Miraculous

FINDING AND FOSTERING FAITH

Pastor Hope Flask

August 30, 2026

Main Scriptures: Mark 5:21-43

Additional Scriptures: 2 Corinthians 4:18, Proverbs 11:7, John 7:37b, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Matthew 20:27

POINTS:

• Faith is the way we connect to a spiritual reality.

• It is very possible for you to be around Jesus all your life and never connect with Him.

• Faith will always require us to press past the crowd.

• We start searching for Jesus because we are desperate.

• Inside all of us is an emptiness we are looking to fill. And we go to “doctors” to fix it.

• Many of us are coming to Jesus to help us with our mortal doctors.

• She wasn’t looking to Jesus to get her salvation but as her salvation.

• The main reason that people don’t connect to Jesus is not that they have too little faith, but that they have too much pride.

• Faith says I can’t, but my God can.

• Basic faith takes reasoning.

• Faith is not opposed to thinking; faith is opposed to our fears and self-protection.

• Basic faith takes direction.

• How much faith do we have to have in Jesus? Just enough to come.

• The woman with the issue of blood shows us that we aren’t saved because of our faith; we are saved through our faith.

• It’s not the dimension of our faith, but the direction of it.

• Basic faith takes substitution.

• Jesus delays show us His priorities.

• Jesus delays show us His wisdom.

• Jesus delays confront us with this question: Do we believe in Jesus, or do we believe in our agenda for Him?

• Maybe the delay isn’t evidence that Jesus has forgotten you; maybe it is an invitation to know Him more deeply.