Last night as I was praying and journaling, I was considering how unbelief affects both our praying and God’s response to our prayers (as we discussed in Mark 9:14–29 and Matthew 21:18–22 in our message on prayer and fasting). We need to continue to pray, along with the man in Mark 9, “We do believe! Help our unbelief!”
Then I began to consider our city and how the unbelief of others impacts God’s work. The Lord reminded me of Mark 6:1–6:
“He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, ‘Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?’ And they took offense at him. And Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.’ And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went about among the villages teaching.”
As you fast and pray over the next several weeks, pray that we would believe that all things are possible with God. I have been convicted of my own unbelief during our 40-Day Challenge. But don’t forget to pray for the unbelief that exists in the people of our city that we are trying to reach. We want to see God do mighty works here, and we do not want College Station to be a modern-day Nazareth.
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