LIVE A PERFECT LIFE OF FAITH IN THE WORD!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SATURDAY JUNE 3, 2021.

SUBJECT : LIVE A PERFECT LIFE OF FAITH IN THE WORD!

Memory verse: "He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions." (Psalm 107 vs 20.)

READ: Matthew 8 vs 5 - 9: 

8:5: Now when Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him, 

8:6: saying, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.” 

8:7: And Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.”

8:8: The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed."

INTIMATION:

The best life is a perfect life of faith in the living and written Word of God. The Word of God is perfect, infallible, forever settled in heaven, yes and amen. “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” (Hebrews 4 vs 12.) 

The passage we read today in Matthew 8 vs 5 - 13, recorded the story of the centurion who came to Jesus beseeching Him to come and heal his servant who was sick of palsy. Jesus promised to come and heal the servant. The centurion answered and said, "I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed." He illustrates his confidence by saying, "I also am a man of authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and to another, 'Come,' and he comes; and to my servant, Do this,' and he does it" (Matthew 8 vs 9). The centurion has faith in Jesus' word and believes that He is also a man of authority over Satan and his cohorts—the demons, and can exercise His authority over them from anywhere, at anytime, in any place, and anyhow with the power in His word.

When Jesus heard him He marveled and said to those who followed, "Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!" The Gentile had faith in the Master's word that no Israelite had manifested. The centurion so trusted the word that he asked Jesus just to only speak a word, and his servant will be healed. Now, did you realize that Jesus didn’t even speak a healing word nor cast out any demons, but still the centurion received as he had believed; “And his servant was healed that same hour” (Matthew 8 vs 13). 

When you read out to many Christians Isaiah 53 vs 4 - 5,  and ask, "Do you believe that?" They will say, "Oh yes I have believed that for years." But when you have prayed, and the pain he feels is still there, he will tell you, “I am yet to receive my healing.” He has no trust in the word but on his sense knowledge of feeling.

Now, let us look carefully at Romans 10 vs 8 - 9, "But what does it say? 'The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” You note he is challenging us to accept the Word that we may have heard so many times that we know it from memory. Furthermore, he demands that we confess it with our mouth, our faith in the resurrection of Jesus and the substitutionary work He did for us. We must confess that we believe in our heart before we receive. And We are promised not to be put to shame (Romans 10 vs 11),

We must act on the Word independent of any sense knowledge whatsoever. Any actions based on sense knowledge or evidence before us is not faith. This is because you require no faith when you have physical evidence. 

When we speak the word of God, we are putting Him into remembrance of what He said. And He said, “I watch over My word to perform it” (Jeremiah 1 vs 12). He said Again, “My word never return to Me void, but will achieve that for which it is sent, and will prosper in what I sent it” (Isaiah 55 vs 11).  God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: Has He said, and shall He not do it? Or has He spoken, shall He not make it good? (Numbers 23 vs 19). Never forget, no Word from God is void of power. (Luke 4 vs 32 & Hebrews 4 vs 12).

Prayer: Abba Father, let the word that I speak and the confession of my mouth be Your Word at all times, for I know as You have said it so shall it be, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!