Chasing After You... I Need You More & More...

Mark 5:28 & 34 (KJV)
(28) For she said, If I may touch but His clothes, I shall be whole.
(34) And He said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

I can hardly contain the excitement that I have for God's Word and for it's application for our lives. I pray and believe in the name of Jesus that we are all walking in the manifestation of His healing and wholeness. For Isaiah says that by His stripes, we are healed... Hallelujah!

In understanding our opening text, we see a woman sick; the Bible says she had an issue of blood for twelve years. Many can identify with her, having "issues". The twelve years represent the extensiveness of the years that we've carried our past hurts and many issues of rejection, lack, loss, oppression, depression, injustice, anger, unforgiveness, sickness and brokenness, just to name a few. None of which is right, but nonetheless, some of it has been a part of our past and possibly our present state.

Today, I'm looking at the example of the great faith of this woman in the text. Note - we don't even know her name, but she is forever identified by her faith. Don't you want to be identified by your faith; by your wholeness? We see in her, a made up mind to seek and pursue wholeness.

When we are sick with our "issues", we operate in fractions/pieces; we are not whole. We have to make a choice, just as she did to, to seek and pursue wholeness. To seek is to look for. It's not enough to know that the promise of healing through Jesus Christ is there, we have to seek after it; and then we have to pursue Him. To pursue is to go after, to follow, to chase. At some point in our walk, we ought to affectionately be called, "Jesus stalkers/chasers". We have to seek and pursue our healing, with diligence and expectation and anticipation, from the One who can make us whole. I'm reminded of the lyrics of one song, "I'm chasing after you, no matter what I go through - I need you more and more..."

We have to believe that God wants us whole and that He has all power to restore us to that place. He is willing and able to do exceeding abundantly above all we ask or think. His question to us, however, "Is do we want to be made whole?" When we answer, "yes", it puts us in position to be restored; it allows God to respond, as He responded to the woman of great faith, "Daughters [sons], go thy way, for your faith has made you whole."

My sincere prayer is that the people of God would be diligent in seeking God (touching the hem of the Master's garment, which is at His feet); and in our pursuit of wholeness and that we will put to death ALL of the "issues" that are making us spiritually, physically and emotionally sick. Death is swallowed up in victory, in Jesus' name - Amen!

Thanks be to God Who Gives Us the Victory!

How does one called to employ speech find herself speechless? In awe of the Lord's presence and Divine plans, purpose and providence - I am rendered speechless!

Is not this the fatherless, poor, uneducated, short, nappy haired, ugly, insignificant black girl - they called "smokey"?!?!

Sound familiar - "Is not this the carpenter..." (Mark 6:3)

My "Color Purple" Resolve: I may be black, I may be poor, I may be a woman... I may even be ugly, but I'm still here!

For promotion, look not to the north, south, east nor west, but only to God!

I rest now, knowing that He who has called me, is FAITHFUL!!!

Amen -