Way to Believe...

Please read this again and again and install it into your memory. For anything in life you need to know the way to believe. Mark 5-22:42
Also I have highlighted and underlined and the number 12. They are key points. That is why the emphasis to read again.

Here is a man of high status in society and a woman who is an outcast because of her physical condition.
Jairus has a 12 year old daughter who is near death. The woman has exhausted her resources and has been disappointed by every available means of help.

On the one hand we have a father who is hurting because he looks at the pain of the daughter he loves. On the other hand we see a woman who for 12 years has been suffering physically and enduring one disappointment after another.

What we need to remember is what simple faith can do.

The woman who suffered from Haemorrhage: For 12 long years blood had flowed from her body, making her physically sick and socially unacceptable. Her willingness to believe she could be well again, despite all evidence to the contrary.   

For she said, "If I touch even his garments, I shall be made well." And immediately the hemorrhage ceased; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. Mark 5:28-30

By law, her touch would have made Him unclean. By Grace: "Immediately her bleeding stopped". Without a word, a look, the woman was healed because she touched Jesus. She was made whole simply by believing He could heal her — and daring to act on that belief.

This was the reason why God’s healing power had gone forth from Jesus just as soon as she touched Him. 

Jesus says, “Who touched me?” “What strange words,” the disciples thought! Everyone was touching Jesus, as the crowds pressed against Him.

Jesus asks, “Who touched me?” He calls her to confess Him before others. Jesus wasn't looking to accuse but to affirm.

The same faith that empowered her to stretch out her hand now gave her the courage to step forward. She "fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth" Mark 5:33.
Matthew 10:32-33 - So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven; but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.

She risked public humiliation, to make her confession of faith, explaining to the crowd why she had touched Him and how she had been instantly healed - Luke 8:47.

 

In Mark 5:34 - And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease."

Jesus not only heals her, Jesus restores her completely. Her suffering included the emotional effects of all that has taken place over the 12 years. Her faith had saved her from brokenness of body and brokenness of soul – Jesus says 'Go in peace!' God uses delays to test and encourage our faith.

A man named Jairus:(one of the rulers of the synagogue) said my little girl is sick and he begged Jesus to come and heal his dying daughter. We know that Christ is our hope, and In our crisis we run to fall at His feet and seek His mercy and help. This was what Jairus did, he was saying Lord, You have all power, You can keep her from dying!

Responding to this man's faith, Jesus went with him. Jesus kept getting delayed on the way to her. Jesus permitted time to run out because He wanted His disciples to have faith that goes beyond hopelessness, beyond even death! The believers who stood at the little girl’s bedside had limited faith. As long as there was life left, Jesus was needed. These people had faith only to the point of death. When the little girl died their faith died too. Finally someone from the man’s house came and told him that it’s too late, the little girl has died. "Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?"  Mark 5:35

When news comes that the daughter has died during this time of delay, Jairus would naturally be shaken and would be inclined to think there’s nothing more to be done.
The words meant absolutely nothing to Jesus. He never gives up on the dead because He is The resurrection life! Overhearing their message, Jesus said to Jairus, v36, “Jesus, as if He did not hear what was spoken, said to the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.”

When Jesus arrived at the house, Jesus saw a commotion with mourners crying and wailing loudly. (Jesus said) Mark 5:39 And when he had entered, he said to them, "Why do you make a tumult and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping." The mourners laughed at Him. They laugh because they are not people of faith.

Jesus entered the child’s room, took her by the hand, and healed her. Mark 5:41-Taking her by the hand he said to her, "Tal'itha cu'mi"; which means, "Little girl, I say to you, arise.
Jesus is victorious over the powers of darkness and death.

No matter what happens, don’t give in to fear. Jesus said that all things are possible to him who believes. All things are possible when you ignore fear’s limiting voice. Don’t be afraid; just believe.”

REMEMBER: To stay in faith stop focusing on the obstacles. What we need to do is learn from the obstacles. What is the purpose and what is it here for? Ask the Spirit of God, for His grace and guidance.

Most of the time obstacles are nothing but steps to make us walk in the direction to the plans which God has for us. But often we do not trust God enough.

It’s not unusual to be afraid, when something comes our way. But we need to surrender that fear to Jesus, and let Jesus take over. Fear disables belief. That is why Jesus says, “Do not be afraid; only believe.”

When we talk about Jairus it is so important to understand that Jesus did not just go to Jairus’s home. Jesus knew Jairus’s daughter would face death. But the time had to be right when Jesus would reach there. And it was so important that Jairus witness the healing of the woman who had suffered the flow of blood for 12 years. Her faith had healed her. It was faith that needed to be witnessed and learned from.

For anything in the world, after a known person came and declared to Jairus that his daughter was dead would only mean one thing that she was. And here was Jesus, telling him, “Do not be afraid; only believe.”
So Jairus really had one choice because he loved his daughter, he would have to believe, ignore what common sense says and go with Jesus, especially after what he had witnessed of the woman who suffered haemorrhage for 12 years. She believed and was instantly healed. If he followed with that kind of belief, then yes His daughter would just be asleep, like Jesus had told when He entered Jairus’s house. So yes the only thing he would need to do to hold his child again, to see her breathe is to “only believe.”

Jesus reached the house of Jairus and was ridiculed for saying that the child was asleep, but Jesus did not let it deter Him from what He had to do. He entered the room of the child. I love the words Jesus utters here it makes my heart flutter every time I hear it. Then He took the child by the hand, and said to her, “Talitha, cumi,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.”

The little girl (12 years of age) arose. 

How many dreams would come to pass if we ignored when somebody ridiculed us? Faith means walking into God’s blessings. Jesus did not stop on being ridiculed. He went with following His Fathers will.
Paul said in Corinthians 4:17-18 For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

In simple words - Jesus always says, ‘Your Faith has healed you’. Jairus watched the womans faith, her courage to admit Jesus and he witnessed her complete healing. He watched Jesus being ridiculed. He saw Jesus undeterred with the news of his daughters death. He was shown the way to believe.

Everything here is what the Spirit of God instructs me and what I have learnt from Fr. Ashlyn.

Thank You, Abba Father.
Thank You, Jesus.
Thank You, Holy Spirit.



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