November 27, 2010 – Mark 5:21 - 5:43

I love the story of the woman with the hemorrhages.  It really speaks to us about praying and praying with faith.  The crowds were all around Jesus and bumping into Him, brushing up against Him, but they weren’t healed.  The woman reached out and touched Him with faith and was healed.  When we pray just to pray and don’t really have the faith behind it, we are like those in the crowd.  Nothing happens, we are not healed.  But when we pray with faith, power will flow from Christ into our lives.  What an awesome gift, the power of Christ.  And when it flows into our lives, it cannot help but overflow into those lives we come into contact with.  And notice that Christ doesn’t physically do anything.  He is just there.  But when He is touched with faith, power flowed from Him without His actively doing anything.  It works the same for us.  We must make that step and reach out to Him with faith. 

They ridiculed Him when He said she was only sleeping.  Were these the same people that knew the father had gone to fetch Christ.  Maybe they are the ones that recommended it.  Yet, once she is dead, they lose their faith in God’s power.  Not only do they lose their faith, they go beyond doubt to ridicule.  Imagine the looks on their faces when the daughter walks out of her bedroom.  Again, it goes back to the faith a person has in Christ and how firmly we live our lives based on that faith.