TAPPING

 

LUKE 8:45-46 (NLT) – “Who touched me?” Jesus asked. Everyone denied it, and Peter said, “Master this whole crowd is pressing up against you”.

But Jesus told him, “No someone deliberately touched Me, for I felt healing power go out of Me.

Tapping is an English word and has its meaning and context in which this word is used. But my use of this word “TAPPING” is not in the sense and context of its conventional use and as such means entirely something different from the conventional meaning.

The sense and context in which I use this word here is in the “Street English Language” which is called Pigin English in Nigeria the country of my birth and residence.

Tapping is about having unauthorized, unofficial, or illegal access to something.

I had an experience in the last quarter of 2024, I can’t fix the exact date. But on this date I worked from home, so I was at home. Some staff of the power distribution company visited the apartment where I resided and said they were in the compound to check for energy theft. I asked them to go ahead and walked away to continue what I was doing. Shortly after power was disconnected from my apartment and so I went out to find out what was happening, and I was told they observed an illegal connection, and they needed to investigate further to know which of the occupant did the tapping of energy. I told them to go ahead but this time I stayed with them, they checked and said they had narrowed the culprit to our floor, at this point I became concerned and surprised at the same; but further check they do show it was my neighbor. In their words, they said this apartment occupant did energy tapping; a by passed of the meter. This allowed access to energy without being billed.

Tapping is having unauthorized and deliberate access to something one considered of value and worth without permission. The woman with the issue of blood without the consent of Jesus Tapped by faith into His virtue and received her healing. Someone touched Me was Jesus’ statement and Peter reminded Jesus that it is not possible you won’t be touched considering the crowd, but Jesus said it was an energy theft; a deliberate touch of faith and I felt power go out of Me.

The insistence of Jesus gave an explanation to what this woman did. When the woman reported herself to Jesus and what she said in her mind. Jesus told her, “Go your faith has made your whole”. The Tapping was faith. In same vain you can tap into God’s virtue for the miracle you need, but faith is the system that enables this tapping.

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