A DESPERATE FAITH - PART 1

 A DESPERATE FAITH - PART 1

Mark 5:24-34, Luke 8:43-48

This story in the Bible is one so taught in our Christian gatherings, but this week we will look into understanding what it means to be desperate when it comes to our Faith. According to God's word, we understand that Faith in God is what produces our desired results (Acts 3:16, Matthew 15:27-28, Mark 10:52). The ability to believe every spoken or written word in the scripture determines how far what we can get from it. Yes, the Bible says the truth shall set  you free but it's not just the truth that sets free, but you believing this truth is what sets free. Mark 9:23 "If thou canst believe, all things are possible unto him that believeth". This passage didn't say all things are possible to him that knows the truth. Luke 1:45 also states "blessed is she that believeth for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her of the LORD".

From scripture, we also see that God gave all power to Jesus and by so doing He had power to heal the sick, raise the dead, deliver the afflicted, and so on but at every point He performed those miracles, He would always utter the word of Faith, "arise, take thy bed, thy Faith hath made thee whole..."  This tells us the importance of Faith in the life of any believer. However, we must understand that Faith is in levels; there is the level of little faith, great Faith, very great Faith and desperate Faith. The latter is what we see in the woman with the issue of blood. This is the operation of a DESPERATE faith. In Mark 5, we understand that this woman has been afflicted 12 years with a bleeding disease, she had lost money and other possessions to the disease all to no avail. For twelve good years, she had been to places after places, institutions after institutions still no sign of a miracle. But according to scriptures, we see she never got tired, she was never weary. Despite how worse she got, she continued to press in the direction of her desired healing. This is the attitude of someone who is desperate, and this nature of Faith is very vital to us as believers. FAITH does not tire easily, it is relentless. it is long suffering. Faith does not look at the impossibilities around but focuses on the capacity of God to perform. Even when it looks like there are all odds around, but Faith is able to sail through the storm. 

You may now wonder why some people who have Faith just tend to give up when they are faced with difficult situations. The answer is simple, there is a Faith that is little, there is a Faith that is great, there is another exceedingly great and there is another desperate. Depending on the level of your faith, this is what determines your results. Ordinary Faith will yield ordinary results, exceeding Faith will yield exceeding results. It is now up to every believer who wants to yield good returns to sow good seeds, i.e grow our Faith.

Faith does not look at seeming challenges. Apart from the challenge of profuse bleeding, the woman with the issue of blood was also faced with the challenge of the multitudes. According to scriptures, there was a great crowd together with Jesus. This woman's Faith did not consider how large they were in number, what she saw was her healing and she took it by Faith "if I may but just touch the hem of his garment, I shall be made whole". 

If we will just say, regardless of whatever conditions we find ourselves, if I may just touch Jesus, just believe him concerning this situation I am going through, just trust in His capacity and not mine, just lean on His strength and not look at your weakness, just believe the words He has said and not those voices in your head, you will be made whole.

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