Mark- Your Faith Has Healed You

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Mark - Your Faith Has Made You Well Read Mark 5:21-43

Jesus is always flipping the script. He always surprises the people he is interacting with. That’s how it is in this story with two people who have resources and means but can’t solve the problem in front of them. Jesus is always stepping into unsolvable situations and surprising us with both his solution and they way he explains it. The woman with the issue of blood sees Jesus as the object of her healing and herself as the subject. But then he tells her, “Your faith has healed you.” Then Jesus tells a man who’s daughter has just died, “Don’t be afraid, just believe.” And then Jesus goes and heals the girl even though people laugh when he says, “The child is not dead but asleep.” But then he ONLY takes the parents and disciples in to heal the girl.

1. What goes off in you when you hear the Jesus say, “Your faith has made you well.” Do you think he means it? Do you find yourself saying, “Yeah but, really it was Jesus who healed her”? What does it mean that Jesus often told people it was their faith that healed them? Is it hard to believe Jesus on that?

2. Scripture explains this same truth in other ways as well like when Jesus say’s, “Thing Kingdom of God is within you” or when Paul says, “Christ in me the hope of glory.” The Jews saw God as “somewhere out there” and wanted Him to come and fix something down here. They saw God as an interventionist and Jesus changes it to incarnational. Jesus starts to show his followers that the Spirit of God is within us. Do you tend to see God as an interventionist or incarnate within you?

3. Why did Jesus only let the parents and disciples in to see the healing of the little girl?

4. Joel posed a question Sunday that is worth exploring together. “Where are you seeing your faith wake up?” Even in the light of everything going on... Where is your faith waking up?