HEALING THE HEMORRHAGE

I keep getting a reoccurring word. This word is, ‘we are in the season of grabbing His garment. If faith is not expended, it will not be extended.’ One example of expended faith is the account in the gospels of the woman who had a hemorrhage for twelve years. The gospel texts say she had “endured much at the hands of many physicians” and she had spent all she had on these doctors and she was not helped at all, but in fact had grown worse. She had tried every thing she knew to try. We don’t know what she knew about Jesus, but she knew enough to get into the crowd and “and come up behind Him” and grab Him by His outer garment, His cloak. “For she thought, If I just touch His garment, I shall get well.”

This woman expended all resources and was now expending all the faith she could muster for her deteriorating and discouraging condition. She was in the crowd that was following Jesus. Sneaking up behind Jesus she was convinced if she could just grab His garment she would get well. She believed this after using all conventional wisdom and means. It is not unusual to make Jesus the last hope, the last try, the last Physician that we seek, instead of the first. He is not offended by this and turned tenderly to the woman even though His disciples were treating the situation and the crowd rudely. His disciples commented to Jesus, “You see the multitude pressing in on you, and you say, ‘who touched me?”

The woman was immediately healed when she grabbed His garment, “and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.”

“Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.” Jesus