By Pastor Dr. Aggrey Soyekwo
Mark 5:30-31 "At once Jesus realized 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?’”_ - NIV
Jesus is going to Jairus house to save a dying girl. A woman who has bled for twelve years, seen every doctor, spent all she had on treatment but instead only got worse, interrupts His journey. In faith though physically weak, she pushed way through the crowd, touched Jesus garment and got healed. Jesus immediately knew some power went out of His body. It was no ordinary touch. It was a touch of faith.
So many touched Jesus as part of the crowd. But their touch meant nothing to Him. The woman resolved in her heart, believed that she would be healed upon touching Jesus cloth, and that drew power from Jesus to heal her. So many are around Jesus today, follow and associate with Him, throng places of worship, occasionally mention His name, but are just part of the crowd. This teaches the importance of faith in our relationship with God more than just be around Him.
Anyone can have this faith and recieve from God. Faith is the key to the breakthroughs we desire from God. Sympathy is not enough. The soothing words of Jesus to the fearful, now healed woman, are very encouraging to us all. “He said to her, _“Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”_ (Mark 5:34). Simple childlike faith, even without recognition or too much noise and manipulations of different sorts is what God looks for. He asks us to only believe!_
Hebrews 11:6 "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him."_
Shalom children of God.