Jesus Appreciates !! - Part II

Hello guys,

Now lets continue with this again. Sorry for this delay, will try to post more often. :-) 

Lets focus our attention towards Mark 5th Chapter. Here we see 3 different miracles. 

1. The story of the demon - possessed man

2. The story of the lady who was suffering for 12 years

3. The story of the daughter of Jairus, the synagogue leader

All three are different and unique in their own way. Jesus works in the lifes of these people in 3 different ways. But the verse I would like to take for today's devotion is verse 34. Here Jesus appreciates the lady. He says, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your sufferings.

What a blessing..!! Go in peace and be freed…. I think I would give up anything for this kind of blessing. But now, I am more focused on the words which precede this blessing. DAUGHTER, YOUR FAITH HAS HEALED YOU. In the first part we saw that Jesus appreciates the FAITH of the centurion and here gain HE is seen appreciating the FAITH of this lady.

Lets now try to understand the situation. This lady was suffering for 12 years continuously. And she had met all possible physicians; she had spent whatever she had on this. She got worse and not better. She is tired on all this. She now realizes that Jesus is her only hope. She has HEARD about this carpenter doing miracles, and she is following Him now with the crowd. She BELIVED that all she had heard is true. She now understands the supremacy of God. She again didn’t expect anything from Him, but she THOUGHT in the mind that if SHE would just touch HIS clothes (in tamil it says “the corner of his clothes”), she would be healed.

And she “TOUCHED” and she was healed immediately. 

Praise the Lord!! Amen!! And then Jesus turns back, enquires and she comes to the fore and THEN, Jesus appreciates her. 
We can clearly see here that the miracle is initiated from HER END, she went ahead, and touched the cloak, and the miracle happened. So to have a miracle in life we should initiate the miracle from our end. 

Now lets analyze the sequence:

1. She Heard
2. She Believed
3. She Thought
4. She Touched

If we compare our own faith with this lady, we may not even cross the second point.

MANY of us hear – yes we hear a lot about Jesus.

SOME of us believe too – that Jesus can do miracles in our lifes.

But only FEW of us think that Jesus is above all our problems and needs,  and we tend to solve our problems ourselves.

And a VERY VERY FEW of us exercise that faith and belief into practice.  That’s the saddest part.

This lady on the other hand exercised her faith and was appreciated and we know that faith without deeds is useless (NIV) (in NKJV this kind of faith is said to be a dead one)

And to show the power of faith which is exercised, I would like to add one more point. Even Jesus was not able to stop this miracle. In verse 30 we see, Jesus realized that power had gone out from Him, only after the miracle had happened. I am astonished to understand that Jesus Himself is not able to stop power going out from Him. This is the power of faith which is practiced.

And like the icing on the cake, He appreciates..!!!

Lets start exercising our faith and get appreciated..!!!!

AMEN.