Initially it seems like an almost passing Remark Jesus made. Yet both Matthew and Mark record it.

The Disciples, most of them, had tried to cast a devil out of a young, tormented lad. They failed.

Then Jesus arrived, along with three more Disciples (Peter, James and John) … men who had just been with Him on the Mount of Transfiguration.

Immediately our Lord solved the problem! “Our Lord rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.” Mark 9:25

Jesus of course easily does what we cannot do. The Disciples logically asked: “Why could not we cast him out?”

That’s when Jesus taught them a valuable Lesson. “This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.” Mark 9:29

Prayer unleashes the answer to many a problem. But, apparently, not all problems!

Then, how does one intensify his or her prayer life?

“By prayer AND FASTING!”

We hear little of this “fasting” business in our modern decadent society, yes even among us professing Christians!

But it’s in the Bible.

It’s on Jesus’ Cirruculum!

And it works!

So, I guess today … the rest is up to us.

“Oh, pass the biscuits and gravy please.”

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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