How Christ Heals

Day 5- Mark Chapter 5

Scripture- Mark 5:24  ...A large crowd followed and pressed around him. ²⁵ And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. ²⁶ 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. ²⁷ When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, ²⁸ because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” ²⁹ Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. ³⁰ At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
³¹ “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”
³² But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. ³³ Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. ³⁴ He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”

Observation- The word healed, in verse 34, is “sōzō” which means: to save, that is, deliver or protect (literally or figuratively): - heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be (make) whole.  Jesus wasn’t just talking about her physical healing but he was also talking about her spiritual healing too.  At the end he said “Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”

Application- When Jesus heals he wants to heal every area of our lives.  He already knows everything about us so in our vulnerability we need to be willing to reach out to him in faith and in doing so he will make us whole.

Prayer- Jesus, please bring healing to those areas of my life that rob me of peace whether it is physical healing that I need or spiritual healing.  Help me to cast all my cares on you, for I know that you care for me.

~ Amen