“Just then, a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years approached from behind and touched the end of his robe, for she said to herself, ‘If I can just touch his robe, I’ll be made well.’ Jesus turned and saw her. ‘Have courage, daughter,’ he said. ‘Your faith has saved you.’ And the woman was made well from that moment.”
Matthew 9:20-22
The words “made well” mean to cure, heal, restore to health; preserve from being lost; to deliver from, set free from.
Prayer:
Father, I don’t understand or fully grasp how my faith leads to healing and freedom. You are the one who gives me faith, increases my faith and sustains my faith. Lord, help me to trust you when I pray. Help me to believe in faith that you hear my prayers and that when I pray in faith you do a powerful work through my prayers. Thank you that Scripture tells me that I am “saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift” (Ephesians 2:8). You love me so much that you make the foundation of our relationship your grace, and all you ask me to do is put my faith in you. God, I confess that praying in faith is a struggle for me. I want to see things with my eyes, and it’s difficult to pray for things unseen. It is especially difficult to pray when the things I see with my eyes appear broken, hopeless, and impossible.
Lord, I need you to change the way that I see things in my life. I need you to change the way that I see the things that I am praying about and the way I see the people I am praying for. I need to see the things I am praying about and the people I am praying for through your eyes. Help me see your grace and power to save, heal, deliver, and transform my life, my family, and the people I am praying for. Lord, make me a man/woman who prays in faith and then fully trusts you with how you answer my prayers. In Jesus’ name, amen.
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