Scripture

Jesus overheard them and said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid. Just have faith”

Observation

After healing the woman, Jesus gets ready to move on to Jairus’s house, but messengers come with the news that the girl has died.

Jesus tells Jairus, “Don’t be afraid.”

Then Jesus stops the crowd from going any further, and He just takes Peter, James, and John with Him.

A crowd has gathered around Jarus’s house, mourning and weeping. Jesus goes inside and tells them that child is not dead, just asleep. He then takes the girl’s mother and father and the three disciples into the room where the girl is lying. He commands the girl to get up, and immediately she stands up and walks around.

The family are amazed. Jesus tells him not to tell anyone about what has happened.

Application

Jesus told Jairus, Don’t be afraid. Just have faith.”

Faith and fear are opposite forces in our spiritual lives. They oppose each other seeking to pull our minds in different directions.

Faith means that we put our trust in our loving Father and believe that He will meet us at our point of need

fear is the belief that the the worst outcome will happen. We fear because we do not trust God.

Is your faith in a loving God, or in circumstances you cannot control?

God is bigger than the things that we are afraid of. He loves us with an unfailing love, and so we can trust Him in every situation.

Listen

Lord, what do you want to say to me today about faith and fear?

Keith, when a person really experiences my love, then fear is pushed out of their heart As it says, in one John 4, perfect love casts out fear.

Fear and faith cannot coexist in any heart at the same time.

My children who faced, and still face, suffering and death for my sake experience this. They trust me and are determined to follow me, regardless of what people do to them.

They know that to die is to be with me and to suffer is a blessing because it deepens their faith and their knowledge of me.

Do not be afraid. Just trust me.