\"If I just touch Him, I will be healed.\"

The woman with the issue of blood said, "If I just touch Him, I will be healed."

MARK 5:25-29 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. (NIV)Why? Why would she say such a thing?

Why would she say such a thing? After twelve years of suffering, disappointment, and growing worse, why was she so certain?

Because she had heard about Jesus.

What she heard about Him gave her a reason to expect something different. She believed that if she could just touch His clothes, she would be healed.

Because He’s the healer. Because healing is in Him. When she reached for Him, she was reaching for healing.

Jesus is not only the healer. He is life itself.

When you turn to Him, you turn to life. When you turn to Him, you turn to healing.

Healing is always in front of you, because Jesus is in front of you. He promises to never leave you. That means healing is with you. In You. Jesus is in you so Healing is in you.

Jesus is with you. And if you belong to Him, He lives in you.

The One who healed that woman has not changed. The healer Himself dwells in you.

It's Never too Late to Turn To Jesus

The woman in this story turned to Jesus when she had no other option. All her money ran out, and all the doctors ran out. They gave up on her. There was no answer for her in the medical field. No hope for her in the church. No hope for her anywhere.

Until she heard about Jesus.

He's healing everybody. He's going to heal me. All I have to do is touch Him.

What was she touching? Love itself. She turned to the healer, and she turned to healing.

How She Drew Healing Out of Jesus

Jesus didn’t pray for her. He didn’t lay hands on her. He didn’t speak a word of healing over her.

She reached out and touched His clothes, and healing power flowed out of Him into her.

How did she draw upon that power?

By faith.

Jesus said, “Daughter, your faith has made you well.”

Her confidence was in Him. She believed that if she touched His clothes, she would be healed—and she acted on what she believed.

Her faith drew upon the healing power of God. And you can put your faith in that same Jesus today.

Don’t let your symptoms have the final word about what you believe. You can receive medical care and still trust Jesus as your healer. Keep your confidence anchored in Him.

There are plenty of voices that will feed your fear or give you reasons to lose hope. Be intentional about the voices you listen to.

Surround yourself with believers who will point you to Jesus. People who believe that He heals, saves, delivers, and provides. People who will stand with you in faith and remind you of His Word.

How Do You Touch the Hem of His Garment Today?

Jesus is no longer walking the earth as He did then. So how do you touch Him today?

He lives in you. He has promised never to leave you or forsake you. You don’t have to push through a crowd to reach Him.

The woman reached for His robe because she trusted Him. Today, you reach for Him by that same faith.

You’re not physically touching His clothes. You’re turning to the One who dwells in you—spirit to Spirit, by faith.

You reach for Him when you turn to Him. When you look to Him. When you trust Him.

And you’re trusting the same Jesus she trusted.

MATTHEW 14:35-36 They brought to him all who were sick, and begged him that they might only touch the hem of his garment. And as many as touched it were made perfectly well. (NKJV)

God still wants you touching Him.

LUKE 6:17-19 A great multitude of people came to hear him and be healed of their diseases, and the whole multitude sought to touch him, for power went out from him and healed them all.

It's okay to turn to Jesus for healing. He wants you to turn to Him for healing.

And that power now lives inside of you, because that's where Jesus is. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead, the same power that healed the woman with the issue of blood, the same power that healed the multitudes, is living inside of you.

He didn't go to heaven so that you would be without.

All They Had to Do Was Look

They rebelled, and the Lord sent fiery serpents among them.

When the people confessed their sin, Moses prayed for them. God gave him this instruction:

NUMBERS 21:8 — Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.” (NKJV)

Look and live. That was God’s instruction to those who had been bitten.

They had to turn their eyes toward the bronze serpent Moses lifted up. The bite was real. The danger was real. But God had given them a promise—and a place to look.

They didn’t have to understand how looking would save them. They had to trust what God said and look.

JOHN 3:14-15 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

That pole in the wilderness was a foreshadowing of the cross. A foreshadowing of Jesus taking on Himself your sickness and your disease.

Not one of them deserved to turn and look. Every single one of them was guilty.

But God had mercy.

The cross is God's mercy. Jesus is God's mercy.

And God is saying to you today, Just turn to Me.

You don't have to have a perfect prayer. You don't have to have a perfect scripture. All you have to do is turn to Him and keep turning to Him.

ISAIAH 45:22 Look to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is no other.

Every Time You're Afraid, Look Again

We have an enemy who wants to keep us from turning to Jesus. He wants to use a diagnosis or your symptoms to make fear the loudest voice you hear.

Think about Peter walking on the water. He stepped out of the boat at Jesus’ word. But when he saw the wind, he became afraid and began to sink.

His attention shifted from Jesus to the danger around him.

When fear pulls your attention toward your circumstances, look again. Turn your eyes back to Jesus.

You will face distractions. But a distraction doesn’t mean you can’t turn back.

Keep turning back to Him. Keep looking to your healer.

That’s what the healing scriptures help you do. They direct your attention to His promises and remind you who He is. When you’re sick, read them like medicine for your heart and mind, even as you care for your body.

When my husband and I both had COVID, we took turns reading two pages of healing scriptures every four hours. By the second reading, we felt relief in our bodies. The words of that woman’s testimony became personal to us: we felt freed from our suffering.

When you read the Word of God, you’re turning your attention to Jesus—the Word made flesh.

You’re listening to Him. You’re remembering His promises. You’re giving His Word your attention.

Look again.

JONAH 2:7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord.

It's hard to praise when you feel bad. I know. It's hard to read the Word when you feel bad.

Do it anyway.

When you praise Him when you don't feel good, you're saying, I believe You anyway, Lord. By Your stripes I am healed. I will praise You until there's a breakthrough in my body.

Praise is an automatic response to believing you're healed.

And every time you start to feel sorry for yourself, worried or afraid, you've just turned away and are looking at something else.

Turn back to Jesus.

God says, I am the God that heals. I am your healer, and I am your healing.

When you turn to Him, you're turning to healing.

It's that simple.

You can download my list of healing scriptures for free from the resources page at spiritfilledcatholic.com. Print them out and read them.

Common questions

Who was the woman with the issue of blood?

She had been bleeding for twelve years, spent everything on doctors and only grew worse. She heard about Jesus, touched His cloak, and was healed immediately. Jesus said her faith had made her well.

How can I touch Jesus if He isn't here physically?

He lives in you. You touch Him with your faith, spirit to spirit, every time you turn to Him, look to Him and trust Him.

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