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THE TOUCH OF JESUS SETS US STRAIGHT 

HAPPY TRUTH BOMB TUESDAY, FRIENDS! I’M COMING RIGHT OUT OF THE GATES WITH THE TRUTH BOMB TODAY! IT IS POWERFUL AND IT IS TRUTH AND IT IS ONE MAJOR LESSON THAT I LEARNED THROUGH THE JOURNEY OF ALZHEIMER’S WITH MY MAMA.

Have you ever felt bent over, crippled, bent in half, burdened, weighed down, and in so much emotional, spiritual and mental pain that you could not stand up straight? Have you felt that the pain is so great that it is what identifies you? If so, then you can relate to the “Bent Woman” in Luke 13 that encounters Jesus.

The “Bent Over Woman” does not have a name in scripture! She is identified by her pain! Have you ever been in so much pain physically, mentally, spiritually or emotionally that you felt identified by it? Have you tried so hard with every ounce of your being to hide it and stuff it down deep somewhere inside so that no one would see it and yet it manifested itself physically for all to see?

If so, you are not alone! The Bent Over Women in Luke 13 has only eight verses in the Bible that identify her! But in those short eight verses, her story is told and it is completed by the mere touch of The Savior!

LUKE 13:10-13 (NLT)

10 “One Sabbath day as Jesus was teaching in a synagogue, 11 he saw a woman who had been crippled by an evil spirit. She had been bent double for eighteen years and was unable to stand up straight.12 When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Dear woman, you are healed of your sickness!” 13 Then he touched her, and instantly she could stand straight. How she praised God!

This  woman had been dealing with such deep pain and demonic oppression for over 18 years that she could not stand up straight! The enemy tormented her! Her spiritual attack was so heavy that it physically bent her over and made her physically crippled!

But one short encounter with Jesus and she was set straight!

When I was in the middle of my mother‘s battle with Alzheimer’s, my hope began to wane and my sadness grew stronger and stronger. I prayed and I prayed and I cried out, but nothing seemed to change! I went to bed one night, talking to God and crying myself to sleep! How was I going to help my mom? How was I ever going to have a real conversation with her again this side of heaven? How was I going to continue to manage her care? How was I going to keep enduring seeing her in this state that I could do nothing about?

I woke up the next morning and I couldn’t move! I was very frightened at first, and then I tried to stand up. I swung my legs over the side of the bed and immediately felt a searing pain from the top of my left leg all the way up through my back! The pain was there when I stood! The pain was there when I walked! The pain was there when I sat! The pain was there when I laid down! No matter what I did, the pain would not go away! For over a month, I tried exercising it out, walking it out, resting it out, and every other thing I could think of! But the pain never dulled! 

I kept praying and crying out to God and he gently spoke to me saying, “you have to let go and quit striving! You can’t change this, you just have to trust me through it!” 

That night I opened up both my hands wide, all fingers out, no fist, no holding back and I gave it all to Him! The next morning I woke up and I was healed! 

Yes, it was a physical release of my emotional and mental pain! Jesus touched me and healed me and SET ME STRAIGHT when he spoke words to me! Then it was up to me to accept those words and allow HIM to make me straight! I did and He did!

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THE TOUCH OF JESUS SETS US STRAIGHT!

It may result in physical straightness, but the true healing comes from the inside out! God healed my emotional and mental pain, that was causing physical pain that had me “bent over!”

The bent over woman needed the touch of Jesus to heal her spiritual pain! When Jesus healed her spiritual pain, she was set straight!

Then Jesus gave her a new identity!

15 “But the Lord replied, …16 This dear woman, a daughter of Abraham, has been held in bondage by Satan for eighteen years. Isn’t it right that she be released, even on the Sabbath?”

Jesus called her a “daughter of Abraham“, “a child of God!”

When we are touched by Jesus and set straight, we are transformed from the inside out! We are set free!

What is it that you need to be set free from? Is it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual? Whatever it is, the touch of the Savior will set you straight and set you free!

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