PINNACLE ONLINE! - Not Forgotten - Week 2

May 24, 2026

Devotional

Day 1: Reaching Through Shame’s Isolation

A woman pushes through twelve years of ceremonial uncleanness, social exile, and drained hope. Her trembling fingers stretch toward Jesus’ cloak, believing even secret contact could heal. Physical restoration comes instantly, but her posture remains hunched in hiddenness. Shame lingers like a shroud even after miracles. Jesus stops mid-mission, refusing to let her slink away unnamed. Healing begins when hidden things are brought into light. [10:44]

“And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better, she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, ‘If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.’ Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.” (Mark 5:25-29, NIV)

Reflection: Where have you been tempted to seek “secret” healing from Jesus—to receive grace without being fully seen? What part of your story still feels too shameful to bring into the light?

Day 2: The Interruption That Reveals the Heart

Jesus halts his urgent mission to a dying girl for a woman hiding in plain sight. He insists on seeing her face, not just her faith. The disciples see a crowd; Jesus sees a daughter. Miracles are never transactions—they’re invitations to intimacy. True freedom comes when Jesus speaks identity over our hidden wounds: “Daughter, your faith has healed you.” [16:07]

“At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, ‘Who touched my clothes?’ […] Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. He said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.’” (Mark 5:30-34, NIV)

Reflection: What brokenness in your life have you tried to resolve through “quick fixes” rather than bringing it to Jesus for his restorative gaze?

Day 3: The Term That Transforms Identity

“Daughter.” Not “unclean,” not “outcast,” not “shameful.” Jesus replaces labels of rejection with a name of belonging. The word cracks open twelve years of isolation. His voice drowns out the crowd’s judgments and her own self-condemnation. Peace comes not just from physical healing, but from hearing the Father’s heart declare: “You are mine.” [19:24]

“He said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.’” (Mark 5:34, NIV)

Reflection: If Jesus addressed you today as “son” or “daughter,” what lie about your identity would that truth dismantle?

Day 4: Crowds That Crowd Out Connection

The woman’s shame made her hide in the crowd; the crowd’s noise nearly drowned Jesus’ voice. Our “crowds” today might be others’ opinions, busyness, or self-reliance. They press in, making us feel anonymous. Yet Jesus still stops, still seeks, still asks: “Who touched me?” He wants more than our petitions—he wants our presence. [12:48]

“When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak. She thought, ‘If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.’” (Mark 5:27-28, NIV)

Reflection: What “crowd” in your life makes you feel you must earn Jesus’ attention? How might you push through it to touch him authentically today?

Day 5: The Freedom of Full Exposure

The woman’s trembling confession—“I told him the whole truth”—precedes Jesus’ declaration of peace. Hiding fragments us; honesty integrates us. Bringing our whole selves to Christ means surrendering both our wounds and our coping mechanisms. Freedom isn’t the absence of suffering, but the presence of being fully known and fully loved. [25:34]

“Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. He said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.’” (Mark 5:33-34, NIV)

Reflection: What part of your “whole truth” have you withheld from Jesus, fearing it would disqualify you? How might surrendering it deepen your experience of being his child?

Sermon Summary

Mark shows Jesus on the way to Jairus’s house when a woman, twelve years into an uncontrollable flow of blood, reaches for his cloak. The text stacks her losses: chronic pain, bankrupt finances, and, under the law, ceremonial uncleanness that has kept her untouched and shut out of worship for a dozen years. Her body hurts, but so do her community ties, her mind, and her soul. Hearing that Jesus is near, she slips through the crowd to “steal a miracle,” not from bold confidence but because shame and the crowd make her feel like she can’t come straight to him. The touch lands, and immediately “she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.”

Jesus feels power go out and stops. He will not let her stay hidden. Not because he wants to expose her, but because a quiet cure won’t finish the job. He keeps scanning the crowd, drawing her out of secrecy into relationship. She comes trembling, still thinking like an unclean person who has made Jesus unclean. But with Jesus the direction reverses: unclean doesn’t contaminate him; he makes the unclean clean. He heals, then he names.

“Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.” The intimate address lands like “sweetheart,” an endearment that restores identity before a watching crowd. He doesn’t just fix a body; he gives a name and a future. “Go in peace” reaches beyond symptom relief into the long ache of shame, loneliness, misunderstanding, and lost years. “Be freed from your suffering” names the deeper freight she has carried and releases it. The outcast the crowd didn’t want, Jesus claims as precious.

The scene becomes a call. Shame and the crowd, literal or metaphorical, still keep people from approaching Jesus. Opinions, labels, self-protective habits, and old failures all press in. The move is faith, not magic; honest, not hidden. Stop hiding in the crowd and bring the whole self to Jesus, not curated pieces. He may not always heal a body, but he always heals what is broken in the heart, often using wise helpers along the way. He meets people in their mess, names them son or daughter, and sends them out in peace.

Key Takeaways

1. Shame hides; Jesus seeks and names. Shame and the crowd push a person into secrecy, but Jesus refuses to let a healed life stay anonymous. He looks, calls, and draws the hidden one into a face-to-face that gives identity, not just relief. The word “daughter” is how peace gets roots. Freedom starts where Jesus names a person as his own. [16:07]
2. His holiness cleans the unclean. Under the old logic, contact spreads defilement; under Jesus, holiness moves outward and makes clean. That reversal rewrites the script for anyone who assumes their story ruins every room they enter. In Christ, contamination doesn’t win; restoration does. Touch becomes the place grace runs both deep and public. [17:36]
3. Peace goes deeper than cure. “Go in peace” speaks to more than symptoms; it speaks to the stored-up weight of lost years, isolation, and fear. Jesus releases more than pain; he releases the meanings that pain wrote into a person’s heart. He gifts a new chapter that includes community, worship, and a settled self under God’s smile. [20:34]
4. Stop hiding; bring the whole self. Half-truths and curated prayers keep the deepest wounds locked up. Jesus invites the hidden parts into the light, because only what is brought to him gets healed by him. The crowd’s noise is strong, but faith’s move is stronger. Whole-person honesty is where peace begins. [25:34]
5. Faith walks into real encounter. The move is trust that risks closeness, whether for a first-time surrender or a long-needed conversation. Jesus may not fix every body, but he never withholds heart-healing for the one who comes. Faith doesn’t steal a miracle; it reaches for a Savior who is already reaching back. That reach becomes a life re-named and re-sent in peace. [27:57]

Youtube Chapters

[00:00] - Welcome
[321:00] - Personal story of shame and guilt
[356:00] - Knowing grace, stuck in regret
[386:00] - Calling hindered by the past
[414:00] - God loves, but does he like
[448:00] - Mark 5 setup and context
[473:00] - On the way to Jairus’s house
[507:00] - Twelve-year bleeding and bankruptcy
[575:00] - Ceremonial uncleanness and isolation
[644:00] - Touching the cloak for a miracle
[710:00] - Trying to “steal” a miracle
[738:00] - Shame and the crowd dynamic
[816:00] - Immediate healing sensed
[941:00] - Jesus keeps looking for her
[967:00] - He refuses to let her hide
[1020:00] - Trembling confession before Jesus
[1056:00] - Unclean meets Jesus, becomes clean
[1125:00] - “Daughter… go in peace”
[1234:00] - Freedom from more than pain
[1267:00] - Sons and daughters, not earned
[1371:00] - Body healing vs. heart healing
[1534:00] - Stop hiding in the crowd
[1677:00] - Faith is the move
[1769:00] - Prayer

Bible Study Guide

Bible Reading
Mark 5:25-34 (ESV)
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. 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.” And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was freed from her disease. And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?” And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’” And he looked around to see who had done it. But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”

Observation Questions

What three types of suffering did the woman experience due to her condition (physical, social, spiritual)?
How did the woman approach Jesus, and why did she try to remain hidden?
What did Jesus do immediately after the woman touched His garment, and how did He respond when she came forward?
What specific term of endearment did Jesus use to address her, and what did He command her to do afterward?

Interpretation Questions

Why did Jesus insist on publicly identifying the woman instead of letting her remain anonymous after her physical healing?
The woman feared making Jesus “unclean” by touching Him, but Jesus declared her clean. How does this reverse the Old Testament laws about purity (Leviticus 15:25-27)?
Jesus told her to “go in peace” even after her physical healing. What deeper forms of suffering (shame, isolation, etc.) might this peace have addressed?
How does the title “daughter” redefine her identity in contrast to how the crowd viewed her?

Application Questions

Shame often causes people to hide parts of their lives. What is one area where you’ve felt too ashamed to approach God or others openly? How might Jesus’ response to the woman challenge that?
Jesus prioritizes relationship over secrecy. Are there ways you’ve tried to “steal” healing or blessings from God without engaging Him personally (e.g., through routines, rituals, or avoidance)? What would it look like to bring those things into the light?
The woman’s physical healing was instant, but Jesus also addressed her emotional and spiritual pain. Where do you need healing that goes deeper than surface-level fixes? How could inviting Jesus into that pain change your perspective?
Jesus called her “daughter,” a term of intimate belonging ([18:45]). How might embracing your identity as God’s son or daughter shift how you view your past mistakes or current struggles?
The crowd tried to drown out the woman’s story. What “crowds” (opinions, labels, or habits) in your life make it hard to approach Jesus fully? What step could you take to silence those voices this week?
Jesus didn’t just heal her body—He restored her community and worship life. Is there a relationship or spiritual practice (like prayer, church, etc.) you’ve withdrawn from due to shame? How could you take a small step toward reengaging?
The woman’s faith involved risk and vulnerability. What’s one practical way you can “reach out” to Jesus this week in an area where you’ve felt stuck or unworthy?

Sermon Clips

52s

“"What's your metaphorical crowd that's keeping you from bringing something to Jesus that you need to bring to him? That you might, like this woman, find some type of healing for your spirit and your mind. And just think about it. The reason you need to do that, Jesus looked at this woman and said, go in peace and be freed from your suffering. I think that there are times in our lives that we walk around shackled in certain types of suffering, and all we've gotta do is bring it to the one who will set us free. But for whatever our many reasons, we won't do it. So you wanna be free? Make your way to Jesus. Go tug on his garment and say we need to talk.”

55s

“"And he's sitting there waiting in love to to welcome you in to do that. And so what do we need to do? I think here's something we need to do. Here's a way to apply what we've learned today, and it's this. Stop hiding in the crowd and bring your whole self to Jesus. Gotta be like this woman. Don't let your past don't let the metaphorical whatever your crowd is get in your way. You gotta stop hiding. And when I say bring your whole self, I mean that. I think sometimes we only wanna bring portions of ourselves before God. But, really, if we're going to be fully who we're meant to be, right, and if you're going to find full healing in your mind and your soul, right, you can't hold any of it back. You need to open up all the recesses to your life and bring it all to Jesus.”

36s

“"And perhaps that's something you need to hear today is that when God looks at you, he says, son, or he says, daughter. And I want you to get this because some of us, you know, we read a story like this, and we think, well, man, I've been praying for healing physically, you know, my physical condition's doing a lot to my mental condition. I'm not being healed physically, and God doesn't always heal us physically. But I can tell you this. Jesus may not always heal what's broken in your body, but he will always heal what's broken in your heart.”

34s

“"You don't earn your way into the family of God. You are just made that way based on the work of Jesus. But those are terms of endearment, and that's the way God sees you. And Jesus understood that the only way to send this woman home in peace was for him to take her shame away from her. And she goes home restored that day to her family, and he's headed to the cross where he would be hung in shame and forsaken by his father for the sins of all of us.”

52s

“What's your metaphorical crowd that's keeping you from bringing something to Jesus that you need to bring to him? That you might, like this woman, find some type of healing for your spirit and your mind. And just think about it. The reason you need to do that, Jesus looked at this woman and said, go in peace and be freed from your suffering. I think that there are times in our lives that we walk around shackled in certain types of suffering, and all we've gotta do is bring it to the one who will set us free. But for whatever our many reasons, we won't do it. So you wanna be free? Make your way to Jesus. Go tug on his garment and say we need to talk.”

52s

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PINNACLE ONLINE! - Not Forgotten - Week 2

Devotional

Day 1: Reaching Through Shame’s Isolation

Day 2: The Interruption That Reveals the Heart

Day 3: The Term That Transforms Identity

Day 4: Crowds That Crowd Out Connection

Day 5: The Freedom of Full Exposure

Sermon Summary

Key Takeaways

Youtube Chapters

Bible Study Guide

Sermon Clips

PINNACLE ONLINE! - Not Forgotten - Week 2

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