Charmaine Hibberd

‘And it is impossible to please God without faith.’ Hebrews 11 v 6 NLT

The tricky thing with faith is that it’s risky.

When you believe for things, for breakthrough in a certain area of your life, the cold hard fact is that you may not get what you seek.

This is why it’s risky. You might be disappointed. You might feel let down. You might get hurt.

Think about the woman who had the issue of blood (see Luke 8 v 43­48). For twelve years this woman had suffered with constant bleeding with no cure. She had had enough. After twelve years of bleeding and seeing doctor after doctor, spending all her money on trying to get well, she wanted to see results. This woman was a woman of risky faith.

The woman heard that Jesus was passing by and so she pushed her way through the crowds (which would have been significant) and reached out and touched the hem of Jesus’s robe. Immediately she was healed. Immediately the bleeding stopped. It was a miracle. Breakthrough.

Imagine if this woman had not had the faith to believe that Jesus could heal her. Imagine if the disappointment and delay that she had experienced over the twelve years of infirmity had beaten her down so much that she stopped trying. Stopped believing. But faith urged her on. ‘What if’ she asked herself.

My prayer is that we all will have the faith of this incredible woman. That when we feel disappointed or let down or are tired of the delay, we will reach out one more time and believe. It is impossible to please God without faith so lets be a people who amaze God, not with our lack of faith, but with our abundance of it.