WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE 'GET IT'.

Matthew 8:8 ...But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed.

We've been looking at the importance of faith. How we get saved by it, we can't please God without it, we walk by it, the church grows by it, how we stand in it, how we all have a measure of it, how we can exercise it and release it. There's still so much more but I do trust this is helping somebody as I know it's helping my faith. How many of us know what you focus on will grow bigger in you?

Today we're looking at Great Faith which Jesus said the centurion had. It says Jesus marvelled at his faith. Marvel in the Greek means to be stirred, excited and impressed by it. In other words Jesus was so chuffed because somebody was finally 'getting it' and oddly it wasn't even one of His disciples who were all standing around watching! This man wasn't even under the Law and it made no difference.

Here was a man that grasped that all he needed was the Word of Jesus, the Word of God and it was enough to work the miracle of healing he needed for his servant. He didn't even need Jesus to physically be there. Just give me the word, and I'll go with it.  This centurion was the vanguard, the forerunner for every one of us who doesn't physically have Jesus in front of us but we do have His Word and if we'll 'get it' and go with it we'll receive what our faith has reached out for.

Every believer has the authority of the Word of God backing him and when we use that word, when we 'speak it', it has to obey us because we are under the authority of God Himself to use our faith. God wants us to.

The centurion explained that when he told his servant to do something he did it, when he called him he came, when he told him to go we went. We have been given that same authority by Jesus in using our faith and when we do it stirs Him and impresses Him. 

I hope that encourages someone today to start using their authority to tell some mountains to 'go in Jesus name' and to call for some things to come in His name, whether it's healing for yourself or another person, or finances or whatever is needed. Start calling those things which are not as though they were. This centurion used his faith on behalf of his servant which means we can too, as well as for ourselves. 

Remember yesterday?  'whoever says to this mountain, Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.

That is what happens when we begin to 'get it'!  We can be doers of the Word.

Lord help me, help us 'get' what You're saying to us through Your word more and more. Amen.