12/11/07 - Healing By Faith

This morning I read Mark 9: 14-32. I pray that God will use the Holy Spirit to point out a few verses that I can focus my attention on and look to for application in my life.

Today Mark 9: 19 stuck out to me. Jesus has just come down from the Mount of Transfiguration and found 9 of the disciples arguing with religious leaders about them not being able to heal a demon possessed man. Jesus is disturbed by the lack of faith of the 9 disciples that didn’t go up the mountain with Him and He asks them, “You faithless people! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you?” There are probably many times that Jesus has looked down at me and the problems I face and my lack of faith and reliance on Him to solve my them and has said the same to me.

In Mark 9: 29, Jesus has just healed the man from the demon possession and then said to all the disciples, “This kind [demon possession] can be cast out by prayer”. I wanted to know a little more about this and looked in a book that I have by Mark Moore on the Life of Christ and he suggests that its not so much prayer for healing but prayer that we are equipped for Spiritual Warfare. How equipped am I do deal with the Devil’s flaming arrows?