Believe Again – Pastor Justin Goodson
January 29, 2023 / Justin Goodson / Bethesda ChurchMark 5:25-29 NLT
A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. 26 She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse. 27 She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his robe. 28 For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed.” 29 Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition.
Mark 5:25 NLT
A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding.
#1 Before you can BELIEVE again, we have to DEAL with your DOUBT.
Romans 4:18 NLT
Even when there was no reason for hope, Abraham kept hoping—believing that he would become the father of many nations. For God had said to him, “That’s how many descendants you will have!
Romans 4:21
He was fully convinced that God is able to do whatever he promises.
#2 Before you can BELIEVE again, we have to DEAL with your DISAPPOINTMENT.
Mark 5:26 NLT
She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse.
Mark 5:27
She had heard about Jesus…
Hebrews 10:25 NLT
And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
#3 You MUST prioritize environments where you HEAR God’s word
Luke 8:44
came from behind and touched the border of His garment. And immediately her flow of blood stopped.
Numbers 15:38-41 NKJV
“Speak to the children of Israel: Tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a blue thread in the tassels of the corners. 39 And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them… 40 and that you may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy for your God. 41 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.”
Malachi 4:2 NKJV
But to you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings…
#4 Remember God’s WORD. Remember God’s FAITHFULNESS. Know WHO JESUS is.
Mark 6:56 NKJV
Wherever He entered, into villages, cities, or the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged Him that they might just touch the hem of His garment. And as many as touched Him were made well.