Edition 1 on the NO ANSWER study

Tuesday, November 1st

Happy All Saints Day!

Edition 1 of the NO ANSWER Study

This scripture is the source of this study. What happens when you pray and fast and God does not answer a prayer?

Matthew 17:14-23
14 When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. 15 "Lord, have mercy on my son," he said. "He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. 16 I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him."

17 "O unbelieving and perverse generation," Jesus replied, "how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me." 18 Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed from that moment.

19 Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, "Why couldn't we drive it out?"

20 He replied, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. 21 But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”

22 When they came together in Galilee, he said to them, "The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. 23 They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised to life." And the disciples were filled with grief.

Questions that come to my mind are this:

• How long should I pray?


• How long should I fast?


• What accounts for a “mustard seed” of faith?

I am going to wrestle with this through this study in search for these answers. This, thus far, is an overview of what I am going to try to achieve with this study, in hopes of putting my wife’s mind and heart at ease.