© 19 Colin Melbourne
Now listen!
Some people put the touch of the Lord in the place of faith.
The Lord would not have that woman believe that the touch had done it. She felt as soon as she touched Him that virtue had gone through her, which is true.
When people were bitten by fiery serpents in the wilderness, God’s Word said through Moses, “He that looketh shall be healed.”
The look made it possible for God to do it.
Did the touch heal the woman?
No, the touch meant something more; [that] it was a living faith. Jesus said, “Thy faith hath made thee whole.”
Faith in The Word: Heals
If God would just move on us to believe, there wouldn’t be a sick person who could not receive healing.
As soon as this woman in the street, with all the crowd about her, began to testify, the Devil came. The Devil is always in a testimony meeting.
The Devil’s Words Kill Faith
When the sons of God gathered together in the time of Job, he was there.
When this was happening in the street, three persons came rushing from the house of Jairus and said, “There’s no use now, your daughter is dead. This Jesus can do nothing for a dead daughter. Your wife needs you home.”
Resist the Devil
But Jesus said, “Be not afraid, only believe.”
He speaks the word just in time! Jesus is never behind time.
When the tumult is the worst, the pain the most severe, the cancer gripping the body, then the word comes, “Only believe.”
When everything seems as though it will fail, and is practically hopeless, the Word of God comes to us, “Only believe.”
Crying, Laughing, Scorning
When Jesus came to that house, there were a lot of people weeping and wailing.
I have taken my last wreath to the cemetery.
To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. And if you believe that, you will never take another wreath to the cemetery.
It is unbelief that mourns [the death of Christians. Ed].
If you have faith that they are with the Lord, you will never take another flower to the grave: They are not there. Halleluia!
These people were round about, weeping, wailing and howling.
He says, “Why make you this to-do? The maid is not dead but sleepeth.”
There is a wonderful word that God wants you to hear.
Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life.”
The believer may fall asleep, but the believer doesn’t die.
Oh, that people would understand the deep things of God: It would change the whole situation.
It makes you look out with a glorious hope to the day when the Lord shall come.
What does it say? “They that sleep will God bring with Him.” [1 Th. 4:14] Jesus knew that.
“The maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.”
To show the insincerity of these wailers, they could turn from wailing to laughing.
I Am: The Life
Jesus took the father and mother of the maid, and going into the room where she was, took her hand and said, “Daughter, arise.” And the child sat up. Praise the Lord!
And He said, “Give her something to eat.”
Christ In You
Oh, the remarkableness of our Lord Jesus! I want to impress upon you the importance of realizing that He is in the midst. No person need be without the knowledge that they are not only saved, but that God can live in these bodies.
God’s Life In You
You are begotten the moment you believe, unto a lively hope. “He that believeth hath eternal life.” You have eternal life the moment you believe. The first life is temporal, natural, material, but in the new birth, you exist as long as God:- Forever. We are begotten by an incorruptible power, by the Word of God.
The new birth is unto righteousness, begotten by God the moment you believe. God always saves through the heart. He that believeth in the heart, and confesseth with his mouth shall be saved.
Jesus is here tonight to loose them that are bound. If you are suffering in your body, He will heal you now as we pray.
He is saying to every sin-sick soul, to every disease smitten one,
“Be not afraid, only believe.”
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© 19 Colin Melbourne
