And Jesus is standing right in front of him saying, I'm here, I'm willing to help you, but you have to meet me and you have to partner with me.

God longs to partner with us from the beginning of time with Adam and Eve. He's always wanted to co-labour and partner with us and do this with us.

He's not just far away in heaven so far from us. He's here. He's in it. he's in the mess, but we have to meet him. We have to allow him and we have to say yes. Jesus says, would you like to get well? The guy starts making excuses as to why he can't. So I don't know what might be in your life that there's an area in your life that is hindering you, that's hurting you, that's making you sad. And I'm not saying that it's not valid, because it's completely valid. But is there a chance that you're making excuses to sit in it? That you're saying, oh, well, but this person really did hurt me, but this person really did break my heart, but this person really did do this and I really did I am valid and it's

like yes you are valid you are you are but love yourself enough to not want to be valid

and want to be better that's what I encourage you for it's like when you're in a fight with

someone and it's like you love that person so much you'd rather be good with them rather

be right in the argument you'd rather win the with them, rather be right in the argument.

You'd rather win the relationship than win the argument.

I would rather just get well than have my emotions validated.

So the man is making all these excuses and then Jesus tells him, Jesus is just like, hey,

you're coming up with all these things, you're saying all these things, you're going into

your trauma, you're going into your things, you're going into your trauma,

you're going into your heart, you're doing this, you're doing that, and I'm just saying,

all right, stand up.

I want you to know that that's how easy it is to receive healing, to receive deliverance, to receive

freedom, liberation.

Like, God is like, just stand up.

We might feel all these things, but we have the choice to submit to God,

to have a different perspective, to see clearly. Sometimes our negative emotion completely

distorts and destroys our vision and our ability to see clearly.

And Jesus, in this moment of deep, deep agony, he still had clear vision of being like, yes, this is how I'm

feeling, but I know that this is the end result. And that's where choice comes into that, of being like,

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