Most mornings I walk with one of my dogs. This is a time of worship and prayer for me… I have felt God’s presence more strongly when I take these walks than just about any other time during my day. I think this is God’s way of getting me addicted to walking and exercise, because now I crave that time with Him so much that I will joyfully endure the exercise. (God is funny with things like that.)
This morning I was doing the usual.. talking some, singing some, and praying out loud a lot ( yep, my neighbors think I am insane but they smile and wave at me so that’s OK) – and I was stopped in my spirit by a thought. God brought the story of the bleeding woman to my mind and I remembered Him asking the crowd who had touched Him. He knew someone had reached for Him because He felt power leaving Him and healing the person.
A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse. She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his robe. For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed.” Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition.
Jesus realized at once that healing power had gone out from him, so he turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my robe?”
His disciples said to him, “Look at this crowd pressing around you. How can you ask, ‘Who touched me?’”
I was sort of watching the story unfold in my mind’s eye and something in my heart longed to see many many people reach out to Him like that. It brought stinging tears to my eyes because I know Jesus is more than able and more than willing to allow His power to “come out of Him” and flow into us. We just have to admit our need for it, and reach and ask.
Then there’s this part of the story.
But he kept on looking around to see who had done it. Then the frightened woman, trembling at the realization of what had happened to her, came and fell to her knees in front of him and told him what she had done. And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.”
( Mark 5:24-34)
He ended her suffering HERE on EARTH!!! Praise Jesus!! He blessed her with peace, and ended her health issues and suffering as well. All she did was reach out to Him and believe. I love this!
Father , thank You for Your healing powerful touch. I pray You would give us eyes to see our own need, admit that we can’t do in our own flesh, and reach out to You and ask You for it. I pray God that when we ask, we also have enough faith to receive and then give YOU all the honor praise and glory you are so worthy of. I pray this in the mighty, powerful, beautiful and HEALING name of Jesus. Amen
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