{"id":3662,"date":"2008-11-16T01:03:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T06:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/os-chambers\/the-sphere-of-ministration"},"modified":"2008-11-16T01:03:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T06:03:14","slug":"the-sphere-of-ministration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2008\/11\/16\/the-sphere-of-ministration\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SPHERE OF MINISTRATION"},"content":{"rendered":"
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     This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and
     fasting. <\/p>\n

     — Mark 9:29<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Why could not we cast him out?” The answer lies in a personal
relationship to Jesus Christ. This kind can come forth by nothing but
by concentration and redoubled concentration on Him. We can ever
remain powerless, as were the disciples, by trying to do God’s work
not in concentration on His power, but by ideas drawn from our own
temperament. We slander God by our very eagerness to work for Him
without knowing Him. <\/p>\n

You are brought face to face with a difficult case and nothing
happens externally, and yet you know that emancipation will be given
because you are concentrated on Jesus Christ. This is your line of
service – to see that there is nothing between Jesus and yourself. Is
there? If there is, you must get through it, not by ignoring it in
irritation, or by mounting up, but by facing it and getting through
it into the presence of Jesus Christ, then that very thing, and all
you have been through in connection with it, will glorify Jesus
Christ in a way you will never know till you see Him face to face. <\/p>\n

We must be able to mount up with wings as eagles; but we must also
know how to come down. The power of the saint lies in the coming down
and the living down. “I can do all things through Christ which
strengtheneth me,” said Paul, and the things he referred to were
mostly humiliating things. It is in our power to refuse to be
humiliated and to say – “No, thank you, I much prefer to be on the
mountain top with God.” Can I face things as they actually are in the
light of the reality of Jesus Christ, or do things as they are efface
altogether my faith in Him, and put me into a panic? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

     This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and     fasting.      — Mark 9:29 “Why could not we cast him out?” The answer lies in a personalrelationship to Jesus Christ. This kind can come forth by nothing butby concentration and redoubled concentration on Him. We can everremain powerless, as were the disciples,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}