YOUR FAITH HAS HEALED YOU

Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. 21 She said to herself, "If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed." 22 Jesus turned and saw her. "Take heart, daughter," he said, "your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed from that moment. Matt 9:20-22 (NIV)

This was a woman who had been suffering from bleeding for twelve years and she had gone to several doctors, but no one could heal her. Because of her hemorrhaging she was excluded from social and religious relations. Jesus the healer had come to her town and a great crowd of people surrounded Him wherever He went. Because of the crowd, she knew that it was impossible for her to get close enough to Him to ask for help, but, in her mind she thought, if I can just touch His robe, I know that I will be healed. The crowd was pressed in closely around Jesus and everyone was touching Him from all sides, but when the woman got close enough to touch the edge of His cloak, immediately her bleeding stopped. Jesus asked "Who touched me?" When they all denied it, Peter said, "Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you." But Jesus said, "Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me." Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed. Luke 8:45-47 (NIV).

I was saved when I was a young teenager and spent many years in the church, but a few years after I got married and moved away from my home state, I quit going to church and completely turned my back on God. After 18 years, God began to call me back to Him and the words of the hemorrhaging woman became my words “Oh, Jesus, if I could just touch the hem of your cloak....never mind seeing you.....but, just touch the edge of your robe....I know that I will be healed!" Since I had been saved early in life, I knew that my sins were forgiven already....but I needed to be healed....healed from a broken heart, a broken heart because I knew that I was the one that turned away from God and severed our relationship!

That was my battle cry and that can be yours too. Oh, there is nothing magical about His robe....that wasn’t the point with her, nor me....nor you. The point is FAITH! If you’ve strayed like I did, or you don’t know Jesus as your savior, just believe, confess and take heart (be strong) your faith will heal you!