I spoke a prophetic word in church that encouraged those present to open their hearts to the fact that God not only exists but that He also rewards those who seek Him diligently (Hebrew 11:6). I have for years preached on the woman who diligently sought to touch the border of the Lord’s robe, believing that in the moment she did so, she would be healed — and the moment she did she was!
A “point of contact” for the release of one’s faith is essential. It’s like a focal point in the composition of a photo that captures a person or a feature in a way that draws the eye. Well, that woman’s act of faith long ago drew my eye, and not surprisingly because it has captured the faith of desperately sick people for 2000 years.
A “point of contact” enables those who are sick to set a way or a point in time for the release of their faith. Jesus had no knowledge of the woman’s intent and it was only when he “felt power go out of him” — drawn out by the woman’s touch of faith — that someone in the crowd had “touched” him. Not just physically but in faith.
We live in a physical world, and so when we need to “tap into” (so to speak) God’s power, we need to do so in a way that makes it tangible. If we do so without faith — as many do with religious objects of veneration — we trust the physical object without exercising active faith, in which case nothing happens. (However, I do not dismiss God’s grace in response to their heart-cry in some cases).
My point, though, is that the woman was the first example of anyone in the Bible who proved that our faith conducts the Lord’s healing power, and that setting a “point of contact” for believing can draw His healing power into the body. In the same moment that Jesus felt power go out from him, she felt in herself that she was healed.
This is why Jesus said that those who believed would lay hands on the sick and (that) they would recover (Mark 16:17). James 5:16 confirms that this was standard practice in the early church. What is your focal point, your “point of contact”? Do you have one?
Read again the story of the woman (Luke 8:40-48) and see how important her “touch of faith” was to her healing, and be encouraged to believe that God is “a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.”
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