The Healing of a Centurion's Servant:

This is a story of what having complete Fidelity to Jesus Christ's Authority means.  Asking through prayer for our Lord God to intervene in our lives is the process through which we submit our faith to His Divine Will. The centurion not only does this, he also trusts that the Word of Christ is sufficient unto itself.

There is nothing about a command that is optional.  And, with Jesus  Christ that includes whether or not His orders are dependent on time or place.  The centurion surrenders to the Will of God by telling of how his own soldiers and slaves are subject to his commands. He cooperates far more than most of us do, when we pray, in that for him, the Lord's Word alone is sufficient to accomplish whatever is asked for.

The centurion lets Jesus know this by saying, "Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof, only say the word and my servant will be healed."

Jesus is amazed at the man's faith! He then does give His consent to heal the servant, but only after revealing that many will be called to join the prophets in the kingdom of heaven, but that those who don't believe will be left answering in the darkness outside.

Like the centurion, we should pray to God and then let God's Authority be enough for us. That means: don't let our intentions interfere with our faith by writing a script or plot for God to follow. We need to let God worry about the details just by accepting that His Word is sufficient to manifest our requests.