According to the Bible, the devil is our adversary, and as a roaring lion he goes about seeking whom he may destroy (1 Peter 5:8). That one verse is the reason for a lot of the things happening in our world today. Not all the things you and I face in this life stem from normal occurrences. Some of them are the result of spiritual opposition. In this episode, Evangelist Frank King explains why sometimes, we must do more than the norm to receive from the Lord.

In Matthew’s record of the gospel, he tells of a man who brought his epileptic son to the disciples, and they could not heal him. When the man told Jesus about this, He was disappointed with the disciples. That’s because at this point, Jesus had given the disciples the power to heal the sick and to cast out demons (Matthew 10:1). So, they had power to do what needed to be done, but when they did what they had done in the past, it didn’t get the job done.

Subsequently, Jesus healed the man’s son. If it was not the will of God for the young man to be healed, Jesus would not have been able to heal him either. And remember, Jesus had given the disciples the power to heal the sick and cast our devils. This power was the very thing this epileptic young man needed to be healed.

In effect, Jesus was saying that this one is not business as usual. In this case, the disciples needed to do more than the usual to minister healing. Yes, they needed to pray, they needed to have faith, but in this case, they needed to fast as well. The point is that sometimes, it’s not true that it’s not the will of God to do what we ask of Him. But sometimes, we need to go deeper, fight a little harder in the spiritual realm to get what we need from the Lord.