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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
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 weak or 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 have great
faith. She had a little touch. But with a little touch and a great
Savior, she didn’t touch the garment, she touched the Lord. The
reason I know that is because at the cross the soldiers gambled
for the garment. They had the whole garment and not just the
hem. They walked away with His whole robe. What’s the
difference? When she touched it, Jesus was in the robe. That’s
faith; touching Jesus; willingness to touch Jesus! You might
say that it doesn’t feel like enough but it will have to be. He’s
sensitive. He’s great and He can hear you and feel you.

Bible study is like the garment. If Christ is in it, it’s wonderful.
Fellowship is wonderful if Christ is in it. Ministry is wonderful