Everything I’ve learned about walking in freedom, I learned from my mom. I would like to share an excerpt from her journal, and I believe it will bring you as much freedom as it did me. Here’s the woman that was set free from her infirmity…she was made whole.
Unclean Woman
There was this certain woman in the bible, which had suffered for many years with an issue of blood. She had seen many physicians, spent all she had, and wouldn’t get better but rather grew worse. When she heard of Jesus, she came and weaved through the crowd to reach him. She believed and said, If I may only touch his garment, I shall be made whole (Mark 5:25-27).
Straightway the issue of her blood stopped, and she was healed. (v. 29). Jesus felt virtue had gone out of him. He turned and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” And his disciples said to him, “Master you see all the crowd and you ask who has touched you?” (v. 30-31). Do we come to church just to be the crowd? Or do we come to church focused on our needs to be met by Jesus like this certain woman?
The woman, fearing and trembling, knowing that she had been healed, came and fell down before Him and told him everything that had gone on for 12 years (confessed openly of her uncleanness). And He said unto her, “Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace and be whole of thy uncleanness.” (v. 33-34)
According to the Old Testament (the Mosaic Law), anyone who would touch a woman during her menstruation would be unclean until the evening. According to GRACE any unclean man or woman will be made whole through Jesus our Lord and Savior. If we come before Him through the crowd (in public), looking for whatever needs we have, HE is faithful and just to supply our needs.
Let’s do as this woman, who was not held by her sickness, to go by faith to meet Jesus where He was and had faith that if she would only touch the hem of His garment, she would be healed.
– Linda Helen Bernal
What is your need today?
We want to thank Jerika Longoria for sharing this excerpt from her mom.
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