DAY NINETEEN
March
12, 2017
Powerful Jesus
“At once Jesus realized that
power had gone out from Him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, ‘Who touched my clothes?’” Mark
5:30
In Mark, chapter five, we have three important
incidents in the life of the Lord Jesus.
It is within the context of these events that Jesus revealed Himself as
the powerful Son of God. In the first
event, Jesus revealed Himself as more powerful than demons. He went along with His disciples to the most
demon-possessed man in all the country.
When Jesus showed up, the demons immediately began to beg for
mercy. With one word the demons left
this man, never to return. We also see
Jesus revealed as more powerful than death in this passage. When Jairus’ daughter fell ill, he sought
Jesus out to come and heal her. But
before they could arrive, the girl had died.
Jesus, nevertheless, restored her life by the power of His word. In the middle of these two great revelations,
there is a rather small incident where Jesus showed Himself more powerful than
disease. It falls almost as parentheses
to the greater event of the raising of Jairus’ daughter from the dead, but
there are still some important truths about the touch of faith.
This healing event shows us that we should not only
have spiritual life, but we should also have spiritual health individually and
in our corporate church body. Many have
received salvation and have spiritual life, but are not well. Jesus says in John 10:10, “… I have come
that they may have life, and have it to the full.” The way to experience spiritual health is the
same way to experience spiritual life – that is to come into contact with
Jesus.
Prayer Focus: Ask God to
give spiritual health to our corporate church body and to you as an individual.
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