Yet, "only speak a word" is the true essence of spiritual success. These days, churches use a lot of entertainment to draw people into their membership, believing that it is essential to their success. The centurion's "only speak a word" is not an applicable command for most churches. Today, many professing Christian churches do not show very much confidence in God's Word either. If they have a problem, they run instead to hear what the world's doctors and psychiatrists have to say. Many people doubt whether God's Word is sufficient. It is impossible to please God without faith ( Hebrews 11:6). No one can have real faith if they reject the Word of God. In asking Jesus to heal simply by speaking, the centurion shows that he accepted the authority of Christ's word. He recognizes the power of the spoken word because he is familiar with authority, yet he also believes that Christ's word has power and authority even over disease. To explain his understanding of the principle, the centurion says, "For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me and I say to this man, 'Go,' and he goes" ( Matthew 8:9). When the centurion says he is unworthy of Christ's presence, he tells Him that he believed that all that He had to do was speak and the miracle would happen. The Lord Jesus Christ tells the Centurion, He has not found. Saint Irenaeus tells us that God gives us faith to start out with, but it’s preserved through the way we exercise our God-given freedom what we actually do with our faith, what we do with our lives. Christ compliments the centurion's faith because it is faith in His Word. It is a pattern for our life if we have as much faith as a pagan centurion.
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