Revisiting the experience of the young boy in the text, he had a communication problem. Remember, in Mark 9:25 Jesus commanded a deaf and dumb spirit to come out of the boy. The deaf spirit prevented the boy from hearing and the dumb spirit prevented the boy from speaking.

On July 7, 2020 I posted on Facebook that the Lord was showing me in dreams and revelations that I had to get back to teaching and preaching. Ultimately, I did not fully obey for a lot of reasons that I will not go into detail about right now, but suffice it say—most weren’t necessarily my fault, but they were my problem. I wasn’t necessarily intentionally disobeying God, but I allowed other factors like what I thought was “the right thing to do”, keep me from fully obeying what God was telling me to do.

I remember playing varsity football and basketball in what seems like a faraway time and place. Nothing was worse than playing an away game and losing to a team we should have easily defeated. I can still remember the disappointment sitting on the coach’s brow and the hung heads of a downtrodden team.

Does it feel like something is different right now? Granted, this is not the first time you have wrestled with challenges in your life. The fact that you have experienced challenges in the past makes you uniquely qualified to recognize that something may be different “this” time.

Welcome to this 40 Day Challenge of prayer and fasting! I am humbled that you have decided to take this journey with me. This journey grows out of my own lived experiences and testimony of how prayer continues to make the difference in my life.