“If I Just Touch…”

July 26, 2017

“If I Just Touch…”

Blessings folk!

Yesterday I mentioned that the woman hemorrhaging thought that if she could just touch Jesus’ garments that she would be healed.

How do I know?

The next verse tells us. Happy

Read and watch what happens…reactions.

Mar 5:25-30

A woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years,

and had endured much at the hands of many physicians,
and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse—

after hearing about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak.

For she thought, “If I just touch His garments, I will get well.”

Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up;
and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

Immediately Jesus, perceiving in Himself that the power proceeding from Him had gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My garments?”

Her faith was well placed.

What was her reaction?

Note the repeated word “Immediately”.
Immediately she was healed.
The flow of blood was dried up.
She felt it.
She felt in her body…physically…that the affliction was healed.

Jesus’ reaction?
Immediately He perceived that power had proceeded from Him.
The Authorized Version states it this way…

Mar 5:30
And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him,
turned him about in the press,…

Jesus knew within Himself that “virtue” had gone from Him.
The Greek word used here for “power/virtue” is “dynamis”.
It refers to…”inherent power, power residing in a thing by virtue of its nature, or which a person or thing exerts and puts forth” (Strong’s)

The woman accessed the very power of God that was/is inherent within Jesus.

She believed, by faith.
She received and was healed by the power of God.

Jesus did not know she was doing this until it occurred.

He then inquired as to who touched His garments.

Many had touched Him.
Many were touching Him.
But only one had “touched’ Him in faith to receive what they needed.

Think on that.

That is the status of much of the professing Body of Christ today.

Many “touch” Him…superficially, on the periphery, by religious actions, etc.
Few “touch” Him in faith.

Which are you?

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