Healing

I heard about His healing, of His cleansing pow'r revealing. How He made the lame to walk again and caused the blind to see. And then I cried, "Dear Jesus, come and heal my broken spirit." And somehow Jesus came and brought to me the victory.
— "Victory in Jesus" by Eugene M. Bartlett

He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."
— Mark 5:34

As Jesus was on His way to help the daughter of Jairus, a large crowd followed Him. In the crowd that day was a woman who had been ill for 12 years. She wasn't like the rest of the crowd, however. They were following Jesus to see what He was going to do for someone else, but she was following Jesus to see what He was going to do for her.

As ministers, we're sometimes like the crowd following Jesus. We are interested in what He can do for others, but rarely come to Him for ourselves. It almost takes a desperate situation before we "approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need" (Hebrews 4:16).

Perhaps you have been ill or have suffered many years physically, financially, or emotionally. Why not exercise your faith for yourself? Reach out and touch the hem of His garment just like the woman in Mark, chapter 5.

Do not limit what God can do for you because of your lack of faith, either. F.B. Meyer said, "Unbelief puts our circumstances between us and God. Faith puts God between us and our circumstances."

Do not allow your faith to become comfortable and complacent. Stretch your faith! Open your heart to Jesus today, and give Him the opportunity to say to you, "Your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."

Taken from The Minister's Little Devotional Book.
Copyright © 1997 by H.B. London Jr. and Stan Toler.
Used by permission of RiverOak Publishing, Tulsa, Okla.
All rights reserved.