*EXCELLENT LIFE KEYS* 🔑🗝️
Mon/31st/Oct/2022
*Francis Reign* (Ap & Coach)
_"Raising excellent agents of change and transformation, well equipped with Truth and Wisdom."_
*UNDERSTANDING THE ACTS AND WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST (191)*
"… Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly... And I brought him to Your disciples, and they could not heal him"... Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not cast it out?" (Matthew 17:15-16,19).
Even though the disciples had God-given authority to cast out demons, their authority didn't work unless they exercised faith. Again, this is proof that God's will doesn't always automatically come to pass in our lives. We must believe what God has said, or else we may not experience what God has promised. As Jesus said, "Anything is possible if a person believes" (Mark 9:23). Notice that what is possible depends upon each individual faith. In previous times when the disciples had successfully cast out demons, they must have had sufficient faith. Had their faith grown weaker? Probably not. I would be inclined to think that this particular demon required stronger faith to expel than any demon they had previously dealt with.
It was certainly a humiliating experience for the disciples. Crowds of people were following them and when they were faced with this epileptic boy, found they were completely powerless. Everybody witnessed their confusion and humiliation, and it was natural that after Jesus had performed the miracle and set the boy free they should come to Him and ask: _"Why couldn't we cast it out?"_ Notice that the disciples asked Jesus privately. This indicates the shame, humiliation and disappointment they felt. But what a good thing it is if we can find grace to ask this question! How necessary it is, when we fail, to ask, "What went wrong?" It is important to ask why the church seems to be powerless and vital to make a right diagnosis when we come to the Lord in humility and confession, and ask Him, "Why couldn't it be done?"
*EXCELLENCE KEY* 🗝️
_In the face of failure and humiliation, how necessary it is, in humility and confession, to ask our Lord Jesus that, "What went wrong?"_
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*Excellence is within you. Bring it out >>*
#1588 ELK.
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