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but if you need it to go on with Him, He’ll come on board and do
that miracle. So, I think you have more faith than you think you
have.

When He comes aboard, because it’s sight, He will do a
miracle and He’ll calm the storm and He’ll take you to your
destination. He’ll do one more thing; He’ll rebuke you for your
little faith. Where is your faith? You didn’t learn the lesson of
the loaves. So, that’s the first story and now I want to wrap it up
with the second one. I can relate to Him on the mountain and I
can relate to Him going by and letting me know He is there and
it’s under control or I can relate to Him on the boat; faith, sight,
mixture.

Set that aside and think now about the woman who
touched His hem. I want to show you how you know whether
you are trusting the Lord. Mark 5:30&31, “…and immediately
Jesus, perceiving in Himself that the power proceeding from Him
had gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said, ‘Who
touched My garments?’ And His disciples said to Him, ‘You see
the multitude pressing in on You, and You say, ‘Who touched
Me?’” She reached Him but she couldn’t reach Him until He
came within her reach. He always comes within our reach so we
can reach Him.

I want you to picture, if you had on a long robe like Jesus
had on a long robe, and I were to touch the hem of that robe,
would you feel it? You see, the point of the story is not her touch.
It’s how sensitive Jesus is. He feels it. The difference between
unbelief and struggling faith, the difference between Peter and
Judas is that Peter denied the Lord but Judas forsook the Lord.
Jesus told Peter, “The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.”
Judas did not have a willing spirit. Unbelief has no desire to
believe. Faith has a desire to believe. Weak faith has a desire to
believe. Struggling faith has a desire to believe. God accepts
struggling faith as faith.

The important thing about faith is not faith. The
important thing about faith is the object of your faith. She didn’t