Real Gospel TRUTHS...: The woman who TOUCHED JESUS....

The woman who TOUCHED JESUS...

Don't give up on God, for HE won't give up on you!

I figure, if I can just get to Jesus like the woman who pressed in through the crowd to touch the hem of HIS garment, then I’ll be alright. I’ll be safe. There is healing in HIS presence, deliverance and peace there. So I press in past the noise, through the smells and resistance, rejection and the friction of the crowd. I press. If I can just touch the hem of HIS garment it will all be better.

….I think I know how she felt, the woman - that woman with the issue of blood. It’s like having a plague that follows you wherever you go. You've done everything you possibly can to change your uncomfortable situation. They condemn you. They don’t understand. You don’t understand. The problem just sits there. For instance: the wayward child, the drug habit, the disease, etc... The more you lose is the more you lose. Your loss is not on account of your efforts nor lack thereof. It’s based on external circumstances that you have no control of. Job lost one thing after another. Big losses, continuous losses, unexplainable losses. Have you ever been there? Have you ever had an unpleasant situation that seemed like a recurring nightmare which was so much bigger than you - BUT GOD!

Luke 8:43-48

43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.

Sometimes you just have to press through all the distractions and obstacles to the place where HE is. Psalm 22:3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Sometimes you have to seek God for yourself about the thing that you suffer the most pain about. You have to believe that HE is who HE says HE is. HE is a healer. Miracles is what HE does best. HE will deliver you if you keep going until you get to HIM for yourself. Get HIS attention, do what you must; and don't leave until you've gotten HIS attention. Inspite of the crowd HE is always aware of those who seek HIM out. Remember Zacchaeus?

What Jesus thought about her....

She thought she was in trouble after she touched HIM and HE started asking about her. She was trembling with fear. She felt so ashamed, after having suffered such a horrible past of disdain. She was scorned by others, she crawled in the dirty streets. Yet God called her 'daughter'. HE didn't refer to her the way people treated her, nor the way she felt about herself. After HE healed her, HE aligned HIMSELF to her - brought her into HIS Kingdom. HE the King of Kings called her daughter. She belonged to HIM. She wasn't what she thought. She was who HE said she was. HE turned back to address her. She was important to HIM.

Our heavenly Father calls us heirs and co-heirs, sons and daughters. We need to see ourselves the way HE sees us. We're not what we're going through, nor what they call us. We're not even what we call ourselves inspite of our 'unfit realities'. We are redeemed royalty. We have 'newfound' rights and privileges. We can never understand unless we're taught by the Holy Spirit. All royalty has tutors. We have absolutely no idea the vast provisions that God has made for us as HIS Kingdom property. We are children of the most High God, given an inheritance before the creations of the earth. Jesus said that God provides for the birds of the air and we're worth so much more than they are to HIM. You are never a nuisance to God. HE wants to fix anything you're struggling with today. Run to HIM. If you can't run walk. If you can't walk crawl. Just don't stop moving towards HIM. HE will not condemn you.

Matthew 6: 26-34

²⁶Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? ²⁷Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

²⁸“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; ²⁹and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ³⁰Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

³¹“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³²For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. ³⁴Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Jesus said HE came for the sick, the unrighteous, the oppressed. HE brought a Kingdom whose culture corrects the wrong(ed) and empowers them to sin no more. In addition, the Kingdom of God empowers us to take charge. We are a people with a 'newfound' identity and authority. The things that once kept/ held us captive have lost their power to do so when we activate the principles of the Kingdom of God in our lives. Death is no longer final, ask Lazarus. Oppression is no longer final, ask the men who lived in the graveyard. Sickness is no longer final, ask the woman.