There is tremendous power in a touch. It may be positive or negative as there are categories and types of touches. Naaman knew the power in a touch, especially from representatives of God and said with a sense of disappointment when Elisha did not come out to touch him when he went to Samaria:
"...Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper."
2 Kings 5:11

A touch can bring death as in the case of Uzzah in the book of Samuel:
"And when they came to Nachon's threshing floor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the Ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God."
2 Samuel 6:6-7

During one of our Conventions at the Redemption Camp in Nigeria, the Lord asked me to lay out a piece of cloth for people to touch by faith and receive their healing with a warning that it should simply be touched and not held. A man went ahead to touch (I will say without faith) because he also grabbed the cloth. It took special grace and forgiveness of God for him not to die the moment he touched outside of faith; his entire body began to shake uncontrollably from morning till evening. It would have been a touch of death but for God's intervention.
Another touch can bring healing as in the case of the woman with the issue of blood in Matthew 9:21:
"For she said within herself, if I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole."

This is the touch of faith. The touch of faith can work for the one who touches and for the touched. In the same chapter of Matthew's gospel, Jesus Christ was met by two blind men who were crying for mercy of healing. When Jesus found out that these men had faith to receive divine touches for healing, the Bible says:
"Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, see that no man know it."
Matthew 9:29-30

The touch of faith is required anytime you need a miracle. I pray for someone reading this devotional; the Lord will touch you for healing and deliverance today, and you will have testimony in Jesus' name. I also pray that whatever you touch by faith today will prosper in Jesus' name.
Written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye.