Devotion

When We Pray For Each Other

Mark 9:22b (AMP) “...But if You can do anything, take pity on us and help us.!”

The man whose son was possessed with a spirit that caused him to suffer and bring harm to himself turned to Jesus for help. Jesus addressed the father’s greater problem first – that being - of his unbelief when he applied ‘if’ to what Jesus was more than capable of doing; then Jesus rebuked the spirit from the man’s son. But give your attention to how the father didn’t pray singularly for his son: “..., take pity on us...” It was the son who needed to be freed from the spirit, but his father requested Jesus’ help as though he were suffering from the spirit, too. He attached himself to his son’s circumstance. He prayed plurally because he joined himself to the person for whom he prayed for. This is how we ought to do when we pray for one another. While we may not mutually suffer together in a physical or spiritual sense, we suffer together holistically in the body of Christ until we receive a breakthrough from the Lord. We’re connected to each other in Christ’s body. When we are praying for each other, it is the ideal time for us to connect our spirits together in an appeal to God for one another.