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PRAYING THE NAMES OF GOD
ANN SPANGLER

Names of Jesus Week Four, Day Four
ATROS ZOES(BREAD OF LIFE)
The Name
Without bread no one in ancient Palestine would have survived for long. So it seems entirely reasonable for Jesus, in what has become known as the Lord's Prayer, to instruct his disciples to pray for their daily bread. Yet the Lord also challenged his followers not to work for food that spoils, announcing himself as the only food that would enable them to live forever.
In fact, Jesus was born in Bethlehem, which means "house of bread." After feeding five thousand people with only five loaves of bread and two fish, he shocked his listeners by declaring: "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you" (John 6hi53). This week, as you seek to understand what it means that Jesus is the Bread of Life, ask him to show you exactly what it means to feed on him.
Key Scripture
"I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which people may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." John 6:48 - 51
***
Thursday
Praying the Name
Jesus said to them, "Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever." John 6hi53 - 58
Reflect On: John 6hi53 - 58 and Psalm 103.
Praise God: The source of all life.
Offer Thanks: For your daily bread.
Confess: Any tendency to live as though this world is all there is.
Ask God: To give you life everlasting.
I know someone who is dying, though you wouldn't know it to look at her. Her cheeks aren't sunken or sallow. She laughs frequently, sleeps well, has a hearty appetite, and tries to exercise regularly. She has two small children who drive her on alternate days either to delight or distraction. From the outside her life looks good. But she's dying, wasting away. Her body is deteriorating, wilting toward the earth that will one day swallow her whole. Still, you wouldn't know it if you passed her on the street. On a good day she might even be whistling. Even her friends don't know just how limited her days are. So how do I know she's dying? I know because the person I'm talking about is me.
But don't pity me, please. I've learned to deal with it, at least on some level. Most of the time I don't even think about it. In case you're wondering what I suffer from, I'll name the condition. It's called mortality, and it's an unstoppable epidemic.
The other night I dug out an old family movie and showed it to my children, who are considerably younger than I am. There was Uncle Tom, Aunt Betty, Uncle Warren, Grandpa and Grandma Spangler, Grandpa Dunbar, my dad, my cousin Judy, my sister Sue. We were water skiing, ice skating, blowing up balloons, grilling out, running races, kissing, unwrapping gifts, playing with the dog. The memories were warm and rich. But all at once they were tinged with grief as my children began asking: "Who's that? Is he alive? What happened to her? Is she dead?" Nearly every time the answer was yes — two of the children and all but three of the adults on the film, gone a long time ago. I thought of the psalmist's words, "As for mortals, their days are like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more" (Psalm 103:15 - 16).
Humanity is like the soon-wilted grass. We are up to our necks in "grassness." But unlike grass, we bear the tragedy in our hearts, knowing how short life is.
So what can we do about it? Rather than trying to dodge the truth, why not take time today to deal with it head-on? Think about the ways death has already affected you. Then reflect on your own impending death. Let it sink in. Shed some tears if you must.
Then look at Psalm 103 again. Notice that it continues on a note of hope: "But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord's love is with those who fear him" (103:17). The psalmist cannot resist the qualifier. He says but, because there is more to the story, mitigating circumstances concerning our "grassness." The New Testament fills it out beyond his wildest imagination. In Jesus, God becomes flesh — everlasting love stretching across the widest of chasms — across death itself — and reaching toward us.
Remember today that Jesus is heaven's bread. He is the answer to our grief, the solution to our problem. Believe him. Listen to him. Feed on him so that his life will reverse death's curse. Then proclaim with the great apostle Paul: " ‘Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?' The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Corinthians 15hi55 - 57).
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PRAYING THE NAMES OF GOD
ANN SPANGLER
LAST DAY OF THE BREAD OF LIFE (ARTOS ZOES)

Names of Jesus Week Four, Day Five

The Name
Without bread no one in ancient Palestine would have survived for long. So it seems entirely reasonable for Jesus, in what has become known as the Lord's Prayer, to instruct his disciples to pray for their daily bread. Yet the Lord also challenged his followers not to work for food that spoils, announcing himself as the only food that would enable them to live forever.
In fact, Jesus was born in Bethlehem, which means "house of bread." After feeding five thousand people with only five loaves of bread and two fish, he shocked his listeners by declaring: "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you" (John 6hi53). This week, as you seek to understand what it means that Jesus is the Bread of Life, ask him to show you exactly what it means to feed on him.
Key Scripture
"I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which people may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." John 6:48 - 51
***
Friday
Promises Associated with His Name
Imagine a scene in which all the people who have ever lived are standing one in front of the other. Then death enters the picture, snapping its steely cold fingers against the first person in line. One by one everybody collapses, like a long line of dominoes. The process goes on for centuries until one of the dominoes does the impossible — it stands back up again. Suddenly death's power has been challenged, disrupted, called into question.
That's what happened when Jesus was killed. Though death pressed down on him, it could not obliterate his life. As Peter assured his fellow Jews: "God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him" (Acts 2:24).
Jesus, the greatest of all death's trophies, did what no human being had ever done before. He gave death the slip. And now he leads a revolt against sin and death, promising that the same divine power that raised him from the dead will raise us up as long as we have fed on him, the Living Bread come down from heaven.
Promises in Scripture
Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty." John 6:35
"I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which people may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." John 6:48 - 51
Continued Prayer and Praise
Refuse to spend so much money on things that will never satisfy your hunger. (Isaiah 55:1 - 2)
Reflect on Jesus' words at the Last Supper. (Luke 22:7 - 22)
Remember the promise of hidden manna. (Revelation 2:17)
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wavewavewavewaveMORNINGdancingdancingdancingdancingPRAYING THE NAMES OF GOD by: ANN SPANGLER. THE SUBJECT THIS WEEK IS: 'IATROS-WHICH MEANS PHYSICIAN'

Names of Jesus Week Five, Day One

The Name
Jesus, the greatest of all physicians, performed more healings than any other kind of miracle. Nothing stumped him — not blindness, craziness, lameness, deafness, or even death. Every ailment yielded to his undeniable power, and every healing served as evidence that his kingdom was breaking into our fallen world.
When you pray for healing for yourself or others, remember that God never sends sickness, though he sometimes allows us to become sick. Indeed, Scripture sees sickness and death as byproducts of sin. And it was to solve the sin problem that Jesus came into the world. When you pray for healing, remember that Jesus is always your ally, always wanting what is best for you and for those you care about.
Key Scriptures
The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. Matthew 11hi5
Jesus said to them, "Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.' " Luke 4:23
***
Monday
His Name Revealed
When John heard in prison what Christ was doing, he sent his disciples to ask him, "Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect someone else?"
Jesus replied, "Go back and report to John what you hear and see: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor." Matthew 11:2 - 5
He [Jesus] went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to release the oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."
Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down...
Jesus said to them, "Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.' "
"I tell you the truth," he continued, "no prophet is accepted in his hometown. Luke 4:16 - 24
Jesus, you are the great Physician, able to heal both body and soul. I praise you because no disease is beyond your healing power and no sin beyond your saving grace. Today I pray that you would heal me and make me whole and help me to live in a way that expresses my faith in you. Use me, Lord, to advance your healing work so that many others will learn of your compassion and your power.
Understanding the Name
The ancient Egyptians were among the first to practice medicine, learning how to fill teeth, stitch up wounds, set broken bones, and perform various kinds of surgery. Later on the Greeks developed a more empirical approach to medicine, while the Romans grew wealthy by developing specialties that focused on treating eyes, ears, teeth, or various gynecological disorders.
Though the Jews used physicians, they believed healing came ultimately from God. He was Yahweh Rophe, "the Lord Who Heals." What's more, their Divine Healer had given them a set of laws that included hygienic practices that contributed to their health and to their staying power as a people.
Also, according to the Talmud, an authoritative collection of Jewish writings, every city had its own doctor who was licensed by city officials. The temple in Jerusalem also had its own physician, assigned to take care of the priests. Jesus' healing miracles clearly reveal him as the greatest of all physicians. While he emphasized the importance of faith in the healing process, the Gospels do not support the teaching that a lack of healing always indicates a lack of faith. And though the New Testament sometimes directly links individual sin with sickness, it does not presume that every sickness is caused by individual sin. Rather, human beings become ill as the result of living in a fallen world.
It is interesting to note that the author of Luke's Gospel, which recounts many of Jesus' healing miracles, was himself a physician (see Colossians 4:14).
Studying the Name
Why do you think Jesus responded to John the Baptist in the way he did in Matthew 11:2 - 5? What does this say about his purpose for coming into the world?
Do you think Jesus still heals people today? Why or why not?
Have you experienced God's healing power in your own life? If so, how?
In Luke's Gospel, in a rather roundabout way, Jesus refers to himself as a "physician." Yet his words indicate that his work as a physician would not always be well received. What do you think he meant?
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PRAYING THE NAMES OF GOD
ANN SPANGLER
DAY 2, SUBJECT JESUS AS PHYSICIAN

Names of Jesus Week Five, Day Two

The Name
Jesus, the greatest of all physicians, performed more healings than any other kind of miracle. Nothing stumped him — not blindness, craziness, lameness, deafness, or even death. Every ailment yielded to his undeniable power, and every healing served as evidence that his kingdom was breaking into our fallen world.
When you pray for healing for yourself or others, remember that God never sends sickness, though he sometimes allows us to become sick. Indeed, Scripture sees sickness and death as byproducts of sin. And it was to solve the sin problem that Jesus came into the world. When you pray for healing, remember that Jesus is always your ally, always wanting what is best for you and for those you care about.
Key Scriptures
The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. Matthew 11hi5
Jesus said to them, "Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.' " Luke 4:23
***
Tuesday
Praying the Name
Some men brought to him a paralytic man, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, "Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven." At this, some of the teachers of the law said to themselves, "This fellow is blaspheming!"
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, "Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts? Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, ‘Get up and walk'?" . . . So he said to the paralyzed man, "Get up, take your mat and go home." And the man got up and went home. When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to human beings. Matthew 9:2 - 8
Reflect On: Matthew 9:2 - 8.
Praise God: For his healing power.
Offer Thanks: For whatever health God has blessed you with.
Confess: Any sins that relate directly to your body — such as sexual sins, gluttony, sloth, or intemperance.
Ask God: To heal you, body, mind, and soul.
Imagine you are lying on a stretcher in the emergency room after having suffered a stroke. Though you cannot move, you are still aware of what's going on around you. Suddenly a doctor leans over you and, instead of injecting you with a clot-busting drug, takes hold of your hand, looks you in the eye, and says: "Cheer up! Your sins are forgiven."
Wouldn't it sound crazy, like a colossal non sequitur?
That's how the story of the healing of the paralytic struck me on first reading. What does the man's need for healing have to do with his need for forgiveness? We know that ignorance regarding what causes disease has resulted in millions of deaths over the course of human history. As recently as two hundred years ago, physicians treated their patients by bloodletting, vomiting, purging, and starving them. Benjamin Rush, a physician friend of John Adams and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, routinely prescribed bloodletting as a treatment for yellow fever. George Washington died after physicians drained several pints of blood from his body in hopes of curing a throat infection. No wonder the seventeenth-century French dramatist Molière once quipped that most people die not from illness but from remedies.
But Jesus was not dealing in ignorance when he began to heal the paralyzed man by reading his heart and declaring his sins forgiven. He knew that every human being suffers from what might be called a kind of spectrum disorder. Think of it like this: On the low end of the spectrum is the common cold, then come allergies, then something like arthritis, then maybe cancer, and finally, on the extreme end of the spectrum, is the most dreaded condition of all — death. Jesus already knew what science can never discover — that every one of our afflictions is ultimately rooted in sin. Sin breaks our connection with God, the source of all wholeness and healing, distorting and obstructing his plan for the world.
When Jesus told the paralyzed man his sins were forgiven, he was acting not like an ignorant physician but like a skilled doctor who was not content to treat the man's symptoms without dealing with their root cause. After that the impossible happened. The man picked up his mat and walked home, praising God!
Jesus, our great Physician, is still at work, forgiving our sins, healing our bodies, and restoring our souls. Take time today to align yourself with his healing work by repenting of your sins. Then pray for those in your family, your church, or your neighborhood who are ill. Ask God to deal with the deep cause of their suffering, whether rooted in their own sin or in the sinful nature of our fallen world. Ask him to bring them complete healing — body, mind, and soul.
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JESUS AS PHYSICIAN (IATROS)
Names of Jesus Week Five, Day Three

The Name
Jesus, the greatest of all physicians, performed more healings than any other kind of miracle. Nothing stumped him — not blindness, craziness, lameness, deafness, or even death. Every ailment yielded to his undeniable power, and every healing served as evidence that his kingdom was breaking into our fallen world.
When you pray for healing for yourself or others, remember that God never sends sickness, though he sometimes allows us to become sick. Indeed, Scripture sees sickness and death as byproducts of sin. And it was to solve the sin problem that Jesus came into the world. When you pray for healing, remember that Jesus is always your ally, always wanting what is best for you and for those you care about.
Key Scriptures
The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. Matthew 11hi5
Jesus said to them, "Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.' " Luke 4:23
***
Wednesday
Praying the Name
Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Matthew 9:35 - 36
Reflect On: Matthew 9.
Praise God: For his healing compassion.
Offer Thanks: For God's healing power.
Confess: Any pride, which keeps you from asking for what you need.
Ask God: To deepen your sense of dependence on him.
Matthew's Gospel recounts fourteen spectacular miracles that displayed Jesus' healing power. Five of these appear in chapter 9:
• Jesus heals a paralytic.
• He heals a woman of chronic internal bleeding.
• He brings a dead girl back to life.
• He restores the sight of two blind men.
• He casts out a demon and enables a mute man to talk.
Jesus was an M.D., a physical therapist, a gynecologist, an ophthalmologist, and a psychiatrist all rolled up into one. He healed men, women, and children. He was a wonder worker whose healing power even brought the dead to life.
Pictures of Jesus as the meek and mild shepherd often fail to capture the incredible power of this man. Who else do you know that went around raising the dead? Surely someone with that much power must have created a stir whenever he walked into a room.
But despite his power not everyone was healed. To Pharisees who criticized him for dining with sinners he replied: "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. . . . I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners" (Matthew 9:12 - 13). Can you hear the irony in his voice? He was saying that those who were too proud to admit their neediness would never know what he could do for them. They would never know his life-giving power to heal and to forgive. You have to ask before you can receive.
Then there's the matter of faith. He healed the paralytic when he saw the obvious faith of the friends who brought him; he told the woman who had the audacity to touch his garment that her faith had healed her; he touched the eyes of the blind men, telling them, "According to your faith will it be done to you" (Matthew 19:29). Time after time, wonder after wonder, Jesus healed and restored those who displayed two things — faith and humility. These two ingredients were catalysts for his power.
The next time you pray for healing, why not go out on a limb? Admit to yourself and to Christ just how desperate you are for him to touch you, body and soul. Then tell Jesus you believe in his power to heal you. Stop hedging your bets and qualifying your prayers. Ask him to glorify himself by making you a spectacle of his healing power and his great compassion. If in response you sense him asking you to do something to effect your healing, like asking others to pray for you, repenting of sin, changing your lifestyle, or seeking out the care of a specialist, do that as well. Don't limit the ways God can answer your prayer for healing grace.
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Names of Jesus Week Five, Day Four

The Name
Jesus, the greatest of all physicians, performed more healings than any other kind of miracle. Nothing stumped him — not blindness, craziness, lameness, deafness, or even death. Every ailment yielded to his undeniable power, and every healing served as evidence that his kingdom was breaking into our fallen world.
When you pray for healing for yourself or others, remember that God never sends sickness, though he sometimes allows us to become sick. Indeed, Scripture sees sickness and death as byproducts of sin. And it was to solve the sin problem that Jesus came into the world. When you pray for healing, remember that Jesus is always your ally, always wanting what is best for you and for those you care about.
Key Scriptures
The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. Matthew 11hi5
Jesus said to them, "Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.' " Luke 4:23
***
Thursday
Praying the Name
And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.
"Who touched me?" Jesus asked.
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." Luke 8:43 - 46
Reflect On: Luke 8:43 - 48.
Praise God: For placing his Son, Jesus, in the midst of our struggles and hurts.
Offer Thanks: For all the ways you have seen God's power at work in your life.
Confess: Any tendency to mistrust God because of past disappointments.
Ask God: To help you put your faith where it belongs — in him.
Catherine Marshall, best-selling author and widow of Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall, was diagnosed in 1943 with tuberculosis. Doctors from Johns Hopkins told the young mother she would need three to four months of complete bed rest. As the mother of a three-year-old, she couldn't imagine spending so much time in bed. She had no idea that it would be two years before she would be back on her feet again. Catherine spent hours reading Scripture and asking God the hard questions of faith. Not surprisingly, one of her favorites had to do with whether he still healed people.
She had been told as a child that miracles had ceased with the early church. Yet healings had been so plentiful in the Gospels. They seemed like Jesus' favorite kind of miracle, an expression of his love and compassion for the crowds that always surrounded him. If this were so, how could Jesus refrain from healing people for two thousand years? She didn't believe he could or would. So both she and her husband prayed persistently for a miracle. But none came.
Finally, after a time of profound inner struggle, she prayed, telling God he could do whatever he wanted with her. She would accept his will even if it meant remaining an invalid for the rest of her life. God didn't have to explain himself to her, because she trusted him to love and provide for her no matter what happened. Her prayer marked a turning point. The same night, she had an experience that changed her life:
In the middle of that night I was awakened. The room was in total darkness. Instantly sensing something alive, electric in the room, I sat bolt upright in bed. Past all credible belief, suddenly, unaccountably, Christ was there, in Person, standing by the right side of my bed. I could see nothing but a deep, velvety blackness around me, but the bedroom was filled with an intensity of power, as if the Dynamo of the universe were there. Every nerve in my body tingled with it, as with a shock of electricity. I knew that Jesus was smiling at me tenderly, lovingly, whimsically — as though a trifle amused at my too-intense seriousness about myself. His attitude seemed to say, "Relax! There's not a thing wrong here that I can't take care of."1
Soon medical tests confirmed a remarkable improvement in her condition. And within six months, the doctors proclaimed Catherine Marshall completely well.
Her story reminds me of the woman in Scripture who had suffered for twelve years from vaginal bleeding. She spent all her money on physicians who couldn't do a thing for her. But she was healed the instant she touched Christ. I wonder if Catherine Marshall's prayer of faith, relinquishing her need for a miracle and affirming her complete trust in God, was what touched Christ, so much so that it attracted his healing power.
If you have been suffering physically or emotionally, ask for the grace today to put your faith in God rather than in a particular outcome. Tell the Lord you no longer expect him to explain himself to you and that you trust him to love you and provide for you no matter what.
For more from Ann Spangler, visit her blogspot on Christianity.com.
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Names of Jesus Week Five, Day Five

The Name
Jesus, the greatest of all physicians, performed more healings than any other kind of miracle. Nothing stumped him — not blindness, craziness, lameness, deafness, or even death. Every ailment yielded to his undeniable power, and every healing served as evidence that his kingdom was breaking into our fallen world.
When you pray for healing for yourself or others, remember that God never sends sickness, though he sometimes allows us to become sick. Indeed, Scripture sees sickness and death as byproducts of sin. And it was to solve the sin problem that Jesus came into the world. When you pray for healing, remember that Jesus is always your ally, always wanting what is best for you and for those you care about.
Key Scriptures
The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. Matthew 11hi5
Jesus said to them, "Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself! Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.' " Luke 4:23
***
Friday
Promises Associated with His Name
Wars, famines, poverty, and illness are obvious signs that we live in a broken world, one that is out of alignment with God's original intentions. Who but a Divine Physician could possibly heal us, bringing us body and soul back into alignment with his purposes?
Remember the woman with the issue of blood who pushed through the crowd in order to touch the hem of Jesus' garment? You might be interested to know that she touched a part of his robe called the tzitziyot, or tassels. Like other devout Jews, Jesus wore these in obedience to God's instructions to Moses: "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘Throughout the generations to come you are to make tassels on the corners of your garments with a blue cord on each tassel. You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the Lord, that you may obey them' " (Numbers 15:38 - 39). So the sick woman touched the most sacred part of Jesus' garment. And she did this even though she knew that under the law her condition would have rendered her and whatever she touched ritually impure. But instead of being defiled by her touch, Jesus' proved the more contagious, rendering her whole and pure.
Jesus is still the source of our healing. If we humble ourselves and pray, if we seek him and turn from our sins, then we have reason to believe he will hear from heaven, forgive our sins, and heal our land.
Promises in Scripture
When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:13 - 14
Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security. I will bring Judah and Israel back from captivity and will rebuild them as they were before. I will cleanse them from all the sin they have committed against me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against me. Then this city will bring me renown, joy, praise and honor before all nations on earth that hear of all the good things I do for it; and they will be in awe and will tremble at the abundant prosperity and peace I provide for it. Jeremiah 33:6 - 9
But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall. Malachi 4:2
Continued Prayer and Praise
Ask God to increase your faith for healing. (Matthew 8hi5 - 10; Mark 9:17 - 29; John 4:46 - 54)
Thank God for healing. (Luke 17:11 - 17)
Understand that miracles of healing are a sign of Christ's in-breaking kingdom. (Matthew 11:2 - 5)
Trust that God is with you in your weakness. (2 Corinthians 12:7 - 10)
Remember that God still heals. (James 5:14 - 16)
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