The gospel for reading this morning was Luke 8:40ff. There are two people pressing in: Jairus (for his daughter) and the woman with the bleeding problem.

Both needed to press in hard. Jairus comes and gets Jesus, but when word comes that his daughter is dead, the common sense thing would be to forget about it. Just go home. Bury your daughter.

But Jesus picks up Jairus’ faith.

“Don’t be afraid; just keep trusting, and she will be healed.”

We face a lot of situations where we are praying and things don’t get better. They get WORSE.

We need to sense the presence of Jesus picking us up. “Just keep trusting.”

Prayer isn’t just a walk in the park. It is also trusting in the dark.

Just keep trusting.