I am posting verses from Luke 8:42-48 which tell a remarkable story of power going out of Jesus to heal a woman’s 12 years of bleeding who touched the edge of His cloak. Recall that Jesus, the God-Man, received the Holy Spirit at His baptism by John the Baptist. The Holy Spirit indwelled the human spirit of Jesus, the Son of God, and His soul reached out to the Father for all guidance in His life. Consider in these verses what the relationship could have been between Jesus’ human spirit, the indwelling Holy Spirit of the Father and the soul (mind, will, emotion) of Jesus Christ. We see that Jesus did not intentionally and with awareness heal this woman while immersed in a dense crowd of people, but by the indwelling Holy Spirit she was healed, giving testimony to Jesus as a God-Man, both human and God, in whom indwelled the power of the Holy Spirit. Did God the Father through His Holy Spirit bring healing to her, as Jesus would have had He knowingly seen her? And was that power a manifestation of wave forms that we have been considering in the latest blogs? Food for thought, to grow our faith in the power of the Holy Spirit by whom we too can be indwelled in repentance by the loving grace of God through His begotten Son, Jesus Christ.
As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. “Who touched me,” Jesus asked. When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.” But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.” Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed. Then he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”