Matthew 9:18 says, While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.  While Jesus was in the midst of teaching, He was once again called upon.  I believe that we can take comfort in the fact that Jesus, through the Holy Spirit, is never to busy to help anyone at any time when they call on Him in faith.  This ruler came to Jesus and worshipped Him.  When we do come to Jesus, it should be with an attitude of worship and with complete faith in His ability to meet our needs.  This ruler certainly had faith.  His daughter was dead.  He did not ask Jesus to come and see if He might possibly raise her from the dead, but that he knew that Jesus could.  We need this same type faith, but it must be expressed in being obedient to the will of God.  We cannot say that simply because we have faith and ask that all sickness will be healed and all death defeated in this lifetime, but if we have faith in Jesus as our Savior and Lord, then we know that ultimately both will happen.  Verse nineteen states, And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.  Jesus and His disciples followed the ruler.  Jesus did not go because the man was a ruler and therefore Jesus had no choice but to go.  Jesus went because of the faith of the ruler.  When Jesus responds to our requests today, it is because of our faith in Him.  Like the disciples, we must always go with Jesus wherever He leads us.  Verse twenty declares, And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:  On His way to the rulers house, on what we could call urgent business, a woman who had been suffering from some illness for twelve years came to Jesus and touched His garment.  Verse twenty-one states, For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.  This woman truly had great faith in Jesus.  She believed that just by touching His garment that Jesus would make her whole.  We need that same type faith today, knowing that if we just get to Jesus that He can make us whole.  Of course, if we are followers of Christ, we have the advantage of the Holy Spirit living within us, but we still must come by faith when we ask anything of God.  Verse twenty-two declares, But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.  Jesus did not say that there was something miraculous about simply physically touching Him.  Whether we acknowledge it or not, we are always physically in the presence of God.  There is no place that we can go that God isn't there.  The key to having God meet our needs is faith, not only in Christ as our Savoir, but also that God will always answer our prayers if they are made in faith and that God will answer in the best way possible.  If we truly ask, not for what we want but for God's will to be done, He will never fail us.  By her faith, the woman was made whole.  Only by our faith, we can be made whole.  Verse twenty-three states, And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,  These people were not having a party, but were mourning a loss.  Verse twenty-four says, He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.  Jesus told those who were mourning to stand aside that the maid was only asleep, and they laughed at Him with scorn.  When we are dead in sin today and come to a saving knowledge of Christ, those around us may laugh at us or even scorn us, but through our faith in Christ we will be made alive spiritually for the first time and for evermore.  Verse twenty-five declares, But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.  When the people let Jesus in and He took her by the hand, the maid arose.  When we let Jesus in, and He takes us by the hand spiritually through our faith in Him, we will arise to everlasting life.  Verse twenty-six states, And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.  We likewise should spread the word of the power of Christ to the world today.