Mark 5:25-30 (NKJV) 25 Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, 26 and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment. 28 For she said, “If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.” 29 Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction.
During the past few days we have had some questions asked of us about faith and healing. Specifically, we have been asked why some people get healed when they are prayed for and why some people don’t.
As we replied to one person, we don’t always know or understand why these things happen and none of us ever has all of the answers. But we do want to share something that God has taught us about this phenomenon.
In the scripture above, the woman who came to Jesus knew that if she could just touch Him, she would be healed. Why was this so? How did she know that she would be healed, simply by touching him or his robe?
It was by her faith. God showed us that this woman’s faith had been ignited… lit on fire. She had an absolute knowing in her spirit that left no room for doubt, whatsoever.
We see many other instances of this in God’s word where people had an ignition (sudden boost) of their faith and they absolutely knew beyond any doubt that if they could just get to Jesus they would be healed (Matthew 8:5-13, Matthew 9:2-8).
In all of these examples, Jesus told them “your faith has made you whole”. You see, it was their faith that made them whole. Their faith had been ignited and raised to new levels, and with this elevated faith, they absolutely knew that they would be healed and delivered from their affliction.
This was the case in my own life, when God healed me of asthma after being under its curse for 30 years. The story is too long to share here, but let me just say that I had asked God to heal me many, many times. It wasn’t until I got a revelation from God and my faith was ignited that I actually received complete healing and deliverance from this terrible curse.
We all need to let God teach us how to allow Him to ignite our faith. It’s all right there in His word. We just need to see it for what it is and get it in us.
Then He can perform miracles in our lives and the lives of those around us.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808
401-315-0902
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