Luke 13:12 Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath and behold there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said,”woman thou art loosed from your infirmity.” And He laid his hand on her and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.

What moved within my spirit about this story was the fact that this woman never asked out loud or even approached Jesus for healing. It seemed like she was simply going about her business, even accepting her infirmity; not making it a problem which controlled her life or an excuse for not living her life abundantly. Only God knew what was in her heart and mind; after all ,she was in the synagogue potentially even praying about getting healed. But Jesus saw her and called her to Him. I thought to myself, ”did she even know who Jesus was?” Everyone else in the Bible who know who Jesus was all went seeking Him for help or healing of some sort. For example, the woman with the issue of blood, Matthew 9:20, She said within herself,”if I may but touch the his garment I shall be made whole.” The woman in John 8:3-7 that they brought for Jesus’s opinion to stone her or not for committing adultery, and Jesus said,”He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”

There is also another story similar to this one. John 5:5-6 A certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie[crippled] and knew that he had been now a long time in that state, He said unto him,”wilt thou be made whole?” The difference between these two stories is the John5:14 Jesus finds him in the temple and says unto him, ”Behold thou art made whole, sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee. Jesus asked the man if he wanted to be heal, as if some how the man had control over his infirmity, it was his choice and Jesus didn’t lay his hand on him, He just told him, ”Rise take up thy bed, and walk.” But Jesus called the woman to him, told her she was heal, and laid His hand on her.

I believe that there are some infirmities that we enable, through choices like the man, John5:7 The man’s answer to Jesus when He’d ask him if he wanted to get well, is he had no one to help him and everyone was always getting in his way, which to me was an excuse. We all have the inner ability when very desperate, to make change through faith, so our circumstances would not hold us back. The woman, to me, showed that ability. And she was not responsible for her infirmity, scripture declared she had a spirit of infirmity Luke13:11. But she didn’t allow it to affect her life, she kept on doing what she had to do. It didn’t become her blockage, it became her courage.  We can only speculate about each of their circumstances and what brought someone into the position they were in when Jesus noticed their condition to heal them. Because the scripture doesn’t tell us whether both were born in their condition or an accident may have caused it, all we know is how many years they were in their condition.

No matter what our infirmities, how long we’ve been suffering through it, or what the cause of it was, once Jesus sees it, He is going to heal it.” How does Jesus see it today for us?” It is through the report of the angels and the comforter[Holy ghost].  For certain situations, Jesus himself shows up in certain places for specific people. For example, like the woman at the well, John4:7-29, The Samaria woman of whom He’d asked for water and told her that He would give her water that she’ll never thirst again and told her things of her personal life that no one knew. What is even more profound is Jesus confess to being the Messiah to Mary and her sister Martha for the death of their brother Lazarus in John 11:4; Lazarus was sick and his sisters sent word to Jesus to come, and by the time Jesus got there Lazarus was dead and He brought him back to life. Luke 8:26-33 The man that had the legions of devils inside him that Jesus cast out into pigs and they drowned in a lake. And there were many other specific persons Jesus had also show up for in the Bible.

Jesus intention has and will always be to heal the world; our mind ,body and spirit.