August 14 Devotion - Your Faith has Healed You

Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. She said to herself, "If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed."

 Jesus turned and saw her. "Take heart, daughter," he said, "your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed from that moment.

وَإِذَا امْرَأَةٌ نَازِفَةُ دَمٍ مُنْذُ اثْنَتَيْ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً قَدْ جَاءَتْ مِنْ وَرَائِهِ وَمَسَّتْ هُدْبَ ثَوْبِهِ، 21لأَنَّهَا قَالَتْ فِي نَفْسِهَا:«إِنْ مَسَسْتُ ثَوْبَهُ فَقَطْ شُفِيتُ». 22فَالْتَفَتَ يَسُوعُ وَأَبْصَرَهَا، فَقَالَ:«ثِقِي يَا ابْنَةُ، إِيمَانُكِ قَدْ شَفَاكِ». فَشُفِيَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ مِنْ تِلْكَ السَّاعَةِ.

Matthew 9:20-22

The variety of methods Christ took in working his miracles, perhaps was because of the different frames and tempers of mind, which those were in who came to him, and which He who searches the heart perfectly knew. 

This affair happened in the streets of Capernaum, as Christ was going from the house of Matthew the publican, to the house of Jairus the ruler of the synagogue. This poor woman's case was a very distressed one; she had been attended with an issue of blood twelve years; it was an uncommon flux of a long standing, was long-established and unlikely to change and became incurable.


This disease was by the Jews reckoned unclean (Leviticus 15:25) and the woman was therefore unwilling to make personal application to Jesus, or even to touch his person. She having heard of Jesus, and his miraculous cures, had faith given her to believe, that she also should receive one from him; wherefore she came behind him, through modesty, being ashamed to come before him, and tell him her case, especially before so many people; and fearing lest if her case was known, she should be thrust away, if not by Christ, yet by the company; she being according to the law an unclean person, and unfit for society.  
Mark says that "the woman, fearing and trembling," came and told him all the truth. Perhaps she feared that, from the impure nature of her disease, he would be offended that she touched him.
(Adapted from commentaries by Barnes, Mathew Poole and Gill)

"If a woman has a flow of blood for many days that is unrelated to her menstrual period, or if the blood continues beyond the normal period, she is ceremonially unclean. As during her menstrual period, the woman will be unclean as long as the discharge continues.

وَإِذَا كَانَتِ امْرَأَةٌ يَسِيلُ سَيْلُ دَمِهَا أَيَّامًا كَثِيرَةً فِي غَيْرِ وَقْتِ طَمْثِهَا، أَوْ إِذَا سَالَ بَعْدَ طَمْثِهَا، فَتَكُونُ كُلَّ أَيَّامِ سَيَلاَنِ نَجَاسَتِهَا كَمَا فِي أَيَّامِ طَمْثِهَا. إِنَّهَا نَجِسَةٌ.

Leviticus 15:25

I invite you to repeat the following prayer for yourself:

Abba Father, thank You for Your deep, inseparable and everlasting love for me and for Your abundant blessings. Lord, You have the power to heal any ailment just by thinking it. I need to be healed and I need to have a faith that heals me. God, I pray to You in the name of Your Son Jesus; to strengthen and magnify my faith by quantum amounts and to heal my physical and emotional ailments now. God I praise You, revere You, worship You, I stand in awe of You, I lift You up on high and glorify Your Holy Name. I declare Jesus as my Lord and Saviour and I pray in His Holy Name. To Him be the power, the glory, the majesty, the blessings, and the dominion before all time, now, and forever. Amen.

Jesus loves you,

In Him,

Wagdi Henein