Christ would heal her because it was his will. Her healing would have a purpose that would grow more fruit than she could ever imagine. Sure, Christ could have healed her from day one and perhaps one or two people would have known. However, due to the delay and what this woman had to endure, the healing came so that millions would one day know Christ. Millions would one day understand that our God does have a plan for us, and it is greater than we could ever know. It's not always what we want, so we must trust in his direction and not our own.

What I Have Learned From the Woman Who Bled:

1. Faith is not just by saying and believing but by living it.
This woman showed us what real faith looks like. That even when God doesn't answer your prayers in the way you want, you still need to have faith. She believed in Christ and who he was. She first had heard without actually seeing what he could do. She believed he had the power to heal her.

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 5:27-29

He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."
— Mark 5:34

2. Trust in God.
Even though I believe in doctors – because I believe God works through doctors and nurses – I also believe we sometimes limit God because man is limited. This woman did what most of us do. She sought out many doctors to cure her. She spent everything she had only to get worse. I sensed she was at her end when she heard about Jesus and what He could do. She wasn't ready to give up just yet. She took a risk to trust in God's power and not man's. This power would heal her, and she would suffer no more.

In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise-in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? I am under vows to you, O God;  I will present my thank offerings to you.
— Psalm 56:10-12

3.  Suffering produces perseverance.
This woman persevered to find a cure, and she never gave up. Doctors during biblical times are not like doctors today. She would not find a cure because at that time there wasn't one for her illness. Her cure would have to come from God. This woman, through her suffering, would manage to weave through this crowd and touch Jesus' clothes. I know her body must have been in pain, perhaps even bleeding at this moment, but it didn't matter. She kept moving forward. She was determined to touch Jesus, to be healed.

If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.
— 2 Corinthians 1:6