You've Been Hurting for Years and Nobody Asked

hallelujah now today's message it's called you have been hurting for years and nobody noticed you have been hurting for years and nobody noticed and the main scripture is about the woman with the issue of blood That is the whole scripture. But who this message is for? Today is Woman's Day and this woman with the issue of blood caused us to have this message of a woman today. But I need you to understand one thing, that this message is not just for women, but it's for anybody who has been hurting for years. And nobody ever stopped and asked, are you alright? This message is for the one who learned to smile in public while bleeding in private. You know that person that literally every day, I'm making an example of my sister, Candice. She can make jokes with everybody and everybody loves her company because of the jokes that she can make. But the pain that she's been carrying, nobody understands. i get back to that later this this one is for somebody who feels like they are unclean they are unseen somebody who feels like they've been written off this is who the message is for this message is for the one who literally holds the whole family together like sore but quietly falling apart inside. This is for the one who keeps serving everyone while carrying a pain nobody knows about this is who the message is for but i want to reiterate that this is also another section or another principle of our principles of jesus that we're working on at the moment Remember our principle number one, which was come closer, even when you feel too far to be touched. That was principle number one. Principle number two is show up yourself. Do not just pay the bills. This was the Father's Day principle that we were talking about. The Father's Day principle was any father that just want to pay the bills but don't come in. That was on Father's Day. we had the principle number three release what was never yours to carry you sit with pain that you were never supposed to carry you sit with with with stress you sit with things that is supposed to be carried by others it's not your part that is the one then we principle number four take the root to God not the symptoms so sometimes we say God I need money but do you really need money or do you need time with your family because most of the time our workplaces for argument's sake take us away from our family and we pray for money in the meantime is that you need more time you get my point because if you have more money you don't have to spend more time at work just a brief I'm not telling you exactly if you go to our YouTube channel in FJA Pretoria North Fountain of Grace International Pretoria North the YouTube channel all these messages that we've been preaching up to thus far is on YouTube then principle number five take the first real action before you feel ready so some of us feel I'm only going to start my ministry I'm only going to start studying once I have money I start my ministry once I have money no yes you should start and the money will follow it just one of the things I not saying it is but i just saying that one of the principles bless the little you have and start with it that was principle number six where jesus actually went on on the mountain where the kids uh lunch or scuffed in where he take the five loaves of bread and the fish and he multiplied it so how to multiply it is to bless that little that you have then principle number seven step out and own the thing you are hiding and you will stand up then principle number eight which was last week, pull away to the secret places and get refueled. Pull away from the secret place and get refueled or refueled. Remember I spoke about refueled last week. And then today is principle number nine. And I want you to look at this whole principles in order. If you can start with one, it will help you so much. It will actually bless you to go through all of it. So we learn to hide our pain and push through. So we end up suffering for years in silence while life carries on around us. the woman with the issue of blood let's read go to the book of matthew 9 now matthew 9 verse 20 or from verse 20 matthew 9 from verse 20 reads as follow and we're going to read from matthew 9 verse 20 and we're going to read till 22 Matthew 9 verse 20 daughter be of good comfort Thy faith had made thee whole And the woman was made whole from that hour. I need you to read Mark 5 verse 25 as well. Now Mark 5 verse 25 says the following. and a certain woman which had an issue of blood 12 years and had suffered many things of many physicians and had spent all that she had and was nothing bettered but rather grew worse. And you know what she said now? for she said if I may touch but his clothes I shall be whole and straight away the fountain of her blood was dried up and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague and he said unto her daughter thy faith had made thee whole go in peace and behold for thy plague now somebody might read this just as a quick healing but if you're looking at the the scriptures you will actually see that Jesus was interrupted on his way to a dying girl a lady that was about to die they called him come in but on his way there his road or his steps was interrupted by this woman specifically and the nicest part of it is that we sometimes are so, you can almost call it, stuck in our ways, that the day when something interrupts our normal going, we get upset. Example, every morning You know the kids must be done by a certain time. Suddenly one morning, somebody called you to say you need to do something while knowing you can't do it. You have to fix the kids or finish the kids. As a woman, when something like that happened, you feel a disruption. You know that Every day you must be at school By quarter past 7 Or let me say most of our schools Although schools doesn't even Start by quarter past 7 School starts probably by 8 o'clock Of Wattetijd begin jyde actually School school like your classes 8 8 o'clock Yours as well 8 o'clock I know Leetons as well at 8 o'clock. But all of them must be there by quarter by 7. Now, when you have that kind of thing that needs to happen, suddenly there's a disruption that comes that this morning you almost can't make it because there's a few minutes of time stolen from you. How would you be able to do that? Jesus did not see it as a disruption. He actually saw it as a blessing. Because for somebody who sat with an issue of blood for 12 years, for somebody who sat with a problem that for 12 years nobody saw the things that you've been doing, the things that you've been going through for 12 years that husband of yours has been hitting you so many times and nobody saw it because every time whenever you get out of the house you get out with a smile nobody has seen that your husband that every time whenever that husband gets into the house nobody sees how you shout at that husband as if that husband is not really like anybody that you care about. The way you shout at that husband is like almost as if that husband is a dustbin nobody has seen that husband pain for so many years i talking about this person who has been working for so long in this company and for the time that this person has been working in that company the person has been doing all the work and everybody has shoved that person at the back always putting the who i did it and i did it well while the person in the background is the one that actually did it well the person i'm speaking about is this person that every time whenever they go out they feel rejected because everybody speak about your big ears and your big nose fat cook nose now anytime whenever you go out you feel the pain of trying to hide your face for 12 years you've been hiding to go out because everybody was telling you how big your ears have been. You don't even want to cut your hair by the sides because you are too afraid that somebody might see your ears. The person I'm speaking about is that one that every time whenever you go out you don't even wear any flip flops because every time whenever you see flip flops you're thinking of your knickknack toes. and you feel rejected. The person I'm speaking to today is the one that has been putting in all the work but yet nobody has been saying wow. Come on. I'm talking about something that is real in our lives. And the worst part of it is that the fact that you know that you know that you know every time whenever you train to do something somebody rejects you. You have all the ideas for 12 years you've been having these ideas. But every time when you speak up because you have a problem with stuttering they don take you serious Just because you stutter they don take you serious Now you can't give your ideas because nobody takes you serious. I'm speaking about the person that anytime, whenever they go out, people think ah he's going to the to the shabin again for that day that actually what happened is that you wanted to go and look for a job but just because of they keep on saying are you going to the shabin again you decide you don't want to go again for 12 years you've been going to the shabin and the reason why you went to the Shabin is because of the Shabin people makes you feel actually better than your own house makes you feel. This is the person I'm talking about. I want you to understand that some of the things that we're going through is not just because we want to go through it. It's because of others that put the plague on us. There was a law, if you go to this specific section, there was a law that was put by the Israelites to, they actually call it, let me just go back, there was a law that shut out some people like this from the crowds. That law says, if you are having a certain plague, you're not allowed to mingle with the others. And imagine sometimes the smell that you smell because this woman with the issue of blood you can just imagine woman as a woman you understand that when you have your menstrual you feel dirty and the smell of it makes others that you feel even worse off when you know there's some sort of a smell now this law is now put for somebody like that who can't actually do the best that they can because of the one issue that they have at the moment. This is the message I saying to you today Jesus is here to take that step and interrupt his normal day that he about to go to just for you. Just for you to not have to go to the Shabini anymore. For you that don't have to even bother about that work because they are about to announce you. The woman with the issue of blood had to step up to step out. So today I want you to understand step out to step, step up to step out. It's very important that you should understand that when we read this specific section, do you see the rejection most people are going through. Ja, groot oor. most people are going through it's like the moment you get to work are you also here last night you were drunk the rejection people gives you so many rejections because the fact that this woman was so many times rejected for being within people that she ended up living a life that is actually secluded and the seclusion make it to be even longer all i need you to understand is that the devil wants you to be isolated the devil wants you to keep you in a cocoon where you feel like oh i'm about to die oh people don't care about me that's what the devil is trying for you to do he wants to seclude you so that everything in your mind gets so confused that you don't want to be seen with other people. And the moment you're not with other people, where people can actually testify about their life, where people can actually help you, He's allowing you to be secluded, where He can speak into your mind the things that is wrong. This is what the woman with the issue of blood went through. for 12 years because every time whenever somebody sees her, they would even scream, plague, plague, plague, plague. But when Jesus came, He made the whole Now, the Greek word here is sozo. Sozo. S-O-Z-O. Sozo. And it is the same word for saved. So, he saved her. He sozo her. And it's the same word to be healed, to be rescued. It's the same word to be made whole and well. All in one word. so-so does not just mean to be healed, but is to be made whole. Jesus is about to make you whole, not just heal you, but make you whole. Some of the things that we're going through, we thought that if only I can just get some money. In the meantime, it's not the money that is the issue. It's actually something else. God is about to just not just give you the money but also give you the situation that you were struggling with to help some of the things that we're going through is not because God is about to move into a certain way no, God is about to help you so when I look at it, He did not just stop her bleeding He made her whole, like her whole body. Let me explain what I mean by whole. If you look at the scriptures, He called her daughter. Now, let me ask you, who did they say she is before He said to her, she's a daughter? the woman with the issue of blood became his daughter I need you to understand he gave back more than the healing he gave her back her name even the woman with the issue of blood was called a daughter and who doesn't want to be a daughter of Jesus he called her daughter after 12 years of being the one that was unclean. He gave her name and places a family in front of the whole crowd Most people who saw her as the woman that is unkeen was actually took out from her situation in front of many people. So is the situation that you are going through. So many people will be showed in front of others. Wow, this, I can't believe it. That one that was such a drunkard, that one that went to Shabini every time is now healed. God will announce you. I'm telling you, God is telling you, not just that you are a daughter or a son of God, but God is telling you to everybody, he is healed. To everybody, he is made whole. Not just the healing of a certain part of your body, but the whole part of your body. Because remember, for somebody to be made whole, For 12 years you've been staying in a place where you know every time whenever you come closer to somebody, somebody will tell you, hey, you aren't clean, you're not supposed to be here. For somebody like that, the mindset has to change. Because once the mindset has been changed and you move to somebody with the same mindset, you always think of people will reject you. For somebody who has been rejected for many years, I'm talking about myself. Let me make an example. By the time when I was born, my father was not there. I never knew my father until I was old. I felt rejected every time whenever I have to talk about my father. Because by that time, the way I was so confused that people were telling me my father is a boor. Not knowing that that boor doesn't mean a white man. It means somebody who farmed or who is a farmer. and I thought it was a white person because of the skin of my skin. I thought it was white. Therefore, as I grew up, I grew up with Botswana culture because my stepfather is a Botswana. So, yeah, while I was younger, yeah, I'm Botswana. And suddenly when somebody tells me, but that is not your father, your father is a poor, yeah, I'm suddenly a white man. And then I'm like, white, black, white, where am I? So by that, it made me felt rejected because I couldn't place myself with Matsuanas. Because of the Matsuana culture I couldn fully agree because now I a white man And when I get to the white I couldn fully agree Because now I Botswana And at the end of the day I got confused I was so confused that I ended up saying to myself, No, let me tell you something. I am not Botswana. I am not colored. I am not white. Kimu peri. Why I'm saying Kimu peri? If you count somebody who is a two in one, my pedi is my pedi. Huh? How can I? Because I didn't know where I foot in. I have never foot into a life because I was too white to be a darkie. I'm too... Every time whenever I speak to get myself into a room to make people understand that I'm not as white as I am. Whenever I'm with the white people I can speak Africans like nobody's business. That is a rejection that makes you not to understand where you fit him. And I need you to understand something that when God is about to change your situation, he will interrupt himself to make you whole. He will interrupt himself to make you whole. but the thing that you need to understand she had to press through to reach him you have to press through your difficulties even if your ears are as big as they are go out there and make it known hey I got big ears to hear you better I got knick knack toes so that I can keep better just make sure you make the fun of yourself before they make fun of you, so that you don't feel bad when they make fun of you. I remember when my friends called me, Ura, because I was such a small kid with the big ears, I in fact up till today, I'm calling myself, ah, Ura. When my friends called me, Bruce specifically, if I make an example, If Bruce call me, the first thing he will say, then when he says, how are you? I would say, hey, the ears has been growing so big, I can hear you better now. I make fun of myself just so that they don have to get the oomph for the fact that they can say that to me. I say it to myself so that they don't get that, you can almost say that the dopamine, that oomph, this, tell them I'm unclean and push through because she was unclean and she was not supposed to be in that crowd at all. She was not supposed to be in that crowd and she pushed through anyway. She pushed through anyway. You will have to press through the shame, the rules that were set out there. Years of nothing that worked. This is the time to reach out, press anyway. The scripture says in Mark 5, 27, 27, Mark 5 27, where it says, when she had heard of Jesus, came in in the press behind and touched her garment. For she said, if I may touch, but is closed, I shall be whole. can you see here let me let me go one step further if you go to Hebrew the Hebrew 4 verse 16 Hebrew 4 verse 16 says it so nicely it says let us therefore come boldly I'm putting the emphasis on boldly let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. To help in time of need. He gave back her name. But she had to push through. And as she has to push through, he stopped for the one that everyone else walk past the one that you rejected Jesus has accepted those that you have been rejected the one that you think is useless is actually the one that will show you flames that they are better than who you are Don't judge a book by its cover. That's a word that most people like to say. But can I tell you something? Our books have been judged so many times and every time whenever we show them flames, they couldn't believe that those are the ones that I used to call Khrut Ure. I used to call this one Knopkiri legs. What is Knob Kiri? You know Knob Kiri was? What is Knob Kiri in English? It's a stick with a big head like this. The old people, let's call it a cane. Like the old people, they would walk with this cane. and people used to call me Knobkiri because my legs were thin and my knees were big. This Knobkiri one was showing them flames when it comes to long distance running because I had the resilience to run far long distances. Short distance, ah, you can win me. No problem. Let's go for the long run. I will show you. These are the things that they said at the time when this woman with the issue of blood was there. They said to her, that's the woman with the issue of blood. And Jesus changed that woman with the issue of blood's name. Your name will be changed to the daughter and the son of God. The daughter and the son of God. You are a son of God, not an unclean woman with the issue of blood. today as it is as it marks a woman's day i'm telling you now women were the ones that actually brought the men to life come on don't don't don't think you came here by the holy spirit like jesus you came from a woman But the thing I'm saying to you is every woman, as you thought that husband was a useless, today God is about to make that husband a daughter and a son of God I telling you he stops the one that everybody passes by and he healed her You are not lost in the crowd. Jesus sees you. Jesus feels you. Because sometimes it is not about how he sees you. It's sometimes how you make him feel. can I tell you something if you are in pain don't be too holy to speak to God and tell him I am painful I can't take it anymore why would you just keep quiet because when you keep quiet the crowd might be the ones that will be able to speak too loud than the pain that you're going through keep on saying God I'm a human being I can't take this anymore don't be too holy to say that you can't even speak to God and tell him where things are going wrong push forward push through because the more you push through to the circumstances you're going through I can guarantee you today God will see you through for 12 years your husband has been virght up in you, he has been right, pushed back and center, it's time that you step up and say, God make me whole I believe if I can only touch the hem of his garment I will be made whole and you will be made whole the Bible says in Psalm 147 verse 3 Psalm 147 verse 3. Psalm 147 verse 3 says, He healed the broken in heart and binded up their wounds. And binded up their wounds. Come on, church of God. I need you to understand that whenever there's a broken heart, there's a healing. What has been breaking your heart what break your heart you thought that the breaking of your heart would have been something that is just broken forever He healed the broken heart You just had to press through to reach him. Because by pressing through, he can give you back your name. What is your name? You've been called names. Shebin Queen. You've been called names Drunkard. You've been called names Ooh, this one. Temper. Short temper. You've been called names. The one every Monday when it comes is not at work. You've been called names. But he's about to change your name today. He is about to change your name today. Regardless whether you like it or not, He is about to change your name. What has your name been? Unclean woman? God is calling you daughter. Woman with the issue of blood? God is calling you daughter. Daughter. Not just woman with the issue of blood. not an unclean woman but a daughter and a daughter that has been made a daughter is an heir is an heir so if you are called a man of God a woman of God let me let me reverse there's a difference of a man of God or a woman of God than a woman from God or a man from God. Because remember, there was an unclean spirit that he sent. There was a... Jesus sent an unclean spirit to this guy. God sent an unclean spirit to soul He sent an unclean spirit to soul Do you know what it meant It a spirit from God A spirit from God to Him. It's not a spirit of God. God is making you a son of God, a daughter of God, not one that come from God. So please understand that this as it is a woman's day today, it's a birth of you being made whole, not just healed, but made whole, because there's a difference between healing and whole making, because anytime when somebody is healed and they still sit with the past experiences and think every time whenever I met a man, I'm so sorry, the last man made me a boxing glove, made me a boxing bag, that every time whenever I speak to them, he hit me. The same guy that thought every girl was messing with him before doesn't want to have another girlfriend or a wife anymore because of the problem is every girlfriend that he had before showed him flames. Now he made you whole to not even think about that anymore. The same job that fired you because you just made one mistake is going to be taken away from you so that you don't even remember that job was the one that fired you because of God has made you whole. Every other job after that will be the best job that you will find. The business that you thought, ooh, the business failed. I can guarantee you now, God has made your business whole, not just healed it, not just put on plasters on it. He made it whole so that your business can be a proof of His wholeness in your life today. I don't want you to understand there's so many things that goes wrong in your life and And so many of them, you just allow it to happen. Stop allowing that to happen to you. Stop allowing that to happen to you. Go to God. Interrupt His disciples. As he is about to go to somebody who is dying, interrupt his day and say, hey, before you go there, look at me first. Before you go there, I will touch your hem. The hem of his garment. Because Jesus, if you don't interrupt him, he will go to the death. The person who is dying. Do you think the person who is dying is better than you, who is not yet made whole? that person is not better than you. They might be dying. God has his time. He will first go to you and fix you first, make you whole first before he goes to the dying person. Therefore, I need you to understand something that as I'm speaking to you today, there are certain things in your life that you thought you are disturbing God when you speak about it. No, you're not disturbing him. Disrupt him every minute, every second, every hour because he needs disruption to go to your situation. Your situation is worth disrupting him. You are too holy. No, I can't speak to God because he is busy. How? if he's too busy for you it means that you have called him busy busy busy God can you make some time for me that is not who he is he's never too busy wherever he is he will make time for you Come on church of God Let us be a woman with an issue of blood that turned out to be the daughter or the son of God. Amen. And when you are a son, you are an heir. whatever belongs to him belongs to you and stop let the devil tell you otherwise because the the devil if you are carrying a pain that nobody knows this week stop hiding it from God reach out to him not just with a not just with a cover up version. Comes with the raw version. Comes up with the raw version and tell him out loud. Tell him out loud. Tell him, hey man, I can't take this anymore. This nonsense you're making with me go through. I can't take it anymore. tell him if you tell him God can you please I'm sitting with a problem I don't have a taxi fare today can you please organize a taxi fare for me there aye aye aye aye don't tell him God I need a taxi fare say God I need a job that can pay me a car salary so that I can drive my own car with my petrol stop asking for 20 rent for petrol I need to stop asking for petrol and for petrol Give me the job that pays me to put petrol in my car If you get angry of your situations, then God will see. It's no need for you to stay in that situation anymore. Be like the woman with the issue of blood. that became a daughter because she couldn't take it anymore, that she must be called a woman that is unclean. If you want to be unclean for the rest of your life, go ahead. But me, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord, but not just serve the Lord, make him sure that he must know we can't take it anymore. We need to be made whole. We need to be made whole. Now next week, there's going to be a hard one. Feeling sorry for someone is not the same as helping them. So we see the need. We feel something. We even post about it. And then when we do nothing, I'm going to show you what moved Jesus so deep in his gut that he could not just feel it. He had to act. Come back and let me show you The difference between pity And love And if you want to Take the moment Go back to all this You can get it on our YouTube channel Or you can go to www And all the sermons will be there www and you will find all the sermons there. If you don't like to read, I mean, if you don't like to go on to YouTube, you will be able to read it there as well. Because every sermon we preached is on our website. remember it's not fountain of grace it's fountaingrace.org god bless you lord jesus i want to pray for the woman who carry pain in silent the man who carry pain in silent the men that felt like they couldn't for years being in front of people because of this too much smell in them today in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior look at for them look out for them look after them see them in the crowd wherever their need is and make them whole not just heal them but make them whole in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, we pray. Amen and amen. Let us share the grace. Now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit rest and abide with us all until Jesus comes. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever and ever in Jesus' mighty name. Amen and amen. Thank you.