Word for the day by Christian Education Forum
Christ Gives Holistic Healing Bible Reading: Mark: 5: 25-34 Key Verse: 34 And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.” DEVOTION The Gospel of Mark is the shortest of the four Gospels, but records the highest (18) number of Jesus’s miracles. The fifth chapter presents three healing miracles: (i) demon-possessed man; (ii) woman with a flow of blood for twelve years; (iii) Raising of Jairus’s daughter from the dead. The devotional passage (Mark 5:25-34) and the parallel texts (Matthew 9:20-22 ; Luke 8:43-48) describe the second miracle of Jesus healing the woman, who had spent all her resources on treatment without any relief, and becoming worse. When she learned about Jesus, the woman believed that even a touch of His clothes would make her well. She received immediate healing upon touching His garment. However, she fell down before Jesus, fearing and trembling, when He asked, “Who touched My clothes?”. Je...