Message summary: Today God's power is is still in transmission. He is still touching people's lives with His healing power. He often uses human agents in the transmission of His power but He also works sovereignly and has a set purpose for each of our lives. May Christ be glorified in and through us today!

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"At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from Him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched My clothes?'" (Mark 5:30).

For many years we have enjoyed using cordless battery-operated lawn equipment. We have a 40 watt push lawn mower for the back yard, string trimmer, hedge trimmer and blower. They are sufficient for our size needs and it sure is nice not having to mess with a cord!

But for many years we used equipment that was corded and ran long extension cords to reach the areas needing the service. Once Brooksyne was trimming some hedges when suddenly the hedge trimmer stopped working. After she carefully checked out the recently purchased trimmer and could find no reason for the malfunction she called for me to check the outlet to make sure the plug was still in.

It was but I wondered if she might have tripped a circuit so I plugged something else in and it worked fine. Then I checked the hedge trimmer wondering if it had overheated, jammed or perhaps the motor had blown but saw nothing visibly wrong with it. We were both stumped and a bit frustrated since we wanted to complete the project! Brooksyne indicated her irritation by declaring in an angry tone, "I can't believe this trimmer is ready for the junk pile already!"

Finally I checked the long extension cord she had used to reach the project. Turns out she had cut the cord nearly in half with the hedge trimmer, but enough of the outer cord was still intact to hold it together and masquerade the damage. That could have been dangerous!

It didn’t help that it was a green cord, not a very good color to use when trimming green shrubs with piles of green foliage spilling over the cord! I spliced the cord back together and it worked but I came to see the reason using a bright orange or yellow cord is important for trimming hedges. Of course using battery-operated cordless equipment works even better!

Transmission of power is something most of us take for granted. We flip a light switch on without thinking about the power instantly transmitting through wires which makes the light come on.

Today let’s examine an occasion where there was a transmission of divine power, the healing of a woman who had a bleeding issue for 12 years. Her condition would have made her a social outcast. The best medical care of her day was of no help for she "had suffered much under many physicians" (v.26). This is one verse you will never see on the wall in the doctor's office! She had also exhausted her finances but her medical condition only worsened.

She heard the reports about Jesus and His healing power but, likely, due to the social shame of her disease, did not choose to approach Him publicly. Instead she "came up behind Him in the crowd and touched His cloak, because she thought, 'If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed'" (Mark 5:27,28).

"Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering" (v. 29). Try to put yourself in her place and sense the tremendous joy and relief that flooded her spirit as she experienced the healing power of Almighty God.

"At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from Him". The dispenser of healing power realized the uniqueness and urgency of this woman's touch of faith. After all, many were also touching Him when He asked the disciples, "Who touched My clothes?"

The disciples must have wanted to scratch their heads at Jesus's question when they responded, “You see the people crowding against you…. and yet You can ask, ‘Who touched My clothes?’”

"But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came with fear and trembling and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth." That's a powerful verse! She knew something had happened to her.

A transmission of power had taken place from the Healer to the healed and Jesus said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease".

Today His power is not cut off that He does not have the power nor is His ear deafened that He cannot hear our pleads. He is still touching people's lives with His healing power. He often uses human agents in the transmission of His power but He also works sovereignly and has a set purpose for each of our lives. May Christ be glorified in and through us today!


Be encouraged today!  Hebrews 3:13

Stephen & Brooksyne Weber