Seeking the Healer

Mark 5:28

28For she said, "If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well."

I identify with the woman with the issue of blood more than people realize. i talked about this in my radio interview with Brenda Wells on the S.H.A.R.E. Broadcast on Baltimore's Spirit 1400AM. I had forgotten til this morning though that 5years ago this week I had the surgery God said I ought to have in order to save my life. It was my first surgery ever. I remember me and the morphine didn't get along well. I received into my bloodstream a medicine I didn't know I was allergic to that made me want to rip my skin off. After being released and sent home, I didn't take to the medicine well and was on the "last attempt" before being brought back to the hospital. I developed a rare side effect that caused me to walk with a limp from time to time and was affected by extreme weather changes. I have been restored so all the complications pale in comparison to the death I was facing.

I recall the Thursday morning prayer filled with tears as I sought God's direction on how to stay alive. I am so glad that I asked for His guidance. Had I listened to the scrupulous doctor who also called me on Saturday, I, like the woman with the issue of blood would have been worse off, as scripture says. I would've been dead instantly. The tumor, though the cause of the bleeding, it was the actual loss of blood and iron that was literally taking my breath away. The surgery stopped me from having 5 more long iron infusions at the cancer center for which I had been scheduled for. The doctor who performed my surgery confirmed what the Holy Spirit said to me that if I had listened to the doctor on Saturday I would've died immediately. And if I had just relied on the iron infusions I was getting, I would just have to keep getting them and it would be a cycle I wouldn't recover from and eventually would still die sooner rather later. The only other option that would not leave me barren would leave me severely scarred and could possibly lead to barrenness. So not following God would've meant either death or barrenness. Seeking Jesus not only kept me alive but kept me from being a barren woman. Just as I had prayed for.

My advice, seek Jesus and follow His direction. Obedience can mean the difference between life and death, healing and sickness, happiness and misery, eternal joy and pain.