March 12, 2025 • 35 mins
After 12 years of suffering, one desperate woman risked everything to touch Jesus' garment. Her story teaches us that faith can transform us from outcasts to daughters and sons. What are you willing to risk to find healing? #Hope #FaithStories
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hi and welcome to the Cheer Up Podcast.
I am your host, Kara R Hunt,and with me is the beautiful
Sherri Swalwell.
How are you doing on thisstormy Midwestern day, Sherri?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well, we've talked in the past about how I love
storms and I don't know.
I think I'm kind of ready forspring to have sprung sunshine,
pleasant temperatures, not supercold, not super hot.
Yeah, I think I'm over thestorms.
I think I really am.
You're over the storms.
God is good, and even in themidst of the storms you know the
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nature storms are such a youknow what.
Tara, I'm grateful to be alivetoday.
To be completely and totallyhonest, if God wants to give us
storms, then I know he's goingto bring us through them.
And if God wants to give ussunshine, then I'm just going to
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thank him for the days that wehave sunshine, because right now
he has just shown so manymiracles in our lives over and
over again and not just ourlives but the lives of those
around us that I am just truly,truly grateful that I know I can
trust him.
Through the storm, through thegood days, I'm just grateful for
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every day that he gives to us,and I'm even grateful for the
jobs that I may not necessarilyenjoy.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oh, absolutely.
And you know what God ministersto us in the storms.
You know what I mean In thenatural storms that we watch
from the safety of our homessometimes, or from shelters, and
in the spiritual storms, it'sjust amazing how, whether
naturally or spiritually, howGod just can use that right and
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just minister to people in themidst of it all.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
He changes us Like when you go through some major
storms.
We are not the same.
We are right.
We are changed, and changed forthe better.
We we have more faith, we havemore trust so that when the next
storm comes not if but when,because we all know that the
next storm will be coming untilwe are up in heaven and seeing
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him face to face, but when thenext storm comes, then we have
the background from the previousstorm to say you know what this
looks awful, but God's got me,and even if him getting me means
that I get an answer that Idon't necessarily want, he will
still be there through thatanswer that I don't want.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh, absolutely, you know, and, like you said, when
you've been through one storm,the other ones it still may be
scary, but you kind of have a,you have a piece about it
because you're like whoa, okay,I remember God got me through
that one.
So, and he's the same yesterday, today and forever.
So he's going to get me throughthis one too.
Don't know how, don't know when, don't know what the storm's
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going to, you know entail, ifit's going to be a cat, one, two
, three or four, you know,spiritually speaking, right, and
everything else.
But all I know is that I'mgoing to get, he's going to be
with me and hold my hand throughit.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
All you know I might be kicking and screaming through
the storm because I might belike hey, I just had one, can't
I get a?
Break like really another one,yeah because, man, if you going
through the biblical figuresthat we have gone through, it
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builds my faith because it showsme that I don't have to be
perfect.
I can have those reactions ofreally God, another storm
already, like I barely caught mybreath from the old storm, from
the other storm.
But he's okay with that.
He doesn't mind our, ourreactions and our um, honest
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answers.
He just wants us to say,regardless of all that, I trust
you, I'm buckling up, I'm readyfor you to take me.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
But I mean right.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Right and we may come out with our hair all messed up
and you know clothes a little,you know worse for wear, but
we're still standing right.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Right, and we're still stronger.
We're not just standingstronger, but we're standing
with.
Oh, what is the knowledge andexperience that we can both?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
others the wisdom.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
yes, yes, yes.
We cannot dispute that and wecannot let that.
We can't negate that orminimize that.
That's the word I'm trying tosay.
We can't minimize that, becauseGod uses that to then, in turn,
encourage other people.
And how many people encouragedus when we were just starting
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out and they were in theposition where we're in now?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Absolutely.
You know it's some of the bestpillars, strong people of the
faith you know mentioned in aBible and that we know here on
this terra firma, this earth,they've all been through a lot
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Uh-huh, exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, and the key phrase there is been through
Right, right, you know theydidn't get stuck there.
They're not still there,they're still not, you know, and
everything else.
They've been through it all andtheir testing has, you know,
has turned into a testimony, andGod is so good.
And actually that just seguesperfectly into our topic for
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that.
Last week we talked about Lydiain the New Testament and talking
about biblical figures in thepast and how their lives and
what the things that they havebeen through kind of coincides
with the things that we stillexperience today, all these
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thousands of years later.
And this time, from the NewTestament, we're going to be
talking about the woman with theissue of blood, and I just want
to give you some notes herethat I have on her, and of
course, she's in the NewTestament and her I guess I
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could say story I'm looking fora different word but her story
can be found in the Gospels ofMatthew, mark and Luke.
I do not think it can be foundin, I don't think it's talked
about in the book of John or anyof the books of John, but you
can definitely find out aboutthe woman commonly referred to
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as the woman with the issue ofblood in the Gospels of Matthew,
mark and Luke and according tothese accounts the woman had
suffered from a chronic bleedingdisorder for 12 years.
And back then, when thathappened to women or I think, if
you had any type of disorderwhere you were male or female,
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but especially anything to dowith blood, then you kind of
became socially marginalized anda lot of the times economically
marginalized in society as well.
Now a lot of people kind ofwonder like what does this mean?
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And I think the King JamesVersion don't quote me on this
because I don't have it right infront of me at the moment, but
I think it refers to like a flowof blood and a lot of
commentators and scholars andtheologians have said that have
kind of referred to it as achronic menstrual bleeding
disorder such as menorrhagia oruterine fibroids disorder such
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as menorrhagia or uterinefibroids and which you know
nowadays that can be donemedically with the technology
and stuff we have now, but backin those times they didn't have
that and, as a matter of fact,by society back then in biblical
times it was considered thatyou were impure.
It was associated with impurity, I should say, which led to a
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lot of the ostracization andhardship.
I am so sorry, I am sotongue-tied this morning, but
what's so awesome about thiswoman's story is that, despite
what she was going through,somehow some way she had heard
about Jesus, jesus Christ ofNazareth and his healing powers.
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So she had heard about this andshe was just like, after
dealing with all of this, youknow this constant, nonstop,
never-easing, unceasing bleedingthat was causing people to shy
away from her, that was causingher to be ostracized, that was
causing people to to to shy awayfrom her, that was causing her
to be ostracized, that wascausing some to think that she
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was impure for some kind ofreason, not to mention the
economic hardships because he,because you, can you even
imagine back then, withouthaving all the the conference,
the feminine conference that wehave now to deal with situations
like that of having to work ortry to make a living?
So now here she is dealing withall of this and she hears about
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this man.
And she hears about this man,jesus, who's in her area, who's
in her town, and she heard thathe heals.
People have been like, oh, hehealed this person, oh, he
healed that person, andespecially in Luke, chapter 8,
in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 8, before it gets to her.
I believe her story in Luke isLuke, chapter 8, verses 43
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through 48, or somewhere in thatarea.
But in the beginning of Luke,chapter 8, you hear about all
the healings that Jesus is doingas he's making his way, you
know, through the towns, youknow and everything else, and so
she's somehow another.
This is, I say somehow.
Another word had come to herthat you know.
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Hey, there's this man and he'shealing people of all sorts of
sicknesses and diseases andinfirmities and illnesses.
You know, she became determined, she's like I have got to find
this man.
And she approaches Jesus in acrowd, because he's surrounded
by a crowd, and she touches thehem of his garment, just
believing that he would heal her.
She's just believing she hadjust heard all these stories and
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we don't know.
We're not privy to the storiesof the miracles and healings
that she's heard about, butwhatever she heard has ignited
her faith to the point whereshe's just like, oh my gosh,
he's surrounded by all thesepeople, but if I could just
touch the heel of his garment,you know, then I will be healed
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and want to know what she was,she was, and it was immediate
and it talks about howimmediately her bleeding stopped
and she was healed.
And Jesus, sensing that someonehad been healed, he turns to
the crowd and he asked whotouched me, you know?
And she's like, wait, what?
Like?
These people think I'm impure,I should be ostracized.
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You know, I shouldn't even bethis.
You know in the crowd, you knowand everything else.
Obviously, you know, she'safraid and possibly trembling,
and you know, but she confessesand say, hey, you know, it was
me.
And he reassures her that herfaith, so, whatever story she
had heard, whatever testimoniesthat had been shared with her,
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whatever she may have witnessedof someone whose hand may have
been healed or, you know, it wasrithered or broken or arthritic
, and then she's like seeingthem working with it again.
Whatever she saw, whatever sheheard, it built her faith up to
the point to where she just knewthat all she needed to do was
touch him and she would behealed.
And one of the curious thingshere is that she touched him.
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He didn't touch her like theother people.
Like I said when you read in,like chapter eight, you know, or
something like that.
She touched him, she reachedout to him, you know, and that
is so apropos to us today.
It's, you know, we're not inbiblical times, to where we
could see Jesus just walk pastus.
So we could go to the nearesttown where he's at, you know,
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and be like, oh my goodness,jesus, heal me, but we can still
or he lays hands on us and say,you know, be healed.
So we're not in biblical times,but we're in better times,
because now we can just reachout to him and say, jesus, jesus
, jesus, just heal me, andspiritually reach out to the hem
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of her garment, you know, andagain, she's just a powerful
example of the healing, of thepower of faith and the
transformative impact of, youknow, the Jesus ministry.
And, like I said, it's only likefive verses or so in Luke,
chapter 8.
So I just kind of want to justkind of go through it really
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quick and this is the King JamesVersion.
But you know, to not take up somuch time, I'm just going to
kind of just take out the theseand thous and everything else.
But Luke, chapter 8, chapter 40.
Oh, I think I said it startedin.
Oh, it does start in 43.
But I'm going to start in 40.
Okay, it says and it came topass, that when Jesus was
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returned.
Now he's in Capernaum to thepeople they gladly received him
for they were all waiting forhim.
People they gladly received himfor they were all waiting for
him.
And remember now, before verse40 happens in Luke, chapter 8,
he's been on a healing campaign.
You know that's not the word Iwant to use, but that's
basically what was going on.
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There was just healing andmiracles were abounding.
So they're excited that he'sthere.
Verse 41, and behold, there camea man named Jairus and he was a
ruler of the synagogue and hefell down at Jesus' feet and
besought him that he would comeinto his house, for he only had
one daughter, about 12 years ofage, and she lay dying.
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So this situation was dire.
But as he as he, as in Jesus,as he went, the people thronged
him.
They're just gathering aroundhim, right.
They've heard about all thesehealings and all these miracles
that he has been doing and nodoubt people either wanted to
witness more of them, see itwith their own eyes, or they
needed healing.
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Verse 43, and a woman havinginitial blood 12 years, which
has been all her living, uponphysicians.
So there were doctors back then.
As a matter of fact, I thinkLuke was a physician who wrote
the book of Luke, which hadspent all her living upon
physicians.
Neither could be healed of any,so there was no earthly remedy
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for her.
All the physicians kneweverything that they knew to do
at the time, but none of themhad been able to help her.
So in verse 44, came up behindhim Jesus and touched the border
of his garment, and one of thetheologians scholars say this
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pertains to one of the fourtassels on the hem of his
garment which form part of theJewish mantle, the blue of the
tassel which was worn by mostmen and reminded Israel that
their help came from above andof their duty to keep the law.
And more about that can befound out in the book of Numbers
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in the Old Testament, inchapter 15, and in the book of
Deuteronomy, chapter 22.
So anyway, verse 44, she cameup behind him and touched the
border of his garment andimmediately, immediately, her
issue of blood stanched, whichpretty much means the cure.
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It stopped.
They're using the word stanchedmeans it stopped.
She was cured permanently.
This was not a temporary fix,this was permanently.
She would never be troubledwith this problem again.
Verse 45,.
And Jesus said who touched meand when?
All denied Peter.
And they who were with him saidmaster, the multitude thronged
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you and pressed you and you saywho touched me?
You know they're just like Areyou really asking this question?
Like there's throngs of peoplearound you.
Verse 46.
And Jesus said Somebody hastouched me, for I perceive that
virtue is gone out of me.
Yes, and again, remember, hedidn't touch her.
She touched him, she reachedout to him.
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Verse 47,.
And when the woman saw that shewas not hidden, not hid, which
you know kind of implies thatshe didn't really want to be
seen, probably because of thethings we mentioned before about
how they thought of her asimpure, you know, or that
something was wrong with her orthat, you know, they didn't want
to be anywhere near her andeverything else.
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And when the woman saw that shewas not hid, she came trembling
and falling down before him.
She declared unto him beforeall the people for what cause
she had touched him, for whichcause she had touched him.
So basically, it sounds like infront of everybody, she just
confessed it all about how shehad touched him.
So basically, it sounds like infront of everybody, she just
confessed it all about how shehad been to all these physicians
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, how she's been dealing withthis for 12 years, all the
consequences and ostracizationand the people looking her.
So it sounds like right hereshe tells it all because it said
she declared unto him beforeall the people for what cause
she had touched him and how shewas healed immediately, verse 48
, and he said unto her daughterand I never picked this up
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before, but one of thetheologians or whatever it's
saying here, pay attention Atfirst she was referred to as
woman.
She was first referred to as awoman and now, after she's been
healed, she is referred to asdaughter, which speaks of
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relationship pertaining to bothher salvation and her healing.
And I'm like, wow, that's right, he did say she was referred to
as a woman, just as a womanwith initial blood, and now
she's like daughter, like afather saying daughter, daughter
, be of good comfort, your faithhas made you whole, go in peace
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.
And I'm like, oh my gosh, it'slike relationship change, just
like that.
How beautiful is that, you know?
And then her story kind of justends there and it talks about
and it kind of goes on about.
You know, there's a ruler fromthe synagogue how thanked you
know.
You know one of his helperscomes up and you know he talks
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about, hey, your daughter hasdied, you know, and things like
that.
So, but her story reallydoesn't end there.
I think another mention ismentioned to her later in Luke,
chapter 8.
But and tradition says Ibelieve, I'm almost positive
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that tradition says that hername was Victoria.
Don't quote me on that.
I know the name began with a Vand I'm like, was it Valerie or
Victoria?
But I really believe thattradition meaning like Jewish
tradition, those type of papersand books and scrolls refer to
her name.
As said, her name was Victoria.
Wow, what a story.
Am I right, sherry?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Absolutely.
I always thought that I knew alot about that story, but you
really opened my eyes and showedme even more.
I did not catch, until youmentioned it, that first she was
woman and then she was daughter.
That is such a huge point tohave brought out.
I love that you brought thatout.
I will never look at the storyagain the same as I have in the
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past, and I always loved thestory in the past, so you just
made me love it even more.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I know and you know when we dig and it goes back to
what you said earlier rightabout how, as we've been going
through the people in a Bible,biblical figures and what
they've been through and how Godbrought them through certain
things, whether it was doubt,whether it was fear, whether, in
this woman's case, you know theissue of blood, you know how
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when you dig into it and youresearch it and you study it out
, and you know it's just so muchmore is there.
I think that sometimes wereally realize you know and
things you know and things likethat.
It's just so much more.
And I'm sorry, I was justtrying to go back to my notes to
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try to figure out why did I notwrite that woman's name down?
But it really doesn't matterwhether her name was Victoria,
whether it was Valerie or it wasanother name that began with
the letter V.
I just know it began with theletter V.
That tradition Jewish tradition, I think says it doesn't say
that in the Bible, but I believein Jewish tradition.
It said her name was, I thinksays it doesn't say that in the
Bible, but I believe in Jewishtradition.
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It said her name was, I believe, victoria.
He didn't call her Victoria.
He called her daughter.
He called her daughter.
How beautiful is that and howlife-changing is everything.
Life-changing, life-changing,it's everything that's
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life-changing.
She's no longer going to beostracized.
She's no longer going to beknown as that impure woman,
right, that has to go throughall these rituals and everything
else before she can go into asocial gathering.
She's no longer going to haveto depend on everyone else
necessarily to take care of her,because now she's able to go
back and work you know, at leastnot as they can go back and
work, but at least be able toprovide something to her
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household, even if it's justlike gathering grain or you know
, and things like that.
And she's no longer justreferred to as the, you know, as
the woman with the issue ofblood.
She'll be a part of societyagain, a welcome part of society
, and she's known as the womanwho was healed by touching the
hem of Jesus' garment versus thewoman with the issue of blood.
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Listeners, true nation.
I just want to really hit thatpart home because no matter what
you've done, no matter whatyou're going through, no matter
what people think of you, nomatter what people think of you
because in her case they werejust like ostracizing her.
Oh, she's impure, you know, andeverything else.
But again, at the time theywere referring to the biblical
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laws that were in it's notLeviticus, I think, it was in
Deuteronomy, you know, andeverything like that.
But Jesus didn't see her thatway and she was healed
immediately.
Her whole life changed when shestepped out in faith.
When she stepped out in faith,she went from just a woman to
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daughter when it came to JesusChrist of Nazareth, and that is
life-changing.
And you're like Carrie, yeah,but how do I reach out to him
and reach out for him in thisgarden right now?
I need healing.
I have something that I'mdealing with, you know, and
everything else.
All you have to do is pray.
All you have to do is say Jesus, jesus, jesus, help me, pray to
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him.
Some people find prayerdifficult.
Pray to him.
Some people find prayerdifficult, but literally, it's
just like talking to someone ina room that you may not be able
to see with your own eyes, buthe's there.
If you are a believer, if youhave accepted Jesus Christ as
Nazareth, as your Lord andSavior, he is there in a room
with you and you can talk to himjust like you talk to anybody
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else, have a conversation.
He already knows your heart, healready knows what you're
dealing with.
He's just asking you to reachout to him so that he can help
walk you through it, just likethe storms we were talking about
earlier.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Am I right, sherri?
Absolutely, and if you'resomeone who wants to know Jesus
and you want to reach out to him, all you have to do is say
Jesus and he will come, even ifyou priorly do not have a
relationship with him.
God just wants a relationshipwith us and so he wants us to
come the way we are.
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He wanted the woman to comeunclean.
Back then I don't think she wasallowed to work.
To be honest with you, I don'tthink she was allowed to go into
social situations, because ifyou read the old testament and
you read all the laws that wereconcerning surrounding blood,
women husbands and wivescouldn't even be together when
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the woman was having hermenstrual cycle.
So I don't think, think she, Ithink you're right, cause I used
to have to go to a tent You'reright, go ahead and then they
had to purify themselves whentheir cycle was over before they
could even be back with their,with their husband.
So I think he was um not justostracized but isolated, like, I
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think, her social skills youthink COVID-19 on steroids.
Like I think her social skillswere none nil, so for her.
To vent it out and to touch thehem of his garment like she did.
That took a lot of guts, a lotof faith, and I think she could
have been in big trouble if theyhad caught her or whatever, and
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she was doing stuff that wouldquote unquote, cause other
people to be unclean.
Don't completely quote me onthat, but go read all of the
different laws in the Old.
Testament and that will tell youwhat she was and wasn't allowed
to do.
And I don't think she wasallowed to do very much at all.
And to think about 12 years ofthat, 12 years of not being able
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to stop bleeding and the anemiaoh my word, like I don't think
she would even want to do stuffbecause she'd be exhausted from
losing all that blood and iron.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
And she would probably pale.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah yeah.
There are just so manydifferent layers to this, but
the bottom line it doesn'treally matter.
I mean, God used this womanwith the issue of blood, but
think about it nowadays it canbe any disease that you have any
condition that you haveaddiction, anything.
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It doesn't have to be a medicalcondition, or it doesn't have to
be, you know, something like MSthat you have no control over.
It could be, it could beanything, but God wants us to
come to him, and that's that'sthe bottom line.
Like in John 16, 33, we're toldthese things I've spoken to you
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from Jesus that in me you willhave peace in the world world.
You will have tribulation, butbe of good cheer.
I have overcome the world.
Whether or not this ladyrealized it, she believed that
promise from God and she wasgoing to do whatever it was that
she could to get there.
So I want to talk to you todayspecifically.
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Are you searching?
Are you seeking?
Do you want to know what it'slike to have that kind of a
relationship with God?
Do you want that kind of arelationship with God?
Well, it is super easy to getLike.
God wants us to have thatrelationship with him too.
So we don't want another day togo by without you being able to
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experience what it is tosurrender your life to him and
to start your relationship withGod.
So if that's you and that's whatyou want to do, in Romans 10, 9
, we're told if we believe, ifwe confess with our mouth and
believe in our hearts that Jesusis Lord, we will be saved.
So one of the ways that we candemonstrate our surrender to
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Christ is by praying a prayer.
And it's not the words of theprayer that makes the difference
, it's believing the words inour heart.
It's truly surrendering ourlives to God and saying I'm
giving you everything, I wantyou to be Lord over my life and
I want you to take care of mehere on out.
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So if that's you and that'swhat you want to do, there's no
time like the present to start.
All you need to do is pray thisprayer after us oh Heavenly
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Hi and welcome to the Cheer Up Podcast.
I am your host, Kara R Hunt,and with me is the beautiful
Sherri Swalwell.
How are you doing on thisstormy Midwestern day, Sherri?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well, we've talked in the past about how I love
storms and I don't know.
I think I'm kind of ready forspring to have sprung sunshine,
pleasant temperatures, not supercold, not super hot.
Yeah, I think I'm over thestorms.
I think I really am.
You're over the storms.
God is good, and even in themidst of the storms you know the
(01:00):
nature storms are such a youknow what.
Tara, I'm grateful to be alivetoday.
To be completely and totallyhonest, if God wants to give us
storms, then I know he's goingto bring us through them.
And if God wants to give ussunshine, then I'm just going to
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thank him for the days that wehave sunshine, because right now
he has just shown so manymiracles in our lives over and
over again and not just ourlives but the lives of those
around us that I am just truly,truly grateful that I know I can
trust him.
Through the storm, through thegood days, I'm just grateful for
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every day that he gives to us,and I'm even grateful for the
jobs that I may not necessarilyenjoy.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oh, absolutely.
And you know what God ministersto us in the storms.
You know what I mean In thenatural storms that we watch
from the safety of our homessometimes, or from shelters, and
in the spiritual storms, it'sjust amazing how, whether
naturally or spiritually, howGod just can use that right and
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just minister to people in themidst of it all.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
He changes us Like when you go through some major
storms.
We are not the same.
We are right.
We are changed, and changed forthe better.
We we have more faith, we havemore trust so that when the next
storm comes not if but when,because we all know that the
next storm will be coming untilwe are up in heaven and seeing
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him face to face, but when thenext storm comes, then we have
the background from the previousstorm to say you know what this
looks awful, but God's got me,and even if him getting me means
that I get an answer that Idon't necessarily want, he will
still be there through thatanswer that I don't want.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh, absolutely, you know, and, like you said, when
you've been through one storm,the other ones it still may be
scary, but you kind of have a,you have a piece about it
because you're like whoa, okay,I remember God got me through
that one.
So, and he's the same yesterday, today and forever.
So he's going to get me throughthis one too.
Don't know how, don't know when, don't know what the storm's
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going to, you know entail, ifit's going to be a cat, one, two
, three or four, you know,spiritually speaking, right, and
everything else.
But all I know is that I'mgoing to get, he's going to be
with me and hold my hand throughit.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
All you know I might be kicking and screaming through
the storm because I might belike hey, I just had one, can't
I get a?
Break like really another one,yeah because, man, if you going
through the biblical figuresthat we have gone through, it
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builds my faith because it showsme that I don't have to be
perfect.
I can have those reactions ofreally God, another storm
already, like I barely caught mybreath from the old storm, from
the other storm.
But he's okay with that.
He doesn't mind our, ourreactions and our um, honest
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answers.
He just wants us to say,regardless of all that, I trust
you, I'm buckling up, I'm readyfor you to take me.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
But I mean right.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Right and we may come out with our hair all messed up
and you know clothes a little,you know worse for wear, but
we're still standing right.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Right, and we're still stronger.
We're not just standingstronger, but we're standing
with.
Oh, what is the knowledge andexperience that we can both?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
others the wisdom.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
yes, yes, yes.
We cannot dispute that and wecannot let that.
We can't negate that orminimize that.
That's the word I'm trying tosay.
We can't minimize that, becauseGod uses that to then, in turn,
encourage other people.
And how many people encouragedus when we were just starting
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out and they were in theposition where we're in now?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Absolutely.
You know it's some of the bestpillars, strong people of the
faith you know mentioned in aBible and that we know here on
this terra firma, this earth,they've all been through a lot
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Uh-huh, exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, and the key phrase there is been through
Right, right, you know theydidn't get stuck there.
They're not still there,they're still not, you know, and
everything else.
They've been through it all andtheir testing has, you know,
has turned into a testimony, andGod is so good.
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that.
Last week we talked about Lydiain the New Testament and talking
about biblical figures in thepast and how their lives and
what the things that they havebeen through kind of coincides
with the things that we stillexperience today, all these
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thousands of years later.
And this time, from the NewTestament, we're going to be
talking about the woman with theissue of blood, and I just want
to give you some notes herethat I have on her, and of
course, she's in the NewTestament and her I guess I
(08:06):
could say story I'm looking fora different word but her story
can be found in the Gospels ofMatthew, mark and Luke.
I do not think it can be foundin, I don't think it's talked
about in the book of John or anyof the books of John, but you
can definitely find out aboutthe woman commonly referred to
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as the woman with the issue ofblood in the Gospels of Matthew,
mark and Luke and according tothese accounts the woman had
suffered from a chronic bleedingdisorder for 12 years.
And back then, when thathappened to women or I think, if
you had any type of disorderwhere you were male or female,
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but especially anything to dowith blood, then you kind of
became socially marginalized anda lot of the times economically
marginalized in society as well.
Now a lot of people kind ofwonder like what does this mean?
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And I think the King JamesVersion don't quote me on this
because I don't have it right infront of me at the moment, but
I think it refers to like a flowof blood and a lot of
commentators and scholars andtheologians have said that have
kind of referred to it as achronic menstrual bleeding
disorder such as menorrhagia oruterine fibroids disorder such
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as menorrhagia or uterinefibroids and which you know
nowadays that can be donemedically with the technology
and stuff we have now, but backin those times they didn't have
that and, as a matter of fact,by society back then in biblical
times it was considered thatyou were impure.
It was associated with impurity, I should say, which led to a
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lot of the ostracization andhardship.
I am so sorry, I am sotongue-tied this morning, but
what's so awesome about thiswoman's story is that, despite
what she was going through,somehow some way she had heard
about Jesus, jesus Christ ofNazareth and his healing powers.
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So she had heard about this andshe was just like, after
dealing with all of this, youknow this constant, nonstop,
never-easing, unceasing bleedingthat was causing people to shy
away from her, that was causingher to be ostracized, that was
causing people to to to shy awayfrom her, that was causing her
to be ostracized, that wascausing some to think that she
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was impure for some kind ofreason, not to mention the
economic hardships because he,because you, can you even
imagine back then, withouthaving all the the conference,
the feminine conference that wehave now to deal with situations
like that of having to work ortry to make a living?
So now here she is dealing withall of this and she hears about
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this man.
And she hears about this man,jesus, who's in her area, who's
in her town, and she heard thathe heals.
People have been like, oh, hehealed this person, oh, he
healed that person, andespecially in Luke, chapter 8,
in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 8, before it gets to her.
I believe her story in Luke isLuke, chapter 8, verses 43
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through 48, or somewhere in thatarea.
But in the beginning of Luke,chapter 8, you hear about all
the healings that Jesus is doingas he's making his way, you
know, through the towns, youknow and everything else, and so
she's somehow another.
This is, I say somehow.
Another word had come to herthat you know.
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Hey, there's this man and he'shealing people of all sorts of
sicknesses and diseases andinfirmities and illnesses.
You know, she became determined, she's like I have got to find
this man.
And she approaches Jesus in acrowd, because he's surrounded
by a crowd, and she touches thehem of his garment, just
believing that he would heal her.
She's just believing she hadjust heard all these stories and
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we don't know.
We're not privy to the storiesof the miracles and healings
that she's heard about, butwhatever she heard has ignited
her faith to the point whereshe's just like, oh my gosh,
he's surrounded by all thesepeople, but if I could just
touch the heel of his garment,you know, then I will be healed
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and want to know what she was,she was, and it was immediate
and it talks about howimmediately her bleeding stopped
and she was healed.
And Jesus, sensing that someonehad been healed, he turns to
the crowd and he asked whotouched me, you know?
And she's like, wait, what?
Like?
These people think I'm impure,I should be ostracized.
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You know, I shouldn't even bethis.
You know in the crowd, you knowand everything else.
Obviously, you know, she'safraid and possibly trembling,
and you know, but she confessesand say, hey, you know, it was
me.
And he reassures her that herfaith, so, whatever story she
had heard, whatever testimoniesthat had been shared with her,
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whatever she may have witnessedof someone whose hand may have
been healed or, you know, it wasrithered or broken or arthritic
, and then she's like seeingthem working with it again.
Whatever she saw, whatever sheheard, it built her faith up to
the point to where she just knewthat all she needed to do was
touch him and she would behealed.
And one of the curious thingshere is that she touched him.
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He didn't touch her like theother people.
Like I said when you read in,like chapter eight, you know, or
something like that.
She touched him, she reachedout to him, you know, and that
is so apropos to us today.
It's, you know, we're not inbiblical times, to where we
could see Jesus just walk pastus.
So we could go to the nearesttown where he's at, you know,
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and be like, oh my goodness,jesus, heal me, but we can still
or he lays hands on us and say,you know, be healed.
So we're not in biblical times,but we're in better times,
because now we can just reachout to him and say, jesus, jesus
, jesus, just heal me, andspiritually reach out to the hem
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of her garment, you know, andagain, she's just a powerful
example of the healing, of thepower of faith and the
transformative impact of, youknow, the Jesus ministry.
And, like I said, it's only likefive verses or so in Luke,
chapter 8.
So I just kind of want to justkind of go through it really
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quick and this is the King JamesVersion.
But you know, to not take up somuch time, I'm just going to
kind of just take out the theseand thous and everything else.
But Luke, chapter 8, chapter 40.
Oh, I think I said it startedin.
Oh, it does start in 43.
But I'm going to start in 40.
Okay, it says and it came topass, that when Jesus was
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returned.
Now he's in Capernaum to thepeople they gladly received him
for they were all waiting forhim.
People they gladly received himfor they were all waiting for
him.
And remember now, before verse40 happens in Luke, chapter 8,
he's been on a healing campaign.
You know that's not the word Iwant to use, but that's
basically what was going on.
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There was just healing andmiracles were abounding.
So they're excited that he'sthere.
Verse 41, and behold, there camea man named Jairus and he was a
ruler of the synagogue and hefell down at Jesus' feet and
besought him that he would comeinto his house, for he only had
one daughter, about 12 years ofage, and she lay dying.
(15:50):
So this situation was dire.
But as he as he, as in Jesus,as he went, the people thronged
him.
They're just gathering aroundhim, right.
They've heard about all thesehealings and all these miracles
that he has been doing and nodoubt people either wanted to
witness more of them, see itwith their own eyes, or they
needed healing.
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Verse 43, and a woman havinginitial blood 12 years, which
has been all her living, uponphysicians.
So there were doctors back then.
As a matter of fact, I thinkLuke was a physician who wrote
the book of Luke, which hadspent all her living upon
physicians.
Neither could be healed of any,so there was no earthly remedy
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for her.
All the physicians kneweverything that they knew to do
at the time, but none of themhad been able to help her.
So in verse 44, came up behindhim Jesus and touched the border
of his garment, and one of thetheologians scholars say this
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pertains to one of the fourtassels on the hem of his
garment which form part of theJewish mantle, the blue of the
tassel which was worn by mostmen and reminded Israel that
their help came from above andof their duty to keep the law.
And more about that can befound out in the book of Numbers
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in the Old Testament, inchapter 15, and in the book of
Deuteronomy, chapter 22.
So anyway, verse 44, she cameup behind him and touched the
border of his garment andimmediately, immediately, her
issue of blood stanched, whichpretty much means the cure.
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It stopped.
They're using the word stanchedmeans it stopped.
She was cured permanently.
This was not a temporary fix,this was permanently.
She would never be troubledwith this problem again.
Verse 45,.
And Jesus said who touched meand when?
All denied Peter.
And they who were with him saidmaster, the multitude thronged
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you and pressed you and you saywho touched me?
You know they're just like Areyou really asking this question?
Like there's throngs of peoplearound you.
Verse 46.
And Jesus said Somebody hastouched me, for I perceive that
virtue is gone out of me.
Yes, and again, remember, hedidn't touch her.
She touched him, she reachedout to him.
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Verse 47,.
And when the woman saw that shewas not hidden, not hid, which
you know kind of implies thatshe didn't really want to be
seen, probably because of thethings we mentioned before about
how they thought of her asimpure, you know, or that
something was wrong with her orthat, you know, they didn't want
to be anywhere near her andeverything else.
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And when the woman saw that shewas not hid, she came trembling
and falling down before him.
She declared unto him beforeall the people for what cause
she had touched him, for whichcause she had touched him.
So basically, it sounds like infront of everybody, she just
confessed it all about how shehad touched him.
So basically, it sounds like infront of everybody, she just
confessed it all about how shehad been to all these physicians
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, how she's been dealing withthis for 12 years, all the
consequences and ostracizationand the people looking her.
So it sounds like right hereshe tells it all because it said
she declared unto him beforeall the people for what cause
she had touched him and how shewas healed immediately, verse 48
, and he said unto her daughterand I never picked this up
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before, but one of thetheologians or whatever it's
saying here, pay attention Atfirst she was referred to as
woman.
She was first referred to as awoman and now, after she's been
healed, she is referred to asdaughter, which speaks of
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relationship pertaining to bothher salvation and her healing.
And I'm like, wow, that's right, he did say she was referred to
as a woman, just as a womanwith initial blood, and now
she's like daughter, like afather saying daughter, daughter
, be of good comfort, your faithhas made you whole, go in peace
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.
And I'm like, oh my gosh, it'slike relationship change, just
like that.
How beautiful is that, you know?
And then her story kind of justends there and it talks about
and it kind of goes on about.
You know, there's a ruler fromthe synagogue how thanked you
know.
You know one of his helperscomes up and you know he talks
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about, hey, your daughter hasdied, you know, and things like
that.
So, but her story reallydoesn't end there.
I think another mention ismentioned to her later in Luke,
chapter 8.
But and tradition says Ibelieve, I'm almost positive
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that tradition says that hername was Victoria.
Don't quote me on that.
I know the name began with a Vand I'm like, was it Valerie or
Victoria?
But I really believe thattradition meaning like Jewish
tradition, those type of papersand books and scrolls refer to
her name.
As said, her name was Victoria.
Wow, what a story.
Am I right, sherry?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Absolutely.
I always thought that I knew alot about that story, but you
really opened my eyes and showedme even more.
I did not catch, until youmentioned it, that first she was
woman and then she was daughter.
That is such a huge point tohave brought out.
I love that you brought thatout.
I will never look at the storyagain the same as I have in the
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past, and I always loved thestory in the past, so you just
made me love it even more.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I know and you know when we dig and it goes back to
what you said earlier rightabout how, as we've been going
through the people in a Bible,biblical figures and what
they've been through and how Godbrought them through certain
things, whether it was doubt,whether it was fear, whether, in
this woman's case, you know theissue of blood, you know how
(22:06):
when you dig into it and youresearch it and you study it out
, and you know it's just so muchmore is there.
I think that sometimes wereally realize you know and
things you know and things likethat.
It's just so much more.
And I'm sorry, I was justtrying to go back to my notes to
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try to figure out why did I notwrite that woman's name down?
But it really doesn't matterwhether her name was Victoria,
whether it was Valerie or it wasanother name that began with
the letter V.
I just know it began with theletter V.
That tradition Jewish tradition, I think says it doesn't say
that in the Bible, but I believein Jewish tradition.
It said her name was, I thinksays it doesn't say that in the
Bible, but I believe in Jewishtradition.
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It said her name was, I believe, victoria.
He didn't call her Victoria.
He called her daughter.
He called her daughter.
How beautiful is that and howlife-changing is everything.
Life-changing, life-changing,it's everything that's
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life-changing.
She's no longer going to beostracized.
She's no longer going to beknown as that impure woman,
right, that has to go throughall these rituals and everything
else before she can go into asocial gathering.
She's no longer going to haveto depend on everyone else
necessarily to take care of her,because now she's able to go
back and work you know, at leastnot as they can go back and
work, but at least be able toprovide something to her
(23:33):
household, even if it's justlike gathering grain or you know
, and things like that.
And she's no longer justreferred to as the, you know, as
the woman with the issue ofblood.
She'll be a part of societyagain, a welcome part of society
, and she's known as the womanwho was healed by touching the
hem of Jesus' garment versus thewoman with the issue of blood.
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Listeners, true nation.
I just want to really hit thatpart home because no matter what
you've done, no matter whatyou're going through, no matter
what people think of you, nomatter what people think of you
because in her case they werejust like ostracizing her.
Oh, she's impure, you know, andeverything else.
But again, at the time theywere referring to the biblical
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laws that were in it's notLeviticus, I think, it was in
Deuteronomy, you know, andeverything like that.
But Jesus didn't see her thatway and she was healed
immediately.
Her whole life changed when shestepped out in faith.
When she stepped out in faith,she went from just a woman to
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daughter when it came to JesusChrist of Nazareth, and that is
life-changing.
And you're like Carrie, yeah,but how do I reach out to him
and reach out for him in thisgarden right now?
I need healing.
I have something that I'mdealing with, you know, and
everything else.
All you have to do is pray.
All you have to do is say Jesus, jesus, jesus, help me, pray to
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him.
Some people find prayerdifficult.
Pray to him.
Some people find prayerdifficult, but literally, it's
just like talking to someone ina room that you may not be able
to see with your own eyes, buthe's there.
If you are a believer, if youhave accepted Jesus Christ as
Nazareth, as your Lord andSavior, he is there in a room
with you and you can talk to himjust like you talk to anybody
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else, have a conversation.
He already knows your heart, healready knows what you're
dealing with.
He's just asking you to reachout to him so that he can help
walk you through it, just likethe storms we were talking about
earlier.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Am I right, sherri?
Absolutely, and if you'resomeone who wants to know Jesus
and you want to reach out to him, all you have to do is say
Jesus and he will come, even ifyou priorly do not have a
relationship with him.
God just wants a relationshipwith us and so he wants us to
come the way we are.
(25:59):
He wanted the woman to comeunclean.
Back then I don't think she wasallowed to work.
To be honest with you, I don'tthink she was allowed to go into
social situations, because ifyou read the old testament and
you read all the laws that wereconcerning surrounding blood,
women husbands and wivescouldn't even be together when
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the woman was having hermenstrual cycle.
So I don't think, think she, Ithink you're right, cause I used
to have to go to a tent You'reright, go ahead and then they
had to purify themselves whentheir cycle was over before they
could even be back with their,with their husband.
So I think he was um not justostracized but isolated, like, I
(26:43):
think, her social skills youthink COVID-19 on steroids.
Like I think her social skillswere none nil, so for her.
To vent it out and to touch thehem of his garment like she did.
That took a lot of guts, a lotof faith, and I think she could
have been in big trouble if theyhad caught her or whatever, and
(27:04):
she was doing stuff that wouldquote unquote, cause other
people to be unclean.
Don't completely quote me onthat, but go read all of the
different laws in the Old.
Testament and that will tell youwhat she was and wasn't allowed
to do.
And I don't think she wasallowed to do very much at all.
And to think about 12 years ofthat, 12 years of not being able
(27:28):
to stop bleeding and the anemiaoh my word, like I don't think
she would even want to do stuffbecause she'd be exhausted from
losing all that blood and iron.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
And she would probably pale.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah yeah.
There are just so manydifferent layers to this, but
the bottom line it doesn'treally matter.
I mean, God used this womanwith the issue of blood, but
think about it nowadays it canbe any disease that you have any
condition that you haveaddiction, anything.
(28:02):
It doesn't have to be a medicalcondition, or it doesn't have to
be, you know, something like MSthat you have no control over.
It could be, it could beanything, but God wants us to
come to him, and that's that'sthe bottom line.
Like in John 16, 33, we're toldthese things I've spoken to you
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from Jesus that in me you willhave peace in the world world.
You will have tribulation, butbe of good cheer.
I have overcome the world.
Whether or not this ladyrealized it, she believed that
promise from God and she wasgoing to do whatever it was that
she could to get there.
So I want to talk to you todayspecifically.
(28:44):
Are you searching?
Are you seeking?
Do you want to know what it'slike to have that kind of a
relationship with God?
Do you want that kind of arelationship with God?
Well, it is super easy to getLike.
God wants us to have thatrelationship with him too.
So we don't want another day togo by without you being able to
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experience what it is tosurrender your life to him and
to start your relationship withGod.
So if that's you and that's whatyou want to do, in Romans 10, 9
, we're told if we believe, ifwe confess with our mouth and
believe in our hearts that Jesusis Lord, we will be saved.
So one of the ways that we candemonstrate our surrender to
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Christ is by praying a prayer.
And it's not the words of theprayer that makes the difference
, it's believing the words inour heart.
It's truly surrendering ourlives to God and saying I'm
giving you everything, I wantyou to be Lord over my life and
I want you to take care of mehere on out.
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So if that's you and that'swhat you want to do, there's no
time like the present to start.
All you need to do is pray thisprayer after us oh Heavenly
Father, I come to you in Jesus'name.
I believe you died on the crossand that you rose again.
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Want to say welcome to thefamily.
We are so glad that you havemade that choice that will
change your life, and don't takeour words for it.
You are a son or a daughter ofGod now and you can pray to him
with confidence, saying Lord,show yourself to me, lord, show
me what's real.
Show yourself to me, lord, showme what's real.
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Lord.
What kind of a relationship doyou want us to have?
And then trust him and wait andsee, and I'll tell you what it
will be the best adventure,sometimes scary, sometimes
uncertain, sometimes joyous.
Sometimes you'll see miracles.
Like it is the best life thatyou will ever live.
(31:07):
The hardest life, the mostchallenging life is the best
life that you will ever live thehardest life, the most
challenging life, but the bestlife.
It is the decision that youwill never regret.
And I can say that withconfidence, having walked with
God since I was six years old,but having really, truly
surrendered my entire life tohim for the last 30 or more.
(31:29):
Like he makes a difference.
It's a humongous difference.
We are so glad that you werehere today, that you joined us
on the road of the woman withthe issue of blood.
Next week we're going to talkabout the woman at the well and
we're going to see what kind ofinsights that God's going to
(31:50):
give us through that story.
But in the meantime, if you lovefiction, head on over to Kara's
website karahuntcom and youwill see she has an amazing
series, the Habakkuk series.
I am so sorry, I didn't knowwhy I couldn't the Habakkuk
series.
I am so sorry I didn't know whyI couldn't get Habakkuk out.
(32:12):
Habakkuk I say it both ways,but I absolutely positively love
Kara's writing.
She is amazing and her serieswill just grab you from the
first moment that you read thefirst page until you read the
next, and you'll be waiting formore, wanting more, and
thankfully she's giving us moreso you can get her books.
(32:36):
Their Paper Dolls is the firstone, then Paper Dolls Kite,
paper Dolls Priscilla, paperDolls Lydia, then Paper Dolls
Eve and then Paper Dolls Mary.
You are going to justabsolutely love her books.
You can get them in e-book,paperback and audiobook Once
(32:57):
you've read her series.
If you want to, you can come onover to my website,
cherrieswellwellcom, and you canread my fiction series, the
Redemption of Green Pines.
I also have some nonfictionbooks as well Bible studies,
devotionals and some prayerjournals that you can pick up so
(33:17):
you can start writing down allthe blessings and write down all
the things that God is teachingyou through the good, the bad
and the ugly.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
And your studies are also on YouTube.
A Bible version app right.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Oh yeah, my Sisters in Christ.
It's called Building yourSisters in Christ Community is
what it's called on theYouVersion app.
So, yes, you can read that onthere.
And then, if you want to readthe full study, it's Sisters in
Christ, and you can find that atAmazon and KU.
So, yes, we just have lots oflittle goodies that you can look
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at and be a part of.
Get to know us a little bit more.
If you want to have us get toknow you a little bit more, we
have two different options.
One, if you're more private andpersonal, you can email us at
cheeruppodcasts at gmailcom.
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have other people join it withyou, then head over to Facebook
and it's a Cheer Up Podcast.
Facebook group is what I'mtrying to say, and you can start
a conversation there andhopefully, more than just us
will answer and we will have awhole bunch of people joining in
on that conversation.
So lots of ways to connect withus, lots of things to connect
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you like the content and youenjoy it.
That's Tuesday mornings.
I upload something new everyday over on YouTube.
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week for another excitingepisode of the Cheer Up Podcast
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on your journey to joy.
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