[James Settle]

I love this passage. I think in another synoptic gospel it names the centurion as Jairus, but the faith displayed here is remarkable. It is fascinating that Jesus said in all Israel he hadn’t seen such faith. These are His people, the people who were supposed to have had the market or real estate on the one true God cornered, so if anyone should have had faith it should have been them. Much the same, since we are the body of Christ, and serve the true and living God it is interesting how we can have faith in the area of healing, but lack it in the area of finances, or job promotion. I think many things are a result of people not knowing, speaking and hearing the word. If we don’t know what his word says about Him becoming poor, that we thru His poverty might become rich, we can’t speak it, or believe it and the word tells us faith comes by hearing & hearing by the word of God, so we need to keep the word before us, in our mouth and believing what we speak when we hear it. We have to be like the centurion & whether or not someone prophetically comes to us, or picks us out in the congregation, or on the street to say speak a word over us, we have to be able to speak the word of God over our own lives and agree with the Holy Spirit in faith that God will do just what His word promises us today. Jesus said blessed are those who don’t see & yet still believe. I trust God to do exceedingly and abundantly above all we could ask or think, so any area that is lacking in my life I am praying with a spirit of expectation that God will prosper me in every area of my life even as my soul prospers. And I pray the same for you as well.