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Week 3: Moving Through the Crowd
From the Mat to the Hem: A Woman with the Issue of Blood Devotional Journey Opening Scripture — Mark 5:27 “She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment.” — Mark 5:27 (ESV) Reflection — Faith in Tight Spaces In this woman with the issue of blood devotional, we have moved from the mat of isolation to the whisper of hope. Now we enter the crowd. Mark 5:25–34 does not romanticize this moment. The woman is still ceremonially unclean. The crowd is pressing tightly around Jesus. Every step forward carries risk — social, spiritual, and emotional. The crowd represents everything…
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Week 2: The Whisper That Moves You
From the Mat to the Hem: A Woman with the Issue of Blood Devotional Journey Opening Scripture — Mark 5:27–28 “She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, ‘If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.’” — Mark 5:27–28 (ESV) Reflection — When Hope Interrupts Isolation Last week in our woman with the issue of blood devotional, we remained on the mat. We honored the years. We did not rush her story. Now the text gives us a quiet but profound shift: “She had heard…” Mark 5:25–34 does not tell us who told…
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Week 1: The Mat of Isolation
From the Mat to the Hem: A Woman with the Issue of Blood Devotional Journey Opening Scripture — Mark 5:25–26 “And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.” — Mark 5:25–26 (ESV) Reflection — Living on the Mat The story of the woman with the issue of blood begins long before she reaches for the hem. It begins on the mat. For twelve years she lived with a condition that did not resolve. Twelve years of physical weakness. Twelve years…
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From the Mat to the Hem: Woman with the Issue of Blood Devotional
A Sacred Continuation of Sipping the Gospel Tea From the Mat to the Hem: A Woman with the Issue of Blood Devotional Journey is a reflective continuation inspired by an in-person Sipping the Gospel Tea gathering centered on Mark 5:25–34—the story of the woman with the issue of blood who reached for the hem of Jesus’ garment. What unfolded in that space humbling, holy, and deeply Spirit-led. Women named what they had been carrying.They acknowledged the mat—places of isolation, shame, and long-held pain.And they found courage to reach. And the Holy Spirit met them there. This written journey flows from that same place. From the Mat to the Hem: A…
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Sipping the Gospel Tea: An Advent Journey
A Season of Stillness, Story, and Sacred Expectationwith Clesha — Prophetess of the Juicy Truth™ Advent is a sacred season of waiting — not passive waiting, but holy anticipation. It’s the time we lean forward with hope, look for the Light that breaks into the darkness, and remember that God meets us not only in the miraculous… but in the quiet, in the questions, and in the long nights where we whisper, “Lord, any minute now.” This year, I’m inviting you to journey with me through a special three-session Advent series:Sipping the Gospel Tea™: An Advent Journey.It’s cozy, it’s contemplative, it’s a little cheeky in the holiest way — and…
