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“And when He [the Lord Jesus] 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).
While Jesus, along with Peter, James, and John were up on the mount of transfiguration, the man with the son who took fits had evidently come to the other disciples, asking them to cast out the demon. But the disciples were not able to cast him out. Previously (Mark 6:7,13), the Lord had given his disciples power over demons, so that they should have been able to cast this demon out. But when they asked the Lord Jesus why they could not do it, He simply said that there needed to be prayer and fasting. What did He mean?
Perhaps you can think about this a little, and tomorrow we will see why the disciples had no power to cast out the demon.
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