Day 30 - Believing is Receiving

The Touch

by Connie Baten

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For she said, "If only I may touch His clothes,

I shall be made well.

Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up,

and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction.

- Mark 5:28, 29

From Joseph Prince's Devotional Reading for today:

God's ways are not like the ways of the world. The world says, "If I can't feel it or see it, I cannot believe the miracle is here." God says, "If you believe it before you feel it or see it, you will see your miracle."

Believing first before seeing the evidence of what we are believing for is called faith. Faith is like a spark and Jesus is the dynamite powder...

When the woman came to Him and touched Him in faith, He felt power leave His body, and it sparked off an explosion of healing in the woman's body!

Did she experience her healing first before she believed? No, she believed first in Jesus' goodness and power, acted in faith and only then felt the healing in her body.

In the same way, God wants you to believe in His goodness and love toward you. He wants you to know how willing He is to act on your behalf to bless you, and how with Christ He will freely give you every good thing.

He wants you to declare by faith that all is and shall be well with you, and to expect to see just that. And then, no matter how long you have had the problem no matter how bad the experts say it is, an explosion of healing and restoration will take place, and you will receive what you are believing for."