Four Living Creatures and 24 Elders: You are worthy to receive the scroll to break its seals, because You were slain. With Your blood, You redeemed for God people from every tribe and language, people from every race and nation. You have made them a kingdom; You have appointed them priests to serve our God, and they will rule upon the earth. When I looked again, I heard the voices of heavenly messengers (numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands). They surrounded the throne, the living creatures, and the elders.
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Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people both now and forevermore. Psalm 125:1-2
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Mark 5:21-43 (NLT)
Jesus got into the boat again and went back to the other side of the lake, where a large crowd gathered around him on the shore. Then a leader of the local synagogue, whose name was Jairus, arrived. When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet, pleading fervently with him. “My little daughter is dying,” he said. “Please come and lay your hands on her; heal her so she can live.” Jesus went with him, and all the people followed, crowding around him. A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse. She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his robe. For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed.” Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition.
Jesus realized at once that healing power had gone out from him, so he turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my robe?” His disciples said to him, “Look at this crowd pressing around you. How can you ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ” But he kept on looking around to see who had done it.
Then the frightened woman, trembling at the realization of what had happened to her, came and fell to her knees in front of him and told him what she had done. And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.” While he was still speaking to her, messengers arrived from the home of Jairus, the leader of the synagogue. They told him, “Your daughter is dead. There’s no use troubling the Teacher now.” But Jesus overheard them and said to Jairus, “Do not be afraid any longer, only believe.” Then Jesus stopped the crowd and wouldn’t let anyone go with him except Peter, James, and John (the brother of James). When they came to
the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw much commotion and weeping and wailing. He went inside and asked, “Why all this commotion and weeping? The child isn’t dead; she’s only asleep.”
The crowd laughed at him. But he made them all leave, and he took the girl’s father and mother and his three disciples into the room where the girl was lying. Holding her hand, he said to her, “Talitha koum,” which means “Little girl, get up!” And the girl, who was twelve years old, immediately stood up and walked around! They were overwhelmed and totally amazed. Jesus gave them strict orders not to tell anyone what had happened, and then he told them to give her something to eat.
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“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.” Revelation 5:9-10
d d o j u s t i c e : l o v e m e r c y : w a l k h u m b l y
Practice the Story: “Do not be afraid any longer; only believe.” The Word of God, spoken in the love of Jesus in the power of the Spirit, overcomes the gripping spirit of death. Our lives are full of persons who long to hear these words spoken in personal address to them and their fearful circumstances— cancer patients, high risk pregnancies, tragic accidents, prodigal children, impending divorce, bankruptcy and on we could go. The miracle of Peace follows these words and sometimes, miracles
themselves. Write these words on a sturdy scrap of paper and carry them with you. Ask the Holy Spirit to prompt you concerning when and where these words might be spoken to another in need. Be tenderly bold when the opportunity comes.
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#1#17 Ask the next person who asks you to spare some change to join you
for dinner.
“Do not be afraid any longer; only believe.” Easily spoken as long as you are not in the storm. But this is when you must speak when your faith is stronger then the one going thru the storm of life.
Posted by: Wm [Bill] Whiting | September 24, 2009 at 08:06 AM