Day 1. Faith knows God is God.

For the next 14 days I will be posting excerpts about 'FAITH', taken from the book of Mark (Just Jesus).  The bible says that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17).  Let's feed faith.

This story is amazing and builds my faith.  Humanly speaking, the woman had nothing left.  Her only option was God.  She knew that Jesus could do it for her.  All she had to do was touch Him.

Imagine this scene as you read.  A multitude of people (that's a lot) pressing on Jesus, following Him, hoping for something.

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Mark 5:21, 24-34
Now when Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other side, a great multitude gathered to Him ... and all the people followed, crowding around him. A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse. She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his robe. For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed.”  Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition.

Jesus realized at once that healing power had gone out from him, so he turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my robe?”

His disciples said to him, “Look at this crowd pressing around you. How can you ask, ‘Who touched me?’”

But he kept on looking around to see who had done it. Then the frightened woman, trembling at the realization of what had happened to her, came and fell to her knees in front of him and told him what she had done. And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.”

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Faith knows God is God.
When she heard about Jesus, she came … and touched His garment.

This woman had heard about Jesus and knew who He was:

• She knew enough about Him to make the declaration that He would heal her.
• She knew enough to touch Him & expect the answer.
• She knew He was her true hope.

QUESTION?
How does this impact you?  Is there a situation in your own life that needs to realize that God is truly the only answer to it?

Remember:  Faith is active trust.  It is sure of what it hopes for and feeds on the very word and presence of the living God.