THE TOUCH OF FAITH – Sunday October 23rd
2016
Memorise: Then touched he their eyes,
saying, According to your faith be it unto you. Matthew 9:29
Read:
Matthew 9:20-22, (KJV)
20 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve
years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be
whole.
22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be
of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole
from that hour.
Bible in
one year: Obadiah 1, Jonah 1-4, Psalm 85
There is
tremendous power in a touch. It may be positive or negative as there are categories and types of touches. Open Heavens 23 October
2016:- The touch of faith Naaman knew the power in a touch, especially
from representatives of God and said with a sense of disappointment when Elisha
did not come out to touch him when he went to Samaria:
“…Behold, I thought, He will surely come
out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his
hand over the place, and recover the leper.”
2nd Kings 5:11
A touch can bring death as in the case of
Uzzah in the book of Samuel:
“And when they came to Nachon’s threshing
floor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the
oxen shook it. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God
smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.”
2nd Samuel 6:6-7
During one of our Conventions at the
Redemption Camp in Nigeria, the Lord asked me to lay out a piece of cloth for
people to touch by faith and receive their healing, with a warning that it
should simply be touched and not held. A man went ahead to touch (I will say
without faith) because he also grabbed the cloth. It took special grace and
forgiveness of God for him not to die the moment he touched outside of faith;
his entire body began to shake uncontrollably from morning till evening. It
would have been a touch of death but for God’s intervention.
Another touch can bring healing as in the case of the woman with the
issue of blood in our Bible reading for today.
“For she said within herself, if I may but
touch his garment, I shall be whole.”
Matthew 9:21
This is the touch of faith. The touch of
faith can work for the one who touches and for the touched. In the same chapter
of Matthew’s gospel, Jesus Christ was met by two blind men who were crying for
mercy of healing. When Jesus found out that these men had faith to receive
divine touches for healing, the Bible says: 23 October 2016 Open Heavens.
“Then touched he their eyes, saying,
According to your faith be it unto you. And their eyes were opened; and Jesus
straitly charged them, saying, see that no man know it.”
Matthew 9:29-30
The touch of faith is required anytime you
need a miracle. I pray for someone using this devotional; the Lord will touch
you for healing and deliverance today, and will have a testimony in Jesus’
name. I also pray that whatever you touch by faith today will prosper in Jesus’
name.
Prayer Point
Father, please touch me in the areas where I need Your intervention
today and let my joy be full in Jesus’ name.
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