Matthew 8-9; Mark 2. Miracles Are Evidence of Faith and God's Power

Okay. I read these scripture blocks and identified what miracle took place, and who had faith.

Matthew 8:1-4 Christ healed a leper, and the leper had to have faith to be healed.

Matthew 8:5-13 Christ healed a servant sick with the palsy. A centurion asked Christ to heal him without actually seeing him, so the centurion had to have faith. Christ even said that he had great faith.

Matthew 8:14-15 Christ healed Peter’s mother-in-law. Peter would have to have faith for this, so would his wife and mother-in-law.

Matthew 8:16 Christ cast out spirits, and healed all that were sick. I think a lot of people would have to faith… especially those that Christ heals.

Matthew 8:23-27 While the disciples and Christ were on a ship, a tempest came and Christ calmed the seas. Christ says that the disciples didn’t have much faith, so I think this was a lesson for them and a faith-growing experience.

Matthew 8:28-34 Christ cast spirits out of bodies into swine. I think this was meant to be a lesson of faith as well.

Matthew 9:20-22; Mark 5:25-34 Christ healed the woman who touched his clothes. She had an extraordinary amount of faith. She knew that if she just touched him, she would be made whole.

Matthew 9:27-31 Christ gave two blind men their sight. They had to have enough faith for this to happen.

Mark 2:1-12 Christ healed the person sick with palsy. Those who brought him in had faith enough, but this was also a learning experience for the scribes who didn’t believe that Christ was the Son of God.

I think that all these miracles are pretty amazing. I had a friend who once told me that you have to expect a miracle. You have to have complete faith that it WILL happen, or else you don't have enough faith. He told me that a few years ago, but I carry it with me still because miracles still happen. I know that because they happen in my life when I need them. It amazes me that God has such power, but then I am not really surprised because He did create the world, didn't he? We have the priesthood on the earth now, which is the authority to act in God's name. Some people don't believe in revelations or miracles in the latter days, but it is so obvious that they do still occur. God would never abandon us.