Janina B.

Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak.   She said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed” (Matthew 9:20-21 NLT ). I have polycystic ovaries. One of the symptoms that I have suffered with is having my menstrual cycle stay on for 1 to 6 months at a time. I was miserable and tired. There is no peace with an issue like this.   I remember waking up and hoping that my cycle would be off, but it was still on. I could not imagine having this issue during the time that the woman with the issue of blood lived. We have doctors today that can prescribe a pill or use some other method to get a woman’s bleeding under control, but this woman suffered for 12 years. Did she have cramps? Was she anemic? Was she ever afraid that she would bleed to death? Did she have or want children? Maybe this woman just wanted to be free. She didn’t think about what she was missing, she just want...

When we focus on man instead of God we miss the attention that He lavishes on us. Leah was seemingly an underdog from the beginning of when we first meet her in the bible. She was the older sister, but yet this blessed man of God choose her little sister over her. She was involved in a plot set up by her father to be snuck into the bed of the man that thought he was marrying and sleeping with her sister on their weeding night. I’m sure Jacob was pissed when he got up that next morning after sleeping with his wife and finding out that it was not the one that he had worked 7 long years to marry; but what about Leah and her feelings? Did Jacob use harsh words toward her when he found out that she was not Rachel? Leah was a blessed woman although her husband favored her sister over her. She was blessed of the Lord to have seven beautiful biological babies. She so badly wanted her husband to love her and she began to attach an emotion to each additional life that God allowed her ...

“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint” (Isaiah 40:31). Famous “waiters” in the bible include Sarah, Elizabeth, and Mary. These three woman had a promise from the Lord, but they had to be patient with themselves and with their God. In waiting, you have to be sure of who your God is. No matter who gets a promotion before you do or who gets married before you do, you have to know that God does not lie and cannot fail. The way that Sarah replied to God and the way that Mary replied to God concerning the promises that they received were totally different. Sarah laughed because she looked at her circumstance. How many of us laugh at the promises of God because of the view that we have of our circumstances. We forget that nothing is impossible for God and if we do decide to believe God we attempt to make his promises happen on our own watch. Sarah ga...