The Women, I painted this watercolor on March 13, 2024.
I have looked at it everyday since then without sharing it publicly except with my immediate family.
I have progressed no further than what you see before you. Each time I started to add a paint stroke there was a distinct prompt of “It is finished.”
Indeed, thank you Father God, it is finished.There are words and paintings that are seeds that linger in the soil of our hearts until the Lord births them in His Truth within us.
There are five women in the painting.
The number Five in Hebrew is Grace and the Letter is ‘H’eh
Yes, I speak “Grace, Grace” to you.
I have always been intrigued by the woman with the issue of blood.
She could find no healing.
No help anywhere else except by reaching out to the Lord and touching Him.
This is the journey of the Woman, of women, of men.
She is as all creation who needed the blood of Christ to cleanse and redeem their blood, the “issue of their blood.”
The Woman:
She was an outcast for at least 12 years.
She had spent all her living on physicians.
How often do we spend “all our living” on seeking healing from others?
“Our living” as not only our money, but our trust, our job validation, our relationship with one another?
Only Jesus Christ heals us of every “issue.”
It begins with blood.
Our blood.
It ends with the Messiah’s blood.
Redemption.
There were 12 tribes and they all had an “issue of blood “ and only the Great Physician could heal them and the Woman.
They, the priests, the scribes, the Pharisees were the “physicians “ of the day.
They had no healing, no legitimate way to give redemption.
Only the Redeemer, The Messiah Jesus Christ who was in their midst could heal all issues. Theirs, hers, and ours.
~Debbie 🌻
Matthew 9:20-22
And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood 12 years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
but 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 a good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
Mark 5:25-34
And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood 12 years,
And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
When she heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. For she said, if I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.
And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
And Jesus, immediately, knowing in himself, that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?
And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.
But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.
And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
You can read more scripture on the woman with the issue of blood at Luke 8:43-48 in the Bible.
