Part 7 | The Gateway to Spiritual Power
From Matthew 17
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📖 Matthew 5:6 ESV “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
📖 Psalm 42:1-2 ESV As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
📖 Matthew 6:2 ESV “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do…
📖 Matthew 6:5 ESV “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites…
📖 Matthew 6:16 ESV “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites…
📖 Acts 13:2 ESV While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
and Prayer can change , , and .
📖 Matthew 17:14-15 ESV And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and, kneeling before him, 15 said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he has seizures and he suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire, and often into the water.
1. Spiritual is .
📖 Matthew 17:16 ESV And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.”
📖 Matthew 10:1 ESV And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.
📖 Luke 10:1 ESV After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.
📖 Luke 10:17 ESV The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
📖 Matthew 17:17 ESV And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.”
2. Spiritual is .
📖 Matthew 17:18 ESV And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly.
Side Note: Healing is as well as .
📖 Matthew 4:24 ESV So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them.
📖 Matthew 17:19 ESV Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”
3. Spiritual is for .
📖 Matthew 17:20 ESV He said to them, “Because of your little faith.
A. Jesus acknowledges that can be .
B. Jesus makes clear – is .
📖 Matthew 17:20 ESV For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
📖 Matthew 15:28 ESV Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly.
📖 Matthew 8:10 ESV When Jesus heard this, He marveled and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith.
📖 2 Corinthians 10:15 ESV our hope is that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be greatly enlarged,
C. Fasting develops and brings .
📖 Matthew 17:21 NKJV However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”
Every character in the Bible .
📖 Matthew 6:17-18 ESV When Jesus heard this, He marveled and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith.“when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
📖 ROMANS 12:1-2 ESV I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
