The Urgent Need
Steven J. Ottolini, PhD
June, 3, 2012

Scripture: Mark 9:28-29 (ESV)
[28] And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” [29] And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”

Context:
• Transfiguration

• Disciples COULD NOT help Father with a demon possessed boy.

1. The Message of the Transformation

2. The Message of the Failed Exorcism

3. The Message to the Disciples of the 21st Century

The Response of the 21st Century Disciples:

1. Pray and Fast

2. Ask God for Forgiveness for Prayerlessness

3. Ask the Holy Spirit to open our eyes to our desperate situation and give us a desperate burden to pray for genuine revival.

Close: Isaiah 64:1-2 (ESV)
[1] Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
that the mountains might quake at your presence—
[2] as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
to make your name known to your adversaries,
and that the nations might tremble at your presence!