steel We Can't Stop Moving. Keep stop working. We can't stop listening. We we must be distracted. We we must Be focused on everything and not just one thing. Jesus says I need to rest. But if I was that he could not be hitting and I'm glad cuz when my chaos won't stop Jesus says I I can make it pause. I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I'm going to give it anyway kopech. Is talking for me? It cleared up some things. Show me what was important and what never was? You make it reprioritize I have something on the top of my list. It don't matter a hill of beans anymore. I had to stuff so important to me that was present and needed to be the persistent Pursuit. But now that the world has taken a side step on a short Hiatus now that this disease got us locked down and locked and I found out the things I thought that needed to be done never needed to be attempted at all like went on and none of it was satisfied. We're still existing in nothing on that list has gotten accomplished those classes. You thought you had to take its what?

That job you swore you would die. If you didn't work. Guess what?

All those places you had to go in people you had to seeing things you had to do not have taken apart some of them permanent. Some of them will never be back. And now I'm learning that I appreciate the times where I can hide away. I enjoy the moments where I can sit still.

I know I got a plan and a purpose for my life declare before the foundation of the Earth, but I'm glad that I'm also part of the plan that says every now and then we are to take a break.

It's uncomfortable for some of us though and Jesus understands being uncomfortable. He wants to be about the father's business, but where doubt is he can't be determined? What disbelief is he can't be a delivery.

Cheers word is he's already brought calling out. Man laying at the pool. At the place of beauty the Bethesda pool. He said do you want to be made whole sick folk? Like being sick lost folk? Enjoy being lost broken people like being broken. Jesus can't hear what you Think it's health. You ain't going to be sick. You are never going to accept the doctor. Move on. I got some learning in here for us and I hope if you are in an uncomfortable space you will find some solace in knowing Jesus is familiar would be in an uncomfortable position. He is forced to hide when he wants to be seen he's forced to retreat when he wants to advance. He's forced to steal away when he wants to press on. And that's what I'm comfortable positions feel like for us and for the savior. I see something else in. the same Passage the same place. We looking at it Mart time. We move down there and verse 26. It's 24 days declare that Jesus needed a break and found he pulls away to this house in the region away from Jerusalem away from the the children of God. He's at a place where heathens dwell where there's no real worship of the Messianic Messiah and now it's just life is usual in the Gentile City. The Bible says even there people know when help is arrived even in the wilderness people understand when Deliverance has come even folks who are not the ones who are supposed to benefit understand when a better way has shown up and what was meant as Leisure for Jesus becomes an opportunity for somebody who's willing to pray from their comfortable place.

Here she comes. $0.25 for a woman who was young.

Had an unclean Spirit heard about him. And she came and fell at his feet. You know what I see in this. Jesus wasn't uncomfortable position. He desired privacy. He he desires. Peace. What team or desire to be used by God to fulfill the purpose of God is to satisfy his personal Human Side desire for peace and privacy and he stopped resting. Because she was in an uncomfortable place, but he acknowledged that here comes a woman praying from her comfortable place. I love it. They didn't give her a name but they declared. Her situation. She was a woman with a daughter who was possessed by unclean Spirit. It ain't that. really need to get back to the swing. In that the most uncomfortable. I don't know how many parents a year. I don't know how many people who have been in that spot. But man what pains mean I could probably tolerate. About being a dad for most of my adult life.

And I've also been in pain for most of my adult life. And can I tell you I can endure my pain? Most times when you see me smiling, I am in extreme agony. But the smile is genuine. It ain't about what I feel in the physical is about what I'm anticipating in the spiritual if it puts a smile on my face. I have to smile because if I don't smile at my physical discomfort takes over my spiritual excitement Play it's got to be a robbing you of being opportunistic and optimistic pain has a way of invading into every decision that leads to something good and declares that still won't make you stop hurting you can learn to deal with personal pain and I'm going to tell you I've learned after 22 years of constant chronic critical pain. It barely bothers me new page pop up and it might take me a minute to address, but God is always allow me to Pivot and proceed.

But then I became apparent.

and I found what hurts them is hell to me.

I'm uncomfortable when my children are in discomfort.

From the earliest days when when when childhood sickness is would strike them in they would have to be taken to Medical Physicians and they were laying hospital beds being treated and they were growing It Felt Like a Knife was being pushed through my heart. They fall in love with young women in and confessed their their undying love for them in those young women with break their heart. But the pain on my young man's face would be a fatal fracture. in my well-being

when Andre Bessette them while they pursued Athletics when they had to endure painful injury after painful injury after painful surgery to repair painful injuries every moment. They were under I was out. Every moment they were down. I was devastated I held my breath is they played I held my breath as they left during the day every report of a black male being killed every time trouble broke out near their proximity. I felt pain and it's uncomfortable. You can't drink it away. You can't pop the pill and make it tall. You can't smoke.

to cope that pain is persistent. That pain is powerful pain is uncomfortable. Man, I dare you to not let the pain keep you from praying. I dare you not to let the discomfort. Keep you in a place where you won't declare what you need this mother understood that. It didn't matter if it was embarrassing. It didn't matter if she wasn't supposed to it didn't matter. She was invited. This is about my baby. This is about my daughter. That's a thing in her that I can't get out of bed. And I will do whatever I got to do to get it for her. Why would somebody would stand up and say I had a mama like that? I had a daddy like that. I have somebody in my life who is willing to be an inconvenience for my convenience.

When I couldn't call on him for myself. God bless me with folk who would call him on my behalf.

Trying to push through this. Is the pain of those most precious to you that makes you forget protocol. if the hurt of those Who you hold dear in your heart that makes you side swipe all the requirements. You'll whip be willing to stand. Face-first to the barrel of a gun if it meant those you love would be better if you're willing to stand up and be beaten to a pulp if it means those you care about would be spared and I know it's an old time and type of thought. I know it's a outdated sentiment but I wish we get back to the time where it hurt us when those who we love with hurting.

She was there not for her. She was there for her daughter. She knew where to go to know how she knew they were talking about Jesus.

His reputation preceded him. His his his fans put him on blast. I was Jesus had some fans today. Everybody know what the current president is said, but nobody is talking about what Jesus has done. Everybody knows without the falchi has has forecast as a fixed but nobody is speaking to the great physician. Nobody was reminding us that has no salt. I wish we were making his reputation great.

I wish you would answer instead of girl. I got my mask on let me go get my gloves. I wish you would say. I'm going to get my PPE but I got the echo in and he will take care of me. I wish his reputation was being bolstered. I wish his name was being spread. I wish those who have benefited from him was talking about him. And not for what he done lately, but just reporting what he is always done.

Somebody was speaking on it. and she heard

Is she went to where she heard he was? Now here's a weird footnote in the annals of scripture. We got a tired and weary Messiah. We got a out of societal position woman with a spirit possessed daughter and all of a sudden we get a lineage description inside of his narrative. Why because the Bible doesn't waste time telling us unimportant things. He wants you to know something. And I wonder if you can see it in the scripture. I want if you notice what the Bible is telling you to notice here. The woman was in an uncomfortable place. She had an uncomfortable condition. Her child was sick, but it Mark went to Great Lengths to point out some things. Listen it is it showed that she was a Greek. Baha'i religion

She was Syrian in her language. She was Phoenician. in her race

this thing matters just pause here for just a second. Jesus had just been arguing with the chosen. The children of Israel God declared the light of his eye. Those he called out from Abram his lineage changing him that Abraham number in his descendants descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky or the sand on the shore. They were his and he had just finished trying to give them what was always meant to be theirs and they were refusing it and what they didn't want those who are never supposed to have it want it bad. She's breaking protocol to get a glimpse a touch of what the children don't want. Don't they sound familiar?

What you kick out somebody with cheap clothes. What you discard somebody wants to declare there's what you put on the trash Heap somebody sets on the pedestal. It's what you don't want that somebody needs for their life. And that's what privilege does a privilege and a color privilege Jana of culture. And Society privilege is a state of the Soul. We want what we always want and since we get it cuz we always got it. We don't miss it until it's gone or we give it away without thought of its value. They had Jesus begging to be theirs and they didn't want him. But here's the people who didn't even know Jesus could be theirs begging. But just a piece of him she came and she wasn't supposed to. Her religion said this is not your God.

Peter Greek, she was into policy ISM every God a lot of God anything. She couldn't understand she would worship by Syrian shouldn't even speak the language here. They are speaking Yiddish, or she can't even translate some of the disciples lesson. She don't even understand the things he's declaring his teaching and her race. She was a mutt. Do you want to chew you weren't Worthy? She was everything you shouldn't have been but she wanted everything. She shouldn't have had. And I wonder if you've been there. Yeah, you can let what you are not control you or you can see to get what you should have. Never had. Is it you can't go get it from those who have always had it cuz they ain't going to give it to you. Why don't you get it from the one who gave it to them? We fight with other benefactors of God's Gift instead of faithfully seek in the father to give it to us to forget making me like them. Let me go to the one who made.

Cuz what they don't want out today. What they're used to I'll make brand-new what they throw away. I'll take to the crib. That's what they did. You don't want. Jesus will take them. You don't want them aside when you want them. I got a daughter who can be delivered with what you're trying to displace discredit and put doubt in my got to go.

The mark points out. She shouldn't have been there. She didn't speak the language. She wasn't born in the land. And she had no Heritage, right? to call on that higher power But any good news that what you want born into? It's still been brought to you. You might not be Israelite. But the Israelite King still want to declare that you are here is I want the source forget the outcome get me to the origin. Bergen To be blessed like when we're not speaking the blesser. She knew I got to go to the synagogue. The church is in this house. I ain't got to rush to Jerusalem Jerusalem his rush to me. He might have came out of doubt and disbelief, but I'll go find him and determination. I don't care who I got to get gas. I don't care what they got to call me. I don't care about being disgraced or belittle or demonic the mean don't don't worry about what you say to me. Let me have a word with him. I don't get butt hurt cuz I need to talk to Jesus. I might not be dressed right but I need to get in front of him. I might not have paid the tide you had but I'm coming to see if he'll help me. Anyway, I'm going to ask him and I will let him tell me know. I ain't going to let you know be his know and how many of us have been stopped from someone else's. lack of acceptance

Nobody can stop what they didn't start.

You ain't got to let me but you ain't you ain't going to stop me. GreenDot to call me brother. Just don't call me. Discluded I'm getting to him I'll get past this Tuesday. I'll get through here for their I won't go through whatever for the ones. That mean the most to me I ain't even coming for myself. Don't help me. She might have been Greek in her religion. She might have been Syrian in her language. She might have been Phoenician in her race, but that's what y'all she wants and that's where Jesus meets all of us. Not not at all color. Not at all economic. He meets us at our creation. He said that shake that dirt, that's mine.

You might not embrace it cuz it has on a dress you might call it a thing, but it's a living soul to me.

Do you like think it's not as smart as you but he has candy embodies the breath of the Divine and guess what every pile of dirt walking has a little bit of the Divine in them.

T shaped us From the play of the earth and breathed into us and we became alive. I noticed something here. I noticed that yeah, she wasn't supposed to be there but she's there. Yeah, she ain't born into it, but she surely is seeking it out. I wonder if you can say the same about you. If you let what you ain't stop you, or are you not worried about what you want and you trying to get to the one who can make you who you were always supposed to be? She was human in her plea. And let me tell you something if I was Jesus and she runs to me and she does not the right Ray. She ain't speaking the right language. She ain't ain't looking like the right children, but she's got the right source. For the right outcome. I would have said yes. But Not only was Jesus in a comfortable position not only with the woman in an uncomfortable place But Jesus offered her and uncomfortable pronouncement. Is right here in a text. The woman was a Greek assassination by birth and she kept asking him to cast The Demon out of a daughter speaks to persistence in her plea. Jesus when you're persistent, he's quick to speak up. If you show him you're serious. Jesus will be serious when you show him. You ain't playing Jesus. That's why if you're really looking you going to find me if you're really knocking. I'm going to open if you're really asking I'm going to tell you but if you're just curious. Keep being curious. You just wanted to straction. Keep looking for a distraction. But if you want the one who can fix it, if you are serious about getting fixed if you really want what you're really after and you're really at the right place looking for what you really want. Guess what? I'm really going to answer. But it might not be the answer you want.

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Let the children be filled first. What is not good to take? the children's bread and through it. to the little dogs Yeah, I know how much I've always preaches try to tap dance to make this some. Theological play on words some pseudo clandestine hidden in the text original language new on Circle argument about the etymology of words and their usage. I don't think it's not that now. This is Rod. You do your work, too.

The decision in the dispensation of time at the printing in writing Abyss passage if you weren't Jews you weren't worth it.

They would walk.

Extra miles not to cross the pass with non-jews. mutts dogs half bred They were arrogant in their entitlement sounds familiar, but I don't want to drop too many present parallels to past points of interest. But there are some folks who think they pick their color, but they declared their culture. That privilege was handed to them so they own it and they get to declare what others are not. Because I'm on The In Crowd you have to be on the out crowd and you dare not breach our limit somebody. Would speak up about that that feel like you had the wrong family for make you feel like you were born into the wrong belief. Sometimes folk can make you feel like what's important to you ain't never going to be in Port anybody else you not in the ruling class or I need to pause here and put a pinpoint. On all of us who think we are arrived because of our heritage. If it had not been for the Lord you wouldn't know what privilege is. Matter fact that that's what's wrong because you've always had even the thought of sharing it feels like violets. All your various based on your privilege and when they take your privilege, they take your value. So we must have seen ourselves in multiple ways. Yes. I'm going into the right culture people who are never going to be in the right culture and we are made higher when we put folk underneath us. We stand up taller when we break other folk down. Jesus is just addressing the elephant in the room. Do they got nothing to do with these Folk?

I'm busy trying to give my own what was supposed to be just theirs and they're refusing it and here comes those who are never told they were mine. Who will never thought of as The In Crowd? They shouldn't even know who I am. Yeah. Yeah, they are backing that only for what I got, but for who I am.

Now I'm sold on the premise now that it ain't. Where you from? It's where you at? It ain't how you start. It's where you finish. You need to begin from wherever but have the end in mind. I might not have started in the house, but I ain't going to stop till I get to the homeowner. I might have been born in the field, but I can reach the front room. I might have began with nothing. But with us speaking of the right thing and the right way from the right Source. I will have what I should have never had to ask for what I should have. Never known about. I will declare what I shouldn't have ever had and understand. I wish you could see that. Ben-Hur her ability to get through her negative circumstances to a positive place. She brought what was wrong to who was right. She bought what was broken to who can fix it and although she wasn't asked to come she found her way in. And she gets there only two here. I don't see dogs. children's food I don't know how you feel about it. But if somebody made me feel small like that I'm out. I'm born and raised in Alabama. I got called the n-word enough to choke a maggot.

For people who never knew the household. I was raised there never ever once asked the upbringing. I had didn't know anything about my intellect my character my ability my gifts my talent. They didn't ask me about my word. And if they didn't seek out my education didn't understand the virtues and morals. I was raised with they didn't know I had a hard-working father who was always at home and a mother who sacrificed everything to make sure we had access to think we should have never had access to they never asked they just decided who I was by what I look like as somebody knows what that feels like.