Connecting with the Source of the Solution

Intensity and focus are what set us apart from the crowd. And that is something we must always ask God for: that He help us find that distinctive way, that intimate, personal, individual relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Many times, we are content simply to be part of the mass, of the crowd. The Gospel is full of people who are content with a collective mentality. We go to church on Sundays and limit ourselves to a mediocre, lukewarm, conventional prayer, and we believe that by doing that we have fulfilled our commitment. And certainly, God receives our worship, which is sometimes indifferent and conventional. But what God likes most are those believers who, even in the midst of a service where there is a crowd, are there knowing that God is looking specifically at them.

When I go to a church and am part of a gathering and I am not the one officiating, I like to see myself as an individual who, even in the midst of the crowd, is in direct contact with the Lord, who is looking at me and is aware of my cry, my worship, my dialogue with Him, just as He is aware of everyone around me.

When we can individualize that life of worship, that is when God does extraordinary things in our lives, when God listens, answers, opens doors, blesses, and provides—and this woman exemplifies that. She approaches the Lord and touches Him, but she does so with her faith, and that faith is like a channel through which the Lord’s blessing then comes into her life.

How important it is for us always to seek that individual dialogue with the Lord. The Lord does not respond very well to lukewarmness; the Lord does not respond very well to a crowd mentality. What the Lord seeks is that person who stands out because of something individual, something that sets that person apart from the crowd and makes that person distinctive.

When this woman touches the Lord’s garment, it says that power went out from Him. How interesting that the Lord was not there responding specifically to this woman’s need, but rather that her faith drew forth the power. That reminds us of the great power found in the person of Jesus. It is as though the Lord were a reservoir, a storehouse of power at that moment. The power is in Him whether He wills it or not; He embodies healing power, and what this woman does is like connecting to a live electrical wire, which has no alternative but to release the power within it and can even scorch us and destroy us completely.

But she touches the source of life moving within Jesus; she reaches out her faith-filled hand and touches, it says, the hem of His garment. All that is needed is minimal contact with the Lord, but one charged with faith and potential, for the power of God to be unleashed within us. Through her powerful faith, this woman establishes an intimate, direct relationship with the person of Jesus, and the Lord can do nothing other than respond to her and unleash His healing power.

And when this woman receives that healing, it says that her body trembled and she felt that the source—an interesting expression it uses—it says that the source of her bleeding had dried up. The miracle the Lord performs takes place at the very origin of her illness.

Many times, that is how it happens. God will not heal the outward part of the symptom, but rather the place from which the illness, or poverty, or demonic oppression, or unemployment, or addiction, or whatever it may be, is emanating. Sometimes it will take time for the healing that the Lord wants to bring about to become real on the visible plane. Sometimes the Lord will go to the origin, to the root, and then, in time, it will become manifest at the symptomatic level.

I believe that what happened here was that the Lord shut it off, as when one shuts off a water source, but there is still water flowing; perhaps this woman continued with the flow of blood for one or two days, but the source of her illness had already been closed. Sometimes the Lord’s interventions will take time to become manifest, but they will already have taken place because the Lord will have gone to the origin, and then it will take time on the natural plane.

As happened with the fig tree that the Lord cursed: at that very moment, what the Lord had done did not become evident, but at the end of the day, when the disciples returned, they saw that the fig tree had withered and were astonished. Why? Because when the Lord cursed it, the life of that fig tree immediately began to dry up, and with time the effect then became evident.

And so we must often remember that the Lord’s response to our initiative of faith will take a little time, but that the Lord will often have already answered, and it will be a matter of time before His healing becomes fully effective and visible in our lives. So we must be patient and believe that what the Lord has promised will come to pass if we ask Him in faith.

May God continue to bless you. Thank you for tuning in, and we will have one final meditation to conclude our study of this fascinating woman, the woman with the flow of blood. Your friend in Christ, Pastor Roberto Miranda, bids you farewell.

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