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Matthew 9:18-26 : Jesus Raises a Dead Girl and Heals a Sick Woman

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18 While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.

19 And Jesus arose, and followed him, and [so did] his disciples.

20 And behold, a woman, who had an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the border of his garment:

21 for she said within herself, If I do but touch his garment, I shall be made whole.

22 But Jesus turning and seeing her said, Daughter, be of good cheer; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.

23 And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the flute-players, and the crowd making a tumult,

24 he said, Give place: for the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.

25 But when the crowd was put forth, he entered in, and took her by the hand; and the damsel arose.

26 And the fame hereof went forth into all that land.

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Meditate On What God Says About You

Durch Todd Beiswenger


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Our mind is running all the time, thoughts pouring in for good and for bad. We have a choice as to which thoughts we are going to focus on, and if we can focus on what God says about us we can be happy, grateful and blessed.

(Verweise: Arcana Coelestia 2892; Isaiah 26:3, 60:1-2; Joshua 1:8; Luke 8:49-50; Matthew 9:27-30; Psalms 20:7)

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Faith correspondence

  
Christ Healing the Blind Man, by Eustache Le Sueur

The word "faith" appears only twice in the Old Testament (King James Version), but Jesus talks about it 29 times in the gospels. Faith and works have to go hand-in-hand. We must acknowledge the Lord God, divine and omnipotent (faith), and we must go and live a life in which we "love our neighbor as ourselves," (works), following the path He laid out for us. If we do that, He will gradually remove the love of evil from us and replace it with a love of doing what's good. When the Lord speaks of "faith" in the Bible, then, he's talking about the first of these two steps. Like the people of Jesus's day, we need to acknowledge –- to have faith -- that the Lord is God Himself, divine and omnipotent. That is the beginning point of a truly spiritual life, but we can't stop there. Time and again, Jesus says things like "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven" (Matthew 7:21), "if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments" (Matthew 19:17) and "whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother" (Mark 3:35).