<TITLE>07. Par 23-27</TITLE>L-23 One morning while setting out, as we would think, on the porch with her little trembling fingers trying to do a little crocheting or knitting, as she looked, down there there was a little noise taking place down at the seaside. And the little boat pushed into the willows, and she happened to look. And after she was setting there thinking, "Now, all my money's gone, what will I do? Next week I'll probably be put out of the home. The mortgage is done took that. We don't even have food to eat, nor nothing else. And I can't get no relief."
It was probably the darkest hour that she had ever seen. And about that time the little boat pushed in, and Jesus came along. She goes down to the river with her little trembling body. And just remember, because Jesus come, every devil in hell will try to keep you away from Him. That's right. You might hear the Message, but the devil will set right on your shoulder and say, "Don't you listen; don't you listen; don't you listen." But don't you believe him.
He said, "Whosoever will can come and drink from the waters of Life freely." Don't listen to him, for he is a devil.

L-24 And the little woman got down to where Jesus was coming up, and the people rallying around Him, the poor, and so forth. And there stood the priests and all the--the great leaders of her religion. And they were making fun of Him and say, "Hey, you're the one who heals the sick, are you? Well, we got plenty sick; let's see You heal them. Well, You're the one who raises the dead, are you? We got a graveyard full up here; let's see you raise them."
He never even paid a bit attention to them. He just walked on. He had one thing to do. That was the thing that God showed Him to do, nothing less or nothing more.

L-25 When the Christian gets to that place where you'll lay aside and not listen to all the scandal and stuff that's said, and all the going on, and have one motive, that's to do the will of God that God sent you to do, there'll be a different day and a different church.
Here she walked down to this crowd. And Jesus was walking along in His slow steady walk. And the people were running to Him and saying, "Are you the prophet? Are you this? Are you that? Say, how about come over here and doing something for me? Let me see you perform a miracle. We would love to see you turn the waters to wine. Here's a jug full of it; I'd like to have some. They said it was good wine. Make this wine; let me see how it taste."

L-26 He never even would raise His head; He just kept walking on. That makes me love Him. You know, it takes the little bitty petty people to fuss and argue. A big man never pays any attention to nothing like that. Christians doesn't notice what the world says. If they want to say anything they want to, they got... They're too big to notice those little bitty things. They just keep moving on, just going on.
The little woman thought, "Now, it's the only hour that I'll ever see Him, my last opportunity. The only opportunity that I've ever had, and I truly believe if I could only touch the garment of that Man, I'd be made well." What a faith, what a time.

L-27 And here as the crowd's trying to keep her back, she gets down on her knees some way, and crawls through all those crowd until she touched His garment. And she walked back and stood in the crowd. Jesus turned and said, "Who's touched Me?"
Why, the crowd said, "No one has touched You." Every one denied it.
And Peter rebuked Him; he said, "Lord, everybody's been sweeping against You."
He said, "But I perceive that virtue has gone from Me." And He looked around until He found her, and He said, "Thy faith has saved thee."
Her darkest hour... And the Bible said that she felt within her that the blush--blood issue had stopped.


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