Who Touched Me?

Good morning. Welcome to Insights. Uh

this is our first our first broadcast

this year in so today is a new year 2026

and today we're going to be taking a

look at who touched me. You know this

this passage of scripture is uh in

Matthew chapter 9 and Luke chapter 8.

And um they both tell the same story,

but the the the

it's much more in detail in the book of

Luke. So, I'm going to read it out of

Matthew first and then we're going to

jump over into Luke and take a look at

it and try to expand it out to help you

understand a whole lot better of what

exactly is going on here. It's not just

about the women with the issue of blood

being healed or Gyrus's daughter being

raised. There's a lot more in here. So,

in Matthew chapter 9, we find out that

this is where Philip begins to follow I

mean Matthew begins to follow Jesus and

they u Pharisees ask him questions about

the correct way to fast.

And then while he's teaching them in the

middle of this

uh discourse on proper fasting and how

to do it, the ruler of the synagogue

comes in, his name is Gyrus, and says,

"While he spake these things unto them,

behold, there came a certain ruler and

worshiped him, saying, my daughter is

now even dead, but come and lay thy hand

upon her, and she shall live." And Jesus

arose and followed him, and so did his

disciples.

And behold, a woman which was diseased

with an issue of blood 12 years came

behind him and touched the hem of his

garment. For she said within herself, If

I may but touch his garment, I shall be

whole. But Jesus turned him about. And

when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be

of good comfort. Thy faith has made thee

whole. And the woman was made whole from

that hour. And when Jesus came into the

ruler's house and saw the minstrels and

the people making noise, in other words,

they were having awake and they were

wailing and moaning over the fact that

this uh young girl had died. G Jesus

said to him, "Give place, for the maid

is not dead, but sleepeth." And they

laughed him to scorn. But when the

people were put forth, he went in, he

took her by the hand, and the maid

arose, and the fame hereof went abroad

into all the land. Now that that is um a

very brief telling of what took place

there. And a couple of things we we need

to realize is when somebody comes in in

an attitude of praise and worship into

the presence of God, he responds

immediately because your faith activates

his action.

And then as he's going

to the ruler's house to to lay hands on

his daughter, a woman comes behind him

who has an issue of blood. And there's a

whole lot of uh Jewish law ramifications

here. First of all, she shouldn't have

been in public because she had an issue

of blood. She was unclean. And so by

law, she wasn't allowed to be in public.

Yet, she forced her way in and she

touches him of his garment. she's

healed. Jesus tells her she's healed and

then he goes and raises uh the the

ruler's daughter and it's a very brief

account of what actually took place. So

when and this is the reason I wanted to

touch there first because I want to read

from what was said in Luke and it's in

Luke chapter 8 starts in verse 40

because it gets into some very very

deeper details about exactly what

happened. It says, "And it came to pass

that when Jesus was returned, the people

gladly received him, for they were all

waiting for him. And behold, there came

a man named Gyrus, and he was a ruler of

the synagogue, and he fell down at

Jesus's feet, and he besought him that

he would come into his house, where he

had only one daughter, about 12 years of

age, and she lay a dying. But as he

went, the people thronged him. And a

woman having an issue of blood 12 years,

which had spent all her living upon

physicians, neither could be healed of

any, came behind him, and touched the

border of his garment. And immediately

her issue of blood staunched.

And Jesus said, "Who touched me?" When

all denied, Peter and they that were

with him said, "Master, the multitude

throng thee, and press thee, and sayest

thou, who touched me?"

And Jesus said, "Somebody hath touched

me, for I perceive that virtue is going

out of me." And when the woman saw that

she was not hid, she came trembling and

falling down before him. She declared

unto him before all the people, for what

cause she had touched him, and how she

was healed immediately.

And he said unto her, "Daughter, be of

good comfort. Thy faith has made thee

whole. Go in peace." And while he yet

spake, there cometh one from the root of

the synagogue's house, saying to him,

"Thy daughter is dead. Trouble not the

master."

But when Jesus heard it, he answered

him, saying, "Fear not. believe only and

she shall be made whole. And when he

came into the house, he suffered no man

to go in save Peter and James and John

and the father and the mother of the

maiden. And all wept and bewelled her,

but he said, "Weep not. She is not dead,

but sleepeth." And they laughed him to

scorn, knowing that she was dead. And he

put them all out, and took her by the

hand, and called, saying, Made, arise.

And her spirit came again, and she arose

straightway. And he commanded to give

her meat.

And her parents were astonished. But he

charged him

that they should

that they should tell no one what was

done. Now, in this passage of scripture,

when we read it in Luke, there's a whole

lot more went on here. First of all, he

gets more into the details of this woman

who touched him, who came into this

throng of people. And if you don't know

what a throng is, is this a a group of

people, everybody trying to touch Jesus.

They're just crowding in around him to

where they could just barely walk. And

in the middle of that, this woman who

had lost everything she had trying to

get well and nobody could heal her. The

physicians couldn't find out why she

couldn't stop bleeding. And she decided

in herself by faith that if she could

touch the hem of his garment, she could

be healed. She could be made whole. and

her faith when she believing in Jesus to

the point that when she touched the

border of his garment immediately the

blood flow stopped

and Jesus reacted and said who touched

me. Now I I want to I want to give you

some encouragement here. If you've been

struggling and dealing with something,

whether it's a physical uh ailment, if

you if you've been sick, um if you're

struggling financially, if you're if all

any of these things that are happening

in your life and you and you're trying

to get from the place you're at to the

place you believe God wants you to be,

what moves him is when you touch him by

faith.

Remember what he said?

He's he's in this throne of people. He's

surrounded by a crowd. Everybody's

touching him. Yet out of all these

people who touched him, including his

disciples, only one person had the faith

to touch his virtue.

And when she did, Jesus said, "Who

touched me?"

Because it didn't just physically touch.

She didn't just physically touch his

garment. She touched God. She reached

God by faith. And it flowed. That virtue

of healing flowed from Jesus straight

into this woman and immediately

dried up the blood, the issue of blood.

And and Peter's question, everybody in

the crowd denied it. Oh, I didn't touch

you. I didn't touch you. And Peter, he

he he looks at her and says, "Master,

the multitude throngly oppressed thee."

And you say, "Who touched me?"

And Jesus's response is God's classic

response always.

Somebody hath touched me for I perceive

that virtue is gone out of me. And when

he makes that statement, the woman comes

forward. And listen to her situation.

She comes forward

and she came trembling

and she fell down before him and she

declared unto him before all the people

for what cause she had touched him and

how she was healed immediately.

There was no lag time.

But she'd been fighting this for 12

years

trying to get this issue of blood

stopped. She was unclean. She couldn't

go into public. She couldn't attend

church. Uh she couldn't go to synagogue.

Does this sound familiar to you? Are you

starting to see a pattern here? There's

a lot of people that are dealing with

this in today's world. And the problem

that they're having is they haven't

touched Jesus yet.

They're talking a good talk. They're

fighting a good fight, but they haven't

actually touched Jesus yet. And you

can't get God to move unless you reach

him by faith.

And listen to Jesus's response. This is

God's response to you every time.

Daughter. In other words, he's claiming

her as his own daughter.

Be of good comfort.

Thy faith has made thee whole. Go in

peace.

Man, that's amazing. Not only is God

ever willing to heal,

all he requires is for you to reach out

by an act of faith. And he said, "If you

have faith that the as the size of a

grain of mustard seed, and if you've

never seen a mustard seed, that's not

very big. It'll fit on the top of the of

the head of a a straight pin. They're

small."

That amount of faith right there is what

it took for her to get healed.

And he and but listen to what Jesus

says. The first thing is is he claimed

her as his own. He called her daughter.

And then he said, "Be of good comfort.

Thy faith has made thee whole. Go in

peace."

If you have been struggling, if you have

been fighting, if you have felt like the

powers of the enemy were about to

overcome you, don't give up.

Reach out by faith to God right now

and touch the hem of his garment.

Because when you do that, the very thing

that you're seeking God for, he will

deliver.

You are his own.

And then after he heals her, get this.

Here's more here. Here's how God

overcomes doubt and how he overcomes

fear.

And while he yet spake to the to the

daughter,

Gyrus's servants come and tell him,

"Don't trouble the master anymore. Your

daughter's dead. It's pointless. Don't

have him come."

But when Jesus heard it, he heard it.

He answered him, saying, "Fear not.

Believe only, and she shall be made

whole." Now, they just told Gyrus that

she's dead.

They told just leave Jesus alone. He

doesn't need to come now. It's too late.

She's already gone. Jesus turns around

and says to him the very thing that God

says 365 times in the Bible. You can

find it every day of the year. Be not

afraid. Fear not. Be courageous.

He says, "Fear not. Believe only,

and she shall be made whole."

Man,

fear not.

believe only and she shall be made

whole. And he when he comes into the

house, he suffered nobody else to go in

except for Peter, James, and John and

the father and mother of the maiden. In

other words, he wanted to remove all the

doubters out of the room.

And they all wept and beweld her. But he

said, "Weep not. She is not dead, but

sleepeth." And they laughed him to

scorn. You ever come in and told

somebody what God said, and they laughed

you to scorn? They made they ridiculed

you. I've been there. I've had it done

to me.

And he put them all out.

In other words, he cleared the room. So

there's five people in the room plus

Jesus and the girl that and Jesus, it's

simple.

He took her by the hand and he called

saying, "Made arise." And her spirit

came again, and she arose straightway.

And he commanded to give her meat. And

her parents were astonished. They

couldn't believe what just happened.

And he said that they should tell no man

what was done. Are you walking in that

place? Are you struggling? Have you are

you a survivor? Have you have you

overcome something and then had like

there's a lot of people that have been

dealt the the big C diagnosis cancer.

Did you receive the diagnosis or did you

receive the word of God?

Are you a living testimony to God's

word?

Are you his own? Has he called you son?

Has he called you daughter? Has he

called you out from among them and made

you his own?

Because I want to tell you something. We

we serve a living God. He's not dead.

He's not in the grave. He's not The rest

of the world's religions

are all based on someone who's dead,

but not

the Christian faith. Because we have a

risen savior.

Jesus is sitting at the right hand of

God making intercession for us day and

night waiting on God to tell him, "Go

get your church."

And as long as Jesus is in heaven, we

still have hope

of all the things that could happen

here.

Have you shared that with somebody? Have

you told them about the goodness of God?

Have you told them that you're a son or

a daughter of the most high God? He

already made you his own when he

accepted you. When you when you gave

your heart to the Lord, you are his.

He calls you by name. He knows your

name. You know, I preached a message not

a long time ago, but a while back about

does the devil know your name? Does the

enemy know your name? And I I was

speaking out of uh the book of Acts on

the seven sons of SA who went in to cast

out a demon in the name of Jesus of whom

Paul preached. And they had no

no direct association with Christ

himself, but they were speaking in the

third person. And the demon answered and

said, "Jesus I know and Paul I know, but

who are you? Are you a son or daughter

of the most high God? Has God called you

and claimed you as his own?

Do you have the faith to reach out and

touch the hymn of his garment and

receive the healing that he promised

you?

That's healing in your of of your body,

healing of your mind, healing of your

relationships, healing in your financial

situations. Have you reached out and

touched the hem of his garment? Because

his power, he has power over all the

powers of the enemy. And you

and you alone determine whether or not

that power flows to you. Just like the

woman with the issue of blood, she came

up. She determined within herself. She

says, "I have no hope left in medicine.

I have no hope left in the doctors.

Nobody can heal me, but I've heard of

this man, Jesus, and I know if I could

just touch the hymn of his garment

that I can be made whole. And it's very,

it's that simple. Are you convinced? Are

you fully completely convinced that if

you touch Jesus, your situation will

change? If you are,

then what you're seeking is about to

happen.

It's not about how good you are. It's

about how great he is.

Because he is the author and finisher of

our faith.

I pray that this message has touched you

in a special way today. I hope that

you're encouraged

and your time of difficulty because I

know God put this message on my heart

because I had a completely different

message yesterday that I was going to

teach on today. David God spoke to me

and said, "Who touched me?"

And that's a very bold statement from

God. Who touched me?

Have you touched him?

Have you put aside everything, all your

doubts, your fears? Have you determined

in yourself, no matter what, I'm going

to touch Jesus. I am going to get what

he said I could have.

So, I want to leave that with you this

week. Don't give up.

Don't let the enemy take your blessing.

Don't let the enemy take your blessing

and touch the hymn of his garment. You

can do this. You have the power within

you to change the situation simply by

touching him.

Let's pray. Lord Jesus, I would like to

pray for everybody out there that is

going through things. Whether it's

physical healing they need, Lord,

whether it's a spiritual healing they

need, if it's a mental healing they

need, Lord, if it's a financial healing

they need, Lord, I know right now, Lord,

that in your name, all these things are

done. And we call them done in Jesus'

name. I take authority over all attacks

of the enemy against those that seek to

follow you, Lord. And ask you right now

to touch those that hear this message

and that you heal them from whatever it

is they're fighting, Lord. In Jesus'

name I pray. Amen. Thank you for being

with me this week. We'll talk to you

again next week. Have a blessed week and

touch the hymn of his garment. Don't be

afraid.