Thursday... Oh to be free, really free.

Thursday... Oh to be free really free.

Is there something in your life that is weighing you down? It has you bound with a weight that will not let you go. Everything you try to free you hasn't worked. And, oh you want to be free, really free. Is that true of you?

There was a woman in Mark 5:25 & 26 (NIV), "Who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse." She was doing all she could but it seemed that it wasn't making a difference. Is that true of you?

Verse 27, "When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, 'If I just touch his clothes, I will he healed.'"

Have you heard about Jesus? Have you read about what He has done? Have you been told that He is a difference-maker and that He cares about you, and wants to free you from whatever it is that is holding you down?

Verse 28, "Immediately her bleeding stopped" and this is the phrase that caught my attention in my reading this morning. Maybe it is what you needed to hear today. Here it is, "and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering." Is that what you want, is that what you need? You too want to be free from your suffering. Well, Jesus is the one who can do that. Yes He is.

Verses 30, "At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked. 'Who touched my clothes?'" There was a big crowd around Him but He knew that something had happened. He knew.

Verses 32 -34, "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.'"

And He can and wants to do the same for you. But it takes faith. Just reach out to Him in faith. And then go in peace and be freed from your suffering. Now I don't know what all that will mean to you but He wants to free you. For her it meant that she reached out and touched His garment. So that may be a great place to start, just reach out to Him in faith. Would you do that right now? Would you reach out to Him in faith?

He wants to give you peace and to free you from your suffering. You can be free, really free. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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