Power-Tapping Faith

Our focus this week is how to approach God. Every day we have to make various choices in our life. But the best choice and blessing is to find our Saviour. 

Acts 17:24-28 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

We can approach God just as we are - no matter how messed up we are, we can come close to Jesus. 

Jesus came to seek and save the lost. 
Luke 5:32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We also saw about the blind faith of the royal official. 

Matthew 9:18-26 While he was saying this, a synagogue leader came and knelt before him and said, “My daughter has just died. But come and put your hand on her, and she will live.” Jesus got up and went with him, and so did his disciples. 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 at that moment. When Jesus entered the synagogue leader’s house and saw the noisy crowd and people playing pipes, he said, “Go away. The girl is not dead but asleep.” But they laughed at him. After the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took the girl by the hand, and she got up. News of this spread through all that region.

Jesus was on the way to meet Jairus’ daughter who was already dead. This was an emergency. But that’s when the woman with the issue of beeding came through the crowd and touched the cloak of Jesus. This one jumped the queue. She would have spoken a thousand times in her mind that she would be healed if only she could touch his clock. There were many people touching Jesus. But her power-tapping faith released the healing power from Jesus and she was totally restored. Jesus even gave her the credit for her healing.

When Jesus reached the synagogue leader’s house, the funeral service was going on. But he said, “Go away. The girl is not dead but asleep.” But they laughed at him mockingly.
People often laugh at one’s faith and the anointing they carry. But just as we see in this passage, unbelievers and unbelief had to move out for Jesus and the believers to perform a miracle and raise the dead girl. Unbelief can block the power of God in your life. 

Today, we saw a twin miracle

• The synagogue ruler approached Jesus with humility. 
• The woman with the bleeding issue approached Jesus with a power-tapping faith.