Many people came to Jesus with the same faith.

The ten lepers Luke 17:12,19

The nobleman at Capernaum whose son was sick John 4:46-53

And others.

The woman from Canaan, in a way, said to Jesus, "You just say the word and my daughter will be healed."

In Matthew 8:6-8the Roman centurion showed that kind of faith also! His servant was at home sick. He wanted Jesus just to speak the word and his servant would be healed.

And they were!

Jesus said that the woman from Canaan had great faith.

If she had faith under the old covenant, we really should have faith under the new covenant.

She put so much confidence in Jesus' Words that she came for healing for her daughter and didn't even bring her daughter with her.

At first Jesus ignored the woman from Canaan whose daughter had a devil.

She wasn't a Jew. Jesus said to His disciples, "I'm not sent to help her. I'm sent to the lost sheep of Israel." He wanted to see her faith.

Jesus knew if the woman had faith, she could get results even without a covenant with God. She did have real faith and her daughter was made whole.

Read Matthew 15:22-28 about the woman of Canaan who cried to Jesus for mercy because her daughter was vexed with a devil.

If anyone had a want to give up, this woman should have. She was a Gentile who didn't have a covenant with God. But she kept crying out for help.

We must think, believe and talk in line with God's Word.

God's Word says that both forgiveness and healing are available to us through the new birth.

We have to believe the Word and walk in its fullness to get the benefits.

The Greek word, sozo, is translated saved, healed, made whole in all the scriptures regarding these words.

Mark 6:56
"And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole [sozo]."

Acts 4:12
" Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved [sozo].

Acts 4:9
"If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole [sozo];"

Luke 17:19
"And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole [sozo]."

Mark 5:28
"For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole [sozo].

Mark 5:34
"And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole [sozo]; go in peace, and be whole [sozo] of thy plague"

James 5:15
" And the prayer of faith shall save [sozo] the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him."

Luke 18:42
"And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved [sozo] thee"

Ephesians 2:8
" For by grace are ye saved [sozo] through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:"

Acts 14:9
" The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
[sozo]".

Acts 2:21
"And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved
[sozo]."

Luke 8:36
"They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed
[sozo]."

Mark 16:16
"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;
[sozo]"

Mark 5:23
"And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; [sozo]."

Mark 6:56
" And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole
[sozo]".

Romans 10:9
"That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved
[sozo]."

We have seen people who's sinful lifestyle has had an adverse effect on their personal appearance.

If sin can have an effect, righteousness can have an effect also.

When the new birth, which takes place in the inner man, works its way to the outer man, the results are strength, healing and health.

We've taken what God put together at the Cross and tried to make them into separate issues.

Forgiveness and healing cannot be taken apart.
They are not separate.

Healing is nothing more than the new birth affecting the body; just as forgiveness affects the spirit.

Mark 2:9-10
"Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?

But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins,. . ."

Healing belongs to us whether we know it or not.

God has provided forgiveness for our sins and
healing for our physical bodies.
He wants us healed as much as He wants us forgiven.

Jesus never turns anyone down for either
forgiveness or healing.

If we are forgiven then we should be healed.
If we are healed then we should be forgiven.

The truth is, during Jesus' ministry on earth He could forgive sins and heal.

And, today, He can forgive sins and heal also.

Back then, most people thought Jesus could heal but not forgive sins.

Today, most people believe Jesus can forgive sins but not heal.

Jesus wasn't trying to make the religious leaders
angry; He was trying to point out to them that
under the new covenant that He was bringing,
brought forgiveness and healing together.