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Mark chapter 9 verses 23 and 24. And Jesus said to him,

if you can, all things are possible for one who believes,

immediately the father of the child cried out and said,

I believe, help my unbelief. What a verse, what a story this dad is pleading to Jesus for help

for his son who has an unclean spirit that drives him to fall on the ground and roll around

and foam at the mouth and it's causing him to be cast into fire and water to destroy him.

And this dad just says, if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.

And that's when Jesus says to him, if you can, all things are possible for one who believes.

And immediately this dad cries out to Jesus and says, I believe, help my unbelief.

What a picture of faith and longing for more faith and doesn't this summarize our lives

in so many ways that there's a level of faith that we as followers of Jesus have.

But we're longing for more faith. We need we want God's help to we want God's help and our

unbelief and our lack of faith. I'll just share personally how I have experienced this,

especially over recent years as I have been praying and pleading before God and he would open the door

for us to go and bring our son home from another country as we're in the middle of an adoption

process that was put on pause three years ago in light of COVID in January 2020. We've been waiting

for three years and praying and there have been many times just honestly when I've been praying

and I'm saying the words and I know the answers. I know God has all power and all authority and I know

God is able to do the miraculous, but as I'm praying, I feel unbelief in my praying. Like does it

even matter that I'm praying or is this really possible that it's going to happen today? And I have

found myself continually saying I believe help my unbelief and I want to grow in faith. I want to

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