Jesus healed them all (part 4): the healing of the nobleman's son

^{John 4:46-54
46} So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. ⁴⁷ When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. ⁴⁸ Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.” ⁴⁹ The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!” ⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. ⁵¹ And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!” ⁵² Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” ⁵³ So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household. ⁵⁴ This again is the second sign Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.

1. Humility is displayed by the nobleman, unlike another instance in the bible where Naaman the leper (2 Kings 5:1-19) was upset with the man of God who refused to see him and just asked him to dip 7 times in the River Jordan. Naaman had to be persuaded to do as he was told.
2. We need to believe before we see. Mark 11:23-24 shows us that the nobleman started home in faith even before he saw or knew that his boy lived. At the word of Jesus, he believed and walked back.
3. Jesus did what the Father told him, not what people asked him to do. In the same way, we need to do what the Holy Spirit tells us to do.
4. The boy was healed the very hour Jesus spoke his healing, the very instant the nobleman believed and obeyed what Jesus told him to do.
5. We give God the glory, not just gloss over the work He has done in our lives as coincidence.
6. When we minister healing, we hook up with the faith of the person, we start with what they can believe in.

Personal Confession

1. i will be okay. I will be well.
2. I have faith to believe because I am standing on the Word of God.
3. Faith is the victory that overcomes the world. I can overcome this sickness because of the Word of God in my life.