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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 unbelief and faith, the difference between
unbelief and struggling faith 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