“Forever,
Redeemer Everyday Excitingly Delivers Omnipotent Message!(F.R.E.E.D.O.M)”
By Ramesh
C.Reddy
Pittsburgh Standard
May
06,
2008
Editors Note: The devotional has a background song which can be heard if you use Internet
Explorer.
SCRIPTURE:
“At
once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around
in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?" "You see the people
crowding against you," his disciples answered, "and yet you can ask,
'Who touched me?' "But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it.
Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his
feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. He said to her,
"Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your
suffering." (Mark 5:30-34, NIV)
Observations:
I asked
myself what we learn about Jesus?
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Jesus realized that power had
gone out from him.
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Jesus turned around in the
crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
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Jesus kept looking around to
see who had done it.
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Jesus found out who did it.
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Jesus told her, “Daughter, your
faith has healed you.”
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Jesus told her, “Go in peace”
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Jesus told her, “Be freed from
your suffering.”
Interpretation:
I asked
myself what we learn about the disciples?
The disciples wanted Jesus to
let go of the situation because there were so many crowding against
Jesus and it could have been anyone who touched him.
Observations:
I asked
myself what we learn about the women?
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The woman knew what had
happened to her when she touched Jesus.
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The woman then came to Jesus.
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The woman fell at Jesus’ feet.
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The woman trembled with fear
and told Him the whole truth.
Interpretations:
I asked
myself why Jesus asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
Jesus already knew who touched
His clothes but I believe He asked this question for the benefit of the
crowd. As the disciples said there were so many crowding against Jesus,
so anybody could have touched Jesus, but Jesus is not interested in the
unintentional touching of his clothes when people brush by Him. Instead,
Jesus is very interested in the one who intentionally touched His
clothes.
I believe it was also for the benefit of the woman Jesus asked this
question to restore her fully in front of the crowd. The disease she had
would have made her an outcast of those who knew her and they would not
want to have anything to do with her. Even if she told those who knew of
her condition that she was healed, they would not have believed her more
than likely because she had spent all this money on doctors and was
getting worse. Now all of a sudden, she is healed. They would have a
hard time believing that especially since her healing was not done
publicly but privately because of her own faith. They would have
still kept her away for a
couple of days from them and Jesus wanted to address that.
I asked
myself why it is significant what the woman did?
The woman wanted her healing in
a private way without asking Jesus for healing because of the stigma
attached to her disease. Now after Jesus deliberately takes time to look
for the one who intentionally touched Him, she comes to Him from the
crowd, falls before Him, and tells Him the whole truth of what happened
to her in front of all the onlookers showing us not only her gratitude
to Jesus for what He had done for her but also revealing to Jesus and
the crowd her own private faith in Jesus that she was afraid to make
public. Now however that changed for her.
I asked
myself what was the cause-effect relationship here?
Because the woman had done three
things:
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Came to Jesus.
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Falls before Jesus.
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Tells Jesus the whole truth of
what happened to her.
The
result is Jesus tells her three profound things:
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Daughter, your faith has healed
you.
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Daughter, go in peace.
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Daughter, be freed from your
suffering.
I asked
myself why it is significant that Jesus called her daughter and spoke
three powerful things to her?
I
found it so significant because Jesus was letting her know that she
belongs to Him. She has nothing to fear. Yes, she had a bad life and
suffered for 12 years where earthly doctors could do no good for her and
made it worse but now she has met the Great Physician who loves her so
much that He adopts her as His own daughter. It is not for any good
works she did that Jesus calls her daughter. If anything what the woman
did was against Jewish law to touch someone with the disease she had but
Jesus looked beyond her actions and into her heart. Jesus knew that she
had faith in Him and it is that faith that healed and saved her. When
she comes to Jesus, she is trembling with fear and Jesus calls her
daughter, go in peace! Whoa, that is so amazing! Jesus does not want her
to live in oppression or fear anymore. Those days are gone. That is so
amazing and exciting! Jesus wanted her to be in peace and be freed from
her suffering. The more I learn about Jesus, the more I love Him, my
eyes get teary in joy, and my heart is so overwhelmed with praise.
Implications:
I saw important implications for
my life. Jesus is here to free me. Yes, He is. No matter what I am going
through, when I come to Jesus, He will be my Everlasting Father, Prince
of Peace, Counselor, and Deliverer. He will be my Great Physician and He
can be all I need. I need to always turn to Jesus for help, hope, and
healing.
I ask you
now dear friend, where do you need freedom?
Dear friend, we know where the
woman needed freedom each day! Whatever you are going through, take it
to Jesus and pray. Tell Him openly whatever you need to say. You may
have been suffering for years and have not found that peace. But there is hope. As you come to Jesus and fall on your
knees, He will help you cope. To your life, let Jesus take over the
lease. He will be your Prince of Peace. Yes, friend
He loves you so much. There is no love as such. Come and experience His
healing touch. No matter what you have come to face, Jesus wants to take
your case all of your days. So come and experience His loving ways. You
He will call Daughter and Son, to Him as you run! No matter what you
have done. For, each one of you is His special One. With Jesus you have
already won! In your oppression and sin, He can help you win. Wait on
Him, even when your chances look slim and the future looks dim! In your
sorrow and pain, let Him lead and His Word heed as His promises you
read. Wherever you are broken, He is all you need. Upon Him please feed.
Recovery could come with His healing speed. And you can say, I am freed,
thank God Almighty, I am freed!
The woman was freed my friend
and Christ can take you also on the right trend. Yes, He can, for He
loves all children, women and men. Satan has come to steal, destroy, and
kill. But, Jesus came to pay your bill. When we were covered with sin,
God sent Jesus Christ to help us win. Jesus came to set you free no
matter how many days you have been on a sinning spree. Though sin has
reigned in your life like a flood, Jesus came to cover you with His
precious cleansing Blood. Dying on the cross, your ransom He paid so He
could come to your aid. All you have to do now is ask Him to cover you
with His cleansing blood in your life so He can wash away all of sin’s
strife. To do that you need to tell Jesus you are a sinner and only
Jesus can make you a winner. Then your sin you need to repent and
believe for you Jesus was sent and to the cross went. Now ask Him to
wash you clean and upon Him lean asking Him to make His home in your
heart so He can give you a born-again start and do His part so Satan’s
fiery arrows you can dart as you believe He died and rose again on the
third day after His life He came to lay. Now taking care of you will be
His wonderful art and from you He will never depart as you ask Him to be
your Lord and Personal Savior so you can forever get Heaven’s access
card! To Jesus hold on even when all hope seems to be gone!
Let this background song, 'Hold
On' minister to you as Jesus has used this song to minister to me
multiple times. (I think it only works in Internet Explorer)
May you all hold on to Jesus
knowing forever Redeemer everyday excitingly delivers omnipotent
message!
“Forever,
Redeemer Everyday Excitingly Delivers Omnipotent Message!” (F.R.E.E.D.O.M)/”Where
do you need freedom?”
Prayer:
Dear Jesus, you know the things I am overwhelmed with and you find time
for me to help me. Thank you so much Jesus! And thank you Lord when the
crowd was brushing against you as you were going to Jairus house to heal
his little daughter who was dying, you noticed healing power going
through you because someone touched you intentionally for healing. Thank
you for healing the woman and calling her daughter and giving her a
sense of belonging after 12 years of suffering. You freed her from her
suffering when she came to you. She touched you and you healed her.
Thank you Jesus! You know Oh Lord where we are suffering. Some are
suffering because of a broken relationship in their life that only you
can mend, others are suffering because of a loss of a loved one to whom
only your comfort can get them through, others are suffering because of
a lost job, career, game, etc. Some can seem trivial to others but
you care for us in all our suffering. Thank you for that Jesus. You
freed the woman and you want to free us. Most of all Oh Lord, all are
suffering and being held captive to sin. We need your deliverance so we
can have an independence day from sin that captivates. We know you Oh
Lord you can give us freedom, freedom from sin and make us win. You are
all we need so help us to remember that when we are suffering in pain
and silence for you know us inside out. Thank you for loving us so much
that you will not keep us from your wonderful blessings as we wait upon
you. Sometimes it is so hard to wait Lord when we want to have answers
immediately, situations solved immediately, etc but we know our timing
is not your timing nor or your ways our ways we like to see things done.
So, please forgive us and help us to wait on you in faith so you will
bring answers on the perfect date for you are never late. Thank you so
much Jesus since you are directing our steps we need not try to
understand everything that happens along the way. I love you Jesus and
rest in you and wait upon you in my life to have peace from things that
give me strife. I know you are my Prince of Peace and have called me to
be your very own. Thank you Jesus! I acknowledge you as my Lord and
Personal Savior! Thank you for being my Lord and Personal Savior! Thank
you that you have heard my prayer and answered me. In Your Name I Pray
Jesus! Amen!
You can give your life to Jesus and gather around Him right now if
you have not already done so by praying the prayer below and meaning it
in your heart.
Prayer:
Dear Jesus, I love you. Thank
you for loving me so much and thank you for choosing the cross to die
for me. You became the Son of Man and lived here on earth. Then you
humbled yourself and became obedient to death-even death on the cross.
Thank you for dying on the cross for my sin. You died on the cross so
that I can be covered in your blood and cleansed by your blood as I
acknowledge that I need you and cannot enter Heaven without you being my
pathway. You became my PASSOVER LAMB! So, Jesus I confess all my sins to
you and all the ways I have tried to get into Heaven when you already
provided the means and the Way. I repent of my sin. Thank you for all
that you have done for me especially forgiving me of my sin so judgment
can PASSOVER. The cross is the place, a wonderful place where accused
and condemned find mercy and grace. Thank you Jesus, it is at the cross
where the wrongs we have done and the wrongs done to us were nailed at
the cross. Thank you Jesus, at the cross you died for our sins and at
the cross you gave your life for us. I thank you for that and thank you
for coming back to life to save us. Thank you Jesus for being there for
me! Thank you for loving me. I love you Jesus! Please take me as I am
and make my life into something that you will be proud of. I surrender
my life to you and need your help to live for you. I am forever grateful
for the cross and what you have done for me and I can never repay you. I
want to live for you and need your help. Thank you that your blood is
for me. Help me Jesus please to live in the power of your Holy Spirit. I
thank you Jesus for saving us! Thank you for hearing my prayer and
answering me. Whatever your will give me the willingness and strength to
bear it. Come into my heart and please make my heart your home. Live in
me Jesus and I will live for you and serve you all the days of my life
as you help me knowing you are my Lord and Personal Savior. You are my
God! Thank you Jesus! I acknowledge you as my Lord and Personal Savior!
In Your Name I Pray precious Jesus! Amen!
Friend, if you have prayed this
prayer and meant it in your heart, you are a new creation in Christ and
all old things are passed away and everything has become new! You may
feel something or may not but don’t base it on feelings but base your
new life in Christ on the promises of our Savior who will never leave
you nor forsake you! Amen!
Spend time in His word and let the Lord
speak to you! Start out in the Gospel of John! You can also check out
the Gospel of Mark which are the devotionals I have been going through.
Learn from Jesus through study and prayer. Also find yourself a church
fellowship and a college fellowship you can be part of where you can be
part of a community of believers to supplement your own walk with the
Lord. Let it be a Bible-believing and Bible-breathing church! Believe in
Bible Live Eternally!
Feel free to email me at
reddy4hisglory2004@yahoo.com if you want to meet to study the Bible,
pray with, talk about Spiritual issues or whatever is on your mind! My
number is 412-720-4579
"This is my
work and I can do it only because Christ's mighty energy is at work
within me." (Colossians 1:29, TLB)
Love in Christ,
Ramesh
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7:51 a.m.)
Mark 5:24b-29:
“Unclean
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(May 05, 08,
10:24 a.m.)
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