
How
to recieve your Miracle..........
The
Woman With The Issue Of Blood
Mark 5:24-34
.....A
large crowd followed and pressed around Him. And a woman was there
who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 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. When
she heard about Jesus, she came up behind Him in the crowd and
touched His cloak, because she thought, "If I just touch
His clothes, I will be healed." Immediately her bleeding
stopped and she felt in her body that she was free from her suffering.
At once Jesus realised that power had gone out from Him. He turned
around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"
"You see the people crowding against you," His disciples
answered, "and yet You can ask 'Who touched Me?"
But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the
woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at His
feet and, trembling with fear, told Him the whole truth. He said
to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace
and be freed from your suffering."
Wow!!!!
What a result for this poor lady, like the blind man last week
this illness had made her unclean and prevented her having a normal
life in her society.
She
had spent all her money, time and effort on a cure but had not
found anyone to help her. She was physically, spiritually and
emotionally bankrupt. For twelve years this had been going on
and she had nowhere left to turn.
We
are often the same with our illnesses, we will go to this doctor,
that Chiropractor, the Homeopath, the Magician
the latest Guru, or Occultist to get our healing.
It
is o.k. you think if we can get better, but to be ill for twelve
years? The answer to our sickness was born 2000 years ago in a
stable in Bethlehem. The Name - The Lord Jesus Christ.
In
1 Peter
2:24 it
says "He
Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might
die to sin and live to righteousness; by His wounds you have been
healed."
I do not
for one moment think this woman understood the theological debate
on whether Jesus could heal her or not.
No with her bleeding a constant reminder of sins effect on her
body, she was going to take her miracle from the One passing before
her.
I
would remind you women were of no great importance in those days,
she would if she was healthy be pushed to the back of the crowd.
Was she put off?
No! Like a woman going for a handbag at the January sales she
pushed her way through to Jesus believing if only she could touch
His garments.....
She
got through and touched His clothes and there the miracle, her
bleeding stopped. Right then, just as she touched His clothes
, she was healed. Wow! what a day, what a healing what Joy!!!
Jesus knew that the healing needed something else. She needed
to restored Physically but also Socially.
"Daughter
your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your
suffering."
In
front of everyone Jesus speaks the healing word to this woman
and seals the work of faith.
She
put all the little faith she had in this last chance for healing
and God proved His love for her by delivering her totally from
her infirmity.
Do
you need to place the little faith you have in the God of Creation.
Do you need healing? Do you need peace and restoration. Jesus
lived , died and was resurrected for you so that you can receive
the benefits of His sinless sacrifice.
He alone is the One we must trust for our lives. He alone is the
one in whom we must believe for our miracle.
The
woman in this story had no-one else to go to.
Twenty
years ago I made the same choice as she, I put my faith in The
Lord Jesus Christ and found healing and peace in Him, I have followed
Him ever since because He is the reality I was seeking, I called
upon His name and was saved. Maybe today you can put your trust
in Him too and receive your miracle
Maybe you have realised
that you need to be serious with God. If you have a need ask Jesus
to answer it, trust Him and believe He will do it!
Start to believe
in what God says about you in the bible. If you have not invited
Jesus into your heart this would be your first step. Peter said
of Jesus
'You have the words of
eternal life' John 6:68
The Lord Jesus is
ready to help you as soon as you ask to know Him as Lord. Jesus
Christ has paid for your sin, my sin and every ones sin by living
a life free from sin and dying in our place so that we might know
forgiveness of sin, and freedom eternally from the power of death.
Remember you can
only deal with your own sin. Everyone has to answer to God for
what they have done, but God is merciful and will forgive them
too, when they are ready to come to Him. He will always accept
you, and makes you the offer now of real, genuine love and resurrection
life.
You need to say
sorry to God for having offended Him by your sinful actions, and
choose to walk in His ways instead. Ask Him to forgive you for
your sins, repent of your sins and tell God you need His help
to stop living in a way that pleases you, and tell him you want
to live to please Him.
Invite Jesus Christ
to come and be Lord of your life. Thank Him that He has bought
you back from the road of darkness and destruction by giving His
life for you, and releasing you from the burdens of rejection,
guilt and shame. Bringing you fully into His wonderful light.
Thank Jesus for this, and acknowledge His death and resurrection
and ask His Holy Spirit to come into you right now and give you
the power to change and you will find real acceptance in Him and
He himself will show you the way forward.
Next step is to
tell someone you have received Jesus as your Lord and Saviour
and find a church that really loves Jesus and lives for Him.
It will not be easy
but will be the greatest and most joyful decision you have ever
made.
If you have made
this decision today E.Mail us
and we will send you a Gospel of John
and some helps to get you started in your new and exciting walk
with Jesus.