Faith Healing

Faith Healing
The Armor of the Shield of Faith (Part 3)

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Title: Faith Healing---------------------------- Date: 04/21/1999
Keywords: "faith" "healed"

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The following is one of 42 studies on the "armor of God" as it relates to resisting Web porn. Some of the studies will examine Ephesians chapter six, which is famous for the armor theme. Some of the other studies, however, will examine how the armor pieces are discussed elsewhere in Scripture. All 42 studies are listed in the three-minute study index for the dates April 1 through May 12, 1999. Feel free to study and/or download the entire set. We welcome your feedback to this thematic approach in the three-minute studies.

Passage: Mark 5:25-34*

25. And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years,

26. and had endured much at the hands of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was not helped at all, but rather had grown worse,

27. after hearing about Jesus, came up in the crowd behind Him, and touched His cloak.

28. For she thought, "If I just touch His garments, I shall get well."

29. And immediately the flow of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.

30. And immediately Jesus, perceiving in Himself that the power proceeding from Him had gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched My garments?"

31. And His disciples said to Him, "You see the multitude pressing in on You, and You say, 'Who touched Me?'"

32. And He looked around to see the woman who had done this.

33. But the woman fearing and trembling, aware of what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him, and told Him the whole truth.

34. And He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your affliction."

Questions

1. What act of faith did this woman perform?

2. Based on this passage, how does Jesus respond to people who reach out to Him in faith?

Practical help

Do you ever feel like viewing web porn makes you one of a faceless multitude of people who have a very secret affliction of lust and sinfulness? This passage so beautifully shows that Jesus Christ can spot the one person out of a vast multitude that reaches out to Him in faith. You can claim the same victory as this woman and overcome your affliction. Jesus will not go by you if you reach out to Him.

Addiciton to web porn is a sickness, but Jesus can heal you just as He healed this woman of her illness. He said that her faith made her well. Your faith can make you well also. Turn to Jesus in faith and realize the healing that He so freely gives.

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*"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLEŽ, Š Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."