Live 4 The LORD

Mark 5:25-34

Woman hemorrhaging blood 12 years

Spent all her money on physicians 

Grew worse

Heard reports about Jesus

If I touch even clothes I will be healed

Immediately healed

Confessed

Daughter your faith made you healed. 

Go in peace and be healed. 

{Sin is life threatening illness (hemorrhaging life)

Spent all time and money with behavior modification or idols to mask pain. 

Kept growing worse because it’s spiritual problem with spiritual solution. 

Heard about Jesus the soul lover and soul healer. 

Believe with all my heart if I go to Him he will heal me. 

I came to Jesus and asked for healing and confessed. I do not want to sin anymore. You said you would give me a new heart and new spirit, power to have self control over my disordered desires and then eternity with you. 

I wad healed, I was brought into kingdom of light and delivered from kingdom of darkness. Given the Holy Spirit, declared justified and walk out my salvation in sanctification. 

Jesus says to go in peace and live my healing all the way home.}

Mark 6:5-6a

And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief.

{While Jesus possessed divine power, the Gospels often show faith as a necessary condition for the reception of miracles. 

Healing is possible when faith, understood as openness to God, is present. Unbelief, conversely, can be an obstacle to receiving God's gift. 

Unbelief hinders the cooperation necessary for divine power to work effectively. It's not that Jesus couldn’t perform miracles, but that the person's lack of faith created an environment where miracles were less likely to occur. While Jesus's power is limitless, its manifestation can be limited by the person's lack of faith

Unbelief represents a rejection of God's grace and an unwillingness to accept the divine offer of salvation. Without an open heart, the power of God's love and healing cannot penetrate. 

The Gospels also recount instances where Jesus performed miracles without explicit faith being mentioned. These instances underscore God's initiative and unconditional love.}

Psalm 34:9

Oh, fear the LORD, you his saints,

for those who fear him have no lack!

If you fear God

You will fear being separated from him. 

You will fear sinning and will not want to even be others presence who sin. 

You will not have lack because if you are in God all you need is there. Even if you lack it does not feel like it. He keeps you in peace. God is all you need. 

Psalm 34:14

Turn away from evil and do good;

seek peace and pursue it.

{Turn from evil. Do not go down that path. Rebuke thoughts that make you start to want to do evil. Forsake all anger, it leads to thoughts that are harmful. Admit you are angry and turn from it. Turn to God and see how to deal with it. 

Seek peace. Seek God’s direction on how to make peace in the situation. Peace must be pursued. It is an active job not a passive job. Seeking peace may mean giving up earthly “rights” because being with God and going to heaven is worth everything you have to give up here on earth. 

Do Good. By turning from evil and seeking to pursue peace in the situation you then choose to obey what God directs and do good.}