We are in our series, Lessons in Faith,
and today we're in our lesson, Faith in
Adversity.
In Mark's Gospel, we find the account of
the woman with the issue of blood.
In chapter 5, beginning in verse 25, we
read, And a certain woman, which had an
issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered
many things of many physicians, and had spent
all that she had, and was nothing bettered,
but rather grew worse.
Let me pause here to say, friends, here
is a very sick woman whose health is
gone, her money is all gone, and her
patience has flat run out, to where her
only hope is in Jesus.
She heard that Jesus was out healing folks
in a certain place, and she needed to
be healed.
Man couldn't do it, but she knew God
could, so she exercises her faith to get
to Jesus.
When she had heard of Jesus, it came
in the press behind and touched his garment,
for she said, If I may touch Buddha's
clothes, I shall be whole.
And straightway the fountain of her blood was
dried up, and she felt in her body
that she was healed of that plague.
In her adversity, she exercises faith.
Her faith energizes her to press through a
crowd to get to Jesus.
She had a big faith because she saw
a big God and she needed a big
miracle.
Her faith activated her to place her hope
in Christ alone, and her faith motivated her
to reach out her hand to touch the
hem of his garment, all the while believing
he is able to accomplish all things, including
a miraculous healing.
Jesus tells her that it was her faith
that was the channel where her blessing flowed.
Christ's healing power flowed through the clear, clean,
unobstructed channel of her faith.
Jesus said to her, Daughter, thy faith hath
made thee whole, go in peace and be
whole of thy plague.
Faith is leaning on Christ in adversity and
believing God can do what man cannot.