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Welcome to our LAMP podcast.

Hey, this is Charles Martin. This is the story of the woman with the issue of blood.

Jesus steps out of the boat and the crowds rush the beach. The country of the Gatterines sits behind him.

Across the water, the rumors have already spread, even his disciples are whispering.

Jesus laughs. He has several appointments to keep. What happens in these next few minutes will

up end the world. A man runs across the beach, robes flowing. He's wealthy, one of the rulers

of the synagogue. He darts through the crowd, the apostles move to protect Jesus. When J. Ruse

falls at his feet and begs him earnestly saying, My little daughter is dying. Come put your

hands on her that she may be healed and live. Jesus smiles and gestures with his hand, take me to her.

Moving through the street, Jiru screams at the crowd, fearing his daughter's death, saying, move,

but Jesus is not hurried. In fact, he slows purposefully. He chose this street. He's been waiting for this day, this moment. The crowd squeezes in, but he's not bothered. He's taken his time. He catches a glimpse of her behind him in his heart leaps. He knows her by name. There she is again, weaving through the crowd, desperation painted across her

face. He is her last hope, and he knows it. He smiles to himself. She's heard the stories where it has

spread throughout all Judea. There was the man withered hand, the centurion servant, the son of the widow of

Nain, who was in a coffin being

carried out through the gate, the paralyzed man lowered by his friends through a roof,

and after the healer touched him, he walked out the front door, how he calmed the wind and the waves

with just a word, how he laid his hands on those with various diseases, and how he healed

them all, every one. Lastly, she's heard how he

delivered the demon-possessed man of the Gatterines, and then just recently she's heard how he read

the prophet Isaiah in the synagogue, how the spirit of the sovereign Lord was upon him. She knew the

prophecy. He was the healer, the one the prophets talked about. Through no fault of her

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