And the scripture says that he came to Jesus begging him.

The ruler of the synagogue had suddenly become a beggar.

How many times in your life have you been reduced to begging?

It takes a serious matter, doesn't it?

Well, this man had a reason to beg.

We read, he fell down at Jesus' feet and begged him to come to his house,

for he had an only daughter about 12 years of age,

and she was dying.

Now, when your only daughter, your child is dying, you will beg.

Throughout our Christian life as we navigate trials and seasons of

seeming darkness there are times that our posture before the Lord in

prayer is that of begging, pleading for God perhaps to spare the life of a loved one, a moment of desperation, similar to that of Gyres, this ruler of the synagogue. This is the Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind and I'm

glad you're joining us today. Pleading with God in those heart-wrenching

moments is not something restricted to Christians. Whether sincere

or not, even an unbeliever will sometimes cry out asking for help. And today, as we continue,

RC Sprolls, face-to's face to face with Jesus series will meet two people who found themselves in that situation of desperation, a ruler of the synagogue and the woman with an issue of blood. Here's Dr. Sproll as we see the

compassion of Christ on full display. I was in Miami a couple of years ago and somebody came up to me and asked me if I would

visit the home of a woman who was a Christian who had been suffering from cancer for 10 years.

And so I went to meet with this person

and I sat and talked with her and she related to me the experience that she had gone through

over this 10-year period of time.

And at one point in our conversation she reached over and she grasped my hand and she squeezed

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