Mark 5:28 – 30 - For she said, if I may touch but His clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the fountain of her blood dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. And Jesus immediately knowing in Himself that virtue had gone out of Him, turned Him about in the press and said, “Who touched my clothes?
In this passage of scripture is the story of a woman with an issue of blood who had been sick for 12 years.
She was considered unclean and was not to be seen out in public.
When she heard about Jesus and His miracles she threw caution to the wind and went after her miracle.
She pushed her way through the crowd even in her weakened
condition.
Her faith and determination gave her the strength to pursue her miracle with her whole heart.
She was not looking for an audience with Jesus.
She did not desire to ask Him about His healing ministry.
She simply heard about all His miracles and believed that she could be one of those miracles.
She had a far deeper understanding than most – somehow she knew that if she touched the hem of His garment that power could also be found there and she would be healed.
She determined in her heart to get close enough to Him to experience this power.
When she pressed her way to Him and touched His garment, instantly her bleeding stopped and she was healed.
With all the people surrounding Him, Jesus asked, “Who touched Me?” and His disciples reminded Him off the size of the crowd.
Jesus felt virtue – power left His body when she touched Him.
Virtue is defined as power and goodness. This flowed out of Jesus into this woman and healed her.
Jesus found her in the crowd, because she came trembling and knelt at His feet.
Jesus said, “Daughter, your faith, your confidence, your determination has healed you go in peace and be freed from your sufferings.
Goodness flowed from Jesus into her and made her whole.
That same virtue, goodness and power is being offered to us today. All we have to do is to reach out and touch Him.
How close are you to Jesus’ virtue?
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Friendliness
Proverb 18:24 (KJV) – A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
When showing kindness toward others, the first outward sign will be the friendliness that you display.
When a person is friendly (smiling, helpful) people will know that they are approachable.
Friendliness is a display of your confidence in God.
It showcases God’s character so others can be drawn to Him. When we first show our friendliness to people, they will feel invited and welcomed into our presence.
When trials overtake us and we need counsel and help, God will raise up friends to care for us.
Jesus is a friend who sticketh closer than a brother.
He is available and attentive to us.
Stay close to your friends by being watchful and concerned about their well being.
How friendly are you?
When showing kindness toward others, the first outward sign will be the friendliness that you display.
When a person is friendly (smiling, helpful) people will know that they are approachable.
Friendliness is a display of your confidence in God.
It showcases God’s character so others can be drawn to Him. When we first show our friendliness to people, they will feel invited and welcomed into our presence.
When trials overtake us and we need counsel and help, God will raise up friends to care for us.
Jesus is a friend who sticketh closer than a brother.
He is available and attentive to us.
Stay close to your friends by being watchful and concerned about their well being.
How friendly are you?
Monday, August 10, 2009
Expressing Sympathy
Psalm 138:8 (KJV) – The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth forever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
In order to sympathize or show genuine concern for others, you must have a good understanding of where they are in their life circumstances.
God has promised in the Scripture to perfect everything that concerns us.
He is saying that things, situations, and trials will come our way but He will take all of it, mold and shape it, and then use it to perfect His ways in us.
God will take every difficulty and lift the concerns so that we are able to bear up under the weight of it.
He is touched with the feelings of our infirmities because Jesus identifies with us.
God will perfect His purposes in us.
If your circumstances or currently good, God is still perfecting that which concerns you.
If your circumstances are painful, God is perfecting that which concerns you.
He is sympathetic and concerned about all of our needs, and will supply them according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
How do you express your sympathy to others?
Thursday, August 6, 2009
A Display Of Tenderness
Psalm 117:2 - For great is His faithful love to us; the Lord’s faithfulness endures forever.
God displays mercy toward us even when we were sinners, Jesus was dying for us.
He is tender and compassionate to our needs.
He offers His best to us in all situations.
His tenderness is everlasting and endures forever.
God is the lover of our souls.
He knows that we are fragile and are in need of His strength.
So he tenderly reaches out to us and supports us as we serve Him.
The demonstration of His tenderness should also be displayed from our lives so others may see.
1 Thess. 4:18 says to comfort one another with the same comfort that we have received.
God’s comfort provides the peace that we need in all situations.
He comforts us because of His great love and tenderness toward us.
As we receive His comfort, we will see a display of His faithfulness throughout our life.
Remember to be tender, kind, and compassionate toward others.
Are you experiencing God’s tenderness in your life?
God displays mercy toward us even when we were sinners, Jesus was dying for us.
He is tender and compassionate to our needs.
He offers His best to us in all situations.
His tenderness is everlasting and endures forever.
God is the lover of our souls.
He knows that we are fragile and are in need of His strength.
So he tenderly reaches out to us and supports us as we serve Him.
The demonstration of His tenderness should also be displayed from our lives so others may see.
1 Thess. 4:18 says to comfort one another with the same comfort that we have received.
God’s comfort provides the peace that we need in all situations.
He comforts us because of His great love and tenderness toward us.
As we receive His comfort, we will see a display of His faithfulness throughout our life.
Remember to be tender, kind, and compassionate toward others.
Are you experiencing God’s tenderness in your life?
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
The Fruit of Kindness and Goodness
Galatians 5:22 – But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith.
Kindness:
A display of tenderness.
To be sympathetic and concerned.
To be friendly.
Goodness
To be virtuous.
To have value and worth.
To edify and to build up.
God’s kindness to Abraham and Isaac (Genesis 24:1-12)
Abraham was advancing in years and knew that in order for his legacy to be carried on, he needed to find a wife for Isaac.
He selected his trusted servant and sent him on a mission to his homeland to find a wife for Isaac because he did not want a wife from the people around him.
The servant knew Jehovah God, and understood that only God could give him wisdom, and favor to choose the right bride.
Vs. 12 – He asked God to give him success and to show kindness to Abraham – God had always demonstrated kindness to Abraham in the past.
Then the servant fleeced God by telling him that whoever offered not only to give him water, but also to give water to the animals would be the one God had selected for Isaac’s bride.
God answered the servant’s request by showing kindnesses to Abraham in the selection of a bride - the right bride was chosen and taken back to Isaac.
Kindness comes from the heart of God toward His children. He is kind and considerate toward us.
Whether you are rich or poor the law of kindness can operate in you and from you to others. All you have to do is ask God to work through you.
Is the fruit of goodness/kindness operating out of your life?
Kindness:
A display of tenderness.
To be sympathetic and concerned.
To be friendly.
Goodness
To be virtuous.
To have value and worth.
To edify and to build up.
God’s kindness to Abraham and Isaac (Genesis 24:1-12)
Abraham was advancing in years and knew that in order for his legacy to be carried on, he needed to find a wife for Isaac.
He selected his trusted servant and sent him on a mission to his homeland to find a wife for Isaac because he did not want a wife from the people around him.
The servant knew Jehovah God, and understood that only God could give him wisdom, and favor to choose the right bride.
Vs. 12 – He asked God to give him success and to show kindness to Abraham – God had always demonstrated kindness to Abraham in the past.
Then the servant fleeced God by telling him that whoever offered not only to give him water, but also to give water to the animals would be the one God had selected for Isaac’s bride.
God answered the servant’s request by showing kindnesses to Abraham in the selection of a bride - the right bride was chosen and taken back to Isaac.
Kindness comes from the heart of God toward His children. He is kind and considerate toward us.
Whether you are rich or poor the law of kindness can operate in you and from you to others. All you have to do is ask God to work through you.
Is the fruit of goodness/kindness operating out of your life?
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
A Lack A Faith
Matthew 19:16-30 - “The Rich Young Ruler”
He met Jesus and asked about what good thing he must do to inherit eternal life.
Jesus told him to obey the commandments and then He listed the commandments.
He told Jesus that he had kept them all.
Jesus then instructed him to sell all he had and follow Him.
The young man went away sad because He had great wealth.
I propose to you that a lack of faith was His downfall.
I further purpose that he could have been one of Jesus disciple but missed his destiny.
His lack of faith and confidence to the “sound of faith” he was hearing to follow Jesus caused him to miss his destiny.
Hebrews 11:6 – God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
This young man needed faith, commitment, focus, and diligence to follow Jesus.
He was not really set on fulfilling His goal of obtaining eternal life.
Eternal life was only a sideline issue for him; it was not his main objective.
He missed out on the greatest opportunity of a lifetime, to become one of Jesus’ disciples and to go from a nameless young man to a man who would be spoken about for centuries.
Where are you in your faith walk? Are you in faith or out of faith?
1. Are you doing what God told you to do?
2. Are you fulfilling the assignment He gave for your life?
3. Are you living in obedience to His Word and to the revelation He has given you?
4. Are you sticking with the plan Jesus asked you to execute?
Do not allow the devil to cause you to pack your bags and move from your faith address.
Make your location in life the place where you faith lives.
This location is where you will experience God’s Blessings.
What is the level of your faith?
He met Jesus and asked about what good thing he must do to inherit eternal life.
Jesus told him to obey the commandments and then He listed the commandments.
He told Jesus that he had kept them all.
Jesus then instructed him to sell all he had and follow Him.
The young man went away sad because He had great wealth.
I propose to you that a lack of faith was His downfall.
I further purpose that he could have been one of Jesus disciple but missed his destiny.
His lack of faith and confidence to the “sound of faith” he was hearing to follow Jesus caused him to miss his destiny.
Hebrews 11:6 – God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
This young man needed faith, commitment, focus, and diligence to follow Jesus.
He was not really set on fulfilling His goal of obtaining eternal life.
Eternal life was only a sideline issue for him; it was not his main objective.
He missed out on the greatest opportunity of a lifetime, to become one of Jesus’ disciples and to go from a nameless young man to a man who would be spoken about for centuries.
Where are you in your faith walk? Are you in faith or out of faith?
1. Are you doing what God told you to do?
2. Are you fulfilling the assignment He gave for your life?
3. Are you living in obedience to His Word and to the revelation He has given you?
4. Are you sticking with the plan Jesus asked you to execute?
Do not allow the devil to cause you to pack your bags and move from your faith address.
Make your location in life the place where you faith lives.
This location is where you will experience God’s Blessings.
What is the level of your faith?
Monday, August 3, 2009
Bible Faith Rewards
James 2:26 – For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
We have a choice to live in faith or outside of faith.
There are rewards to those who live in faith.
Your reward comes with your obedience to God’s assignment for your life.God wants you to be located at the “faith address” He deems most profitable and valuable for your life.
To receive your rewards, you must:
1. Keep your eyes fixed on Jesus
2. Don’t allow the devil to distract you
3. Don’t let circumstances move you from your faith address
4. Life worries and stresses can have you packing your bags and moving out of faith to low levels of defeat and failure
The reward of your faith is that:
You will receive the full manifestation of what you believe for.
You will ask and it will be given to you.
You will accomplish what God has called you to do.
You will be prosperous and abundantly bless.
You will live a life of joy, peace and victory.
You will enjoy every moment of your life, no days will be wasted.
Success in life will be yours if you stay at your faith address and not let anyone move you.
Are you currently being rewarded because of your faith?
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