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us and calling us foolish dogs, we need to persevere with our faith and never give up the pursuit.

    When the doctor gives the bad report, when the banker starts to list off the interest rates and the debt ratios, and when your child seems like he will never turn around and live for Christ, we need to be like this woman. Our faith must overlook the obstacles existing in the natural realm and continue to see with eyes of faith. Even when the world is mocking us and calling us foolish dogs, we need to persevere with our faith and never give up the pursuit. Faith can change the negatives in our lives, but it is according to our faith.

Faith Can Even Sneak Up on Jesus
    So Jesus went with him, and a great multitude followed Him and thronged Him. Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment. For she said, ‘If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well.’ Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction.
    And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, ‘Who touched My clothes?’ But His disciples said to Him, ‘You see the multitude thronging You, and You say, Who touched Me?’ And He looked around to see her who had done this thing. But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. And He said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction. (Mark 5:24-34)

    Her faith made her well! By her faith she believed what she heard about Jesus, her faith got her out of her house, her faith made her fight through the crowd, her faith reached out to receive her healing. I wonder how she did it. In that day, a woman having a condition like this would have been considered ‘unclean,’ and would have been forbidden to be out in public without wearing the proper identifying garments and keeping a fair distance from the people. If she had been caught, she could have been stoned to death, but her faith didn’t care about the dangers. She probably got down on her hands and knees and crawled through the throng. Her faith caused her to do whatever she needed to do. She saw Jesus’ hem, and she went for it.
    I just love this part of the story: Jesus stopped and said, “Who touched me?” The woman had so much faith that she got what she came for, and Jesus didn’t even know who she was yet! She snuck up on the Son of God and grabbed her healing, and Jesus wasn’t aware of it until the moment He felt power going out of Him! That is amazing to me, that we can have the kind of faith that can reach up and receive the blessing without even asking for permission first. She had heard about Jesus, and had gotten the revelation that if He would do it for them, then He would surely do it for her—even if she had to sneak up on Him to get it.
    That is amazing to me, that we can have the kind of faith that can reach up and receive the blessing without even asking for permission first.

    The disciples were confused; with hundreds upon hundreds of people pressing in on them all, how could Jesus ask, “Who touched Me?” Everyone was touching Him. But Jesus sensed something different. You see, a lot of people hang around Jesus, a lot of people are trying to get something from Jesus, but few people truly believe. Every single one in the multitude could have received whatever they wanted from Him, but they weren’t using their faith to receive. That’s why Jesus was able to perceive the smallest touch from the woman as her fingers grazed the fringe of His garment. That tiny gesture of faith made more of an impression upon Him than all of the other hundreds of people who