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Speaker 2: you are desperate. A Prayer when you are Desperate, written
Speaker 2: by Tammy Darling, read by Kirie Eichberger. Daughter, your faith
Speaker 2: has healed you, Go in peace and be freed from
Speaker 2: your suffering. Mark five verse thirty four. Have you ever
Speaker 2: been so desperate for a touch from God that it's
Speaker 2: all you can think about? There comes a time when
Speaker 2: only God will do, when the things and people of
Speaker 2: this world cannot provide the healing, relief, companionship, or whatever
Speaker 2: else it is we are in desperate need of. I've
Speaker 2: been there, and it was The Chosen Series that fueled
Speaker 2: my own prayer of desperate belief. A longtime acquaintance urged
Speaker 2: my husband and I to watch The Chosen Series. You
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Speaker 2: This was when the series was in the middle of
Speaker 2: season two. Multiple times he'd asked if we'd watched it yet,
Speaker 2: So finally, one winter, when we were stuck indoors more
Speaker 2: than we liked, we started watching The Chosen beginning with
Speaker 2: season one, and we were hooked. Every episode brought the
Speaker 2: Bible to life in a way we've never experienced. Of course,
Speaker 2: we knew not everything was by the book, so to speak.
Speaker 2: Literary license must be taken when the unknowns are not certainties,
Speaker 2: but the series does an excellent job of putting humanness
Speaker 2: to the names we've become so familiar with in the Bible.
Speaker 2: It makes us think, challenges us. She eats discussions and
Speaker 2: sometimes brings healing in ways that we weren't even expecting.
Speaker 2: One such instance from me was the episode addressing the
Speaker 2: woman with the issue of blood. Scripture tells us that
Speaker 2: this woman was bleeding for twelve years. Being a woman myself,
Speaker 2: I can't fathom the physical weakness and the shame from
Speaker 2: being ostracized by society that this woman experienced. The woman
Speaker 2: with no name was considered by all to be unclean
Speaker 2: for twelve years. You may not think you can relate,
Speaker 2: but there's more than one way to bleed. Sometimes we
Speaker 2: bleed on the inside where no one can see, not physically,
Speaker 2: but perhaps emotionally or mentally. Maybe life has cut us
Speaker 2: deep and we're all so weak and ashamed, and perhaps,
Speaker 2: like the nameless woman, we're desperate to make a connection
Speaker 2: with God that will heal our pain. We believe, but
Speaker 2: we see no change. We pray, those prayers seem to
Speaker 2: fall upon deaf ears, and one day we become desperate. Desperate.
Speaker 2: Belief is a powerful thing. I know I've been there
Speaker 2: when I watched the Chosen episode that portrayed the nameless
Speaker 2: Woman's desperation for the bleeding to stop. I was inwardly
Speaker 2: reaching out to touch Jesus the same way I felt
Speaker 2: her pain because I had my own inner pain. I
Speaker 2: can't nearrow my pain, shame, and sadness down to one instance,
Speaker 2: because there were myriad situations. Some were my own doing. However,
Speaker 2: most were done to me not by choice. But bleeding
Speaker 2: is bleeding, and I too needed the bleeding to stop.
Speaker 2: Tears trickled down my cheeks. When the woman told Jesus
Speaker 2: I am no one's daughter. I broke At that moment.
Speaker 2: I felt the same, but I still had belief. I
Speaker 2: was still desperate. If Jesus healed her, he could do
Speaker 2: the same for me. And desperation, I prayed Jesus heal
Speaker 2: me too. Watching the scene play out, I was hopeful
Speaker 2: and desperate. Daughter, your faith has healed you. When Jesus
Speaker 2: spoke those words, I received them from myself. Symbolically, I
Speaker 2: had touched the hymn of his garment. I took a
Speaker 2: deep breath and received the inner healing I had sought
Speaker 2: for so many years. As I exhaled, I felt the
Speaker 2: reminder of Mark five, verse thirty four, Go in peace
Speaker 2: and be freed from your suffering and I did, and
Speaker 2: I was. I was finally at peace and freed from
Speaker 2: the inner bleeding I'd experience for years. And here's the
Speaker 2: great news. You can be free too. Your bleeding, whatever
Speaker 2: the cause, can be stopped with just one touch. Even
Speaker 2: if you've been suffering for more than twelve years, Jesus
Speaker 2: hasn't forgotten you. You can ask why, or you can
Speaker 2: pray in desperate belief. I stand amazed that in twelve years,
Speaker 2: this woman now called daughter by Jesus himself, never gave
Speaker 2: in too hopelessness. She never dispeared to the point of
Speaker 2: renouncing her faith in God. She never quit. That's not
Speaker 2: to say that she didn't become discouraged at times or
Speaker 2: question when God would answer. With fortitude of faith, she
Speaker 2: pressed on and pressed in until she could just get
Speaker 2: close enough to touch him. Her faith and belief can
Speaker 2: strengthen our own. Let's pray, Dearest Jesus. We come before
Speaker 2: you today with desperate belief that you are who you
Speaker 2: say you are and will do what you said you
Speaker 2: will do. We thank you that by your stripes we
Speaker 2: are healed. As you said it is finished. We rejoice
Speaker 2: in that knowledge and praise you for your healing. As
Speaker 2: we touch you in your precious name, Amen. Your Daily
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