Sunday, I ministered a message on God’s healing power. In that message, I focused on the woman with the issue of blood. As I preached about how she was able to approach Jesus, reach Him, and receive healing from Him, my heart exploded with faith in God’s desire and will to heal. And I began to think about how desperately we need to reach for God’s hem to receive healing from Him. That’s what I’d like to talk about in this post.
Interestingly, this woman with an issue of blood, according to scripture, was unclean. In Leviticus 15:25, NKJV, it says , “If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, other than at the time of her customary impurity, or if it runs beyond her usual time of impurity, all the days of her unclean discharge shall be as the days of her customary impurity. She shall be unclean.” If someone was unclean, scripture required them to stay away from others: “When any of you are unclean, you must stay away from the rest of the community of Israel. Otherwise, my sacred tent will become unclean, and the whole nation will die.” Leviticus 15:31, CEV.
Further, according to scripture, she approached Jesus in secret, from His backside. In Luke 8:44, ESV, it says, “She came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment, and immediately her discharge of blood ceased.” Normally, if you really want something from someone, you approach them to ask them face to face. Here, this woman approached Him from behind and in secret. (By the way, that’s where Jesus received His wounds for the healing of mankind). She was just looking to touch Him. She reached for Him to receive healing from Him. Here, Jesus doesn’t do anything to heal the woman with the issue of blood. She received her healing solely through faith in Christ’s ability to heal her.
Today, many in the body of Christ are sick; they need to receive healing. But they are sometimes afraid of going where they’ve never been before: Approaching God from behind, in secret, and grabbing hold of His garment until they are healed. How far are you willing to go to be healed? This woman was willing to go all the way. She was willing to do anything, legally or illegally, to receive healing from God. She didn’t let boundaries stop her. She didn’t let people stop her. She didn’t let the Jewish law or fear of punishment stop her. She knew what she wanted — healing.
I must ask the question: Why so little healing in the Church? Why have so many godly individuals died prematurely? I don’t have a good answer to that question. Like Alexander Dowie, I see sickness and disease getting the better of the Church and I don’t like it. That’s not God’s will. That’s not God’s Word. That’s not Biblical. No, no matter how many try to convince me it’s normal, happened in scripture, is God’s will, or was something “He allowed”, I know that’s a lie. Sickness and disease is of the devil, it’s straight from hell. As A.A. Allen said, “I’d rather be in jail than confined to a wheelchair or bed of affliction”.
Church, we need healing. Not just for a few through a few ministers moving in the gifts of healing. No, all should be healed. The woman with the issue of blood reached for and received her healing. Jesus, as I said, didn’t do anything to heal her; He was merely the conduit of God’s power. And this woman did what she did by faith in God’s healing power through Christ. She reached and received healing, even when Jesus Himself didn’t know He was healing her or who she was. Her desperation to be healed caused her to go through whatever she needed to, to obtain healing.
Do we have that kind of desperation to receive and walk in God’s healing power? Honestly, I don’t think so. I think, by and large, we are satisfied with our sickness and disease, ready to receive the doctor’s report, and settle for less than God’s best. We must reach and receive God’s healing power for our day. Yes, millions are waiting for the Church to move into the realm of God’s supernatural healing power. Even America, as a nation, is afflicted with sickness and disease. Trillions spent on medical treatment with no cures for numerous diseases. Yet, the Church remains silent, skeptical, and sick while Jesus, the perfect revelation of God, has shown His will and willingness to heal.
We must change! We must repent! We must become desperate to receive God’s supernatural healing power for our day.
Let us pray!
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