Re: "This Kind Does Not Go Out..."
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 8:23 am
"But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting."
I believe Jesus was talking about praying and fasting to deal with the kind of unbelief the disciples were experiencing. For instance, when Jesus' disciples asked to cast a demon out of a boy, the severity of the situation caused their unbelief. The demon was throwing the boy into convulsions, causing him to foam at the mouth, gnash his teeth, and then lie motionless (Mark 9:14-18 AMP). From that fact alone the disciples believed they hadn't healed the boy. They believed what they saw and heard, (sense lead) and came to the conclusions that the demon hadn't left. The kind of unbelief the disciples were experiencing was: being lead by their natural senses instead of what God's word said. This type of unbelief can be overcome through praying and fasting.
Jesus had given the disciples authority to cast out demons and heal the sick and they had done it plenty times before. If they would have kept believing regardless of what they were seeing and hearing they would had come to believe that the demon had to submit to their authority and leave. But because they could still "see" the demon, they went by what they saw and heard and were convinced by their senses.
"When we fast, we deny the senses which teaches us to overcome and not cave in to what our senses are telling us".
Well said. Fasting helps us to deal with our senses, so we can be "faith people" and not "feeling people". The Bible says "The just shall live by faith" not by feeling and seeing.
I believe Jesus was talking about praying and fasting to deal with the kind of unbelief the disciples were experiencing. For instance, when Jesus' disciples asked to cast a demon out of a boy, the severity of the situation caused their unbelief. The demon was throwing the boy into convulsions, causing him to foam at the mouth, gnash his teeth, and then lie motionless (Mark 9:14-18 AMP). From that fact alone the disciples believed they hadn't healed the boy. They believed what they saw and heard, (sense lead) and came to the conclusions that the demon hadn't left. The kind of unbelief the disciples were experiencing was: being lead by their natural senses instead of what God's word said. This type of unbelief can be overcome through praying and fasting.
Jesus had given the disciples authority to cast out demons and heal the sick and they had done it plenty times before. If they would have kept believing regardless of what they were seeing and hearing they would had come to believe that the demon had to submit to their authority and leave. But because they could still "see" the demon, they went by what they saw and heard and were convinced by their senses.
"When we fast, we deny the senses which teaches us to overcome and not cave in to what our senses are telling us".
Well said. Fasting helps us to deal with our senses, so we can be "faith people" and not "feeling people". The Bible says "The just shall live by faith" not by feeling and seeing.