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.

SHE KEPT SAYING....

Mark 5:28 For she kept saying, If I only touch His garments,  I shall be restored to health. (Amp. Bible)

There are three accounts of this story in the gospels and this lady had been suffering with a flow of blood for 12 years. She had been to every doctor she could find and had suffered at their hands with no success to such an extent she was still suffering and getting worse.

She really was an inspiring lady though and I'm looking forward to meeting her in heaven one day because she kept saying 'I shall be restored to health' despite all her disappointments. Did you notice it says she kept saying.  The verb is continuous in that verse apparently. She kept saying 'I shall be restored'.  She said it so much it got down in her spirit and she believed it.

May I ask us all, what do we keep saying?  Is it 'oh I'll never be any better than this, I've tried everything, I've just got to learn to live with it, I keep getting worse'? If so, please let the Holy Spirit inspire you with how this lady dealt with her problem.

She apparently had 'heard' about Jesus and she believed what she heard. (Faith comes by hearing). This lady really caught Jesus' attention so much that she made Him stop in His tracks and turn around. How did she do it? She used the faith she had, she spoke in faith, she kept speaking in faith despite how she felt, and then she acted on her faith - she touched Him because she believed in Him. She kept saying 'I shall be restored, I shall be, ....'That really got Jesus' attention!

Now, my encouragement to us all today, myself included, is to keep saying what lines up with God's Word and His promises over our lives. 1 Peter 2:24 ...by whose stripes you were healed. Keep saying and believing I am being restored to health because by Jesus' stripes I was healed. Don't give up and don't give in. 

Jesus hadn't even been to the cross for this lady at that time but He has now for us, and He tells us He has born all our sickness and diseases Himself on that cross. (Isaiah 53:4-5) Let's touch Him by faith today by believing He's speaking to us personally and keep saying and believing and receiving by faith 'I am being restored because Jesus has already taken all my sickness and disease Himself'. Amen.