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There are seasons in life when it's all

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honey blossoms and sunshine and laughter fills the

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air.

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Then life comes at you and the sky

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darkens and the wind begins to blow and

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quite suddenly you find yourself in the storm

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of your life.

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Some of you may only know the sunshine

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and honey blossom time.

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Others of you may know what it's like

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to experience both, which come from the providence

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of God.

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The unseen hand moves in mysterious ways his

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wonders to perform.

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When Joseph was still among his brethren he

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wore a coat of many colors and he

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was the apple of his father's eye and

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he even dreamed that each of his family

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bowed to him but he never dreamed that

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his rosy circumstances would suddenly change when his

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own kin turned on him and disposed of

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him.

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He never dreamed he would be snatched from

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the comforts of his home and his father's

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loving gaze to be thrown into a cold

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pit and a prison from which he could

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not extricate himself.

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When Moses and the Jews were trapped at

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the Red Sea and their backs were against

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the rocks and the Egyptian armies were fast

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approaching and Moses himself couldn't hire a ship

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or wrangle a way to get them across

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that water.

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They were entirely shut up to God for

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deliverance.

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Have you ever been there friend?

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Do you know what it's like to have

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all your human resources evaporate and your friends

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desert you and the walls cave in upon

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you?

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Well, if you do then you know what

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it's like to be entirely cast upon your

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God when the storm is unleashing its fury

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down upon your head and the seas are

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quickly flowing into your ship and it all

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begins to sink and all you can do

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is close your eyes and pray because you

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have entered the place when God is your

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only hope.

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And that's the title of my message this

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evening friends.

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When God is your only hope.

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My text can be found in Matthew's Gospel

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in chapter 9.

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You can turn in your Bibles there now

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friends.

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We will be in verses 20 through 22.

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Let me read us this familiar passage of

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scripture about a woman who had come to

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the place in her life when God was

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her only hope.

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Here now is the Word of God and

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may God's Spirit attend the reading of his

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holy word.

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You know the scene before us friends.

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Jesus is confronted by a ruler named Jairus

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whose daughter lay dying and Jesus agrees to

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follow this man home.

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So he and his band of disciples are

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making their way through thick crowds who are

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pressing upon Jesus both out of their curiosity

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and their need.

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And along comes a woman who was quite

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unnoticed in the crowd.

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She'd be unnoticed anywhere.

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But she pushes her way through that throng

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with determination into that inner circle where the

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master is because she is desperate.

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Have you ever been there friend?

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Have you ever been desperate enough to get

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to Jesus?

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Well, this woman was.

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We read in our text and behold a

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woman which was diseased with a issue of

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blood 12 years.

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Let me pause here friends.

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12 years.

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Have you ever been in a desperate place

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for a long time?

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Have you ever been so weary of your

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prolonged trial that you know only a miracle

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is the only hope you have?

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Well, guess what friends?

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God is still a God of miracles.

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Yes, he is.

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Do you believe me?

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It's true.

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In another gospel it tells us that she

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had spent all her money on physicians.

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I guess doctors were always expensive, but she'd

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not been cured by them and all her

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resources were exhausted on them.

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She is at the place of desperation.

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She needs a miracle and she knows it

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and she knows that Jesus is the miracle

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working man.

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So she must get to him no matter

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what.

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So here she comes with her arms outstretched

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to touch the hem of his garment.

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Verse 21 tells us, For she said within

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herself, If I may touch his garment, I

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shall be whole.

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She has no money.

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She has no hope.

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But she has faith.

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She knows that God is her only hope.

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How about you friend?

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Have you tried everything else to no avail?

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Are you exhausted and at the end of

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your rope?

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Get to Jesus.

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Get to Jesus.

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Because if you need a miracle, you've come

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to the right place because God is still

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a miracle working God.

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Oh, you better believe that friend.

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Go to him in faith and cast yourself

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there.

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Let your prayers reach out for his garment

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tonight.

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We see in verse 22, But Jesus turned

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him about and when he saw her he

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said daughter be of good comfort.

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Thy faith hath made thee whole.

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And the woman was made whole from that

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hour.

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When God is your only hope, Then cast

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yourself down at his mercy seat and believe

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that he not only cares about your friend.

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But that he will get you through.

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He will bring you through.

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When God is your only hope, then rest

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in that hope.

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Let us pray.