"Who Touched Me?"
Day 21 Devotional
“Who touched Me?...Somebody has touched me, for I perceive that virtue is gone out of Me.”
It is the woman with the issue of blood who has touched Jesus. Like Bartimaeus, she has made the decision she is not going to let Jesus pass her by. She has decided, in the throes of her desperation, now will be her moment. She is not going to wait her turn, she is going to take her turn. And so she pushes herself to “the front of the line” even though Jesus is on His way to heal a twelve-year-old girl. Because this woman, in her twelve years of dealing with her issue of blood has had enough. She has decided it is also her time. And so she has literally “cut to the front of the line” for she has purposed in her heart that if she can simply touch the hem of His garment, she will be healed.
And when Jesus perceives a literal strength, or power has gone out from Him, He stops in His tracks. For this woman has succeeded in getting His attention. She has been found out. Perhaps she has broken protocol, perhaps she should have been more patient, perhaps she is out of order, no one knows what will happen next as she presents herself, trembling, to the feet of Jesus and makes full confession of her actions - but also a confession that she has been healed.
And no one reproves her. Not even Jesus. Rather, He commends her and tells her:
Daughter, be of good cheer; your faith has made you well (Luke 9:48).
This woman is commended in front of the crowd. She is commended for “troubling the Master” as it were. She is commended for pressing in and pressing through, for her decision that she has been patient long enough. She reached the end of her patience, and she reached for Jesus’ robe instead. And she apprehended her healing. Are we willing to contend in like manner for the thing for which we are seeking? For there is patient perseverance, and then there is a Kairos time in which patience has run its course and the time is now for bold partnership with God. (Holy Spirit can and will direct you as to what that looks like in your life.) Discerning the difference is key in this hour.
From the moment John stepped out onto the scene until now, the realm of heaven’s kingdom is bursting forth, and passionate people have taken hold of its power. Matthew 11:12 TPT
And from the days of John the Baptist until now the Kingdom of heaven suffers (allows for) violence, and the violent take it by force. Matthew 11:12 NKJ
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