DAUGHTER!

I have an assignment to read and study the miracles of Jesus, to watch how He operated and healed. I began with Mark's gospel.

What I've noticed in my study, Jesus walked, lived, and conducted Himself in such authority and power. Even greater is what propelled this authority and power was love! Compassion!

Chapter 5 - I've heard it preached so many times and have read the story countless times, but today regarding the woman with the issue of blood, my eyes saw somethings for the very first time. My pastor always tells us never to look at scripture with the attitude, I know that story, read that before, to always look at the Word of God with fresh eyes, with a fresh attitude. God's Word is alive, it is fresh, those things we have heard before even a thousand times, read again, and see if God doesn't open your eyes and heart to something new, or even a reminder of what you may have let slip or have forgotten.  I would encourage you to open your Bible and put your eyes on these verses, you learn more when you look at them.

Verse 5:27: "When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment."

Verse 5:28: "For she said, if I may touch but His clothes, I shall be made whole." 
Whole - sozo = healed, saved, complete,

5:29: "and straightway, the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed. of that plague." 

Just meditate on that for a bit - "she felt in her body she was healed."

• She heard
• She said
• She did
• She felt
• She knew

Jesus knows someone "believing" has touched Him, has pulled on His power and authority. He stops and looks around. 

5:33: "Woman 

• fearing
• trembling
• knowing

fell at His feet, and told Him the truth." Don't ever be in fear to tell Jesus the truth.
She could have been stoned for being in public with blood flowing. She was unclean, yet Jesus knew that someone had touched Him with faith.

Jesus response is so amazing full of love and intimacy, Jesus says, "Daughter".  Her position changed in that instant, she went from being a certain woman to this endearment of daughter!

Daughter, her faith brought her to such a position of intimacy.

Daughter, she wasn't just a woman, her faith caused her to be His heir.

Daughter, her faith moved her up in position, beyond a disciple, she became part of His family.

Daughter, you are Mine! Her faith made her His daughter, part of His family. Born from Him, His seed. 

Do you know this woman was the only one Jesus ever called Daughter!

Have you longed for Him to call you daughter?

He usually said, sons, or son ship but He never called anyone "Daughter" until this woman of faith. We don't know her name, but we know Jesus called her daughter! We know her position, we know she was His daughter. Her name is not as important as her position, daughter.

Has my faith made me an heir?
Has my faith placed me in God's family?

We all need to periodically examine our faith. Set it before you and examine, is my faith changing situations? By faith am I healed? Am I listening and spending time in God's Word daily to build my faith? Are my prayers being answered? 

In every retelling of this awesome testimony in each gospel of the New Testament, the retelling is the same, "Daughter" she is called.

In Luke 23:28 "Many women had followed Him and were mourning for Him as He was walking towards Golgotha." Jesus calls them "daughters of Jerusalem."  This woman of Mark 5, he called "daughter."

"Is your faith producing?" This is what examining your faith means, examine your faith to see if it is producing.

HOW TO EXAMINE YOUR FAITH

1. Am I making myself available to hear the Word?
2. Am I keeping the Word of God going in my ears and heart daily?
3. Am I spending time with God, in prayer and His Word daily?
4. Am I hearing and hearing the Word so faith can come? (Romans 10:17)
5. Am I speaking the Words of God in faith, or am I just speaking because it's what I have been taught to do?
6. Am I speaking at all?
7. Am I saying what I have, or am I saying what God says I can have?
8. Am I doing the Word?
9. Do I sit in church, clock in and out and go about my business?
10. Do I allow the Word of God to correct me and do I adjust to the Word of God, or do I adjust the Word of God to fit me?
11. Do I put action to the Word I've received, or to my words?
12. Do I spend time praising and worshiping God?

Hebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever."

Jesus is the same. I am like that certain woman, whose faith, of hearing, saying, and doing, hears just as this woman heard,

Mark 5:34 (amp) "And He said to her, "Daughter your faith (your trust and confidence in Me, springing from faith in God) has restored you to health. Go in (unto) peace and be continually healed and freed from your (distressing bodily) disease."

MY TESTIMONY OF FAITH

My faith (trust and confidence in Jesus) has restored me to health. I continually hear the Word daily, I spend time with God daily, praying in the Spirit, listening for His direction. I go and do, I make myself available for correction and I correct. Sometimes I don't know how to correct something He shows me, so I ask Him to show me how to correct it. As a Father would show His daughter how to correct or do something so my Jesus shows me.

Daughter, your faith (your trust and confidence in Me, springing from faith in God) has restored you to health. Go in peace and be free.

Jesus is never about legalism or religion. He operates in love and compassion. If He was about legalism and religion, He would have rebuked her for touching Him. He did the complete opposite, He called her Daughter!