Purposeful Touch

Mark 5:25-30 (KJV) And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?

Prior to this event in Mark 5:25-30 people have been touching Jesus on different occasions when he is ministering in the crowd but such touch has no record of any miracle attached to them because those who touched did so with no intentions to receive any form of miracle. Those that touched before this event touched Him in order to have something to brag or boast about when discussing with family and friends. To them is enough to boast to their friends, family, neighbours, colleagues that on this and that occasion when Jesus was ministering they were able to touch Jesus in the press and that’s all.

But the woman with the issue of blood touched Jesus purposefully. She was intentional in her touch. Her touch of Jesus’ garment was her action in line to receive her desired miracle of healing from the issue of blood which she has suffered from for twelve years. She has an expectation which is to be healed. She had the faith that touching Jesus would bring the healing. She put her faith to work by making the effort to touch Jesus’ garment irrespective of the crowd and she was healed.

Jesus would have kept quiet and allow the woman to go unnoticed by the crowd. Jesus is God and all knowing, He knows who touched Him and the miracle that took place in the person’s life. Infact He has the woman’s details even before she was conceived in her mother’s womb but Jesus asked the question ”who touched me?” in order to teach the crowd that healings also take place when people touch Him intentionally and not only when He touched them. Jesus created the awareness.

If you read the bible carefully you will notice that after the woman with the issue of blood got healed by touching Jesus’ garment so many other people got their healing by touching Jesus’ garment.

Mark 6:56 And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.

Prayer: 🙏 Father thank you that I can touch Jesus by faith and be healed.

Divine Healing Is Not Against Medication

Isaiah 38:21 (KJV) For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.

God is not against you going for medication/Medical treatment when you are sick. Either orthodox medicines or natural remedies is not contrary to divine healing, both serve God’s purpose for God’s children to obtain their healing. What God is against is idol worship in the name of medicine/ medication.

Therefore beloved if you fall sick, seek medical attention. Pray to God for your healing, believe God, put your trust in Him as your healer not on the drugs, take your drugs as prescribed, before you know it your health will spring forth.

Why you must not put your trust in drugs or stop praying for healing when you are receiving medical treatment is because drugs no matter how good or potent they are can kill or harm the person taking them if not properly administered.

Do not put your trust in your doctor no matter how qualified or specialized he/she is. Remember that that your doctor is a human even though a specialist and humans are prone to error. God is the only one who cannot make mistake therefore commit your affairs unto Him and He will take charge.

Beloved miracles happen. This is a situation whereby you receive your healing instantly without medication or God’s intervention instantly over a particular situation. However there are occasions where medical attention is required. Do not hesitate to take advantage of it because all things work together for good to them that love God – Romans 8: 28.

More so according 2 Peter 1:3 God has given us all things that pertain unto life and godliness…. Do not close your heart against divine healing through instant miracle nor close your heart against divine healing through medication. Both have been made available by God for your own good therefore take advantage of both whenever there is need.

Prayer: 🙏 Father thank You for the provisions You made for my healing and sound health.

Faith

Hebrews 11:6 (KJV) But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

The above scripture states clearly that if anyone wants to please God that faith is needed. This implies that no matter what you do for God or with God if you did not do it by faith God cannot be pleased with you.

What is faith? Faith is believing God for everything. It is taking God by His word. It is believing that whatever He says He is capable of making it to happen no matter how long it takes. Faith is believing in the power of God to turn things around irrespective of the prevailing circumstances or challenges.

The number one thing we need to please God is faith. Our faith in God leads to obedience to His word. Our obedience to His word is counted as righteousness, Romans 4: 22. Our obedience to His word is also known as holiness. Our faith in Him subdues fear.

Beloved keep your faith in God intact, it must not be weak, it must not be little or small, make it strong and great,build it up because that is what you need to please God.

Prayer 🙏 Father help me to have an unwavering faith in You in Jesus name. Amen.

He Makes All Things Beautiful

Ecclesiastes 3:11 (KJV) He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

God has an appointed time for every thing according to Ecclesiastes 3:1. Why certain things around you may not look beautiful now is because is not yet God’s time to make them beautiful. When it is God’s time He will make them beautiful. If a particular area of your life isn’t looking beautiful now, all you need to do is to pray and wait on God, when the time is right He will make it beautiful. Ecclesiastes 3:11.

Remember that He has promised to give you beauty for ashes -Isaiah 61:3. You can’t get anything less if you want for Him.

Prayer 🙏 Father thank you for making all things beautiful in your time.

It Will Not Happen

Isaiah 54:17 (KJV) No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

At all times the devil and his cohorts are doing or planning one thing or the other against God’s children. No matter how hard they try or fight it will not happen because God’s presence with us is a defense mechanism which nullifies their plans even before they started.

Therefore you don’t need to be afraid knowing that however hard they try it will not come to pass. They failed before they started. They may attack you through accusations – falsehoods. You are to condemn their tongue by standing on the truth of the word of God and His righteousness because it is your heritage.

Isaiah 8:10 (KJV) Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Whatever strategy they adopted is bond to fail. Why? Because God is with us. So beloved always ensure that you please God at all times to retain His presence then you will have nothing to worry about the devil and his cohorts.

Romans 8:31 (KJV) What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Do you know the answer to the above question? The answer is nobody.

Prayer 🙏 Father thank you for being my defence.

He Sent His Word

Psalms 107:20 (KJV) He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

God has already sent His word for your healing and you have a part to play which is to discover the word He sent to heal you, grab it, meditate on it, confess it, keep confessing it, don’t stop. As you continue to confess God’s word over that health issue before long you will see how miraculously your health has improved.

Yes, by the medical report the case may be that of a critical condition. But you are not expected to ponder on how critical the condition is rather in addition to taking your medications you are to meditate on God’s word. Hold God by His word, He has already sent His word and He cannot deny His word.

Check out what He said about your healing and health:

1 Peter 2:24 (KJV) Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

3 John 1:2 (KJV) Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

Exodus 23:25 (KJV) And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

When you are holding unto God’s word for your healing, you are holding unto Jesus the great physician. Remember He is the word of God made flesh. As the great physician there is no kind of sickness or disease that He doesn’t heal.

Matthew 4:23 (KJV) And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

So from now on go ahead and confess that you are healed by His stripes. Say everything God has said about your healing. Don’t confess the critical medical condition any more. As you confess God’s word over your health may you receive your miracle healing in Jesus name. Amen.

Prayer 🙏 Father thank you for sending your word to heal me. I receive the healing you sent to me in Jesus name. Amen.