“And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse” (Mark 5:25-26).
This woman had tenacity. Tenacity means stubbornness. We have to be stubborn if we are going to walk in God’s best. That doesn’t mean we are to be stubborn with other people, but we must be stubborn in our stand on God’s Word.
Now, tenacity could also be said to mean “resistance to flow.” Many people “flow” with whatever word or wind of doctrine comes along. They say, “The Word says I’m healed, but the doctors tell me there is no hope.” These people are double-minded, flowing back and forth between God’s promises and man’s opinions.
But this woman got tenacious about her healing. She heard of Jesus, and she decided to go the faith route. She’d been to every doctor in the country, and they had probably pronounced her incurable. She didn’t have any natural hope left.
So she decided to flow against natural circumstances. It wasn’t easy to do that, because she was weak, sick and broke. Besides that, she had to flow against a multitude of people crowding around Jesus. She had to press through that crowd until she finally reached Him.
The flow of the natural realm was telling her, “Give up, lady. This won’t work. You’ve tried everything. Remember, the doctor said you can’t make it.”
But the woman got stubborn about it. She wouldn’t flow with what the doctors said. She was tenacious, resistant to flow. She pressed through the crowd, touched Jesus’ garment and was healed.
Thank God for good doctors. But we have the Word of God, which is higher than any other belief, thought or expert opinion. And we need to get stubborn about holding fast to that anointed Word, no matter what it looks like in the natural!
I’m stubborn about standing on the Word of God.
Circumstances don’t move me. I don’t walk by sight.
I walk by faith in God’s Word!
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers
For over 40 years, Pastors Mark and Janet Brazee have traveled throughout the world sharing the Word of God and the Spirit of God. Together they've shared the powerful truths of faith and healing in more than 50 nations.
Today Mark and Janet pastor World Outreach Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they base their ongoing outreach to the world. The Brazees still travel as the Lord leads, and they are raising up a congregation who share their passion to reach Tulsa and the world.