January 7

Why did the centurion have such great faith? Because he understood authority and believed Jesus had it. He believed that Jesus had the authority to heal and all Jesus had to do was to say it and it would be done. Why do we beg God to do something that He already said we have the authority to do? Because we don’t believe we have the authority to do it. We have prayed for people and not seen them healed so we figure that the Bible is wrong or we have wrongly interpreted it. We don’t believe that in the rest of life (go ahead and think about it), but we do in relation to healing. Healing is the children’s bread! Jesus said “I am willing”! He paid for it and gave the authority to us – He lives in us by the Holy Spirit! Do you want to have great faith, believe in the authority of Christ!

One more thing –

Luke 7:30 (NIV)
30 But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.

If you want God’s purpose for your life, you must repent (change your thinking and therefore a change in actions will come) and humbly obey. There is so much here that we need to think about to safeguard ourselves to not reject God’s purposes. Study the Pharisees and see what they were like. Choose to be the opposite of them.