“Say the Word” – Leddy Hammock

The Centurion said to Jesus:  “Only say the word and my servant will be healed.  For I too am a person subject to authority, with soldiers subject to me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come here,’ and he comes; and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”  When Jesus heard this, he was amazed ….   And Jesus said to the centurion, ‘You may go; as you have believed, let it be done for you.’  And at that very hour [his] servant was healed (Mt. 8:8-13).

 

Words I say come back to me. I choose my words carefully. With my thoughts and words, I build my life.                                         

 

“I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you” (Mt 17:20).

 

 

When Jesus “was going back to the city in the morning, he was hungry.   Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went over to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. And he said to it, ‘May no fruit ever come from you again.’ And immediately the fig tree withered.  When the disciples saw this, they were amazed and said, ‘How was it that the fig tree withered immediately?’ Jesus said to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, if you have faith and do not waver, not only will you do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will be done.  Whatever you ask for in prayer with faith, you will receive” (Mt 21:18-22).  

 

 

“And the apostles said to the Lord, ‘Increase our faith.’  The Lord replied, ‘If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to [this] mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you” (Lk 17:6).