15.October.2026
An All-Inclusive Departure From “Normal”
Yesterday I said we would look at what healing looked like before the cross, and it matters for one simple reason. Before Calvary, nobody had been born again in the way the New Testament describes, and yet the sick were healed anyway. Healing never waited on a person to be saved first.
Take the woman who had bled for twelve years. Mark tells us she had spent everything she had on physicians and only grown worse, and under the law her condition left her unclean and cut off. No minister laid hands on her. She wanted it badly enough that she thought it through, she said it to herself, and then she acted on it.
And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour. Matthew 9:20-22
Look at the order. She meditated, she declared, and then she moved, and Jesus called that faith.
Then there is the Canaanite mother, who was not even inside the covenant. Her daughter was tormented, and when she cried out to Jesus, what He responded with sounded like silence, and then a no, and then an even harder no. She did not leave and she did not despair. She was determined and then answered Him.
And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table. Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. Matthew 15:27-28
Jesus never touched her daughter, and He was not even in the room.
Neither woman had been born again, neither needed anyone to lay hands on her, and neither was healed by a ritual. The Word reached them. Another person can carry it to someone, but a person can also hear it in a teaching, on a replay, or from a verse read alone, and it (the Word) does the same work.
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. Psalm 107:20
So shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void [without producing any effect, useless], but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
Isaiah 55:11 AMPC
The Word is living and sharp, and it does not return void. This is not a measuring stick for the sick, but a door that was never locked.
Tomorrow we will look at the authority behind all of this.
I challenge myself as well as all of my readers to ask the following question. When and where have I decided God needs a certain setting, a certain person, or a certain touch, before I will believe what His Word already says?
Make today count and see you tomorrow.
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