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b'Imagine feeling so certain that if you did one simple thing, you\\u2019d have\\nyour deepest desire fulfilled. What if that desire was to be healed from\\nyears of suffering? And what if, after spending all you had on doctors, you\\nheard about someone who could heal you, even when doctors couldn\\u2019t?\\nThis is the story of the woman who believed that if she could only touch\\nthe hem of Jesus\\u2019s clothes, she would be cured. This woman was an outcast,\\nshunned by others because of an illness that caused her to bleed\\ncontinually. This made her unclean, so she couldn\\u2019t go to the temple or\\nsynagogue to worship God, and those who touched her or sat where she sat\\nwould also be unclean. But she hears about a Rabbi\\u2014some even called Him the\\nMessiah\\u2014named Jesus. This woman sees Jesus\\u2019s power and believes she simply\\nneeds to get close enough to touch His clothing, and she will be well.\\nBut how? The crowds are pressing in. Yet, desperate to be healed, she\\nreaches through the throng of bodies to be transformed by the Son of God.\\nAnd she instantly feels a change. She feels her body healing, being\\nrenewed. And Jesus feels it too. He stops and says, \\u201cWho touched me?\\u2026I\\nknow that power has gone out from me\\u201d (Luke 8:45-46). Normally, Jesus is\\nface to face with whoever He heals.\\nThis woman, transformed by Jesus\\u2019s power, admits what she\\u2019s done and why.\\nJesus isn\\u2019t angry. He has compassion for her and all she\\u2019s suffered. He\\naccepts her and blesses her, saying, \\u201cDaughter, your faith has healed you.\\nGo in peace\\u201d (verse 48).\\nJesus is the long-awaited Messiah, the One God promised to send to save His\\npeople. And this event\\u2014with such power emanating from Him, and such\\nknowing, and such compassion and forgiveness\\u2014reveals the love of God.\\nWhenever we are suffering, Jesus invites us to come to Him, like this woman\\ndid. Lord, give us faith to reach out to you too. \\u2022 Lisa A. Wroble\\n\\u2022 Do you have a deep desire? Jesus invites us to come to Him with all our\\nlongings. Sometimes, He answers our prayers with a miracle. Other times, He\\nreveals His love for us in a different way. But if we know Jesus, we are\\nnever alone in our suffering. And because Jesus died and rose again for us,\\nwe get to look forward to the day Jesus will return and suffering will be\\nno more.\\nShe came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately\\nher bleeding stopped. Luke 8:44 (NIV)\\n\\xa0\\nRead Verses:\\nLuke.8.43-Luke.8.48'