Take Heart Daughter: From Suffering to Healing
Have you ever felt exhausted, suffering alone and in silence for a long time? There is a woman in the Bible who knows that feeling. She was bleeding for 12 years until she hears about Jesus and reaches out to touch his clothes. In this episode I share some of the things I learned about this story and healing. It’s not enough to know who Jesus is or have a Bible in the house, we need to reach out and TOUCH Jesus and allow His word to touch our lives.
Time; Obedience; Understanding; Connection; Healing
Matthew 9: 20-22; Luke 8: 42b-48; Mark 5: 24-34
Additional references - Number 15: 38-40; Malachi 4:2; Matthew 14:36, 23:5; Deuteronomy 22:12; Psalm 133:2; Acts 5:15; Matthew 13:14-15; Mark 4:11-12; Isaiah 6:9
“Jesus… deliberately touched rather than healed by his word to show compassion and to anticipate by his action the coming change in law under the new covenant…. Jesus is not defiled, but those are cleansed and healed.” https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/clean-unclean/
“The disciples were incredulous, but Jesus knew that healing power had gone out of Him. We can’t “steal” a miracle from God. After the woman comes forward and explains herself, Jesus clears up any misconceptions about her healing, saying, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering” (Mark 5:34). God is moved to action by our faith, even when He’s in the middle of doing something else!
Jesus could have healed the woman and kept on walking to His original destination. Only He and the woman would have known what had taken place. But He didn’t do that. Jesus stopped what He was doing and acknowledged the result of this woman’s faith: her complete and instantaneous healing.” https://www.gotquestions.org/woman-issue-blood.html
“T’shuva” or “teshuvah” Hebrew – repentance; return as if turning back to something you’ve strayed or looked away from; back to center; take stock of your values; leads to healing; healing for brokenness, new beginnings, www.hebrew4christians.com
