Saturday, December 20, 2025

is Fasting while Praying required by true Christians? Bjork founder of Covenant church

Matthew 17:21

[But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” ] TLB. But this kind of demon won't leave unless you have prayed and gone without food.”.
 TLB stands for The Living Bible, a popular English paraphrase created by Kenneth N. Taylor in 1971
 
 
Matthew 17:21 is a Bible verse where Jesus explains that
a certain type of demonic influence (or powerful spiritual obstacle) can only be overcome through intense spiritual discipline, specifically "prayer and fasting," following His disciples' failure to heal a boy with a demon, emphasizing that faith alone isn't always enough for tougher spiritual battles, though it's present in some manuscripts but absent in others, likely added from Mark 9:29 for emphasis
 
 Matthew 17:21 is absent from some of the earliest and most reliable manuscripts of Matthew, suggesting scribes may have added it from the parallel account in Mark 9:29 to clarify the teaching
 
 
 Dr Dimitri OIKONOMOU is a former president of SYNDESMOS, the World Fellowship of
Orthodox Youth. He lives in Oxford, England where he belongs to the Orthodox
Community in Oxford. 
 

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