Today’s blog highlights another faithful woman of the scriptures who prayed. In the two previous articles in this series, the following women were identified:

  1. Mothers of the stripling warriors
  2. Anna, the prophetess

As mentioned earlier in this series, many women of the scriptures offered implicit or explicit prayers. The stripling warriors’ mothers implicitly prayed and demonstrated their faith to their sons. Anna, the prophetess, prayed continually and explicitly in the temple.

The woman with the issue of blood dealt with her illness for 12 years. She spent all that she had on medical help, and the scriptures say that she only got worse. She knew that if she could simply touch the garment of Jesus, she would be healed. She demonstrated much faith, made her way through the crowd, and touched His clothes. Immediately, she felt a healing. What happened next? 

Mark 5:30 explains:

“And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?”

Jesus felt the power go out of Him. Was she in trouble? No, the scripture explains, just the opposite. Jesus said that her faith had made her whole, and she was healed.

Takeaways

  1. Sometimes answers to prayer take a while (in her case, 12 years).
  2. Instead of running away from Jesus, she ran towards him for a healing. I have had numerous personal experiences where I didn’t feel well but pushed myself to go to church. The outcome for me through prayer and anointing was a healing.
  3. She demonstrated faith that she would be healed by working her way through the crowd to simply touch Jesus’s garment. Many of the other healings were directed by Christ, but this example is one where she sought the Lord out.

What a great example this woman is for demonstrating patience, perseverance, and fortitude and the importance of prayer, no matter how long it takes for the outcome. 

No one can argue that this woman was faithful, virtuous, and truly a woman who prayed.

Have you ever prayed numerous times for an affliction or spiritual matter, and when you finally surrendered it to the Lord, there was a healing?

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  • Linda Scolaro

    Sister Linda lives in Chandler, Arizona, with husband Brother Anthony, two beautiful teenage daughters, Cat and Cristina, and dog Stetson.

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