It's here: Part 9 of the 9 part series - how to get prayers answered
The Rhythm of The Gospels - D9
DAILY DEVOTIONAL
7/9/20262 min read
She Just Needed to Touch the Hem.
The faith that reaches when it has nothing left
"For she said, 'If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.'" — Mark 5:28 (NKJV)
Twelve years of watching every doctor take her money and give her nothing back. Twelve years of growing worse, not better, spending everything she had on every cure anyone offered until there was nothing left to spend. Mark says it plainly: she had suffered many things from many physicians, had spent all she had, and was no better. Instead she grew worse.
And twelve years of something even heavier than illness — twelve years of being ceremonially unclean. This meant she couldn't enter the synagogue. She couldn't even touch another person without making them unclean too. Couldn't worship, couldn't belong, couldn't draw near. The law she'd grown up loving had a category for her, and the category was: outside.
But on this particular day Jesus was passing through her town. And she made a decision that was quiet, private and it required everything she had left. If I can just touch the hem of His garment she said to herself. Not His hand, not His face. Just the edge, the fringe of the cloth at the bottom of His robe as He walked past. That's all she thought. Picture her as she pressed through the crowd, reached through legs and elbows, and got her fingers to the fabric.
The bleeding stopped instantly. She felt it in her body before she could name it. And then Jesus stopped walking and asked who touched Me? He didn't say who contaminated me, but who touched Me. She may have been afraid at first, but she may have also realized that had been noticed. He touch had not gone undetected. Jesus found her in the crowd and called her daughter. The first word He ever said to her, He called her daughter.
What have you been reaching for that keeps slipping away — a healing, a breakthrough, a word from God that hasn't come yet? Don't stop reaching. Mustard see faith can still makes contact, but her faith was something more. Reach today, not for the crowd's attention but for the hem of His garment. He still stops today for the one who reaches.
Scripture Promise:
"And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up." — James 5:15 (NKJV)
Prayer:
Father, thank you for giving me enough faith to believe, one step at a time. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
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