Healer

Dear God,
 I know I haven't wrote to you in the past few days, but I know without a doubt that you have been with me.  I find myself sick today, no voice and an awful cough to match. So of course I found myself in a passage in which Jesus healed a sick woman.

Mark 5

²¹ When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. ²² Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet. ²³ He pleaded earnestly with him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live.” ²⁴ So Jesus went with him.

   A large crowd followed and pressed around him. 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.”



   This woman didn't demand results or a second opinion of Jesus' work, she had so much faith that she was sure that if she could only touch His robe that she would be healed.  So often we demand results of God. We say, "God I need proof" or "God, I feel you nudging me, but I want a more clear sign".  But when asked by the disciples one time why they couldn't preform acts such as He did, He said this...

He replied, “Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth,

 if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain,

‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.^a”

Matthew 17:20

That's exactly what I imagine this woman was like. She didn't have brutal strength or super powers. She simply knew who her God was and didn't think, but knew that she would be healed. And she was. We as Christians need to stand strong in our faith. No more of this "Well, maybe God will take care of it." We need to be saying, "Our God is Yahweh! Ruler of Heaven and Earth! The Almighty, the Beginning and the End! He is Sovereign! Finally my God is crazy about me, and I know without a shadow of a doubt that I NEVER walk alone, and He has already proven that He will walk through hell and back to save me. So I know He will deliver me now."