Sad sentence in the Bible at Mark 5:17: "And they began to entreat Him to depart from their region." Jesus had just cast many demons out of cemetery-dweiling "demoniac," and sent the demons to into a herd of pigs. The 2,000 pigs promptly ran off a cliff into the sea and drowned...which is a bad deal if you're a pig farmer, and just watched your entire livelihood destroyed. So the local townspeople, and the heads of the Small Business Administration, Chamber of Commerce, and Industrial Development Authority asked Him to go elsewhere with His people-freeing/pig-killing program (even thought they KNEW of the miraculous healing of the "maniac". Meanwhile, the former "maniac" is sent back to his home area of Decapolis (means ten towns).... he's all the minister and missionary those people are going to need to hear from to learn about Jesus!!
Shortly in the narrative, a father will come to Jesus begging for him to come to his sick daughter's bedside. And a woman sick for 12 years will make a "power play" just to touch Him for the healing she believes in.....
Sooo... how to be sure to not miss Jesus' invitation, and the Holy Spirit's prompting for the day?
Years ago Johnny Cash sang a song entitled "I See Men as Trees Walking." It refers to Mark 8, when Jesus healed a blind man. There's a great line in the chorus: "Jesus reach down now and touch me, Jesus reach down now and touch me, Jesus reach down now and touch me, I would like to see!" He seems to be willing to do what we sincerely ask of Him!
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