FAITH CAPSULE: There is healing and deliverance in hearing and responding.

Genesis 19

What we hear and how we react to what is heard testifies to our faith as regard to who we are hearing from. Whenever the word of direction that sounds in one’s direction is received with no response the hearer becomes a candidate for self-destruction. The word of God is power to deliver and to overcome when it is received and backed with action. Lot once received word of direction to be delivered from eminent destruction. “Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city—take them out of this place!For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.” (Genesis 19:12-13) The word of deliverance came for Lot. Despite the truth that he heard the word of deliverance, he could not act in response to the word. It is written, “And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the Lord being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.” (Genesis 19: 16)  
The woman with the issue of blood had been to see many physicians. She spent all that she had but only got worse. Doctors failed her, medication did not work and no amount of money could save her. Mark 5:27 states, “When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment.” Having exhausted every avenue of help, it was her hearing about Jesus (the Word of God) that set her up for her healing.
Blind Bartimaeus had his place on the road. As a beggar, the road was where he made a living. Just like the woman with the issue of blood it was through hearing that healing became his portion. Mark 10:47 documents it that, “When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!’” You wonder why you have been hearing Him and your situation remains the same. It could be that in your hearing, there is no response to provoke your healing or deliverance. Both the woman with the issue of blood and blind Bartimaeus did the unusual. They forced their way through the crowd and could not be kept quiet. You have heard Him but you have been kept quiet by the crowd and could not reach out to Jesus. Begin to reach out to Him. Hearing Him and keeping silent will not get you your healing. All that you have heard about Him is true, reach out to Him and He will get to you with healing.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to constantly respond when His word sound in your direction.