“She said, ‘If I just touch His clothes, I will be healed.’ Immediately her bleeding stopped…
Jesus said, ‘Who touched Me?’ … Then He said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace.’’ — Mark 5:28–30, 34
The crowd was pressing Him. Everyone was touching Jesus. But He stopped.
“Who touched Me?”
The disciples were confused — everyone is touching You.
Yes. But not like this.
There is a difference between contact and connection.
Between proximity and faith.
The crowd brushed against Him.
She reached for Him.
Her touch was intentional. Different. With purpose. With belief.
Twelve years bleeding.
Twelve years labeled unclean.
Twelve years isolated.
She didn’t ask for attention. She reached for healing.
And power flowed.
Beyond the healing miracle — it was the word He used.
“Daughter.”
In a culture that defined her by her condition, Jesus defined her by relationship.
Not unclean.
Not shameful.
Not an interruption.
Daughter.
That’s how God sees us; His children always.
And this is where it hits home.
In AA and NA rooms sit the castoffs — the “degenerates,” the ones written off, spiritually bleeding for years. People who have lost health, family, dignity, hope.
What brings many of them back from illness, despair, and death?
Not perfect theology.
Not religious performance.
Minimal faith.
“If I just reach…”
“If I just surrender…”
A mustard seed. A trembling prayer. A first meeting. A whisper in the dark.
Intentional faith.
And when they reach, power flows — sometimes slowly, sometimes quietly — but identity is restored.
Son.
Daughter.
Light doesn’t fear darkness.
It overcomes it.
The world names you by your worst chapter.
God names you by whose you are.
And when you reach — even barely —
He responds as Father.
Touch of your Robe - Isaiah Dudley
Closing Prayer
Father,
Give us the courage to reach for You with intentional faith — even if it’s small. Heal what has been bleeding in us, and restore what shame has tried to define.
Remind us that we are not castoffs.
We are Your sons and daughters.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
