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Matthew chapter 8 verses 8 and 9.

But the centurion replied,

Lord I am not worthy to have you come under my roof,

but only say the word and my servant will be healed.

For I too am a man under authority,

with soldiers under me, and I say to one go and he goes and to

another come and he comes and to my servant do this and he does it.

What a picture of trust in Jesus of faith. The Centurion comes to Jesus,

says my servant is paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.

Jesus says, okay, I will come and heal him.

The centurion says, you don't even have to come.

I just say it. Just speak and my servant will be healed.

And Jesus is astonished. The rest of the story goes on. He says, with no one in Israel have I found such faith ends up saying

To the centurion go it will be done to you just as you believe and his servant was healed at that very moment.

How don't you want to take Jesus at his word like this?

Don't you want to trust his authority like this to believe his power like this to have faith like this?

When we face challenges in our lives, and not just in our lives, the whole picture here is

someone coming to Jesus on behalf of someone else in need, to pray with this kind of

faith before Jesus for those in need?

And to believe that Jesus has power, has authority over all things,

he has authority over sickness, he has authority over all these

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