Mark 9:14 When they came back to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them, and some scribes arguing with them. 15 Immediately, when the entire crowd saw Him, they were amazed and began running up to greet Him. 16 And He asked them, “What are you discussing with them?” 17 And one of the crowd answered Him, “Teacher, I brought You my son, possessed with a spirit which makes him mute; 18 and whenever it seizes him, it slams him to the ground and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth and stiffens out. I told Your disciples to cast it out, and they could not do it.” 19 And He answered them and said, “O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him to Me!” 20 They brought the boy to Him. When he saw Him, immediately the spirit threw him into a convulsion, and falling to the ground, he began rolling around and foaming at the mouth. 21 And He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. 22 “It has often thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, take pity on us and help us!” 23 And Jesus said to him, “ ‘If You can?’ All things are possible to him who believes.” 24 Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief.” 25 When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You deaf and mute spirit, I command you, come out of him and do not enter him again.” 26 After crying out and throwing him into terrible convulsions, it came out; and the boy became so much like a corpse that most of them said, “He is dead!” 27 But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him; and he got up. 28 When He came into the house, His disciples began questioning Him privately, “Why could we not drive it out?” 29 And He said to them, “This kind cannot come out by anything but prayer and fasting.”
Where does a supernatural life flow from? The common answer would be “faith in the goodness of God,” but where does faith come from? The common answer to that would be “faith comes by hearing the word of God,” but what posture must we have to be able to hear the word of God? The common answer to that would be to have an “intentional desire to only want His will,” but where does that kind of lovesick, broken affection come from? Here is where we get the answer Jesus gave His disciples when they asked why they couldn’t free the demonized boy. Jesus said that the foundation of a supernatural life is “a life lived in the Secret Place.” Surrendered love, from which faith works, is cultivated before His face, beholding His beauty, where we become Lovers. As we pray and fast into a Christlike life, He transforms us into simple people of faith whose food is to do His will, and who gladly risk it all on a His goodness. Faith for the “greater things” Jesus promised is a “LOVERS LEAP,” not into darkness, but into the goodness of a Lovesick God.