Believe and Be Free

Matthew 17:14-21

New King James Version (NKJV)

A Boy Is Healed

¹⁴ And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying,¹⁵ “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic^[a] and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. ¹⁶ So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.”

¹⁷ Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.” ¹⁸ And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.

¹⁹ Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”

²⁰ So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief;^[b] for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. ²¹ However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”^[c]

Unbelief is a dangerous combination when dealing with demonic spirits. Never attempt to cast out a demon if you have any doubt in mind or spirit about anything pertaining to faith in the word of God. However it doesn’t take much to believe; you had to believe in order to become saved so with that same faith you could move mountains. Imagine the power your faith has on things/circumstances when you have built up your faith.

Faith can remove a demonic spirit out of a person, place or thing. This is why some people struggle to believe, because they haven’t witnessed demonic activity that they have been able to recognize as such. For example most everyday people would describe demonic activity as something that resembles something out the exorcist or any older paranormal movie. Fortunately and unfortunately movies are depicting real common demonic activity, however those who are ignorant to the things of God and how Satan works, just see it as something fun to watch.

Believe in every single word in the bible and you’ll have all the authority God has available to you, as a believer who walks in righteousness.