Neville Goddard on Mark 9:28-29 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Mark 9 in context

Scripture Focus

28And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?

29And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

Mark 9:28-29

Biblical Context

The disciples ask why they couldn't cast out the demon. Jesus replies that this kind comes forth only through prayer and fasting.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the quiet house of your consciousness, the demon is a stubborn image you have accepted as true about yourself. The disciples’ query reveals a universal pattern: ordinary technique fails before a fixed belief unless you rise to a higher state of awareness. When Jesus speaks of this kind coming forth by nothing but prayer and fasting, he teaches a school of interior discipline. Prayer is not entreaty to a distant deity but an inner alignment with the I AM, a deliberate assumption of the truth you desire until it feels real. Fasting is the shedding of attachment to outward means, fear, and dependence on the problem, making the mind vacant enough for the new image to take root. As you dwell in the end you seek, the inner picture strengthens and the old belief dissolves. The power to cast out is not elsewhere; it is the awakening of your own consciousness—your awareness choosing to be the end it imagines.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Sit quietly and assume the end as already real, feeling the I AM as present power; for five minutes, dwell in the inner scene of the cure, then let outward attention rest and carry that end-feeling into the day.