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Healing and Faith

Just as my last posting was prompted by this current series of sermons, so this one will be as well.  Last Sunday I preached on the raising of Jairus' daughter.  When word came that the synagogue ruler's twelve year old daughter had died, Jesus' response was simply, "do not fear, only believe."  This Sunday I will address the hemorrhaging woman who was healed in a story sandwiched inside the overall account of Jairus' daughter.  To her Jesus said "your faith has made you well."  Numerous times in the Gospels when Jesus healed, he cited the individual's faith.  Last month I attended a large conference at which one of the presenters, a popular speaker on the topic of prayer, very passionately dealt with healing and faith.  He repeatedly encouraged us to name the specific need for which we prayed, and to claim that healing in faith.  To his credit he took an expansive view of Jesus' work on the cross.  He reminded us, correctly, that the cross