Reply To: Prayer and Fasting

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Reply To: Prayer and Fasting

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November 28, 2020 at 12:50 am #11799

Kerry

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Thank you for posting on this citation and Mrs. Eddy’s comments on it. I also found it interesting when I read of the circumstances of Jesus’ rebuke to the nine disciples. The disciples had not been in earnest prayer – they had been having a good time, while Jesus, John, Peter, and James were away. When suddenly thrust into a situation which required not only a strong rebuke and also required that they be in a state of spiritual connection with God, so that His Truth could be demonstrated to heal, they failed like the virgins, who brought no oil with them when waiting to meet the bridegroom and were left out, with the moral of Jesus’ story being to “ keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.” (Mathew 25:13)

Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

“It seems that Christ not only suggests, that faith was greatly wanting in his disciples; for which reason they could not cast out the devil, and heal the lunatic; but they had been wanting in prayer to God, to assist them in the exercise of their miraculous gifts; and that whilst Christ, and the other three disciples were on the mount, they had been feasting and indulging themselves with the people, and so were in a very undue disposition of mind, for such extraordinary service, for which our Lord tacitly rebukes them.”