The Biggest Decision
So we're just over a week into 2020...have yall given up on your New Years Resolution yet? What about the visions you had for this year? What are you going to do when your vision isn't executed the way you thought it should've been? What are you going to do when you have a bump in the road? There is only one thing you can do in that situation--trust God.
So here we are in Mark 5 with Jairus.
Jairus's daughter is ill. I'm sure her illness was not what he imagined for her. Here's the thing, no parent imagines their child with imperfections. Nobody ever says, "I think my baby is going to be handicap," "I think my baby is going to have cancer," or "I think my baby is going to die young." Nobody says that! In fact, most people try to imagine what their children will be like. So already at this point, Jairus expectations for his daughter are not met. She's dying. I can only imagine the amount of urgency he had when he was talking to Jesus. He ain't have nothing left. Jesus was all he had!
So the story continues and we come into contact with another popular Bible story. Before now, I didn't realize the woman with the issue of blood happened when Jesus was on the way to heal Jairus' daughter. I've never heard those stories told together. That's why you have to read the Bible for yourself.
Anyway...I could only imagine how Jairus felt in that moment. His daughter is dying and Jesus wanted to make a pit stop because somebody touched him. They were in a crowd of people! Somebody was going to touch him. It wasn't like this woman grabbed him or groped him. She literally touched the hem of his robe.
But the Bible never says Jairus got upset with Jesus for deciding to handle that situation at that very moment. In fact, I would say that it was absolutely necessary for Jairus to witness this. The Bible does not go into detail in his emotions. But if we be honest, we don 't always have an unshakable faith. Jairus's daughter was dying, and he used the little bit of strength he had left to go meet Jesus and bring Him to his house. What if he wasn't sure the miracle was really able to happen?
That's why I said it was necessary that the encounter with the woman with the issue of blood happened when it did. The woman with the issue had been sick for 12 years. She did the one thing that Jairus needed to do--she had to take all her faith to get her miracle. Jesus was on the way to heal someone else, going through a crowd of people that swamped him because He is God. This woman didn't even want his attention. All she wanted was to touch the hem of his garment. But because she had enough faith to do it, she received her healing.
What are you saying, Briana? What I'm saying is your faith determines your miracle. Sometimes if you aint never been through nothing this big, you wouldn't believe that God could do it until you saw Him do it for somebody else. For some of you, God entrusted you with a miracle in spite of your level of faith because He knew that your story wouldn't just affect your level of faith but it would affect everyone around you.
Typically, I'm a pretty quiet girl, but if you ever want to get me to talk...ask me about my miracles. When I was 24, I was healed from PCOS weeks before my 25th birthday. I would've never said anything about it to everybody, but my pastor asked me to share because we were having a testimony service on my 25th birthday. The way that church went into an uproar of praise because of my story...I didn't know that so many women were struggling with infertility or with reproductive issues. We all got issues! But knowing the testimony for one can help someone else know that they can be delivered from theirs too.
The single most important verse in this entire thing is verse 36. Why do I think that? Because Jesus was pretty much telling him everything was going to be alright. That's the thing about faith. Deciding to believe can make you or break you. When you decide to believed and have faith, you decide that I am believing that God is able to do just what He said He will do. When you decide to have faith, you decide that no matter what happens God is still God and He is still able. You decide o take God at His word because He is His word.
Sometimes you just have to block out the noise That's what's happening in verses 37-40.
Sometimes it's hard to go against the grain. Everybody laughed when Jesus said the girl was only asleep. Not everybody is going to understand what God is doing so you have to decide to do what you have to do to get your miracle. If that means cutting off all negativity, then do it. If that means ending some friendships, then so be it. The reality is that not everybody is going to be in the same place where you are with your faith. They don't know how desperately you need a move of God. They don't know that God is able to do the impossible. But when you decide to have faith, they will know. They'll see your miracle
So here we are in Mark 5 with Jairus.
Mark 5:21-24 New Living Translation (NLT)
Jesus Heals in Response to Faith
21 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. 22 Then a leader of the local synagogue, whose name was Jairus, arrived. When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet, 23 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.”
24 Jesus went with him, and all the people followed, crowding around him.
Jairus's daughter is ill. I'm sure her illness was not what he imagined for her. Here's the thing, no parent imagines their child with imperfections. Nobody ever says, "I think my baby is going to be handicap," "I think my baby is going to have cancer," or "I think my baby is going to die young." Nobody says that! In fact, most people try to imagine what their children will be like. So already at this point, Jairus expectations for his daughter are not met. She's dying. I can only imagine the amount of urgency he had when he was talking to Jesus. He ain't have nothing left. Jesus was all he had!
Mark 5:24-34 New Living Translation (NLT)
24 Jesus went with him, and all the people followed, crowding around him. 25 A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. 26 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. 27 She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his robe. 28 For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition.
30 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?”
31 His disciples said to him, “Look at this crowd pressing around you. How can you ask, ‘Who touched me?’”
32 But he kept on looking around to see who had done it. 33 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. 34 And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.”
So the story continues and we come into contact with another popular Bible story. Before now, I didn't realize the woman with the issue of blood happened when Jesus was on the way to heal Jairus' daughter. I've never heard those stories told together. That's why you have to read the Bible for yourself.
Anyway...I could only imagine how Jairus felt in that moment. His daughter is dying and Jesus wanted to make a pit stop because somebody touched him. They were in a crowd of people! Somebody was going to touch him. It wasn't like this woman grabbed him or groped him. She literally touched the hem of his robe.
But the Bible never says Jairus got upset with Jesus for deciding to handle that situation at that very moment. In fact, I would say that it was absolutely necessary for Jairus to witness this. The Bible does not go into detail in his emotions. But if we be honest, we don 't always have an unshakable faith. Jairus's daughter was dying, and he used the little bit of strength he had left to go meet Jesus and bring Him to his house. What if he wasn't sure the miracle was really able to happen?
That's why I said it was necessary that the encounter with the woman with the issue of blood happened when it did. The woman with the issue had been sick for 12 years. She did the one thing that Jairus needed to do--she had to take all her faith to get her miracle. Jesus was on the way to heal someone else, going through a crowd of people that swamped him because He is God. This woman didn't even want his attention. All she wanted was to touch the hem of his garment. But because she had enough faith to do it, she received her healing.
What are you saying, Briana? What I'm saying is your faith determines your miracle. Sometimes if you aint never been through nothing this big, you wouldn't believe that God could do it until you saw Him do it for somebody else. For some of you, God entrusted you with a miracle in spite of your level of faith because He knew that your story wouldn't just affect your level of faith but it would affect everyone around you.
Typically, I'm a pretty quiet girl, but if you ever want to get me to talk...ask me about my miracles. When I was 24, I was healed from PCOS weeks before my 25th birthday. I would've never said anything about it to everybody, but my pastor asked me to share because we were having a testimony service on my 25th birthday. The way that church went into an uproar of praise because of my story...I didn't know that so many women were struggling with infertility or with reproductive issues. We all got issues! But knowing the testimony for one can help someone else know that they can be delivered from theirs too.
Mark 5:35-36 New Living Translation (NLT)
35 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.”
36 But Jesus overheard[a] them and said to Jairus, “Don’t be afraid. Just have faith.”
The turning point of this story, in my opinion, is when the messengers come up and tell Jairus that his daughter is dead. So Jairus was faced with a decision. Was he going to believe that he was just like everybody and have issues he had to carry or was he going to be like the woman who had the issue and increase his level of faith? What if Jairus would have given up when they told him his daughter was dead? The single most important verse in this entire thing is verse 36. Why do I think that? Because Jesus was pretty much telling him everything was going to be alright. That's the thing about faith. Deciding to believe can make you or break you. When you decide to believed and have faith, you decide that I am believing that God is able to do just what He said He will do. When you decide to have faith, you decide that no matter what happens God is still God and He is still able. You decide o take God at His word because He is His word.
Sometimes you just have to block out the noise That's what's happening in verses 37-40.
Mark 5:37-40 New Living Translation (NLT)
37 Then Jesus stopped the crowd and wouldn’t let anyone go with him except Peter, James, and John (the brother of James). 38 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw much commotion and weeping and wailing. 39 He went inside and asked, “Why all this commotion and weeping? The child isn’t dead; she’s only asleep.”
40 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.
Sometimes it's hard to go against the grain. Everybody laughed when Jesus said the girl was only asleep. Not everybody is going to understand what God is doing so you have to decide to do what you have to do to get your miracle. If that means cutting off all negativity, then do it. If that means ending some friendships, then so be it. The reality is that not everybody is going to be in the same place where you are with your faith. They don't know how desperately you need a move of God. They don't know that God is able to do the impossible. But when you decide to have faith, they will know. They'll see your miracle
Mark 5:41-42 New Living Translation (NLT)
41 Holding her hand, he said to her, “Talitha koum,” which means “Little girl, get up!” 42 And the girl, who was twelve years old, immediately stood up and walked around! They were overwhelmed and totally amazed.
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