Help Our Unbelief !

"One of the men in the crowd spoke up and said, "Teacher, I brought my son so you could heal him. He is possessed by an evil spirit that won't let him talk. And whenever this spirit seizes him, it throws him violently to the ground. Then he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast out the evil spirit, but they couldn't do it."
The spirit often throws him into the fire or into water, trying to kill him. Have mercy on us and help us, if you can." "What do you mean, `If I can'?" Jesus asked. "Anything is possible if a person believes." The father instantly cried out, "I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!" When Jesus saw that the crowd of onlookers was growing, he rebuked the evil spirit. "Listen, you spirit that makes this boy unable to hear and speak," he said. "I command you to come out of this child and never enter him again!" Then the spirit screamed and threw the boy into another violent convulsion and left him. The boy appeared to be dead. A murmur ran through the crowd as people said, "He's dead." But Jesus took him by the hand and helped him to his feet, and he stood up. Afterward, when Jesus was alone in the house with his disciples, they asked him, "Why couldn't we cast out that evil spirit?" Jesus replied, "This kind can be cast out only by prayer. " Mark 9:17,18,23-29

Jesus asked"What do you mean 'if I can'?" This is so classic! So many are proud to not believe that Jesus can heal. This isn't just for this small group of people 2000 years ago. How are we thinking? Praying? With belief that God can heal? Or with a sense of "Well, if you can, God, please heal them." Perhaps we think, this is a way to have a humble attitude. Jesus corrects this view and calls it unbelief and doubt.

Or what about the prayer: "I'm just asking you to heal this person." The context of this attitude, appears to be the same attitude, of unbelief. When will we believe Him and who He is, in all that He is. "I AM" IS. He's the Healer; He is Love; He is our Provider. And there are many other names that show His Goodness,His character. Help us to believe, Lord. Let the request of the father, in this passage, be our prayer. "I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!" -Amen.