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Well what just happened back there at that place?

I knew there was a protocol, a way,

a definition, to speak clear and trace

a movement, or a practice to display…

But several times today a rule of life,

an expectation, or agreed-on drill,

a definition meant to shrink the strife,

can seem to be a hard note, or too shrill.

But yet, when my own mind allows for God,

that maybe there's another way to see,

if there's a Goodness and if it has got

an access to communicate with me,...

& if my English isn't its own tongue

(or if my language isn't rich enough),

it might communicate with things undone,

or thoughts and times of all the other stuff.

But anyway, I saw that when I “grasp”

on something in my mind, it often has

my push or pull that comes behind quite fast,

and often that reaction is a spasm.

It might once help, but's mostly in the way,

and causes problems more often than not.

I'd like to send that demon off today!

And so I'm asking for your help now God.

I just remembered what Yeshua did,

when deafness came and caused some things like that,

he lifted up his eye, with opened lid,

and opened up his mouth, then looked back flat!...

But strangest thing of all; with upward look,

he loudly sighed, or gave a spirit groan,

no word occurred, dain't say the heavens shook,

but afterwards that man was not alone.

And maybe it was then that Jesus knew

(but maybe he already knew) the word;

he'd just before, communicated, clued

the fellow in on things he'd not have heard.

That one word, he (in Aramaic) said,

as he was looking back towards the man,

“Ephatha”, which meant “Open up” and led

to that man hearing, finding that he can

then speak, as he himself was spoken to.

First Yeshua has spoken as that man

could only speak - a shriek, or groan, or coo,

then after that his tongue now loosed began…

and straightaway  he knew the language too.

The other one, a boy, a man's own son

who had those fits and spasms, quite a few,

and foaming at the mouth, was also dumb,

had Jesus speak to demon agents too,

and told them to get out, and not come back,

and when they knocked him down and left him blue,

he acted to dispel their faithless lack,

and gave him to his father on his feet.

I see in place of my own spasms now,

my need for praying, opening complete-

ly, trusting my own father then somehow.

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Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis.  There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him. After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spat and touched the man’s tongue. He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, ‘Ephphatha!’ (which means ‘Be opened!’ ). At this, the man’s ears were opened, his tongue was loosed and he began to speak plainly.  Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it. People were overwhelmed with amazement. ‘He has done everything well,’ they said. ‘He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.’ Mark 7:31‭-‬37 NIVUK

 

When they came to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and the teachers of the law arguing with them. As soon as all the people saw Jesus, they were overwhelmed with wonder and ran to greet him.   ‘What are you arguing with them about?’ he asked. A man in the crowd answered, ‘Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that has robbed him of speech. Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive out the spirit, but they could not.’   ‘You unbelieving generation,’ Jesus replied, ‘how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy to me.’ So they brought him. When the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth. Jesus asked the boy’s father, ‘How long has he been like this?’ ‘From childhood,’ he answered. ‘It has often thrown him into fire or water to kill him. But if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us.’   ‘ “If you can”?’ said Jesus. ‘Everything is possible for one who believes.’ Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, ‘I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!’ When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the impure spirit. ‘You deaf and mute spirit,’ he said, ‘I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.’ The spirit shrieked, convulsed him violently and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, ‘He’s dead.’ But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him to his feet, and he stood up.  After Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, ‘Why couldn’t we drive it out?’ He replied, ‘This kind can come out only by prayer. ’ Mark 9:14‭-‬29 NIVUK (plus see Matt. 17:14‭-‬20 NIVUK  )