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Who's Faith is Great?

Faith comes by hearing (Romans 10:17).  However, faith increases by using (Luke 17:5).    The greater your faith.  The less you worry.  Faith is a choice.  Fear is a choice.  Faith can show up where you lest expect to find it.   What kind of person has the greatest faith?  Let's read about one.   Matthew 8 (ESV) 5  When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him (Jesus), appealing to him, *A centurion lead over 100 Roman soldiers.  They lead by example.    A centurion could EVEN punish a Roman citizen.  6  “Lord,  my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.”   7  And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.”  *Jesus never told anyone in Scripture that He wouldn't heal them.    8  But the centurion replied,  “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. 9  For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers u

Imitation Faith

Acts 19:13-16  (ESV) 13  Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” 14  Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this.  15  But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?”  16  And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. Faith in God is not a formula.  It is based upon knowing God and building your life upon Him. Jesus's own disciples failed in casting out a demon.  Did their failure prove that deliverance by faith in Jesus is not real? Mark 9:14-29 (ESV) 14  And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them.  15  And immediately all