read Mark 5. How do we have faith to believe that God can do the
impossible? The fifth chapter of Mark suggests that the faith
comes from our need. The more we need something that we can’t do
ourselves, the more willing we are to turn to God for help. That
is why we can start to treat the challenges in our lives as
something for which we be grateful instead of resentful. In Mark
5, Jesus heals a madman, a bleeding woman, and a dead girl. The
common link in all three events is that they were conditions
that no one else could touch. Mark says of the madman who lives
among the tombs: “No one was strong enough to subdue him.” Mark
tells us that no doctor could heal the woman who was bleeding:
”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.” She had spent
everything she had. The crowd “laughed” at Jesus when he said he
would heal the 12 year old girl, because they said she had died.
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