Jairus

We were told that we would be taken by faith, to a time, which has come to us as a type of Spiritual Zoom, to be with Jairus and Jesus, in a most unconventional place. We are following this account from the Gospel of Mark, chapter five and verses twenty-one to twenty-four.

Our viewing is specifically on these few verses, by which we will be veiled in answered prayer. We already know this popular and well-known healing, how Jesus healed this father’s daughter and gave her life. The verse on which we shall feed, the verse whose words we shall ingest, tells us how, when Jairus sees Jesus, he falls at His feet, and pleaded earnestly with him, My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live. Mark 5: 23. Yes, we are still on track and in focus, to learn more about answered prayer.

This is what has come to me as Spiritual Zoom, because it has suddenly dawned upon me that if we do not come to this by faith, we will continue to be in what is Spiritually virtual for us, but never what is Spiritually actual for us. It just means that without living, active, working faith, whatever learning we embrace, will only be as something virtual to us, but not real, as the reality of truth is not present to touch us.

Our eyes are on Jairus. Who is he? Here is a synagogue ruler, a most holy, religious and righteous man of God, a father, whose little daughter is dying. As a worshipper of God, he will have to be a man who is devout, to be a synagogue ruler. As a religious leader in his community, surely he would have prayed to Yahweh for healing for his child. Additionally, don’t you think that other synagogue rulers, priests and all the holy men of the Sanhedrin – the Church’s hierarchy – would have prayed and would still be praying? Nevertheless, the ruler’s daughter remains dying.

Jesus has not been present in that town; I mean face to face in that town. Indeed, people know about Him and are daily hearing more and more about His miracle powers to heal any manner and condition of ailment and disease.

Jairus hears about Jesus coming to their shores, and this is where we begin to clearly see, to be sensitized and to become one with answered prayer in reality. There is answered prayer for you, in this time of receiving.

Jairus is carrying a most heavy burden. He has a deep, heart-wrenching need. He wants healing and life for his little daughter who is dying. No one around has been able to help her and all the prayers of this distraught father, his family, friends and colleagues, are not being answered. He tells Jesus, My little daughter is dying. Note some obvious yet too often neglected facts which accompany this father’s answered prayer.

We shall view them as they have been brought before us in his self-denied place, his self-humbling posture, his self-mortifying plea and his self-removing profession. These will be discussed throughout the remainder of the week.