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A Priceless Miracle by Lasondra Spears

Imagine suffering with an unhealable affliction for over a decade. You have spent the last of your money on doctors who have run every test, prescribed every medication and tried every remedy, to no avail. Not only could they not make you better, but in their attempts to heal you, they managed to make you feel worse than you did before you went to them for help. You’re drained physically, mentally, emotionally, and now monetarily. You’ve lost all hope. You’re considered to be unclean and forced to be an outcast from society.

This was the woman with the issue of blood.

Isolated. Hopeless. Broken. Desperate.

Then she hears about a man from Nazareth named Jesus who is on His way. A man who has been performing miracles. And like many of us have, she decides to risk it all for the possibility of receiving the healing she needs. Healing that she’s proved she is willing to pay anything to receive.

But she had no money left. The only thing she had to offer Jesus was faith...and yet somehow she knew that was enough.

Why? Because after spending everything she had, she realized that this was something that money could not buy.

The healing she needed could not be quantified. The healing she needed could only come through a miracle from Heaven.

Doctors didn’t have the answers, took her money, and left her with nothing. Jesus was the answer, gave to her freely, and left her with everything.

In Mark 5:34, Jesus publicly restored her identity, acknowledged it was her faith that healed her, and commanded her to go in peace, confirming the healing that took place. One touch. One interaction. One sentence.

Not only did she perceive that day that Jesus was the ultimate healer, she also discovered that He was the ultimate gift. What He provided for her was priceless. And what His sacrifice on the cross provides for us is our continual reminder of something that was so costly that He gives to us so freely.

Like the woman with the issue of blood, we can’t earn it, we’ve done nothing to deserve it, yet somehow we’ve become the recipients of God’s greatest gift in the person of Jesus. And one touch from Him changes everything.

Prayer: Father God, thank you for the priceless miracle of your son, Jesus. Thank you for sending Him to this earth to make a way for us to get back to You. Jesus, thank you for stepping in to time, putting on flesh, and being a willing sacrifice. Thank you for walking in signs, wonders and miracles and for reminding us that we can do the same and according to John 14:12, even greater works. Holy Spirit, empower us and remind us daily of the power that lives on the inside of us as a result of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. It’s in Jesus’ mighty name that we pray, amen.