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come. I asked Him to heal my loved one. I needed a miracle
and He didn’t come. I didn’t want that person to die. I asked
the Lord how come He didn’t come on board and do a miracle.
I didn’t want to lose my job and I didn’t want to go bankrupt
and I asked Him for a miracle.”
If you need it, He will always come on board and do a
miracle. If He didn’t come on board, you might have more faith
than you think you have. Maybe you didn’t need it. You went
on without it. He doesn’t want to come on board but if you need
it to go on with Him, He’ll come on board and do that miracle.
So, perhaps 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 mildly rebuke you
for your little faith (Mark 6:52). 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 or I can relate to Him going by and
letting me know He is there and He has it under control or I can
relate to Him on the boat; faith, sight, or 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 this. 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. The point is how sensitive Jesus is. He feels it. The
difference between struggling faith and unbelief, and the
difference between Peter and Judas is that Peter denied the Lord
but Judas forsook the Lord. Jesus told Peter, “The spirit is
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