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In Mark 5, 21 to 43, two very different lives, a respected synagogue ruler named Jarus and an unnamed suffering woman collide at the feet of Jesus. Though separated by status, gender, and circumstance, both discover in their desperation that true faith means trusting Jesus when all hope seems lost. Reverend Wei E. preaches the word.

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And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great cloud gathered about him, and he was beside the sea. Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jarus by name, and seeing him he fell at his feet and implored him earnestly, saying, My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hand on her so that she may be made well and live. And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For he said, If I touch even his garments, I will be made well. And immediately the flow of blood dried up and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, Who touched my garments? And his disciples said to him, You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you ask Who touched me? And he looked around to see who had done it. But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be healed of your disease. While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler's house someone who said, Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher any further? But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, Do not fear, only believe. And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John, the brother of James. They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. And when he had entered, he said to them, Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping. And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child's father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was. Taking her by the hand, he said to her, Talita kumi, which means little girl, I say to you, arise. And immediately the girl got up and began walking, for she was twelve years of age. And they were immediately overcome with amazement. And he strictly charged them that no one should know this and told them to give her something to eat. This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

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Church, this morning's passage, we read about two stories. We are reading about two individuals who are from two very different backgrounds coming to see Jesus. And the way their stories are interwoven paints a picture of the sort of faith that Jesus commends to all of us. So as as Sister Karen just read for us, the first story is about Jairus and his dying daughter, right? And so Jairus has come to Jesus to ask him to go lay hands on his daughter so that she may be healed. And uh actually, Mark adds a very interesting uh detail in the parentheses in brackets at the end of the story, right? Uh he says that his daughter was 12 years old, right? Which coincides with the woman in the second story. This second, this woman in the second story, uh, she's unnamed, she has this chronic bleeding issue that has lasted for 12 years. And she has come to Jesus uh actually just simply to touch his clothes and receive healing. And uh there are a lot of things to get into, but between these two stories, these two 12-year-old stories, we see the range of Jesus' healing power. He makes the unclean clean, he heals illnesses that doctors cannot treat. We even see him raise the dead. And so between these two stories, we learn about what it means to have faith in Jesus. And so as we come into our passage this morning in verse 21, uh, we see that Jesus is coming back from Gareth's sins, uh, where he last healed a man possessed by a demon demon named Legion. Right? So he was coming back from a gentile region back to a Jewish one. Yeah, and Jairus now comes to meet Jesus, and this is no common man. Right? Uh in this passage, we are told four times that this is a synagogue ruler. Just to drive on the point, just so we get it, this is a very important person. He is a ruler of the synagogue. So he likely held a high administrative position in the synagogue. Uh he probably planned their worship services, he was uh overseeing the life of the congregation, and so he was a well-respected Jewish leader, which makes what he was doing here precarious, right? The company he keeps, which are the scribes, the Pharisees, they were against Jesus. So in Mark chapter uh 3, in verse 6, we already see that the the Pharisees were plotting to destroy Jesus. And later on in verse 22 of chapter 3 again, the scribes from all the way from Jerusalem came down to try to discredit Jesus by saying he was possessed by Beauzebub. So they were setting up task forces essentially, right, to try to bring down Jesus and his ministry. And so Jairus is in a predicament. If he goes to Jesus, it will look really, really bad on him. Right? The the Pharisees and the scribes would for sure come against him. But he goes away, he goes to Jesus anyway. Because we understand that he was desperate.

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We are told in verses uh 22 and 23 that he went to Jesus, and not only did he go to Jesus, he fell at Jesus' feet, and he implored him earnestly, saying, My daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be made well and live. Uh Luke tells us in Luke chapter 8, verse 42, that this was his only daughter. And so his desperation is, I think, completely understandable to any parent. Uh last year, when Claire was just a little bit over two months old, uh, she had a fever. And Beth and I we thought nothing of it, right? Uh we didn't even think about going to the doctor actually, but thank God we did. So uh the pediatrician tells us, infant very young, under three months, we don't play around, go straight to the A and E in KKH. Right? So we went there and everything kind of just just became a blur, right? Like she went in, uh the triage, she she saw she saw the doctor, and she was very quickly warded. And we were suddenly just scrambling to make caregiving arrangements for sage while trying to settle Claire in the hospital. And I think in hindsight, thank God she had uh viral meningitis instead of a bacterial meningitis. So meningitis is an infection of I think the membrane that covers your your brain, right? So it makes it swell, which makes it so dangerous and potentially life-threatening. But we we thank God that uh Claire got the viral kind, which is not life-threatening, right? Uh she just needed rest and all, and not the bacteria. Bacteria would have been uh really bad. Uh but before we knew any of this, Beth and I were just worried, sick, right? Um that day itself, I rushed home, grab some things. I was driving back to the hospital, the doctor decided to call me, Bev was with her, and both of us were just bawling and crying and not sure what to do, right? Especially when you hear a two-month-old having to go through lumbar puncture, right? Which is they poke a needle through the spine to get the spinal fluid, right? Um we really did not know what to think or what to do, right? And we were devastated. Um, and Claire was not even at the point of death, right? Not like Jairus' daughter. And so Jairus's desperation, I think, is very understandable for any parent here or for anyone whose loved one is going through some kind of crisis. His daughter is at the point of death. And so in faith, he approached Jesus out of desperation. And he was sincere about trusting in him. He humbled himself, he fell at his feet, he implored earnestly. And so Jesus, busy as he was, he agreed to go with Jairus. Um, no, but we read that uh as they are going along, and you would think, let's hurry, let's hurry, right? The girl is gonna die. Right? We read that they were uh the great crowd followed Jesus and thronged about him in verse 24. Luke 8, 42 says that people pressed about him. Right? Um and it was really chaotic, right? They were just bumping shoulders, there's not a lot of room to move, and so you you can you can you know like if you if you like uh go go uh to work early in the morning, you take a bus, you take the train, you can understand what it means, right? Like just bumping into each other, moving very slowly in a huge crowd. This was happening when Jairus is like, oh, let's go home, let's go, we need to get Jesus back uh quick, right? And it was chaotic. But it was in this chaos that gave a woman a cover and a chance to approach Jesus without him knowing. Or so she thought, right, that she could approach Jesus without him knowing. And so suddenly we kind of switched gears, uh so to speak, right? We we start to read a story, right, uh, of an another person. And this woman, we read in verse 25, she had a discharge of blood for 12 years, uh, she suffered much under many physicians and has spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse. And this shift to the story of this woman is very jarring here because this woman is literally worlds apart from Jairus. If you look at Jairus, he is a male, uh, which of course meant that he had higher standing just by the fact that he's a male, right? His name, we know his name. He is a synagogue ruler, so high standing, he had position, he had power, authority. He was the quintessential insider in the Jewish world he lived in. The kind of person whom, if you saw, you would just understand straighter. No, if you pass you by, you kind of step one side, okay. Okay, please, please go along uh before me, right? He is that sort of person that you will respect and you will honor. Whereas this woman is a female, he's uh she is unnamed, we don't know her name, and she had a chronic bleeding problem of uh uh a feminine nature, right? And so that would have made her ritually unclean. And that means she cannot enter the temple, right? She cannot, she was cut off from worship, she was cut off from people, she would have to avoid touching anyone because anyone she touches becomes unclean. If Jairus is the insider, this woman is a complete outsider. And Jairus and this woman cannot be any more different. While Jairus can approach Jesus openly and with confidence, she had to hide because she was ashamed and disgraced. And if people found out about her condition or who she was, she would be in big trouble. But she acted in faith when she sought Jesus out. And so when we when we read through uh verses 27 to 29, I won't go through through it here, but uh we see that actually her faith was by no means perfect, it was tinged with magic in some in some way, right? He she thought that even Jesus' clothing will have power, and all I need to do is just touch it. It will be efficacious, it will heal me.

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So, although her faith was in the person of Jesus, her game plan was to touch the clothes, and that would be enough to heal. The problem here is that she will be breaking a taboo. Again, as an unclean person, you cannot touch a clean person, right? So she was making it her mission to go and make Jesus unclean, so to speak, and go and bump around other people in the crowd, potentially making everyone else around her unclean too. But as we read on, we see that it is through touching Jesus' garments that she became clean and huel. And so verses uh 30 to 32 uh we read that Jesus felt power go out of him, right? And he stopped immediately and asked what seemed like a very strange question, at least to the disciples, right? He asked, Who touched my garments? And the disciples were perplexed, they they sound almost impatient and irritated with Jesus, actually. Right? They're saying there's an entire crowd pressing up against you and bumping against you, right? Everyone is touching you. What are you talking about? But the Jesus, uh the disciples did not know what Jesus knew. And his question was not who touched me? Right? His question was more specific: who touched my garments? And there was only one person that day who was there specifically to touch his garments. And so Jesus was trying to get this woman who was in hiding to come out into the open. And that was the woman's worst nightmare. She tried to hide herself, she tried to stay anonymous. Now Jesus is asking her to come, expose yourself to this crowd. Was it to shame her and scold her for touching his clothes, for dirtying him and his clothes? Was it to admonish her for trying to get healing without first consulting him? The woman didn't know what's up. So verses uh 33 to 34, she didn't know what's what would happen, but she came out anyway in fear and trembling, and she fell uh before Jesus and told him the whole truth. She knew she couldn't just run or hide away. And so she comes up, and this was a very precious moment for the woman. Jesus was not angry with her. And we see what he wanted to do was to shift from a power encounter to a personal encounter, right? She wanted a miracle, Jesus wanted a meeting, and so Jesus stops in his tracks for uh seemingly nobody, right? And she waited for her to take the step to go to come out into the open, and she he openly commends her faith. Right? And his words to this woman is actually quite astounding. She he Jesus addresses her as daughter. This is the only time in scripture where Jesus addresses anyone as daughter. She may be nameless, unclean, unseen, a complete outsider, but Jesus sees her. And Jesus considers her now an insider, a part of her of his family. We see Jesus here stopping and giving her his full attention. Almost as if no one else is important at this moment. And all the while making Jairus, the synagogue ruler, wait, by the way. All the while making Jairus wait. And Jesus tells her, your faith has made you well. We see here Jesus wanting to clarify her understanding and build her faith up, right? It is not ultimately her touching his garment that made her well. It was there was no magic in Jesus' clothes, right? It was her faith that made her well. And so then he publicly validates her healing and then sends her away in peace, in God's shalom peace. But when we see verse 35, we see just as one daughter gets a new lease on life, another daughter dies. And the general sentiment was why bother Jesus anymore? It's over. Let's just go home, let's get the funeral under the way, underway, right? And imagine the drop in Jairus's heart. Right? He was anxious to get Jesus to his house. There was a crowd pressing, which made them move very slowly. And then Jesus stopped for a nobody, and he spent too much time talking to her. She had a problem for 12 years, another hour wouldn't matter. Talk to her later. But now his daughter is dead. Why did Jesus delay? Didn't he know that this was urgent? To everyone around, all hope is lost now. But Jesus was unfazed by the news brought to Jairus because he knows that while he was asked to go heal Jairus' daughter, he will demonstrate his power in a greater way. Right? So in verse 36, uh we hear that no, Jesus heard all was going on, and all he told Jairus was, do not fear, only believe. At a point where all hope is lost, uh, it looks like like the the yeah, there's there's this there's nowhere out nowhere to go anymore. Jesus says, do not fear, but believe. Only believe. In the original uh language, in in the Greek, when Jesus said only believe, he meant it as an ongoing process. Right? So what he was trying to say is continue to believe. Right? Uh Jairus had approached Jesus in faith. He believed that Jesus could do something, and now Jesus asked him to continue to believe that Jesus can actually do something, even if it seems that the the case at the case has been closed. And so Jairus, to his credit, he continued to believe. And now here's the problem: he had to risk looking even more ridiculous, right? As the synagogue ruler and as a father, he risked looking ridiculous by bringing Jesus back when he's now his daughter is now dead, right? Thinking that somehow Jesus can do something about it. So just look at the reaction of the people uh when he got home. Uh verse 38, we we we read that how we read that the the group came to the house and uh Jesus saw a commotion, people were weeping and wailing loudly. Um and this could be family and friends, but they could also be professional wailers, professional mourners, right? Uh in some culture today, even right, they will hire professional uh mourners who will come to the funeral, who will cry and wail and weep, right? Uh to mourn for the deceased. Right? Um when they entered, you know, Jesus asked, Why are you making commotion? This child is only sleeping. They laughed at him. This this mourners, uh, which is why I also think it likely will be like professional mourners, right? They were laughing and mocking Jesus. It's really, really jarring. One minute they were wailing, next minute they were laughing at Jesus. Most people thought Jesus was crazy and a fool. And imagine then Jairus, a dignified Jewish leader, a ruler of the synagogue, right? Doing the one thing he was probably forbidden to do, approach Jesus, now have to uh stake his name on this Jesus being able. To do something, right? He would have been ridiculed. He would likewise look like a fool and a crazy person, just like Jesus. But we if when we read from uh from 40 verse 40 hours to the rest of the chapter, we we read that actually Jesus knew better. And um just just to quickly go through this last part, all the scoffers were not given the opportunity to witness what Jesus would do. Right? They were asked to just wait outside. Uh Jesus went in, touched the girl, which actually again would have made him unclean. Right? Any unclean person touches a clean person, right? The person makes the person uh unclean. Yeah? But if you're uh a clean person, you're touching you're touching a dead body, it makes you unclean as well. Right? So there are many, many uh all these uh that themes running, but Jesus goes to the dead girl, touches her, right, takes her hand and simply asks her to arise. And just like that, a second daughter was healed that day. And more than that, she was raised to life. And Jesus demonstrated that he truly has the power over diseases and even death. And Jairus got to witness it. He continued to believe, uh clung on to his faith, and he witnessed Jesus raising his daughter from the dead. Right, and here I think uh some lessons for us as we think about these two stories, they are kind of enmeshed together, uh, trying to uh make a point about having faith in Jesus. Uh and I think the first lesson, the first takeaway point for us is um it's from the woman actually, uh, to talk about uh our faith in our brokenness. The woman's faith was remarkably different from Jairus' faith. So both were genuine, both were desperate, you know, and of course God uh honored both both of them for their faith. But this woman's faith was characterized not by the kind of privilege that allowed Jairus to come and boldly request uh Jesus to come to his house. Right? It was not categorized by any kind of dignity or privilege, right? This was the faith of the broken, the weak, the frightened, the disgraced. She had to risk so much to put her faith into action. Right? If you remember some of the other stories uh in the gospels, it is like the faith of the four friends, right? In Mark chapter 2, uh four friends wanted to bring their their friend who is a paralytic, tries to go to the house where Jesus was preaching, cannot go in. Too big a crowd. What do you do? Normally we say, Okay, never mind, I will come some other day, right? No, they hold this paralytic up to the roof, right? Remove the roof of someone's house, and then lower down the friend. And God, and in the gospel says Jesus saw their faith, right? And later on he will forgive him of his sins and then heal him of his uh paralysis. Or we can think of uh the faith of the Canaanite woman in Matthew chapter 15, right? Uh the one who persisted in asking Jesus to heal her daughter, who was severely oppressed by a demon. And then the story is very interesting. Um, there Jesus seemed to have been trying to just make her to go away. I mean, it's not time for you, you know, I'm here for the Jews or for the Gentiles and all. Uh but she persisted and persisted, and you know, one wonders whether he was doing it to test her. But she persisted and Jesus commended her faith. Oh woman, great is your faith. Let it be done for you as you desire. And so some of us might think, what if I'm too broken or too weak? Right? If I am an outsider or if I'm not like an insider like all the gyruses in the world, can I really have the sort of faith that Jesus is looking for? And today we see in this woman that no matter who you are, no matter what you are going through, what your background is, you can always come to Jesus and to place your trust in him to come heal you, to give you peace, to give you restoration. Right? This is the kind of faith, the broken and weak faith, so to speak, the faith of the weak, the faith of the broken, that Jesus comments. And so that's the first thing, the faith of the of those who are broken. And the second lesson we can see is actually from Jairus, right? Faith when Jesus delays. One of the things I think many of us will learn at some point, uh, if we haven't already, is that Jesus will not be hurried. Jesus will not be hurried. Sometimes we pray, God, would you help me with this? God, would you bless me with that? No, we expect something instantaneous. We expect something to come quickly. Because this is my timeline, this is my schedule, I need to get it done now. Right? But Jesus will not be hurried. It's almost frustrating, right? God almost uh seems to never operate on our schedule. Right? His sense of timing is so different from ours, right? Uh, and and it it frustrates us. His blessings never seem to come when we want it. And some of us may have been praying for healing for a long time, you may have been praying for a child, you may have been praying for a life partner or praying for something else in your life and just wondering, God, what's the delay? What's holding you up? Why haven't you shown up? Why haven't you blessed me with this? I think what we learn and see from Jairez is that it is precisely in these delays that we are all the more to exercise our faith and to trust in Jesus that the delay will one day come to an end and he will make all things well in his time. Right? So there's we learn from these two stories, there's a faith of the broken and a faith when Jesus delays. But thirdly, and uh this will this will be I think the most important point for this sermon this morning, um, we have faith in the person and not the power. I think the the the two uh gyres and the woman probably came to Jesus, uh, almost having faith in Jesus, but trusting that he has the power so he can do something. So please come and do it now, right? And the thing about having faith in power is that it always makes us wonder, God, if you are all powerful, then why don't you do this? Right? If the power is what we care about, if that is what we have put our faith in, then we will think anyone in the position or power to do something good should do it. Right? If we think if you if we are going after just the the miraculous power alone, then we'll think if you are in a position to do something good, then you have to do it, right? And so then we think, you know, it is up to us to define what good is. At this point, this is good in my life, do it for me. You have the power, right? You're almighty, right? So do it for me now. But Jesus calls us to have faith in him, the person. And so again, we want the power encounter, but Jesus wants a personal encounter with us. And we may just want our needs met, but Jesus wants a life transformation for us. And for that, he draws us into a personal relationship with him. And so interestingly, in these two stories, we see that when Jesus calls us to trust him, um, often having faith in him or trusting him means giving more than we wanted to, but also receiving more than we asked. Giving more than we wanted to, but also receiving more than we had asked.

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When we ask something from God, we have a certain distance we are willing to go for it. Right? There's a threshold to what we are willing to give to God for our request. Right? I'm I'm I'm I'm okay comfortable with doing this much, right? God, would you bless me with this? You know. Um but Jesus is always calling us to go further. Um, but he's also wanting to give us more, more than we ask for. Right? The woman just wanted a miraculous healing in the waited for her to come out from hiding. She was frightened and trembling, but in here she was publicly commended and validated. She came in pain, but she left in peace. She came thinking she needed to stay hidden and unknown. She left, being known by Jesus as his daughter, who had his fullest attention. But you see, she was only willing to go this far. And Jesus was pushing her. Come out. Come out. And in faith, she took the step and gave more than she wanted to. And she received more than she asked for. She was made whole in every way: bodily, spiritually, socially. Uh, Gaius, we see, only wanted her daughter healed, and again, he was willing to go so far, right, as to fall at Jesus' feet, no, make the Pharisees and the scribes angry. Fine. He was willing to go that far. He never expected the delay, he never expected the death of his daughter. Now he will be open to even more ridicule and shame, uh, on top of the fact that his faith in Jesus has so far amounted to nothing. He had no result yet, right? And yet Jesus asked him to go further, to give in a bit more. He asked him not to fear but continue to believe. And so you can imagine the familiar journey back home must have felt like an eternity as Jairus held on to his faltering faith, right? Propped up only by Jesus' encouragement. But because of that, he witnessed a miracle far greater than healing. He saw Jesus' power over death and his daughter raised. Having faith and trust in Jesus will mean that we both give more than we bargain for, but also receiving more than we ask for. Because that's the thing, Jesus is not here to dispense power, he wants to, you know, be on a personal level with all of us. He wants to build us up, not simply give us what we think we want. And so having faith in Jesus is committing to a journey with him, right? No, just taking action, no, just coming to him, but continuing to have faith and to keep pace with him, even when he is asking us to go out of our comfort zone, to go through dark times and seasons that does not seem to be compatible with his love and his grace at first glance. And to do that, you know, have to have faith in the person, then we have to trust his goodness. And again, it's in the person, right? We have to trust in his goodness and not just in his power. He might call us out when we want to hide, he might delay his blessings for reasons unknown to us, but he calls us to trust him in anxious and uncertain times, to continue believing in him. And to trust that, as Paul tells us in Romans 8.28, right, for those who love God, all things work together for good. For those who are caught according to his purpose. Uh when Claire was warded for her viral meningitis, as any Christian would, I prayed, I think both Bad Beth and I really prayed earnestly. And I was distraught, right? I was imagining the words in my head. I honestly don't know what I would have done if Claire did not make it. Uh but I found my theological mind kicking in. Uh I began to pray. You know, in the end, God, just let your will be done. Even if it means Claire passing away, right? It'll be terrible. I will probably never get away, get over it. But let your will be done. Um, and if she died, if she had died then, right? Uh I will at least in my mind I know, right? I will still have to trust in the person of Jesus, in his goodness and his love. Not for me, but for Claire. Right? Trusting that the Lord who has power over death has brought Claire home at the right time. I mean, thank God, thank God Claire made it through, really. Uh I honestly, I mean, I can say now like easy, right? But I honestly don't know uh if I can say these things if uh Beth and I had actually lost Claire. But that's the kind of faith we are ultimately called to have, right? Faith in Christ crucified so that we may have life everlasting. Um, the German reformer Martin Luther uh was quite like Jairus. He had a daughter just a little bit older than Jairus' daughter. Uh her name was Magdalena. At about 13 years old, she was stricken with plague. But this time, a daughter will not be healed. The story is told, you know, that when she had died, the carpeters came, they were nailing the lid uh onto the coffin, right? Jesus uh Luther, the father Martin Luther screamed out, Hammer away! On doomsday, she will rise again. It would have been a pure tragedy if not for the fact of the cross of Christ. But in Jesus, there is hope and life beyond the tragedy and cause us to have faith and to trust in him so that on this side of heaven we can continue to follow him, to follow the risen Lord who leads us and who leads us well. And um I want to close with this, and just as a short time of response, um just allow me to sing this very uh short stanza of this song, All the Way My Savior Leads Me. Uh, written by Fanny Crosby. Uh the story for this song is quite quite quite quite cute, like quite interesting. Like uh she was she she needed money, uh she was praying for five dollars, um, and then uh God sent someone to give her that five dollars, that exact amount, right? Uh and so she wrote this song. Um then I read her backstory, and actually, when she was young, uh she had an eye condition, and the doctor essentially blinded her.

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She lost her vision at a very young age, right? Uh, someone going through this kind of hardship in life, and she wrote this song, All the Way My Savior Leads Me. And if you know the song, you'll sing along with me. If not, let's meditate on the words uh as we close this sermon.

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All the way my savior leads me, whatever to was beside can I doubt his tender mercy who through life has been my guide heavy peace, diviness comfort here by faith in him to dwell for I know what er before me Jesus do of all things well for I know what there before me, Jesus do of all things well. Let us pray.

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Lord in your loving kindness, you always do all things well as you lead our lives. God give us grace as we seek to faithfully follow your lead in our lives, even when it means giving more or going further than we bargained for, knowing that you will always give us more than we ask for. May the broken and the disenfranchised among us today find comfort and encourage in the story of the woman with the bleeding issue and exercise their faith in coming after you. May the ones experiencing delays and disappointments likewise find comfort and strength, not to fear but to continue to have faith. And may we all who seek to have faith in you be able to trust in your goodness.

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