{"id":37136,"date":"2025-08-26T22:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=37136"},"modified":"2025-08-19T17:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T00:06:16","slug":"mark_9_24-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/mark_9_24-32\/","title":{"rendered":"With Prayer Comes THIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark 9:24-32\u00a0 \u00a0 (CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s passage is Mark 9:24-32.\u00a0 With an open mind and a humble heart, read this passage and see what sticks out to you in this passage.\u00a0 Is there a verse, a phrase, or a lesson you think the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you in this passage?\u00a0 After you\u2019ve thought about the passage yourself a bit, read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Mark 9:24\u00a0(NIV)<\/strong>
\n24\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

On verse 24:\u00a0 After realizing that the size of his own faith mattered, the boy\u2019s father declares his faith in Jesus and asks Jesus to help him overcome his unbelief.\u00a0 That is a legitimate prayer and request you can make to God: \u201chelp me overcome my unbelief\u201d.\u00a0 When you pray that way, you\u2019re coming to God honestly, humbly and with an open mind.\u00a0 God loves to give grace to those who come before Him with honesty, humility and an open mind.<\/p>\n

Mark 9:25a (NIV)<\/strong>
\n25\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the evil spirit\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

On verse 25a:\u00a0 Once again we see that\u00a0Jesus didn\u2019t do miracles for show.\u00a0 He does miracles out of compassion.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0The fact that a crowd was soon approaching seemed to even make Jesus rush the process a little faster.<\/p>\n

Mark 9:25b-29 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n25\u00a0<\/sup>\u2026”You deaf and mute spirit,” he said, “I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”
\n26\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The spirit shrieked, convulsed him violently and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, “He’s dead.”
\n27\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him to his feet, and he stood up.
\n28\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0After Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”
\n29\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He replied, “This kind can come out only by prayer.”<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 25b-29:\u00a0 There are some spiritual battles and demonic forces you fight where commanding an evil spirit to leave in the name of Jesus is enough.\u00a0 But sometimes there will be spiritual battles where you need to pray more if you want to see the victory.\u00a0 That\u2019s what Jesus means when he says, \u201cThis kind can come out only by prayer.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0With prayer comes power.<\/strong>\u00a0 As we like to say at Thrive: much prayer, much power; little prayer, little power; no prayer, no power.<\/p>\n

Mark 9:30-32 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n30\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0They left that place and passed through Galilee. Jesus did not want anyone to know where they were,
\n31\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0because he was teaching his disciples. He said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.”
\n32\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But they did not understand what he meant and were afraid to ask him about it.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 30-32:\u00a0 Not everything that Jesus taught was for everybody to hear.\u00a0 Here Jesus had some things to teach the disciples that he did not want others to know (v30-31), at least not yet.\u00a0 As part of this, Mark includes Jesus\u2019 second prediction of his own betrayal, death and resurrection.<\/p>\n

Lord Jesus, because with prayer comes power, I pray that I would be a person of prayer, that I would experience more of Your power and victory in my life.\u00a0 In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

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copyright \u00a9 2022 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Mark 9:24-32.\u00a0 With an open mind and a humble heart, read this passage and see what sticks out to you in this passage.\u00a0 Is there a verse, a phrase, or a lesson you think the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you in this passage?\u00a0 After you\u2019ve thought about the passage yourself a bit, read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!
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\nMark 9:24\u00a0(NIV)
\n24\u00a0\u00a0Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”\u00a0<\/p>\n

On verse 24:\u00a0 After realizing that the size of his own faith mattered, the boy\u2019s father declares his faith in Jesus and asks Jesus to help him overcome his unbelief.\u00a0 That is a legitimate prayer and request you can make to God: \u201chelp me overcome my unbelief\u201d.\u00a0 When you pray that way, you\u2019re coming to God honestly, humbly and with an open mind.\u00a0 God loves to give grace to those who come before Him with honesty, humility and an open mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37139,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37136\/revisions\/37139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}