MOUNTAINOUS DIFFICULTIES

S.E.E.D. For Today___Praying and Fasting

Scripture "But this Kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting." Matthew 17:21 Amplified Version of the Bible

The disciples had been given the authority to cast out demons and to heal but they had not yet learned effectively how to appropriate the power God had given them. Jesus frustration with the unbelieving and unequipped generation is merely a reflection of the state of the disciples life today. The disciples though walking with the Lord did not have the faith required to deal with this great difficulty that plagued this man's son. Faith must be present to deal with mountainous difficulties. Many times people pray for others with their own abilities because they lack the power of God. Some trouble is more perplexed than others and requires more dependence upon God. Prayer and fasting alone may not accomplish a miracle but faith, discipline, and humility give us hope of producing results. It is hard to deal with great matters when there is a malignant issue going on in us. A writer said; "We cannot expect to drive out the evil spirit, if our state and mind are in harmony with what that spirit produces."

Example Prayer as faith, taking hold on the Lord and deriving strength from Him. Fasting as faith in it's practical renunciation of the world.

Exercise Read Matthew 17:1-21 only in the King James or Amplified Bible. Journal and talk to God the term mountain in verse 20 gives the idea of great difficulty. Most specifically we deal with the mountains of unbelief in our own heads. The disciples miscarried in their work because they reversed the right order. We must measure the corruption in our own lives, don't protect the process we must be free to help others be free. Jesus told Peter that Satan desired to sift him but he prayed for him that his faith would not fail him and when he was strengthened then he was to return and strengthen his brothers.

Devotion Lord my cry is help my unbelief. I know that by faith I can move mountains. I pray that I will examine my own life, and that there are many things I must overcome. I pray to trust You by faith taking hold to you for strength and relinquishing and abandoning not food but my worldly alliances, that I drive out what is malignantly hindering me, that I be healed in Jesus Name Amen.

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