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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