Extraordinary faith

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​“And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting."—Mark 9:28-29

We prayed and we cried, prayed and we cried, still no change. There will be some instances in life where what worked for us in times past will not work for us with the challenge we face today. This challenge, this challenge today, may require extraordinary faith, the kind faith that is manifested through prayer and fasting. Those of us who have implemented fasting and prayer in our lives understand that it interrupts our pattern of living. It requires a different type of focus and commitment. It requires us to be willing to change the way we live until our change comes.

“The Savior says, ‘This kind—this sort of devil—this peculiarly furious kind of demon—will not go out by the exercise of ordinary faith. It must be faith that rises into prayer.’ You will frequently meet with persons to whom you desire to be blessed, but you never will be blessed to them till first of all you pray for them; and it may be that you will have to pray long and earnestly, and that the praying will have to rise to wrestling, and the wrestling may have to be continued all night, as in the case of Jacob, and you may have to go to God as often as the importunate widow went to the unjust judge. It may be that there are cases in which God will not yield to your faith until your faith works in prayer; and then, when prayer has wrought to its utmost, you shall get the blessing.” Charles Spurgeon

Extraordinary Faith!

GiGi❤️

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