Inspiring Our Faith

I’m reading a book “Hosting His Presence” and came across this line…

“People observe something unseen and respond with faith.”

Okay, I know, how can you observe something unseen. Well, like, the wind. Love. Miracles.

The author uses the example of the woman who reached out to touch the hymn of Jesus’s garment. How did she know touching Him would heal her?

She watched Him. She understood He carried something so powerful that it would translate to her body and heal her.

Such faith!

Guess what. She ignited a revival!

In Mark 5 she touches Jesus’s hem. In Mark 6, everyone wanted to touch His clothes. Their faith was stirred. They laid the sick “in the market places” and implored Him to let them touch the fringe of his cloak.

And “as many as touched it were being cured.”

So how does that translate to our modern world? We’ve become contained and neat. Theologians from days past observed the lack of miracles and healings and determined they were “done away with” because we had the canonized Scriptures.

Or because they determined the anointing was fading from Paul’s life toward the end.

But not true. The same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives in us. Romans 8: 11.

The Word of God is living and active. Hebrews 4:12.

We are the ones who host His presence while He is absent in bodily form on the earth. Peter and Paul both experienced garment and shadow healing miracles. Where just the cast of a shadow or a clipping from his garment and people were healed.

Was the power in the shadow? In the threads of cloth? No. The power was in the people’s faith in Jesus.

They were fixed on Him. On the men who carried His presence.

We should be fixed on Him and the reality we are carriers of His presence.

Then perhaps miracles will happen around us. Ignite faith and start a revival.

Final quote for the day from the book — “Learning to host the presence of God is the biggest challenge of the Christian life.”

You want a challenge? I do. Let’s pray on this and ask the Lord to help us host His presence.