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" Verily, I say uoto you, He that believeth on me, the works
that I do shall he do also ; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father” (John,
xiv: 12). Power is developed by fasting and prayer, as Jesus explained when his disciples having failed to exorcise an evil spirit demanded an explanation of their failure from him. " This kind can como forth by nothing, but by prayer and
fasting ” (Mark, ix. 29). But the inost significant of these stray passages is the one recorded in Mark vi, 5 and 6, with reference to the miraculous powers of Jesus when he visited his own country : * And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid
his hand upon a few sick folk, and healed them. " And he marvelled because of their unbelief."
When performing a healing miracle, Jesus never failed to ask the sick person if he believed, and after his recovery, to tell him that his faith had made him whole. This shows that there is a law governing miracles which is quite independent of personality and status. It, no doubt, happens at times that we get what we pray for, but this is not confined to any particular class or community of men, and even worshippers of such things as dead men's graves, stones and trees have had their prayers 'granted' at times! All this is really co-incidence, which means that the event prayed for was bound to happen, and would have happened,
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