Sorry to be so long in getting back to you. Life encroaches at times
Here is perhaps the best known passage:
Luke 4:38-39
38 And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.
39 And he stood over her, and
rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.
The Greek word translated here as "rebuked," is
epitimao. It means to censure or admonish; to straitly charge or rebuke. It is a verbal command. Jesus spoke to the fever, just as He would a person and it obeyed Him and left.
There are numerous other example of Him speaking to the demonic spirit causing the illness and when the demon left the person was healed.
Matthew 8:16
When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and
he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
The most familiar example, perhaps, is:
Matthew 17:16-18
16 And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
17 Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.
The disciples failure to properly deal with this encounter, earned them the strongest rebuke Jesus ever gave them. We are told to "speak to the mountain" instead we tend to speak to others and to God
about our mountains and thus they remain.
Hope this helps some.
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