Blade Devotional
PRAY FIRST, THEN DO
When He came out, He had the confidence to do the impossible because God was with Him.
And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting – Mark 9:28-29
The Lord Jesus Christ’s disciples couldn’t deliver a boy with a dumb spirit, and they wanted to know why. In response, the Lord Jesus Christ said they lacked the necessary faith to cast out that devil. And to help them further, He told them that kind of devil comes out by prayer and fasting.
The Lord Jesus Christ’s solution for faithlessness is not what we’re taught today. He taught His disciples to fast and pray, asking the Father for His involvement before casting out such devils. Therefore, the secret of the Lord’s confidence to do the impossible is intense prayer. Before He went out to heal the sick, cast out devils, cleanse the leper and raise the dead, He first spent time in intense prayer asking the Father for help to do the impossible.
When He came out, He had the confidence to do the impossible because God was with Him. This changes what the meaning of doing things by faith is. Instead of just confessing and doing what is written and calling that faith, we should follow the Lord Jesus’ example. We should first spend time in intense prayer asking the Father for His involvement and when we come out, we’ll have the necessary confidence to act and things will actually change because God’s in it. Glory to God!
PRAYER
Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ help me to spend time in intense prayer asking for your help so that I may have the faith to see the impossible happen around me because you’re with me. Amen.