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All the theory and teaching we have been looking at can be exciting, but it has its limits. No matter how deeply we delve into these stories of healing and restoration, we still have to ask whether we too can experience Jesus’ healing touch. We still have to ask what it will take for us to be set free. So the time has come to look at four keys, four steps we can take, that will help bring us to the point where we hear Jesus say to us: “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”
Believe. The word believe can have many different shades of meaning. But the kind of belief we are talking about here involves something more than accepting intellectually that something is true. It is far more personal than that: It has to do with our hearts just as much as it has to do with our minds. It’s the kind of faith that the hemorrhaging woman had—a faith that propels us to go to the Lord; a faith that moves us to stake some vital part of our lives on who Jesus is and what he wants to do in our lives.
This kind of faith means knowing not just that God is good, or that he loves humanity in general. It means knowing that he loves you. It means knowing that Jesus is on your side. It means trusting…
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