Scripture

He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.”

Observation

Jesus and the disciples return across the lake. A crowd quickly gathers around Him. A leader of the local synagogue, a man named Jairus, comes and pleads for Jesus to come with him and heal his daughter, who is dying.

As Jesus goes to Jairus’ house, the crowd presses in around Him. A woman in the crowd who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years, reaches through the crowd to touch Jesus’s robe, because she thinks that be doing this she will be healed. She is instantly healed.

Jesus realises that healing power has gone out from Him. He asks who touched his robe. The woman, trembling with fear, falls to her knees in front of him and tells him what she did. Jesus says to her, “Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”

Application.

An illness that has rendered this woman unclean for twelve years is healed with a touch.

Her faith was such that she determined that if she could touch the hem of Jesus’s garment, she could be healed. She didn’t seek attention or a prophetic word, she just touched His robe.

Her faith made her well. Jesus used her determined belief to heal her.

The word for heal here means to save. Just as faith in Jesus can save our souls, it can also heal our bodies.

Healing does not take against a great encounter with a famous preacher. We just reach out to Jesus and trust Him.

Listen.

Lord, is there more you want to say to me about healing?

Keith, there is always more to say about healing

This beautiful woman trusted me implicitly. She didn’t make a fuss, partly because of the shame of her condition. She was terrified when I saw her because she expected condemnation for breaking the purity laws.

According to the law, my robe should have been made unclean by her condition, But such is the power of grace, that it made both of us clean.

There was no need for a purification ritual. I declared her healed and clean.

Whenever I come into a person’s life, I bring cleansing from shame, forgiveness of sin, and healing of the body.