HOW DO WE TOUCH JESUS?

Mark 5:28 For she said, "If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well."

So how do we touch Jesus? It's wonderful reading about the lady yesterday who could just walk up to Jesus in person and touch Him but what do we do when Jesus isn't standing in front of us?

But first let's look at another occasion. The centurion who had a critically ill servant came to Jesus and said "...but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed." Matthew 8:8. As we know Jesus spoke the word of healing and his servant was fully recovered by the time he went home. Jesus never actually touched the servant because His Word is enough and remember Jesus and His Word are One. (John 1:1 and the Word was God).

This healing shows us what we can do now because Jesus isn't physically present to touch us. The centurion knew and believed in the power of Jesus' spoken word and how it carries the anointing within it to heal and restore those who are sick. The lady who was bleeding had faith to 'touch' Jesus' clothes, the centurion had faith to just have Jesus speak the word. Jesus meets us where we're at!

We have within us Jesus' very own Spirit - the Holy Spirit - He indwells us. He has given us His Word the Bible, and when we, by faith, speak His words of healing and when we call on His Name, we are actually reaching down into our spirit and touching Jesus Himself.

We don't have to go and find Jesus to touch Him. He's not 'out there' somewhere because He is already within us, He is that close. When we agree with His Word and speak it by faith we are reaching out to Him or rather into Him and drawing on His healing power which is already inside us because He is 'in' us. 

Remember the verses about 'out of your innermost being will flow living waters'? Those living waters also bring with them our healing and everything else we need because they are coming from Jesus' Holy Spirit within us.

We don't reach 'out' to Jesus. We reach 'in' to Him down in our spirit. I hope that helps us receive from Jesus today whatever our need may be. God keeps drawing us to meditate on these verses and the ones we shared yesterday to let Him speak His healing truth to our spirits. Amen.