Your Faith Has Made You Well

Responses to God's Faithfulness

God is Faithful

Live in the light of God (Isaiah 2:5) 

Faith Can Heal

Mark 5:25-34 New International Version

25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better, she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately her bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
30 At once, Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
31 “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”
32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”

For Reflection

Here faith in the reputation of Jesus led her to seek him out.  Her hope was strong. She mustered the courage not only to approach him but to touch him. Jesus felt her presence and understood right away the potency of her faith and the strength of her hope.act

This parable exemplifies the magnitude of faith and courage it takes to act on that faith.  Jesus did not have to lift a finger to assist her. God healed her, validated, and strengthened her spiritual resolve. God had bestowed on her the peace that passes all understanding. She found rest in God.

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Pray prayers of praise and thanksgiving for the living God.  Pray and find the courage to follow Christ, the hope of all humankind.

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