Sunday, August 14, 2011

GREAT IS YOUR FAITH!

"Great is your faith! 
Be it done for you as you desire." 
Matthew 15:28

"What do you want me to do for you?" (Lk. 18:41)

The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor (Mt. 11:5). In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see (Is. 29:18). Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped (Is. 35:5).

Go," said Jesus, "your faith has healed you." Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road (Mk. 10:52). He touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith will it be done to you" (Mt. 9:29, Mk. 5:34).

"Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD?" (Ex. 4:11). Ears that hear and eyes that see--the LORD has made them both (Prv. 20:12). Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, "Now, I have put my words in your mouth" (Jer. 1:9).

Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight; your faith has healed you" (Lk. 18:42).  He said to him, "Rise and go; your faith has made you well" (Lk. 17:19). Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go! It will be done just as you believed it would." And his servant was healed at that very hour (Mt. 8:13).

The LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves the righteous (Ps. 146:8). Thus says the LORD: "Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed (Is. 56:1). I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them (Is. 42:16).

Some men brought to him a paralytic, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven" (Mt. 9:2). Jesus said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace" (Lk. 7:50). Jesus turned and saw her. "Take heart, daughter," he said, "your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed from that moment (Mt. 9:22). He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace" (Lk. 8:48).

People were overwhelmed with amazement. "He has done everything well," they said. "He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak" (Mk. 7:37).

LORD help me (Mt. 15:25). Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law (Ps. 119:18). That thy way may be known (Ps. 67:2).

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