Jesus, the Healer

I would like to tell you this story of the centurion. In Jesus’ time, there was this centurion who came to Jesus begging for his servant to be healed. What is extraordinary about this centurion is that he did not even ask Jesus to go over his house to heal his servant, but instead, this is what he said to Jesus in Matthew 8:8 (NIV):

“Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.”

And Jesus was amazed with what this centurion told Him, and in reply, this is what Jesus said in Matthew 8:13 (NIV):

“Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would.” And his servant was healed at that moment.

If you understood the happenings in this story, you would know that the healing power of Jesus does not require Him to go personally to the servant in order to heal Him. What this mean is that Jesus’ healing power can reach you even if He is not present in the earth with His human body!

I have seen and heard many people saying that they were healed because of a miracle of some “carved image”. I want you to know that miraculous healing can never come from these “carved images”! Miraculous healing can only come from our unseen God! We don’t need to wipe our towels to these “carved images” so that a miraculous healing can happen. God gave us an instant access to this miraculous healing through Christ Jesus, and not from these images!

Now let’s look back at the centurion. What does this centurion have that the healing of Christ reached his servant even though Christ was not there physically? This is what Jesus said in Matthew 8:10 (NIV):

“Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.

Have you found the answer? Yes, if you want a miraculous healing to happen, then you must have this “great faith”. I know that you have this faith embedded inside you, but I want you to know that the secret to miraculous healing is the kind of faith that this centurion has. He has a supernatural faith! The kind of faith that does not question the authority and power of Christ.

So how can we have this “great faith” or “supernatural faith” like the centurion?

Let us look at the centurion again. If you have noticed, the centurion had never doubted about Christ’s healing power, that he knows even though his servant is far from the presence of the Lord, with just His word, his servant would be healed. And this is the faith which triggered this miraculous healing of Christ to the servant.

If you want this miraculous healing to happen in your life, then start to work on your faith. Deepen it by knowing Jesus more through the bible, and I believe that once you have the faith like the centurion have, miraculous healing would just happen to you in an instant.


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Jesus has done EVERYTHING!

The first 10 chapters in the book of Leviticus tells us about the ceremonies needed to be done by the Israelites for the Lord in the time of Moses. I have observed that in their time, pleasing the Lord is very hard to do. They need to prepare their offerings for the Lord and follow the ceremony that the Lord has told Moses. I have also observed how the Lord wants to see His people free from sin, that He wants a sinner to present a sin offering to the priest so that the priest can make an atonement for the sin he has committed. Purification and forgiveness from sin is not easily granted in their time. I have also observed that the sin offering and all of the other kinds of offering (except the grain offering) requires animals that are needed to be slaughtered before the Lord. Because of this, it was made known to me that blood really needs to be spilled so that a man’s sin can be forgiven and so that he could have fellowship with God.

Now because of these things that I have discovered in the first ten chapters of Leviticus, I had become so thankful that I am not living in their time. I am so thankful that I am living on a time where Christianity already exists, in this generation where Christ has already died on the cross for us. I am so thankful that I am living in this time where forgiveness of sins and fellowship with God were given to everyone freely, without doing all of these ceremonial stuffs anymore.

I owe all of these thanksgivings to Christ, who has done everything for us. The ceremony that was made known by God to the Israelites in the time of Moses has been cancelled because of Jesus Christ! The largest ceremony that was done for the forgiveness of our sins and for our fellowship with God has been done 2012 years ago. Jesus’ life, death until His resurrection was the largest ceremony ever done! Jesus has made His body the tabernacle, where everything in it is pure and holy. He was also made by God the “high priest”, where He is the one who faces God to make atonement for our sins. And He, Himself, has also made His body the sin offering which was presented to God for the forgiveness of every man’s sin.

In Leviticus chapter 9, verse 23, it is said that “the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people”. This happened after the whole ceremony was done. And now, because of Jesus’ death on the cross, the Lord’s glory has also appeared to all of us who are in Christ. Because of Jesus’ perfect performance in His life here on earth, the Lord’s presence can now be felt by everyone! Everything that was revealed to me in these chapters made me more thankful to Jesus, and all of these had made me appreciate Him more.

Thank You Jesus for all of the things You have done for us!

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