Looking at the woman with the spirit of infirmity for 18 years, we'll find that two of the greatest enemies of the woman are Satan & religion. Satan bound this woman for 18 years, but when Jesus set her free, the leader of the synagogue protested against her freedom.
While Satan takes pleasure to afflict women, religion delights in seeing them remain under Satan’s bondage. And if by whatever means the woman is set free by the Lord, religion will vehemently oppose the woman for the freedom she received to be able to “look up” instead of being bent and bowed,
Religion wants women to remain bent and bowed, provided they continue to perform their religious rites. Religion smiles in satisfaction, while the woman weeps and wails. Jesus came to set the woman free from religious and Satanic slavery that has hitherto incapacitated her and stopped her from finding full liberty and expression of who God created her to be.
Jesus sets the woman free from Satan and religion. Hallelujah!
@Chidiotamiri It reminds me of the woman the wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair, Jesus honored her.
There were the two Mary’s, and one broke the alabaster vile and anointed him. The last place he chose to stay before going to the cross was the one Mary’s house, and the first person He appeared to was the other Mary. Neither Mary had much of a ministry that we know of, and yet they ministered to the heart of Jesus so deeply that they were the ones he chose to be with before he died, and to appear to first upon his resurrection.
I don’t think the disciples fully understood what He was about to go through, even though He told them plainly, yet Mary who sat at his feet and soaked up every word, loved Him, and listened and understood, and anointed Him in preparation for what He was about to suffer.
Women and men both have a very special place in His heart.
